def is_resource_modified(environ, etag=None, data=None, last_modified=None):
    if etag is None and data is not None:
        etag = generate_etag(data)
    elif data is not None:
        raise TypeError('both data and etag given')
    if environ['REQUEST_METHOD'] not in ('GET', 'HEAD'):
        return False

    unmodified = False
    if isinstance(last_modified, basestring):
        last_modified = parse_date(last_modified)
    modified_since = parse_date(environ.get('HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE'))

    if modified_since and last_modified and last_modified <= modified_since:
        unmodified = True
    if etag:
        if_none_match = parse_etags(environ.get('HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH'))
        if if_none_match:
            unmodified = if_none_match.contains_raw(etag)

    return not unmodified
Convenience method for conditional requests.
dataset/ETHPy150Open IanLewis/kay/kay/lib/werkzeug/http.py/is_resource_modified