text: """ Panoptes - Generic - Helpers
  
  Just a collection of generic functions to help cloud provider analysis
  """
  
  import datetime
  import dateutil
  
  def get_current_time() -> str:
      """
      Returns a datetime object with ISO 8601 format
      """
      return datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()
  
  
  def generate_human_time(time: datetime.datetime) -> str:
      """
      Generates a human-readable string from a datetime object
      """
      return time.strftime("%b %d %Y, %H:%M:%S")
  
  
  def convert_string_datetime(timestr: str) -> datetime.datetime:
      """
      Converts any string into a datetime object
      """
      return dateutil.parser.parse(timestr)
  
  
  def parse_whitelist_file(whitelist_path: str) -> list:
      """
      Receives a whitelist_path containing 1 IP/CIDR per line and returns a list
      """
      with open(whitelist_path, 'r') as whitelist_file:
          whitelist = whitelist_file.read().splitlines()
      return whitelist
  