khard.helpers

Some helper functions for khard

Module Contents

khard.helpers.pretty_print(table: List[List[str]], justify: str = 'L') → str

Converts a list of lists into a string formatted like a table with spaces separating fields and newlines separating rows

khard.helpers.list_to_string(input: Union[str, List], delimiter: str) → str

converts list to string recursively so that nested lists are supported

Parameters

• input – a list of strings and lists of strings (and so on recursive)

• delimiter – the deimiter to use when joining the items

Returns

the recursively joined list

khard.helpers.string_to_list(input: Union[str, List[str]], delimiter: str) → List[str]

khard.helpers.string_to_date(string: str) → datetime

Convert a date string into a date object.

Parameters

string – the date string to parse

Returns

the parsed datetime object

khard.helpers.get_random_uid() → str

khard.helpers.file_modification_date(filename: str) → datetime

khard.helpers.convert_to_yaml(name: str, value: Union[None, str, List], indentation: int, index_of_colon: int, show_multi_line_character: bool) → List[str]

converts a value list into yaml syntax

Parameters

• name – name of object (example: phone)

• value (str, list(str), list(list(str)), list(dict)) – object contents

• indentation – indent all by number of spaces

• index_of_colon – use to position : at the name string (-1 for no space)

• show_multi_line_character – option to hide “|”

Returns

yaml formatted string array of name, value pair

khard.helpers.indent_multiline_string(input: Union[str, List], indentation: int, show_multi_line_character: bool) → str

khard.helpers.get_new_contact_template(supported_private_objects: Optional[List[str]] = None) → str