Utilities

Used across glitter2.

glitter2.utils.fix_name(name, *names, ignore_case=True)

Fixes the name so that it is unique among the names in names.

Params

name: str

A name of something

*names: iterables of strings

Positional argument, where each is a iterable of strings among which we ensure that the returned name is unique.

Returns

A string that is unique among all the names, but is similar to name. We append a integer to make it unique.

E.g.:

>>> fix_name('troll', ['toll', 'foll'], ['bole', 'cole'])
'troll'
>>> fix_name('troll', ['troll', 'toll', 'foll'], ['bole', 'cole'])
'troll-2'
>>> fix_name('troll', ['troll-2', 'toll', 'foll'], ['bole', 'cole'])
'troll'
>>> fix_name('troll', ['troll', 'troll-2', 'toll', 'foll'], ['bole', 'cole'])
'troll-3'