I have released two new packages to PyPI. These packages were inspired by (design almost entirely stolen from) zope.component and zope.configuration. I don't really expect them to get much use, but writing them was enlightening. Maybe they'll be interesting to someone who wants to introduce people to zope-style componentry without using interfaces and zope-style configuration without schema or XML. repoze.component ---------------- package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/repoze.component/0.1 docs: http://docs.repoze.org/component/ code: http://svn.repoze.org/repoze.component/trunk/ This package differs from zope.component inasmuch as it disuses the concept of interface, instead favoring string markers. repoze.configuration -------------------- package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/repoze.configuration/0.1 docs: http://docs.repoze.org/configuration/ code: http://svn.repoze.org/repoze.configuration/trunk/ This package differs from zope.configuration inasmuch as it uses YAML instead of XML, and doesn't use schemas to define directive attributes. Have fun, - C