yautil 0.0.68

Yet Another Python util.

yautil

Yet Another Python util — a grab bag of helpers grown out of day-to-day work: argparse extensions, file utilities, multiprocessing-friendly caches, Docker shell helpers, plotting wrappers, password/keyring helpers, and a transactional filesystem-mount API.

Failed sub-imports degrade to dummy modules (so import yautil works even if one optional dep is missing). Python ≥ 3.11.

Install

pip install -e .

Requires sh, matplotlib; optional: argcomplete, keyring, tqdm.

API

Top-level re-exports — from yautil import ...:

argparse extensions (yautil.argparse)

Symbol	Purpose
OverridingAppendAction	append-style action where a later flag replaces the accumulated list.
SplitAppendAction	append that splits each value on a delimiter (e.g. a,b,c).
SmartAppendAction	Heuristic combination of override + split semantics.
ChoiceComb	list[str] subclass used as choices= to allow comma-separated combinations.
WarningAction	--warning=foo,bar action with allowed-value validation.

Files (yautil.file)

Symbol	Purpose
find(root, ...)	Non-recursive find with name patterns / type filter.
find_recursive(root, name_patterns=None, ignored_dirs=None, type='any', depth=-1, sort=False)	Recursive find with prune list.
remove_contents(folder)	Delete every entry inside folder without removing it.
overwrite(src, dst)	Replace dst with src atomically.
get_memtmpdir(suffix=None, prefix=None, dir=None)	TemporaryDirectory on /dev/shm (or tmpfs) when available.
Writable	File-like wrapper that proxies writes; useful for piping output.

Decorators (yautil.decorators)

Symbol	Purpose
static_vars(**kw)	Attach mutable "static" attributes to a function on first call.

Events (yautil.event)

Symbol	Purpose
Event	Listenable event object (+= handler to subscribe, call to fire).
EventGenerator	Mixin / factory that declares named Events on an object.

Printing (yautil.print)

Symbol	Purpose
decomment_cxx(text)	Strip // and /* */ comments from C/C++/Java text.
auto_print(string, max_len=-1, **kwargs)	print with auto-truncation past max_len.
strcompare(left, right, width=-1, highlight=True) -> str	Side-by-side diff string with ANSI highlighting.

Plotting (yautil.plot)

Thin matplotlib wrappers — all accept *data and a common set of styling kwargs.

Symbol	Plot type
plot_cdf	Cumulative distribution function.
plot_linear	Line plot.
plot_scatter	Scatter plot.
plot_box	Box plot.
plot_stack	Stacked area / bar plot.

Caches

Symbol	Purpose
lru_cache(...) (yautil.lru_cache_ext)	Like functools.lru_cache but hashes list/dict arguments too.
PersistentCache (yautil.persistent_cache)	Disk-backed cache under ~/.cache/; survives process restarts.

Passwords (yautil.passwd)

Symbol	Purpose
create_w_password(...)	Build an object that requires interactive password unlock.
create_w_secrets(...)	Build an object that pulls secrets from a password-protected store.

(See the module for the exact constructor signatures — both wrap keyring and an encrypted local secrets file.)

Docker shell (yautil.docker_sh)

Symbol	Purpose
docker_sh(...)	sh-compatible Command that runs inside a built/pulled Docker image, with bind mounts, user-id pass-through, and interactive TTY support.
AuthorizationError	Raised when the daemon refuses (e.g. missing docker login).

Git (yautil.git)

Symbol	Purpose
git_expand(repo, dest, *checkout_targets, ignore_errors=False, iter=False)	Shallow-clone (or update) repo into dest for each checkout_target (branch/tag/sha).
git_merge_file(...)	Three-way file merge wrapping git merge-file.

IO (yautil.io)

Symbol	Purpose
FilteredTextIO	TextIO proxy that runs every write through a WriteCallback.

Shell interop (yautil.pysh)

Symbol	Purpose
compile_shargs(*args, **kwargs)	Pack Python call args into the (args, kwargs) form sh.Command expects.
get_cmd_args(cmd)	Recover the argv that produced a given sh.Command invocation.

Mount API (yautil.mount)

Filesystem-mount abstraction for disk images / archives, plus high-level mount / extract / archive helpers.

from yautil.mount import mount, extract, archive, DiskImage, LinuxDiskImage

Symbol	Purpose
mount(target)	Context manager that mounts target and yields the mount point.
extract(target, dest)	Extract contents of target into dest.
archive(src, dest, type)	Build an archive of src at dest.
Mountable	Base class for anything that can be mounted (loop devices, archives).
Archive	Mountable subclass for archive formats.
MountableType, ArchiveType	Enums of supported types.
DiskImage, LinuxDiskImage	Concrete Mountable for raw/Linux disk images (uses udisksctl).