nbox.utils

Utility objects and functions.

This has a couple of cool things:

get_logger: a master logger for nbox, this can be modified to log through anything
isthere: a decorator that checks if a package is installed, if not it raises an error It is more complicated than it needs to be because it is seedling for a way to package functions and code together so that it can be used in a more dynamic way.
get_files_in_folder: a function that returns all files in a folder with a certain extension
fetch: a function that fetches a url and caches it in tempdir for faster loading
get_random_name: a function that returns a random name, if True is passed returns an uuid4() for truly random names :)
hash_: a function that returns a hash of any python object, string is accurate, others might be anything, but atleast it returns something.
folder/join: to be used in pair, join(folder(__file__), "server_temp.jinja") means relative path "../other.py". Scattered throughout the codebase, the super generic name will bite me.
to_pickle/from_pickle: to be used in pair, to_pickle(obj, "path") and from_pickle("path") to save and load python objects to disk.
DBase: सस्ता-protobuf (cheap protobuf), can be nested and get_dict will get for all children
PoolBranch: Or how to use multiprocessing, but blocked so you don't have to give a shit about it.

Functions

(soft:bool)

Parameters

Checks all the packages

Get files with ext in folder

Fetch and cache a url for faster loading, force re-downloads

get the folder of this file path

convienience function for os.path.join

(obj:None,path:None)

Parameters

Save an object to a pickle file

(path:None)

Parameters

Load an object from a pickle file

Get a random name, if uuid is True, return a uuid4

Hash sting of any item

inputs is a list of tuples, each tuple is the input for single invocation of fn. order is preserved.