Mailman 3 May 1999 - Python-announce-list

New french-speaking mailing-list about Python / Nouvelle liste de
by Olivier Berger May 31, 1999

May 31, 1999

(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 … [View More]

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PyBZLib 0.02b alpha
by Laurence Tratt May 31, 1999

May 31, 1999

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; … [View More]

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New german python book (Mit Python programmieren) is out!
by Michael Scharf May 26, 1999

May 26, 1999

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://… [View More]

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README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (May 24)
by Mike Orr May 25, 1999

May 25, 1999

Python-URL is still looking for volunteers willing to create a weekly edition of this document. This will be a one- to two-month commitment. If interested, contact Mike Orr <mso(a)mso.oz.net>. ** ANY URL STARTING WITH "http://search.dejanews.com/msgid.xp?MID=", ENDS IN "%3e" **, even if it appears split into two lines on your screen. --------------- Python 1.5.2 (13-Apr-1999) is the current version. This, the new JPython website and the new Starship site are linked from the main … [View More]

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mxCGIPython project - Update
by M.-A. Lemburg May 25, 1999

May 25, 1999

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.… [View More]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/ <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) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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informixdb 1.2a1
by Stephen J. Turner May 23, 1999

May 23, 1999

Announcing ---------- 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. == Stephen J. Turner <sjturner(a)ix.netcom.com> <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) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.… [View More]

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win32netapi module -version 1.0beta1 (on Windows NT4/5)
by Asang Dani May 23, 1999

May 23, 1999

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 … [View More]

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Mahogany 0.22a
by Karsten Ballueder May 23, 1999

May 23, 1999

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, … [View More]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?" <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) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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Zope 2.0.0a1 alpha release
by Chris Petrilli May 23, 1999

May 23, 1999

>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 … [View More]

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Sketch 0.6.0 - A vector drawing program
by Bernhard Herzog May 23, 1999

May 23, 1999

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 … [View More]

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Fnorb 1.01 - A Python CORBA ORB
by Derek Thomson May 18, 1999

May 18, 1999

Announcing the release of version 1.01 of 'Fnorb' a Python CORBA ORB. This is a minor release, intended to fix two outstanding problems. 1) corrected IOR unmarshalling. This error had caused many people to have problems using Fnorb with Visibroker's naming service. 2) added handling of memory allocation errors during unmarshalling. Get more details and download Fnorb from:- http://www.dstc.edu.au/Fnorb c/o The Fnorb Development Team ---- From the Fnorb README ---- What is Fnorb? … [View More]Fnorb is a CORBA 2.0 ORB written in Python (with just the eensiest-teensiest bit of C code for marshalling and parsing ;^). Python is a mature, interpreted, object-oriented programming language with powerful high-level datatypes that make it ideally suited as a scripting language for CORBA. Best of all Python is free so check it out! Like ILU from Xerox PARC, Fnorb gives the Python programmer access to the wonderful world of CORBA. It supports all CORBA 2.0 datatypes (including Any's) and provides a full implementation of IIOP. Unlike ILU, Fnorb is Python and CORBA/IDL specific which makes it simple, light-weight, and easy to install and use. Using Fnorb, you no longer have to use <insert your least favourite language here - who said C++ ;^)> to write CORBA clients and servers - you can now use, yep you guessed it, Python! This makes Fnorb ideal for prototyping complex CORBA architectures, for use as a scripting tool, and for building test harnesses for all your CORBA development projects. The Python language mapping used by Fnorb is based on the 'living' document that is being prepared by members of the DO-SIG. One goal of Fnorb is to allow the Python community to experiment with the mapping before we attempt to set it in stone via the OMG standardisation process. == __________________________________________________________ Derek Thomson derek(a)dstc.com DSTC Pty Ltd http://dstc.com University of Qld, 4072 tel +61 7 3365 4310 AUSTRALIA fax +61 7 3365 4311 http://dstc.com/Fnorb <A HREF="http://www.dstc.edu.au/Fnorb/">Fnorb 1.01</A> - a CORBA 2.0 ORB for Python written mostly in Python (bug fix release). (17-May-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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Scintilla 1.0 and SciTE 1.0
by neilh＠hare.net.au May 18, 1999

