Mailman 3 May 1999 - Python-announce-list

Pynche 1.0
by Barry A. Warsaw 05 May '99

05 May '99

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/pynche). It adds a few new features, such as the ability to load different color name databases. Included are databases containing the "web-safe" colors, the HTML 4.0 color names, two files of "browser-safe" color names, and the X11 color names. More information is available on my "PyWare" page http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/software/pyware.html -Barry bwarsaw(a)python.org <a href="http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/software/pyware.html"> Pynche 1.0</a> - a Tkinter based color editor. (01-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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Release of Scintilla 0.91 and Tide 0.91
by neilh＠hare.net.au 05 May '99

05 May '99

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 application, this release is not completely compatible with the current build 124 of PythonWin. The oncoming PythonWin build 125 should be compatible with Scintilla 0.91. Web site: http://hare.net.au/~neilh/ScintillaTide.html Scintilla and Tide come with complete C++ source code. The license for using Scintilla and Tide is similar to that of Python containing very few restrictions, and allowing use in any free project or commercial product. Neil Hodgson neilh(a)hare.net.au <A HREF="http://hare.net.au/~neilh/ScintillaTide.html">Scintilla/Tide 0.91</A> - a source code editing component and tiny demonstration IDE, for Win32 and X11/GTK+. (30-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 ------------------------------------------------------------

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Python documentation updated!
by Fred L. Drake 05 May '99

05 May '99

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 old modules. There have been some additional refinements of the "look" of the online version, especially for those of you with CSS enabled in your Web browsers. There is also more extensive hyperlinking within the Python Library Reference for your convenience. A new document, "Documenting Python", is now included. Though still young, this is a useful reference for documentation contributors. It includes a great deal of information on the markup used for the Python documentation, as well as a discussion of where we'll go from here. Windows users: If you installed Python using the installer rather than by building from source, you can get the updated documentation by downloading the HTML archive and unpacking it into the "Doc" directory of your installation. Some re-organization of the documentation area on the Web site should make it easier to locate and download documentation. Thanks go out to all the individuals who have contributed sections or sent in comments and bug reports; this release of the documentation is substantially better thanks to the efforts of the Python community! Enjoy! -Fred == Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake(a)acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives -- ----------- 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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ldap-client-cgi.py 0.3
by Michael Stroeder 05 May '99

05 May '99

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="http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/ldap-client-cgi/"> ldap-client-cgi.py 0.3</A> - LDAP web client. (29-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 ------------------------------------------------------------

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pyca-0.4.1
by Michael Stroeder 05 May '99

05 May '99

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 certificate authority using OpenSSL. (29-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 ------------------------------------------------------------

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Gato 0.9 - Graph Animation Toolbox
by Alexander Schliep 05 May '99

05 May '99

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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------

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HTML Help for Python 1.5.2
by hernanf＠my-dejanews.com 05 May '99

05 May '99

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/condor/pytstuff.html">MS HTML Help of Python 1.5.2 Docs</A> - Python's 1.5.2 documentation in MS Help format: 1 file with full text search. (29-Apr-99) == Hernán Martínez Foffani hernanf(a)my-dejanews.com -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own -- ----------- 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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WebLog 1.0 - Web logfile parsing and manipulation
by Mark Nottingham 05 May '99

05 May '99

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 free for any use; see the contained license. If you find any bugs, unexpected behaviors or have a suggestion, please e-mail mailto:mnot@pobox.com. Version 1.0 of the WebLog package can be downloaded from the following URL: http://www.pobox.com/~mnot/script/python/WebLog/ Version 1.0 adds buffered readline() for better performance, and parsing of full_mime_hdrs in Squid logs. <A HREF="http://www.pobox.com/~mnot/script/python/WebLog/">WebLog 1.0</A> - Web logfile parsing and manipulation classes. (28-Apr-99) Mark Nottingham, Melbourne Australia mnot(a)pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~mnot/ -- ----------- 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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mxODBC Package - Version 1.1.0
by M.-A. Lemburg 05 May '99

05 May '99

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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------

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Mahogany 0.21a
by Karsten Ballueder 05 May '99

05 May '99

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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------

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