idxtools 0.12.1

Indexfile API and tools

Idxtools

Idxtools provides some command line tools and an API to perform operations on index files.

Index files format

Index files are a sort of plain text database files to store metadata information for other files and their content. The format is as follows:

<filepath>TAB<attributes_list>

with attribute_list as a semicolon separated list of key = value strings. Here you can find a sample line:

/path/to/file       size=100; id=1; class=MyClass; type=MyType

Installation

The package can be installed either using pip:

pip install idxtools

or from source:

git clone https://github.com/emi80/idxtools.git
cd idxtools
python setup.py install