alexlib 0.0.2

Making Python even more convenient by extending list and dict and pathlib and more.

Welcome to alexlib

This package extends many native Python classes to equip you with an uneasy to tame power. Beside many minor extensions, the major classes extended are:

• list is extended to List

  • Forget that for loops exist in your life, because with this class, for loops are implicitly applied to all items.

• dict is extended to Strcut.

  • Combines the power of dot notation like classes and key access like dictionaries.

• pathlib is extended to P

  • P objects are increbily powerful for parsing paths, no more than one line of code is required to do any operation.

* Some other classes that make honorable mention here are `Read` and `Save` classes. Together with `P`, they provide comprehensible support for file management. Life cannot get easier with those.

Furthermore, those classes are inextericably connected. Example, globbing a path P object returns a List object and so on.

You can read the details in the code to grapple the motivation and the philosophy behind its implementation mechanics. Fill your life with one-liners, take your code to artistic level of brevity and readability while simulataneously being more productive.

Install

just do this in your command line pip install alexlib

Getting Started

That's as easy as taking candy from a baby; whenever you start a Python file, preface it with this

import alexlib.toolbox as tb

This unleashes the library.

A Taste of Power

Suppose you want to know how many lines of code in your repository. The procedure is to glob all .py files recursively, read string code, split it by lines, count the the lines, add up everything.

To achieve this, all you need is a imminently readable one-liner.

tb.P.cwd().myglob("*.py, r=True).read_text().split('\n').apply(len).np.sum()

How does this make perfect sense?

• myglob returns List of P path objects
• read_text is a P method, but it is being run agaist List object. Behind the scense responsible black magic fails to find such a method in List and realizes it is a method of items inside the list, so it reads all files and containerize them in another List object and return it.
• Similar story applies to the next methods.
• .np converts List to numpy array, then .sum is a method of numpy, which gives the final result.

This is the power of implicit for loops. Share with us your one-liner snippets to add it to use-cases of this package.