filefox 0.7.0

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Table of Contents TOC

• Introduction
• Installation
  • From pip
  • From source
• Usages
  • Reading/Writing functions
  • Example
• Contribution
  • Formatting Code

Introduction

filefox is a simple helper toolbox for reading and writing files.

Installation

From pip

pip install filefox

From source

pip install git+https://github.com/Yevgnen/filefox.git

Usages

Reading/Writing functions

Function	Description
read_json	Reading Json file
write_json	Writing Json file
read_pickle	Reading Pickle file
write_pickle	Writing Pickle file
read_toml	Reading Toml file
write_toml	Writing Toml file
read_toml	Reading text file
write_toml	Writing text file
read	Detect file extension, decompress when necessary, read file
write	Detect file extension, write file, compress when necessary

These functions have the following convention of their signatures:

reader(filename, ..., file_kwargs=None, ...)
writer(obj, filename, ..., file_kwargs=None, ...)

• For all readers, the first positional argument is always the filename.
• For all writers, the first positional argument is always the dump object and the second is filename.
• All functions accpet a keyword argument file_kwargs which is an optional dict will be unpacked and passed to file opening function, e.g. open . The other keyword arguments will be passed to internal load/dump functions.

Example

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import filefox

obj = {
    "name": "John",
    "age": 12,
}

filefox.write_json(obj, "json_data.json")
assert obj == filefox.read_json("json_data.json")

filefox.write_json(obj, "json_data.json.gz")
assert obj == filefox.read_json("json_data.json.gz")

filefox.write(obj, "json_data.json")
assert obj == filefox.read("json_data.json")

filefox.write(obj, "json_data.json.gz")
assert obj == filefox.read("json_data.json.gz")

filefox.write_json(
    obj, "json_data.json", file_kwargs={"mode": "w", "encoding": "utf8"}, indent=2
)
assert obj == filefox.read_json("json_data.json", file_kwargs={"encoding": "utf8"})

Contribution

Formatting Code

To ensure the codebase complies with a style guide, please use flake8, black and isort tools to format and check codebase for compliance with PEP8.