Mailman 3 July 1999 - Python-announce-list

[fm] wxPython 2.1b1
by Markus Fleck 06 Jul '99

06 Jul '99

wxPython 2.1b1 rogue - June 28th 1999, 20:49 EST 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. This extension module attempts to mirror the class hierarchy of wxWindows as closely as possible and is very versatile. It can be used to create standalone GUI applications, or can be used in in situations where Python is embedded in a wxWindows C++ application as an internal scripting or macro language. Currently supported GUIs are Win32 and GTK/X-Windows. Changes: Added the Printing Framework, Sizers, and a boatload of minor tweaks and fixes. Download:http://alldunn.com/wxPython/main.html#download Homepage:http://alldunn.com/wxPython/ Author: Robin Dunn License: OpenSource Category: Development/Python Modules Freshmeat copyright © 1999 scoop(a)freshmeat.net <A HREF="http://alldunn.com/wxPython/">wxPython 2.1b1</A> - interface to the wxWindows v2 free cross-platform GUI library; now includes printing framework. (28-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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[fm] pyWeather 0.1b
by Markus Fleck 06 Jul '99

06 Jul '99

pyWeather 0.1b groundhog - June 30th 1999, 12:53 EST pyWeather is a small python script that retreaves the local weather conditions from weather.noaa.gov and then mails the results to any given email over an SMTP server. It's beta but it works. Changes: Initial Release - Fixed a small bug with temp file creation in the earlier version. Download: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~rasclkng/pyWeather.tar.gz Homepage: http://members.bellatlantic.net/~rasclkng/ Author: Groundhog License: GPL Category: Console/eMail Freshmeat copyright © 1999 scoop(a)freshmeat.net <A HREF="http://members.bellatlantic.net/~rasclkng/">pyWeather 0.1b</A> - retrieve local weather conditions from weather.noaa.gov and forward them via email/SMTP. (30-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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DIALOG.py
by krp02078＠my-deja.com 06 Jul '99

06 Jul '99

Hi everybody! [Moderator's note: "Dialog is a program that will let you to present a variety of questions or display messages using dialog boxes from a shell script. Currently, these types of dialog boxes are implemented: yes/no box, menu box, input box, message box, text box, info box, checklist box, radiolist box, and gauge box." (from the Linux man page for "dialog")] Just finished this module, and thought it could be useful: DIALOG.py - an interface to the famous dialog program get it from http://www.brigadoon.de/peter/DIALOG.py ciao, pete == -rw-r--r-- 1 kruse users 66 Nov 2 11:50 .signature <A HREF="http://www.brigadoon.de/peter/DIALOG.py">DIALOG.py</A> - interface to the "dialog" program for text-based dialog boxes. (30-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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bytecodehacks 0.50
by Michael Hudson 05 Jul '99

05 Jul '99

[Moderator's note: "Abstract: This package contains a library of routines for editing the bytecodes executed by the Python virtual machine, and a set of routines that use the library to do unlikely things to Python functions and methods, such as locally binding references and inlining functions."] It's been a while, but there's a new version of bytecodehacks on the starship: http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/ Quite a lot has changed, especially under the hood. There's a design-by-contract module, a function that will make another tail recursive, a set of simple rationalizations/optimizations (originally posted comp.lang.python by Corran Webster) and probably lots of stuff I've forgotten about. The documentation has been updated, but there are probably places where it's out of date, or just plain wrong. If you find such a place please do tell me! The documentation contains what I think is quite a nice description of one way of avoiding cycles in complex data structures (look at the doumentation of fleshy). Have fun, and thanks for reading! Michael <A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/">bytecodehacks 0.50</A> - use manipulations of virtual machine bytecodes to do unlikely things in Python! (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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Pagecast 1.0: submit lists of URLs to search engine spiders
by Preston Landers 05 Jul '99

