pyuv 0.5.0

Python interface for libuv

pyuv is a Python module which provides an interface to libuv. libuv (http://github.com/joyent/libuv) is a high performance asynchronous networking library, used as the platform layer for NodeJS (http://nodejs.org).

libuv is written and maintained by Joyent Inc. and contributors. It’s built on top of libev and libeio on Unix and IOCP on Windows systems providing a consistent API on top of them.

pyuv’s features:

• Non-blocking TCP sockets

• Non-blocking named pipes

• UDP support

• Timers

• Child process spawning

• Asynchronous DNS (gethostbyname, getaddrbyname, getnameinfo, getaddrinfo)

• Asynchronous file system APIs

• High resolution time

• Thread pool scheduling

• ANSI escape code controlled TTY

• File system events (initify style)

• IPC and TCP socket sharing between processes

Documentation

http://readthedocs.org/docs/pyuv/

Building

Linux:

./build_inplace

Mac OSX:

(XCode needs to be installed) export CC=”gcc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk” export ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64” ./build_inplace

Microsoft Windows:

(MinGW and MSYS need to be installed) ./build_inplace

Author

Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <[e-mail]>

License

Unless stated otherwise on-file pyuv uses the MIT license, check LICENSE file.

Roadmap

Check TODO file.

Python version

Python >= 2.6 is supported. Yes, that includes Python 3 :-)

Contributing

If you’d like to contribute, fork the project, make a patch and send a pull request. Have a look at the surrounding code and please, make yours look alike :-)