[Python] ANN: psutil 0.5.0 released

[Giampaolo Rodolà]

Hi folks,
I'm pleased to announce the 0.5.0 release of psutil:
http://code.google.com/p/psutil/

=== Major new features ===

- system users
- (Linux, Windows) process CPU affinity (get and set)
- (POSIX) process number of opened file descriptors.
- (Windows) process number of opened handles.
- psutil.disk_partitions() now provides also mount options
- new Process.as_dict() method.
- Process.get_children(recursive=True): return all process descendants.
- 2to3 is not longer required to run at installation time in order to
support Python 3
- ppid, name, exe, cmdline and create_time properties of Process class
are now cached after being accessed.
- psutil.process_iter() now caches Process instances between calls.

For a complete list of features and bug fixes see:
http://psutil.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/HISTORY


=== New features by example ===

>>> import psutil, os
>>>
>>> psutil.get_users()
[user(name='giampaolo', terminal='pts/2', host='localhost',
started=1340737536.0),
 user(name='giampaolo', terminal='pts/3', host='localhost',
started=1340737792.0)]
>>>
>>> psutil.disk_partitions()
[partition(device='/dev/sda1', mountpoint='/', fstype='ext4', opts='rw,nosuid'),
 partition(device='/dev/sda2', mountpoint='/home', fstype='ext, opts='rw')]
>>>
>>> p = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
>>> p.get_num_fds()
4
>>>
>>> p.get_num_handles()  # windows only
254
>>>
>>> p.get_memory_maps()
[mmap(path='/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil-2.15.so', rss=16384,
anonymous=8192, swap=0),
 mmap(path='/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so', rss=6384,
anonymous=15, swap=0),
 mmap(path='/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.0.0', rss=34124,
anonymous=1245, swap=0),
 mmap(path='[heap]', rss=54653, anonymous=8192, swap=0),
 mmap(path='[stack]', rss=1542, anonymous=166, swap=0),
 ...]
>>>
>>> p.as_dict()
{'status': 0, 'pid': 29510, 'connections': [], 'cmdline': ['python'], ...}
>>>
>>> p.get_cpu_affinity()
[0, 1, 2, 3]
>>> p.set_cpu_affinity([0])
>>>
>>> p.get_children(recursive=True)
[<Process...>, <Process...>, ...]
>>>


=== Links ===

* Home page: http://code.google.com/p/psutil
* Source tarball: http://psutil.googlecode.com/files/psutil-0.5.0.tar.gz
* Api Reference: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/wiki/Documentation


Please try out this new release and let me know if you experience any
problem by filing issues on the bug tracker.
Thanks in advance.


--- Giampaolo Rodola'

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