I have made new releases of pygtk (my bindings for the GTK+ widget toolkit for X windows) and gnome-python (my bindings for the base libraries of GNOME (the GNU network object model environment)). These packages allow you to write GTK+ or GNOME applications easily in python. Note that the gnome-python package contains pygtk, so there is no point in downloading both packages. There are a number of bugs fixed in this release, but the main new feature is that the GTK main loop no longer blocks other python threads, so it is now possible to write multithreaded python programs that use pygtk for their interface. Some care must be taken though, since GTK is not totally thread safe. For this reason, you must call threads_enter() before and threads_leave() after pygtk calls from outside the gtk thread (ie. anywhere other than in a callback). Thanks go to Duncan Grisby for this feature. For more information about pygtk and gnome-python, you can go to my (slightly out of date) web site at http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/ gnome-python is available at: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-python/ and pygtk will soon be available at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/ Both packages are also available from my FTP site at ftp://ftp.daa.com.au/pub/james/python/ James Henstridge. == Email: james@daa.com.au WWW: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/ <P><A HREF="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/">pygtk-0.6.0 and gnome-python-1.0.2</A> - bindings for the GTK+ widget set and GNOME libraries. (25-Apr-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------