helper 2.1.0

Development library for quickly writing configurable applications and daemons

Helper
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Helper is a development library for quickly writing configurable applications and daemons.

Platforms Supported
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Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3 on Unix (POSIX) and Windows (in process) platforms.

Dependencies
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*General*

- pyyaml
- argparse (Python 2.6 only)
- logutils (Python 2.6 only)

*Testing*

- mock
- unittest2 (Python 2.6 only)

Documentation
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Documentation is available at http://helper.readthedocs.org

Installation
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helper is available as a package from pypi.python.org for development purposes.
Normally, helper would be installed as a dependency from another application or
package.

History
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2.1.0 - Bugfixes: Use pidfile from configuration if specified, don't show warning about not having a logger in helper.unix if no logger is defined, config obj default/value assignment methodology
2.0.2 - Fix a bug where wake_interval default was not used if wake_interval was not provided in the config. Make logging config an overlay of the default logging config.
2.0.1 - setup.py bugfix
2.0.0 - clihelper renamed to helper with major refactoring, Windows support still
a work in progress.