This module contains some common utilities used across RapidSMS (applications).

Uganda Common reuses code that can be found in. Include the following on your python/django PATH - rapidsms (mostly needed for custom template tags, this lets you have on-the-fly features such as tabs) - dango-eav - rapidsms-generic (common UI elements in the RapidSMS framework e.g. time slider, map renderer, and lots of others)

• templates (a directory)
• cache_manager.py
• context_processors.py
• forms.py
• reports.py
• utils.py

Using Uganda common, the following functions can be re-used across your project. This is a piece by piece teardown analysis of rapidsms-uganda-common and what you can do with it.

The cache_manager.py

The forms.py module currently has a class that creates a DateRange form.

The reports.py module has utilities that

The utils.py python module has the following awesomeness:

* basic datetime computation with functions that will allow you to calendar related output from python objects (such as model instances), they include:

• previous calendar week
• previous calendar month
• and a number of others (please use the help() function to learn more about the modules, some inline documentation has

been added)