Python interface for c-ares
Project description
pycares is a Python module which provides an interface to c-ares. c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolutions asynchronously.
Documentation
Building
Linux:
./build_inplace
Mac OSX:
(XCode needs to be installed) export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" ./build_inplace
Microsoft Windows (with Visual Studio 2008):
./build_inplace
Microsoft Windows (with MinGW, not recommended):
(MinGW and MSYS need to be installed) ./build_inplace --compiler=mingw32
Running the test suite
There are several ways of running the test ruite:
Run the test with the current Python interpreter:
From the toplevel directory, run: nosetests -v -w tests/
Use Tox to run the test suite in several virtualenvs with several interpreters
From the toplevel directory, run: tox -e py26,py27,py32 this will run the test suite on Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2 (you’ll need to have them installed beforehand)
License
Unless stated otherwise on-file pycares uses the MIT license, check LICENSE file.
Python versions
Python >= 2.6 is supported. Yes, that includes Python 3 :-)
Contributing
If you’d like to contribute, fork the project, make a patch and send a pull request. Have a look at the surrounding code and please, make yours look alike :-)
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