Py-apptools

Enthought application tools

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.