mmguero 1.0.13

Useful helpers by me, for me.

mmguero

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

Contents

• AskForPassword - get interactive password (without echoing)
• AskForString - get interactive user response
• 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
• ClearScreen - attempt to clear the screen with clear (*NIX) or cls (Windows)
• DeepGet - safe deep get for a dictionary
• DoDynamicImport - attempt dynamic imports, prompting for install via pip if possible
• DownloadToFile - download a URL to a local file
• eprint - print to stderr
• GetIterable - return an iterable for an iterable (as-is) or a scalar (as a single element in a tuple)
• 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
• pushd - chdir to directory as context manager, returning automatically
• RemoveEmptyFolders - recursively remove empty subfolders
• RunProcess - run command with arguments and return its exit code, stdout, and stderr
• SizeHumanFormat - nice human-readable file sizes
• str2bool - convenient boolean argument parsing
• TestSocket - test if a remote port is open
• 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.