05 Jul '99

Announcing the first release of Pagecast, a tool written in Python to aid in submitting (potentially large) lists of URL's to search engine spiders such as AltaVista, Hotbot, Excite, etc. See http://askpreston.com/projects/pagecast/index.html for more information. Pagecast is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Summary -- Pagecast can run from either the command line or as a mail robot. It is easily configured via .conf files. The basic action is to take a line-separated list of URL's from a file, standard input, or the body of a mail message and submit these URL's in a multithreaded fashion to a variety of Internet search engines. Essentially, it automates the "suggest a site" procedure offered by most search engines. Pagecast 1.0 comes pre-configured with 6 popular search engines (Excite, Hotbot, Infoseek, AltaVista, Google, and Lycos.) It is relatively easy to add additional search engines without delving into the actual Python code. There are some 'advanced' features such as the ability to download and scan the URLs for outdated date meta tags or low keyword-to-title relevence. These features could use some refinement. This software is distributed under the GPL. I hope someone finds it useful and perhaps contributes to its further development. I will make bug-fix releases as neccesary, however, I am not actively working on it at the moment having more exciting Python projects in the works. At any rate, I would love to hear anybody's comments. Sincerely, Preston Landers planders(a)mail.utexas.edu <A HREF="http://askpreston.com/projects/pagecast/index.html">Pagecast 1.0</A> - submit lists of URLs to search engine spiders. (02-Jul-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 1.5.2 and Fnorb 1.01 for OS/2 Now Available
by Jeff Rush 05 Jul '99

05 Jul '99

Python 1.5.2 and Fnorb 1.01 for OS/2 My port of Python and Fnorb to OS/2 has been updated to the latest stable versions. Besides the improvements of 1.5.2, a threading module bug was fixed that prevented Fnorb from multithreading CORBA requests, posix.chdir() was enhanced to support changing the current drive and a bug was fixed in time.sleep(). http://warped.cswnet.com/~jrush/python_os2/ <A HREF="http://warped.cswnet.com/%7Ejrush/python_os2/">OS/2 Release</A> - of Python 1.5.2 and Fnorb 1.01. (30-Jun-99) Jeff Rush <jrush(a)summit-research.com> -- ----------- 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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Zope Weekly News - Wed, 30 Jun 1999
by Amos Latteier 05 Jul '99

05 Jul '99

Hi, This week saw the release of ZCatalog, the first component of the Zope Portal Toolkit. Finally searching Zope objects is becoming easier. Behind the scenes work continues on Zope 2.0. Jim Fulton estimated that Zope 2 will enter beta in 3 weeks. In addition, Eric Raymond's mention of Zope this week (at Microsoft and in an essay) is further proof that Zope is becoming an influential open source project. * Jonathan Corbet pointed out that Eric Raymond mentioned Zope in his latest essay, "The Magic Cauldron". He discusses Zope in the context of how to make a living with open source. He calls Digital Creation's model "Give Away the Recipe, Open A Restaurant". http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/ http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron-9.html #ss9.3 * Michel Pelletier announced the first release of ZCatalog. This is the first component of the Zope Portal Toolkit to be released. ZCatalog allows indexing and searching of Zope objects. http://www.zope.org/Download/ZCatalog http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006059.html * Butch Landingin announced release 0.1.5 of his Squishdot Zope news and discussion Product. http://members.tripod.com/squishdot/index.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006077.html * Mark Pratt announced that the second Berlin Zope Barbecue went well and that the next one is planned for July 16. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006020.html * FTP/DAV editing issues came up once again this week. Customizing FTP and DAV behavior is a complex problem. Some creative ideas were discussed, but no definitive solution has emerged yet. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006115.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006171.html * Phillip Eby and others worked on a solution to displaying data from a SQL database as a dynamic tree. Cool! http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006087.html * @mgmt announced that they will offer Zope hosting services. http://www.mgmt-inc.com/ * Pam Crosby announced some Zope Documentation plans. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-June/006177.html * Thilo Mezger announced a mailing list for the Zope Internationalization Project. http://www.eevolute.com/mailman/listinfo/zip http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-June/000651.html Keep on Zoping. -Amos == Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com -- ----------- 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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Remote Microscope 1.0a3 released
by Andrew M. Kuchling 05 Jul '99

