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Utilities for working text, markdown & Rich Text in Notion.

Annotations

Bases: GenericObject

Style information for RichTextObject's.

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class Annotations(GenericObject):
    """Style information for RichTextObject's."""

    bold: bool = False
    italic: bool = False
    strikethrough: bool = False
    underline: bool = False
    code: bool = False
    color: FullColor = None

    @property
    def is_plain(self):
        """Determine if any flags are set in this `Annotations` object.

        If all flags match their defaults, this is considered a "plain" style.
        """

        # XXX a better approach here would be to just compare all fields to defaults

        if self.bold:
            return False
        if self.italic:
            return False
        if self.strikethrough:
            return False
        if self.underline:
            return False
        if self.code:
            return False
        if self.color is not None:
            return False
        return True

is_plain property

Determine if any flags are set in this Annotations object.

If all flags match their defaults, this is considered a "plain" style.

CodingLanguage

Bases: str, Enum

Available coding languages.

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class CodingLanguage(str, Enum):
    """Available coding languages."""

    ABAP = "abap"
    ARDUINO = "arduino"
    BASH = "bash"
    BASIC = "basic"
    C = "c"
    CLOJURE = "clojure"
    COFFEESCRIPT = "coffeescript"
    CPP = "c++"
    CSHARP = "c#"
    CSS = "css"
    DART = "dart"
    DIFF = "diff"
    DOCKER = "docker"
    ELIXIR = "elixir"
    ELM = "elm"
    ERLANG = "erlang"
    FLOW = "flow"
    FORTRAN = "fortran"
    FSHARP = "f#"
    GHERKIN = "gherkin"
    GLSL = "glsl"
    GO = "go"
    GRAPHQL = "graphql"
    GROOVY = "groovy"
    HASKELL = "haskell"
    HTML = "html"
    JAVA = "java"
    JAVASCRIPT = "javascript"
    JSON = "json"
    JULIA = "julia"
    KOTLIN = "kotlin"
    LATEX = "latex"
    LESS = "less"
    LISP = "lisp"
    LIVESCRIPT = "livescript"
    LUA = "lua"
    MAKEFILE = "makefile"
    MARKDOWN = "markdown"
    MARKUP = "markup"
    MATLAB = "matlab"
    MERMAID = "mermaid"
    NIX = "nix"
    OBJECTIVE_C = "objective-c"
    OCAML = "ocaml"
    PASCAL = "pascal"
    PERL = "perl"
    PHP = "php"
    PLAIN_TEXT = "plain text"
    POWERSHELL = "powershell"
    PROLOG = "prolog"
    PROTOBUF = "protobuf"
    PYTHON = "python"
    R = "r"
    REASON = "reason"
    RUBY = "ruby"
    RUST = "rust"
    SASS = "sass"
    SCALA = "scala"
    SCHEME = "scheme"
    SCSS = "scss"
    SHELL = "shell"
    SQL = "sql"
    SWIFT = "swift"
    TOML = "toml"
    TYPESCRIPT = "typescript"
    VB_NET = "vb.net"
    VERILOG = "verilog"
    VHDL = "vhdl"
    VISUAL_BASIC = "visual basic"
    WEBASSEMBLY = "webassembly"
    XML = "xml"
    YAML = "yaml"
    MISC = "java/c/c++/c#"

Color

Bases: str, Enum

Basic color values.

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class Color(str, Enum):
    """Basic color values."""

    DEFAULT = "default"
    GRAY = "gray"
    BROWN = "brown"
    ORANGE = "orange"
    YELLOW = "yellow"
    GREEN = "green"
    BLUE = "blue"
    PURPLE = "purple"
    PINK = "pink"
    RED = "red"

FullColor

Bases: str, Enum

Extended color values, including backgrounds.

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class FullColor(str, Enum):
    """Extended color values, including backgrounds."""

    DEFAULT = "default"
    GRAY = "gray"
    BROWN = "brown"
    ORANGE = "orange"
    YELLOW = "yellow"
    GREEN = "green"
    BLUE = "blue"
    PURPLE = "purple"
    PINK = "pink"
    RED = "red"

    GRAY_BACKGROUND = "gray_background"
    BROWN_BACKGROUND = "brown_background"
    ORANGE_BACKGROUND = "orange_background"
    YELLOW_BACKGROUND = "yellow_background"
    GREEN_BACKGROUND = "green_background"
    BLUE_BACKGROUND = "blue_background"
    PURPLE_BACKGROUND = "purple_background"
    PINK_BACKGROUND = "pink_background"
    RED_BACKGROUND = "red_background"

LinkObject

Bases: GenericObject

Reference a URL.

