zope.component, together with zope.interface, provides facilities for defining, registering and looking up components. There are two basic kinds of components: adapters and utilities. Utilities are just components that provide an interface and that are looked up by an interface and a name. Adapters are components that are computed from other components to adapt them to some interface. Because they are computed from other objects, they are provided as factories, usually classes. WWW: https://pypi.org/project/zope.component/