05 Jul '99

The latest release of the remote microscope software, version 1.0alpha3, is now available in source code form. The code has been running on CNRI's demo microscope for a few weeks, and I've been pleased with the results; the server seems to be much more reliable than 1.0a2, and people have liked the new Z-axis control. The only significant new feature in this release is that you can now control the Z-axis from the client, in order to manually focus an image when the autofocus produces a blurry result. There's also a host of minor fixes and improvements; most notably, various bugs were found that made the server hang indefinitely. These bugs have been fixed, and consequently the 1.0alpha3 server is a lot more stable than 1.0a2. Remote microscope home page: http://www.mems-exchange.org/exchange/software/microscope/ List of changes: http://www.mems-exchange.org/exchange/software/files/microscope/CHANGES == A.M. Kuchling http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/ Men of action, I notice, are rarely humble, even in situations where action of any kind is a great mistake, and masterly inaction is called for. -- Robertson Davies, _The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks_ <A HREF="http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/microscope/">Remote Microscope 1.0a3</A> - CNRI Remote Optical Microscope Software. (29-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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AmigaPython 1.5.2
by Irmen de Jong 05 Jul '99

05 Jul '99

ANNOUNCING: AmigaPython 1.5.2 - build 1 The Amiga version of Python. by Irmen de Jong - irmen(a)bigfoot.com WHAT IT IS: This is the Python interpreter (version 1.5.2) for AmigaDOS. It is provided as an easy to install package. WHAT'S NEW ? Obviously, this version is based on the 1.5.2 source code and libraries. So you'll benefit from all the great new things 1.5.2 has to offer over the previous version (1.5.1). WHERE CAN I GET IT ? >From Aminet <http://www.aminet.org/~aminet/>, in the dev/lang directory: Python152.lha dev/lang 1.0M 1 Python language 1.5.2 (bin+lib) Python152_Doc.lha dev/lang 897K 1 Python 1.5.2 documentation (HTML) Python152_Src.lha dev/lang 734K 1 Python language 1.5.2 (source) It comes with a Python-style license, but is otherwise free for commercial and non-commercial use. REFERENCE: <A HREF="http://www.bigfoot.com/~irmen/python.html">AmigaPython 1.5.2</A> - AmigaDOS port of Python 1.5.2. (29-Jun-99) == Irmen de Jong - irmen(a)bigfoot.com -- ----------- 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 0.23a
by Karsten Ballueder 05 Jul '99

05 Jul '99

A new release of Mahogany has been made. Binaries for Debian Linux i386, Debian Linux AXP, Sun Solaris, Windows NT/98/95 and source are available immediately, binaries for RedHat Linux 5.2 and 6.0 will follow within the next two days. Announcing Mahogany Version 0.23a ===================================================================== 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. CHANGES AGAINST RELEASE 0.22a / UPDATE : ===================================================================== For the Unix versions, there are few differences, minor bug fixes and improvements, especially in the message editor, which behaves almost perfectly now. The major new addition is the Windows version, built from the same source as the Unix one. We hope to keep both platforms in sync for the future, making common releases. Also, work on a MacOS port has left the early stages and is making progress. - First useable, public Windows release for Windows NT/95/98. - All known (crash-inducing) bugs fixed. - Significant message editor/viewer improvements. - Several minor usability fixes and some significant speed-ups. 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 asynchoronous folder access and multi-threading subscription management for NNTP/IMAP/newsspool Templates/style-sheets for message composition and flexible reply handling DND with KDE/Gnome filemanagers (now supported by wxGTK) Messages sorting, threading, scoring and searching 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 0.23a</A> - open-source graphical mail/news client for Unix and MS Windows, using the wxWindows toolkit. (29-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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