Project management

django.utils.version.get_svn_revision

    def get_svn_revision(path=None):
        """
        Returns the SVN revision in the form SVN-XXXX,
        where XXXX is the revision number.

        Returns SVN-unknown if anything goes wrong, such as an unexpected
        format of internal SVN files.

        If path is provided, it should be a directory whose SVN info you want to
        inspect. If it's not provided, this will use the root django/ package
        directory.
        """

Python helpers

django.utils.importlib.import_module

    def import_module(name, package=None):
        """Import a module.

        The 'package' argument is required when performing a relative import. It
        specifies the package to use as the anchor point from which to resolve the
        relative import to an absolute import.

        """

django.utils._os.safe_join

    def safe_join(base, *paths):
        """
        Joins one or more path components to the base path component intelligently.
        Returns a normalized, absolute version of the final path.

        The final path must be located inside of the base path component (otherwise
        a ValueError is raised).
        """

django.utils.daemonize.become_daemon

    def become_daemon(our_home_dir='.', out_log='/dev/null',
                      err_log='/dev/null', umask=022):
        "Robustly turn into a UNIX daemon, running in our_home_dir."

from django.utils.itercompat

    """
    Providing iterator functions that are not in all version of Python we support.
    Where possible, we try to use the system-native version and only fall back to
    these implementations if necessary.
    """

Dates

django.utils.feedgenerator.rfc2822_date

    def rfc2822_date(date):
        [...]
        return date.strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S -0000')

django.utils.feedgenerator.rfc3339_date

    def rfc3339_date(date):
        [...]
        return date.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')