Hey guys, Thanks for the feedback. I finished up yesterday afternoon with a revised version:
https://gist.github.com/ben-hearn-sb/bd25face0beb0f00397f As per spaces vs tabs, is spaces a python preferred method of indenting? And snake_case. Is this a Python convention for variable names also? The camelCase convention I picked up from my days of programming C and the likes, I guess the convention just stuck. For variable names anyway, using snake_case for function names seems like a good thing to get into especially since it separates variables and functions. Hmm cPickle eh? I might have to take a stab at that I have seen a few examples floating around the net. Seems I need to up my cPickle game. Let me know your thoughts on the revised version :) -- Ben On 22 November 2015 at 21:54, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:06 AM Ben Hearn <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hey Justin, >> >> I am working with the suggested changes and for the appdata dir path I >> have this which works for me on Windows: >> qAppData = >> str(QtGui.QDesktopServices.storageLocation(QtGui.QDesktopServices.DataLocation)) >> >> Could you confirm this gives the correct OSX path for your local settings >> dir? >> > > Well that works for finding the location for which you can store arbitrary > data. But it isn't the settings location that you would get via QSettings. > It is just the difference between whether you are storing actual settings, > or data (resources, images, large text, binaries, ...) > > In your case, I think either one could work. QSettings can store arrays of > strings. But if you are going to continue writing out your own custom data > file, maybe you should look at using cPickle? That would be a bit better > than writing out representations of lists and then reading and eval'ing > them back in again. > > > >> >> -- Ben >> >> On 21 November 2015 at 21:02, Justin Israel <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 8:51 AM Ben Hearn <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hey Justin, >>> >>> Thanks for the feedback. I was hoping for some epic feedback so it's all >>> good :) The more the better! >>> >>> The checking of the '/' was a windows thing I think, every time I would >>> drop a directory in the directory path would start with a '/' so I decided >>> to strip it. I was unsure as to whether this was a true issue. If this is >>> not the case I will run some more tests and remove it if necessary. >>> >>> I will defo look into Qsettings. I know Qt has a whole bunch of handy >>> modules like this but I have not explored them as of yet. >>> >>> As per showing the window in the class constructor would you recommend >>> more along the lines of: >>> >>> if __name__ == "main": >>> >>> sys.app etc. etc. >>> >>> window = class() >>> >>> window.show() >>> >>> Ya this would be a better approach. Where the script decides to create >>> and show the UI when it is run as a main executable, but leaves it free to >>> be imported by others. >>> >>> >>> Good catch on the event.accept() bug I will patch that up asap. >>> >>> Same thing with the recursive catch. Completely overlooked that I will >>> patch that up asap also. >>> >>> I will document the use case for users functions, that is an excellent >>> point to consider. >>> >>> Extending the program to handle bash and batch scripts is a cool >>> extension as well I will definitely look into this. >>> >>> -- Ben >>> >>> >>> On 21 November 2015 at 20:33, Justin Israel <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hey Ben, >>> >>> Thanks for sharing your work! >>> >>> I took a look at the script and gave it a quick test. Got some feedback, >>> if you were interested... >>> >>> First problem for me was what you already expected. There are >>> windows-specific concepts in the script, so it failed right away for me on >>> OSX (and would fail on linux too). @line 34 >>> <https://gist.github.com/ben-hearn-sb/dfd79ba2a7a77907cc77#file-file_runner-py-L34> >>> you make an assumption that users will have "APPDATA" set in their >>> environment, in order to join a directory path. I don't have that env key, >>> so I immediately crashed with trying to join on a None type. I could >>> quickly get past that by chucking in a default empty string value as the >>> second parameter to getenv(). However, this results in every run of the >>> tool creating a CUSTOM_DIR in my current working directory :-) A way to >>> solve your intention is to take a look at using QSettings. This is a >>> platform-independent way to save user preferences for your app. It will >>> just go into the correct place for the correct platform. >>> >>> On line 40 >>> <https://gist.github.com/ben-hearn-sb/dfd79ba2a7a77907cc77#file-file_runner-py-L40>, >>> that "global dirIn" isn't needed. It's not doing anything here. >>> >>> L107 >>> <https://gist.github.com/ben-hearn-sb/dfd79ba2a7a77907cc77#file-file_runner-py-L107>: >>> Generally its not good practice to show UI windows from within a class >>> constructor. It forces the caller to get a window that shows itself right >>> away. Obviously it doesn't matter in the case where your script is only >>> meant to execute, but if you ever wanted to offer your script as an >>> importable module for someone to be able to integrate, and show this tool, >>> it would make it less flexible. Similarly, at the end of the script, you >>> directly call run(). If you put that under an "if __name__ == '__main__'" >>> guard, then it would allow the script to be imported without running it. >>> >>> L126 >>> <https://gist.github.com/ben-hearn-sb/dfd79ba2a7a77907cc77#file-file_runner-py-L126>: >>> This is where I didn't get past, when I did a quick test of the tool. Here >>> you are doing a check if the path starts with a "/", and stripping it off >>> the path. So my absolute paths that were dropped were now being checked as >>> relative paths to the current working directory, and were not found to >>> exist. Is that the intent? Is there a very specific use case you expect >>> people to do when running the tool and choosing with directories they are >>> allowed to drop? Also, there is a small bug here in the logic (and >>> similarly in scriptDropEvent), where if every path that is checked from the >>> mime data does pass the check and the loop does a "continue", you end up >>> getting to the "event.accept()" line anyways instead of "event.ignore()" >>> >>> L382 >>> <https://gist.github.com/ben-hearn-sb/dfd79ba2a7a77907cc77#file-file_runner-py-L382>: >>> I didn't really get to test this to confirm, but it seems like there is a >>> bug here in how the loop breaks when it doesn't want to do a recursive >>> operation on files. If the first directory you look at is empty, the walk >>> will still continue to a subdirectory, which might have files, and in which >>> case you then process once and then break to stop recursion. So you will >>> get whatever subdirectory first has files, in the walk recursion. Seems >>> like what you really want is to break no matter what, even if there are no >>> files, to keep the walk from recursing into subdirs? >>> >>> While its great that you have nice module documentation at the top of >>> the file, one thing it is missing is documenting the signature of the >>> function you expect to find, when importing a users python script. I looked >>> through the code and saw that you expect it to be "myFunction(filePath)" , >>> but it would be good to add that to the documentation. Also, if you really >>> want to make your application extensible, you could even support more than >>> just a python script that has a specific function, by allowing any type of >>> executable file that just expects 1 or more file paths to be passed as >>> arguments. Someone could write a bash script, a bat file, python, ..., and >>> you would run it in a subprocess. This would be slower to do on a per-file >>> basis, so it would be something you might want to pass in batches of >>> arguments. 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