mmguero 1.3.0

Seth Grover's useful Python helpers

mmguero

mmguero is my personal collection of miscellaneous helper functions for Python.

Contents

• AggressiveUrlEncode - urlencode each character of a string
• AppendToFile - append strings to a text file
• AskForPassword - get interactive password (without echoing)
• AskForString - get interactive user response
• AtomicInt - atomic integer class and context manager
• Base64DecodeIfPrefixed- decode a string as base64 only if it starts with base64:, otherwise just return
• CaselessDictionary - dictionary that enables case insensitive searching while preserving case sensitivity when keys are listed
• CheckOutputInput - run command with arguments and return its exit code, stdout, and stderr
• ChooseMultiple - select multiple options from a list of options
• ChooseOne - select a single option from a list of options
• ChownRecursive - "chown -R" a file or directory
• ClearScreen - attempt to clear the screen with clear (*NIX) or cls (Windows)
• ContainsWhitespace - check if any character in a string is whitespace
• ContextLockedOrderedDict - an OrderedDict that locks itself and unlocks itself as a context manager
• CustomMakeTranslation - Replace substrings based on a dictionary of mappings
• DeepGet - safe deep get for a dictionary
• DeepSet - convenience routine for setting-getting a value into a dictionary
• DictSearch - recursive dictionary key search
• DisplayMessage - display a message to the user
• DisplayProgramBox - "stream" the contents of a file descriptor into a program box
• DoDynamicImport - attempt dynamic imports, prompting for install via pip if possible
• DownloadToFile - download a URL to a local file
• eprint - print to stderr
• EscapeAnsi - remove ANSI escape sequences
• EVP_BytesToKey - create key compatible with openssl enc
• FileContents - read the contents of a file, optionally falling back to binary
• Flatten - flatten a collection, but don't split strings
• GetIterable - return an iterable for an iterable (as-is) or a scalar (as a single element in a tuple)
• GetPrimaryIP - return the primary IP (the one with a default route) on the local box
• GitClone - create a local git clone
• LoadFileIfJson - does this file contain valid json? if so, load and return it
• LoadStrIfJson - is this string valid json? if so, load and return it
• PopLine - "pop" lines from the beginning of a text file
• pushd - chdir to directory as context manager, returning automatically
• RemoveEmptyFolders - recursively remove empty subfolders
• RemovePrefix - remove a prefix from a string
• RemoveSuffix - remove a suffix from a string
• RunProcess - run command with arguments and return its exit code, stdout, and stderr
• RunSubProcess - execute a shell process returning its exit code and output
• SameFileOrDir - return true if os.path.samefile, also False on exception
• sha256sum - calculate a sha256 hash of a file
• SizeHumanFormat - nice human-readable file sizes
• str2bool and str2boolorextra - convenient boolean argument parsing
• Tablify - print a list of lists into a nice table
• TemporaryFilename - a context manager returning a temporary filename which is deleted upon leaving the context
• TestSocket - test if a remote port is open
• Touch - open a file and close it, updating its access time
• val2bool - convenient boolean argument parsing
• Which - determine if a program/script exists and is executable in the system path
• YesOrNo - get interactive user response to Y/N question

Installation

Using pip, to install the latest release from PyPI:

python3 -m pip install -U mmguero

Or to install directly from GitHub:

python3 -m pip install -U 'git+https://github.com/mmguero/python-mmguero'

Authors

• Seth Grover - Initial work - mmguero

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.