pyuv 0.8.0 released!

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Yesterday NodeJS 0.8.0 was released, and libuv got its dedicated branch for maintenance of the 0.8.X version cycle. Since pyuv now implements all the features offered by libuv I chose to follow the same path and branch out pyuv 0.8.0.

From now on pyuv’s v0.8 branch will only get bugfixes from the corresponding libuv branch. pyuv’s master branch will use libuv master and have version number 0.9.0-dev, there will not be a release of that branch soon, I guess.

So, what’s new on pyuv 0.8.0 then?

  • FSPoll handle, for polling for file changes using the stat syscall
  • Several fixes in the fs module for Windows
  • Bugfixes that came with libuv

For version 0.9, apart from following libuv’s development I have plans to make the following changes:

  • Move the getaddrinfo function to the util module
  • Overhaul the dns module, provide a raw wrapper on top of c-ares
    instead of exposing a complete DNS resolver (I’ll cover this in a
    future blog post, when I approach the implementation)

Last but not least, I’d like to thank again the NodeJS and libuv developers, they are really doing a great job!

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Integrating Twisted and Tornado with pyuv

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With yesterday’s pyuv release the door was open for integrating pyuv with other event loops or applications. Thanks to the Poll handle we can now create a regular socket in Python and put it in pyuv’s event loop, so we can also use pyuv to replace other event loops ;–)

I created a couple of projects for toying around with this feature. The first project implements a Tornado IOLoop which runs on top of pyuv, and the second one implements a Twisted reactor on top of pyuv.

They are not feature complete yet, but basics are working and I’ll be adding more features as time allows.

Go check them out on GitHub!

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pyuv 0.7.0 released!

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It’s been a while since I haven’t mentioned pyuv, let me show you what the new version has to offer.

But first, I’d like to thank Ben Noordhuis, Bert Belder and all contributors to the libuv project for such a great job, the library is pleasure to work with and it gets better every week!

Having that said, pyuv 0.7.0 is out and full of nice features, check them out here. To highlight some:

  • Ability to poll arbitrary file descriptors
  • Overhauled reference counting scheme
  • Python 3 support (was added in a previous release)
  • Windows support (was added in a previous release)
  • And more!

You can download pyuv from the GitHub repository or just install it with pip:

pip install pyuv

Documentation is available here as always.

As of right now pyuv implements all features available on libuv, which took a while to accomplish, but we are finally there :–)

I’ll be publishing a couple of projects built with pyuv shortly, so stay tuned!

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