Re: how to: munge words and numbers into a URL, then reverse it ?

2009-01-27 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 16:48 +0100, felix wrote: > > there is some hashing function or combination of URL encoding that can > do this : > > > given some parameters : > > 'music' 'artist' 32L 2L 100 100 > ( artist id 32, 2nd picture, dimensions 100 x 100 ) > > I wish to generate a fake

Re: how to: munge words and numbers into a URL, then reverse it ?

2009-01-27 Thread Puneet Madaan
P.S ,,, Never use index in name generation, or you will run out of range one day ;) think of that nightmare in advance... i can only wish further schlaf süß, grüß Puneet On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:25 PM, felix wrote: > > ah, danke dir ! > > that's exactly what I was

Re: how to: munge words and numbers into a URL, then reverse it ?

2009-01-27 Thread felix
ah, danke dir ! that's exactly what I was looking for full encodings here: http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings actually I guess in this case I would have a series of numbers; [ content_type_id, object_id, index, width, height ] rather than a string. I can figure that

Re: how to: munge words and numbers into a URL, then reverse it ?

2009-01-27 Thread Puneet Madaan
I am assuming that you already have an idea of how your datastring will look like, and what data it is containing... I am considering *"music artist 32L 2L 100 100"* as input data so here is a example... L1 = "music artist 32L 2L 100 100".encode("hex") > L2 = zlib.compress(L1) > L3 =

how to: munge words and numbers into a URL, then reverse it ?

2009-01-27 Thread felix
there is some hashing function or combination of URL encoding that can do this : given some parameters : 'music' 'artist' 32L 2L 100 100 ( artist id 32, 2nd picture, dimensions 100 x 100 ) I wish to generate a fake filename eg: tartan_ba6e5e06e794f1368ed3ec20b4594eec.png and then be able to