Merge branch 'release-v0.8.1' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse v0.8.1

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/util/lrucache.py b/synapse/util/lrucache.py
index f115f50e50..65d5792907 100644
--- a/synapse/util/lrucache.py
+++ b/synapse/util/lrucache.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 
 class LruCache(object):
     """Least-recently-used cache."""
-    # TODO(mjark) Add hit/miss counters
     # TODO(mjark) Add mutex for linked list for thread safety.
     def __init__(self, max_size):
         cache = {}
diff --git a/synapse/util/stringutils.py b/synapse/util/stringutils.py
index ea53a8085c..52e66beaee 100644
--- a/synapse/util/stringutils.py
+++ b/synapse/util/stringutils.py
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 import random
 import string
 
+_string_with_symbols = (
+    string.digits + string.ascii_letters + ".,;:^&*-_+=#~@"
+)
+
 
 def origin_from_ucid(ucid):
     return ucid.split("@", 1)[1]
@@ -23,3 +27,9 @@ def origin_from_ucid(ucid):
 
 def random_string(length):
     return ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_letters) for _ in xrange(length))
+
+
+def random_string_with_symbols(length):
+    return ''.join(
+        random.choice(_string_with_symbols) for _ in xrange(length)
+    )