Tendo is a python module that adds basic functionality that is not (yet) provided by Python.

• transparent Unicode support for text file operations (BOM detection)
• console logging coloring
• enable you to use symlinks under windows
• python tee implementation for executing extenal programs and redirecting their output to both console/file)
• improved execfile

Check:

• http://packages.python.org/tendo/
• https://tendo.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

• python 2.5-3.2
• distribute (for installation)
• tox for running tests

• six - helps you write code that works with both py2 and py3
• jaraco - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jaraco.util
• pexpect (maybe)

• implement testing, see test frameworks http://pycheesecake.org/wiki/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy
• implement all PEP8 recomandations