PyDingo 0.39 released

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I've released an updated version of PyDingo - PyQt4 based file manager in development. The 0.39 release is a step to the planned 0.4 release with a set of new features. Comparing to 0.3 the new release contains some major code cleanup and refactoring (using QDirModel, QDesktopService and other Qt "native" elements instead of other external Python modules). Source code packages is available online:

pydingo-0.39.zip

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Programming in Python, 5 April 2009

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