IOformat Tutorial

IOformat helps us keep consistant formatting throughout AutoMech. We can practice working with strings:

>>> import ioformat
>>> mystring = 'I love AutoMech'
>>> ioformat.indent(mystring, 4)
'    I love AutoMech'
>>> ioformat.addchar(mystring, ':) ', side='pre')
':) I love AutoMech'
>>> ioformat.addchar(mystring, '!', side='post')
'I love AutoMech !'

ioformat can also be used to remove unwanted characters from strings:

>>> uglystring = 'AutoMech    '
>>> ioformat.remove_whitespace_from_string(uglystring)
'AutoMech'

Paths must be formatted very particularly and ioformat gives us that control:

>>> path = ioformat.pathtools.current_path()
>>> tutorial_path = 'automech-tutorial'
>>> new_path = ioformat.pathtools.prepare_path((path, tutorial_path), make=True)
>>> new_path
'/gpfs/fs1/home/elliott/automech-tutorial'

ioformat optionally can create this path and allows us to go to it

>>> ioformat.pathtools.go_to(new_path)
>>> ioformat.pathtools.write_file(mystring, new_path, 'myfile.txt')
>>> ioformat.pathtools.read_file(new_path, 'myfile.txt')
'I love AutoMech'

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