A series of utilities used across several pub-oapi-tools programs. These are mainly for connecting to various 3rd-party systems, (e.g.) the UCPMS reporting DB, eSchol DB, various APIs, etc.
3rd-party packages required for each module are imported within the modules, Using 'import pub_oapi_tools_common' will import all 3rd-party packages along with the pub_oapi_tools_common modules.
reStructuredText docstrings are used throughout.