pyfastfile 0.6.2

A lightweight and fast Python API for simplifying file operations

pyfastfile

A lightweight Python library for easy-to-use operations.

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Installation

pip install pyfastfile

Usage

The encoding parameter defaults to utf-8 in all functions that support text encoding.
All index-based functions use zero-based indexing.

Titles

• Main Functions
• Csv Functions
• Json Functions
• Directory Functions
• Archive Functions
• Encryption Functions
• Utility Functions

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Main Functions

Function Name	Description	Arguments	Returns
overwrite()	Overwrites a file with given content.	path:str, data:str,encoding:str	None
append()	Appends data to the end of a file.	path:str, data:str,encoding:str	None
read()	Reads entire file content as string.	path:str,encoding:str	str
readlines()	Returns file lines as a list.	path:str, newline:bool,encoding:str	list
getline()	Returns a specific line from file.	path:str, line:int,newline:bool,encoding:str	str
exists()	Checks if file exists.	path:str	bool
find()	Returns lines containing target text.	path:str,data:str,encoding:str	list[str]
find_num()	Returns line numbers matching target text.	path:str,data:str,encoding:str	list[int]
delete()	Deletes the target file.	path:str	None
rename()	Rename target file.	path:str, name:str	None
touch()	Creates a file.	path:str,existserror:bool	None
move()	Moves a files	filepath:str,targetpath:str	None
clear()	Clears the content of a file by overwriting it with an empty string.	path: str, encoding: str = "utf-8"	None
count_lines()	Returns the number of lines in a file.	path: str	int
size_mb()	Returns file size in megabytes.	path:str	float
size()	Returns file size in bytes.	path:str	int

Csv Functions

Function Name	Description	Arguments	Returns
csv_read()	Read target csv.	path:str,encoding:str	Generator
csv_append()	Appends data to the end of a csv file.	path:str,data:list,encoding:str	None
csv_getheader()	Return header of the target csv file.	path:str,encoding:str	list
csv_getrow()	Return target row of the csv file.	path:str,row:int,encoding:str	list
csv_getcolumn()	Return target column of the csv file.	path:str,column:str,encoding:str	list
csv_getdata()	Gets a value from CSV by row and column.	path:str,row:int,column:str,encoding:str,	any
csv_updaterow()	Update target row	path:str,row:int,new_data:list,encoding:str	None
csv_overwrite()	Overwrite on target file.	path:str,data:list,encoding:str	None
csv_count()	Return length of target file.	path:str,withheader:bool	int

Json Functions

Function Name	Description	Arguments	Returns
json_read()	Read target JSON file and parse its content.	path:str	dict
json_overwrite()	Overwrite target JSON file with new data.	path:str, data:dict, encoding:str	None
json_append()	Reads JSON file, merges new dictionary into existing data (key update behavior).	path:str, data:dict	None
json_delete_key()	Deletes a specific key from JSON data and rewrites the file.	path:str, key:str, encoding:str	None
json_is_valid()	Checks whether the target JSON file contains valid JSON data.	path:str	bool
json_get_values()	Returns all values from the target JSON object.	path:str, withlist:bool, encoding:str	dict_values
json_get_keys()	Returns all keys from the target JSON object.	path:str, withlist:bool, encoding:str	dict_keys

Directory Functions

Function Name	Description	Arguments	Returns
dir_create()	Creates the target directory if it does not already exist.	path:str	None
dir_list()	Lists all entries in the target directory.	path:str	list
dir_is_directory()	Checks whether the target path is a directory.	path:str	bool
dir_delete()	Deletes the target directory. Removes recursively if non-empty.	path:str	None
dir_is_empty()	Checks whether the target directory is empty.	path:str	bool
dir_size()	Returns the total size of the target directory in bytes, recursively.	path:str	int
dir_size_mb()	Returns the total size of the target directory in megabytes, recursively.	path:str	float

Archive Functions

Function Name	Description	Arguments	Returns
zip_create()	Creates a zip archive from file or directory.	path:str, targetpath:str	None
zip_extract()	Extracts a zip archive to target path.	path:str, targetpath:str	None
zip_is_zipfile()	Checks if file is a valid zip archive.	path:str	bool
zip_list()	Returns list of files inside zip archive.	path:str	list
zip_append()	Appends a file to a zip archive.	path:str, target:str	None
tar_create()	Creates a tar archive from directory.	path:str, targetpath:str	None
tar_extract()	Extracts a tar archive to target path.	path:str, targetpath:str	None
tar_list()	Returns list of files inside tar archive.	path:str	list
tar_remove()	Removes a target file from a tar archive.	path:str, target:str	None
tar_append()	Appends a file to a tar archive.	path:str, target:str	None

Encryption Functions

Function Name	Description	Arguments	Returns
enc_encrypt_file()	Encrypt target file.	path:str,targetpath:str,key:bytes,mode:str	None
enc_decrypt_file()	Decrypt target file.	path:str,targetpath:str,key:bytes,mode:str	None

Only AES256 algorithm support, modes: CTR, CBC, CFB, ECB, GCM, OFB

Utility Functions

Function Name	Description	Arguments	Returns
destroy_newline()	Removes newline characters from text.	data:str	str
lmap()	Only: list(map(...))	func:function,lst:list	list
copy_to_clipboard()	Copy text on clipboard	text:str	None
encrypt_bytes()	Encrypt target bytes. (Only GCM)	data:bytes,key:bytes	bytes
decrypt_bytes()	Decrypt target bytes. (Only GCM)	data:bytes,key:bytes	bytes

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