AppTools

The AppTools project includes a set of packages that Enthought has found useful in creating a number of applications. They implement functionality that is commonly needed by many applications

enthought.appscripting: Framework for scripting applications.

enthought.help: Provides a plugin for displaying documents and examples and running demos in Envisage Workbench applications.

enthought.io: Provides an abstraction for files and folders in a file system.

enthought.naming: Manages naming contexts, supporting non-string data types and scoped preferences.

enthought.permissions: Supports limiting access to parts of an application unless the user is appropriately authorised (not full-blown security).

enthought.persistence: Supports pickling the state of a Python object to a dictionary, which can then be flexibly applied in restoring the state of the object.

enthought.preferences: Manages application preferences.

enthought.resource: Manages application resources such as images and sounds.

enthought.scripting: A framework for automatic recording of Python scripts.

enthought.sweet_pickle: Handles class-level versioning, to support loading of saved data that exist over several generations of internal class structures.

enthought.template: Supports creating templatizable object hierarchies.

enthought.type_manager: Manages type extensions, including factories to generate adapters, and hooks for methods and functions.

enthought.undo: Supports undoing and scripting application commands.

Last updated 5 Aug, 2009

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