moved the 'as_' functions into common

lib/Bastion/Common.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import operator
 import random
 import pathlib
+import logging
 
 import yaml
 
@@ -295,3 +296,16 @@ def Boggle(*args):
 	#-- If somehow I got here without, then nothing matched the invocation.
 	#-- This is an error.
 	raise ValueError
+
+def asLogLevel(x):
+	if isinstance(x, int):
+		return x
+	elif isinstance(x, str):
+		x = x.upper()
+		if x in ['DEBUG', 'INFO', 'WARN', 'ERROR', 'CRITICAL']:
+			return getattr(logging, x)
+	raise ValueError("asLogLevel - cannot interpret '{}' as a log level.".format(x))
+
+
+def asPath(x):
+	return pathlib.Path(x)