Creating modules¶

Creating new modules (“things that display something”) to contribute to i3pystatus is reasonably easy. If the module you want to write updates it’s info periodically, like checking for a network link or displaying the status of some service, then we have prepared common tools for this which make this even easier:

• Common base classes: i3pystatus.core.modules.Module for everything and i3pystatus.core.modules.IntervalModule specifically for the aforementioned usecase of updating stuff periodically.

• Settings (already built into above classes) allow you to easily specify user-modifiable attributes of your class for configuration.

  Required settings and default values are also handled.

Check out i3pystatus’ source code for plenty of (simple) examples on how to build modules.

Also note that the settings system is built to ease documentation. If you specify two-tuples ("setting", "description") description then i3pystatus.mkdocs will automatically generate a nice table listing each option, it’s default value and description.

The docstring of your module class is automatically used as the restructuredtext description for your module in the README file.