Asset module

In the process of transitioning to the concept of an “asset” for use within the project module.

class vsuite.asset.Asset(name, relpath, file_expression, project_path, data_dir='.vsuite')

Represent a category of vsuite assets

Parameters:

• name (str) – name of the asset (e.g. “bibliographies”)
• relpath (str) – path to assset directory relative to project_path
• file_expression (str) – expression to match asset files, parsed by glob.glob
• project_path (str) – path to project or other reference directory
• data_dir (str) – directory within project_path to hold data files (.vsuite, leave unless you know what you’re doing)

abspath()

Get absolute path to asset

Parameters:project_path (str) – absolute path to project Returns:absolute path to asset Return type:str

abspaths()

Paths of available assets

Get absolute paths of asset files in first level of asset directory

Returns:file paths Return type:tuple

copy_to(dest_asset)

Copy asset files from self to another asset

Parameters:dest_asset (vsuite.asset.Asset) – asset to receive files

files()

Available asset files

Get asset filenames in first level of asset directory

Returns:asset filenames Return type:tuple

print_files()

Print asset files, newline delimitedfile names

relpath_pwd()

Get path to asset relative to current directory

Parameters:project_dir (str) – absolute path to project directory Returns:relative path to asset Return type:str