Welcome to py’s documentation!

see CHANGELOG for latest changes.

Note

Since version 1.4, the testing tool “py.test” is part of its own pytest distribution.

Contents:

• installation info in a nutshell
  • easy install or pip py
  • Working from version control or a tarball
  • activating a checkout with setuptools
  • Mailing list and issue tracker
• py.path
  • py.test.local - local file system path
    • basic interactive example
    • reference documentation
  • py.path.svnurl and py.path.svnwc
    • svn path related API reference
  • Common vs. specific API, Examples
    • Searching .txt files
    • Working with Paths
    • Checking path types
    • Setting svn-properties
    • SVN authentication
  • Known problems / limitations
• py.code: higher level python code and introspection objects
  • Contents of the library
  • The wrappers
    • py.code.Code
    • py.code.Source
    • py.code.Traceback
    • py.code.Frame
    • py.code.ExceptionInfo
• py.io
  • IO Capturing examples
    • py.io.StdCapture
    • py.io.StdCaptureFD
  • py.io object reference
• py.log documentation and musings
  • Foreword
  • Logging organisation
  • Using the py.log library
    • Importing
    • Creating a producer
    • Creating a consumer
    • Associating producers and consumers
    • Writing log messages
• py.xml: simple pythonic xml/html file generation
  • Motivation
  • a pythonic object model , please
    • generating arbitrary xml structures
    • basic example for generating html
    • CSS-styling your html Tags
    • More to come ...
• Miscellaneous features of the py lib
  • Mapping the standard python library into py
  • Support for interaction with system utilities/binaries
    • The shell based approach
    • local paths have sysexec
    • finding an executable local path
  • Cross-Python Version compatibility helpers

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page