May 18, 1999

Announce: Release of Scintilla 1.0 and SciTE 1.0 Scintilla is a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK+. SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. The name of the editor application has changed from "Tide" to "SciTE" to avoid confusion with a TCL based IDE. Scintilla and SciTE are no longer beta - this means that I think they are fairly stable and are unlikely to crash under normal use. There will certainly still be bugs in there so watch out for them and please send me mail … [View More]

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Zope Weekly News - Wed, 12 May 1999
by Markus Fleck May 17, 1999

May 17, 1999

http://www.lwn.net/1999/0513/a/zope.html > > From: Amos Latteier <Amos(a)digicool.com> > To: "'editor(a)lwn.net'" <editor(a)lwn.net> > Subject: Zope Weekly News > Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 21:55:16 -0400 > > Hello: > > It's been a pretty busy week in Zopeland. Lots of announcements, lots of > activity on the Zope Documentation Project list, lots of questions, and > even some answers. > > (Note: Unfortunately this week there is a problem with … [View More]

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CSV 0.14
by Laurence Tratt May 17, 1999

May 17, 1999

A simple but effective CSV (Comma Separated Value) library for reading, manipulating and outputting CSV files is now available from: http://eh.org/~laurie/comp/python/csv/ It's at version 0.14 (25 April 1999) and is distributed under a Python-esque license. The package includes a simple to follow, fully commented test program which users have found to be a useful and suitable introduction to using the library. CSV files are essentially the lowest common denominator for databases, and are … [View More]

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HTMLgen discussion group
by Robin Friedrich May 17, 1999

May 17, 1999

HTMLgen is a class library allowing you to synthesize HTML pages from Python programs. A new discussion group focused on this module and its application and improvement has been created on eGroups.com (htmlgen(a)eGroups.com for list members). If you would like to join the discussions just visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/htmlgen/info.html == Robin K. Friedrich Houston, Texas Python Professional Services, Inc. friedrich(a)pythonpros.com http://www.pythonpros.com <P&… [View More]

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AmigaPython 1.5.1 build 18
by Irmen de Jong May 17, 1999

May 17, 1999

ANNOUNCING: AmigaPython 1.5.1 - build 18 The Amiga version of Python. by Irmen de Jong - irmen(a)bigfoot.com WHAT IT IS: This is the Python interpreter (version 1.5.1) for AmigaDOS. It is provided as an easy to install package. WHAT'S NEW ? - Various small bugfixes - New strftime function - I-Net225 version is available (beta!) - Enhancements to ARexx modules. WHERE CAN I GET IT ? >From Aminet <http://www.aminet.org/~aminet/&… [View More]

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little language framework 0.4
by aycock＠csc.UVic.CA May 17, 1999

May 17, 1999

The latest version of a framework for implementing little languages, in 100% pure Python. New features: - A class which automagically constructs either parse trees or abstract syntax trees (ASTs) with minimal effort. - A class for tree pattern matching, good for sophisticated code generation or interpreter implementation. Old features: - A generic scanner class. - A generic parser class, which parses any context-free grammar. - A class for traversing ASTs, useful in semantic … [View More]

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ExpectPy 1.8 - Expect extension for Python
by Michael P. Reilly May 11, 1999

May 11, 1999

[This was originally posted April 26th, but didn't get to the moderator.] I've finally gotten time to work on the next release of ExpectPy; the release is also delayed so I could test against Python 1.5.2. The major change is the addition of a simple interact function (and method) which links the I/O of two data streams (sockets, file, spawned objects, etc.). There is also a new interface for accessing the Expect variables and a stty method. The documentation is bundled alongside the … [View More]extension tarfile. I'll be making Python-standard (LaTeX based) docs soon. The new version replaces the old at the URL http://www.shore.net/~arcege/python/ExpectPy/. My address is arcege(a)shore.net. I'm sure there will be some bugs (I just found a minor one this morning and have already documented it); please let me know what they are. I have been asked if ExpectPy runs on NT. There is no official, supported version of Expect on NT, but someone has ported it; I have no plans to port ExpectPy to a NT release. I'm neither a NT programmer, nor (as a release manager) do I like the idea of making an unofficial port on top of an unofficial port. -Arcege Changes since 1.7.1: * Move shared declarations into header files (a sign that the module is getting larger). * Fix a number of pathname problems within the configure.in and Makefile.in files. * Allow --with-python=<dir> to specify a build directory instead of an installation. * Add a rudimentary version of Expect's interact function. This is added as a module function and a method to spawn and spawnfile objects. * The module is now "Python-thread safe". * Add new interface to Expect variables: settings. The old function "set" still exists for backward compatibility. * Add a method to allow changes to terminal parameters (baudrate, raw, no-echo). * Use patchlevel.h protocol for version number changes. * Have configure better determine what can be built. * Bring documentation up to date and fix some typos. * Add more __doc__ strings. <A HREF="http://www.shore.net/~arcege/python/ExpectPy/">ExpectPy 1.8</A> - Python adaptation of Don Libes's "Expect" library for automation of interactive UNIX processes. (10-May-99) == ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Michael P. Reilly, Release Engineer | Email: arcege(a)shore.net | | Salem, Mass. USA 01970 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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python https support
by Val Shkolnikov May 10, 1999

