Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds
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Re: Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds
#2Oh, this looks really nice. Thank you for posting it!
A while back, I had an idea for modelling a filesystem as a dict, so maybe this will inspire me to get off my ass and actually write it.
Basically, the idea is that this:
foo = rootfs['home']['amyjess']['stuff']['foo.txt']
rootfs['home']['amyjess']['stuff']['bar.txt'] = bar
with open('/home/amyjess/stuff/foo.txt', 'r') as foo_file:
foo = foo_file.read()
with open('/home/amyjess/stuff/bar.txt', 'w') as bar_file:
bar_file.write(bar)
Re: Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds
#3Oh, this looks really nice. Thank you for posting it! A while back, I had an idea for modelling a filesystem as a dict, so maybe this will inspire me to get off my ass and actually write it. Basically, the idea is that this: foo = rootfs['home']['amyjess']['stuff']['foo.txt'] rootfs['home']['amyjess']['stuff']['bar.txt'] = bar would be equivalent to this: with open('/home/amyjess/stuff/foo.txt', 'r') as foo_file: foo…
Nice idea!
You can also do this with PyFilesystem...
fs.gettext('/home/amyjess/stuff/foo.txt')
fs.settext('/home/amyjess/stuff/foo.txt', bar)
Re: Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds
#4pyfilesystem is great!
My only suggestion would be to improve the search optimization for pypi.
It's the ~10th result for https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=pyfilesys... and a page down on https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=fs&submit...
It's really not clear what it's called since the package name is 'fs' but the project is 'pyfilesystem'.
Re: Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds
#5Oh, this looks really nice. Thank you for posting it! A while back, I had an idea for modelling a filesystem as a dict, so maybe this will inspire me to get off my ass and actually write it. Basically, the idea is that this: foo = rootfs['home']['amyjess']['stuff']['foo.txt'] rootfs['home']['amyjess']['stuff']['bar.txt'] = bar would be equivalent to this: with open('/home/amyjess/stuff/foo.txt', 'r') as foo_file: foo…
You might want to look at pathlib:
with (Path.home() / '.config' / '1234.conf').open() as fd:
print('Hello', file=fd)
Re: Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds
#6Oh, this looks really nice. Thank you for posting it! A while back, I had an idea for modelling a filesystem as a dict, so maybe this will inspire me to get off my ass and actually write it. Basically, the idea is that this: foo = rootfs['home']['amyjess']['stuff']['foo.txt'] rootfs['home']['amyjess']['stuff']['bar.txt'] = bar would be equivalent to this: with open('/home/amyjess/stuff/foo.txt', 'r') as foo_file: foo…
It's funny you mention that, I have literally that functionality in my "blob storage" python wrapper. Currently it's just like 50 lines of code I use for internal ad-hoc storage because as it turns out, reasoning about storage as a hierarchy is really nice. (I also let you index with a list, where the list is the hierarchical path; the key part being composibility, which I imagine you can do reasonably with both models).
Interesting to know that it's a more common pattern. I will have to think a bit on where that may go. I had always shot down any "value" with "it's just a thin transformation on top of path.join". (yay self-deprecation or something?)
Re: Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds
#7Oh, this looks really nice. Thank you for posting it! A while back, I had an idea for modelling a filesystem as a dict, so maybe this will inspire me to get off my ass and actually write it. Basically, the idea is that this: foo = rootfs['home']['amyjess']['stuff']['foo.txt'] rootfs['home']['amyjess']['stuff']['bar.txt'] = bar would be equivalent to this: with open('/home/amyjess/stuff/foo.txt', 'r') as foo_file: foo…
There is already pathlib in Python's stdlib that do something similar:
>>> p = PurePath('/etc') >>> p PurePosixPath('/etc') >>> p / 'init.d' / 'apache2' PurePosixPath('/etc/init.d/apache2')
And yeah, this uses operator overload. However it does look quite nice.
Re: Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds
#8pyfilesystem is great! My only suggestion would be to improve the search optimization for pypi. It's the ~10th result for https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=pyfilesys... and a page down on https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=fs&submit... It's really not clear what it's called since the package name is 'fs' but the project is 'pyfilesystem'.
> pyfilesystem is great!
Cheers.
> My only suggestion would be to improve the search optimization for pypi.
Fair point. Not entirely sure how to fix that. I'll look in to it...
Re: Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds
#9pyfilesystem is great! My only suggestion would be to improve the search optimization for pypi. It's the ~10th result for https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=pyfilesys... and a page down on https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=fs&submit... It's really not clear what it's called since the package name is 'fs' but the project is 'pyfilesystem'.
> pyfilesystem is great! Cheers. > My only suggestion would be to improve the search optimization for pypi. Fair point. Not entirely sure how to fix that. I'll look in to it...
PKG-INFO, line 2:
Name: fs
Looks like it's also registered in PyPI as "fs", from the URL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fs/
Re: Show HN: PyFilesystem 2.0 – A Python interface to filesystems of all kinds
#10As long as you can recursively process folders and files without stopping early due to an UnauthorizedAccessException-equivalent (which .NET didn't straighten out 'til v4).