Plant - filesystem for humans

Introduction

Plant is a tiny python library that provide handy functions for path manipulation, file search, and other filesystem-based I/O operations.

It's called plant because you start using an instance of Node and with search operations you start moving through other nodes that represent paths, they can be folders or files, in fact every possible path in the disk your software is operating on is a potential "plant" node. (But it's also given my personal affection towards plants and vegetables).

Usage

Here is a quick introduction, but the full documentation can be found here A Node takes a path, if it's relative, Plant will turn it into absolute before storing it internally.

Plant always has the absolute path of the current node.

>>> from plant import Node
>>>
>>> unit_test_folder = Node("tests/unit")
>>> unit_test_folder
Node('tests/unit')

Getting the parent node

>>> from plant import Node
>>>
>>> unit_test_folder = Node("tests/unit")
>>> unit_test_folder.parent.parent
Node('.')

Finding files by regex

>>> from plant import Node
>>>
>>> test_files = Node("tests").find_with_regex("test_.*.py")
>>> test_files
[Node('tests/functional/test_fs.py'), Node('tests/unit/test_base.py'), Node('tests/unit/test_node.py')]

Every node is a file

And because in unix a directory is a folder, a node might also be a directory.

>>> from plant import Node
>>>
>>> functional_test_file = Node("tests/functional/test_fs.py")
>>> functional_test_file.is_dir
False
>>> functional_test_file.is_file
True
>>> functional_test_file.parent
Node('tests/functional')
>>> functional_test_file.parent.parent
Node('tests')
>>> functional_test_file.dir
Node('tests/functional')

Access the unix stat attributes through metadata

>>> from plant import Node
>>>
>>> test_fs = Node("tests/functional/test_fs.py")
>>> test_fs.metadata.size
3957
>>> test_fs.metadata.keys()
[u'uid', u'dev', u'ctime', u'nlink', u'gid', u'mode', u'mtime', u'atime', u'ino', u'size']

Read the full documentation here