Module Hierarchy

• fileutils: Some file / file path manipulation utilities.
• modutils: Python modules manipulation utility functions.
• textutils: Some text manipulation utility functions.

Class Hierarchy

• __builtin__.object: The most base type
  • __builtin__.file: file(name[, mode[, buffering]]) -> file object
    • logilab.common.fileutils.ProtectedFile: a special file-object class that automatically that automatically does a 'chmod +w' when needed
  • __builtin__.type: type(object) -> the object's type type(name, bases, dict) -> a new type
• exceptions.Exception: Common base class for all exceptions.
  • logilab.common.modutils.NoSourceFile: exception raised when we are not able to get a python source file for a precompiled file
  • logilab.common.fileutils.UnresolvableError: exception raised by relative path when it's unable to compute relative path between two paths