Mailman 3 June 1999 - Python-announce-list

mxODBC Package - Version 1.1.1
by M.-A. Lemburg June 23, 1999

June 23, 1999

ANNOUNCING: mxODBC Version 1.1.1 A Python Extension Package providing a generic Interface to ODBC 2.x 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.x 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/Merant 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 1.1.1 version fixes a few small bugs with Solid and Access and includes an improved test script that allows checking the database connection as well as the database's capabilities. The subpackages for EasySoft, MySQL and iODBC were updated to the latest available versions of the drivers/managers. Some helper functions for pretty printing result sets have also made their way into the package. 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 1.1.1</A> - ODBC Interface. (11-Jun-99) == Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Y2000: 203 days left Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/ -- ----------- 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: Computer programming for everybody
by Markus Fleck June 23, 1999

June 23, 1999

Computer programming for everybody. Guido van Rossum, along with a few other collaborators, sent in a proposal [1] to DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) entitled "Computer Programming for Everybody." The purpose is to make programming accessible to a much larger portion of the population through the creation of an appropriate set of tools and training materials. "We compare mass ability to write and modify software with mass literacy, and expect that equally fundamental changes to society may ensue." The language of choice, of course, will be Python. This looks to be an interesting project. -- http://lwn.net/1999/0610/devel.phtml [1] http://www.python.org/doc/essays/everybody.html -- ----------- 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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PyKstat 0.01 - Solaris kstat(3k) access
by William Annis June 10, 1999

June 10, 1999

I have finally decided to release PyKstat, a Python interface to the Solaris kstat(3k) API. The package can be found at http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~annis/creations/pykstat.html Here is the README file which comes with the package... This is the initial release of a Python interface to the Solaris kstat API. I recommend checking out the man pages for information on the C API. This will only work for Solaris, and has been tested on Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1, and 2.6 for SPARC Solaris, and 2.6 for the Intel version of Solaris, using Python 1.5.1 and 1.5.2. * Why did I do this? I am currently re-implementing a machine monitoring system. The original version, written in Perl, has to fork off and parse the output from various system data tools, such as iostat, vmstat, uptime, etc. As it turns out, the vast majority of this data -- and a whole lot more -- is available via the kstat(3k) interface. I wanted to be able to get all this data without forking. * How did I do this? The PyKstat package has several parts, starting with a helper library in C wrapping kstat into something more friendly. The next layer is the lowest Python layer, and is generated by SWIG. I distribute the SWIG generated wrappers, so you do not need SWIG installed to use this package... unless you want to. The SWIG layer is little more than a Python version of my wrappers. The next layer is in kstat.py. This provides an object oriented interface, and nicely hides the chain-following you have to do if you use the simplest interface. kstat.py provides a single class, Kstat, which does all the interesting work. This interface does however assume some familiarity with the kstat(3k) API. The final layer of PyKstat, and the interface I suspect most people will want to use, is in kstats.py. This interface is *not* OOPy, but it does use the Kstat class as its engine. I strongly recommend looking at the doc strings in kstats.py and playing with the many functions provided to get a feel for the API. For the perversely curious, the dependencies are: kstat API <- wkstat.c (my helpers) <- wkstatmodule.so (SWIG generated interface to wkstat.c) <- kstat.py (OOPy interface to wkstatmodule.so) <- kstats.py (the most friendly interface). * What about bugs? There are doubtless some bugs. However, I don't believe there are any major ones. I have been using this software to check machine statistics for a few months now, and in fact some single Python programs have been running *continuously* for a month and reporting on machine statistics. If you discover any bugs, certainly let me know, but try to include as much information as possible, and a snippet of code which causes the problem. The install process could be more elegant. * Cool! How do I install this. Take a look at the Makefile. It's pretty simple. You should only need to change your CC, though I recommend using gcc, and the two lines saying where your Python is installed. Then run 'make', then 'make install'. The install process is crude in the extreme, and simply copies a few files into your Python library area. Check out the few examples in the examples directory to get an idea of how this package can be used. I've included the program netd as an example. It will *not* work for you, since it requires libraries I've not made public yet. It does, however, provide an interesting example. William S. Annis 99jun09 == William Annis - System Administrator - Biomedical Computing Group annis(a)biostat.wisc.edu PGP ID:1024/FBF64031 Mi parolas Esperanton - La Internacia Lingvo www.esperanto.org <A HREF="http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~annis/creations/pykstat.html"> PyKstat 0.01</A> - directly access Solaris kernel statistics facility, kstat(3k), from within Python. (09-Jun-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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mxCGIPython project update
by M.-A. Lemburg June 10, 1999

