MY ANACONDA DON'T

Python example making use of best practice file structure and multithreading.

made for python3+

File structure

project/
|
|-- anaconda/
|   |-- runner.py (Main entrypoint)
|   |-- __main__.py 
|   |-- hello/
|   |   |-- hello.py (hello module)
|   |   |-- helpers.py (helper functions for hello module)
|   |
|   |-- world/
|       |-- world.py
|       |-- helpers.py
|
|-- data/  (Data folder could contain input/output files like logs while testing the application)
|   |-- input.txt 
|
|-- docs/  (Bigger/more complicated apps should have documentation for each module)
|   |- hello.md 
|   |- world.md
|
|-- readme.md (You are reading this one)
|-- LICENSE (Yes you should have a LICENSE)
|-- requirements.txt (Pip requirements to install)
|-- Makefile (A makefile could be used to automate tests and setup)
|-- .gitignore (files being ignored by git)

Running

• Open the root as workspace folder and run python3 -m anaconda or py -m anaconda (depends on your path).
• Setup and run with make setup to install dependencies and make run to run the script
• Can't run this with the debug button i think. Learn some commands like ctrl + ~

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Notes

• Makefile uses Make. You can install that with choco install make while having Chocolatery installed. Or skip it all together..
• Opened up threads cant be closed with ctrl+c. If it chrases use your task manager. Should use a global variable for stopping it (like we are doing in this example) or change to classes with a function that raises an exeption
• the __main__.py in anaconda/ is there so we can run the module with python3 -m anaconda
• This project doesnt use any pip dependencies, but its there as an example
• It might be better to thread a whole Class instead of a method (function)

Resources

• More about multithreading
• python3 import system
• Best python guide ever

Author

BahbV bob@bahbv.net