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pyutil -- a library of useful Python functions and classes
==========================================================

Many of these utilities (or their ancestors) were developed for the Mojo
Nation, Mnet, Allmydata.com "Mountain View", Tahoe-LAFS, or SimpleGeo's
products.


utilities
=========

current
-------

- mathutil.py_ - integer power, floor, ceil, and nearest multiples; permute
  and fit slope
- memutil.py_ - statistics and diagnostics for memory use and garbage
  collection
- platformutil.py_ - get platform including Linux distro; more accurate and
  less noisy than platform.platform()
- strutil.py_ - common prefix and suffix of two strings, and newline
  processing
- assertutil.py_ - test preconditions, postconditions, and assertions
- benchutil.py_ - benchmark a function by running it repeatedly
- fileutil.py_ - work with files and directories
- iputil.py_ - query available local IPv4 addresses
- jsonutil.py_ - wrapper around simplejson which converts decimal inputs to
  Python Decimal objects instead of to Python floats
- lineutil.py_ - remove extra whitespace from files
- testutil.py_ - utilities for use in unit tests, especially in Twisted
- time_format.py_ - date and time formatting operations
- version_class.py_ - parse version strings into a Version Number object
- verlib.py_ - utility to compare version strings, by Tarek Ziadé

out of shape
------------

I don't currently use these, but I still think they are possibly good ideas.

- nummedobj.py_ - number objects in order of creation for consistent debug
  output
- observer.py_ - the Observer pattern
- increasing.py_ - an implementation of a monotonically-increasing timer; By
  the way a future, better implementation of this would use CLOCK_MONOTONIC
  or CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW if it were available:
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1205722/how-do-i-get-monotonic-time-durations-in-python/1205762#1205762
- repeatable_random.py_ - Make the random and time modules deterministic, so
  that executions can be reproducible.
- strutil.py_ - string utilities
- cache.py_ - multiple implementations of a least-recently-used in-memory
  caching strategy, optimized for different sizes (note: I, Zooko, nowadays
  prefer a random-replacement cache eviction strategy over
  least-recently-used because the former has more consistent and predictable
  behavior)
- odict.py_ - ordered dictionary implementation: see PEP 372. Note: there is
  now (as of Python 2.7) an ordered dict implementation in the standard
  library, but I haven't checked if it is as good as this one.
- zlibutil.py_ - zlib decompression in limited memory

deprecated
----------

I no longer use these and I don't recommend that you do either.

- logutil.py_ - send log messages to Twisted logger if present, else Python
  library logger
- weakutil.py_ - allows a bound method's object to be GC'd
- twistedutil.py_ - callLater_weakly, a variant of Twisted's callLater which
  interacts more nicely with weakrefs
- PickleSaver.py_ - make all or part of an object persistent, by saving it to
  disk when it's garbage collected
- humanreadable.py_ - an improved version of the builtin repr() function
- find_exe.py_ - try different paths in search of an executable
- dictutil.py_ - several specialized dict extensions, as well as some
  convenient functions for working with dicts
- randutil.py_ - various ways to get random bytes
- xor.py_ - xor two same-length strings together

Thanks to Peter Westlake and Ravi Pinjala for help documenting what these do.



download
========

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyutil

source code (git)
=================

https://github.com/zooko/pyutil

issue tracker
=============

https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pyutil

tests and benchmarks
====================

To run tests: ``python ./setup.py trial -s pyutil.test.current``.

You can also run the tests with the standard pyunit test runner instead of
trial, but a couple of the tests will fail due to the absence of Trial's
"Skip This Test" feature. You can also run the tests of the out-of-shape and
deprecated modules:

``python ./setup.py trial -s pyutil.test.out_of_shape``

``python ./setup.py trial -s pyutil.test.deprecated``

Or of all modules:

``python ./setup.py trial -s pyutil.test``

Some modules have self-benchmarks provided.  For example, to benchmark the
cache module: ``python -OOu -c 'from pyutil.test import test_cache;
test_cache.quick_bench()'``

or for more complete and time-consuming results: ``python -OOu -c 'from
pyutil.test import test_cache; test_cache.slow_bench()'``

(The "-O" is important when benchmarking, since cache has extensive
self-tests that are optimized out when -O is included.)


LICENCE
=======

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at your option, any later version.  You may use this package under the
Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.0, or at your option, any
later version.  (You may choose to use this package under the terms of either
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.. _COPYING.GPL: COPYING.GPL
.. _COPYING.TGPPL.rst: COPYING.TGPPL.rst
.. _COPYING.SPL.txt: COPYING.SPL.txt

.. _mathutil.py: pyutil/mathutil.py
.. _memutil.py: pyutil/memutil.py
.. _platformutil.py: pyutil/platformutil.py
.. _strutil.py: pyutil/strutil.py
.. _assertutil.py: pyutil/assertutil.py
.. _benchutil.py: pyutil/benchutil.py
.. _fileutil.py: pyutil/fileutil.py
.. _iputil.py: pyutil/iputil.py
.. _jsonutil.py: pyutil/jsonutil.py
.. _lineutil.py: pyutil/lineutil.py
.. _testutil.py: pyutil/testutil.py
.. _time_format.py: pyutil/time_format.py
.. _version_class.py: pyutil/version_class.py
.. _zlibutil.py: pyutil/zlibutil.py
.. _nummedobj.py: pyutil/nummedobj.py
.. _observer.py: pyutil/observer.py
.. _increasing.py: pyutil/increasing.py
.. _repeatable_random.py: pyutil/repeatable_random.py
.. _strutil.py: pyutil/strutil.py
.. _cache.py: pyutil/cache.py
.. _odict.py: pyutil/odict.py
.. _logutil.py: pyutil/logutil.py
.. _weakutil.py: pyutil/weakutil.py
.. _twistedutil.py: pyutil/twistedutil.py
.. _PickleSaver.py: pyutil/PickleSaver.py
.. _humanreadable.py: pyutil/humanreadable.py
.. _find_exe.py: pyutil/find_exe.py
.. _dictutil.py: pyutil/dictutil.py
.. _randutil.py: pyutil/randutil.py
.. _xor.py: pyutil/xor/xor.py
