new split_url_or_path function into textutils

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/textutils.py b/textutils.py
index 16926f0..db69d3b 100644
--- a/textutils.py
+++ b/textutils.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ __docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
 
 import sys
 import re
+import os.path as osp
 from unicodedata import normalize as _uninormalize
 try:
     from os import linesep
@@ -251,6 +252,15 @@ def splitstrip(string, sep=','):
 get_csv = deprecated()(splitstrip)
 
 
+def split_url_or_path(url_or_path):
+    """return the latest component of a string containing either an url of the
+    form <scheme>://<path> or a local file system path
+    """
+    if '://' in url_or_path:
+        return url_or_path.rstrip('/').rsplit('/', 1)
+    return osp.split(url_or_path.rstrip(osp.sep))
+
+
 def text_to_dict(text):
     """parse multilines text containing simple 'key=value' lines and return a
     dict of {'key': 'value'}. When the same key is encountered multiple time,