utz 0.9.0

*("yoots")*: utilities I've missed in the Python standard library

utz

("yoots"): utilities I've missed in the Python standard library

• Install
• Use
  • utz.process
  • utz.collections
  • utz.cd: "change directory" contextmanager
  • utz.ctxs: compose contextmanagers
  • utz.fn
  • utz.plot: Plotly helpers
  • utz.setup: setup.py helper
  • Misc

Install

pip install utz

Use

I usually do this at the top of Jupyter notebooks:

from utz import *

This imports most standard library modules/functions (via stdlb), as well as the utz.* members below.

Some specific modules, in rough order of how often I use them:

utz.process

subprocess wrappers; shell out to commands, parse output:

from utz.process import *

# Run a command
run('git', 'commit', '-m', 'message')  # Commit staged changes

# Return `list[str]` of stdout lines
lines('git', 'log', '-n5', '--format=%h')  # Last 5 commit SHAs

# Verify exactly one line of stdout, return it
line('git', 'log', '-1', '--format=%h')  # Current HEAD commit SHA

# Return stdout as a single string
output('git', 'log', '-1', '--format=%B')  # Current HEAD commit message

# Check whether a command succeeds, suppress output
check('git', 'diff', '--exit-code', '--quiet')  # `True` iff there are no uncommitted changes

err("This will be output to stderr")

See also: test_process.py.

utz.collections

Collection/list helpers:

from utz.collections import *

# Verify a collection has one element, return it
singleton(["aaa"])         # "aaa"
singleton(["aaa", "bbb"])  # error

See also: test_collections.py.

utz.cd: "change directory" contextmanager

from utz import cd
with cd('..'):  # change to parent dir
    ...

utz.ctxs: compose contextmanagers

from utz import *
with ctxs(NamedTemporaryFile(), NamedTemporaryFile()) as (f1, f2):
    ...

See also: test_context.py.

utz.fn

Compose decorators:

from utz import decos
from click import option

common_opts = decos(
    option('-n', type=int),
    option('-v', is_flag=True),
)

@common_opts
def subcmd1(n: int, v: bool):
    ...

@common_opts
def subcmd2(n: int, v: bool):
    ...

Only pass expected kwargs to functions:

from utz.fn import call
def fn1(a, b):
    ...
def fn2(a, c):
    ...
kwargs = dict(a=11, b='22', c=33)
call(fn1, kwargs)  # only pass {a, b}
call(fn2, kwargs)  # only pass {a, c}

utz.plot: Plotly helpers

Helpers for Plotly transformations I make frequently, e.g.:

from utz import plot
import plotly.express as px
fig = px.bar(x=[1, 2, 3], y=[4, 5, 6])
plot(
    fig,
    name='my-plot',  # Filename stem. will save my-plot.png, my-plot.json, optional my-plot.html
    title=['Some Title', 'Some subtitle'],  # Plot title, followed by "subtitle" line(s) (smaller font, just below)
    bg='white', xgrid='#ccc',  # white background, grey x-gridlines
    hoverx=True,  # show x-values on hover
    x="X-axis title",  # x-axis title or configs
    y=dict(title="Y-axis title", zerolines=True),  # y-axis title or configs
    # ...
)

Example usages: hudcostreets/nj-crashes, ryan-williams/arrayloader-benchmarks.

utz.setup: setup.py helper

utz/setup.py provides defaults for various setuptools.setup() params:

• name: use parent directory name
• version: parse from git tag (otherwise from git describe --tags)
• install_requires: read requirements.txt
• author_{name,email}: infer from last commit
• long_description: parse README.md (and set long_description_content_type)
• description: parse first <p> under opening <h1> from README.md
• license: parse from LICENSE file (MIT and Apache v2 supported)

For an example, see gsmo==0.0.1 (and corresponding release).

This library also "self-hosts" using utz.setup; see pyproject.toml:

[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools", "utz[setup]==0.4.2", "wheel"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

and setup.py:

from utz.setup import setup

extras_require = {
    # …
}

# Various fields auto-populated from git, README.md, requirements.txt, …
setup(
    name="utz",
    version="0.8.0",
    extras_require=extras_require,
    url="https://github.com/runsascoded/utz",
    python_requires=">=3.10",
)

The setup helper can be installed via a pip "extra":

pip install utz[setup]

Misc

Other noteworthy modules:

• o: dict wrapper exposing keys as attrs (e.g.: o({'a':1}).a == 1)
• docker: DSL for programmatically creating Dockerfiles (and building images from them)
• ssh: SSH tunnel wrapped in a context manager
• time: now()/today() helpers with convenient / no-nonsense ISO string serialization and UTC bias
• bases: int⟺str codecs with improvements over standard base64 et al.
• tmpdir: make temporary directories with a specific basename
• escape: escaping split/join helpers
• backoff: exponential-backoff utility
• git: Git helpers, wrappers around GitPython
• pnds: pandas imports and helpers