Commons of banal micro-functions for Python.
Commons of Python micro-functions. This basically an out-sourced, shared utils module with a focus on functions that buffer type uncertainties in Python (e.g. "is this a list?").
Rules:
mypy
.is_listish
: check if something is list-ishis_mapping
: check if an object is dict-ishensure_list
: make sure an argument is a list, or make it into a single-element listclean_dict
: remove null values from a dict, recursivelydecode_path
: decode a path name to be unicodehash_data
: generate a SHA1 from a dict of reasonable objects