About

Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve been simply twiddling your thumbs, waiting for your program to finish compiling/running? Are you into Deep Learning and need a way to notify yourself when your program crashes or is done learning to do the impossible?

Then Herald is for you!

With a simple, extensible and pythonic interface, you can get setup with a programmatic way of notifying yourself and/or your teammates about different events in your code.

The following platforms are currently supported:

• GMail

• Twilio

Need to use it with a custom platform? You can easily write your own notifier and plug it in to handle that, making Herald infinitely extensible.

Installation

The easy pip install herald-notify.

Usage

The primary way to use Herald is like a context manager. E.g.

import herald
from herald import notifiers

# Send yourself a mail in Gmail to notify you
# Assumes your Gmail tokens have been set up properly
notifier = notifiers.GmailNotifier()

with Herald(notifier, message="Model Trained!"):
    # super long running process
    train_model()
    ...

You should get an email in your registered Gmail account at the end of the program.

You can also specify notifications at arbitrary points via the notifier call:

import herald
from herald import notifiers

notifier = notifiers.TerminalNotifier("Whoop de doo!")

notifier.notify("A new custom message")

# Send the original message from the constructor
notifier.notify()

Contributing

If you find bugs, please feel free to submit an Issue, or even better, a Pull Request!