The firebird-base package provides common Python 3 modules used by Firebird Project in various development projects. However, these modules have general applicability outside the scope of development for Firebird ® RDBMS.
Topic covered by firebird-base package:
- General data types like singletons, sentinels and objects with identity.
- Unified system for data conversion from/to string.
- DataList and Registry collection types with advanced data-processing cappabilities.
- Work with structured binary buffers.
- Global registry of Google protobuf messages and enumerations.
- Extended configuration system based on ConfigParser.
- Context-based logging.
- Trace/audit for class instances.
- General "hook" mechanism.
