API¶

This document has been automatically generated from the source code. We are migrating documentation of the core Lino modules from docstrings in the source code to prosa format (in The Lino source code).

The `lino` package ¶

The lino package is the main plugin used by all Lino applications, and the root for the subpackages that define core functionalites.

As a plugin it is added automatically to your INSTALLED_APPS. It defines no models, some template files, a series of django-admin commands, the core translation messages and the core help_texts.py file.

`core`	Contains Lino's core functionalities.
`hello`	If you want to see which version of Lino you have, you can say "hello" to Lino:
`api`	Documentation is being migrated to prosa style in API.
`utils`	`lino.utils` (the top-level module) contains a few often-used function for general use.
`mixins`	This package contains model mixins, some of which are heavily used by applications and the Lino Extensions Library.
`projects`	Most of this package has been moved to lino_book.
`modlib`	The standard model library included with Lino.
`sphinxcontrib`	Some extensions for Sphinx.
`management.commands`	See The django-admin commands added by the lino plugin.

lino.startup(settings_module=None)¶

Start up Django and Lino.

TODO: move this to doctest (and adapt all tested docs).

Optional settings_module is the name of a Django settings module. If this is specified, set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable.

This is called automatically when a process is invoked by a django-admin command.

This is usually called in the initialization code snippet of a tested document.

If your doctest reports a failure of the following type:

Failed example:
    startup('lino_amici.projects.amici1.settings')
Expected nothing
Got:
    Started /usr/lib/python3.10/doctest.py ... docs/specs/overview.rst (using lino_amici.projects.amici1.settings.demo) --> PID 217238

then it’s because your project directory contains a log directory.

class lino.AppConfig(app_name, app_module)¶

Bases: AppConfig

This is the only django.apps.AppConfig object used by Lino. Lino applications instead use the lino.core.plugins.Plugin class to define plugins. See More about plugins.

The `lino_xl` package ¶

This package contains the code of the Lino Extensions Library.

See Plugins reference for developers for the list of plugins.

lib

These are the plugins included with Lino XL.

The `lino_book` package ¶

The lino_book package contains a set of example projects used both for testing and explaining Lino framework.

It is not published on PyPI because that would make no sense. You use it by cloning the repository from GitLab (which is done automatically by getlino configure with –devtools).

projects

This package contains example applications included with the Lino book.

lino_book.DEMO_DATA = PosixPath('/home/luc/work/book/demo_data')¶

The root directory for our demo data collection, which is used by other projects as well.

This is a Path instance.

Lino applications covered by the book ¶

The following Lino applications have their developer specs and API in the Lino book and form an integral part of the Lino core because they also serve for testing purposes.