May 10, 1999

The Secure Socket Layer (SSL) wrapper (http://home.att.net/~nvsoft1/ssl_wrapper.html) allows accessing https://... URLs from Python. <A HREF="http://home.att.net/~nvsoft1/ssl_wrapper.html">ssl_wrapper</A> - support for https:// URLs using SSL. (09-May-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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wxPython 2.0b9
by Robin Dunn May 8, 1999

May 8, 1999

A new version of wxPython is available at http://alldunn.com/wxPython/. wxPython is an extension module for Python that wraps the wxWindows cross platform GUI library, and is quickly becoming a very popular alternative to Tkinter and PythonWin. Currently supported GUIs are Win32 and GTK/X-Windows. This release fixes a number of bugs and other minor problems. In addition support for wxWindow's GL Canvas has been added, as well as a new Demo Framework for showing off and to assist in learning … [View More]

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"sgrep" wrapper module
by Darrell May 8, 1999

May 8, 1999

[Moderator's note: "sgrep (structured grep) is a tool for searching text files and filtering text streams using structural criteria. The data model of sgrep is based on regions, which are non-empty substrings of text."] I swiged sgrep into python. This is all very much just a first crack to see how it would work. Modified sgrep a bit to avoid reading files from disk,fixed a memory leak and a GP fault. The test file was 4.7meg of SGML. These tests aren't very scientific but if I waited until … [View More]everything was perfect, that might be a while. Source with VC6 work space and Linux Makefile http://www.dorb.com/darrell/ Be sure to look at this for new features. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~jjaakkol/sgrep/README.txt --Darrell <A HREF="http://www.dorb.com/darrell/">sgrep wrapper</A> - module to use the <A HREF="http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~jjaakkol/sgrep/README.txt">sgrep</A> structured text/*ML search tool from within Python. (06-May-99) ##### Test sgrep Used 31 meg. The results are stored in an array class. >>> import time >>> from sgrep import * >>> args=['','"Auto"'] >>> t1= time.time() >>> buf=open('dism.dsr').read() >>> l=[] >>> for x in range(100): ... l.append(sgrepArgs(args,buf)) ... >>> print time.time()-t1 31.4170000553 >>> ##### Test re Used 63 meg. The results are stored in a python list with python objects. ##### I believe thats the diff in memory and partly performance. >>> l=[] >>> import time, re >>> from sgrep import * >>> args=['','"Auto"'] >>> t1= time.time() >>> buf=open('dism.dsr').read() >>> l=[] >>> for x in range(100): ... l.append(re.findall("Auto",buf)) ... >>> print time.time()-t1 47.5 ###### Test sgrep with a little more complicated test >>> import time >>> from sgrep import * >>> args=['','("AutoTagger".."/AutoTagger") containing "para"'] >>> t1= time.time() >>> cc=sgrepArgs(args,'now is the now time') >>> buf=open('dism.dsr').read() >>> l=[] >>> for x in range(100): ... l.append(sgrepArgs(args,buf)) ... >>> print time.time()-t1 33.1720000505 >>> >>> >>> import time >>> from sgrep import * >>> args=['','"para" not in ("AutoTagger".."/AutoTagger")'] >>> t1= time.time() >>> buf=open('dism.dsr').read() >>> l=[] >>> for x in range(100): ... l.append(sgrepArgs(args,buf)) ... >>> print time.time()-t1 33.2180000544 >>> print len(l[0]) 6424 >>> >>> >>> import time >>> from sgrep import * >>> args=['','("AutoTagger".."/AutoTagger") not containing "para"'] >>> t1= time.time() >>> buf=open('dism.dsr').read() >>> l=[] >>> for x in range(100): ... l.append(sgrepArgs(args,buf)) ... >>> print time.time()-t1 33.1720000505 >>> print len(l[0]) 295 >>> >>> -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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Zope Weekly News - Wed, 5 May 1999
by Markus Fleck May 6, 1999

