radical.utils 0.28

Shared code and tools for various RADICAL Projects (http://radical.rutgers.edu/)

Package radical.utils
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This Python package contains shared code and tools for various
[Radical Group](http://radical.rutgers.edu) projects. Sometimes we call it the
Radical Kitchen Sink.

The radical.utils package contains the following things:

* A [URL class](https://github.com/saga-project/radical.utils/blob/master/radical/utils/url.py) (A SAGA-compliant url parser class)
* A [Plugin manager](https://github.com/saga-project/radical.utils/blob/master/radical/utils/plugin_manager.py) (A simple yet flexible plugin manager and loader)
* A [Config parser](https://github.com/saga-project/radical.utils/tree/master/radical/utils/config) (Config file reader writeer parser)
* A [Logger](https://github.com/saga-project/radical.utils/tree/master/radical/utils/logger) (Support for color log output and tracing)
* An [Object cache](https://github.com/saga-project/radical.utils/blob/master/radical/utils/object_cache.py) (Well, an object cache)
* A [Type checking module](https://github.com/saga-project/radical.utils/blob/master/radical/utils/signatures.py) (Type checking for python call signatures)
* A [Singleton metaclass](https://github.com/saga-project/radical.utils/blob/master/radical/utils/singleton.py) (Implements the Sigleton pattern)
* A [Thread wrapper](https://github.com/saga-project/radical.utils/blob/master/radical/utils/threads.py) (A thin convenience wrapper around threading.Thread)
* A [Call tracer](https://github.com/saga-project/radical.utils/blob/master/radical/utils/tracer.py) (Support for call tracing / debugging)
* A ['which' function](https://github.com/saga-project/radical.utils/blob/master/radical/utils/which.py)(Simliar to the 'which' command line tool)

The package should in general be compatible with Python 2.6.



License
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This software is released under the
[MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).


Installation
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You can install the latest radical.utils directly from [PyPi](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/radical.utils/):

pip install --upgrade radical.utils

You can also install the latest development version (which might be broken)
from GitHub directly:

pip install -e git://github.com/saga-project/radical.utils.git#egg=radical.utils

If you want to use radical.utils in your own project, include it in your
`setup.py` file:

'install_requires': ['radical.utils']


Documentation
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You can generate the documentation yourself with [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/)

pip install sphinx
make docs

The resulting documentation will be in `open docs/build/html/index.html`.




- For a list of bug fixes, see
https://github.com/radical-cybertools/radical.utils/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+sort%3Aupdated-desc
- For a list of open issues and known problems, see
https://github.com/radical-cybertools/radical.utils/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+


Version 0.28 release 2015-04-16
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- minimize an unlock/release race
- resilience against missing git in setup.py
- cleaner version string
- sync setup.py with recent changes in RP
- export range collapsing algorithm
- fix documentation
- fix reporting of type checks when multiple types are valid and optional; fix URL init sig
- fix url tests
- install sdist, export sdist location
- tool rename
- add version tool


Version 0.8 release 2015-02-24
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- Preserve case for "hostnames" in GO URIs.
- Allow # in host part of Globus Online URIs.
- preserve trailing slashes on URL paths
- move sources into src/
- fix version strings. again.
- fix id counters to start from 0
- fix comment parsing fix in second json read


Version 0.7.11 release 2014-12-11
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- fixed botched merge from devel


Version 0.7.10 release 2014-12-11
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- fixed lease manager debug output


Version 0.7.9 release 2014-12-02
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- fix to json comment parsing
- att flexible pylint util
- support append / overwrite mode for log targets
- add daemonize class
- fix leaking logs
- reduce lease manager logging noise
- log python version on startup
- add reporter class for nice demo output etc
- add namespace for object_cache, backward compatible
- fix bson/json/timestamp mangling
- json support for json writing


Version 0.7.8 release 2014-10-29
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- implemented lease manager (manage finite set of resources with
finite lifetime over multiple threads)
- implemented DebugHelper class (prints stack traces for all threads
on SIGUSR1
- implement decorator for class method timings
- cache configuration settings on logger creation, which
significantly speeds up logging over different log objects
- remove deepcopy from configuration management (improves
performance)
- add wildcard expanstion on dict_merge
- make pymongo and nose dependencies optional


Version 0.7.7 release 2014-08-27
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- lease manager which handles resource leases (like, leases ssh connections to saga adaptors)
- fixes on deepcopy, logging and config handling


Version 0.7.5 release 2014-07-22
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- Some small bug fixes.


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