SbNative

An extention to python for debugging and such. Things that, well Should Be Native

SbNative may be used for

• private projects.
• public projects (The SbNative repo must be referenced in a Readme in case the source code is available.)

DO NOT DISTRIBUTE.

ALL NON MENTIONED RIGHTS RESERVED.

Chapter 1: debugging

All of the necessary dependencies are located or imported in the debugtools.py file.

• switchTerminalStacking. Terminal stacking is a method for compressing logged information into a single line if possible. Ex:

  from sbNative.debugtools import log
  
  
  for _ in range(10):
      log("this module should be native!")

  leads to this result when not using terminal stacking:

  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:FILEPATH.py:5
  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:FILEPATH.py:5
  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:FILEPATH.py:5
  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:FILEPATH.py:5
  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:FILEPATH.py:5
  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:FILEPATH.py:5
  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:FILEPATH.py:5
  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:FILEPATH.py:5
  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:FILEPATH.py:5
  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:FILEPATH.py:5
  

  which obviously is not very clean... Instead, doing this:

  from sbNative.debugtools import log,switchTerminalStacking
  
  
  switchTerminalStacking()
  
  for _ in range(10):
      log("this module should be native!")

  leads to an arguably cleaner output:

  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:FILEPATH.py:7 [10x]
  

• log. Prints all the arguments given to the console and the file + line of the call. Supports more advanced logging when paired with the cleanRepr class decorator. As shown above, it also claryfies that a value has been logged. Having a line at the end helps finding the log call and editing/removing it quickly. In many editors, (tested in VSCODE) you may CTRL+LEFTCLICK the line and it will redirect you to the file and corresponding line of the call. Ex:

  LOG: this module should be native! --> c:/---/Desktop/test1.py:6
  

  The depth parameter controls how far the lookup goes into the callstack returning the filename and number after the -->. This is a feature for functions written by you, to redirect the user or yourself to the line your function was called at. Incrementing goes further into the callstack. Default: 2.

• ilog. "Info Log". Behaves mainly like log Only difference: the first argument will be used to represent what is being logged.

• isFromCall. Gets if a function with the name funcName is in the callstack. Used by __clsRepr to determine if it should add markers in the form of lignSplitSign where newlines can be added if the logging string is too long.

• cleanRepr. A decorator which makes the representation of your class as clean as possible. If you don't want specific class or instance variables to be included, you may specify their name as arguments for this function.

• getTerminalOutputs. Returns the terminal output content recorded while the function was running, and the result from the function in a tuple. (TerminalOutput,FunctionResult) WARNING: THIS FUNCTION ALLOCATES THE RESULT TO YOUR DRIVE AND NOT MEMORY. PRINTING MAY BE VERY SLOW, DO NOT EVER USE IN PRODUCTION WITH HIGH WORKLOADS.

• timer. A simple decorator for timing the execution time of a function or method. Brags the ilog function. (:

• tPlotArgs Enums or "Flags" to sort after the execution times of the functions or the arguments passed to the function.

• timePlotter Works the same way as the timer decorator, tho it returns an object and the decorator is the function timePlotter.time. The major difference is the ability to plot the times on a matplotlib graph. You can sort the time or arguments with the Enums from tPlotArgs. The reverse kwarg may only reverse the x axis. The arguments or keyarguments that are supposed to be displayed on the plot have to be passed into the trackArgs/trackKwargs parameters. For args, these have to be the indicies of the argument, for kwargs the name of the keyword-argument. Decorate the function to be tracked with the timer method, and plot them with the show one. You may not use the same instance on multiple functions, otherwise, an error will be raised.

Chapter 2: runtime utilities

All of the neccessary dependencies are located or imported in the runtimetools.py file.

• getPath Retrieves the path of the file it has been called in. Returns a Path object from the built-in pathlib module.

• globaliseAllSubitems Adds all the subitems of a module or folder containing a __init__.py file to the global scope, do not ever use this function if you are not desperate, the IDE wont recognise its behaviour.

• execWithExcTb Extends the built-in exec function, tho shows the exceptions when one is raised, with the appropriate format.

• runAndCast NOT IMPLEMENTED COMPLETELY YET.

• safeIter Allows iteration and removal of items inside the iterable simultaneously.

• bidirectionalDict One may get the original key by the values, like in {"Richard":["Rick","Dick"]} Using indexing or attribute getter with "Richard", "Rick" or "Dick" here will return "Richard" When a value is given and whilst not contained in the dict, a KeyError will be risen. Full Ex:

  d = runtimetools.BiDirectionaldict(
      Richard = ["Dick", "Rick"],
      Annamarie = ["Marie", "Anna", "Ann"]
  )
  
  print(d.Richard, d["Richard"])
  print(d.Rick, d["Rick"])
  print(d.Dick, d["Dick"])
  
  print(d.Annamarie, d["Annamarie"])
  print(d.Marie, d["Marie"])
  print(d.Anna, d["Anna"])
  print(d.Ann, d["Ann"])

• LanguageFormatter Used to format information from a program readable structure to a more easily human readable format. All of these methods are static.

  • enumerateCollection Takes a collection like a list, tuple or anything else with a join method and converts the contents into a human readable enumeration.

  • toAbbrNumber Abbriviates an Integer or float dynamically, using k; m; b; t, by default, which can be changed accordingly to the language unsing the abbriviations kw. The maxPrecisionAmt kw indicates the amount of digits of the output precision.

  • AbbrNumToFloat The exact counterpart to toAbbrNumber WATCH OUT FOR DIFFERENCES IN THE abbriviations VARIABLE