flint-core 0.2.1

A minimalist, agnostic Python framework to standardize data engineering pipelines.

Data Engineering Experience 🚀

Flint is a minimalist, agnostic Python framework designed to streamline and standardize data engineering pipelines. By embracing Convention over Configuration, flint eliminates environment friction, absolute path hardcoding, and complex PySpark session management.

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✨ Key Features

• Zero-Config File Discovery: Automatic tree-walking directory resolution anchors your data catalog using your local pyproject.toml file.
• Decentralized Catalog: Declare your metadata layouts inside modular, self-contained mini-YAML files.
• Elastic Processing Runtimes: Switch dynamically between Pandas and PySpark execution engines using exactly the same unified interface.
• Interactive CLI Scaffolding: Spin up a new production-ready data directory structure instantly with flint init.

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📦 Installation

(Once published to PyPI)

pip install flint-core

Or install it directly from the source repository using Poetry:

poetry add git+[https://github.com/idperez720/data-engineering-exp.git](https://github.com/idperez720/data-engineering-exp.git)

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🏁 Quick Start

1. Initialize your workspace

Navigate to an empty directory and let the interactive wizard scaffold the workspace conventions:

flint init

2. Declare a dataset

Add a specification block inside conf/catalog/sample_dataset.yaml:

customers:
  description: "Main production customer data"
  format: "csv"
  engine: "pandas"
  storage_path: "data/sample_table.csv"

3. Load data anywhere

Create a Python script or open a Jupyter Notebook inside src/notebooks/ and fetch your data instantly:

from flint_core.core.io import DataLoader

# Autodiscovers your project root boundaries and settings
loader = DataLoader()

# Loads the dataset securely as a Pandas DataFrame
df = loader.load("customers")
df.head()

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📖 Complete Documentation

For comprehensive guides, testing architecture deep-dives, and complete API references, visit our documentation site: 👉 http://127.0.0.1:8000/ (Replace with your deployed docs URL, e.g., GitHub Pages)

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⚖️ License

Distributed under the MIT License. Any modification or distribution (including forks) must include the original copyright notice and liability waiver. See LICENSE for more information.