fmutils 0.1.1

Package for directories, files & paths management utilities.

File Management Utilities (fmutils)

For easily accessing and managing large number of files and dirs in ML datasets.

Implemented Functions

class DirectoryTree generator. source

generates a dir tree displaying the full structure of the root dir, showing all the sub-dirs and the files.

Parameters:

• root_dir – absolute/relative path to root directory containing all files.
• dir_only – whether to only show sub-dirs in the dir-tree (excluding the files inside of each dir and sub-dir, good for getting an overview of large databases). The default is False.
• write_tree – write the full dir-tree in a txt file in current working dir. The default is True.

Returns:

None.

get_all_files(main_dir, sort=True) source

returns the list of all files inside the root dir.

Parameters:

• main_dir – absolute/relative path to root directory containing all files.
• sort – wether to sort the output lost in Alphabetical order.

Returns:

list containing full paths of all files..

get_all_dirs(main_dir, sort=True) source

returns the list of all the sub-dirs inside the root dir.

Parameters:

• main_dir – absolute/relative path to root directory containing all files.
• sort – wether to sort the output lost in Alphabetical order.

Returns:

list containing full paths of all sub directories in root.

get_num_of_files(main_dir) source

counts the number of files inside each sub-dir of the root.

Parameters:

• main_dir – absolute/relative path to root directory containing all files.

Returns:

num_per_class – an array containing number of file in all sub dirs of root.

name_classes – name of all the sub-dirs/classes inside the root.

total_files – total number of files in all the sub-dir/classes.

get_basename(full_path, include_extension=True) source

returns the basename of the file or the dir name at end of given path. In case of file you can choose wether to include the extension or not.

Parameters:

• full_path – absolute/relative path to root directory containing all files.
• include_extension – if the input full_path leads to file the by default the the file's extension in included in output string.

Returns:

name of the file with/without extension or the base dir.

get_random_files(main_dir, count=1) source

returns a list of randomly selected files from the root dir.

Parameters:

• main_dir – absolute/relative path to root directory containing all files.
• count – the number of files to get from root and its sub-dir.

Returns:

list containing full paths to randomly selected files.

del_all_files(main_dir, confirmation=True) source

delete all files from root and all its sub-dirs.

Parameters:

• main_dir – absolute/relative path to root directory containing all files.
• confirmation – confirm before deleting the files.

Returns:

None.

Usage

For further details and more examples visit my github