lemons 0.16

A GUI-building and data-crunching 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 had already been taken. Heartbroken, and with no other ideas for what to call this package, it felt like the world had ended. The feeling of dread and loss was devastating - debilitating, even.

Nonetheless, when life give you lemons, you squeeze them! Aha, an epiphany: why not go back to the root of it all, the title of one of my earliest programs: EZPZ Lemon Squeezy? A simple yet elegant title was there all along, yearning to represent this package and all it stood for; the darkness vanished as quickly as it came, and 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 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 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()
  

Special Thanks

Thank you for taking the time to read this and use this package. Enjoy!

Please email [e-mail] with any feedback or suggestions.