Re: External Deps: Minimal Python dependency

[Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>]

Vincent Untz schrieb:
> Le mardi 22 juillet 2008, à 17:56 +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl a écrit :
> > Hi!
> >
> > As mentioned in [1] sqlite is a blessed external dependency now. I want  
> > to use sqlite for Deskbar-Applet, too. Because, Python 2.5 has a  
> > built-in sqlite module I suggest increasing the minimal version to 2.5  
> > from currently 2.4.3 . Of course, Python 2.5 has more benefits [2].
> >
> > [1]:  
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-July/msg00090.html
> > [2]: http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html
>
> (heh, I should read ddl before replying to mails)
>
> So, I took a quick look at the second link. That's all cool, but can we
> get an overview of what is really useful in there for us?
>
> Vincent
* Various speed improvements regarding re module, sets, unicode 
operations (substring, split, en-/decode) and handling exceptions [1].
* New ElementTree package for processing XML. It's easy to understand 
and fast.
* New hashlib package which supports previously unsupported SHA-224, 
SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512.
* New ctypes package which lets you load libraries and calling functions 
in them.
* The 'with' statement. Which makes it very easy to use locks or 
read/write a file, because it makes sure everything is cleaned up 
correctly (e.g. when an error appeared).

[1]: 
http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/other-lang.html#SECTION0001310000000000000000

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Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl