multivolumefile 0.2.3

Status

multivolumefile module is under active development and considered as *Alpha* state. It is not good idea to use it on production systems, but it may work well in a limited range of usage. Please check limitations and passed test cases.

Install

You can install it as usual public libraries, you can use pip command

` pip install multivolumefile `

You are also able to add it to your setup.py/cfg as dependency.

with multivolumefile.open('archive.7z', 'rb') as vol:
    data = vol.read(100)
    vol.seek(500)

data = b'abcdefg'
with multivolumefile.open('archive.7z', 'wb') as vol:
    size = vol.write(data)
    vol.seek(0)

Limitations and known issues

• fileno() is not supported and when call it, you will get RuntimeError exception.

• There are several non-implemented functions such as truncate() and writeline() that will raise NotimplementedError

• There are several non-implemented functions such as readlines(), readline() and readall().

• Text mode is not implemented.

• *Caution*: When globbing existent volumes, it glob all files other than 4-digit extensions, it may break your data.

Contribution

You are welcome to contribute the project, as usual on github projects, Pull-Requests are always welcome.

License

Multivolume is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public license version 2.1 or later.

Unreleased

v0.2.3

v0.2.2

Added

• Add py.typed file for type hinting.

v0.2.1

Added

• Add name property that indicate basename of volumes

• Add stat() that return stat_result which has as mostly same methods as os.stat_result class except for platform dependent methods.

v0.2.0

v0.1.4

Fixed

• Fix append mode bug.

v0.1.3

Fixed

• Fix added volume size become wrong

v0.1.2

Fixed

• Fix append mode (#1)

v0.1.1

Fixed

• Fin NotImplementedError when writing boudning of target files

v0.1.0

• *API changed*

v0.0.5

• Support context manager

• Support read functions.