Logilab-common is a collection of low-level python packages and modules, a designed to ease:

* handling command line options and configuration files
* writing interactive command line tools
* manipulation files and character strings
* interfacing to omniorb
* generating sql queries
* running unit tests
* manipulating tree structures
* accessing rdbms (currently postgresql, mysql and sqlite)
* generating text and html reports
* logging
* parsing xml processing instructions