Announcing MissingPy 0.1.0 http://quux.org/devel/missingpy ------------------------- What is MissingPy? ------------------------- It's two things: 1. A Haskell binding for many C and Python libraries for tasks such as data compression, databases, etc. This can be found in the MissingPy module tree. 2. A low-level Haskell binding to the Python interpreter to enable development of hybrid applications that use both environments. This can be found in the Python module tree. The Haskell bindings above use this environment. MissingPy permits you to call Python code from Haskell. It does NOT permit you to call Haskell code from Python. ------------------------- Major Features ------------------------- * GZip and BZip2 compression and decompression using the generic Handle-like HVIO interface * *dbm persistent storage using the generic AnyDBM interface * Low-level interface to Python for extending your own Haskell code * Many unit tests to verify proper functionality ** THIS IS CURRENTLY BETA-QUALITY CODE; MAJOR API FLUCTUATIONS MAY YET OCCUR. Future releases will likely feature HVFS virtual filesystem interfaces to ZIP and tar files, integration of Python's PCREs into Pesco's regexp system, a Haskell binding to PyOpenSSL, and other similar items. -- John Goerzen Author, Foundations of Python Network Programming http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593715