pyzenkit 0.61

Python 3 script and daemon toolkit

Warning

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

Introduction

This package contains collection of usefull tools and utilities and framework 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

Framework features

Currently the framework package contains following features:

pyzenkit.jsonconf

Module for handling JSON based configuration files and directories.

pyzenkit.daemonizer

Module for taking care of all process daemonization tasks.

pyzenkit.baseapp

Module for writing generic console applications.

pyzenkit.zenscript

Module for writing generic console scripts with built-in support for repeated executions (for example by cron-like service).

pyzenkit.zendaemon

Module for writing generic system services (daemons).

Copyright

Copyright (C) since 2016 CESNET, z.s.p.o (http://www.ces.net/)

Copyright (C) since 2015 Honza Mach <[e-mail]>

Use of this package is governed by the MIT license, see LICENSE file.

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.