utz

("yoots"): utilities augmenting the Python standard library; processes, Pytest, Pandas, Plotly, …

Install
Import: from utz import *
- Jupyter
- Python REPL
Modules
Examples / Users

Install

pip install utz

Requires Python 3.10+
utz has one dependency, stdlb (wild-card standard library imports).
"Extras" provide optional deps (e.g. Pandas, Plotly, …).

Import: `from utz import *`

Jupyter

I often import utz.* in Jupyter notebooks:

from utz import *

This imports most standard library modules/functions (via stdlb), as well as the utz members below.

Python REPL

You can also import utz.* during Python REPL startup:

cat >~/.pythonrc <<EOF
try:
    from utz import *
    err("Imported utz")
except ImportError:
    err("Couldn't find utz")
EOF
export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc
# Configure for Python REPL in new Bash shells:
echo 'export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc' >> ~/.bashrc

Modules

Here are a few utz modules, in rough descending order of how often I use them:

`utz.proc`: `subprocess` wrappers; shell out commands, parse output

from utz.proc import *

# Run a command
run('git', 'commit', '-m', 'message')  # Commit staged changes

# Passing a single string implies `shell=True` (for all functions listed here)
# Return `list[str]` of stdout lines
lines('git log -n5 --format=%h')  # Last 5 commit SHAs

# Verify exactly one line of stdout, return it
line('git log -1 --format=%h')  # Current HEAD commit SHA

# Return stdout as a single string
output('git log -1 --format=%B')  # Current HEAD commit message

# Pass input to stdin
line('git mktree', input=b'100644 blob abc123\tfile.txt\n')  # Create git tree from stdin

# Check whether a command succeeds, suppress output
check('git diff --exit-code --quiet')  # `True` iff there are no uncommitted changes
# Nested arrays are flattened (for all commands above):
check(['git', 'diff', ['--exit-code', '--quiet']])

err("This will be output to stderr")

# Execute a "pipeline" of commands
pipeline(['seq 10', 'head -n5'])  # '1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n'

`utz.proc.aio`: async `subprocess` wrappers

Async versions of most utz.proc helpers are also available:

from utz.proc.aio import *
import asyncio
from asyncio import gather

async def test():
  _1, _2, _3, nums = await gather(*[
      run('sleep', '1'),
      run('sleep', '2'),
      run('sleep', '3'),
      lines('seq', '10'),
  ])
  return nums

asyncio.run(test())
# ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10']

`utz.collections`: collection/list helpers

from utz import *

# Verify a collection has one element, return it:
singleton(["aaa"])               # ✅ "aaa"
singleton({'a': 1})              # ✅ ('a', 1); works on `dict`s`
singleton([("aaa",), ("aaa",)])  # ✅ ("aaa",); dedupes by default (elems must be hashable)
singleton(["aaa", "bbb"])        # ❌ `raise utz.collections.Expected1FoundN("2 elems found: bbb,aaa")`

# `solo`, `one`, and `e1` are aliases for `singleton`:
solo(["aaa"])  # "aaa"
one(["aaa"])   # "aaa"
e1(["aaa"])    # "aaa"

# Filter by a predicate
one([2, 3, 4], lambda n: n % 2)  # 3
one([{'a': 1}, {'b': 2}], lambda o: 'a' in o)  # {'a': 1}

`utz.env`: `os.environ` wrapper + `contextmanager`

from utz import env, os

# Temporarily set env vars
with env(FOO='bar'):
    assert os.environ['FOO'] == 'bar'

assert 'FOO' not in os.environ

The env() contextmanager also supports configurable on_conflict and on_exit kwargs, for handling env vars that were patched, then changed while the context was active.

`utz.fn`: decorator/function utilities

`utz.decos`: compose decorators

from utz import decos
from click import option

common_opts = decos(
    option('-n', type=int),
    option('-v', is_flag=True),
)

@common_opts
def subcmd1(n: int, v: bool):
    ...

@common_opts
def subcmd2(n: int, v: bool):
    ...

`utz.call`: only pass expected `kwargs` to functions

from utz import call, wraps
def fn1(a, b):
    ...

