This Python package contains shared code and tools for various Radical Group projects. Sometimes we call it the Radical Kitchen Sink.

The radical.utils package contains the following things:

• A URL class (A SAGA-compliant url parser class)
• A Plugin manager (A simple yet flexible plugin manager and loader)
• A Config parser (Config file reader writeer parser)
• A Logger (Support for color log output and tracing)
• An Object cache (Well, an object cache)
• A Type checking module (Type checking for python call signatures)
• A Singleton metaclass (Implements the Sigleton pattern)
• A Thread wrapper (A thin convenience wrapper around threading.Thread)
• A Call tracer (Support for call tracing / debugging)
• A 'which' function(Simliar to the 'which' command line tool)

The package should in general be compatible with Python 2.6.

This software is released under the MIT License.

Parts of the module (radical.utils.atfork) are licensed under the Apache-v2.0 license.

You can install the latest radical.utils directly from PyPi:

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']

You can generate the documentation yourself with Sphinx

pip install sphinx
make docs

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