Source code for timelinelib.utils
# Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Rickard Lindberg, Roger Lindberg
#
# This file is part of Timeline.
#
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"""Contains non-gui related, utility functions."""
[docs]def ex_msg(e):
"""
Return exception error string.
Solves a UnicodeEncodeError problem.
"""
try:
return str(e)
except UnicodeEncodeError:
if len(e.args) == 1:
return e.args[0]
else:
# Exceptions raised by Timeline (the only ones that might
# be unicode) should always contain a single unicode message.
# So we should never end up here.
return ""
[docs]def unique_based_on_eq(items):
unique = []
for item in items:
if item not in unique:
unique.append(item)
return unique