Ergaleia is a library of random tools that might be useful when writing stuff in python.
I found myself copying most of these things around from repo to repo, making small tweaks along the way and letting things slowly drift out of sync. That was a bad idea. I thought about making a bunch of individual repos, one for each tool, but didn't like that either. So here they are, thrown together. Maybe you'll find this useful.
You can borrow and steal if you want, just keep the license intact.
Tested with 2.7 and 3.6.
A pythonic configuration object that reads key=value settings from a text file.
The text file is constrained to a set of valid keys, which can have
default values if not present in a config file.
A mini config object for managing settings within a module is also available.
A conversion tool to turn an XML document into a nested python dict.
So, why did they invent XML again?
A function loader that locates and dynamically loads functions using dotted-path notation.
A pair of file loader functions that can find, and load, files in pythonic ways.
This is a file-loader on top of normalize_path.
load_lines_from_path documentation
Index deep python dict structures in a single bound.
Sometimes,
like when XML documents are converted into python dicts (cough, cough),
data structures can end up being uncomfortably deep.
The nested_get function allows safe deep-traversal with default values
and optionally required structure.
Find non-python files buried in the python directories using dot-notation instead of direct file references. Useful for data or configuration files.
Truncate a string at a comment character. Handles escaped characters and whitespace stripping.
Parse a string into args and kwargs. Might be useful for mini-languages or configuration tasks.