remove useless code and add docstrings and also lint using pylint.

waybackpy/cdx_utils.py

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+"""
+Utility functions required for accessing the CDX server API.
+
+These are here in this module so that we don’t make any module too
+big.
+"""
+
 import re
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union
 from urllib.parse import quote
@@ -11,28 +18,44 @@ from .utils import DEFAULT_USER_AGENT
 
 
 def get_total_pages(url: str, user_agent: str = DEFAULT_USER_AGENT) -> int:
+    """
+    When using the pagination use adding showNumPages=true to the request
+    URL makes the CDX server return an integer which is the number of pages
+    of CDX pages available for us to query using the pagination API.
+    """
+
     endpoint = "https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?"
     payload = {"showNumPages": "true", "url": str(url)}
     headers = {"User-Agent": user_agent}
     request_url = full_url(endpoint, params=payload)
     response = get_response(request_url, headers=headers)
+
     if isinstance(response, requests.Response):
         return int(response.text.strip())
-    else:
-        raise response
+    raise response
 
 
 def full_url(endpoint: str, params: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    """
+    As the function's name already implies that it returns
+    full URL, but why we need a function for generating full URL?
+    The CDX server can support multiple arguments for parameters
+    such as filter and collapse and this function adds them without
+    overwriting earlier added arguments.
+    """
+
     if not params:
         return endpoint
-    full_url = endpoint if endpoint.endswith("?") else (endpoint + "?")
+    _full_url = endpoint if endpoint.endswith("?") else (endpoint + "?")
+
     for key, val in params.items():
         key = "filter" if key.startswith("filter") else key
         key = "collapse" if key.startswith("collapse") else key
-        amp = "" if full_url.endswith("?") else "&"
+        amp = "" if _full_url.endswith("?") else "&"
         val = quote(str(val), safe="")
-        full_url += f"{amp}{key}={val}"
-    return full_url
+        _full_url += f"{amp}{key}={val}"
+
+    return _full_url
 
 
 def get_response(
@@ -40,29 +63,31 @@ def get_response(
     headers: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
     retries: int = 5,
     backoff_factor: float = 0.5,
-    # no_raise_on_redirects=False,
 ) -> Union[requests.Response, Exception]:
+    """
+    Make get request to the CDX server and return the response.
+    """
+
     session = requests.Session()
+
     retries_ = Retry(
         total=retries,
         backoff_factor=backoff_factor,
         status_forcelist=[500, 502, 503, 504],
     )
-    session.mount("https://", HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retries_))
 
-    try:
-        response = session.get(url, headers=headers)
-        session.close()
-        return response
-    except Exception as e:
-        reason = str(e)
-        exc_message = f"Error while retrieving {url}.\n{reason}"
-        exc = WaybackError(exc_message)
-        exc.__cause__ = e
-        raise exc
+    session.mount("https://", HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retries_))
+    response = session.get(url, headers=headers)
+    session.close()
+    return response
 
 
 def check_filters(filters: List[str]) -> None:
+    """
+    Check that the filter arguments passed by the end-user are valid.
+    If not valid then raise WaybackError.
+    """
+
     if not isinstance(filters, list):
         raise WaybackError("filters must be a list.")
 
@@ -81,9 +106,15 @@ def check_filters(filters: List[str]) -> None:
 
 
 def check_collapses(collapses: List[str]) -> bool:
+    """
+    Check that the collapse arguments passed by the end-user are valid.
+    If not valid then raise WaybackError.
+    """
+
     if not isinstance(collapses, list):
         raise WaybackError("collapses must be a list.")
-    elif len(collapses) == 0:
+
+    if len(collapses) == 0:
         return True
 
     for collapse in collapses:
@@ -103,18 +134,26 @@ def check_collapses(collapses: List[str]) -> bool:
 
 
 def check_match_type(match_type: Optional[str], url: str) -> bool:
+    """
+    Check that the match_type argument passed by the end-user is valid.
+    If not valid then raise WaybackError.
+    """
+
     legal_match_type = ["exact", "prefix", "host", "domain"]
+
     if not match_type:
         return True
-    elif "*" in url:
+
+    if "*" in url:
         raise WaybackError(
             "Can not use wildcard in the URL along with the match_type arguments."
         )
-    elif match_type not in legal_match_type:
+
+    if match_type not in legal_match_type:
         exc_message = (
             f"{match_type} is not an allowed match type.\n"
             "Use one from 'exact', 'prefix', 'host' or 'domain'"
         )
         raise WaybackError(exc_message)
-    else:
-        return True
+
+    return True