source: TI02-CSML/trunk/csml/API/csmlutils.py @ 2081

'''csml utils contains useful  utility functions'''


def listify(item):
    ''' listify checks if an item is a list, if it isn't it puts it inside a list and returns it. Always returns a list object'''
    if type(item) is list:
        return item
    else:
        return [item]
    
    
    
#deal with longitude requests
#if the request is in -ve,+ve eg (-30,30) but the data is in (0,360) need to handle this by changing the args.
def fixLongitude(request, kwargs):
    for key in request.keys():
        if key == 'Lon': #how do we test if it is longitude properly?
            for val in request[key]:
                if val < 0:
                    pass
                else:
                    if kwargs[key][0] < 0:
                        kwargs[key]=(kwargs[key][0]+360,kwargs[key][1])
                    if kwargs[key][1] < 0:
                        kwargs[key]=(kwargs[key][0],kwargs[key][1]+360)
    return kwargs