justin_utils

Shared utility library for the Justin Python ecosystem. Provides reusable building blocks for filesystem operations, CLI tooling, functional sequences, EXIF handling, and more — designed to be installed as a lightweight dependency across multiple projects.

Requirements

Python 3.11+

Installation

pip install justin_utils

To install only specific modules and their dependencies, use extras:

pip install "justin_utils[filesystem]"
pip install "justin_utils[exif,sources]"

For development:

pip install -e ".[test]"

Linting and tests:

ruff check .
pytest

Linting and tests:

ruff check .
pytest

CLI tools

Two command-line utilities are installed as entry points:

parts — manages numbered folder structures (01.name, 02.name, …):

parts make <count>       create N numbered folders
parts renumber           renumber existing parts sequentially
parts offset <n>         shift all part indices by n

sf — moves files into a named subfolder:

sf <subfolder>

Modules

cli

Lightweight argparse wrapper: App, Command, Action, Parameter. Supports multi-action commands and typed parameters.

data

DataSize and DataSpeed with human-readable formatting (B/KB/MB/GB and per-second variants).

exif

EXIF metadata extraction via Pillow. Exif.from_path probes containers to reach the embedded image — RAF files carry a full-size JPEG preview, everything else is read directly — and returns None when the date can't be read. exif_sorted sorts a sequence of paths by date taken.

filesystem

File and Folder wrappers over pathlib.Path with move/copy/rename operations, cross-drive detection, and recursive tree handling. RelativeFileset preserves relative paths when moving groups of files.

joins

SQL-style join operations over arbitrary iterables: inner, left, right, full_outer.

json_migration

JsonMigrator applies versioned migrations to JSON objects in order, updating the stored version key after each step.

pylinq

Lazy Sequence wrapper with a LINQ-style API: filter, map, flat_map, group_by, distinct, take, skip, reduce, any, and terminal operations like to_list, to_dict, to_set.

singleton

Singleton abstract base class. Subclasses get a single cached instance via .instance().

sources

Photo source abstraction: groups raw files (NEF, RAF, ARW) with their XMP sidecar metadata, and JPEG/TIFF/DNG/HEIC files with embedded metadata. parse_sources returns a flat list of Source objects ready for sorting or moving.

testing

pytest plugin with the create_files fixture: builds a file tree from a nested dict (None — empty file, str/bytes — content, dict — folder). Install justin_utils[testing] and enable it in the root conftest.py with pytest_plugins = ["justin_utils.testing"].

time_formatter

format_time(delta) — formats a timedelta as a human-readable string ("X h", "Y m", "Z s").

transfer

TransferSpeedMeter tracks a rolling transfer speed over recent history. TransferTimeEstimator estimates remaining time given current speed and remaining size.

util

General-purpose functions: sequence operations (distinct, flatten_lazy, group_by, stride, first), date/time parsing, BFS traversal, user prompts (ask_for_permission, ask_for_choice), and keydefaultdict — a dict subclass with a key-dependent default factory.