shimport
	Import utilities for python

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• Overview
• Installation
• Usage

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Overview

Import utilities for python

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Installation

See pypi for available releases.

pip install shimport

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Usage

Simple lazy modules

>>> import shimport 
>>> pathlib = shimport.lazy('pathlib')
>>> print(pathlib.Path('.').absolute)
<bound method Path.absolute of PosixPath('.')>
>>>

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Filtering module contents

Filtering for Public Functions

Suppose you want to retrieve just the function-definitions from a module namespace.

Using shimport.wrapper let's you slice and dice:

>>> import shimport
>>> wrapper = shimport.wrapper("os.path")
>>> wrapper = wrapper.prune(only_functions=True)
>>> print(wrapper.namespace.keys())
dict_keys(['abspath', 'basename', 'commonpath', 'commonprefix', 'dirname', 'exists', 'expanduser', 'expandvars', 'getatime', 'getctime', 'getmtime', 'getsize', 'isabs', 'isdir', 'isfile', 'islink', 'ismount', 'join', 'lexists', 'normcase', 'normpath', 'realpath', 'relpath', 'samefile', 'sameopenfile', 'samestat', 'split', 'splitdrive', 'splitext'])
>>>

Filtering using Chaining / Fluid Style

Some use-cases for shimport involve scenarios that aren't great with declarative-style development.

So, there's good support for chaining (aka fluent) programming style as you can see below. (Note that indention here follows fluent-style that shed/black should support)

>>> import shimport 
>>> (
...   shimport
...   .wrapper('os.path')
...   .prune(only_data=True)
...   .prune(val_predicate=lambda v: v=='/')
...   .namespace.keys()
... )
dict_keys(['sep'])
>>>

>>> import typing, shimport
>>> (
...   shimport
...   .wrapper("os.path")
...   .prune(
...       exclude_private=True,
...       filter_module_origin=True)
... )
<ModulesWrapper[os.path]>
>>>

Filtering for Classes

Grab only the classes from the given namespace:

>>> import shimport 
>>> namespace=shimport.wrapper('pathlib').filter(only_classes=True)
>>> assert 'Path' in namespace

# Grab only subclasses of a given class from the given namespace
#>>> plugins = shimport.wrapper('my_app.plugins').prune(...)
#>>>

Filtering for Data

Grab only the classes from the given namespace:

>>> import shimport 
>>> namespace = shimport.wrapper('os.path').filter(only_data=True)
>>> assert 'sep' in namespace
>>>

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