Glossary

Setuptools

Setuptools builds on Python’s distutils to provide easier building, distribution, and installation of packages.

Interface

An attribute of a model object that determines its type. It is an instance of a zope.interface Interface class.

Zope

The Z Object Publishing Framework. The granddaddy of Python web frameworks.

Virtualenv

An isolated Python environment. Allows you to control which packages are used on a particular project by cloning your main Python. virtualenv was created by Ian Bicking.

pyldap

The pyldap library is used to communicate with LDAP servers.