(french version follows)
Hello.
I'm glad to announce the creation of a new mailing-list for discussion
about Python in french.
You're invited to join it and share all your opinions or ask for
technical advice on the list.
The list is operated through Mailman, thus you can subscribe by going to
the following URL :
http://liberte.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/python
or by sending a message to Python-request(a)liberte.inria.fr containing
the 'help' keyword, and following the subscribing instruction sent in
return by mailman.
I can be contacted for any problems concerning the subscription to this
mailing-list.
Best regards.
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Bonjour.
Je suis heureux de vous annoncer la création d'une nouvelle liste de
diffusion concernant des discussions sur Python en français.
Je vous invite à nous rejoindre et à partager vos idées ou à demander
des conseils techniques sur la liste.
La liste est gérée grace à Mailman, donc vous pouvez vous inscrire en
visitant le site à l'URL suivante :
http://liberte.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/python
ou en envoyant un message à Python-request(a)liberte.inria.fr contenant le
mot-clé 'help' , et en suivant ensuite les instructions renvoyées par
mailman.
Vous pouvez me contacter directement pour tout problème concernant
l'inscription à cette liste de diffusion.
Cordialement.
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Olivier Berger - olberger(a)club-internet.fr - membre de PARINUX
Paris Linux User Group : http://www.parinux.org
Vive Linux (www.linux.org) - Vive python (www.python.org)
<P><A HREF="http://liberte.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/python/">French
Python mailing list</A> - new french-speaking mailing-list about
Python. (29-May-99)
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An experimental Python interface to Julian Seward's increasingly popular
bzip2 compression library is available from:
http://eh.org/~laurie/comp/python/pybzlib/
The interface is at version 0.02b alpha (25 April 1999) and is distributed
under a Python-esque licence.
bzip2 is a compression library which gives better compression ratios than
more common methods, and increasing amounts of data are now being shipped in
the bzip2 format. eg the Linux kernel is shipped as both .gz and .bz2 files;
for comparison the Linux 2.2.9 kernel is 13.2Mb as a .gz file and 10.7Mb as
a .bz2 file.
More information on bzip2 in general is available from:
http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
The Python bzip2 interface is in alpha form, and should be treated as such.
However, it compresses and decompresses standard bzip2 files and is
hopefully useful in it's current state. Two example programs which compress
and decompress .bz2 files are included.
The author is contactable at tratt(a)dcs.kcl.ac.uk.
Laurie
<P><A HREF="http://eh.org/~laurie/comp/python/pybzlib/">PyBZLlib
0.02b alpha</A> - experimental Python interface to the bzip2 compression
library. (29-Apr-99)
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Hello,
On Saturday, I got the print a new german Python book "Mit Python
programmieren" (I would translate it as "Programming with python"). I am
still waiting for the "official" announcement, of the book, but here is my
inofficial announcement. I am not one of the authors, but I read the book
several times as reviewer and I saw all the hard work the authors put into
the book ans the progress they made.... I became a very nice book and I
personally like the Tkinter introduction a lot.
http://starship.python.net/crew/scharf/Programmieren-mit-Python.html
Authors: Tobias Himstedt and Klaus Mänzel
Title: Mit Python programmieren
Subtitle: Einfuehrung und Anwendung skriptorientierter
Programmierung
Pages: 271
Prize: DM 68 (about $38)
ISBN: 3920993853 (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3920993853)
Publisher: dpunkt.verlag (http://www.dpunkt.de)
Until now, I was eager to have all books published on python
in my bookshelf. Looking at all the announcements, this will
soon become an expensive hobby ;-)
Michael
==
''''\ Michael Scharf
` c-@@ TakeFive Software
` > http://www.TakeFive.com
\_ V mailto:Michael_Scharf@TakeFive.co.at
<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/scharf/Programmieren-mit-Python.html">
New German Python Book</A> - Mit Python programmieren, by Tobias Himstedt and Klaus
Mänzel. (24-May-99)
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Hi everybody,
I just wanted to inform you of the current state of the single-file
easy-to-install Python interpreter. This is the current set of
binaries available:
cgipython-1.5.2-AIX-2-000771064C00-.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-FreeBSD-2.2.8-RELEASE-i386-i386.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE-i386-i386.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-FreeBSD-3.1-19990426-STABLE-i386-i386.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-HP-UX-A.09.03-9000_715-unknown.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-HP-UX-B.10.20-9000_782-unknown.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-IRIX-5.3-IP19-mips.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.0.34-i586-RedHat-5.1.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.0.35-i586-unknown.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.0.35-i686-unknown.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.0.36-i586-Debian-2.1.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.0.36-i586-unknown.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.2.7-i586-SuSE60.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-NetBSD-1.3.2-alpha.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-NetBSD-1.3.3-i386.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-SunOS-5.5.1-sun4u-sparc-alternate.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-SunOS-5.5.1-sun4u-sparc.gz
If you have access to other platforms not included in the
list, feel free to contribute a binary. Compiling the binary
is really easy and only takes about two minutes of your time
(plus some five minutes CPU time). All the details and links
to the binaries are available on the project web-page:
http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxCGIPython.html
BTW, the general technique used by the cgipython setup
should also be applicable on Windows platforms... maybe someone
could look into this and contribute a zipped exe file
for Win95/98/NT.