May 6, 1999

http://www.lwn.net/1999/0506/a/zopenews.html > > From: Amos Latteier <Amos(a)digicool.com> > To: "'editor(a)lwn.net'" <editor(a)lwn.net> > Subject: Zope Weekly News > Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 22:04:39 -0400 > > Hello, > > The major news this week is the availability of the first preview > release of Zope 1.11.0. This release introduces a lot of exciting new > stuff, including many enhancements contributed by community members. > > * Zope 1.… [View More]

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Mailman 1.0rc1
by Barry A. Warsaw May 6, 1999

May 6, 1999

Mailman 1.0rc1 is the first release candidate for the final 1.0 release. This version includes many bug fixes, and new logos by The Dragon de Monsyne (which recently won our logo contest). Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives each mailing list a web page, and allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. over the Web . Even the list manager can administer his or her list entirely from the Web. … [View More]

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[fm] IcePref 0.6
by Markus Fleck May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/04/24/925006702.html > > IcePref 0.6 > Dave Mortensen - April 24th 1999, 22:18 EST > > IcePref is a graphical configuration utility for Ice WM. > Specifically, it handles the options used by icewm 0.9.36 and > 0.9.37, although it should be usable with some other versions as > well. It is written in python and uses the Gtk toolkit. It is > currently capable of configuring all of the settings contained in > the '… [View More]

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[fm] PyGCS 1.3.1
by Markus Fleck May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/04/20/924591172.html > > PyGCS 1.3.1 > Jeff Blaine - April 20th 1999, 02:52 EST > > PyGCS is a very stripped down MUD-like chat-server written entirely in > Python. It has a single "room" and no large database to keep in memory > and on disk. PyGCS has no embedded programming language. PyGCS is > ideally meant to be a small multi-user real-time chat system for people > who have a need to talk to more than one person at a … [View More]

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[fm] pyrpg 0.0.2
by Markus Fleck May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/04/17/924371324.html: > > pyrpg 0.0.2 > Brian Blackwell - April 17th 1999, 13:48 EST > > Pyrpg is a project to create a Python-based 3D role playing game > engine, similar to those used in The Bard's Tale or Might and Magic. > It is currently in the very early stages of development, and the > only useable part is a simple 3D maze which you can walk through. In > the future, it will be able to handle party statistics, … [View More]

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Build 125 of Python Extensions for Windows available.
by Mark Hammond May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

There is a new build of the Python Extensions for Windows available at http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond All sources are also updated. This is largely a "stability" release over build 124. The main focus has been on fixing bugs, and new functionality has only been added where the chances of breakage are tiny. The key changes are listed below. If there are any problems, please let me know ASAP. Thanks, Mark. * Installation changes: Installer now seeks out duplicate winerror.py … [View More]

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Programme final JPF001 (Journee Python France)
by Marc Poinot May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Vous trouverez le programme final de la Journee Python France du 28 Mai 1999 a... http://www.onera.fr/congres/jpf001/index.html All European are welcomed at JPF001, please have a look at the final programme (URL above). Marcvs [alias Bien entendu, sont bienvenus les US citizens, and people coming from Africa, Asia, Australia (Hi Australian Pythoners!), Canada, India, ...] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc POINOT … [View More]

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mxCGIPython Version 0.2.0
by M.-A. Lemburg May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

ANNOUNCING: mxCGIPython Version 0.2.0 Setup scripts to build one-file easy-to-install Python interpreters >From the web-page: If you are in the CGI scripting business, then you know how hard it can sometimes be getting the sysadmins to install Python for you. I ran into such situations a few times. Fortunately it's not a big problem, if you can get a grip on a pre-compiled binary for the machine the ISP is … [View More]

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Audiopy 1.0
by Barry A. Warsaw May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Audiopy is a program to control the Solaris audio device. You can select both the input and output devices, and set the output gain. Audiopy can be run either as a stand-alone command line script, or as a Tkinter based GUI application. Audiopy should work with any version of Python after 1.5, but AFAIK only works on the Solaris operating system (ports to e.g. Linux would be appreciated!). Note that your version of Python must have been built with the sunaudiodev module enabled. It is not … [View More]

