pycares 3.1.0 released!

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Finally back blogging… it’s been a while. Today I bring you a new pycares release: 3.1.0

pycares is a Python module which provides an interface to c-ares. c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolutions asynchronously.

This release was relatively small, but I’m really happy about the automation work that I managed to do before the release, which should help with making the next releases faster and better.

Thanks to the automation work this release includes binary wheels for Python 3.5-3.8 on Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux.

How is this done? Well, pycares is now using 3 different CIs:

  • Travis: runs tests on GNU/Linux and it builds release wheels for all 3 platforms (this las key bit is new!)
  • GitHub Actions: runs tests on macOS
  • AppVeyor: runs tests on Windows

Thanks to these 3 free services, I couldn’t have done it without them! ❤️ Also huge thanks to Joe Rickerby for creating cibuildwheel it really made this a whole lot easier.

pyuv 1.4.0 released

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Today I finally found some time to put together a new pyuv release! Oh, but what is pyuv? I’m glad you asked!

pyuv is a Python module which provides an interface to libuv. libuv is a high performance asynchronous networking and platform abstraction library.

This a big one. Here are some of the highlights:

  • PyPy support (finally!)
  • CPython 3.6 support
  • Overhauled build system (we no longer rely on the libuv build system)
  • Linux and Windows wheels published on PyPI
  • New co-maintainer! Say hi to Marc Schlaich!

See the full changelog here.

I just realized the last release was over a year ago. Time flies! At any rate, here it is now. Enjoy!

pyuv 1.3.0 released!

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Looks like I’m on a release spree! Today I’m releasing pyuv (libuv bindings for Python) version1.3.0.

This release focused on 2 main things:

  • Update to latest libuv release: 1.9.1
  • Add Python 3.5 support

There are other (small) bugfixes too, check the full changelog for details. One of the things I’m most happy about is that thanks to AppVeyor I’m able to provide Wheels for Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 on Windows (32 and 64 bits) so you don’t have to compile pyuv, which is sadly not straightforward on Windows; checkout the PyPI page.

Enjoy!

pycares 2.0.0 released!

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Tonight I’m happy to announce that pycares (the Python bindings for c-ares, an asynchronous DNS resolver) has reached version 2.0.0.

This release contains a few important features:

  • CFFI port for PyPy (it can optionally also be used in CPython)
  • Python 3.5 support
  • c-ares updated to version 1.11.1

Plus some minor bugfixes. I’d like to thank Jesse (@boytm) for the CFFI patch, that was a massive contribution, thank you so much!

Binary wheels are available for Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 on Windows (both 32 and 64 bits), checkout the PyPI page.

Enjoy!

Downloading AppVeyor artifacts with a little bit of Python

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I have recently released new versions of 3 of my Python modules (pyuv, pycares and python-fibers), which happen to be Python C extensions.

While preparing these releases, I decided to give AppVeyor a try, since it can be used for both integration testing on Windows and Python Wheels generation. I managed to do so following these instructions and checking this project example, and I was (almost) all set.

The missing part was to download all those built artifacts (the Python wheels) stored in AppVeyor and upload them to PyPI when I decided to make a release. Uploading the wheels can be easily done using twine, and for downloading the last built artifacts for a given project I created the following simple Python script using requests:

https://gist.github.com/saghul/08ef2f7495c0cf481e3b

Using it is simple:

appveyor-download --api-token 1234 --user saghul --project pyuv

I hope you find it useful!

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pyuv 1.2.0 released

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Quick heads up, I just released pyuv 1.2.0. pyuv is a Python wrapper for libuv. This time around, pyuv implements all the funcionality covering up to libuv 1.7.3.

This release was focused in 2 things: adjusting to new APIs / changes in libuv, and improving the testing, specifically on Windows.

As of this writing, pyuv is automatically tested on Linux systems thanks to Travis CI and on Windows thanks to AppVeyor. Thanks to AppVeyor, I’m now able to provide Python Wheels for pyuv, which is great because, frankly, compiling it on Windows is kind of a pain.

See the ChangeLog for a detailed outline of the changes, check the documentation, and fetch the code on GitHub. Packages have also been uploaded to PyPI.

python-fibers 1.0.0 released

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Yeah, it must be 1.0.0 release week!

I’m happy to announce python-fibers 1.0.0! Fibers are cooperative microthreads for Python, a project I started about a couple of years ago. Head here for the initial project annoucement and rationale. (yes, I can hear you thinking “why didn’t he use greenlet?!”)

There are no API changes in this release, and since it has been stable so far I thought it it’s fair to call it a 1.0.

This release steps up the CI game by adding AppVeyor integration, and thanks to it we have binary Python wheels for Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4 on PyPI!

As usual, the code is available on GitHub and documentation on RTD.

 

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pycares 1.0.0 released

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Long time no blog!

Today I’m happy to announce pycares 1.0.0 was just released. pycares is a Python library which wrapps the c-ares C library, providing asynchronous DNS resolution capability to different applications.

The full changelog can be checked here, but these are the main highlights:

  • Return nametuple-like objects for all query types
  • Return TTL information
  • Dropped support for old Python versions
  • AppVeyor CI integration
  • Binary wheels available for 32 and 64 bit Windows (thanks AppVeyor!)

As usual, the code is available on GitHub and the documentation is here.

Happy querying!

 

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pyuv on wheels!

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If you are a Python user which happens to use Windows every now and then you probably also suffer when installing (or at least trying to) Python packages which need to be compiled. Python wheels really help here, as they ease the installation of binary packages, and even make the installation of non-binary packages faster.

Long time pyuv contributor Marc Schlaich has recently began to provide these wheels for both 32 and 64 Windows, for all supported Python versions: 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4. Wheels for pyuv 1.0.2 have already been uploaded to PyPI, you can check how to install Python wheels here.

Thanks a lot for your contributions Marc!

 

New pyuv stable and pre releases

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Took a while to get these together, mainly because I’m spending quite some time on libuv itself lately. In case you didn’t know libuv 1.0.0 is around the corner, yesterday libuv 1.0.0-rc2 was released, check it out!

Back to pyuv, I’m pleased to announce pyuv version 0.10.12, which a maintenance release for the v0.10 series. In addition, I’m releasing pyuv 1.0.0.dev1, the first development release in the v1.x series of pyuv (which bundles libuv 1.0.0-rc2).

Enjoy!

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