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kazoo
=====
Kazoo is a Python library designed to make working with :term:`Zookeeper` a
more hassle-free experience that is less prone to errors.
Kazoo features:
* Support for gevent 0.13 and gevent 1.0b
* Unified asynchronous API for use with greenlets or threads
* Lock, Party, Election, and Partitioner recipe implementations (more
implementations are in development)
* Data and Children Watchers
* Integrated testing helpers for Zookeeper clusters
* Simplified Zookeeper connection state tracking
* Pure-Python based implementation of the wire protocol, avoiding all the
memory leaks, lacking features, and debugging madness of the C library
Kazoo is heavily inspired by `Netflix Curator`_ simplifications and helpers.
.. note::
You should be familiar with Zookeeper and have read the `Zookeeper
Programmers Guide`_ before using `kazoo`.
Reference Docs
==============
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
install
basic_usage
async_usage
implementation
testing
api
Changelog <changelog>
Why
===
Using :term:`Zookeeper` in a safe manner can be difficult due to the variety of
edge-cases in :term:`Zookeeper` and other bugs that have been present in the
Python C binding. Due to how the C library utilizes a separate C thread for
:term:`Zookeeper` communication some libraries like `gevent`_ also don't work
properly by default.
By utilizing a pure Python implementation, Kazoo handles all of these
cases and provides a new asynchronous API which is consistent when
using threads or `gevent`_ greenlets.
Source Code
===========
All source code is available on `github under kazoo <https://github.com/python-
zk/kazoo>`_.
Bugs/Support
============
Bugs and support issues should be reported on the `kazoo github issue tracker
<https://github.com/python-zk/kazoo/issues>`_.
The developers of ``kazoo`` can frequently be found on the Freenode IRC
network in the #zookeeper channel.
Indices and tables
==================
* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`glossary`
.. toctree::
:hidden:
glossary
License
=======
``kazoo`` is offered under the Apache License 2.0.
Authors
=======
``kazoo`` started under the `Nimbus Project`_ and through collaboration with
the open-source community has been merged with code from `Mozilla`_ and the
`Zope Corporation`_.
.. _Apache Zookeeper: http://zookeeper.apache.org/
.. _Zookeeper Programmers Guide: http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperProgrammers.html
.. _Zookeeper Recipes: http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/current/recipes.html#sc_recoverableSharedLocks
.. _Nimbus Project: http://www.nimbusproject.org/
.. _Zope Corporation: http://zope.com/
.. _Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/
.. _Netflix Curator: https://github.com/Netflix/curator
.. _gevent: http://gevent.org/