""" Helper functions to be used throughout the code base """
[docs]def listify(arg) -> list:
"""Converts the argument to a list if possible.
If it is not iterable (i.e. one item), wrap it in a list.
Treat strings as 1 item.
:param arg: item(s) to be wrapped in list
:return: List of the file arg(s)"""
if isinstance(arg, str):
return [arg]
try:
return list(arg)
except TypeError:
return [arg]
[docs]def get_file_name(path):
"""Finds and returns the file name from the path
:param path: A directory to the idf file
:return: String of file name
"""
path = str(path).replace("\\", "/")
if path.endswith("/"):
path = path[:-2]
file_name = path.split("/")[-1]
return file_name