lacquer - a thin layer of convenience on top of useful Python libraries. The intent of this simple project is to serve as a collection point to various utilities that many of us keep on (re)writing to make both the Python standard library and other tools more pleasant to use. By having a central collection point we hope to make it easier for us to share and minimize duplication and divergence of all of these little helpers, while remaining very easy to include as source into a third-party project. Our intent is that over time, anything in lacquer that becomes sufficiently mature and production-ready will be shipped upstream back to the project it adds support for, be it the Python standard library or any other third-party tool (such as sphinx or nose). For more documentation and API coverage, please see the doc/ directory. lacquer is licensed under the terms of the simplified BSD license, see COPYING.txt for full details. All authors of individual contributions retain their full copyright on their own code.