Helper is a development library for quickly writing configurable applications and daemons.

Python 2.6+, 3.2+ on Unix (POSIX) and Windows (in process) platforms.

General

• pyyaml
• argparse (Python 2.6 only)
• logutils (Python 2.6 only)

Testing

• mock
• unittest2 (Python 2.6 only)

Documentation is available at http://helper.readthedocs.org

helper is available as a package from pypi.python.org for development purposes. Normally, helper would be installed as a dependency from another application or package.

• 2.4.2 - 2015-11-04 - Allow for 'root' section in logging config

  • Import reduce from functools to suport Python 3

• 2.4.1 - 2013-03-14 - Fix fchmod literal call in Python 3

• 2.4.0 - Better startup exception reporting, improved pidfile ownership

  handling, new run_helper command

• 2.3.0 - umask fix
• 2.2.2 - Minor setup.py fix for README.rst
• 2.2.2 - Minor MANIFEST.in fix for README.rst
• 2.2.1 - Minor setup.py fix for version number.

• 2.2.0 - Add new attribute to describe operating system and environment to

  Controller and helper.unix, helper.windows.

• 2.1.1 - Bugfix for dealing with stale pids

• 2.1.0 - Bugfixes: Use pidfile from configuration if specified, don't show

  warning about not having a logger in helper.unix if no logger is defined, config obj default/value assignment methodology

• 2.0.2 - Fix a bug where wake_interval default was not used if wake_interval

  was not provided in the config. Make logging config an overlay of the default logging config.

• 2.0.1 - setup.py bugfix

• 2.0.0 - clihelper renamed to helper with major refactoring, Windows support

  still a work in progress.