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Pykka 2.0 released with better ergonomics and performance improvements

2019-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

I’ve finally released Pykka 2.0, the first major update to Pykka in almost six years.

Pykka is a Python implementation of the actor model. The actor model introduces some simple rules to control the sharing of state and cooperation between execution units, which makes it easier to build concurrent applications.

Pykka 2.0 is a major release because it is backwards incompatible in several minor ways. However, the backwards incompatible changes should only affect quite narrow use cases. Mopidy and its extensions, which is the largest open source ecosystem I know of that uses Pykka, runs unmodified on Pykka 2.0.

In this blog post I’ll go through some of the more important improvements in 2.0.

Mopidy-MPRIS 2.0 released

2018-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

I’ve released Mopidy-MPRIS 2.0, the first major update to Mopidy-MPRIS in about 3.5 years.

Mopidy-MPRIS is a Mopidy extension that makes Mopidy controllable from other programs on the same machine through D-Bus. This makes it possible to control Mopidy from various widgets in GNOME/KDE/etc, as well as with keyboard media keys.

netsgiro: a parser and builder for AvtaleGiro and OCR Giro files

2017-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

Today I released the first stable release of netsgiro to PyPI. netsgiro is a Python 3.4+ library for parsing and building Nets “OCR” files.

AvtaleGiro is a direct debit solution that is in widespread use in Norway, with more than 15 000 companies offering it to their customers. OCR Giro is used by Nets and Norwegian banks to update payees on recent deposits to their bank accounts. In combination, AvtaleGiro and OCR Giro allows for a high level of automation of invoicing and payment processing.

The “OCR” file format and file format name originates in days when giro payments were delivered on paper to your bank and then processed either manually or using optical character recognition, OCR. I’m not sure how old the format is, but some of the examples in the OCR Giro specification use dates in 1993, and the specification changelog starts in 1999 and ends in 2003. A couple of decades later, the file format is still in daily use by Nets’ AvtaleGiro and OCR Giro services. In other words, I have high hopes that this will be a very stable open source project requiring minimal maintenance efforts.

pyspotify v2.0.0b1 released, with new event loop and audio sinks

2014-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

pyspotify 2.x is a full rewrite of pyspotify. While pyspotify 1.x is a CPython C extension, pyspotify 2.x uses CFFI to make 100% of the libspotify C library available from Python. It works on CPython 2.7 and 3.2+, as well as PyPy 2.1+.

Comics v2.3.0 released with better mobile support

2014-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

Version 2.3.0 of my comics aggregator is now released. As always, dependencies have been updated, including the routine Django upgrade from Django 1.5 to 1.6, just in time for the upcoming 1.7 release. The largest change this time around is the move from Bootstrap 2 to 3, which includes a refreshed, flatter design and lots of tweaking to make Comics both look good and work nicely on mobile devices, something it didn’t use to do.

New Python wrapper for libspotify

2014-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Today, after about nine months of working on it now and then, I uploaded the first alpha release of pyspotify 2.0 to PyPI.

pyspotify provides a Python interface to Spotify’s online music streaming service. With it you can access music metadata, search in Spotify’s library of 20+ million tracks, manage your Spotify playlists, and play music from Spotify. All from your own Python applications.

Pykka v1.2.0 with eventlet support and future transformations

2013-07-18T00:00:00+00:00

Pykka v1.2.0 is now available from PyPI, GitHub, and APT. It’s about half a year since the previous release, during which no serious bugs have been found.

Comics v2.2.0 released with Django 1.5 support

2013-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

Version 2.2.0 of my comics aggregator is now released. It features a general upgrade of dependencies, including the move from Django 1.4 to Django 1.5, and a lot of updates to comic crawlers.

pyspotify 1.2 released

2011-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

pyspotify is a Python wrapper for libspotify, which give developers access to the Spotify music streaming service.

Today, I tagged pyspotify 1.2 at GitHub and pushed the new release to PyPI. I’ve also made deb packages of libspotify and pyspotify available at apt.mopidy.com.