empty key value

[acepelon]

Hi,

I apologize for my ignorance, but as I was trying this out, I discovered that when I do a remove, it removes the value but leaves the key:

notes.metadata.remove(k="tags",l="type/book",meta_type=MetadataType.INLINE)

for example leaves me with:
tags ::

I imagine I am just missing it, but I see this in the YT video as well. Is there an option to remove both key and value? I can run a sed like
sed '/:: *$/d' The\ Listening\ Book\ -\ by\ W.A.\ Mathieu.md
after the fact to remove it, but it seems like maybe removing the key if it has an empty value could be an option also? Would then potentially relate to #13 as well.

Thanks!
ACE

[selimrbd]

Hello @acepelon , you can use remove_empty() (documentation link). Although this method is only accessible through the Note API, not the Notes one (yet). So you'd have to do somehting like:

for note in notes:
    note.metadata.remove_empty()

Let me know if it does the job

[acepelon]

Thank you for the quick response.

I apologize for my lack of python, but it tells me notes isn't iterable.

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[snip]

notes.write()
for note in notes:
note.metadata.remove_empty()`

yielded:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/acepelon/git/example-vault/test-pomd-add-remove-metadata.py", line 14, in <module> for note in notes: TypeError: 'Notes' object is not iterable

[selimrbd]

If you update pyomd to the latest version (>= 0.7) this should be solved. Otherwise you can do:

for note in notes.notes:
    ...

[acepelon]

Thank you for your patience. I didn't see a recent update to py-obsidianmd in git:

example-vault>>git pull;git log
Already up to date.
commit 19e948140ff68d81312bc7dd05eb75ec53fc6a16 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: Selim Raboudi <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 28 12:48:41 2022 +0100

Update README.md

and I show the latest version of py-obsidianmd as:
py-obsidianmd 0.1.7

but regardless, your advice like this works great. I appreciate it!

from pyomd import Notes
from pyomd import Note
from pyomd.metadata import MetadataType
from pathlib import Path
path = Path('~/example-vault/media')
notes = Notes(path)
for note in notes.notes:
   note.metadata.remove_empty()
notes.update_content(inline_inplace=False, inline_position="top",inline_tml="callout")
notes.write()