@wraps(fn1)
def fn2(a, c, **kwargs):
    ...
kwargs = dict(a=11, b='22', c=33, d=44)
call(fn1, **kwargs)  # passes {a, b}, not {c, d}
call(fn2, **kwargs)  # passes {a, b, c}, not {d}

`utz.jsn`: `JsonEncoder` for datetimes, `dataclasses`

from utz import dataclass, Encoder, fromtimestamp, json  # Convenience imports from standard library
epoch = fromtimestamp(0)
print(json.dumps({ 'epoch': epoch }, cls=Encoder))
# {"epoch": "1969-12-31 19:00:00"}
print(json.dumps({ 'epoch': epoch }, cls=Encoder("%Y-%m-%d"), indent=2))
# {
#   "epoch": "1969-12-31"
# }

@dataclass
class A:
    n: int

print(json.dumps(A(111), cls=Encoder))
# {"n": 111}

See test_jsn.py for more examples.

`utz.context`: `{async,}contextmanager` helpers

ctxs: compose contextmanagers
actxs: compose asynccontextmanagers
with_exit_hook: wrap a contextmanager's __exit__ method in another contextmanager

`utz.cli`: `click` helpers

utz.cli provides wrappers around click.option for parsing common option formats:

@count: "count" options, including optional value mappings (e.g. -v → "info", -vv → "debug")
@multi: parse comma-delimited values (or other delimiter), with optional value-parse callback (e.g. -a1,2 -a3 → (1,2,3))
@num: parse numeric values, including human-readable SI/IEC suffixes (i.e. 10k → 10_000)
@obj: parse dictionaries from multi-value options (e.g. -eFOO=BAR -eBAZ=QUX → dict(FOO="BAR", BAZ="QUX"))
@incs/@excs: construct an Includes or Excludes object for regex-filtering of string arguments
@inc_exc: combination of @incs and @excs; constructs an Includes or Excludes for regex-filtering of strings, from two (mutually-exclusive) options
@opt, @arg, @flag: wrappers for click.{option,argument}, option(is_flag=True)

Examples:

# cli.py
from utz.cli import cmd, count, incs, multi, num, obj
from utz import Includes, Literal

@cmd  # Alias for `click.command`
@multi('-a', '--arr', parse=int, help="Comma-separated integers")
@obj('-e', '--env', help='Env vars, in the form `k=v`')
@incs('-i', '--include', 'includes', help="Only print `env` keys that match one of these regexs")
@num('-m', '--max-memory', help='Max memory size (e.g. "100m"')
@count('-v', '--verbosity', values=['warn', 'info', 'debug'], help='0x: "warn", 1x: "info", 2x: "debug"')
def main(
    arr: tuple[int, ...],
    env: dict[str, str],
    includes: Includes,
    max_memory: int,
    verbosity: Literal['warn', 'info', 'debug'],
):
    filtered_env = { k: v for k, v in env.items() if includes(k) }
    print(f"{arr} {filtered_env} {max_memory} {verbosity}")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Saving the above as cli.py and running will yield:

python cli.py -a1,2 -a3 -eAAA=111 -eBBB=222 -eccc=333 -i[A-Z] -m10k
# (1, 2, 3) {'AAA': '111', 'BBB': '222'} 10000 warn
python cli.py -m 1Gi -v
# () {} 1073741824 info

from utz.cli import arg, cmd, inc_exc, multi
from utz.rgx import Patterns

@cmd
@inc_exc(
    multi('-i', '--include', help="Print arguments iff they match at least one of these regexs; comma-delimited, and can be passed multiple times"),
    multi('-x', '--exclude', help="Print arguments iff they don't match any of these regexs; comma-delimited, and can be passed multiple times"),
)
@arg('vals', nargs=-1)
def main(patterns: Patterns, vals: tuple[str, ...]):
    print(' '.join([ val for val in vals if patterns(val) ]))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Saving the above as cli.py and running will yield:

python cli.py -i a.,b aa bc cb c a AA B
# aa bc cb
python cli.py -x a.,b aa bc cb c a AA B
# c a AA B

See test_cli for more examples.

`utz.mem`: memray wrapper

Use memray to profile memory allocations, extract stats, flamegraph HTML, and peak memory use:

from utz.mem import Tracker
from utz import iec
with (tracker := Tracker()):
    nums = list(sorted(range(1_000_000, 0, -1)))

peak_mem = tracker.peak_mem
print(f'Peak memory use: {peak_mem:,} ({iec(peak_mem)})')
# Peak memory use: 48,530,432 (46.3 MiB)

`utz.time`: `Time` timer, `now`/`today` helpers

`Time`: minimal timer class

from utz import Time, sleep

time = Time()
time("step 1")
sleep(1)
time("step 2")  # Ends "step 1" timer
sleep(1)
time()  # Ends "step 2" timer
print(f'Step 1 took {time["step 1"]:.1f}s, step 2 took {time["step 2"]:.1f}s.')
# Step 1 took 1.0s, step 2 took 1.0s.

