disambigufile 0.1.0

Top-level package for disambigufile.

Class with file-like interface to a file found in provided search path

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://disambigufile.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Search a path for a file that matches a pattern

• Search a path for a file inside directories that match a pattern

Examples

from disambigufile import Disambigufile
import disambigufile.exceptions
path = '/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin'
try:
    print(Disambigufile('^ls', path=path))
except disambigufile.exceptions.Error as e:
    print(f"unable to disambiguate file; exception: {e}")

path = 'path1:path2'
try:
    with Disambigufile(r'^asdf', path=path).open() as f:
        print(f.read())
except disambigufile.exceptions.Error as e:
    print(f"unable to disambiguate file; exception: {e}")

# search for unique file matching ~/Datasets/*2019-08-19*/data*
path='~/Datasets'
try:
    hit = Disambigufile(
        pattern='2019-08-19',
        path=path,
        dir=True,
        subpattern='^data',
    )
    print(hit)
except disambigufile.exceptions.Error as e:
    print(f"unable to disambiguate file; exception: {e}")

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.