python-telegram-bot/telegram/utils/validate.py
2016-03-14 22:56:20 -03:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# A library that provides a Python interface to the Telegram Bot API
# Copyright (C) 2015-2016
# Leandro Toledo de Souza <devs@python-telegram-bot.org>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU Lesser Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser Public License
# along with this program. If not, see [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/].
"""This module contains functions to validate function arguments"""
try:
type(basestring)
except NameError:
basestring = str
def validate_string(arg, name):
"""
Validate a string argument. Raises a ValueError if `arg` is neither an
instance of basestring (Python 2) or str (Python 3) nor None.
Args:
arg (basestring): The value to be tested
name (str): The name of the argument, for the error message
"""
if not isinstance(arg, basestring) and arg is not None:
raise ValueError(name + ' is not a string')