June 10, 1999

Hi everybody, I just give you an update of the current list of available one-file easy-to-install Python 1.5.2 interpreters. There are many more versions and even one for Windows NT4 thanks to Florent Heyworth (*). 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-IRIX-6.5-IP32-mips.gz cgipython-1.5.2-IRIX64-6.5-IP30-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-OpenBSD-2.4-i386-Intel_Pentium_II.gz cgipython-1.5.2-SunOS-4.1.4-sun4m.gz cgipython-1.5.2-SunOS-5.5.1-sun4u-sparc-alternate.gz cgipython-1.5.2-SunOS-5.5.1-sun4u-sparc.gz cgipython-1.5.2-Winnt-4.0.zip The current place to look for contributed binaries is ftp://starship.skyport.net/pub/cgipython/ This will probably change to starship.python.net in the near future. The above binaries contain the Python 1.5.2 interpreter plus the whole standard lib (except for Tkinter) in one single file: this reduces installation time/problems and startup time as well. More information about the project and how to contribute can be found here: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxCGIPython.html (*) I'm curious if the cgipython EXE works out of the box for MS IIS. Would be really cool, IMHO, and yet another argument for using Python for CGI scripting. Cheers and thanks to everyone who contributed, == Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Y2000: 206 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; now for even more platforms, e.g. Windows NT 4. (08-Jun-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-0.5.1 - tools for setting up a certificate authority
by michael.stroeder＠inka.de June 10, 1999

June 10, 1999

HI! I would like to announce a new beta release of my package pyCA, a set of scripts and CGI-BIN programs written in Python for setting up and running a certificate authority using OpenSSL. See http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/pyca/ for more details. I would like to ask for feedback of people using this package. Any hints for improving this package are appreciated. I do not have the possibility to test this software under other Unix environments than Linux, OpenLDAP and ApacheSSL. Changes since 0.4.5: - you have to upgrade to Python 1.5.2 - some bugfixes and code cleaning - better documentation - some changes to configuration (might be incompatible to 0.4.5!!!) - allow defining the request form depending on specific certificate type - configuration of preferred certificate format - automatic publishing of certificates with informing user by e-mail Ciao, Michael. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users(a)openssl.org Automated List Manager majordomo(a)openssl.org

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Spanish Python mailing list - Lista de Python en Español
by Bruno Mattarollo June 6, 1999

June 6, 1999

Hello We are pleased to announce the creation of a spanish Python mailing list. Everyone is invited to join this list, share ideas, opinions, ask for technical advice and share technical knowledge. This list is run on Mailman. To join you can send an email to: python-ar-request(a)lists.arnet.net.ar with "subscribe" as the subject. pdinoto(a)DONTSPAM-arnet.net.ar or bmatt(a)DONTSPAM-acm.org can be contacted for any info regarding problems concerning the list. (please remove the DONTSPAM- string before sending a mail). Cheers, - (Spanish version - Versión español) ---------------- Hola Tenemos el orgullo de anunciar la creación de la lista de correo de Python en español. Todos están invitados a suscribirse a dicha lista para compartir ideas, opiniones, solicitar ayuda técnica y compartir conocimiento. Esta lista es operada a través de Mailman. Para suscribirse debe enviar un mensaje a: python-ar-request(a)lists.arnet.net.ar con la palabra "subscribe" en el campo "subject". pdinoto(a)DONTSPAM-arnet.net.ar o bmatt(a)DONTSPAM-acm.org pueden ser contactados por cualquier problema relacionados con la lista (por favor, quite la cadena DONTSPAM- de las direcciones para poder envíar un mensaje). Saludos /B Bruno Mattarollo <bmatt(a)acm.org> ... proud to be a PSA member <http://www.python.org/psa> <A HREF="mailto:python-ar-request@lists.arnet.net.ar?Subject=subscribe"> Spanish Python mailing list</A> - new spanish-speaking mailing list about Python. (05-Jun-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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JPython 1.1 beta 1 released
by Barry A. Warsaw June 6, 1999

