flametree 0.2.1

Python file and zip operations made easy

Flametree is a Python library which provides a simple syntax for handling files and folders (no os.path.join, os.listdir etc.), and works the same way for different file systems.

Write a Flametree program to read/write files in disk folders, and your code will also be able to read/write in zip archives and virtual (in-memory) archives - which is particularly useful on web servers.

As an illustration, here is how to use Flametree to read a file texts/poems/the_raven.txt, replace all occurences of the word “raven” by “seagull” in the text, and write the result to a new file the_seagull.txt in the same folder:

from flametree import file_tree

with file_tree("texts") as root:
    poem_text = root.poems.the_raven_txt.read()
    new_text = poem_text.replace("raven", "seagull")
    root.poems._file("the_seagull.txt").write(new_text)

Even in this very simple use case, the syntax is clearer than the os way, which would write as follows:

import os

with open(os.path.join("poems", "the_raven.txt"), "r") as f:
    poem_text = f.read()
new_text = poem_text.replace("raven", "seagull")
with open(os.path.join("poems", "the_seagull.txt"), "w") as f:
    content = f.write(new_text)

Moreover, the same Flametree code also works for files inside a zip archive:

with file_tree("my_archive.zip") as root:
    poem_text = root.poems.the_raven_txt.read()
    new_text = poem_text.replace("raven", "seagull")
    root.poems._file("the_seagull.txt").write(new_text)

Now in hard mode: suppose that your server receives binary zip data of an archive containing poems/the_raven.txt, and must return back a new zip containing a file poems/the_seagull.txt. Here again, the syntax of the core operations is the same:

destination_zip = file_tree("@memory") # Create a new virtual zip
with file_tree(the_raven_zip_data) as root:
    poem_text = root.poems.the_raven_txt.read()
    new_text = poem_text.replace("raven", "seagull")
    destination_zip._dir("poems")._file("the_seagull.txt").write(new_text)
destination_zip_data = destination_zip._close()
# Now send the data to the client

See section Usage below for more examples and features.

Infos

PIP installation:

pip install flametree

Github Page: https://github.com/Edinburgh-Genome-Foundry/Flametree

License: MIT

Copyright 2017 Edinburgh Genome Foundry, University of Edinburgh