ANN: SIP v4.5 Released

[Phil Thompson]

Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of SIP v4.5 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.

The main focus of this release is support for Python v2.5.

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
- the generation of API files for IDEs that support autocompletion and call
  tips.

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ANN: PyQt v4.1 Released

[Phil Thompson]

Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of PyQt v4.1
available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/.

The highlights of this release include:

- support for Qt v4.2 including QGraphicsView and related classes, the undo
  framework, widget stylesheets, and integration with GNOME (both visually and
  the event loop)
- the addition of the QtTest module for automated GUI testing
- the addition of the QAxContainer module for Windows for integrating ActiveX
  controls.

PyQt is a comprehensive set of Qt bindings for the Python programming language 
and supports the same platforms as Qt (Windows, Linux and MacOS/X).  Like Qt, 
PyQt is available under the GPL and a commercial license.

See http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Docs/PyQt4/html/classes.html for the 
class documentation.

PyQt v4 supports Qt v4 (http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/index.html).  
PyQt v3 is still available to support earlier versions of Qt.

PyQt v4 is implemented as a set of 10 extension modules containing 
approximately 400 classes and 6,000 functions and methods.

QtCore
The non-GUI infrastructure including event loops, threads, i18n, Unicode,
signals and slots, user and application settings.

QtGui
A rich collection of GUI widgets.

QtNetwork
A set of classes to support TCP and UDP socket programming and higher
level protocols (eg. HTTP).

QtOpenGL
A set of classes that allows PyOpenGL to render onto Qt widgets.

QtSql
A set of classes that implement SQL data models and interfaces to industry
standard databases.  Includes an implementation of SQLite.

QtSvg
A set of classes to render SVG files onto Qt widgets.

QtTest
A set of classes to automate unit testing of PyQt applications and GUIs.

QtXML
A set of classes that implement DOM and SAX parsers.

QtAssistant
A set of classes that enables the Qt Assistant online help browser to be
integrated with an application.

QAxContainer
A set of classes for Windows that allows the integration of ActiveX
controls and COM objects.

A Windows installer is provided for the GPL version of PyQt to be used with 
the GPL version of Qt v4 (http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/windows.html). 
It enabes a complete PyQt environment to be installed on Windows without the 
need for a C++ compiler.

PyQt includes the pyuic utility which generates Python code to implement user 
interfaces created with Qt Designer in the same way that the uic utility 
generates C++ code.  It is also able to load Designer XML files dynamically.

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