Macros for shorcuts that make Python feel like MATLAB

Over the years, The Mathworks (TMW) has crystalized their Rapid Application Development (RAD) know-hows (i.e. experiences over common use cases) to help them design their language to make users a lot more productive provided that they know what is already available.

Python has a different philosophy so they think protecting namespace from pollution comes ahead of coding convneience.

Python does have a valid point guarding the namespace. I wasted no time when developing in MATLAB but once in a blue moon a coworker shadowed a factory-shipped function, it's a few wasted days debugging, researching non-invasive workarounds, and ending up biting the bullet to find all instances of the offending code in a large code base and change it because most people aren't aware of addpath(.., '-end'), so if I leave it there, the shadowing will haunt unsuspecting noobs.

Situations like this is like less than 0.001% of my dev time. I'm not sacrificing 99%+ of convenience just to tip-toe around the design philosophy of Python. This macro is the compromise that I'm willing to make.

Example features:

• Beautify dictionary and list display by default
• Display only relevant members
• Files and path management
• Debugging idioms
• List (cell) idioms

This is made primarily for my own convenience, casually updated as I run into more frustrating Python UX issues. I just find it quicker to write the adapter code than writing long blog posts covering dozens of observations that can be expressed in one-liner code

Behavior and the names are expected to change from version to version until I release a stable version.

Use it at your own risk. I'd suggest reading the comments, function names and and learn the techniques instead of taking it as a serious reference package. It's great if you are in the Python interpreter (prompt) poking around and don't want to be bothered to look up the full path or implement helper functions each time to do the basic things that's normally done in one-line of MATLAB.

If you have suggestions or features you want to add, please feel free to raise the issue at Github or just reach me at wonghoi+github@humgar.com

Usage example:

(most natural)

      from feel.matlab import *
      pwd()

(preserves namespace) [Recommended]

      from feel import matlab as tmw
      tmw.pwd()

Run reload_feel_matlab() after making changes to this macro

Caveats:

• path is like MATLAB since it's a member variable
• cd()/pwd(), etc need to be called with parentheses as they are functions Like C, function names without parenthesis are functors in Python. MATLAB uses @myfunc to refer to functions so calling no args doesn't need ()