pombredanne/iris

A general-purpose library for Python

Iris

A general-purpose library for Python

Iris is a general-purpose, object-oriented and open source library for Python 3.

Modules

All the modules reside within the iris package and subpackages.

The most interesting ones are perhaps:

• iris.ioc, featuring a simple IoC container, that supports transient and singleton objects out of the box and can be extended via OOP by introducing new registration kinds

• iris.versioning, introducing a Version class and a VersionDirectory, that, for example, can return the file having the latest version in a directory

• iris.maven, dealing with MavenArtifact (which describes the Maven properties of an artifact) and MavenRepository, to query a Maven repository using the concepts introduced in the versioning module

• iris.rendering abstracts the templating process by providing a Model class that can be easily reused with different rendering technologies

• iris.vars enables developers to create boolean variables (instances of Flag) whose value depends on the existence of underlying files - which can be useful in some situations where multiple technologies are involved

• iris.io.utils, formerly called iris.io, contains generic I/O utilities iris.io.tree defines objects for operating on file trees

What’s new in version 2

• Full Python 3 support. Python 2 is no more supported
• a few utility scripts are provided
• iris.strings has been removed, in favor of Python 3’s string handling
• iris.web has been removed. WebPath can be replaced by Python’s Path class