# contextmanager timers can overlap/contain others
with time("run"):    # ≈2s
    time("sleep-1")  # ≈1s
    sleep(1)
    time("sleep-2")  # ≈1s
    sleep(1)

print(f'Run took {time["run"]:.1f}s')
# Run took 1.0s

`now`, `today`

now and today are wrappers around datetime.datetime.now that expose convenient functions:

from utz import now, today
now()     # 2024-10-11T15:43:54Z
today()   # 2024-10-11
now().s   # 1728661583
now().ms  # 1728661585952

Use in conjunction with utz.bases codecs for easy timestamp-nonces:

from utz import b62, now
b62(now().s)   # A18Q1l
b62(now().ms)  # dZ3fYdS
b62(now().us)  # G31Cn073v

Sample values for various units and codecs:

unit	b62	b64	b90
s	`A2kw7P`	`+aYIh1`	`:Kn>H`
ds	`R7FCrj`	`D8oM9b`	`"tn_BH`
cs	`CCp7kK0`	`/UpIuxG`	`=Fc#jK`
ms	`dj4u83i`	`MFSOKhy`	`#8;HF8g`
us	`G6cozJjWb`	`385u0dp8B`	`D>$y/9Hr`

(generated by time-slug-grid.py)

`utz.size`: `humanize.naturalsize` wrapper

iec wraps humanize.naturalsize, printing IEC-formatted sizes by default, to 3 sigfigs:

from utz import iec
iec(2**30 + 2**29 + 2**28 + 2**27)
# '1.88 GiB'

`utz.hash_file`: hash file contents

from utz import hash_file
hash_file("path/to/file")  # sha256 by default
hash_file("path/to/file", 'md5')

`utz.ym`: `YM` (year/month) class

The YM class represents a year/month, e.g. 202401 for January 2024.

from utz import YM
ym = YM(202501)  # Jan '25
assert ym + 1 == YM(202502)  # Add one month
assert YM(202502) - YM(202406) == 8  # subtract months
YM(202401).until(YM(202501))  # 202401, 202402, ..., 202412

# `YM` constructor accepts several representations:
assert all(ym == YM(202401) for ym in [
    YM(202401),
    YM('202401'),
    YM('2024-01'),
    YM(2024, 1),
    YM(y=2024, m=1),
    YM(dict(year=2022, month=12)),
    YM(YM(202401)),
])

`utz.cd`: "change directory" contextmanagers

from utz import cd, cd_tmpdir

with cd('..'):
    # Inside parent dir
    ...
# Back in original dir

with cd('a/b/c', mk=True):
    # Moved into a/b/c (created it if it didn't exist)
    ...

with cd_tmpdir(dir='.', name='my_tmpdir') as tmpdir:
    # Inside a temporary subdirectory of previous working directory, with basename `my_tmpdir`
    ...

[`utz.gist`]: GitHub Gist operations

from utz.gist import create_gist, upload_files_to_gist, get_github_user

# Get current GitHub username (via `gh` CLI)
username = get_github_user()

# Create a new gist
gist_id = create_gist(description="My gist", public=True)

# Upload files to a gist
upload_files_to_gist(
    gist_id=gist_id,
    files={'hello.txt': 'Hello, world!'},
    branch='main',
    commit_message='Add hello.txt'
)

`utz.gzip`: deterministic GZip helpers

from utz import deterministic_gzip_open, hash_file
with deterministic_gzip_open('a.gz', 'w') as f:
    f.write('\n'.join(map(str, range(10))))
hash_file('a.gz')  # dfbe03625c539cbc2a2331d806cc48652dd3e1f52fe187ac2f3420dbfb320504

`utz.s3`: S3 utilities

client(): cached boto3 S3 client
parse_bkt_key(args: tuple[str, ...]) -> tuple[str, str]: parse bucket and key from s3:// URL or separate arguments
get_etag(*args: str, err_ok: bool = False, strip: bool = True) -> str | None: get ETag of S3 object
get_etags(*args: str) -> dict[str, str]: get ETags for all objects with the given prefix
atomic_edit(...) -> Iterator[str]: context manager for atomically editing S3 objects

from utz import s3, pd

url = 's3://bkt/key.parquet'
# `url`'s ETag is snapshotted on initial read
with s3.atomic_edit(url) as out_path:
    df = pd.read_parquet(url)
    df.sort_index(inplace=True)
    df.to_parquet(out_path)
    # On contextmanager exit, `out_path` is uploaded to `url`, iff
    # `url`'s ETag hasn't changed (no concurrent update has occurred).

