Convenience

Tools for everyday use.

Source and install files are available under BSD License here: https://gitlab.com/sylvainraybaud/convenience

This package HAS NOT been tested with Python 2.

API

• xopen: a wrapper around open and gzip.open returning an XFile object, which is a wrapper around File and gzip.GzipFile. XFile implements methods open, close, read, readline, readlines, write with the same parameters as File methods. It also implements __iter__ and __next__ to make it iterable and __enter__ and __exit__ to make it usable in with statements. Files whose names end with .gz are treated as gzip files, all other files are treated as uncompressed files.

• Logger: a wrapper around logging module. A Logger object is intialized with a verbosity parameter which is translated into a logging value (WARNING, INFO or DEBUG). It implements debug, info, warning and error methods. They all take a string as first argument argument. error takes an extra argument, code. When called, error print its first parameter then calls exit(code).

• header, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, bold, underline: apply decoration to string (see example.py)

Using

A good example being worth a thousand words, please see example.py

Installing

pip install convenience

TODO

• Use magic number instead of file extension to detected gzipped files, when applicable.
• Handle more compression format.
• Double check handling of various text encodings.
• Python 2 compatibility.
• Add more magic.

Contributing

Please make a pull request on gitlab. You can mail me at

first_name [dot] family_name [at] crans [dot] org