Hah - I was only just looking at this lib today! I've got several usages for it in mind already, keep up the good work!
Thanks, Kiall On Sep 6, 2012 10:52 PM, "Ben Bangert" <[email protected]> wrote: > Kazoo 0.5 has been released today, which features a refactor into a pure > Python client with no C lib dependency (based on jute and the pookeeper > code written by Alan D. Cabrera). It stays faithful to the state > transitions of the C lib, without many of the gymnastics needed to handle > zhandle's and such properly. > > We're aiming to implement Zookeeper 3.4 features such as > Transactions/Multi and Read-Only mode in the next release. > > It can be installed off Pypi. Complete and thorough docs available at > http://kazoo.readthedocs.org > > Changelog: > > 0.5 (9/6/2012) > -------------- > > Skipping a version to reflect the magnitude of the change. Kazoo is now a > pure > Python client with no C bindings. This release should run without a problem > on alternate Python implementations such as PyPy and Jython. Porting to > Python > 3 in the future should also be much easier. > > Documentation > ************* > > - Docs have been restructured to handle the new classes and locations of > the > methods from the pure Python refactor. > > Bug Handling > ************ > > This change may introduce new bugs, however there is no longer the > possibility > of a complete Python segfault due to errors in the C library and/or the C > binding. > > - Possible segfaults from the C lib are gone. > - Password mangling due to the C lib is gone. > - The party recipes didn't set their participating flag to False after > leaving. > > Features > ******** > > - New `client.command` and `client.server_version` API, exposing > Zookeeper's > four letter commands and giving access to structured version information. > - Added 'include_data' option for get_children to include the node's Stat > object. > - Substantial increase in logging data with debug mode. All correspondence > with > the Zookeeper server can now be seen to help in debugging. > > API Changes > *********** > > - The testing helpers have been moved from `testing.__init__` into a > `testing.harness` module. The official API's of `KazooTestCase` and > `KazooTestHarness` can still be directly imported from `testing`. > - The kazoo.handlers.util module was removed. > - Backwards compatible exception class aliases are provided for now in > kazoo > exceptions for the prior C exception names. > - Unicode strings now work fine for node names and are properly converted > to > and from unicode objects. > - The data value argument for the create and create_async methods of the > client was made optional and defaults to an empty byte string. The data > value must be a byte string. Unicode values are no longer allowed and > will raise a TypeError. > > > Cheers, > Ben
