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+# GNU Mediagoblin -- federated, autonomous media hosting
+# Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
+
+
+def clean_listy_filepath(listy_filepath):
+    """
+    Take a listy filepath (like ['dir1', 'dir2', 'filename.jpg']) and
+    clean out any nastiness from it.
+
+    For example:
+    >>> clean_listy_filepath([u'/dir1/', u'foo/../nasty', u'linooks.jpg'])
+    [u'dir1', u'foo_.._nasty', u'linooks.jpg']
+
+    Args:
+    - listy_filepath: a list of filepath components, mediagoblin
+      storage API style.
+
+    Returns:
+      A cleaned list of unicode objects.
+    """
+    return [
+        unicode(secure_filename(filepath))
+        for filepath in listy_filepath]
+
+