# stevedore

**Repository Path**: mirrors_openstack/stevedore

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: stevedore
- **Description**: Manage dynamic plugins for Python applications. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-22
- **Last Updated**: 2026-02-21

## Categories & Tags

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## README

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stevedore -- Manage dynamic plugins for Python applications
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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.

.. _setuptools entry points: http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html?#entry-points

* Free software: Apache license
* Documentation: https://docs.openstack.org/stevedore/latest
* Source: https://opendev.org/openstack/stevedore
* Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-stevedore