pyls

Features

Code Structure

Setup

Features

Mimics the behaviour of ls command

The following arguments are implemented and categorised under argument group “pyls flags”:

Arg	Description
-A	List all files, including the once starting with “.”
-l	Long list files with details such as size and time_modified
-r	Reverse listing of files
-t	Sort files by time_modified
-h	Makes file sizes human readable
--filter=<dir/file>	Filter based on content. If item contains contents, it is classified as a directory (dir), else it is a file.
path	Path to list out.

All flags are stackable.

Code Structure

# basic structure of code
pyls
|-- src
    |-- pyls
        |-- json
            |-- structure.json
        |-- __init__.py
        |-- custom_exception.py
        |-- item.py
        |-- pyls_argument.py
        |-- pyls.py
|-- test

pyls_arguments

Contains function to add above mentioned arguments.

pyls

Entrypoint

Loads the structure.json file and creates corresponding Item.

Based on provided argument, is extracts list of contents from inside an Item and displays it accordingly.

item

Contains structure of each item.

Depending on the presence of contents inside of an item — it can be classified as either a directory or a file.

custom_exception

Currently only contains exception for InvalidPath which is raised if the path passed in args is not found.

Setup

pip install

• In terminal, navigate to the pyls directory.
• Run the following command:

python -m pip install .

• pyls command should be working

Note: Running python -m pyls works as well.