pytagged 0.1.3

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pytagged: Auto Comment CLI

What is it?

pytagged is a simple CLI utlity written in python that helps you comment out "tagged" code. For a simple example, this might be a common pattern in your code.

def production_code():
    while True:
        expensive_debug_code()  # debug
        prod_code()

While this fine for most cases, it's a wasted instruction/call every iteration of the loop, and this can get expensive fast. With pytagged you can do this pytag production.py -t debug, and the above code would become:

def production_code():
    while True:
        # expensive_debug_code()  # debug
        prod_code()

Fairly straight forward, just comment out lines that end with a "tag", in this case: '# debug'. pytagged can also do this with "tagged blocks", turning this:

def production_code():
    while True:
        # block: debug
        expensive_debug_code_1()
        expensive_debug_code_2()
        ...
        expensive_debug_code_n()
        # end
        prod_code()

Into this:

def production_code():
    while True:
        # block: debug
        # expensive_debug_code_1()
        # expensive_debug_code_2()
        # ...
        # expensive_debug_code_n()
        # end
        prod_code()

While these example are fairly trivial, pytagged is flexible and lets you define your own "tags" to support more complex use cases.

Usage & example

Installation

Simply use: pip install pytagged, or you can clone this directory and install pytagged directly by running setup.py.

Note that the source code (dev version) is a little different from the pypi distribution. Functionally, they're the same, the dev version just prints out more stuffs for my debugging purposes.

Multiple files

pytagged accepts its first argument as a path, if the path is a directory, it recursively scans for all '.py' files within that directory (and the subdirectories). By default, pytagged works on the cwd. So if your project looks like this:

.
├── requirements.txt
├── src
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── main.py
└── test
    ├── test.dat
    └── test_main.py

Running pytag -t debug will affect the .py files in ./src/ and in ./test.

Multiple tags

Pytaggd accepts multiple tags. You just need to specify them using the -t flag. For example, running pytag ./hello.py -t debug skip slow on a file like this.

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("Hello world")
    print("Hello debug world")  # debug
    print("Hello skip world")  # skip
    print("hello slow world")  # slow
    assert 0    # debug

    # block: slow
    assert __debug__    # skip
    while True:
        print("Debug")

    1 + 1
    2 + 2
    s = "somestr"
    # end

    # block: skip

    assert 1

    # end

will turn it to:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("Hello world")
    # print("Hello debug world")  # debug
    # print("Hello skip world")  # skip
    # print("hello slow world")  # slow
    # assert 0    # debug

    # block: slow
    # assert __debug__    # skip
    # while True:
        # print("Debug")

    # 1 + 1
    # 2 + 2
    # s = "somestr"
    # end

    # block: skip

    # assert 1

    # end

Behaviors

pytagged ignores certain cases to avoid any unecessary modifications.

Already commented lines

pytagged ignores already commented lines, even if they are inlined tagged or block tagged. Take this code.

def some_fn():
    # print("already commented ") # slow
    # print("same") # debug
    print("debug")    # debug

The second and third lines will be ignored, even if you run pytag file.py -t debug slow, resulting in:

def some_fn():
    # print("already commented ") # slow
    # print("same") # debug
    # print("debug")    # debug

Opened blocks

An opened block starts with # block: tag but does not have a closing # end. pytagged ignores cases like this. For example, running pytag file.py -t debug on this:

def opened_block():
    # block: debug
    print("This is an opened block")
    print("Inlined tag, this would still work")     # debug

    # block: debug
    print("This is a proper block")

    print("Below is the end block tag")
    # end
    return 0

would result in:

def opened_block():
    # block: debug
    print("This is an opened block")
    # print("Inlined tag, this would still work")     # debug

    # block: debug
    # print("This is a proper block")

    # print("Below is the end block tag")
    # end
    return 0

Triple quoted string/docstring

Triple quotes are either ''' or """

Triple quoted block, that is a block whose line starts with """ and ends with a line with only """ is ignored. Lines that have triple quoted strings in them, but do not start with """ can be commented out with block tags, but not inlined tags.

Running pytag file.py -t debug on:

def fn_with_docstring():
    '''This should not be commented out         # debug
    we don't do anything in a triple quote      # debug
    block if the start of that block is the     # debug
    start of a line.                            # debug
    '''

    some_str = "this should be commented out normally"  # debug

    # block: debug
    triple_quote_str = """This however would be commented out
    if it's block tagged"""
    # end

    triple_quote_str = """But triple quote strings can't be commented   # debug
    out using inline tags"""

    # block: debug
    """This should not be commented out, even if it's block tagged
    """
    # end

    return triple_quote_str

would result in:

def fn_with_docstring():
    '''This should not be commented out         # debug
    we don't do anything in a triple quote      # debug
    block if the start of that block is the     # debug
    start of a line.                            # debug
    '''

    # some_str = "this should be commented out normally"  # debug

    # block: debug
    # triple_quote_str = """This however would be commented out
    # if it's block tagged"""
    # end

    triple_quote_str = """But triple quote strings can't be commented   # debug
    out using inline tags"""

    # block: debug
    """This should not be commented out, even if it's block tagged
    """
    # end

    return triple_quote_str

Misc

Modes:

pytagged can run in either:

1. default mode: works on files, prints no output
2. printonly: does NOT modify files, prints raw string output of would-be modified files
3. benchmark: copies files to temp files, work on the temp files, and prints out some performance statistics
4. verbose: works on files, prints out some output