A set of simple functions that are used in cloudmesh but also could be used by other projects.

You can install it in one of two ways.

pip install cloudmesh_base

mkdir -p github/cloudmesh
cd github/cloudmesh
git clone https://github.com/cloudmesh/base.git
cd base
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

• ConfigDict -- an ordered dictionary to read configurations frm YAML files
• Shell -- a convenient wrapper to python sh so that pylint does not complain all the time when importing commands from sh
• dotdict -- a simple dict with dot notation
• gitinfo -- get some information about authors and their statistics for a git repository
• menu -- a simple ascii menu so we can chose easily from options
• ping -- a simple ping (see also Shell)
• ssh_config -- a simple tool to read ./ssh/config into a dict
• stopwatch -- a simple stopwatch to measure times
• tables -- a simple table printer that prins dicts in a uniform table
• util -- a number of useful functions including yn_choice, banner, path_expand, introspecting and printing the method name at runtime, copy files, replace dict values in a string similar but less complicated to .format, read a file to a string, write a string to a file

• https://github.com/cloudmesh/base