devel/py-apptools 5.3.0 DragonFly

The apptools project includes a set of packages that Enthought has found useful in creating a number of applications.

• apptools.appscripting: Framework for scripting applications.
• apptools.help: Provides a plugin for displaying documents and examples.
• apptools.io: Provides an abstraction for files and folders in a file system.
• apptools.logger: Convenience functions for creating logging handlers
• apptools.naming: Manages naming contexts, supporting non-string data types and scoped preferences
• apptools.permissions: Supports limiting access to parts of an application unless the user is appropriately authorised (not full-blown security).
• apptools.persistence: Supports pickling and restoring the state of an object.
• apptools.preferences: Manages application preferences.
• apptools.selection: Manages the communication between providers and listener of selected items in an application.
• apptools.scripting: A framework for automatic recording of Python scripts.
• apptools.sweet_pickle: Handles class-level versioning, to support loading of saved data that exist over several generations of internal class structures.
• apptools.template: Supports creating templatizable object hierarchies.
• apptools.type_manager: Manages type extensions, including factories to generate adapters, and hooks for methods and functions.
• apptools.undo: Supports undoing and scripting application commands.