Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of SIP v4.4 available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/.
SIP is a tool for generating Python modules that wrap C or C++ libraries. It is similar to SWIG. It is used to generate PyQt and PyKDE. Full documentation is available at http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Docs/sip4/sipref.html. SIP is licensed under the Python License and runs on Windows, UNIX, Linux and MacOS/X. SIP requires Python v2.3 or later (SIP v3.x is available to support earlier versions of Python). This release includes the following changes: - support for class and mapped type templates - support for global operators - support for signed char, long long and unsigned long long types - support for Python's buffer interface - support for ellipsis in function arguments - support for __hash__ - namespaces can now be split across Python modules. Other features of SIP include: - extension modules are implemented as a single binary .pyd or .so file (no Python stubs) - support for Python new-style classes - generated modules are quick to import, even for large libraries - support for Qt's signal/slot mechanism - thread support - the ability to re-implement C++ abstract and virtual methods in Python - the ability to define Python classes that derive from abstract C++ classes - the ability to spread a class hierarchy across multiple Python modules - support for C++ namespaces - support for C++ exceptions - support for C++ operators - an extensible build system written in Python that supports over 50 platform/compiler combinations. Phil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
