ijson VS Gooey

> JSON’s design assumes the user can read the entire file into memory

No? The design of most JSON libraries assumes that, but there are perfectly good incremental JSON parsers out there[1–3]. It’s just that people don’t seem to have figured out a good API for not-completely-incremental parsing (please prove me wrong here!), but this applies equally to any structured data format as soon as you want to pull out pieces of data that are nested more than one level down.

The lack of length prefixes in JSON does indeed make a solid parser somewhat more difficult, but you get the ability to author and validate it manually instead. All in all a draw and not because of the incremental parsing thing.

(Tabular or otherwise homogeneous data is indeed reprsented wastefully, but unless the individual records are huge json+gzip is a perfectly serviceable “worse-is-better” solution.)

[1] https://github.com/ICRAR/ijson

[2] https://github.com/AMDmi3/jsonslicer

[3] https://github.com/danielyule/naya

The name conflicts with a similar python module that allows one to turn any Python console program into a GUI with one line.

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

Hey! Cool project! I have a question: why do you dump out sys.argv to a local file in the CWD? [0] tmp.txt is hardly a unique name… or am I missing something and this never triggers?

[0] https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey/blob/be4b11b8f27f500e732...

This might be of interest to you:

> Gooey - Turn (almost) any Python 3 Console Program into a GUI application with one line

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

I love gooey: https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

It allows me to quickly slap a GUI on an existing script that accepts command-line-arguments. In the end, I get the best of both world: Discoverability from the GUI, automation through the script, and automatic feature parity between the two.

Downside: Control over the GUI layout is basic, and only "standard" GUI features work, but I never felt limited when using it.

similar for local/individual usage:

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey - take a python-CLI, make a TK-windows

and then probably even simple dashboarding like streamlit.

Like Gooey?

As for how I'd handle it, I would probably combine both into one command-line program, with all filepaths using pathlib and letting argparse handle the options. That way you could optionally generate a GUI with gooey with little extra effort, although this would also add a dependency.