a patch function to extract patch's name

[ahmadtourei]

It would be nice to implement a function that can quickly report patch's name (without file extension) in directory spools. I currently use the following code to get patch's name:

import dascore as dc

mem_sp = dc.examples.random_spool()
dir_sp = dc.examples.spool_to_directory(mem_sp)
dir_sp = dc.spool(dir_sp)

# extract the second patch's name
patch_name = os.path.basename(os.path.splitext(list(dir_sp.get_contents()["path"])[1])[0])
print(patch_name)

@d-chambers what do you think?

[d-chambers]

This might be a little cleaner:

from pathlib import Path

Path(dir_sp.get_contents()['path'][0]).name

Or if you want all of them:

contents = dir_sp.get_contents()
name_series = contents['path'].str.split('.', expand=True)[0]

What would the API of the function look like?

[ahmadtourei]

Yep that's easier. But to avoid file extension, we need to use splitext:

os.path.splitext(Path(dir_sp.get_contents()['path'][1]).name)[0]

Could it be a utility patch function in dascore.utils.patch with file_format argument? Something like patch.name(file_format=False)

[d-chambers]

closed by #471