pyuv 0.8.1

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 (including multicast)
• Timers
• Child process spawning
• Asynchronous DNS resolver
• Asynchronous file system APIs
• High resolution time
• System memory information
• System CPUs information
• Network interfaces information
• Thread pool scheduling
• ANSI escape code controlled TTY
• File system events (inotify style)
• IPC and TCP socket sharing between processes
• Arbitrary file descriptor polling

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 --compiler=mingw32

Running the test suite

There are several ways of running the test ruite:

• Running individual tests:

Go inside the tests/ directory and run the test, for example: python test_tcp.py

• Run the test with the current Python interpreter:

From the toplevel directory, run: nosetests -v -w tests/

• Use Tox to run the test suite in several virtualenvs with several interpreters

From the toplevel directory, run: tox -e py26,py27,py32 this will run the test suite on Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2 (you’ll need to have them installed beforehand)

Author

Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <[e-mail]>

License

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

Python versions

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 :-)