June 6, 1999

I'm happy to announce the release of JPython 1.1beta1. JPython is the 100% Pure Java implementation of the Python language, which provides seamless integration with the Java platform. JPython 1.1beta1 is compatible with most Java 1.1 and 1.2 JDKs. JPython 1.1beta1 is much improved over the previous public release of version 1.0.3. Many bugs have been fixed, performance has been improved, and most new CPython 1.5.2 features have been implemented. See below for highlights of the changes between 1.1beta1 and 1.0.3. You can download JPython 1.1beta1 from the JPython home page. Please visit http://www.jpython.org/ Much thanks go to Jim Hugunin -- JPython's inventor, Finn Bock -- for his contribution of modules and test driving, Guido, and the rest of the folks at CNRI. Here's a summary of what's changed since 1.0.3: - New and improved jpythonc tool by Jim Hugunin - New modules contributed by Finn Bock: cStringIO, cPickle, struct, binascii - New module synchronize, equivalent to Java's synchronized keyword - Operator module now complete - sys.add_package() no longer necessary, "import java.lang" just works - Class-based standard exceptions (w/ support for -X option) - super__ methods are deprecated, use regular Python style - time.strftime() added - Java 1.2 style collections support - Multiple interpreter states - Most CPython 1.5.2 features have been implemented - String objects now have methods -- expected CPython 1.6 feature - Improved performance - Java inner class support - keywords are allowed in some locations (e.g. as attribute names) - New license - bug fixes Enjoy, -Barry Barry A. Warsaw Corp. for Nat'l Research Initiatives (CNRI) bwarsaw(a)cnri.reston.va.us 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100 bwarsaw(a)python.org Reston, VA USA 20191-5434 http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw 703.620.8990 / (fax) 703.620.0913 P.S. contrary to Python tradition, I will /not/ be going on vacation tomorrow :) <A HREF="http://www.jpython.org/">JPython 1.1b1</A> - 100% Pure Java implementation of the Python language; now even better. (04-Jun-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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JPF1 pictures available
by Dinu C. Gherman June 6, 1999

June 6, 1999

Hello, please have a look at a few pictures I've taken during the JPF1 French Python meeting last week-end in Paris. Guido and Aaron were there, plus others. The page below will also provide some comments about how the pictures were taken. http://starship.python.net/crew/gherman/photography/jpf1/ Enjoy, Dinu == Dinu C. Gherman : Mit Berlin kannste mir jagen! ................................................................ LHS International AG : http://www.lhsgroup.com 8050 Zurich : http://www.zurich.ch Switzerland : http://pgp.ai.mit.edu : mobile://49.172.3060751 ......................:......................................... Vote against SPAM on http://www.politik-digital.de/spam Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't. <A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/gherman/photography/jpf1/">JPF1 Pictures</A> - photos from JPF1, the First French Python Day. (02-Jun-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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DOPY 0.1 - Distributed Objects for Python
by Michael Muller June 6, 1999

June 6, 1999

Announcement: DOPY 0.1 - Distributed Objects For Python DOPY is a small distributed object system written entirely in Python. It is not intended to be CORBA compliant. Instead, it aims to be extremely easy to use and to support Python's dynamic nature - methods are invoked dynamically, parameters are passed by copy. Any python object that can be pickled can automatically be passed as a parameter or a return value, and any Python object can be published as a distributed object. The current version of DOPY is an extremely immature alpha release. Its only supported protocol is TCP/IP, and you must have thread support to be able to use it (there is a facility for non-threaded use, but it is entirely untested). I've distributed it because others might find it useful (even in its current state) and because I'm interested in the feedback of the Python development community. URL: http://www.users.cloud9.net/~proteus/dopy/ Contact: proteus(a)cloud9.net License: Variation on BSD, free for commercial and non-commercial use ============================================================================= michaelMuller = proteus(a)cloud9.net | http://www.cloud9.net/~proteus ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer ============================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.users.cloud9.net/~proteus/dopy/">DOPY 0.1</A> - Distributed Objects for Python. (03-Jun-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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