web2py_utils (Python)
After using web2py for quite a while I have an eclectic mix of utilities that I seem to be using for almost every web2py app I develop now!
I needed both a way to organize the same code across multiple web2py apps and I also wanted to share this code with the world!
Lots of Goodies!
Make sure to look at the source. You may find limited documentation here.
- Common shortcuts
- py2jquery module
- Heirarchical category module.
- Database store configuration settings
- Class based menu builder
- syntax highlighting
- Output compression
- Pagination
- Stop words lists
- Levenstien algorithm
- NGram algorithm
- New SQLHTML widgets (able to pass class attributes to them)
- Convert wordpress xml export into a python dict!
- Comments, tagging, and pingback/trackback plugins!
- Unittesting, code coverage.
Installation
Binary
Install web2py_utils from the PyPi http://pypi.python.org/pypi
$: easy_install web2py_utils
# OR
$: pip install web2py_utils
Source
Do a checkout of the source code
$: hg clone http://hg.thadeusb.com/Web/web2py_utils
And then you can install by using setuptools
$: cd web2py_utils
$: python setup.py develop
Note
develop will make symlinks that you can continue to work off the repositorywhereas install makes a copy.
Usage
Once web2py_utils is installed into the path, you should import it just like any other python module.:
import web2py_utils
From this point, you need to import everything you want explicitly. A few objects are included in the web2py_utils namespace for convenience, however most of the heavy lifters will be imported manual.
For example, to import the pagination library:
from web2py_utils.paginate import Pagination
The Actual Documentation
Please navigate to http://packages.python.org/web2py_utils/.