pyzenkit 0.38

Python 3 script and daemon toolkit

PyZenKit - README
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.. warning::

Although production code is based on this library, it should still be considered
as work in progress.


Introduction
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This package contains collection of usefull tools and utilities for creating
console applications, scripts and system services (daemons) in Python 3. It
provides easily extendable and customizable base implementations of generic
application, script or daemon and which take care of many common issues and
tasks like configuration loading and merging, command line argument parsing,
logging setup, etc.

The extensive documentation and tutorials is still under development, however
usage examples and demonstration applications are provided right in the source
code of appropriate module. Just execute the module with Python3 interpretter
to see the demonstration::

python3 path/to/application.py --help


Features
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Currently the package contains following features:

:py:mod:`pyzenkit.jsonconf`
Module for handling JSON based configuration files and directories.

:py:mod:`pyzenkit.daemonizer`
Module for taking care of all process daemonization tasks.

:py:mod:`pyzenkit.baseapp`
Module for writing generic console applications.

:py:mod:`pyzenkit.zenscript`
Module for writing generic console scripts with built-in support for repeated
executions (for example by cron-like service).

:py:mod:`pyzenkit.zendaemon`
Module for writing generic system services (daemons).


Copyright
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| Copyright (C) since 2016 CESNET, z.s.p.o (http://www.ces.net/)
| Copyright (C) since 2015 Jan Mach <[e-mail]>
| Use of this package is governed by the MIT license, see LICENSE file.
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| This project was initially written for personal use of the original author. Later
| it was developed much further and used for project of author`s employer.