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.. include:: ../README.rst

Changelog
---------

:ref:`changelog_doc`

Provided modules
----------------

Here is a brief description of the available modules.

Modules providing high-level features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* :ref:`cache <cache>`, a cache implementation with a least recently used algorithm.

* :ref:`changelog <changelog>`, a tiny library to manipulate our simplified ChangeLog file format.

* :ref:`clcommands <clcommands>`, high-level classes to define command line programs handling
  different subcommands. It is based on `configuration` to get easy command line
  / configuration file handling.

* :ref:`configuration <configuration>`, some classes to handle unified configuration from both
  command line (using optparse) and configuration file (using ConfigParser).

* :ref:`proc <proc>`, interface to Linux /proc.

* :ref:`umessage <umessage>`, unicode email support.

* :ref:`ureports <ureports>`, micro-reports, a way to create simple reports using python objects
  without care of the final formatting. ReST and html formatters are provided.


Modules providing low-level functions and structures
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* :ref:`compat <compat>`, provides a transparent compatibility layer between different python
  versions.

* :ref:`date <date>`, a set of date manipulation functions.

* :ref:`daemon <daemon>`, a daemon function and mix-in class to properly start an Unix daemon
  process.

* :ref:`decorators <decorators>`, function decorators such as cached, timed...

* :ref:`deprecation <deprecation>`, decorator, metaclass & all to mark functions / classes as
  deprecated or moved

* :ref:`fileutils <fileutils>`, some file / file path manipulation utilities.

* :ref:`graph <graph>`, graph manipulations functions such as cycle detection, bases for dot
  file generation.

* :ref:`modutils <modutils>`, python module manipulation functions.

* :ref:`shellutils <shellutils>`, some powerful shell like functions to replace shell scripts with
  python scripts.

* :ref:`tasksqueue <tasksqueue>`, a prioritized tasks queue implementation.

* :ref:`textutils <textutils>`, some text manipulation functions (ansi colorization, line wrapping,
  rest support...).

* :ref:`tree <tree>`, base class to represent tree structure, and some others to make it
  works with the visitor implementation (see below).

* :ref:`visitor <visitor>`, a generic visitor pattern implementation.


Modules extending some standard modules
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* :ref:`debugger <debugger>`,  `pdb` customization.

* :ref:`logging_ext <logging_ext>`, extensions to `logging` module such as a colorized formatter
  and an easier initialization function.

* :ref:`optik_ext <optik_ext>`, defines some new option types (regexp, csv, color, date, etc.)
  for `optik` / `optparse`


Modules extending some external modules
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* :ref:`sphinx_ext <sphinx_ext>`, Sphinx_ plugin defining a `autodocstring` directive.

* :ref:`vcgutils <vcgutils>` , utilities functions to generate file readable with Georg Sander's
  vcg tool (Visualization of Compiler Graphs).


To be deprecated modules
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Those `logilab.common` modules will much probably be deprecated in future
versions:

* `testlib`: use `unittest2`_ instead
* `interface`: use `zope.interface`_ if you really want this
* `table`, `xmlutils`: is that used?
* `sphinxutils`: we won't go that way imo (i == syt)


.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
.. _`unittest2`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2
.. _`discover`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/discover
.. _`zope.interface`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.interface

Reference
=========

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Contents:

   logilab.common
   logilab.common.ureports


Indices and tables
==================

* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`