lemons 0.14

A GUI and common function utility package

Lemons

A package that makes things easy.

Why lemons?

Originally intending to call this package ezpz, it was soon discovered that the name was already taken. Heartbroken, and with no other ideas for what to call this package, it felt like the world had ended.

Then I had the idea: why not go back to the root of it all, the title of one of my earliest programs: EZPZ Lemon Squeezy. When life give you lemons, you squeeze them! A simple yet elegant title was there all along, yearning to represent this package; thus, the name lemons was born.

What does it do?

Lemons tries to make data crunching and GUI building easier by eliminating a lot of repetitive and error-prone code. Please keep in mind that the package is still in its infancy, so its functionality is currently quite limited.

Data Crunching

With one line of code each, lemons can currently:

• Read a .csv file and return the desired columns
• Write data to a .csv file
• Separate the header of a data set into header data and body data
• Combine the header data with the body data again if necessary

GUI Building

The tkinter framework, as many know, is not the most user-friendly GUI-builder out there. Lemons hopes to help ease that pain a little. This is the are where this package really shines.

Some of the things that can be done:

• Easily create a horizontal separator with vertical padding

• Add convenient spacing between widgets

• Make input and output fields and lists, and then easily get the filepaths of the selections

• Creating a scrollable notebook tab, which previously took dozens of lines of code per tab, can now be done in just two.

    tab = lemons.gui.ScrollableTab(notebook, 'Title')
    # Your tab contents here
    tab.update()