contextualize is a package to quickly retrieve and format file contents for use with LLMs.

You can install the package using pip:

pip install contextualize

or pipx for using the CLI globally:

pipx install contextualize

Define FileReference objects for specified file paths and optional ranges.

• set range to a tuple of line numbers to include only a portion of the file, e.g. range=(1, 10)
• set format to "md" (default) or "xml" to wrap file contents in Markdown code blocks or <file> tags
• set label to "relative" (default), "name", or "ext" to determine what label is affixed to the enclosing Markdown/XML string
  • "relative" will use the relative path from the current working directory
  • "name" will use the file name only
  • "ext" will use the file extension only

Retrieve wrapped contents from the output attribute.

A CLI (cli.py) is provided to print file contents to the console from the command line.

• cat: Prepare and concatenate file references
  • paths: Positional arguments for target file(s) or directories
  • --ignore: File(s) to ignore (optional)
  • --format: Output format (md or xml, default is md)
  • --label: Label style (relative for relative file path, name for file name only, ext for file extension only; default is relative)
  • --output: Output target (console (default), clipboard)
  • --output-file: Output file path (optional, compatible with --output clipboard)
• ls: List token counts
  • paths: Positional arguments for target file(s) or directories
  • --encoding: Encoding to use for tokenization, e.g., cl100k_base (default), p50k_base, r50k_base
  • --model: Model (e.g., gpt-3.5-turbo/gpt-4 (default), text-davinci-003, code-davinci-002) to determine which encoding to use for tokenization. Not used if encoding is provided.

• cat:
  • contextualize cat README.md will print the wrapped contents of README.md to the console with default settings (Markdown format, relative path label).
  • contextualize cat README.md --format xml will print the wrapped contents of README.md to the console with XML format.
  • contextualize cat contextualize/ dev/ README.md --format xml will prepare file references for files in the contextualize/ and dev/ directories and README.md, and print each file's contents (wrapped in corresponding XML tags) to the console.
• ls:
  • contextualize ls README.md will count and print the number of tokens in README.md using the default cl100k_base encoding.
  • contextualize ls contextualize/ --model text-davinci-003 will count and print the number of tokens in each file in the contextualize/ directory using the p50k_base encoding associated with the text-davinci-003 model, then print the total tokens for all processed files.

• lumpenspace/jamall