utilspie 0.1.0

Python Utilities

Documentation: utilspie.readthedocs.org

What is utilspie?

Utilspie is a Python library that offers a sensible, human-friendly utilities which do not come along with Python installation. Utilspie is categorized into 5 modules:

• asyncutils: utilities for asynchronous call/threads

• fileutils: utilities related to file operations/manipulations

• iterutils: utilities for iterators. Inspired by itertools package

• collectionsutils: provides data objects not present in collections package

• importutils: utilities related to importing the modules

Installation

utilspie is available on pypi. To install, run:

$ pip install utilspie

Quick Start

For using the utilspie, you have to import the package utilspie and call it’s function as:

from utilspie import iterutils
# OR, from utilspie.iterutils import get_chunks

iterutils.get_chunks([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 2)
<generator object <genexpr> at 0x1018fab40>
# returns generator object

list(iterutils.get_chunks([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 2))
[[1, 2], [3, 4], [5, 6]]

API Guide

utilspie.asyncutils

Contains utility functions for asynchronous calls.

• ordered_async_call(function_list)

utilspie.fileutils

Contains utility functions for files related operations.

• copy_file(source, destination, unique, sort, case_sensitive, create_path)

utilspie.iterutils

Contains utility functions for iterables. It is inspired by itertools package.

• get_chunks(iterable_obj, chunk_size)

utilspie.collectionsutils

Contains additional data objects not available as in-built in Python. This is inspired by collections module.

• frozendict(dict_obj)

• swap_dict(dict_obj, multivalued)

utilspie.importutils

Contains utilites related to importing the modules.

• lazy_load_modules(*modules)

• reload_module(module)

• delete_module(modname)

Didn’t find what you want?

Are you looking for something which you think should be the part of utilspie but is not currently present? Feel free to mention it by opening a issue. We will take a look at it, and will implement it if it’s a good fit.

How to Contribute?

1. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug.

2. Fork the repository on GitHub to start making your changes to the master branch (or branch off of it).

3. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.

4. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS.