pyfilesysobjects 0.1.33

Standard conformant utilities for resource paths of file systems and URIs.

The ‘filesysobjects’ package provides cross-platform-utilities for path addresses of file like resources. This includes the search and navigation features on file system structures with the application of regular expressions for pathnames intermixed with globs.

• filesysobjects - constants

• filesysobjects.apppaths - application resource path processing

• filesysobjects.paths - file systems path processing

• filesysobjects.pathtools - search, enumeration, and iteration operations

• filesysobjects.userdata - user directories

• filesysobjects.osdata - OS directories

• filesysobjects.configdata - config directories

Supported platforms are:

• Linux, BSD, Unix, Mac-OS/OS-X, and Windows

• Python2.7, Python3.5+

Online documentation:

• https://pyfilesysobjects.sourceforge.io/

Runtime-Repository:

• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/pyfilesysobjects/

  Install: pip install pyfilesysobjects, see also ‘Install’.

Downloads:

• sourceforge.net: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyfilesysobjects/files/

• bitbucket.org: https://bitbucket.org/acue/pyfilesysobjects

• github.com: https://github.com/ArnoCan/pyfilesysobjects/

• pypi.org: https://pypi.org/project/pyfilesysobjects/

Project Data

• PROJECT: ‘filesysobjects’

• MISSION: Standard conform utilities for paths of file systems and URIs.

• VERSION: 00.01

• RELEASE: 00.01.033

• STATUS: alpha

• AUTHOR: Arno-Can Uestuensoez

• COPYRIGHT: Copyright (C) 2010,2011,2015-2018 Arno-Can Uestuensoez @Ingenieurbuero Arno-Can Uestuensoez

• LICENSE: Artistic-License-2.0 + Forced-Fairplay-Constraints

Python support:

• Python2.7, and Python3.5+

OS-Support:

• Linux: Fedora, CentOS, Debian, and Raspbian

• BSD - OpenBSD, and FreeBSD

• OS-X: Snow Leopard

• Windows: Win7, Win10

• Cygwin

• UNIX: Solaris

Current Release

Major Changes:

• Changed interface to notation.

• Python2.6 support dropped.

• Python3.5+ support introduced.

• Added advanced file and path search by glob and re - findpattern().

• Added rfc3986 - level-1 with basic normapppathx() and splitapppathx().

• Conformity tests for rfc1738, rfc3986, rfc8089, UNC, MS-SMB/MS-CIFS, IEEE/1003.1, see references section of doc.

ToDo:

• Introduction of dynamic plugins

• Support for name spaces of Windows

Known Issues:

• Quoting/masking in http paths currently does not work, %-codes has to be used. Queries and fragments are OK.

• Some minor non-compliance for rare esoteric cases.

• Old style MacOS path names and special handling of ‘:’ by HPF/cli/finder are not supported.

• OpenVMS path names are not supported.