kern.thing module

basic package for the program.

class Thing

Bases: builtins.dict

basic Thing on which the rest of the program is based.

all(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

announce(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

Announce a text on all channels of all bots.

args[0] = “text to announce”

>>> import kern.bots
>>> bot = kern.bots.Bot()
>>> bot.announce("hello")
hello

by_key(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

check_notwanted(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

whether an thing is not desired.

check_wanted(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

whether an thing is desired.

clear(zelf)

clear the ready state.

clone(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

cloned ding, with only the proper keys used.

dated(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

retrieve the creation time of an ding.

days(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

get the number of days relative to the ding’s creation time.

define(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

set a attribute on this ding.

display(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

filedate(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

timestamp of related filename.

filedatetime(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

timestamp of related filename.

filename(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

find(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

first(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

get_fn(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

get_parsed(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

parse the txt attribute.

get_path(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

get_root(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

get_timed(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

retrieve the creation time of an ding.

get_url(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

url of the Thing’s file so that it can be retrieved when API server is running.

highest(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

json(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

JSON string representation of this ding.

last(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

load(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

load a JSON file into this ding.

lowest(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

make_signature(zelf)

signature of the data contained in this ding.

names(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

skip the unwanted keys e.g those that start with a “_”.

ok(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

signal ok.

period(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

prepare(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

create JSON ready to be saved to disk.

pretty(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

nice formatted JSON string of this ding.

read(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

read the JSON file from disk.

ready(zelf)

signal to ready state.

register(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

callback type with corresponding callback function.

remove(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

reply(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

send reply to origin.

represent(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

save(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

save JSON to disk.

say(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

search(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

search all attribute names.

args[0] = “attribute name to search for”

>>> from kern.thing import Thing
>>> thing = Thing()
>>> thing.data = "test"
>>> thing.search("da")
['data']

selected(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

list of desired things.

selector(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

see if this things has the desired attributes.

show(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

list of key,value pairs.

slice(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

take a slice of the Thing.

sync(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

sync JSON to disk.

wait(zelf, sec=180.0)

wait for ready state.

words(zelf, *args, **kwargs)

get the arguments of the txt attribute.