itools is a Python library, it groups a number of packages into a single meta-package for easier development and deployment:
itools.abnf itools.i18n itools.stl itools.core itools.ical itools.tmx itools.csv itools.odf itools.uri itools.datatypes itools.pdf itools.vfs itools.gettext itools.pkg itools.web itools.git itools.relaxng itools.workflow itools.handlers itools.rest itools.xapian itools.html itools.rss itools.xliff itools.http itools.srx itools.xml The itools.vfs package has been rewritten to use gio, the virtual file system from the glib project [1]. The web server (itools.web) now uses the glib event loop. Extracting text from office formats is in general much faster. Command line utilities have been replaced by libraries; for instance, now we use 'xlrd' [2] instead of 'xlhtml' [3] to extract text from Excel files. Indexing text is also much faster now that itools.xapian uses the native Xapian [4] tokenizer. Except for Japanese and Chinese, which still use the itools tokenizer. The filesystem database, from itools.handlers, has been much improved: - A read-only mode has been added, implemented by the 'RODatabase' class. - There is a new 'GitDatabase' class that provides atomic transactions and versioning (using Git [5]). - Now there is a limit to the number of file handlers that can be stored in the cache (defaults to five thousands). The code has been re-arranged a little: - The itools.isetup package has been renamed to itools.pkg, and so have been the related scripts: isetup-build.py renamed to ipkg-build.py, etc. - There is a new itools.core package with some basic stuff, the utils.py module at the top level has been removed. - There are three new packages, split from other packages: itools.python from itools.handlers, itools.xmlfile from itools.xml and itools.office from itools.xml The implementation of RML [6] has been removed, now we promote PML instead. See the README file for details on the updated requirements to install itools, and the UPGRADE-0.60.0 file for further details on what has changed. [1] http://www.gtk.org/ [2] http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm [3] http://chicago.sourceforge.net/xlhtml/ [4] http://www.xapian.org [5] http://git-scm.com/ [6] http://www.reportlab.com/docs/RML_UserGuide_1_0.pdf Resources --------- Download http://download.hforge.org/itools/0.60/itools-0.60.0.tar.gz Home http://www.hforge.org/itools/ Mailing list http://www.hforge.org/community/ http://archives.hforge.org/index.cgi?list=itools Bug Tracker http://bugs.hforge.org/ -- J. David Ibáñez Itaapy <http://www.itaapy.com> Tel +33 (0)1 42 23 67 45 9 rue Darwin, 75018 Paris Fax +33 (0)1 53 28 27 88 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
