Hi all,

I have just released Shed Skin 0.0.29, with the following changes. Thanks to those mentioned for helping out!

• datetime implementation (Karel Heyse, Pavel Vinogradov, FFAO, David Marek)
• ConfigParser implementation (suggested by Albert Hofkamp)
• staticmethod and property decorator support (Seo Sanghyeon)
• GCC 4.3 fixes (Seo Sanghyeon, Winterknight)
• FreeBSD, OpenSolaris and 64-bit support
• support for mapping keys('%(key)x' % some_dict)
• improvements to the import mechanism for nested modules (e.g. os.path)
• __init__ is now less of a special case
• many fixes for calling ancestor methods (e.g. __init__)
• all example programs now compile to extension modules
• avoid stack overflows for highly recursive/dynamic types
• re.sub now accepts a replacement function
• remove tuple hash caching (as CPython does not do this)
• many, many bugfixes

This has been a significant release, with many important improvements. Please see my latest blog entry with more details:

http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/

I would really like to receive more bug reports. Please try out the new release, and file issues at the project homepage:

http://shedskin.googlecode.com

More coding help is also always welcome. One important feature I'd really like to have for a 0.1 release is custom class support in extension modules..

Thanks!

Mark.

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code"

• Ken Thompson