pynt 0.5.0

Lightweight Python Build Tool.

pynt - Lightweight Python Build Tool.

**Raghunandan Rao**

Features

• Really quick to learn.

• Build tasks are just python funtions.

• Manages dependancies between tasks.

• Automatically generates a command line interface.

• Rake style param passing to tasks

Installation

You can install pynt from the Python Package Index (PyPI) or from source.

Using pip

$ pip install pynt

Using easy_install

$ easy_install pynt

Example

The build script is written in pure Python and pynt takes care of managing any dependancies between tasks and generating a command line interface.

Tasks are just regular Python functions marked with the @task() decorator. Dependancies are specified with @task() too. Tasks can be ignored with the @ignore decorator.

After defining all tasks build(sys.modules[__name__],sys.argv[1:]) is called to run the build.

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
from pynt import task,ignore,build

@task()
def clean():
    '''Clean build directory.'''
    print 'Cleaning build directory...'

@task(clean)
def html(target='.'):
    '''Generate HTML.'''
    print 'Generating HTML in directory "%s"' %  target

@ignore
@task(clean)
def images():
    '''Prepare images.'''
    print 'Preparing images...'

@task(html,images)
def start_server(server='localhost', port = '80'):
    '''Start the server'''
    print 'Starting server at %s:%s' % (server, port)

@task(start_server) #Depends on task with all optional params
def stop_server():
    print 'Stopping server....'

@task()
def copy_file(src, dest):
    print 'Copying from %s to %s' % (src, dest)

@task()
def echo(*args,**kwargs):
    print args
    print kwargs

if __name__ == '__main__':
    build(sys.modules[__name__],sys.argv[1:])

The command line interface and help is automatically generated. Task descriptions are extracted from function docstrings.

$ ./example.py -h
usage: example.py [-h] task

positional arguments:
    task        perform specified task and all it's dependancies

optional arguments:
    -h, --help  show this help message and exit

tasks:
    android     Package Android app.
    clean       Clean build directory.
    html        Generate HTML.
    images      Prepare images.

pynt takes care of dependencies between tasks. In the following case start_server depends on clean, html and image generation (image task is ignored).

$ ./example.py start_server
[ example.py - Starting task "clean" ]
Cleaning build directory...
[ example.py - Completed task "clean" ]
[ example.py - Starting task "html" ]
Generating HTML in directory "."
[ example.py - Completed task "html" ]
[ example.py - Ignoring task "images" ]
[ example.py - Starting task "start_server" ]
Starting server at localhost:80
[ example.py - Completed task "start_server" ]

The first few characters of the task name is enough to execute the task, as long as the partial name is unambigious. You can specify multiple tasks to run in the commandline. Again the dependencies are taken taken care of.

$ ./example.py cle ht cl
[ example.py - Starting task "clean" ]
Cleaning build directory...
[ example.py - Completed task "clean" ]
[ example.py - Starting task "html" ]
Generating HTML in directory "."
[ example.py - Completed task "html" ]
[ example.py - Starting task "clean" ]
Cleaning build directory...
[ example.py - Completed task "clean" ]

The ‘html’ task dependency ‘clean’ is run only once. But clean can be explicitly run again later.

pynt tasks can accept parameters from commandline.

$ ./example.py "copy_file[/path/to/foo, path_to_bar]"
[ example.py - Starting task "clean" ]
Cleaning build directory...
[ example.py - Completed task "clean" ]
[ example.py - Starting task "copy_file" ]
Copying from /path/to/foo to path_to_bar
[ example.py - Completed task "copy_file" ]

pynt can also accept keyword arguments.

$ ./example.py start[port=8888]
[ example.py - Starting task "clean" ]
Cleaning build directory...
[ example.py - Completed task "clean" ]
[ example.py - Starting task "html" ]
Generating HTML in directory "."
[ example.py - Completed task "html" ]
[ example.py - Ignoring task "images" ]
[ example.py - Starting task "start_server" ]
Starting server at localhost:8888
[ example.py - Completed task "start_server" ]

$ ./example.py echo[hello,world,foo=bar,blah=123]
[ example.py - Starting task "echo" ]
('hello', 'world')
{'blah': '123', 'foo': 'bar'}
[ example.py - Completed task "echo" ]

Contributors

Calum J. Eadie - pynt is preceded by and forked from microbuild, which was created by Calum J. Eadie.

Contributing

If you want to make changes the repo is at https://github.com/rags/pynt. You will need pytest to run the tests bash $ ./build.py t It will be great if you can raise a pull request once you are done.

License

pynt is licensed under a MIT license

Changes

0.5.0 - 01/12/2012

• Ability to pass params to tasks.

• Major rewrite and flattening the package hierarchy.

0.4.0 - 17/11/2012

• Support for running multiple tasks from commandline.

• Ability to run tasks by typing in just the first few unambigious charecters.

Changes before forking from microbuild

0.3.0 - 18/09/2012

• Fixed bug in logging. No longer modifies root logger.

• Added ignore functionality.

• Extended API documentation.

0.2.0 - 29/08/2012

• Added progress tracking output.

• Added handling of exceptions within tasks.

0.1.0 - 28/08/2012

• Initial release.

• Added management of dependancies between tasks.

• Added automatic generation of command line interface.