a grab bag of python stuff that my sever code uses sometimes.

webtools.py

import os
import os.path
import hashlib
from httplib import HTTP
from urlparse import urlparse
import urllib
import urllib2
import simplejson as json

def  get_export_map_for_directory(path, prefix = "/"):
    map = {}
    return build_export_map_for_directory(map, path, prefix)

def  build_export_map_for_directory(map, path, prefix = "/"):
    for file in os.listdir(path):
        exported_name = prefix + file
        exported_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(path, file))
        map[exported_name] = {
            'tools.staticfile.on' : True,
            'tools.expires.on' : True,
            'tools.expires.secs' : 1000000,
            'tools.expires.force' : True,
            'tools.staticfile.filename' : exported_path,
        }
        if os.path.isdir(exported_path):
            build_export_map_for_directory(map, exported_path, exported_name + '/')
    return map
    
def checkURL(url):
     try:
         user_agent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)'
         headers = { 'User-Agent' : user_agent }
         values = {}
         data = urllib.urlencode(values)
         req = urllib2.Request(url, data, headers)
         response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
         print 'found', url
         return True
     except urllib2.URLError, e:
        print 'not found', url
        print e
        return False


def get_param_as_list(param):
    if not param:
        param = []
    if not isinstance(param, list):
        param = [param]
    return param

def to_json(dict, callback=None):
    results =  json.dumps(dict, sort_keys=True, indent = 4)
    if callback:
        results = callback + "(" + results + ")"
    return results
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    import pprint

    print str(get_export_map_for_directory('.'))
    print checkURL('http://slashdot.org')
    print checkURL('http://google.com')
    print checkURL('http://slashdot.org/notadirectory')

    map = {}
    build_export_map_for_directory(map, '.')
    pprint.pprint(map)

127.0.0.1 - - [20/Feb/2017 01:40:56] "GET /SortYourMusic/ HTTP/1.1" 404 -

export SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI=http://localhost:8235/SortYourMusic/ what could be wrong ? (Mac OSX)