Miscellaneous Functions

plyr.VERSION = (1, 0, 1)

tuple() -> empty tuple tuple(iterable) -> tuple initialized from iterable’s items

If the argument is a tuple, the return value is the same object.

plyr.version()

libglyr’s version string (with version number and release name)

Returns:Something similar to Version 0.9.9 (Catholic Cat) of [Jun 24 2012] compiled at [22:55:56]

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plyr.type_is_image()

Check if a certain type descriptor is an image.

Type_str :a type identifier. Returns:True or False

plyr.download()

Download a certain URL and return it as Cache.

Url :The URL to download. Returns:A Cache instance, or None

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plyr.levenshtein_cmp()

Compute the levenshtein distance between two strings.

See also: http://sahib.github.com/glyr/doc/html/libglyr-Misc.html

String :some string Other :another string Returns:An integer between 0 and max(len(string), len(other))

plyr.levenshtein_normcmp()

Compute the levenshtein distance between two strings using additional normalization.

See also: http://sahib.github.com/glyr/doc/html/libglyr-Misc.html

String :some string Other :another string Returns:An integer between 0 and [no-explicit-limit]