fail2ban.helpers module
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class fail2ban.helpers.BgService

   Bases: "object"

   Background servicing

   Prevents memory leak on some platforms/python versions,  using
   forced GC in periodical intervals.

   -[ Methods ]-

   +-------------+------------+
   | **service** |            |
   +-------------+------------+

   service(force=False, wait=False)

class fail2ban.helpers.FormatterWithTraceBack(fmt, *args, **kwargs)

   Bases: "Formatter"

   Custom formatter which expands %(tb) and %(tbc) with tracebacks

   TODO: might need locking in case of compressed tracebacks

   -[ Methods ]-

   +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | "converte  | Convert seconds since the Epoch to a time tuple expressing local time.                     |
   | r"([secon  |                                                                                            |
   | ds])       |                                                                                            |
   +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | "format"(  | Format the specified record as text.                                                       |
   | record)    |                                                                                            |
   +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | "formatEx  | Format and return the specified exception information as a string.                         |
   | ception"(  |                                                                                            |
   | ei)        |                                                                                            |
   +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | "formatSt  | This method is provided as an extension point for specialized formatting of stack          |
   | ack"(stac  | information.                                                                               |
   | k_info)    |                                                                                            |
   +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | "formatTi  | Return the creation time of the specified LogRecord as formatted text.                     |
   | me"(recor  |                                                                                            |
   | d[,        |                                                                                            |
   | datefmt])  |                                                                                            |
   +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | "usesTime  | Check if the format uses the creation time of the record.                                  |
   | "()        |                                                                                            |
   +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

   +-------------------+------------+
   | **formatMessage** |            |
   +-------------------+------------+

   format(record)

      Format the specified record as text.

      The record's attribute dictionary is used as the operand to a
      string formatting operation which yields the returned string.
      Before formatting the dictionary, a couple of preparatory steps
      are carried out. The message attribute of the record is computed
      using LogRecord.getMessage(). If the formatting string uses the
      time (as determined by a call to usesTime(), formatTime() is
      called to format the event time. If there is exception
      information, it is formatted using formatException() and
      appended to the message.

class fail2ban.helpers.TraceBack(compress=False)

   Bases: "object"

   Customized traceback to be included in debug messages

   -[ Methods ]-

   +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
   | "__call__  | Call self as a function.                                                                   |
   | "()        |                                                                                            |
   +------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

fail2ban.helpers.excepthook(exctype, value, traceback)

   Except hook used to log unhandled exceptions to Fail2Ban log

fail2ban.helpers.extractOptions(option)

fail2ban.helpers.formatExceptionInfo()

   Consistently format exception information

fail2ban.helpers.getLogger(name)

   Get logging.Logger instance with Fail2Ban logger name convention

fail2ban.helpers.getVerbosityFormat(verbosity, fmt=' %(message)s', addtime=True, padding=True)

   Custom log format for the verbose runs

fail2ban.helpers.mbasename(s)

   Custom function to include directory name if filename is too common

   Also strip .py at the end

fail2ban.helpers.prctl_set_th_name(name)

fail2ban.helpers.splitWithOptions(option)

fail2ban.helpers.splitwords(s)

   Helper to split words on any comma, space, or a new line

   Returns empty list if input is empty (or None) and filters out
   empty entries

fail2ban.helpers.str2LogLevel(value)

fail2ban.helpers.substituteRecursiveTags(inptags, conditional='', ignore=(), addrepl=None)

   Sort out tag definitions within other tags. Since v.0.9.2 supports
   embedded interpolation (see test cases for examples).

   so:             becomes: a = 3           a = 3 b = <a>_3       b =
   3_3

   Parameters:
      **inptags** : dict
         Dictionary of tags(keys) and their values.

   Returns:
      dict
         Dictionary of tags(keys) and their values, with tags within
         the values recursively replaced.

fail2ban.helpers.uni_decode(x, enc='utf-8', errors='strict')

fail2ban.helpers.uni_string(x)
