The Tidyverse In Python

Intro

A Python version of the tidyverse's most visible feature of importing multiple libraries all at once. It was written and tested in Python 3 on Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10, but I don't think there would be issues in other versions and systems.

Installation

The package can be installed through pip:

pip install pydato

Or by cloning the repo and running python setup.py install.

Usage

pydato has only one function and using it requires help from Python's globals.

from pydato import load_libs
globals().update(load_libs())

In this call without any supplied arguments pydato checks to see if the file "~/.pydato/pydato.csv" exists in your root directory. (On Windows this is equivalent to C:\Users\user\.pydato\pydato.csv.) If it doesn't, then the function loads numpy as np, pandas as pd, matplotlib.pyplot as plt, and sklearn.linear_model as sk_lm. You can create this file with two columns - the column names don't matter but the order does - to load a custom set of packages. For example:

package,alias
pandas,pd
numpy,np

Note the lack of spaces in the csv example. Alternatively you can make use of the function's parameters:

load_libs(file_path = None, include_defaults = False, verbose = True)

Supply a file_path for the function to check for a csv in the same format outlined above to load libraries from custom file paths. Set include_defaults to True tells the function to load libraries from the specified file path and the defaults from "~/.pydata/pydata.csv". Set verbose to False to prevent the printing of information regarding the loaded packages and their aliases.