ANN: PycURL 7.10 released!

[Kjetil Jacobsen]

pycurl -- A Python interface to the cURL library

What is it?
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The pycurl package is a Python interface to the curl library
(http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/).  pycurl has been successfully built
and tested with Python versions from 1.5.2 to 2.2.1.

The curl library s a client-side URL transfer library supporting FTP,
FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.  The cURL
library also supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP
uploads, proxies, cookies, basic authentication, file transfer resume
of FTP sessions, HTTP proxy tunneling and more.  For information on
how the curl library works, please consult the curl library web pages
(http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/using/).

All the functionality provided by the curl library can used through
the pycurl interface.


Download
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The latest version of pycurl (7.10) can be obtained at:

    http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/


Changes since the last version
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* Added commandline options to setup.py for specifying the path to
  'curl-config' (non-windows) and the curl installation directory
  (windows).  See the 'INSTALL' file for details.

* Added CURLOPT_ENCODING, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL and CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE
  from libcurl-7.10.


Licence
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Copyright (c) 2001-2002 by Kjetil Jacobsen <kjetilja@cs.uit.no>
Copyright (c) 2001-2002 by Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <markus@oberhumer.com>

PycURL is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.