pyrobase

General Python Helpers and Utilities.  

What is it?

pyrobase assembles general Python helper functions and classes that can be applied to any project. That includes some additional tasks for the Paver build tool, an improved xmlrpc2scgi module, unit test helpers, and generic base modules for various domains.

All modules have unit tests (currently pyrobase.paver is an exception), and the goal is to reach >80% coverage.

Links:

• PyPI
• API docs
• OpenHub

Installation

Install it with pip install --user pyrobase, or more commonly just add it as a dependency to your project and call python setup.py develop -U. Installing into a virtualenv is recommended.

Usage

See the project's pavement.py and unit tests, and for a full API documentation go to http://packages.python.org/pyrobase/.

Build Instructions

First, check out the source:

mkdir -p ~/src
git clone https://github.com/pyroscope/pyrobase.git ~/src/pyrobase
cd ~/src/pyrobase

You are strongly encouraged to build within a virtualenv, call the provided script bootstrap.sh to create one in your working directory:

./bootstrap.sh
. bin/activate

Use paver to run common project tasks:

paver test
paver docs
paver lint -m
paver coverage

Performing a Release

1. Check Travis CI status at https://travis-ci.org/pyroscope/pyrobase

2. Check for and fix pylint violations:

   paver lint -m
   

3. Verify debian/changelog for completeness and the correct version, and bump the release date:

   dch -r
   

4. Remove ‘dev’ version tagging from setup.cfg, and perform a release check:

   sed -i -re 's/^(tag_[a-z ]+=)/##\1/' setup.cfg
   paver release
   

5. Commit and tag the release:

   git status  # check all is committed
   tag="v$(dpkg-parsechangelog | grep '^Version:' | awk '{print $2}')"
   git tag -a "$tag" -m "Release $tag"
   

6. Build the final release and upload it to PyPI:

   paver dist_clean sdist bdist_wheel
   twine upload dist/*.{zip,whl}
   

7. Create the ZIP file with the API documentation:

   paver dist_docs
   

8. Upload the docs from the dist directory to pythonhosted.org:

   xdg-open "https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=pkg_edit&name=pyrobase" &
   

Acknowledgements

• Repository hosting @ GitHub.
• Paver @ http://paver.github.com/paver/.
• https://github.com/Quantique for the inspiration on the scgi+ssh transport.