[Haskell] ANN: MissingPy First Release

[John Goerzen]

Announcing MissingPy 0.1.0
        
http://quux.org/devel/missingpy

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What is MissingPy?
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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.

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Major Features
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 * 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