Note that even though these binaries are intended to ease
CGI program writing, they are also usable as normal
Python interpreters with the restriction that command
line arguments cannot be passed to the interpreter, e.g.
cgipython -u myscript.py does not work. This was done for
CGI security reasons to prevent attacks of the form
python -c "import os; os.system('rm -rf /')"
being sent to the interpreter via CGI.
Cheers,
==
Marc-Andre Lemburg
______________________________________________________________________
Y2000: 225 days left
Business: http://www.lemburg.com/
Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
<P><A HREF="http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxCGIPython.html">
mxCGIPython 1.5.2</A> - one-file Python interpreters, to simplify
running of CGI scripts. (20-May-99)
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Announcing
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Release 1.2alpha1 of informixdb, a DB-API 1.0 compliant package for
Informix:
http://starship.python.net/crew/sturner/informixdb.html
This is the first new release of informixdb since March 1997.
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Stephen J. Turner <sjturner(a)ix.netcom.com>
<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/sturner/informixdb.html">informixdb
1.2a1</A> - An Informix implementation of the Python Database API 1.0. (21-May-99)
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hi,
I have written a module win32netapi to provide simplified access to
various networking APIs (Net* functions) on windows NT. The module can
be downloaded from
http://members.tripod.com/asangdani/public/
It includes extensive documentation (html and ASCII) and examples.
Following are the contents of README included with the release :-
This python module is inspired by 'Win32::Lanman' module for Perl
written by Jens Helberg (jens.helberg(a)bosch.com). I have made no changes
to the basic interface. It's a port from perl XS to python extensions. I
have also used SWIG (Simple Wrapper Interface Generator) to simplify
some of the type mappings. SWIG can be freely downloaded from
(http://www.swig.org).
It implements most of the commonly used Net API's. Documentation about
these can be found at MSDN (http://www.microsoft.com/msdn). It works on
Windows NT 4.0 and Windows NT 5 (Now Win2K).
This software is used under the terms of GPL.
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).
First read the documentation in doc\win32netpi_doc.txt. It contains
information about building, installing and using the module. This file
was automatically generated by using SWIG's embeded documentation
facility. HTML documentation is also included with the distribution. The
sources are in "src" directory and the precompiled binaries for (NT 5)
are present in "bin" directory. I have not done much testing on NT4, but
all the APIs are supposed to be available on NT4 as well (according to
MSDN documentation!).
Most recent version is avaialable at:
http://members.tripod.com/asangdani/public/
I will fix bugs and support this module. Any suggestions and bug reports
are welcome. I will post all patches at the above site.
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<P><A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/asangdani/public/">win32netapi
1.0beta1</A> - simplified access to Windows NT 4/5 networking API
(Net* functions). (21-May-99)
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A new release of Mahogany has been made.
Binaries for Linux-x86-glibc2.0 and source are available immediately,
binaries for Solaris and Linux-axp as well as RedHat rpm and Debian
deb packages are following soon.
Announcing Mahogany Version 0.22a
=====================================================================
Mahogany is an OpenSource(TM) cross-platform mail and news client. It
is available for X11/Unix and MS Windows platforms, supporting a wide
range of protocols and standards, including POP3, IMAP and full MIME
support. Thanks to its built-in Python interpreter it can be extended
far beyond its original functionality.
Mahogany's wealth of features and ease of use make it one of the most
powerful clients available, providing a consistent and intuitive
interface across all supported platforms.
It aims at supporting GNOME (and KDE for that matter) and includes an
extendable address book system supporting hierarchical organisation of
entries, group aliases, searching the database and easy editing, with
support for other program`s address database formats. Currently
Mahogany`s native format and (X)Emacs` BBDB address books are
supported.
Mahogany is being developed using the free wxWindows application
framework, building on the GTK+ toolkit on Unix.
Mahogany is constantly being tested on Linux-x86, Linux-alpha,
Solaris-sparc and MS Windows. It should compile and work on any major
Unix platform. A binary release for MS Windows will follow soon.
CHANGES AGAINST RELEASE 0.21a:
=====================================================================
Release 0.22a is mainly a bugfix release against 0.21a.
- All known (crash-inducing) bugs fixed.
- Message editor/viewer improvements, adding clipboard support and
selections.
- Message editor bug fixes
- wxGTK layout bug fixes
- German, French, Spanish translations
- Text-search in messages
- Several minor usability fixes, sub-folder support fixed.
