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Requires Python: >=3.7.1

Classifiers

Development Status

4 - Beta

Intended Audience

Developers

License

OSI Approved :: Apache Software License

Operating System

POSIX
Microsoft :: Windows
MacOS :: MacOS X

Programming Language

Python :: 3
Python :: 3 :: Only
Python :: 3.7
Python :: 3.8
Python :: 3.9
Python :: 3.10
Python :: 3.11

Topic

Software Development :: Libraries
Utilities

EmptyFiles.Python

TL;DR Null Object pattern for files.

Setup
Usage
Null Object Pattern
Attributions

This project will create an empty file of a type requested. If possible, that file will be the smallest valid file for that type. For example, an empty jpg will be a 1x1 pixel jpg.

Setup

From pypi:

pip install empty-files

Usage

This code:

from empty_files.empty_files import create_empty_file
create_empty_file("temp/empty.jpg")

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will create the following image

Null Object Pattern

Issue: null/None causes extra checks in order to avoid errors.

Solution: return an empty version of the object, so methods can be used normally.

Example: if last_name returns "" instead of None,
we can write:

name_length = len(person.last_name())

instead of :

name_length = 0
if (person.last_name())
 name_length = len(person.last_name())

Attributions

The empty files are taken from Simon Cropp's Empty Files.

0.0.1.post2 Oct 24, 2021

0.0.1 Oct 24, 2021

Wheel compatibility matrix

Platform	Python 3
any

Files in release

empty-files-0.0.9.tar.gz (6.7KiB)

empty_files-0.0.9-py3-none-any.whl (7.0KiB)

Extras: None

Dependencies:

requests

empty-files 0.0.9