Installation

Use easy_install or pip:

pip install py7file

Usage

Here some hopefully self explaining examples of Py7File usage:

from py7file import Py7File

the_file = Py7File('a_file.txt')

# Copy and Move
copied_file = the_file.copy('d_file.txt')  # copied_file is also a Py7file
the_file.move('moved_file.txt')  # moves the file and mutates the reference

# Backup and Restore
the_file.backup()  # creates a_file_backup_001.txt
the_file.backup()  # creates a_file_backup_002.txt
the_file.delete()  # removes a_file.txt from disk (ups...)
the_file.restore() # recovers file from a_file_backup_002.txt

# Unzip and Rezip
zfile = Py7File('a_file.zip')
zfile.unzip() # creates a folder a_file_unzipped with contents of zipfile
zfile.rezip() # repackages subfolder a_file_unzipped to a_file.zip

See test_py7file.py for more examples.

Testing

Py7File is tested against python 2.6 and 2.7

To run the tests:

python test_py7file.py

Status

Well I am using this this file handling library quite extensivly myself and i got no complaints so far ;). Still please consider this Beta and use at your own risk…

Background

As I started learning programming with python I found the different modules for handling files very confusing and cumbersome to use. While writing my first scripts I found myself writing os.path.join(…) way to often. I still keep mixing up os and shutil based file operations like copy, move, rename. So I started this little module to make things easier…

0.7.4

• fixed get_md5 to use internal filepath

0.7.3

• .unzip() can now handle gzipped files transparently

• .unzip() now returns a list containing all extracted files as Py7File objects

• fixed filepath encoding

0.7.2

Release date: 15-August-2011

• Added get_number() method for convenient work with numbered files.

0.7.1

Release date: 24-July-2011

• fixed setup.py

0.7

Release date: 17-July-2011

• added new get_sanitized_filename method

0.6

Release date: 21-May-2011

• new EpubFile class that suports epub packaging

• enhancements for Py7File subclassing

0.5.1

Release date: 10-May-2011

• basic read method added

• improved file comparison

0.5

Release date: 09-May-2011

• fixed filepath property to always give absolute path

0.4

Release date: 08-May-2011

• fixed to work with files that have no extension

• fixed getsize test not returning long on osx

• added md5 based file comparison

• .is_binary() detects if file is binary or “text”

0.2

Release date: 08-May-2011

• Fixed for tests on OSX

0.1

Release date: 08-May-2011

• Initial release