Mailman 3 August 1999 - Python-announce-list

Python's Russian Pages
by sz＠zmail.ru 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Starting Python's Russian Pages for providing information about Python and activity in russian language. See http://chat.ru/~pythonrus Zaur Shibzoukhov sz(a)zmail.ru <A HREF="http://chat.ru/~pythonrus/">Python's Russian Pages</A> - a new web site in Russian about Python. (17-Aug-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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README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Aug 16)
by David Ascher 18 Aug '99

18 Aug '99

Python-URL is back! Here are the latest news from the Python world. >From the hacks & ports category: * Will Ware dove into the Python core to allow microthreads (threads of operation which work in a single system thread). This is similar in spirit to some of work done by Christian Tismer for his "Stackless Python", and there are rumors that the former will be adapted to the latter. http://world.std.com/~wware/uthread.html http://www.pns.cc/stackless/stackless.htm http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=507505476 * Python is routinely ported to embedded systems. A Finnish group is making their port public, and soliciting feedback on this work: http://www.abo.fi/~iporres/python/ * Greg Ewing puts forth a patch to add lexical scoping to Python. http://x36.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=510811241 http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/lexscope.html * Max Skaller apparently has a new implementation of Python in the works with speed in mind: http://x42.deja.com/[ST_rn=md]/viewthread.xp?thitnum=3&mhitnum=0&toffset=0&… >From the gotta-have-a-usenet-discussion-every-now-and-then-discussion: * for + else = ??? http://www.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=505752853 * YAPPW (Yet Another Perl Python War) starts at: http://x42.deja.com/[ST_rn=md]/threadmsg_md.xp?thitnum=1&mhitnum=1&CONTEXT=… http://x42.deja.com/[ST_rn=md]/viewthread.xp?thitnum=0&mhitnum=0&toffset=0&… * A new keyword is almost proposed, from of all people Tom Christiansen: http://x42.deja.com/[ST_rn=md]/viewthread.xp?thitnum=24&mhitnum=0&toffset=0… >From the power tools department: * The latest SWIG release has support for Python keyword arguments and better shadow class support: http://www.egroups.com/group/swig/1181.html? * Python Imaging Library (PIL) version 1.0 is out: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ * Too many news in the Zope front to go into in detail, but foremost is a new site layout and several Zope 2.0 beta releases: http://www.zope.org/ * Numeric Python release 12 beta now uses ExtensionClasses: ftp://ftp-icf.llnl.gov/pub/python/LLNLDistribution12beta.tgz * Paul Dubois' PyFort is a tool for interfacing NumPy to Fortran: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=510814523 * SCXX is a lightweight take on Paul Dubois's CXX by Gordon McMillan which promises to require less of your C++ compiler: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=510361661 >From the events and public relations department: * Local Python users groups are sprouting, and they seem to be called PIGgies!. The San Francisco Bay Area has one, as does the Washington DC area. Where will the next one crop up? http://www.baypiggies.org/ http://www.python.org/Events.html#dcpiggies * Bruce Eckel, a C++ and Java trainer and book author, has picked up the Python bug, and is planning what sounds like a neat Python workshop -- learn Python in five days in mountains by writing something useful. http://www.eckelobjects.com/PythonProjectWorkshop/index.html * The O'Reilly conference is soon upon us: http://conferences.oreilly.com/python/ * The next International Python Conference has a revised call for papers with new dates: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html ========================================================================= Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity http://www.python.org/consortium Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py Python Journal is at work on its second issue http://www.pythonjournal.com Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive what AI can generate http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python Archive probing trick of the trade: http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&f… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/ To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning (once we resume), ask <claird(a)neosoft.com> to subscribe. -- The Python-URL! Team-- -David Ascher <da(a)ski.org> == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird(a)NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX -- ----------- 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-mode.el 3.105
by Barry A. Warsaw 13 Aug '99

13 Aug '99

I've made a new version of python-mode.el available at <http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode/>. This is version 3.105 and is what you currently get from the CVS snapshot. Version 3.90 was the last one released at this URL, and 3.97 was the version release with Python 1.5.2 final. python-mode.el is a GNU Emacs major mode for editing and executing Python programs. It is compatible with both Emacs and XEmacs. List of changes: - Improvements to the way the JPython or CPython shell is selected. There is a new variable py-default-interpreter which determines the default shell to use for py-shell (C-c !). The shell is now determined the first time py-shell is invoked or a Python buffer is visited. - py-shell now also takes an optional argument; when given it will prompt for additional switch to pass into the shell process (only on initial start up). - py-toggle-shells now takes the symbols cpython and jpython as arguments, making it more usefully called from python-mode-hook. - New command py-narrow-to-defun (C-x n d) which mimics the standard narrow-to-defun but understands Python classes and methods. With C-u, narrows to the most enclosing class. - Removed special bindings for C-j to py-newline-and-indent. This makes Emacs diehards happier, but may break for people who explicitly bind or C-j to newline globally. - The usual assortment of bugs fixes, and some performance improvements (for FSF Emacs). Enjoy, -Barry <A HREF="http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode/">python-mode.el 3.105</A> - a mode for GNU Emacs and XEmacs for editing and executing Python programs. (13-Aug-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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Open Source/Open Science conference announcement
by Jonathan Gilligan 13 Aug '99

