cloudmesh_base 2.6.2

A set of simple base functions and classes useful for cloudmesh and other programs

A set of simple functions that are used in cloudmesh but also could be used by other projects.

You can install it in one of two ways.

Instalation from pip

pip install cloudmesh_base

Installation ffrom Source

mkdir -p github/cloudmesh
cd github/cloudmesh
git clone https://github.com/cloudmesh/base.git
cd base
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Provided Functionality

• ConfigDict – an ordered dictionary to read configurations frm YAML files

• Shell – a convenient wrapper to python sh so that pylint does not complain all the time when importing commands from sh

• dotdict – a simple dict with dot notation

• gitinfo – get some information about authors and their statistics for a git repository

• menu – a simple ascii menu so we can chose easily from options

• ping – a simple ping (see also Shell)

• ssh_config – a simple tool to read ./ssh/config into a dict

• stopwatch – a simple stopwatch to measure times

• tables – a simple table printer that prins dicts in a uniform table

• util – a number of useful functions including yn_choice, banner, path_expand, introspecting and printing the method name at runtime, copy files, replace dict values in a string similar but less complicated to .format, read a file to a string, write a string to a file

Source Code

• https://github.com/cloudmesh/base