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class LinkObject(GenericObject):
    """Reference a URL."""

    type: str = "url"
    url: str = None

RichTextObject

Bases: TypedObject

Base class for Notion rich text elements.

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class RichTextObject(TypedObject):
    """Base class for Notion rich text elements."""

    plain_text: str
    href: Optional[str] = None
    annotations: Optional[Annotations] = None

    def __str__(self):
        """Return a string representation of this object."""

        if self.href is None:
            text = self.plain_text or ""
        elif self.plain_text is None or len(self.plain_text) == 0:
            text = f"({self.href})"
        else:
            text = f"[{self.plain_text}]({self.href})"

        if self.annotations:
            if self.annotations.bold:
                text = f"**{text}**"
            if self.annotations.italic:
                text = f"*{text}*"
            if self.annotations.underline:
                text = f"<u>{text}</u>"
            if self.annotations.strikethrough:
                text = f"~{text}~"
            if self.annotations.code:
                text = f"`{text}`"

        return text

    @classmethod
    def __compose__(cls, text, href=None, style=None):
        """Compose a TextObject from the given properties.

        :param text: the plain text of this object
        :param href: an optional link for this object
        :param style: an optional Annotations object for this text
        """

        if text is None:
            return None

        # TODO convert markdown in text:str to RichText?

        style = deepcopy(style)

        return cls(plain_text=text, href=href, annotations=style)

__compose__(text, href=None, style=None) classmethod

Compose a TextObject from the given properties.

:param text: the plain text of this object :param href: an optional link for this object :param style: an optional Annotations object for this text

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@classmethod
def __compose__(cls, text, href=None, style=None):
    """Compose a TextObject from the given properties.

    :param text: the plain text of this object
    :param href: an optional link for this object
    :param style: an optional Annotations object for this text
    """

    if text is None:
        return None

    # TODO convert markdown in text:str to RichText?

    style = deepcopy(style)

    return cls(plain_text=text, href=href, annotations=style)

__str__()

Return a string representation of this object.

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def __str__(self):
    """Return a string representation of this object."""

    if self.href is None:
        text = self.plain_text or ""
    elif self.plain_text is None or len(self.plain_text) == 0:
        text = f"({self.href})"
    else:
        text = f"[{self.plain_text}]({self.href})"

    if self.annotations:
        if self.annotations.bold:
            text = f"**{text}**"
        if self.annotations.italic:
            text = f"*{text}*"
        if self.annotations.underline:
            text = f"<u>{text}</u>"
        if self.annotations.strikethrough:
            text = f"~{text}~"
        if self.annotations.code:
            text = f"`{text}`"

    return text

TextObject

Bases: RichTextObject

Notion text element.

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class TextObject(RichTextObject, type="text"):
    """Notion text element."""

    class _NestedData(GenericObject):
        content: str = None
        link: Optional[LinkObject] = None

    text: _NestedData = _NestedData()

    @classmethod
    def __compose__(cls, text, href=None, style=None):
        """Compose a TextObject from the given properties.

        :param text: the plain text of this object
        :param href: an optional link for this object
        :param style: an optional Annotations object for this text
        """

        if text is None:
            return None

        # TODO convert markdown in text:str to RichText?

        link = LinkObject(url=href) if href else None
        nested = TextObject._NestedData(content=text, link=link)
        style = deepcopy(style)

        return cls(
            plain_text=text,
            text=nested,
            href=href,
            annotations=style,
        )

__compose__(text, href=None, style=None) classmethod

Compose a TextObject from the given properties.

:param text: the plain text of this object :param href: an optional link for this object :param style: an optional Annotations object for this text

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@classmethod
def __compose__(cls, text, href=None, style=None):
    """Compose a TextObject from the given properties.