13 Aug '99

I ran across the following conference announcement and thought, given the amount of scientific programming within the Python community, that this would be of some interest here. The following announcement appears at http://openscience.bnl.gov. The conference, "Open Source/Open Science 99" will be held October 2, 1999 at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, NY. The site also mentions plans for an MBONE broadcast for those who cannot travel to Brookhaven. I have no connection with the conference, so don't ask me questions. I am merely passing the announcement along in hopes that this newsgroup will find it interesting. Open Source/Open Science is a unique conference in which, for the first time, scientists, who rely heavily on the Internet and many open source projects to advance their research, are brought together with some of the leading figures in the Open Source community. In this environment, the conference plans to achieve the following goals. Give scientists a chance to learn about new Open Source projects which could potentially benefit their research. Show the Open Source community the science applications to which Open Source software has been applied in an effort to stimulate more Open Source development. Stimulate Open Source scientific projects amongst scientists, which specificly address the data analysis needs of researchers. Brookhaven National Laboratory, and its scientists, would like to invite any and all people who are interested in science, software, the Internet or who want to get a glimpse of the evolutionary methods of science and technology, to attend. -- ----------- 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, 11 Aug 1999
by Amos Latteier 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

Hi, It's a busy time for Zope development. This week Zope 2 beta releases 2, 3, and 4 came out in quick succession. Zope 2 is in a feature freeze and all development effort is focused on finding and fixing bugs. * Zope 2.0 beta 4 was released. This release fixes quite a few bugs. http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b4 * Martijn Pieters posted a good tip on how to perform access control based on user domains. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007769.html * People love to discuss DTML syntax. Most people like the new syntax, though some folks would like to see minor changes. It was revealed that the syntax will probably not change, but that there may be another fully xml-compliant syntax in the future. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007812.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007931.html * Jonathan Corbet mentioned that a new Linux-oriented Zope-powered site has appeared. http://www.openclassroom.org http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007817.html * Amos Latteier explained how to manually control the Zope ORB's object traversal process. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007825.html * Steve Spicklemire announced a beta 2 release of his Zieve Zope product. http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib/Zieve.tgz http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007876.html * Kevin Dangoor announced KM|net News Product. This package provides a fairly advanced a news system including syndication and voting. http://www.kendermedia.com/kmnn.html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007955.html -Amos == Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com <A HREF="http://www.zope.org/">Zope 2.0 beta 4</A> - Zope is a free, open source web application platform used for building high-performance, dynamic web sites. (11-Aug-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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"Das Python Tutorium" (German) - Public Review Release
by Dinu C. Gherman 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

Announcement: "Das Python Tutorium" - Public Review Release The "Python Tutorial 1.5.2" written by Guido van Rossum is available now in a German translation (modulo the Python sample code). Various formats can be downloaded from the following site: http://starship.python.net/crew/gherman/propaganda/tut-de/ The current version is a much fine-tuned one, but still labeled a pre-release because it is only now available for "the public". Therefore, if you understand German, please have a look and report some of the remaining errors, par- ticularly semantic ones. If you want to help with the cor- rection, please use the LaTeX source code and send me an improved version by email (to gherman(a)europe.nospam.mail.com - remove the nospam from the domain name), preferrably as a GZIP- or ZIP-compressed file. I'm planning to collect these and make a final release by the end of September or October 1999. The translation itself is a nice proof of the Pareto law, basically meaning that 80 % of the job can be done in 20 % of the time, leaving you with 80 % of your time to get the remaining 20 % done... But at least it gave me a good reason to finally read the whole tutorial. You should do the same if you haven't already done so, even if it has clearly some way to go to become an ideal tutorial, whatever that might mean. Along this road I installed a nice free Windoze TeX system on my laptop, called MiKTeX (see http://www.miktex.de) - for those who care. I'm very indebted to Janko Hauser who did most if not all of the actual typesetting work and to many others, who pro- vided constructive feedback. Dinu C. Gherman 1999-08-11 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/propaganda/tut-de/">Das Python Tutorium</A> - German-language version of the Python 1.5.2 tutorial. (11-Aug-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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gdchart-py-0.1
by Mike Steed 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

