This is a Python-based system designed to manage a library's books, clients, and rentals. It features functionalities such as adding, removing, updating, listing clients and books, renting and returning books, searching, generating statistics, and unlimited undo/redo operations.
- Manage Clients and Books: Add, remove, update, and list clients and books.
- Rent and Return Books: Handle the rental process of available books and their return.
- Search Functionality: Perform case-insensitive, partial string searches on clients or books.
- Statistics Generation: Generate statistics on the most rented books, most active clients, and most rented authors.
- Undo/Redo Operations: Unlimited undo/redo functionality with a memory-efficient implementation.
- Persistent Storage: Supports in-memory, text-file, and binary file repositories.
The application utilizes file-based repositories for persistence. It can be configured to use either in-memory repositories, text-file repositories, or binary file repositories via the settings.properties file.
The application includes a reusable Python module with an iterable data structure, a unique sorting algorithm, and a filter method. This module is accompanied by comprehensive PyUnit tests ensuring 100% coverage.
- Python 3.11
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Clone the repository.
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Configure the application using the
settings.propertiesfile.
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Run the
main.pyfile havingsrcas the working directory. -
Follow the on-screen prompts to manage the library.
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.