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ANNOUNCING
eGenix.com mx Base Extension Package
Version 2.0.6
Open Source Python extensions providing important and useful
services for Python programmers.
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ABOUT
The eGenix.com mx Base Extensions for Python are a collection of professional quality software tools which enhance Python's usability in many important areas such as fast text searching, date/time processing and high speed data types.
The tools have a proven record of being portable across many Unix and Windows platforms. You can write applications which use the tools on Windows and then run them on Unix platforms without change due to the consistent platform independent interfaces.
All available packages have proven their stability and usefulness in many mission critical applications and various commercial settings all around the world.
* About Python: Python is an object-oriented Open Source programming language which runs on all modern platforms (http://www.python.org/). By integrating ease-of-use, clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid application design, Python establishes an ideal programming platform for todays IT challenges.
* About eGenix: eGenix is a consulting and software product company focused on providing professional quality services and products to Python users and developers (http://www.egenix.com/).
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NEWS
The new version includes patches needed to compile the package for Python 2.4. It now supports all Python versions 1.5.2 - 2.4.
As always we are providing pre-compiled versions of the package for Windows and Linux as well as sources which allow you to install the package on all other supported platforms.
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EGENIX MX BASE PACKAGE OVERVIEW
mxDateTime - Generic Date/Time Types
mxDateTime is an extension package that provides three new object
types, DateTime, DateTimeDelta and RelativeDateTime, which let
you store and handle date/time values in a very convenient way. You can add, subtract and even multiply instances, pickle and
copy them and convert the results to strings, COM dates, ticks
and some other more esoteric values. In addition, there are
several convenient constructors and formatters at hand to greatly
simplify dealing with dates and times in real-world applications. In addition to providing an easy-to-use Python interface the
package also exports a comfortable C API interface for other
extensions to build upon. This is especially interesting for
database applications which often have to deal with date/time
values (the mxODBC package is one example of an extension using
this interface).mxTextTools - Fast Text Processing Tools
mxTextTools is an extension package for Python that provides
several useful functions and types that implement
high-performance text manipulation and searching algorithms in
addition to a very flexible and extendable state machine, the
Tagging Engine, that allows scanning and processing text based on
low-level byte-code "programs" written using Python tuples. It
gives you access to the speed of C without the need to do any
compile and link steps every time you change the parsing
description. Applications include parsing structured text, finding and
extracting text (either exact or using translation tables) and
recombining strings to form new text.mxStack - Fast and Memory-Efficient Stack Type
mxStack is an extension package that provides a new object type
called Stack. It works much like what you would expect from such
a type, having .push() and .pop() methods and focuses on
obtaining maximum speed at low memory costs.mxTools - Collection of Additional Built-Ins
mxTools is an extension package that includes a collection of
handy functions and objects giving additional functionality in
form of new built-ins to the Python programmer. The package auto-installs the new functions and objects as
built-ins upon first import. This means that they become
instantly available to all other modules without any further
action on your part. Add the line import NewBuiltins to your
site.py script and they will be available to all users at your
site as if they were installed in the Python interpreter itself.mxProxy - Generic Proxy Wrapper Type
mxProxy is an extension package that provides a new type that is
suitable to implement Bastion like features without the need to
use restricted execution environments. The type's main features are secure data encapsulation (the
hidden objects are not accessible from Python since they are
stored in internal C structures), customizable attribute lookup
methods and a cleanup protocol that helps in breaking circular
references prior to object deletion. In addition to being
able to completely hide objects from the Python run-time,
the module also provides a generic implementation of weak
reference that works for all Python objects.mxBeeBase - On-disk B+Tree Based Database Kit
mxBeeBase is a high performance construction kit for disk based
indexed databases. It offers components which you can plug
together to easily build your own custom mid-sized databases (the
current size limit is sizeof(long) which gives you an address
range of around 2GB on 32-bit platforms). The two basic building blocks in mxBeeBase are storage and
index. Storage is implemented as variable record length data
storage with integrated data protection features, automatic data
recovery and locking for multi process access. Indexes use a high
performance optimized B+Tree implementation built on top of
Thomas Niemann's Cookbook B+Tree implementation
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DOWNLOADS
The download archives and instructions for installing the packages can be found at:
http://www.egenix.com/
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LICENSES & COSTS
The eGenix mx Base package is distributed under the eGenix.com Public License which is a Python 2.0 style Open Source license. You can use the package in both commercial and non-commercial settings without fee or charge.
The package comes with full source code
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SUPPORT
Commercial quality support for these packages is available from eGenix.com Software GmbH. Please see
http://www.egenix.com/files/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions.html#Support
for details about our support offerings.
-- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com
Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 06 2004)
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