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Aborted insane attempt to shorten a url by removing the least interesting parts first.
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def pairwise(iterable): | |
"s -> (s0,s1), (s1,s2), (s2, s3), ..." | |
a, b = itertools.tee(iterable) | |
next(b, None) | |
return zip(a, b) | |
def shorten_url(url, maxlength): | |
"""Will shorten a url to the given maximum length by removing the | |
(hopefully) least interesting parts - the ones in the middle. | |
""" | |
# TODO: It might be ok to remove http: for example without a dot. | |
def prioritizer(url): | |
parsed = urlparse.urlsplit(url) | |
# parsed with order information | |
counter = itertools.count(0) | |
pwo = [] | |
def append(fmt, value, where=pwo): | |
if not value: | |
where.append((next(counter), '')) | |
else: | |
where.append((next(counter), fmt.format(value))) | |
append('{}:', parsed.scheme) | |
append('//{}/', parsed.netloc) | |
pwo.append([]) | |
for part in parsed.path.split('/'): | |
if part: | |
append('{}/', part, pwo[-1]) | |
append('?{}', parsed.query) | |
append('#{}', parsed.fragment) | |
parsed = SplitResult(*pwo) | |
# yield in the desired order. the easy customizability of this is | |
# the fruit of our labor above. | |
yield parsed.scheme | |
yield parsed.fragment | |
yield parsed.query | |
def x(): | |
while parsed.path: | |
yield parsed.path.pop() | |
if parsed.path: | |
yield parsed.path.pop(0) | |
yield from reversed(list(x())) | |
yield parsed.netloc | |
blocks_by_prio = list(prioritizer(url)) | |
blocks = [block for id, block in sorted( | |
[(idx, (priority, block)) | |
for (priority, (idx, block)) in enumerate(blocks_by_prio) if block])] | |
length = sum([len(block[1]) for block in blocks]) | |
required_to_shave = length - maxlength | |
def try_to_solve_in(blocks, count): | |
best_score = None | |
best_solution = None | |
for idxlist in itertools.combinations(range(len(blocks)), count): | |
# Calculate how many ... need to be inserted if we remove | |
# these group of blocks. | |
gaps = sum([1 for x, y in pairwise(idxlist) if y-x>1]) | |
if idxlist[0] > 0: | |
gaps += 1 | |
if idxlist[-1] < len(blocks)-1: | |
gaps += 1 | |
# This will be higher if we remove more important blocks | |
priority_score = sum([blocks[i][0] for i in idxlist]) | |
score = gaps*40 + priority_score*1 | |
#if True: | |
# ccount = sum([len(blocks[i][1]) for i in idxlist]) | |
# if ccount - 3*gaps < required_to_shave: | |
# continue | |
# print(idxlist, gaps, sum([blocks[i][0] for i in idxlist]), score) | |
if best_score and best_score <= score: | |
continue | |
ccount = sum([len(blocks[i][1]) for i in idxlist]) | |
if ccount - 3*gaps >= required_to_shave: | |
best_score = score | |
best_solution = idxlist | |
return best_solution | |
for x in range(1, len(blocks)+1): | |
solution = try_to_solve_in(blocks, x) | |
if solution: | |
# XXX: actually insert the ... parts | |
return ('<{}>'.format(required_to_shave), solution, | |
[block[1] for id, block in enumerate(blocks) if not id in solution]) | |
break |
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