Python Performance Enhancement Tool (shedskin 0.3) released

Http://code.google.com/p/shedskin/

Shed skin 0.3

-Support for 3 new standard library modules (now about 20 in total ):

-Itertools (jeremie roquet)

-Heapq (jeremie roquet)

-Csv (converted using shedskin)

-4 new example programs (now 44 in total !) :

-Maximum weighted matching algorithm (joris van rantwijk)

-Kanoodle: knuth's dancing links (david austin)

-Bidirectional dijkstra algorithm (from networkx, uses heapq)

-Barnes-hut force calculation

-Improved type inference (scalability, bugfixes, Major cleanup)

-Support for 'map', 'filter', 'reduce' and 'Next'

-Support for 'with' statement (Jeremie roquet)

-Support for 'key' argument of 'sorted' (and 'list. Sort ')

-Reorganized codebase, distutils setup. py (Thomas spura)

-Optimized list indexing (Joris van rantwijk)

-Optimized addition of 1-length lists and strings

-Improved forward referencing of variables/functions

-Avoid GCC warnings after 'shedskin-e'

-Support for passing keyword arguments to extension modules

-Optimized list Slicing

-Ignore blocks surrounded by # {and #} (mike schrick)

-Add -- makefile option (mike schrick)

-Several cleanups, removing about 100 lines again

-Large amount of bugfixes