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conditional(condition, contextmanager) Enter contextmanager only if condition is true.
The conditional
context manager comes handy when you always want to
execute a with-block but only conditionally want to apply its context
manager.
If you find yourself writing code like this:
.. code-block:: python
if CONDITION:
with CONTEXTMANAGER():
BODY()
else:
BODY()
Consider replacing it with:
.. code-block:: python
with conditional(CONDITION, CONTEXTMANAGER()):
BODY()
conditional
supports asynchronous context managers:
.. code-block:: python
async with conditional(CONDITION, ASYNCCONTEXTMANAGER()):
BODY()
The package ships with type annotations. Type checkers and IDEs can use this information to implement type safety and auto completion.
Say we want to ignore signals when a pager application is in the foreground, but not otherwise:
.. code-block:: python
from conditional import conditional
with conditional(has_pager(cmd), ignoresignals()):
os.system(cmd)
For further details please refer to the API Documentation
_.
.. _API Documentation
: https://conditional.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Support asynchronous context managers. Thanks to Dawid Wolski. [stefan]
Require Python >= 3.5. [stefan]
Add type annotations to the context manager. [stefan]
Update tox.ini for latest tox. [stefan]
Add GitHub CI workflow. [stefan]
Add .readthedocs.yaml file. [stefan]
Pin sphinx and sphinx-rtd-theme versions in docs extra. [stefan]
Add mypy extra which installs mypy. [stefan]
Add Python 3.8-3.10 to tox.ini. Remove old Python versions. [stefan]
Replace deprecated python setup.py test
in tox.ini.
[stefan]
Remove deprecated test_suite
and tests_require
from setup.py.
[stefan]
Move metadata to setup.cfg and add a pyproject.toml file. [stefan]
Include tests in sdist but not in wheel. [stefan]
Add MANIFEST.in. [stefan]
Release as wheel. [stefan]
Support Python 2.6-3.6 without 2to3. [stefan]
Add a LICENSE file. [stefan]
FAQs
Conditionally enter a context manager
We found that conditional demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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