#8: Partial implementation of author parsing.

src/wa_kat/analyzers/author_detector.py

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+#! /usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Interpreter version: python 2.7
+#
+# Imports =====================================================================
+import dhtmlparser
+
+from shared import parse_meta
+
+
+# Functions & classes =========================================================
+def _get_html_authors(index_page):
+    """
+    Return list of `authors` from HTML ``<meta>`` tags.
+    """
+    return parse_meta(index_page, "author", "HTML")
+
+
+def _get_dc_authors(index_page):
+    """
+    Return list of `authors` parsed from dublin core.
+    """
+    return parse_meta(index_page, "DC.Creator", "DC")
+
+
+def get_author(index_page):
+    """
+    Parse `authors` from HTML ``<meta>`` and dublin core.
+    """
+    dom = dhtmlparser.parseString(index_page)
+
+    authors = [
+        _get_html_authors(dom),
+        _get_dc_authors(dom),
+    ]
+
+    return sum(authors, [])  # return flattened list