cloudmesh_base

A set of helper functions that are used in cloudmesh but are also useful for other projects.

You can install it in one of two ways.

Instalation from pip

pip install cloudmesh_base

Installation from Source

mkdir -p github/cloudmesh
cd github/cloudmesh
git clone https://github.com/cloudmesh/base.git
cd base
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Provided Functionality

• ConfigDict -- an ordered dictionary to read configurations from YAML files
• Shell -- a convenient wrapper to python sh so that pylint does not complain all the time when importing commands from sh
• dotdict -- a simple dict with dot notation
• gitinfo -- get some information about authors and their statistics for a git repository
• menu -- a simple ascii menu so we can chose easily from options
• ping -- a simple ping (see also Shell)
• ssh_config -- a simple tool to read ./ssh/config into a dict
• stopwatch -- a simple stopwatch to measure times
• tables -- a simple table printer that prins dicts in a uniform table
• util -- a number of useful functions including yn_choice, banner, path_expand, introspecting and printing the method name at runtime, copy files, replace dict values in a string similar but less complicated to .format, read a file to a string, write a string to a file
• hostlist -- a repackaged version of hostlist to accociate it with Parameter parsing

Source Code

• https://github.com/cloudmesh/base