itools

It offers tools for workflow management, ODF files, CSVs, virtual file systems, i18n, and templating possibilities.

Features:

• The simple workflow engine (itools.workflow) that uses automatons to represent a workflow system, is the oldest and probably the most widely used itools module. It provides you a simple solution to solve your workflow needs.
• The pure Python index and search engine (itools.catalog): full text indexing, boolean, phrase and range searches. Simple to use and to deploy, best fit for the small to medium size applications.
• Load CSV file and use them as a persistant layer with a rich API, automatic indexing, stored procedures and powerful search features
• Language negotiation, text segmentation, fuzzy matching, language guessing, support for the GNU gettext tools, automatic extraction of translatable messages from (X)HTML documents. These and other features make of itools a must-have in the toolbox of the international Python developer.
• A XML compact and confortable parsing API, and a XML namespaces to define schemas. It is used to deserialize values and build high-level data structures.
• The combination of itools.uri with itools.vfs provides a Virtual File System, an abstraction layer over file resources, may they be stored in the local file system, in a remote web server, or anywhere else.
• XML, (X)HTML, CSV, PO/MO (from GNU Gettext), iCalendar (RFC2445), RSS 2.0, TMX, XLIFF.