[capi-sig] ANN: PyBindGen 0.10 released

PyBindGen is a Python module that is geared to generating C/C++ code that binds a C/C++ library for Python. It does so without extensive use of either C++ templates or C pre-processor macros. It has modular handling of C/C++ types, and can be easily extended with Python plugins. The generated code is almost as clean as what a human programmer would write.

It can be downloaded from:

    http://code.google.com/p/pybindgen/

Bug reports should be filed here:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/pybindgen

=== pybindgen 0.10 ===

- New null_ok, default_value options for pointer-to-class parameters;

- Thread safety fixes;

- Map C++ operator() into Python's tp_call (__call__);

- Initial support for std containers (except mapping containers);

- Generate __copy__ methods for classes with copy constructor;

- Add 'wrapper registry' optional feature (off by default): allows
  C++ instances returned by pointer to be consistently wrapped
  always by the same Python wrapper, so that the 'is' operator can
  be used for identity testing;

- New C type expression parser, is_const not longer needed for
  parameter types, just put const in the type string as
  appropriate;

- Sort the declarations returned by (py)gccxml.  If generating
  python script files from gccxml scanning, now the output file
  becomes more stable and less prone to move declarations up and
  down with different people scanning and the output file is under
  version control;

- Map binary comparison operators (< <= == >= >) from C++ to Python;

- Map some binary numeric operators (+ - * /) from C++ to Python;

- Allow installation of pybindgen even if no C/C++ compiler is detected;

- Fix compatibility with older Python versions (tested with 2.3, 2.4,

and 2.5)

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