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Kern (kern-comm-lib) is an open-source collection of Python code designed to augment the Python standard library. It provides robust, exception-free Python utilities for building reliable applications and features modern error handling with Status and StatusOr to eliminate runtime surprises.

Features ✨

  • Exception-Free modules: Predictable error handling without try/except sprawl.
  • Status & StatusOr: Modern result types for explicit success/failure handling.
  • Thread-safe logging: Log messages with thread safety and flexibility.

Installation ⚙️

pip install kern-comm-lib

Design Philosophy 🧠

The core idea of Kern is to provide an exception-free alternative to common standard libraries of Python. Kern is divided into two major parts: (1) the base package and (2) other high-level packages (e.g. filesystem). The base package is the standard every other high-level package uses. For example, the base package contains the log and status package which should be used in a high-level package like filesystem that wraps filesystem functions of the standard library in an exception-free way. Therefore, the high-level packages are consumers of the base package and should it import like any other user with import kern_comm_lib as kern.

Contributing 🤝

Contributions are welcome! Be aware that this project uses ruff as a linter pyink as a formatter, and pyright as a type checker.

License 📜

BSD-3 Clause. See LICENSE.

Engineered for reliability.