| 1 | Source: python-mlib |
| 2 | Section: python |
| 3 | Priority: extra |
| 4 | Build-Depends: mlib-dev, python, python-pyrex |
| 5 | Maintainer: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> |
| 6 | Standards-Version: 3.1.1 |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Package: python-mlib |
| 9 | Architecture: any |
| 10 | Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${python:Depends} |
| 11 | Description: A library of miscellaneous stuff |
| 12 | The mLib library provides various handy utilities, including |
| 13 | * yet another options parser, like GNU getopt but more so; |
| 14 | * a simple but efficient universal hashing family; |
| 15 | * a suite for writing event-driven select-based servers; |
| 16 | * a simple exception-handling system, based on longjmp; |
| 17 | * dynamically resizing strings and arrays; |
| 18 | * a resizing hashtable; |
| 19 | * base64 and hex encoding and decoding; and |
| 20 | * a simple background DNS resolver. |
| 21 | . |
| 22 | Not all of the features of mLib are available (or, indeed, very useful) in |
| 23 | Python. For example, Python has its own exception system, and different |
| 24 | ideas about how strings work. |