kim-python 0.0.3

A package to Keep In Mind your constants and call them anytime anywhere

kim a.k.a Keep In Mind

kim is a public pip librairy. It's purpose is to keep in mind your variable so you can call update and delte them anytime anywhere. It's especially useful for very large project where it can be tough to call your variable in a recursive algorithme.

Install

kim is compatible with python>=3.5 and doesn't require any other package from pip.

pip install kim-python

How to use

Create

To create a variable which you would like kim to remember use CreateOrUpdate :

import kim

kim.CreateOrUpdate(category="my_category", name="my_variable", value="Hello World")

print(kim.my_category.my_variable)
print(type(kim.my_category.my_variable))

Hello World
<class 'str'>

Note that if your using an IDE with IntelliSense, you'll have the option to autofill kim.my_category.my_variable, but it requires one compilation.

Update

You can update your variables also by calling CreateOrUpdate:

import kim

kim.CreateOrUpdate(category="my_category", name="my_variable", value="Hello World")
print(kim.my_category.my_variable)
print(type(kim.my_category.my_variable))

kim.CreateOrUpdate(category="my_category", name="my_variable", value=["Hello world", {"foo": "bar"}])
print(kim.my_category.my_variable)
print(type(kim.my_category.my_variable))

Hello World
<class 'str'>
['Hello world', {'foo': 'bar'}]
<class 'list'>

Delete

To erase every created variables call Clear :

import kim

kim.CreateOrUpdate(category="my_category", name="foo", value=100)
kim.CreateOrUpdate(category="my_category", name="bar", value={"hello world": 1})

try:
    print(kim.my_category.foo)
except Exception as e:
    print(e)
try:
    print(kim.my_category.bar)
except Exception as e:
    print(e)

kim.Clear()

try:
    print(kim.my_category.foo)
except Exception as e:
    print(e)
try:
    print(kim.my_category.bar)
except Exception as e:
    print(e)

100
{'hello world': 1}
module 'kim' has no attribute 'my_category'
module 'kim' has no attribute 'my_category'

To delete a category use Remove without specify which variable to delete :

import kim

kim.CreateOrUpdate(category="my_category", name="my_variable", value="Hello World")

kim.Remove(category="my_category")

try:
    print(kim.my_category.my_variable)
except Exception as e:
    print(e)

module 'kim' has no attribute 'my_category'

To delete all the variable use Clear

Read

In addtion of fetching your variables with kim.my_category.my_variable you can use the function variables_dict to get a dictionary of the saved variables :

import kim

kim.CreateOrUpdate(category="my_category", name="my_variable", value="Hello World")

print(kim.variables_dict())

{'my_category': {'my_variable': 'Hello World'}}