1 files changed, 38 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/plugin.video.hak5/resources/lib/hak5_const.py b/plugin.video.hak5/resources/lib/hak5_const.py
index 0334942..16361e0 100644
--- a/plugin.video.hak5/resources/lib/hak5_const.py
+++ b/plugin.video.hak5/resources/lib/hak5_const.py
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
 
+import sys
 import os
+import xbmc
 import xbmcaddon
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
 #
 # Constants
-# 
+#
 ADDON = "plugin.video.hak5"
 SETTINGS = xbmcaddon.Addon()
 LANGUAGE = SETTINGS.getLocalizedString
@@ -19,5 +22,37 @@ TEKTHINGRECENTLYADDEDURL = 'http://www.hak5.org/category/episodes/tekthing/page/
 PINEAPPLEUNIVERSITYRECENTLYADDEDURL = 'http://www.hak5.org/category/episodes/pineapple-university'
 METASPLOITRECENTLYADDEDURL = 'http://www.hak5.org/category/episodes/metasploit-minute/page/001'
 HEADERS = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36'}
-DATE = "2017-11-12"
-VERSION = "1.0.2"
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+DATE = "2018-01-20"
+VERSION = "1.0.3"
+
+if sys.version_info[0] > 2:
+    unicode = str
+
+
+def convertToUnicodeString(s, encoding='utf-8'):
+    """Safe decode byte strings to Unicode"""
+    if isinstance(s, bytes):  # This works in Python 2.7 and 3+
+        s = s.decode(encoding)
+    return s
+
+
+def convertToByteString(s, encoding='utf-8'):
+    """Safe encode Unicode strings to bytes"""
+    if isinstance(s, unicode):
+        s = s.encode(encoding)
+    return s
+
+
+def log(name_object, object):
+    try:
+        xbmc.log("[ADDON] %s v%s (%s) debug mode, %s = %s" % (
+            ADDON, VERSION, DATE, name_object, convertToUnicodeString(object)), xbmc.LOGDEBUG)
+    except:
+        xbmc.log("[ADDON] %s v%s (%s) debug mode, %s = %s" % (
+            ADDON, VERSION, DATE, name_object,
+            "Unable to log the object due to an error while converting it to an unicode string"), xbmc.LOGDEBUG)
+
+
+def getSoup(html, default_parser="html5lib"):
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, default_parser)
+    return soup
+\ No newline at end of file