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     2 ztfy.utils package

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     7 What is ztfy.utils ?

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    10 ztfy.utils is a set of classes and functions which can be used to handle many small operations.

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    12 Internal sub-packages include :

    13  - date : convert dates to unicode ISO format, parse ISO datetime, convert date to datetime

    14  - request : get current request, get request annotations, get and set request data via annotations

    15  - security : get unproxied value of a given object ; can be applied to lists or dicts

    16  - timezone : convert datetime to a given timezone ; provides a server default timezone utility

    17  - traversing : get object parents until a given interface is implemented

    18  - unicode : convert any text to unicode for easy storage

    19  - protocol : utility functions and modules for several nerwork protocols

    20  - catalog : TextIndexNG index for Zope catalog and hurry.query "Text" query item

    21  - text : simple text operations and text to HTML conversion

    22  - html : HTML parser and HTML to text converter

    23  - file : file upload data converter

    24  - tal : text and HTML conversions for use from within TAL

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    27 How to use ztfy.utils ?

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    30 A set of ztfy.utils usage are given as doctests in ztfy/utils/doctests/README.txt