stevedore/announce.rst

stevedore 0.8

stevedore release python

What is stevedore?

Python makes loading code dynamically easy, allowing you to configure and extend your application by discovering and loading extensions ("plugins") at runtime. Many applications implement their own library for doing this, using __import__ or importlib. stevedore avoids creating yet another extension mechanism by building on top of setuptools entry points. The code for managing entry points tends to be repetitive, though, so stevedore provides manager classes for implementing common patterns for using dynamically loaded extensions.

What's New?

• Ignore AssertionError exceptions generated when plugins are loaded.
• Update NamedExtensionManager to check the name of a plugin before loading its code to avoid importing anything we are not going to use.

Installing

Visit the stevedore project page for download links and installation instructions.