`utz.plot`: Plotly helpers

Helpers for Plotly transformations I make frequently, e.g.:

from utz import plot
import plotly.express as px
fig = px.bar(x=[1, 2, 3], y=[4, 5, 6])
plot(
    fig,
    name='my-plot',  # Filename stem. will save my-plot.png, my-plot.json, optional my-plot.html
    title=['Some Title', 'Some subtitle'],  # Plot title, followed by "subtitle" line(s) (smaller font, just below)
    bg='white', xgrid='#ccc',  # white background, grey x-gridlines
    hoverx=True,  # show x-values on hover
    x="X-axis title",  # x-axis title or configs
    y=dict(title="Y-axis title", zerolines=True),  # y-axis title or configs
    # ...
)

Example usages: hudcostreets/nj-crashes, ryan-williams/arrayloader-benchmarks.

`utz.setup`: `setup.py` helper

utz/setup.py provides defaults for various setuptools.setup() params:

name: use parent directory name
version: parse from git tag (otherwise from git describe --tags)
install_requires: read requirements.txt
author_{name,email}: infer from last commit
long_description: parse README.md (and set long_description_content_type)
description: parse first <p> under opening <h1> from README.md
license: parse from LICENSE file (MIT and Apache v2 supported)

For an example, see gsmo==0.0.1 (and corresponding release).

This library also "self-hosts" using utz.setup; see pyproject.toml:

[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools", "utz[setup]==0.4.2", "wheel"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

and setup.py:

from utz.setup import setup

extras_require = {
    # …
}

# Various fields auto-populated from git, README.md, requirements.txt, …
setup(
    name="utz",
    version="0.8.0",
    extras_require=extras_require,
    url="https://github.com/runsascoded/utz",
    python_requires=">=3.10",
)

The setup helper can be installed via a pip "extra":

pip install utz[setup]

`utz.version`: runtime package version with git hash

Get your package version with current git commit hash at runtime, useful for verifying which exact commit is installed during local development:

# In your package's __init__.py:
from utz.version import pkg_version_with_git

__version__ = "0.1.1"

def get_version(include_git=True):
    """Get version string with optional git hash."""
    return pkg_version_with_git(pkg_version=__version__, include_git=include_git)

Usage:

import mypackage

mypackage.get_version()
# "0.1.1+git.abc1234" (clean working tree)
# "0.1.1+git.abc1234.dirty" (uncommitted changes)

mypackage.get_version(include_git=False)
# "0.1.1"

mypackage.__version__
# "0.1.1"

The +git.HASH format follows PEP 440 local version identifier conventions. This helps verify which exact commit is installed when doing pip install -e . during local development, especially when working with multiple interdependent packages.

Features:

Auto-detects git repo from caller's package directory
Falls back to plain version if git not available (e.g., PyPI installs)
Detects uncommitted changes (.dirty suffix)
Supports short (7-char, default) or full (40-char) hashes

Also available: utz.git.is_dirty() to check if the working tree has uncommitted changes.

`utz.test`: `dataclass` test cases, `raises` helper

`utz.parametrize`: `pytest.mark.parametrize` wrapper, accepts `dataclass` instances

from utz import parametrize
from dataclasses import dataclass


def fn(f: float, fmt: str) -> str:
    """Example function, to be tested with ``Case``s below."""
    return f"{f:{fmt}}"


@dataclass
class case:
    """Container for a test-case; float, format, and expected output."""
    f: float
    fmt: str
    expected: str

    @property
    def id(self):
        return f"fmt-{self.f}-{self.fmt}"


@parametrize(
    case(1.23, "0.1f", "1.2"),
    case(123.456, "0.1e", "1.2e+02"),
    case(-123.456, ".0f", "-123"),
)
def test_fn(f, fmt, expected):
    """Example test, "parametrized" by several ``Cases``s."""
    assert fn(f, fmt) == expected

test_parametrize.py contains more examples, customizing test "ID"s, adding parameter sweeps, etc.

`utz.raises`: `pytest.raises` wrapper, match a regex or multiple strings

`utz.tmpdir`

from utz import TmpDir, tmp_ensure_dir, TmpPath

#  ``TemporaryDirectory`` wrapper that creates ``dir`` (and parents), if necessary (and removes any dirs it created, on exit)
# Also adds support for specifying exact basename, via ``name`` kwarg.
with TmpDir(dir='nested/subdir', name='basename') as tmpdir:
    ...