Hi all, I found Bruce Verderaime's GDChart library to be just what I needed for a recent project. I wrote a Python interface which I am making available. See what GDChart can do: http://www.fred.net/brv/chart/ Python module: http://members.xoom.com/msteed/software/gdchart-py-0.1.tar.gz The Python module includes GDChart (which includes Tom Boutell's gd library). I have built and tested the module on Win32 and Linux (x86). Feedback, etc., is welcome. Mike Steed <A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/msteed/software/">gdchart-py-0.1</A> - Python interface to the GDChart library, for creating bitmapped charts and graphs. (11-Aug-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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"Das Python Tutorium" - Public Review Release
by Dinu C. Gherman 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

Announcement: "Das Python Tutorium" - Public Review Release The "Python Tutorial 1.5.2" written by Guido van Rossum is available now in a German translation (modulo the Python sample code). Various formats can be downloaded from the following site: http://starship.python.net/crew/gherman/propaganda/tut-de/ The current version is a much fine-tuned one, but still labeled a pre-release because it is only now available for "the public". Therefore, if you understand German, please have a look and report some of the remaining errors, par- ticularly semantic ones. If you want to help with the cor- rection, please use the LaTeX source code and send me an improved version by email (to gherman(a)europe.nospam.mail.com - remove the nospam from the domain name), preferrably as a GZIP- or ZIP-compressed file. I'm planning to collect these and make a final release by the end of September or October 1999. The translation itself is a nice proof of the Pareto law, basically meaning that 80 % of the job can be done in 20 % of the time, leaving you with 80 % of your time to get the remaining 20 % done... But at least it gave me a good reason to finally read the whole tutorial. You should do the same if you haven't already done so, even if it has clearly some way to go to become an ideal tutorial, whatever that might mean. Along this road I installed a nice free Windoze TeX system on my laptop, called MiKTeX (see http://www.miktex.de) - for those who care. I'm very indebted to Janko Hauser who did most if not all of the actual typesetting work and to many others, who pro- vided constructive feedback. Dinu C. Gherman 1999-08-11 Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't. <A HREF="http://your.url.here">Das Python Tutorium</A> - German-language version of the Python 1.5.2 tutorial. (11-Aug-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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Compiling Python Extensions on Win32 w/GCC 2.95
by kernr＠mail.ncifcrf.gov 10 Aug '99

10 Aug '99

With the recent release of GCC 2.95, I have updated my instructions for compiling Python extensions on Windows 95/98 and NT systems using free tools. My previous instructions explained the setup for using EGCS 1.1.2, an "experimental" version of GCC. Since EGCS merged into GCC to make GCC 2.95, the instructions could be updated to use this newest compiler. To provide some background, GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) is a GPL'ed, well, compiler collection that includes front ends for C, C++, Fortran77 (with some optional Fortran90 constructs, IIRC), Objective-C, and (now) a few, experimental Chill and Java front ends. More information on GCC 2.95 is available at <URL: http://egcs.cygnus.com>. It is possible now to compile programs for the i386-mingw32 target, a native target for Win32 systems. Such programs use a Microsoft DLL as its C runtime library (CRTDLL.dll by default, MSVCRT.dll as an option). Unlike the i586-cygwin32 target <URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin>, the i386-mingw32 target does not require the program to link with the Cygwin DLL. Consequently, there are *no* licence restrictions imposed on the resulting program (not by the compiler at any rate; linking against third-party code might restrict use). Information on the Win32 port of GCC, and the port itself, are at <URL: http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/gcc.html>. Paul Sokolovsky originally patched the Python headers to allow the then-EGCS to compile Python extension modules for the i386-mingw32 target. I now maintain a web page containing instructions on setting up the compiler, headers, and the other related paraphenalia required. My page is <URL: http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/mingw32/Notes.html>. <A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/mingw32/Notes.html">Compiling Python Extensions on Win32 with GCC 2.95</A> - Instructions for compiling Python extensions on Win32 OS's with free tools. (11-Aug-99) Robert Kern | ----------------------|"In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high This space | Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." intentionally | - Richard Harter left blank. | -- ----------- 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] Pyrite 0.7.7
by Markus Fleck 10 Aug '99

10 Aug '99

Pyrite 0.7.7 Rob Tillotson - August 09th 1999, 00:04 EST Pyrite is a comprehensive set of modules which allow access to Palm Computing platform devices and their data via Python. It includes APIs for transparent database access, records as Python objects, conduits, and plug-ins for extensability. Pyrite was formerly known as "PalmPython". Changes: Fixed bugs in the database class and made debugging conduits easier. Download: http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/dist/pyrite-0.7.7.tar.gz Homepage: http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/pyrite/ Changelog: http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/pyrite/history.html Author: Rob Tillotson License: LGPL Category: Development/Python Modules Depends on: pilot-link, Python 1.5 Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop(a)freshmeat.net <A HREF="http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/pyrite/">Pyrite 0.7.7</A> - access 3COM/Palm Computing devices with Python; formerly called PalmPython. (09-Aug-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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