Conditions

Conditions are used to determine if a task should run or not. They can be chained together with logical operators to create complex conditions.

Logical operators:

• & for AND

• | for OR

• ~ for NOT

• ^ for XOR

from quickie import task, conditions

@task(condition[conditions.FirstRun() & conditions.PathsExist("file1", "file2"))
def some_task():
    print("This task will run only the first time and if both files exist.")

You can use built-in conditions from quickie.conditions or create your own by subclassing quickie.conditions.base.BaseCondition and implementing the quickie.conditions.base.BaseCondition.__call__() method, which should return True if the condition passes, False otherwise. Additionally the quickie.conditions.base.BaseCondition.__call__() must accept the task as an argument, and the arguments passed to the task.

You can also use the quickie.conditions.condition() decorator to create a condition from a function.

Builtin conditions:

• quickie.conditions.All - Accepts other conditions and returns True if all of them pass. This is a shortcut for using the & operator.

• quickie.conditions.FirstRun - Returns True if the task has not been run before. Optionally checks if it has been run with the same arguments.

• quickie.conditions.FilesModified - Returns True if any of the files have been modified since the last run. Accepts folder, and excluding files.

• quickie.conditions.PathsExist - Returns True if all the paths exist.