# Yields a path with the requested basename, inside a ``TemporaryDirectory``.
# As with ``TmpDir``, ``dir`` (and parents) will be created, if necessary (and removed on exit, leaving the filesystem in the same state it started in)
with TmpPath('basename.txt', dir='nested/subdir') as tmppath:
    ...

# Multiple right-most path components can be specified exactly.
with TmpPath('dir1/dir2/basename.txt', dir='nested/subdir') as tmppath:
    ...

# Used by ``TmpDir``/``TmpPath`` above, creates ``dir`` (and parents), if necessary (and removes any dirs it created, on exit)
with tmp_ensure_dir(dir='nested/subdir'):
    ...

`utz.docker`, `utz.bases`, etc.

Misc other modules:

bases: encode/decode in various bases (62, 64, 90, …)
escape: split/join on an arbitrary delimiter, with backslash-escaping; utz.esc escapes a specific character in a string.
ctxs: compose contextmanagers
o: dict wrapper exposing keys as attrs (e.g.: o({'a':1}).a == 1)
docker: DSL for programmatically creating Dockerfiles (and building images from them)
tmpdir: make temporary directories with a specific basename
ssh: SSH tunnel wrapped in a context manager
backoff: exponential-backoff utility
git: Git helpers, wrappers around GitPython
pnds: pandas imports and helpers

Examples / Users

Some repos that use utz:

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit History 484 Commits
.github/workflows		.github/workflows
scripts		scripts
src/utz		src/utz
test		test
.gitmodules		.gitmodules
LICENSE		LICENSE
README.md		README.md
pyproject.toml		pyproject.toml
pytest.ini		pytest.ini
requirements.txt		requirements.txt
setup.py		setup.py

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utz

Install

Import: from utz import *

Jupyter

Python REPL

Modules

utz.proc: subprocess wrappers; shell out commands, parse output

utz.proc.aio: async subprocess wrappers

utz.collections: collection/list helpers

utz.env: os.environ wrapper + contextmanager

utz.fn: decorator/function utilities

utz.decos: compose decorators

utz.call: only pass expected kwargs to functions

utz.jsn: JsonEncoder for datetimes, dataclasses

utz.context: {async,}contextmanager helpers

utz.cli: click helpers

utz.mem: memray wrapper

utz.time: Time timer, now/today helpers

Time: minimal timer class

now, today

utz.size: humanize.naturalsize wrapper

utz.hash_file: hash file contents

utz.ym: YM (year/month) class

utz.cd: "change directory" contextmanagers

[utz.gist]: GitHub Gist operations

utz.gzip: deterministic GZip helpers

utz.s3: S3 utilities

utz.plot: Plotly helpers

utz.setup: setup.py helper

utz.version: runtime package version with git hash

utz.test: dataclass test cases, raises helper

utz.parametrize: pytest.mark.parametrize wrapper, accepts dataclass instances

utz.raises: pytest.raises wrapper, match a regex or multiple strings

utz.tmpdir

utz.docker, utz.bases, etc.

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Import: `from utz import *`

`utz.proc`: `subprocess` wrappers; shell out commands, parse output

`utz.proc.aio`: async `subprocess` wrappers

`utz.collections`: collection/list helpers

`utz.env`: `os.environ` wrapper + `contextmanager`

`utz.fn`: decorator/function utilities

`utz.decos`: compose decorators

`utz.call`: only pass expected `kwargs` to functions

`utz.jsn`: `JsonEncoder` for datetimes, `dataclasses`

`utz.context`: `{async,}contextmanager` helpers

`utz.cli`: `click` helpers

`utz.mem`: memray wrapper

`utz.time`: `Time` timer, `now`/`today` helpers

`Time`: minimal timer class

`now`, `today`

`utz.size`: `humanize.naturalsize` wrapper

`utz.hash_file`: hash file contents

`utz.ym`: `YM` (year/month) class

`utz.cd`: "change directory" contextmanagers

[`utz.gist`]: GitHub Gist operations

`utz.gzip`: deterministic GZip helpers

`utz.s3`: S3 utilities

`utz.plot`: Plotly helpers

`utz.setup`: `setup.py` helper

`utz.version`: runtime package version with git hash

`utz.test`: `dataclass` test cases, `raises` helper

`utz.parametrize`: `pytest.mark.parametrize` wrapper, accepts `dataclass` instances

`utz.raises`: `pytest.raises` wrapper, match a regex or multiple strings

`utz.tmpdir`

`utz.docker`, `utz.bases`, etc.