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Pynche 1.0
by Barry A. Warsaw May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Pynche is a 100% pure Python Tkinter based color editor, with a funky different kind of way of selecting colors. Pynche works with Python 1.5.x and Tk 8.0.x on both Un*x and Windows, although you probably need a 24 bit screen to get the best effect. Pynche also provides an API similar to the standard tkColorChooser module for embedding in other applications (e.g, Grail 0.6 uses Pynche as its color editor). Version 1.0 is an update from the version distributed with Python 1.5.2 (in Tools/… [View More]

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Release of Scintilla 0.91 and Tide 0.91
by neilh＠hare.net.au May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Announce: Release of Scintilla 0.91 and Tide 0.91 Scintilla is a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK+. Tide is a Tiny Integrated Development Environment based upon Scintilla. This is a major release of Scintilla, containing GTK+/Linux support for the first time. Most of the features of the Windows version are working in the GTK+ version and I hope to achieve feature parity soon. Because of a change to the messages used to send events from Scintilla to the containing … [View More]

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Python documentation updated!
by Fred L. Drake May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

The documentation for Python 1.5.2 is now available. The online version is available at: http://www.python.org/doc/ Archives of the documentation in HTML, LaTeX, PDF, and PostScript formats are available at the same location, and may also be downloaded via FTP from: ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/doc/ If you have any questions or comments on the documentation, please send email to: python-docs(a)python.org Many modules have been documented (166 total!), including both new and … [View More]

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ldap-client-cgi.py 0.3
by Michael Stroeder May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

HI! I want to announce the a new version of ldap-client-cgi.py, a small WWW2LDAP-Gateway written in Python (you might have guessed it). It's available for free from http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/ldap-client-cgi/ Changes: - New command 'print' generates HTML page for a easy printable presentation of big lists. You can configure the output easily to match your needs with a HTML template. - Some minor bug fixes. - Some minor HTML improvements. Ciao, Michael. <A HREF="… [View More]

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pyca-0.4.1
by Michael Stroeder May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

HI! I would like to announce a new beta release of pyca, a set of scripts and CGI-BIN programs for setting up and running a certificate authority using OpenSSL. See http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/pyca/ for further details. Unfortunately thereŽs no real documentation available up to now and thereŽs still a lot to be done. Ciao, Michael. <A HREF="http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/pyca/">pyca-0.4.1</A> - scripts and CGI-BIN programs for setting up and running a … [View More]

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Gato 0.9 - Graph Animation Toolbox
by Alexander Schliep May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Announing Gato version 0.9 (first public beta) If you are interested in graph algorithms, teaching algorithms or programming in general, a graph editor, or just want to see an application written in Python using Tkinter, which does more than the Tkinter demos, check out: http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~gato/ Gato - the Graph Animation Toolbox - is a software which visualizes algorithms on graphs. Graphs are mathematical objects consisting of vertices and edges connecting pairs of … [View More]vertices: think of cities as vertices and inter-states as edges connecting two cities. Algorithms might find a shortest path - the fastest route -- or a minimal spanning tree or solve one of other interesting problems on graphs: maximal-flow, weighted and non-weighted matching and min-cost flow. Visualization means linking cause - the statements of an algorithm - immediately to an effect - changes to the graph the algorithm has as its input - by terms of blinking, changing colors and other visual effects. Gato has been developed at the ZAIK/ZPR (see http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/ABS), an institute at the University of Cologne (http://www.uni-koeln.de/). Gato is (c) 1998, 1999 ZAIK/ZPR, Universität zu Köln and distributed under the Gnu Library General Public License. Gato is used in CATBox (the Combinatorial Algorithm Toolbox - an interactive course on discrete mathematics, see http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~catbox) to be published by Springer Verlag and has been used for courses on algorithms - both in the Computer Science and the Mathematics department - taught at the University of Cologne. The package also contains Gred, the graph editor. Release Notes: - This release is geared towards Pythoneers. Only the second public release (0.95 or so) will also be announced in comp.theory etc. - There is no documentation. - Most algorithms implemented in Gato so far are part of CATBox and are under copyright by Springer Verlag and will only be available through the textbook/software bundle CATBox. Currently we can only distribute a breadth- and a depth-first-search. - Algorithms are just python snippets (even when they look like textbook pseudocode). Yes, you could write your own. - There will be a more involved algorithm (probably Max-Flow) distributed as a demo for CATBox at a later time. Comments, bug reports etc. are all more than wellcome: Please send mail to gato(a)zpr.uni-koeln.de. Thanks, Alexander Schliep PS: I would like to use the opportunity to thank all the Pythoneers here in comp.lang.python and the people writing documentation and/or samples for Tkinter and Python. == Alexander Schliep schliep(a)zpr.uni-koeln.de ZPR/ZAIK Tel: +49-221-470-6011 (w) University of Cologne FAX: +49-221-470-5160 Weyertal 80 http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~schliep 50931 Cologne, Germany Tel: +49-231-143083 (h) <A HREF="http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~gato">Gato 0.9</A> - the Graph Animation Toolbox for teaching graph algorithms, displaying and editing graphs. (29-April-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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HTML Help for Python 1.5.2
by hernanf＠my-dejanews.com May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Hi, The latest version of Microsoft HTML Help of Python 1.5.2 documentation is at http://www.orgmf.com.ar/condor/pytstuff.html It's completely free. As you all know, the docs of Python are distributed in a bunch of html files. With MS HTML Help file you get all the docs in 1 file of 1.5MB that has content tree and full text search. Special thanks to Dale Nagata (Burnaby, Canada) for doing ALL the job for the 1.5.2 version. Best Regards, Hernan. <A HREF="http://www.orgmf.com.ar/… [View More]

