What is it?

itools is a Python library, it groups a number of packages into a single meta-package for easier development and deployment. The packages included are:

itools.catalog
itools.datatypes
itools.gettext
itools.handlers
itools.html
itools.i18n
itools.ical
itools.resources
itools.rss
itools.schemas
itools.tmx
itools.uri
itools.web
itools.workflow
itools.xhtml
itools.xliff
itools.xml

What's new?

URI

• Add "resolve2" to the URI API (just uses "Path.resolve2" instead of "Path.resolve").
• Fix path comparison (#30).

• Many more unit tests (#30). By Hervé Cauwelier.

  Schemas

• Improve programming interface: register_schema, get_schema, get_schema_by_uri, get_datatype and get_datatype_by_uri.

  Resources

• New method "traverse2" (a more powerful version of "traverse").

• Implement "is_locked" for Zope 2 resources. By Hervé Cauwelier.

  Handlers

• Drop "to_unicode" from the API, now it is only 'to_str'.

  XML

• New parser, a little faster and a little simpler (#52).

  STL

• Improve API, now it is "stl(handler, namespace)".

• Returns a byte string instead of a unicode string.

  XHTML

• Add function "set_template_prefix" to the API, it modifies relative links (useful for example to move a document from one place on a tree to another).

  HTML

• Update parser to be in sync with the XML parser.

  Catalog

• Now it does not check for callable fields.

• Keyword fields correctly index frozenset objects.

  Web

• Use HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST (instead of our own REAL_HOST).
• Deserialize and serialize cookies (uses itools.schemas).
• Add "context.redirect" to the API. To be used instead of the lower level "response.redirect". It makes sure redirects are absolute (#62).
• Add "context.has_cookie" to the API.
• Fix PUT, LOCK and UNLOCK for Zope 2.

• Add the response header fields 'Date', 'Connection' and 'Server'.

  Documentation

• Update chapter about STL.

  Packaging

• New "setup.py" script optimized for Python 2.4 (#105). By Hervé Cauwelier.

Links

• Download and Documentation, http://www.ikaaro.org/itools
• Mailing list, http://in-girum.net/mailman/listinfo/ikaaro
• Bug Tracker, http://in-girum.net/cgi-bin/bugzilla/index.cgi

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