Pyttman 1.0.1

The virtual assistant framework made for developers with ideas

Pyttman

The virtual assistant framework made for developers with ideas

Pyttman is a framework for developing virtual assistants, chatbots or other language driven applications. It houses base classes and ready-to-use classes, both for making powerful custom features, or using the ones already provided for you, as pluggable objects.

It is highly inspired by Django, and aspires to offer a similar ease of use as Django does for web, but for chatbots and personal digital assistants.

Why use Pyttman?

Pyttman is a high level framework which abstracts away much of the hard work when developing natural-language-command-driven apps.

A few bullet points are:

• No more tangled if-statements for deciphering a user command based on certain words.
• 100% object oriented with base classes for subclassing as an alternative to using the presets.
• A clear and consice structure for how your app can be built and scale, with a directory structure set up for you.
• Loaded with tools such as:
  • Scheduling: One of Pyttman's most powerful punches is its scheduler. It can schedule your objects' methods or regular functions, both regular and async, with a great overview of how they run in the background with the pyttman.schedule api. Scheduled jobs are threaded, which makes your app safe from any hiccups during the run of a scheduled method - it won't interrupt your main loop. You can always control and view scheduled functions during runtime with the pythman.schedule api
  • Logging: Log your methods or functions by decorating them with pyttman.logger.loggedmethod to have them automatically log their output and any exceptions in a common log file for your app
  • Callback, Feature, CommandProcessor - These objects lay the baseline for your app, by providing an easy api for binding commands to your functions, classes and/or methods.
  • Client support: Client support concists currently of Discord exclusively, more will be added as development proceeds.

How to get started

It's very easy to get started with Pyttman.

• Install it using pip: pip install pyttman
• Navigate to the directory where you want to develop your Pyttman app
• Start a project using the command pyttman-cli newapp <projectname>
• Use the created directories to build your app. Run it with main.py, which sets up Pyttman for you
• Add settings to settings.py as you wish and access them in your app through pyttman.settings.setting_name
• Consult the documentation for guidance on how to use Pyttman to its full potential.

Contributions

Contributions are more than welcome - write your PR in a branch branched from 'contributions' ideally.