helper 2.4.2

Development library for quickly writing configurable applications and daemons

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

Platforms Supported

Python 2.6+, 3.2+ on Unix (POSIX) and Windows (in process) platforms.

Dependencies

General

• pyyaml

• argparse (Python 2.6 only)

• logutils (Python 2.6 only)

Testing

• mock

• unittest2 (Python 2.6 only)

Documentation

Documentation is available at https://helper.readthedocs.io

Installation

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

• 2.4.2 - 2016-11-07

  • Allow for ‘root’ section in logging config

  • Import reduce from functools to suport Python 3

• 2.4.1 - 2013-03-14

  • Fix fchmod literal call in Python 3

• 2.4.0

  • Better startup exception reporting, improved pidfile ownership handling, new run_helper command

• 2.3.0

  • umask fix

• 2.2.2

  • Minor setup.py fix for README.rst

• 2.2.2

  • Minor MANIFEST.in fix for README.rst

• 2.2.1

  • Minor setup.py fix for version number.

• 2.2.0

  • Add new attribute to describe operating system and environment to Controller and helper.unix, helper.windows.

• 2.1.1

  • Bugfix for dealing with stale pids

• 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.