File Creator

Author: Brian Tomlinson brian@smartm.no

Description

Creates a file populated with data based on the desired file type and passed in file content values.

By default, the resulting file is saved in $HOME/$FILE.$EXT ($USER $HOME directory). If the filename value that you pass in contains "/" then the library assumes that you want to write elsewhere, just make sure you have write access to the desired location!

Usage Example1 (CSV)

from libfilecreator import detect_and_write

filename = "test.csv"
headers = ["Name", "Country"]
rows = [
    {"Name": "Odd", "Country": "Norway"},
    {"Name": "Asbjørn", "Country": "Norway"},
    {"Name": "Mikael", "Country": "Norway"},
    {"Name": "Brian", "Country": "USA"}
]

# >>> file
# $HOME/test.csv
file = detect_and_write(filename, headers, rows)

Usage Example2 (CSV)

from libfilecreator import create_csv

filename = "test.csv"
headers = ["Name", "Country"]
rows = [
    {"Name": "Odd", "Country": "Norway"},
    {"Name": "Asbjørn", "Country": "Norway"},
    {"Name": "Mikael", "Country": "Norway"},
    {"Name": "Brian", "Country": "USA"}
]

# >>> file
# $HOME/test.csv
file = create_csv(filename, headers, rows)