Show HN: Wrapping bash calls to rsync in Python

https://pypi.org/project/sysrsync/

by gchamonlive • 8 years ago

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just_myles2• 8 years ago

Anybody having an install issue with python 3.7?

gchamonlive3• 8 years ago

thanks for letting me know.

a subpackage was missing a `__init__.py` which didn't show neither in development nor in running `python setup.py install --user`. I guess I should have experimented with pip, lesson learned!

it should be ok to install now, if you could give it another chance

just_myles2• 8 years ago

Thanks for the update. Installed correctly. Can't wait to try it out.

gchamonlive3• 8 years ago

The motivation behind this package came while I was writing a custom deploy script in python for the company I work. The script had to deal with pulling changes, compiling code but ultimately it had to reliably deploy code remotely. A small bug caused near catastrophic damage when I mistakenly synched a config directory instead of its content, because of this an outdated database that was mistakenly still operational was used and we lost a couple of days migrating several hours worth of changes to the correct database.

Looking back, it was quick to issue a fix to the script, but the code looked dirty and low level, with many calls to subprocess.run with template strings, all of which were extremely error prone and untestable. I needed therefore a thoroughly tested module to hide and reliably wrap the shell calls to Rsync we were doing and that is why I wrote this package.

I was hoping the community would test it out and leave suggestions as to what could be better implemented, feature ideas as well as test cases I didn't think of.

Thanks beforehand! I hope this package could also come in handy to other people. I would be delighted to know I helped!

Show HN: Wrapping bash calls to rsync in Python

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