pypixplore 0.1.0

Explore PyPI and visualize its contents in unusual ways

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pypixplore
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This tool provides interesting ways to explore python packages, both local and remote. This package is being built as a
Python teaching exercise. This does not diminish our expectations for a full featured tool. Please use and report any bugs
or missing features.

Download the package to your env with::

pip install pypixplorer


Getting Started
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These instructions will get you a copy of this package up and running in your local machine for development and test porpouses. Keep reading if you want to deploy and contribute to the project.

Prerequisites
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First of all, make sure that you have already installed:

* Python_ 3.5
.. _Python: http://www.python.org/

* Python Package Index. Usually know as pip_. To install it, open the terminal and type::

easy_install pip
.. _pip: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip




Installing
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Let's do a step-by-step installation:

* Fork the project to your account.
* Choose a path in your computer to store the project, go to it.
* Clone the the fork that you have just done to this path using the terminal command::

git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/pypiexplorer

* At this point, you should have an exact copy of the lastest version of the project on your machine.
* Now, you have to install the requirements of this package. It is really easy, open the terminal in the root of the project and type::

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r test-requirements.txt
* To make sure that everything is working, run a test with::

python3 setup.py test

Congratulations! Now you have a version of the project running in your machine. If you want to contribute and help to build this incredible tool, keep reading!

Using
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After installation you will get a command-line tool named `ppx`. You can learn how to use it by issuing the following command::

ppx -h
usage: skeleton.py [-h] [--version] [-s NAME] [-l] [-r RELEASES] [-i INFO]
[-p POPULARITY] [-v] [-vv]

Copyright (C) 2017 Flavio C. Coelho This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY; This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions; For details access:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html Explore Python Package Index

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version show program's version number and exit
-s NAME, --status NAME
Show Status for a given package.
-l, --list List installed packages
-r RELEASES, --releases RELEASES
List package latest release
-i INFO, --info INFO Shows package info
-p POPULARITY, --popularity POPULARITY
Return the popularity of a package as the number of
recent downloads
-v, --verbose set loglevel to INFO
-vv, --very-verbose set loglevel to DEBUG

for example, if you want to get the dependency tree of a package, you can::

ppx -t jupyter
jupyter
╠═ notebook
║ ╠═ jupyter-client
║ ╠═ jupyter-core
║ ╠═ nbconvert
║ ╠═ tornado
║ ╠═ nbformat
║ ╠═ traitlets
║ ╠═ ipython-genutils
║ ╠═ terminado
║ ╠═ jinja2
║ ╚═ ipykernel
╠═ ipywidgets
║ ╠═ ipython
║ ╠═ traitlets
║ ╠═ widgetsnbextension
║ ╚═ ipykernel
╠═ jupyter-console
║ ╠═ prompt-toolkit
║ ╠═ ipython
║ ╠═ jupyter-client
║ ╠═ pygments
║ ╚═ ipykernel
╠═ nbconvert
║ ╠═ jupyter-core
║ ╠═ traitlets
║ ╠═ pygments
║ ╠═ entrypoints
║ ╠═ nbformat
║ ╠═ jinja2
║ ╚═ mistune
╠═ qtconsole
║ ╠═ jupyter-client
║ ╠═ jupyter-core
║ ╠═ traitlets
║ ╠═ ipykernel
║ ╚═ pygments
╚═ ipykernel
╠═ jupyter-client
╠═ traitlets
╠═ tornado
╚═ ipython
note: only two levels shown.

Contributing
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To contribute to the project it is better to follow some steps.

* First, you should decide on what to contribute to, it can be an opened issue or a issue that you can create. If the former is the case, make sure to assign yourself to the task. If it is the latter, open an issue and put yourself as a responsible.
* Now, implement the contribution on your version of the code, i.e. your fork.
* After that, build some tests on the tests folder. This is an important step, if you do not build a test to your contribution, it will not be accepted.
* Run those tests typing::

python3 setup.py test/TEST_FILE.py

. Hint: Make sure that you are running with the last version of the main project. Just type ``git pull fccoelho master`` on terminal.

* Now, you have to write the docstring for your function or class. Follow this template_.

.. _template: http://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example_google.html
* If you are pretty sure that everything is working, do a pull request. Someone is going to read and test. After the reviwer approval, your contribution will be accepted.


Built With
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* This project has been set up using PyScaffold 2.5.7. For details and usage information on PyScaffold see http://pyscaffold.readthedocs.org/