Hi, could you try to make short_url compatible with Python 3,

The statment """ n & ~self.mask """ returns an """ TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'str' and 'int' """ on Python 3

I'm getting int responses from short_url.encode() Possibly an environment issue?

Reproduction

$ pip install short_url
   Collecting short_url
   Installing collected packages: short-url
   Successfully installed short-url-1.2.2

Python 2.7.11 (default, Feb 19 2017, 23:20:53)
IPython 4.1.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
In [1]: import short_url
In [2]: print short_url.encode(12)
3145728

Expected LhKA instead of 3145728

I would like to save URLs in a database field. What is the maximum number of characters I will need for a given range of integer numbers or: Is there a safe length which will always suffice for 32-bit integers as input?

Thanks for publishing this project!

Re-Issue an old issue from http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576918/

is there a way to make it work with a url? i can shorten integers all day long, but when i actually enter a url i get this:

>> import short_url
>> link = '/home/gmilby/public_html/syrbotwebdesign.com/scripts/playground'
>> url = short_url.encode_url(link)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "short_url.py", line 66, in encode_url
    return DEFAULT_ENCODER.encode_url(n, min_length)
  File "short_url.py", line 15, in encode_url
    return self.enbase(self.encode(n), min_length)
  File "short_url.py", line 19, in encode
    return (n & ~self.mask) | self._encode(n & self.mask)
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'str' and 'long'

i kept shaving off the beginning (http:, then // then...) same error everytime.

is there a way to short a real URL? (Protocoll://hostname:port/path) not only Integer values, if not the package name is misleading.

Hi, thank you for the amazing work! I tried many APIs to short a magnet link, for example

import pyshorteners
s = pyshorteners.Shortener()
s.tinyurl.short('magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44EA47CF8DF204C8E5DF79A255809D47AC94C21B')

and I got https://tinyurl.com/y8ykwlpb which however redirect to http://magnet/?xt=urn:btih:44EA47CF8DF204C8E5DF79A255809D47AC94C21B which doesn't work since it does not open the bittorrent client. Is there a way to short a magnet link? Thank you

The PyPI release tarball should contain the test cases. These are usually ran by distributions that package Python modules in order to ensure their basic usability.