This is the GruntWurk Core for Python — Just another Python project framework. It provides support for any type of Python project, especially:

• Command-Line only tools (e.g. stdin → stdout filters)

• A "simple control panel" framework for a quick-and-dirty app with lots of buttons that launch various scripts.

• Any project that calls for: logging, standardized exit codes, command-line options, INI configs.

It also contains a collection of one-off "housekeeping" functions like installing a TTF font in Windows.

Coming Soon: Cookie-cutter templates that utilize the GruntWurk Core to jump-start your projects.

Project Setup Tools/Frameworks (gw_basis folder):

• gw_cli.py — Command-Line-Interface tools (argparse helpers).

• gw_config.py — INI configuration tools (configparser helpers).

• gw_exceptions.py — Base exception classes that are logging-friendly and with exitcode standardization.

• gw_logging.py — Extends basic Python logging with 2 added levels (DIAGNOSTIC, TRACE), incorporates colorlog, and other features.

• gw_versioning.py — For help with bumping/tracking version numbers.

User-Interface (gw_gui folder):

• gw_gui_simple_cp.py — A base class for creating a "simple control panel"

• gw_gui_q_line_edit.py — A subclass of QLineEdit that allows for deselecting.

• gw_gui_finger_tabs.py

• gw_gui_kay_map.py — A manager for QActions, including loading them from a key map in a CSV file.

• gw_gui_dialogs.py --QT-based message dialogs that are logging-friendly: inform_user_about_issue(), ask_user_to_confirm(), and ask_user_to_choose().

General Utility Functions:

• gw_datetime.py — from_month_name(), timestamp().

• gw_strings.py — strip_blank_lines(), rstrip_special(), leading_spaces_count(), normalizeName().

• gw_alphabet.py — PHONETIC_LIST, PHONETIC_DICT, phonetic_spelling().

Windows Specific (gw_windows_specific folder):

• gw_fonts.py — Installing a TTF or OTF font in Windows.

• gw_winodws_behavior.py — disableWindowTracking().

• gw_winodws_printing.py — fill_in_pdf(), view_pdf(), print_pdf().

For the User (App Developer):

• Installation

• Quick and easy: Getting your app to accept command-line switches.

• Quick and easy: Getting your app to accept a basic configuration INI file.

• Quick and easy: Writing a simple control panel app (i.e. a launcher platform).

• Quick and easy: Taking advantage of Python’s Logging features.

• Writing Filter Commands (command-line programs that are "piped" together)

• Writing Apps with Exception Handling that combines logging and exit-code handling

For any Possible Contributor to this Library:

• Contributing

• Development Environment Setup

• Using Python Virtual Environments

• Design Notes

• Change Log

See link::LICENSE[]

Next Topic: Getting your app to accept command-line switches.