Dagwood

Dagwood is a Swiss Army knife for Python, a collection of small utilities that I find myself using over and over again. It's named after Dagwood Bumstead, the sandwich-loving husband of Blondie in the eponymous comic strip.

Why "Dagwood"? Because a.) I like sandwiches, and b.) the name was available on PyPI.

To install Dagwood, run:

pip install dagwood

Available Utilities

Logging

To quickly set up a logger:

import dagwood
logger = dagwood.assemble()

This will create a logger with default settings: log level set to INFO and log messages formatted as '%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s'. Logs will be written to a folder named logs.

You can customize the log folder, log file name, log level, and log format by passing optional parameters to assemble.

• folder_name: The name of the folder to store log files (default: 'logs')
• file_name: The name of the log file (default: None, which generates a log file with a timestamp)
• level: The log level (default: logging.INFO)
• format: The log format (default: '%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')

logger = dagwood.assemble(folder_name='my_logs', file_name='app.log', level=logging.DEBUG, format='%(levelname)s - %(message)s')

HTTP Codes

An easy way to check the meaning of an HTTP status code:

from dagwood import http_codes

# Example of interpreting an HTTP code
CODE = 500
response = http_codes.interpret(CODE)

print(response.message)  # 'Internal Server Error'
print(response.explanation)  # 'The server has encountered a situation it does not know how to handle.'

# Checking the type of the response
types = http_codes.get_enums()
if response.type == types.SERVER_ERROR:
    # Handle server error
    pass

You can also retrieve the different types of HTTP responses:

types = http_codes.get_enums()
print(types)  # ['Informational', 'Success', 'Redirection', 'Client Error', 'Server Error']

Contributing

Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

To publish a new version to PyPI:

pip install twine # if you don't have it already
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel # build the package
twine upload dist/* # upload to PyPI

Development

Running Tests

The test suite can be run using Python's built-in unittest framework.

Navigate to the tests directory and run:

python -m unittest test_dagwood.py

Or, if you're in the root directory:

python -m unittest tests/test_dagwood.py