Utilities

Functionality without a better home is kept in pytiger.utils.

pytiger.utils.decorators – decorator functions

class pytiger.utils.decorators.cached_property(func, name=None)

New in version 1.0.0.

Decorator that converts a method with a single self argument into a property cached on the instance.

Optional name argument allows you to make cached properties of other methods. (e.g. url = cached_property(get_absolute_url, name=’url’) )

pytiger.utils.filesystem – filesystem utilities

A collection of useful file system utilities

pytiger.utils.filesystem.get_file_age(filename)

Returns age of file in seconds

Parameters:filename (str) – file to inspect

New in version 1.0.0.

pytiger.utils.filesystem.touch(filename, create_dirs=False, timestamp=None)

Opens and closes filename, similarly to touch(1). If filename is a nested path and create_dirs is true, all intermediate directories will be created.

Parameters:

• filename (str) – path to the file to touch
• create_dirs (bool) – create all parent directories if necessary
• timestamp (int) – UNIX timestamp for mtime and atime

New in version 1.0.0.