| Meaning |
{
"name": "Ruffus",
"type": "Python library",
"description": "Ruffus is a lightweight Python library for building computational pipelines. It provides a simple decorator-based syntax to define tasks and their dependencies, handling execution order, parallelism, and job resumption automatically.",
"latest_version": "3.7.1",
"license": "BSD-3-Clause",
"website": "https://ruffus.readthedocs.io",
"github_repository": "https://github.com/curoverse/ruffus",
"install_command": "pip install ruffus",
"primary_features": [
"Decorator-based pipeline definition",
"Automatic dependency resolution",
"Support for parallel execution (multiprocessing, threading)",
"File-based task tracking and checkpointing",
"Easy integration with existing Python code",
"Extensible with custom task types"
],
"supported_python_versions": ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"],
"key_concepts": [
"tasks",
"pipeline",
"dependencies",
"parameterization",
"checkpointing"
],
"example_usage": [
{
"step": "Define a task",
"code": "@ruffus.transform(input='*.txt', output='*.out', filter=ruffus.suffix('.txt'))ndef process(input_file, output_file):n with open(input_file) as fin, open(output_file, 'w') as fout:n for line in fin:n fout.write(line.upper())"
},
{
"step": "Run the pipeline",
"code": "if __name__ == '__main__':n ruffus.run()"
}
]
} |
