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Libkosokoso -- simple tagging with sqlalchemy.
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Libkosokoso provides compact and table-stingy tags to
sqlalchemy-backed objects.
Usage
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::
import libkosokoso as kk
class Foo(kk.Taggable):
__tablename__ = 'foos'
a = Foo()
a.tags.append('tag1')
a.tags.extend(['tag2', 'tag3'])
and so forth.
It's also possible to add kk.Tag objects directly to the tags
property, but they'll be treated as strings. To access the tag
objects, do something like::
return [ta.tag_obj for ta in a.kk_tag_associations]
This will bypass the association proxy and return a list of Tag
objects.
Design considerations
---------------------
My basic reasoning was that at some point I'd have to go and muck
about in the database by hand, and I wanted a structure that was easy
to perceive and modify.
I explicitly did not aim for efficiency. The underlying code is
object-happy and probably extremely inefficient.
Why is it called that?
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"kosokoso" is Japanese onomatopoeia for sneaking or whispering
secretly. I picked the name because tags always feel like a kind of
buzzing side channel to me.
(Originally, it was "guzuguzu", which is, like, slow. This took me
way longer to write than I was expecting.)