Foundations - Manual - Help File

Table Of Content

• Introduction
• Installation
• Usage
• Api
• Changes
• About

Introduction

Foundations is the core package of Umbra, sIBL_GUI, sIBL_Reporter. It provides modules defining various utilities classes and definitions used in those packages.

Installation

The following dependencies are needed:

• Python 2.6.7 or Python 2.7.3: http://www.python.org/
• PyQt: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/

To install Foundations from the Python Package Index you can issue this command in a shell:

pip install Foundations

or this alternative command:

easy_install Foundations

Alternatively, if you want to directly install from Github source repository:

git clone git://github.com/KelSolaar/Foundations.git
cd Foundations
python setup.py install

If you want to build the documentation you will also need:

• Tidy http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Usage

Given the large spectrum of the objects defined in Foundations package, please refer to Foundations - Api for precise usage examples about each modules. Here are listed a few non exhaustive usage examples.

• foundations.dataStructures.Structure:

>>> person = Structure(firstName="Doe", lastName="John", gender="male")
>>> person.firstName
'Doe'
>>> person.keys()
['gender', 'firstName', 'lastName']
>>> person["gender"]
'male'
>>> del(person["gender"])
>>> person["gender"]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
KeyError: 'gender'
>>> person.gender
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'Structure' object has no attribute 'gender'

• foundations.dataStructures.Lookup:

>>> person = Lookup(firstName="Doe", lastName="John", gender="male")
>>> person.getFirstKeyFromValue("Doe")
'firstName'
>>> persons = foundations.foundations.dataStructures.Lookup(John="Doe", Jane="Doe", Luke="Skywalker")
>>> persons.getKeysFromValue("Doe")
['Jane', 'John']

• foundations.environment.Environment:

>>> environment = Environment(JOHN="DOE", DOE="JOHN")
>>> environment.setValues()
True
>>> import os
>>> os.environ["JOHN"]
'DOE'
>>> os.environ["DOE"]
'JOHN'

• foundations.strings.getNiceName:

>>> getNiceName("getMeANiceName")
'Get Me A Nice Name'
>>> getNiceName("__getMeANiceName")
'__Get Me A Nice Name'

• foundations.strings.getSplitextBasename:

>>> getSplitextBasename("/Users/JohnDoe/Documents/Test.txt")
'Test'

• foundations.strings.getCommonPathsAncestor:

>>> getCommonPathsAncestor("/Users/JohnDoe/Documents", "/Users/JohnDoe/Documents/Test.txt")
'/Users/JohnDoe/Documents'

• foundations.walkers.filesWalker:

>>> for file in filesWalker("./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0"):
...	 print(file)
...
./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0/level_1/level_2/standard.sIBLT
./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0/level_1/loremIpsum.txt
./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0/level_1/standard.rc
./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0/standard.ibl
>>> for file in filesWalker("./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0", ("\.sIBLT",)):
...	 print(file)
...
./foundations/tests/testsFoundations/resources/standard/level_0/level_1/level_2/standard.sIBLT

Api

Foundations Api documentation is available here: Foundations - Api

Changes

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