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WebLog 1.0 - Web logfile parsing and manipulation
by Mark Nottingham May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Announcing WebLog 1.0 The WebLog package of modules and classes enables Python programmers to easily parse and manipulate several kinds of Web logfiles (including Squid proxy logs). With them, you can parse, combine, filter, resolve, and access components of the URLs within, among other things. All of this comes in an interface that is easy to use for the programmer. Examples of use are provided in the distribution. For a more complex example, see http://www.pobox.com/~mnot/squij/ WebLog is … [View More]

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mxODBC Package - Version 1.1.0
by M.-A. Lemburg May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

ANNOUNCING: mxODBC Version 1.1.0 A Python Extension Package providing a generic Interface to ODBC 2.0 API compliant Database Drivers or Managers WHAT IT IS: mxODBC is an extension package that provides a Python Database API compliant interface to ODBC 2.0 capable database drivers and managers. In addition to the capabilities provided through the standard API it also provides a rich set of catalog … [View More]methods that allow you to scan the database for tables, procedures, etc. Furthermore, it uses the mxDateTime package for date/time value interfacing eliminating most of the problems these types normally introduce. mxODBC is known to work with Adabas, MySQL, iODBC Unix ODBC Manager, Solid, Sybase, OpenLink and Intersolv ODBC drivers, Oracle/NT, EasySofts ODBC-ODBC bridge and the Windows ODBC Manager. This covers pretty much the whole range of well known relational database engines and gives you all the connectivity you'll need for doing great database work in Python. WHAT'S NEW ? The 1.1.0 version is the start of moving from DB API 1.0 to DB API 2.0. Not all changes have been implemented yet, but most of the interface was overhauled in order to become DB API 2.0 compatible. Since mxODBC has been using an extended version of the DB API standard for some time already the changes are kept to a minimum. See the documentation for more details. Starting with this version, mxODBC knows about two different ways to bind Python data to SQL statement parameters: The first was in use ever since the first version: SQL type binding. In this mode the database is queried for the data type and the Python parameters are then converted into those types. The new binding mode in this version is Python type binding. Here, the Python programmer has to know which types are to be used for the parameters and the conversion is left to the database. This is of course not as elegant as the first method, but the only way to get some database to work together with mxODBC (since their drivers are missing an important ODBC API). As a result, mxODBC can now also be used to connect to MS Access. In fact, the archive contains a precompiled binary which will let you start working right away. To test your database's capabilities (and the mxODBC connection to it), the package now comes with a generic test script. This provides two features: 1. column type detection and 2. memory leak detection. Note that there are no known leaks in mxODBC; OTOH, several ODBC drivers do leak. WHERE CAN I GET IT ? The full documentation and instructions for downloading and installing can be found at: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxODBC.html The mxDateTime package needed for mxODBC can be found at: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxDateTime.html WHAT DOES IT COST ? mxODBC comes with a slightly modified Python-style license: Usage is free for non-commercial and commercial internal use. Redistribution of the package in commercial products requires a separate license and will only be free if the product itself is free. Detailed license information is available at: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxODBC-License.html WHERE CAN I GET SUPPORT ? I am offering commercial support for this package through Python Professional Services Inc. (http://www.pythonpros.com). Look on their support pages for details or contact me directly. REFERENCE: <A HREF="http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxODBC.html"> mxODBC 1.1.0</A> - ODBC Interface. (27-Apr-99) == Marc-Andre Lemburg Y2000: 248 days left --------------------------------------------------------------------- : Python Pages >>> http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/ : --------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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Mahogany 0.21a
by Karsten Ballueder May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Announcing Mahogany Version 0.21a ===================================================================== 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 … [View More]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 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 tested on the 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 appear with the next release. CHANGES ===================================================================== Apart from bug fixes, the following major additions are new in this release: + working IMAP, NNTP and newsspool support + improved message editor + much better configurability + auto-collection of mails from multiple incoming folders + support for faxes received from EFax.com + improved address auto-collection + more support for slow connections + many user interface improvements + gtk 1.2.x support DOWNLOAD ===================================================================== http://mahogany.home.dhs.org/ http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~karsten/Mahogany/ ftp://ronnie.phy.hw.ac.uk/pub/Mahogany/ ftp://ftp.gdev.net/pub/Mahogany/ NEXT ===================================================================== We have another release, this time including a Windows version, planned for the beginning of June. For this 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) - Finish the new message editor code: selections, cut&paste, rich-text editing - Templates/style-sheets for message composition and flexible reply handling - Windows version release (End of May?) - Messages sorting, threading, scoring and searching - multi-threading to avoid delays and timeouts - GPG/PGP support - built-in HTML viewer == Karsten Ballüder http://Ballueder.home.dhs.org/ mailto:karsten@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?" <A HREF="http://mahogany.home.dhs.org/">Mahogany 0.21a</A> - open-source graphical mail/news client for Unix and MS Windows, using the wxWindows toolkit. (12-Apr-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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New release of pygtk-0.6.0 and gnome-python-1.0.2
by James Henstridge May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

