Foundations 2.1.0

Foundations is the core package of Oncilla, Manager, Umbra, sIBL_GUI and sIBL_Reporter.

Introduction

Foundations is the core package of Oncilla, Color, Manager, Umbra, sIBL_GUI, sIBL_Reporter.It provides modules defining various utilities objects used in those packages.

Installation

The following dependencies are needed:

• Python 2.6.7 or Python 2.7.3: http://www.python.org/

• PyQt: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/

To install Foundations from the Python Package Index you can issue this command in a shell:

pip install Foundations

or this alternative command:

easy_install Foundations

You can also directly install from Github source repository:

git clone git://github.com/KelSolaar/Foundations.git
cd Foundations
python setup.py install

If you want to build the documentation you will also need:

• Tidy http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Usage

Given the large spectrum of the objects defined in Foundations package, please refer to Foundations - Api for precise usage examples about each modules. Here are listed a few non exhaustive usage examples.

• foundations.dataStructures.Structure:

  >>> person = Structure(firstName="Doe", lastName="John", gender="male")
  >>> person.firstName
  'Doe'
  >>> person.keys()
  ['gender', 'firstName', 'lastName']
  >>> person["gender"]
  'male'
  >>> del(person["gender"])
  >>> person["gender"]
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  KeyError: 'gender'
  >>> person.gender
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  AttributeError: 'Structure' object has no attribute 'gender'

• foundations.dataStructures.Lookup:

  >>> person = Lookup(firstName="Doe", lastName="John", gender="male")
  >>> person.getFirstKeyFromValue("Doe")
  'firstName'
  >>> persons = foundations.foundations.dataStructures.Lookup(John="Doe", Jane="Doe", Luke="Skywalker")
  >>> persons.getKeysFromValue("Doe")
  ['Jane', 'John']

• foundations.environment.Environment:

  >>> environment = Environment(JOHN="DOE", DOE="JOHN")
  >>> environment.setValues()
  True
  >>> import os
  >>> os.environ["JOHN"]
  'DOE'
  >>> os.environ["DOE"]
  'JOHN'

• foundations.strings.getNiceName:

  >>> getNiceName("getMeANiceName")
  'Get Me A Nice Name'
  >>> getNiceName("__getMeANiceName")
  '__Get Me A Nice Name'

• foundations.strings.getSplitextBasename:

  >>> getSplitextBasename("/Users/JohnDoe/Documents/Test.txt")
  'Test'

• foundations.strings.getCommonPathsAncestor:

  >>> getCommonPathsAncestor("/Users/JohnDoe/Documents", "/Users/JohnDoe/Documents/Test.txt")
  '/Users/JohnDoe/Documents'

• foundations.walkers.filesWalker:

  >>> for file in filesWalker("./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0"):
  ...     print(file)
  ...
  ./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0/level_1/level_2/standard.sIBLT
  ./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0/level_1/loremIpsum.txt
  ./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0/level_1/standard.rc
  ./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0/standard.ibl
  >>> for file in filesWalker("./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0", ("\.sIBLT",)):
  ...     print(file)
  ...
  ./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0/level_1/level_2/standard.sIBLT

About

Foundations by Thomas Mansencal – 2008 - 2014

Copyright © 2008 - 2014 – Thomas Mansencal – [e-mail]

This software is released under terms of GNU GPL V3 license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

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