ideas 0.0.1

Easy creation of import hooks to test ideas.

ideas

Easy creation of custom import hooks to try out new ideas for Python.

Documentation

Original motivation

Programming in Python is my main hobby. I like to explore various ideas, learning along the way. As I find myself doing a lot of copy/paste/modify on the various import hooks experiments, including on some published projects such as AvantPy, I thought it would make sense to create a versatile projects which I could use as the basis of other projects. An obvious benefit is that I will need to fix bugs in a single project.

Additional motivation

Often, on python-ideas, a suggestion is made to someone that proposes something new to try it by modifying Python using an import hook. I have yet to see a case of someone following up on such suggestions. I believe that the main reason is that most people do not know how to do this.

So, by creating this project, I'm hoping that enough examples will be created that could be easily adapted for exploring proposals submitted to python-ideas. If that is the case, I will likely benefit too as advanced Python programmers may make suggestions as to how to improve this project.

About the name

For this project, I was thinking of using importhook (singular) or importhooks (plural). However, there is already a project named importhook on Pypi and I thought that using the plural form would likely be just too confusing.

I settled on ideas as I am guessing that the main application would be for people to try out suggestions from or for python-ideas.

Tools

This project uses black for formatting, pytest for running tests, and flake8 for linting.

To Do

• Add requirements-dev.txt file
• Add setup.py file and upload to pypi
• List cases/recipes to be included
• Add console
• Add docs
• Add support for __main__
• Add test to ensure desired paths (e.g. Python standard library) are excluded.
• show excluded path
• show abbreviations used for paths
• always exclude ideas itself

More to come ...