README.md

# Simple Python utilities (simple Utils)

A collection of simple python utilities each file can be used as it's own.



## simpledisplay.py

  Drop in replacement for a better Display class
  
### `display(msg: str, log_only=None)`
    Print to stdout

### `display(msg: str, wrap_text=None)`
    Print to stderr

## parsing.py
Basic functions to help parse Text and booleans.
[TODO] need more documentation

###  `to_text(obj, encoding='utf-8', nonstring: str = 'simplerepr')`

### `to_bytes(obj, encoding='utf-8', nonstring: str = 'simplerepr')`
   Make sure that a string is a byte string  
    :param `obj`: An object to make sure is a byte string.  In most cases this  
        will be either a text string or a byte string.  However, with  
        ``nonstring='simplerepr'``, this can be used as a traceback-free  
        version of ``str(obj)``.  
    :param `encoding`: The encoding to use to transform from a text string to  
        a byte string.  Defaults to using 'utf-8'.  
    :param `nonstring`: The strategy to use if a nonstring is specified in  
        `obj`.  Default is 'simplerepr'.  Valid values are:  
        :simplerepr: The default.  This takes the `str` of the object and  
            then returns the bytes version of that string.  
        :empty: Return an empty byte string  
        :passthru: Return the object passed in  
        :strict: Raise a :exc:`TypeError`  
    :return: Typically this returns a byte string. If a nonstring object is  
        passed in this may be a different type depending on the strategy  
        specified by nonstring.  This will never return a text string.  
    .. note:: If passed a byte string, this function does not check that the  
        string is valid in the specified encoding. If it's important that the  
        byte string is in the specified encoding do::  
            `encoded_string = to_bytes(to_text(input_string, 'latin-1'), 'utf-8')`  

### `boolean(value)`

## License
This collection is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the MIT License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with rpmd.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/mit>.

## Project status