web.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
web.py - Web Facilities
Author: Sean B. Palmer, inamidst.com
About: http://inamidst.com/phenny/
"""

import re, urllib
from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint

class Grab(urllib.URLopener): 
    def __init__(self, *args): 
        self.version = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Jenni)'
        urllib.URLopener.__init__(self, *args)
    def http_error_default(self, url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers): 
        return urllib.addinfourl(fp, [headers, errcode], "http:" + url)
urllib._urlopener = Grab()

def get(uri): 
    if not uri.startswith('http'): 
        return
    u = urllib.urlopen(uri)
    bytes = u.read()
    u.close()
    return bytes

def head(uri): 
    if not uri.startswith('http'): 
        return
    u = urllib.urlopen(uri)
    info = u.info()
    u.close()
    return info

def post(uri, query): 
    if not uri.startswith('http'): 
        return
    data = urllib.urlencode(query)
    u = urllib.urlopen(uri, data)
    bytes = u.read()
    u.close()
    return bytes

r_entity = re.compile(r'&([^;\s]+);')

def entity(match): 
    value = match.group(1).lower()
    if value.startswith('#x'): 
        return unichr(int(value[2:], 16))
    elif value.startswith('#'): 
        return unichr(int(value[1:]))
    elif name2codepoint.has_key(value): 
        return unichr(name2codepoint[value])
    return '[' + value + ']'

def decode(html): 
    return r_entity.sub(entity, html)

r_string = re.compile(r'("(\\.|[^"\\])*")')
r_json = re.compile(r'^[,:{}\[\]0-9.\-+Eaeflnr-u \n\r\t]+$')
env = {'__builtins__': None, 'null': None, 'true': True, 'false': False}

def json(text): 
    """Evaluate JSON text safely (we hope)."""
    if r_json.match(r_string.sub('', text)): 
        text = r_string.sub(lambda m: 'u' + m.group(1), text)
        return eval(text.strip(' \t\r\n'), env, {})
    raise ValueError('Input must be serialised JSON.')

if __name__=="__main__": 
    main()