    :param text: the plain text of this object
    :param href: an optional link for this object
    :param style: an optional Annotations object for this text
    """

    if text is None:
        return None

    # TODO convert markdown in text:str to RichText?

    link = LinkObject(url=href) if href else None
    nested = TextObject._NestedData(content=text, link=link)
    style = deepcopy(style)

    return cls(
        plain_text=text,
        text=nested,
        href=href,
        annotations=style,
    )

chunky(text, length=MAX_TEXT_OBJECT_SIZE)

Break the given text into chunks of at most length size.

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def chunky(text, length=MAX_TEXT_OBJECT_SIZE):
    """Break the given `text` into chunks of at most `length` size."""
    return (text[idx : idx + length] for idx in range(0, len(text), length))

lstrip(*rtf)

Remove leading whitespace from each TextObject in the list.

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def lstrip(*rtf):
    """Remove leading whitespace from each `TextObject` in the list."""

    if rtf is None or len(rtf) < 1:
        return

    for obj in rtf:
        if not isinstance(obj, TextObject):
            raise AttributeError("invalid object in rtf")

        if obj.text and obj.text.content:
            strip_text = obj.text.content.lstrip()
            obj.text.content = strip_text
            obj.plain_text = strip_text

make_safe_python_name(name)

Make the given string safe for use as a Python identifier.

This will remove any leading characters that are not valid and change all invalid interior sequences to underscore.

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def make_safe_python_name(name):
    """Make the given string safe for use as a Python identifier.

    This will remove any leading characters that are not valid and change all
    invalid interior sequences to underscore.
    """

    s = re.sub(r"[^0-9a-zA-Z_]+", "_", name)
    s = re.sub(r"^[^a-zA-Z]+", "", s)

    # remove trailing underscores
    return s.rstrip("_")

markdown(*rtf)

Return text as markdown from the list of RichText objects.

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def markdown(*rtf):
    """Return text as markdown from the list of RichText objects."""
    return "".join(str(text) for text in rtf if text)

plain_text(*rtf)

Return the combined plain text from the list of RichText objects.

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def plain_text(*rtf):
    """Return the combined plain text from the list of RichText objects."""
    return "".join(text.plain_text for text in rtf if text)

rich_text(*text)

Return a list of RichTextObject's from the list of text elements.

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def rich_text(*text):
    """Return a list of RichTextObject's from the list of text elements."""

    rtf = []

    for obj in text:
        if obj is None:
            continue

        if isinstance(obj, RichTextObject):
            rtf.append(obj)

        elif isinstance(obj, str):
            txt = text_blocks(obj)
            rtf.extend(txt)

        else:
            raise ValueError("unsupported text object")

    return rtf

rstrip(*rtf)

Remove trailing whitespace from each TextObject in the list.

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def rstrip(*rtf):
    """Remove trailing whitespace from each `TextObject` in the list."""

    if rtf is None or len(rtf) < 1:
        return

    for obj in rtf:
        if not isinstance(obj, TextObject):
            raise AttributeError("invalid object in rtf")

        if obj.text and obj.text.content:
            strip_text = obj.text.content.rstrip()
            obj.text.content = strip_text
            obj.plain_text = strip_text

strip(*rtf)

Remove leading and trailing whitespace from each TextObject in the list.

This is functionally equivalent to
lstrip(*rtf)
rstrip(*rtf)

:param rtf: a list of TextObject's

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def strip(*rtf):
    """Remove leading and trailing whitespace from each `TextObject` in the list.

    This is functionally equivalent to:
        ```python
        lstrip(*rtf)
        rstrip(*rtf)
        ```

    :param rtf: a list of `TextObject`'s
    """
    lstrip(*rtf)
    rstrip(*rtf)

text_blocks(text)

Convert the given plain text into an array of TextObject's.

If the test is larger than the maximum block size for the Notion API, it will be broken into multiple blocks.

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def text_blocks(text: str):
    """Convert the given plain text into an array of TextObject's.

    If the test is larger than the maximum block size for the Notion API, it will be
    broken into multiple blocks.
    """
    return [TextObject[chunk] for chunk in chunky(text)]

truncate(text, length=-1, trail='...')

Truncate the given text, using a supplied tail as a placeholder.

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def truncate(text, length=-1, trail="..."):
    """Truncate the given text, using a supplied tail as a placeholder."""

    if text is None:
        return None

    # repr() includes open and close quotes...
    literal = repr(text)[1:-1]

    if 0 < length < len(literal):
        literal = literal[:length]

        if trail is not None:
            literal += trail

    return literal