baroness 1.1.2

# Baroness

Toolkit for easy searching and manipulation of python source code using redbaron.

## Installation

pip install baroness

See https://pypi.python.org/pypi/baroness

## Usage

### Searching

You can search through python code using the redbaron API on the commandline. By default baroness will search through all python files from the current directory down recursively. The search pattern is just regular python code that would work with redbaron. The top level node is called root.

For example to search for all name nodes with a value of bar:

baroness search ‘root(“name”, value=”bar”)’

search is the default subcommand so you can write the same with:

baroness ‘root(“name”, value=”bar”)’

For full usage look at baroness search –help:

usage: baroness search [-h] [–no-cache] [–parents PARENTS] [–no-color]

[–no-linenos] pattern [files [files …]]

positional arguments:

pattern Python redbaron code to search where root is the

variable holding the tree

files File names and/or glob pattern. Default to recursive

search of python all files.

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--no-cache

Do no use the cache in .baroness even if it exists

--parents PARENTS

Number of parents to go up on matched nodes.

--no-color

Do not color the output.

--no-linenos

Do not output the linenumbers.

### Caching

Parsing python files to a baron fst can be time consuming for large code bases. Baroness can cache the baron fst as json files to save time when searching. By default caching isn’t enabled, but will be used if baroness finds a .baroness directory.

#### Saving/Initialising Cache

To enable caching (and initially create cache) you can use:

baroness cache save

For full usage look at baroness cache save –help:

usage: baroness cache save [-h] [–force] [FILE [FILE …]]

Save given files (all tree) to disk

positional arguments:

FILE Files to save to cache.

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--force

Save over already existing cache files.

#### Clearing the Cache

To delete all .baroness directories recursively use:

baroness cache delete