- Addressbook fixes
- TCP timeouts configurable
- Support for setting the Reply-To: header from
To: field in message replies.
- Minor addressbook bug fixes (better handling of special characters
in address or name)
DOWNLOAD
=====================================================================
http://mahogany.home.dhs.org/http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~karsten/Mahogany/
ftp://ronnie.phy.hw.ac.uk/pub/Mahogany/ (UK, Europe)
ftp://ftp.gdev.net/pub/Mahogany/ (US)
NEXT
=====================================================================
For the next release we are currently working on the following:
completion of filtering rules/scoring code
subscription management for NNTP/IMAP/newsspool
DND with KDE/Gnome filemanagers (now supported by wxGTK)
Templates/style-sheets for message composition and flexible reply handling
Messages sorting, threading, scoring and searching
multi-threading to avoid delays and timeouts
possibly also:
GPG/PGP support
built-in HTML viewer
Finish the new message editor code: rich-text editing
==
Karsten Ballüder http://Ballueder.home.dhs.org/ mailto:karste-@phy.hw.ac.uk
Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland
Tel. +44-(0)-131-4513068 Fax. +44-(0)-131-4513136
"In a world without fences, who needs Gates?"
<P><A HREF="http://mahogany.home.dhs.org/">Mahogany 0.22a</A> -
open-source graphical mail/news client for Unix and MS Windows,
using the wxWindows toolkit. (20-May-99)
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>From a web paradigm far far away...
[ANNOUNCEMENT TEXT]
Zope is a free, Open Source application server and portal toolkit used
to build, deploy and manage dynamic, high-performance Web sites. As a
true open source solution, Zope is available free of charge and comes
with comprehensive source code and a powerful array of application
development tools and utilities. Zope 2.0 measurably improves the
scalability and collaborative features of the original Zope Web
application platform.
Some of the new capabilities released with Zope 2 are:
* ZODB 3, the next generation of the Zope Object Database
* Z Classes, a new mechanism for building Zope applications
* WebDAV support
* ZServer, the integration of Zope and Medusa
Many other sundry significant items that were changed:
* Look and feel improvements,
* Tighter security,
* Simpler creation of Python products.
Unfortunately, there are a number of incompatabilities between Zope and
Python 1.5.2 that have been reported but not yet fixed. Zope 2.0 alpha
2, which will be released the week of May 26, will fix most or all of
these.
Zope 2.0.0 alpha 1, featuring the next generation of the Zope Object
Database, is now available at:
http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0a1
Among other things, this page gives a roadmap for the release of Zope
2.0.0.
An updated version of the Zope Object Database UML model is available
at:
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Models/ZODB
In keeping with Python tradition, Zope 2.0.0 alpha 1 is being released
as most of the Digital Creations engineers leave for Linux Expo and will
be away from email for several days.
Chris
==
| Christopher Petrilli Digital Creations
| petrilli(a)digicool.com http://www.digicool.com
<P><A HREF="http://www.zope.org/">Zope 2.0.0a1</A> - Zope is a free, open
source web application platform used for building high-performance,
dynamic web sites. (19-May-99)
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Sketch 0.6.0 - A vector drawing program
Sketch is a vector drawing program for Linux and other unices. Its user
interface is similar to the interfaces typically found in drawing
programs for MS Windows, i.e direct manipulation to move and transform
objects, the notion of a currently selected object, etc.
Sketch is implemented almost completely in python, with the rest written
in C for performance reasons. Sketch is still incomplete, but the
current versions are quite usable and stable, I think.
Changes since version 0.5.5:
* Support for non-english messages via gettext. So far, there's only
support for German.
* The AI-filters can handle embedded raster images to some degree
now, and the export filter has support for text.
License:
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Sketch is released under GNU Library General Public License.
Features:
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o Drawing primitives:
o Rectangles
o Ellipses
o Bezier curves
o Bitmap images: JPEG, GIF,...
(all types the Python Imaging Library can read)
o Encapsulated PostScript
o Text
o All objects, including images and text, can be rotated,
scaled, sheared, etc. (all affine transformations are
possible)
o Gradient fills
o Special Effects and Features:
o Use rectangles, ellipses and bezier objects as guides
o Blend Groups: Automatically updated interpolations of
arbitrary objects
o Text can be converted to bezier objects.
o Text along Path
o Exports Encapsulated PostScript and Adobe Illustrator files
o Imports XFig, Adobe Illustrator, Corel CMX and WMF files
For more information, have a look at the sketch webpage.
Contact:
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Web: http://www.online.de/home/sketch
Email: sketch(a)online.de
<P><A HREF="http://www.online.de/home/sketch/">Sketch 0.6.0</A>
- a vector drawing program for Unix written in Python. (19-May-99)
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