psionapp 0.0.5

A basic application class which other applications can inherit.

The psionapp package provides a basis for defining, saving, and retrieving application-level and user-level configuration variables (attributes).

The package exposes two classes: ApplicationClass and ApplicationUser.

ApplicationClass

An ApplicationClass object will define the application-level configuration (if any).

An ApplicationClass object will be identified by an application id. You can instantiate a class object with the following parameters:

• use_user_ini (bool). If True this will create a .ini file in the system appropriate config directory. Initially a file will be created for the current system user's user name. This will store user-level configuration values.

• use_config_ini (bool). If True this will create a config.ini file in the system appropriate config directory. This will store application-level configuration values.

• use_var_dir (bool). If True this will create an application id directory in the system appropriate var data directory.

• user_class (ApplicationUser). Used in conjunction with use_user_ini. The ApplicationUser class will define the config parameters.

• attributes (see Attribute definition)

ApplicationUser

An ApplicationUser object will define the user-level configuration (if any).

An ApplicationUser class will be identified by a user name. It will define the attributes that will form that user's configuration values.

Attribute definition

Attibutes must be defined in the form:

attributes = {
    'string_data': ('general', 'string', 'abc'),
    'int_data': ('general', 'int', 2),
    'bool_data': ('display', 'bool', True),
    'float_data': ('display', 'float', 1.23456),
}

where the attributes dict key is the attribute name, and the three tuple values are:

1. the section in the config file where the attribute will appear;
2. the data type of the attribute;
3. the default value of the attribute.

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Version 0.0.5 - 21 January 2021

• Dummy

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Version 0.0.4 - 14 August 2020

• include download path

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Version 0.0.3 - 3 August 2020

• refactor application last_user

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Version 0.0.2 - 2 August 2020

• remove _applicationbase
• refactor user creation and save
• refactor applicationclass

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Version 0.0.1 - 1 August 2020

• Added version and _all_
• Added App level attributes
• Added README

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Version 0.0.0 - 30 July 2020

Created and uploaded