This is not a release announcement per se, but I just got this library working on Linux, so I am prepared to show it to the Python community at large.
http://pyd.dsource.org/ Pyd is a library for the D programming language. It is analogous to Boost.Python. It wraps the Python/C API with a much cleaner interface, allowing you to directly expose your D functions and classes to Python, without touching the C API. See the website for some simple examples. It's also pretty easy to build (it uses distutils for compilation) and compiles lightning fast (a strength of D's), at least compared to Boost.Python. D, if you're unfamiliar with it, is a systems programming language. It aims to be a successor to C++. It is multi-paradigm, statically-typed (but has many type inference features), compiles to native machine code, uses single inheritance plus interfaces and mixins, and is garbage collected. Dynamic arrays and hash tables are built-in language constructs. It is link-compatible with C, but doesn't bother to be syntax compatible (although it does use a C-style syntax). Linking against C libraries (like the Python/C API) is a usually simple matter of re-writing the header files in D. D is designed by Walter Bright, who has been writing C and C++ compilers for 20 years. D will be undergoing a 1.0 release on January 1st. There are two implementations of D: The reference implementation, written by Walter Bright, which is called DMD (http://digitalmars.com/d/), and the open-source implementation, which is called GDC (http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/). The former has a Windows bias, and the latter has a Linux bias, although both mostly work on both. It is my opinion, and the view of several others in the D community, that Python and D are a perfect fit for each other. With Pyd, it is very easy to code rapidly in Python, and drop into D when more speed is required. Pyd is still a relatively new library. I started development on it in June, and I could count the current number of users on one hand. I also haven't done a proper release, as I am still rapidly adding features. For all that, I am insterested in what people think of it. The library's deficiencies won't become clear until people start using it. -Kirk McDonald http://pyd.dsource.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
