Glossary

Active Directory

A non-standards-conformant LDAP server implementation sold by Microsoft.

python-ldap

The python-ldap library is used to communicate with LDAP servers.

Sphinx

The documentation for this package is maintained using Sphinx, a tool to create documentation in many formats based on reStructuredText files.

virtual environment

The Python venv module is used to create lightweight “virtual environments”, each with their own independent set of Python packages installed in their site directories. A virtual environment is created on top of an existing Python installation, known as the virtual environment’s “base” Python, and may optionally be isolated from the packages in the base environment, so only those explicitly installed in the virtual environment are available.

zc.buildout

zc.buildout is a Python-based build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications.

ZMI

Zope offers the ZMI (Zope Managment Interface) for managing your Zope site through a browser. You can get to it by going to the path /manage in your Zope site and logging in with credentials for a user with role Manager.

Zope

The Z Object Publishing Framework. The granddaddy of Python web frameworks.