Dencoder

Another hastily named Python script from yamatt.

This module is designed to help developers who are looking to implement URL shorteners based upon an incrementing number.

Have a look at the unittest for more examples, but source code example is below:

from dencoder import Dencoder

d = Dencoder()
print d.encode(234)
print d.decode("xyz")

This can then be used to translate a number to a shorter ASCII encoding of the number which can then used as a unique ID.

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