utsc-core 2022.5.27
an opinionated set of utilities designed to be easily included in any number of projects
Requires Python: >=3.10

# About

This package contains a set of utilities useful for building python libraries, scripts, and command-line utilities

It's designed to be easy to include in other projects. all of its mainline dependencies are vendored and all modules which have external un-vendorable dependencies are available as optional extras

# Install

```
pip install utsc.core
```

to include all optional dependencies, run

```
pip install utsc.core[all]
```

# Usage

This toolkit makes it really easy to write small, simple, well designed CLI utilities
In fact, the aim of this project is to make well-engineered CLIs almost as easy to write and deploy as basic python scripts
it leverages a lot of really fantastic modern libraries and tools to do so, like *poetry*, *typer*, and *loguru*

let's assume you've created a new project with `poetry new`, and you want to add a CLI interface to it. here's one way to do that:
create a `common.py` files with your super handy dandy useful function in it:
```python
from loguru import logger

def my_super_awesome_function():
    logger.debug("I'm running my_package.common.my_super_awesome_function!")

```

create a `__main__.py` file in your package like so:
```python
import os

from .common import my_super_awesome_function

from at.utils import configure_logging
import typer
from loguru import logger

app = typer.Typer()


@app.callback()
def callback(verbose: bool = False):
    """
    Here is my app's main help string
    Users will see this when they run `python -m my_package`
    """
    log_level = 'DEBUG' if verbose else 'INFO'
    configure_logging(
        'my_app_name', 
        stderr_level=log_level, 
        logfile_level='DEBUG', 
        sentry_level=None)


@app.command()
def my_command(option: bool):
    """
    Here's the help text my users will see when they run `python -m my_package my-command -h`
    """
    logger.debug("running my-command")  # this will only get printed if the --verbose flag is set
    my_super_awesome_function(option)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    if os.environ.get('PYDEBUG'):
        # we're in a debugger session
        # here we can put whatever debugging code we want
        # we can configure logging so all messages up to DEBUG are logged to stderr, and nothing gets logged to file:
        configure_logging('my_app_name', 'DEBUG', None, None)
        # do debugging stuff here
        logger.debug("I'm a debug message!")
        exit()
    try:
        app()  # cli code goes here
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print("Aborted!")
        exit()

```

the main api (all the stuff directly importable from `at_utils`) consists of:
- every function defined in the `main` module
- the `configure_logging` function from the `log` module

`configure_logging` has an option to enable logging to sentry. in order to use it, you need to install at_utils with the `sentry` extra (ie `pip install at-utils[sentry]` or `poetry add -D at-utils[sentry]`)

apart from that, there are other modules which can be imported separately:

`yaml` has a whole bunch of useful and sometimes esoteric utilities for working with yaml files, built on top of `ruamel.yaml`

`dev_utils` has commmand-line utilities for working with python projects, specifically made for projects that use `poetry`