I have made new releases of pygtk (my bindings for the GTK+ widget toolkit for X windows) and gnome-python (my bindings for the base libraries of GNOME (the GNU network object model environment)). These packages allow you to write GTK+ or GNOME applications easily in python. Note that the gnome-python package contains pygtk, so there is no point in downloading both packages. There are a number of bugs fixed in this release, but the main new feature is that the GTK main loop no longer blocks … [View More]

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rsiidl module V0.01 released (interface with RSI's IDL programs)
by Holger Duerer May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

This is to announce the first release of a simple python module to interface with Reseach Systems's IDL programs. (IDL is their visualisation program and has nothing to do with CORBA IDL etc.) This first version allows only cooperation with the idlrpc server and only allows setting variables and executing commands in the server. (That is all I needed so far.) You will need IDL, NumPy and swig installed to build the module. Find this (and hopefully later versions) on my WWW page on the … [View More]

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Hear ye! Snippets! Python-DX 1.5.2!
by Hans Nowak May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Howdy y'all, A short announcement: *) Python-DX, my Python version for DOS, is now updated to 1.5.2 (was: 1.5). The binaries are there, I will probably upload some makefiles too, and am still thinking about uploading the complete source somewhere (but I don't have so much homepage space, and the code really isn't that different from the original...) Go to http://www.cuci.nl/~hnowak/html/python-dx.html *) The Python Snippets page has been updated. It now has 62 snippets. Not really a … [View More]

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LLNL distribution 11 available
by Paul F. Dubois May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

xfiles.llnl.gov and ftp-icf.llnl.gov are now back up, and I have fought my way back through the security changes so I was able to fix the links to make them point to version 11. Versions 9 and 10 are also available via the ftp site. At version 11 the Windows distribution changes from a .exe file (an installer) to a .zip file that has a simple installation script you run with Python. This installation procedure requires Python 1.5. If you do not have Python 1.5 you will have to install by hand … [View More]

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Python for OpenVMS
by claird＠Starbase.NeoSoft.COM May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

See <URL:http://www.decus.de/~zessin/docu/refman/INTRO_REF.HTML>. I have no connection with this project, apart from enthusiasm. I'm posting this notice only because the project aparts to have the marketing effectiveness the world has come to expect of DEC. I haven't even yet taken the minimal step of contacting the maintainer, which I'm doing just now. Thanks to Geoff Eldridge, who reported on it in <URL:http://www.elj.com/>. == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.… [View More]

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