def convert_starred_uri(uri):
    """
    Convert a starred URI to a standard WAMP URI and a detected matching
    policy. A starred URI is one that may contain the character '*' used
    to mark URI wildcard components or URI prefixes. Starred URIs are
    more comfortable / intuitive to use at the user/API level, but need
    to be converted for use on the wire (WAMP protocol level).

    This function takes a possibly starred URI, detects the matching policy
    implied by stars, and returns a pair (uri, match) with any stars
    removed from the URI and the detected matching policy.

    An URI like 'com.example.topic1' (without any stars in it) is
    detected as an exact-matching URI.

    An URI like 'com.example.*' (with exactly one star at the very end)
    is detected as a prefix-matching URI on 'com.example.'.

    An URI like 'com.*.foobar.*' (with more than one star anywhere) is
    detected as a wildcard-matching URI on 'com..foobar.' (in this example,
    there are two wildcard URI components).

    Note that an URI like 'com.example.*' is always detected as
    a prefix-matching URI 'com.example.'. You cannot express a wildcard-matching
    URI 'com.example.' using the starred URI notation! A wildcard matching on
    'com.example.' is different from prefix-matching on 'com.example.' (which
    matches a strict superset of the former!). This is one reason we don't use
    starred URIs for WAMP at the protocol level.
    """
    assert type(uri) == str
    cnt_stars = uri.count('*')
    if cnt_stars == 0:
        match = 'exact'
    elif cnt_stars == 1 and uri[-1] == '*':
        match = 'prefix'
        uri = uri[:-1]
    else:
        match = 'wildcard'
        uri = uri.replace('*', '')
    return uri, match
