Automaton provides friendly state machines for python. The goal of this library is to provide well documented state machine classes and associated utilities. The state machine pattern (or the implemented variation there-of) is a commonly used pattern and has a multitude of various usages. Some of the usages for this library include providing state & transition validation and running/scheduling/analyzing the execution of tasks. WWW: https://docs.openstack.org/automaton/latest/ WWW: https://github.com/openstack/automaton