import os
import shutil

from elodie import constants


def _decode(string, encoding='utf8'):
    """Return a utf8 encoded unicode string.

    Python2 and Python3 differ in how they handle strings.
    So we do a few checks to see if the string is ascii or unicode.
    Then we decode it if needed.
    """
    if hasattr(string, 'decode'):
        # If the string is already unicode we return it.
        try:
            if isinstance(string, unicode):
                return string
        except NameError:
            pass

        return string.decode(encoding)

    return string


def _copyfile(src, dst):
    # Python 3 hangs using open/write method
    if (constants.python_version == 3):
        shutil.copy(src, dst)
        return

    try:
        O_BINARY = os.O_BINARY
    except:
        O_BINARY = 0

    READ_FLAGS = os.O_RDONLY | O_BINARY
    WRITE_FLAGS = os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_TRUNC | O_BINARY
    TEN_MEGABYTES = 10485760
    BUFFER_SIZE = min(TEN_MEGABYTES, os.path.getsize(src))

    try:
        fin = os.open(src, READ_FLAGS)
        stat = os.fstat(fin)
        fout = os.open(dst, WRITE_FLAGS, stat.st_mode)
        for x in iter(lambda: os.read(fin, BUFFER_SIZE), ""):
            os.write(fout, x)
    finally:
        try:
            os.close(fin)
        except:
            pass
        try:
            os.close(fout)
        except:
            pass