Pyrex 0.6 is now available:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/

There are several new features in this release:

- Command line options for reporting version number, requesting a listing file and specifying the name of the generated C file.

- An 'include' statement for including other Pyrex files.

- Improved facilities for exporting declarations from one Pyrex file to another.

- Python syntax compatibility enhancements: try-except-else, multiple statements on one line.

- A __delete__ special method has been added to extension types (invoked when using del on an attribute).

There is one backward-incompatible change that you should note:

- C character literals now have a distinct syntax: c'X' (the automatic coercion of char * to char that Pyrex did before proved to be too error-prone and has been removed).

There are also some other minor improvements and a slew of bug fixes -- see the CHANGES file for a full list.

What is Pyrex? --------------

Pyrex is a new language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix operations on Python and C data, with all Python reference counting and error checking handled automatically.