Convention for Structuring Python Modules

Rajendra Dharmkar
Updated on 01-Oct-2019 06:44:20

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Here is a sample project that shows a very good way to structure your projects: https://github.com/kennethreitz/samplemod The project is about creating the "sample" module. The directory structure looks as follows:README.rst LICENSE setup.py requirements.txt sample/__init__.py sample/core.py sample/helpers.py docs/conf.py docs/index.rst tests/test_basic.py tests/test_advanced.pyThe README.rst file: This file is for giving a brief description of the module, how to set it up, how to use it, etc.LICENSE: Contains license text and any copyright claims.setup.py: It is Python's answer to a multi-platform installer and makes file. If you’re familiar with command-line installations, then make && make install translates to python setup.py build && python setup.py ... Read More

Install Python Modules in Cygwin

Rajendra Dharmkar
Updated on 01-Oct-2019 06:43:25

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While installing cygwin, make sure you install the python/python-setuptools from the list. This will install "easy_install" package. Once you have easy_install, you can use it to install pip. Type the following command:$ easy_install-a.b pipYou must replace a.b with your python version which can be 2.7 or 3.4 or whatever else. Now you can use pip to install the module you want. For example, To install the latest version of "SomeProject":$ pip install 'SomeProject'To install a specific version:$ pip install 'SomeProject==1.4'To install greater than or equal to one version and less than another:$ pip install 'SomeProject>=1,Read More

Encapsulate Python Modules in a Single File

Rajendra Dharmkar
Updated on 01-Oct-2019 06:42:13

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You cannot, in general encapsulate Python modules in a single file. Because doing so would destroy the module searching method that python uses (files and directories). If you are not able to install modules on a machine(due to not having enough permissions), you could use either virtualenv or save the module files in another directory and use the following code to allow Python to search for modules in the given module:>>> import os, sys >>> file_path = 'AdditionalModules/' >>> sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(file_path)) >>> # Now python also searches AdditionalModules folder for importing modules as we have set it on the PYTHONPATH.You can ... Read More

Find Location of Python Module Sources

Manogna
Updated on 30-Sep-2019 09:02:50

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For a pure python module you can find the location of the source files by looking at the module.__file__. For example,  >>> import mymodule >>> mymodule.__file__ C:/Users/Ayush/mymodule.py  Many built in modules, however, are written in C, and therefore module.__file__ points to a .so file (there is no module.__file__ on Windows), and therefore, you can't see the source. You can manually go and check the PYTHONPATH variable contents to find the directories from where these built in modules are being imported.  Running "python -v"from the command line tells you what is being imported and from where. This is useful if you want to ... Read More

Differences Between JSON and SimpleJSON Python Modules

Rajendra Dharmkar
Updated on 30-Sep-2019 08:59:36

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json is simplejson, added to the stdlib. But since json was added in 2.6, simplejson has the advantage of working on more Python versions (2.4+).simplejson is also updated more frequently than Python. Although they are the same, the version included in the stdlib doesn't include the latest optimizations. So if you need (or want) the latest version, it's best to use simplejson itself, if possible.A good practice, is to use one or the other as a fallback. For example,try: import simplejson as json except ImportError: import json

What Does Reload Function Do in Python

Rajendra Dharmkar
Updated on 30-Sep-2019 08:55:31

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The function reload(moduleName) reloads a previously loaded module (assuming you loaded it with the syntax "import moduleName". It is intended for conversational use, where you have edited the source file for a module and want to test it without leaving Python and starting it again. For example, >>> import mymodule >>> # Edited mymodule and want to reload it in this script >>> reload(mymodule)Note that the moduleName is the actual name of the module, not a string containing its name. In Python 3, reload was moved from builtins to imp. So to use reload in Python 3, you'd have to ... Read More

Check Version of Python Modules

Rajendra Dharmkar
Updated on 30-Sep-2019 08:53:00

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When you install Python, you also get the Python package manager, pip. You can use pip to get the versions of python modules. If you want to list all installed Python modules with their version numbers, use the following command:$ pip freezeYou will get the output:asn1crypto==0.22.0 astroid==1.5.2 attrs==16.3.0 Automat==0.5.0 backports.functools-lru-cache==1.3 cffi==1.10.0 ...To individually find the version number you can grep on this output on *NIX machines. For example:$ pip freeze | grep PyMySQL PyMySQL==0.7.11On windows, you can use findstr instead of grep. For example:PS C:\> pip freeze | findstr PyMySql PyMySQL==0.7.11If you want to know the version of a module ... Read More

Unload and Reload a Python Module

Manogna
Updated on 30-Sep-2019 08:50:27

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The function reload(moduleName) reloads a previously loaded module (assuming you loaded it with the syntax "importmoduleName" without exiting the script. It is intended for conversational use, where you have edited the source file for a module and want to test it without leaving Python and starting it again. For example, >>> import mymodule >>> # Edited mymoduleand want to reload it in this script >>> reload(mymodule)Note that the moduleName is the actual name of the module, not a string containing its name. The python docs state following about reload function: Python modules’ code is recompiled and the module-level code re-executed, defining ... Read More

Use of from Import Statement in Python

Rajendra Dharmkar
Updated on 30-Sep-2019 08:49:27

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The "from module import function" statement is used to import a specific function from a Python module. For example, if you want to import the sin function from the math library without importing any other function, you can do it as follows:>>> from math import sin >>> sin(0) 0.0Note that you don't have to prefix sin with "math." as only sin has been imported and not math. Also you can alias imported functions. For example,>>> from math import cos as cosine >>> cosine(0) 1.0

Use of from Import Statement in Python

Rajendra Dharmkar
Updated on 30-Sep-2019 08:48:52

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The "from module import *" statement is used to import all function from a Python module. For example, if you want to import all functions from math module and do not want to prefix "math." while calling them, you can do it as follows:>>> from math import * >>> sin(0) 0.0 >>> cos(0) 1.0Note that for any reasonable large set of code, if you import * you will likely be cementing it into the module, unable to be removed. This is because it is difficult to determine what items used in the code are coming from 'module', making it easy ... Read More

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