Python-announce-list September 1999

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[fm] pybliographer 0.9.4
by Markus Fleck 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

Pybliographer 0.9.4 Fred - September 27th 1999, 15:22 EST Pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases. It currently supports BibTeX (read/write), Ovid and Refer (read only) files, SGML DocBook (write only). It can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc, through its nice graphical interface for GNOME. Due to its nature, it can be extended to many uses (generating HTML pages according to bibliographic searches, etc). It is provided with sample scripts. 0.9.3 Changes: Fixed a problem with portuguese accents, added support for lineage in author fields (type it as last name, lineage, first name), added embryo of bibliography generation, it is possible to define a bibliographic style (i.e. how an entry should appear in your document) and to use this style in several formats (LaTeX, HTML, text for the moment). There is only one style (alpha), provided more as an example as it is not complete. 0.9.4 Changes: Fixed stupid bugs concerning strings in LaTeX and a problem with opening and formatting. One should never release just before leaving... Download: http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer/pybliographer-0.9.4.tar.gz Homepage: http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer.php3 Author:Frederic Gobry License:GPL Category:GNOME/Misc Depends on:python glib recode gnome copyright (c) 1999 scoop(a)freshmeat.net <A HREF="http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer.php3">Pybliographer 0.9.4</A> - a framework for managing bibliographic databases, such as BibTeX files. (27-Sep-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] freeworld bbs 0.3.0
by Markus Fleck 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

FreeWorld BBS 0.3.0 Fire Water - September 25th 1999, 18:20 EST FreeWorld BBS is a BBS package for the Unix operating system. It currently is still in it's early stages and is not even close to being fully operational. The systems main goal is to create a BBS under Unix that is easy to use, with a DOS type interface, and highly configurable. It consists of a menu shell, forum system, server, and some sysop utilities. Changes: This release contains the begining of the message areas, the menu shell now has support to run python scripts and the setup program and libraries have also had many additions and fixes since 0.2.2 Download: ftp://ftp.freeworldbbs.org/distb/src/freeworldbbs-0.3.0.tar.gz Homepage: http://www.freeworldbbs.org Author:Darren Braun License:GPL Category:Daemons/BBS copyright (c) 1999 scoop(a)freshmeat.net <A HREF="http://www.freeworldbbs.org">FreeWorld BBS 0.3.0</A> - the beginnings of a BBS package for the Unix operating system; includes support for running Python scripts. (25-Sep-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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gnome-python-1.0.40 and pygtk-0.6.3 (fwd)
by James Henstridge 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

I have just released gnome-python-1.0.40, the bindings that allow you to write gnome programs with the python language. This release is mainly a bug fix release, but it does add a few features such as GnomeDruid support and gnome support in the libglade module. It is available from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-python/ The pygtk package (which is contained in gnome-python) will soon be available from: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/ Please test this release and report any bugs you find either directly to me, or through the GNOME bug tracker. James. == Email: james(a)daa.com.au WWW: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/ == FAQ: Frequently-Asked Questions at http://www.gnome.org/gnomefaq To unsubscribe: mail gnome-announce-list-request(a)gnome.org with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. <A HREF="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/">pygtk-0.6.3 and gnome-python-1.0.40</A> - bindings for the GTK+ widget set and the GNOME libraries. (30-Sep-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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Article on IBM developerWorks
by Henning Schroeder 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:38:28 +0200 Even IBM knows about Python :-) Check out http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/python101.html on their "developerWorks Linux Library". Henning <A HREF="http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/python101.html">Article on IBM developerWorks</A> - this on-line article compares Python with Perl, Java, and Tcl. (29-Sep-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 1.01 and SciTE 1.01
by neilh＠hare.net.au 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

Announce: Release of Scintilla 1.01 and SciTE 1.01 Scintilla is a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK+. SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. This is a minor release of Scintilla and SciTE containing contributed patches, minor features, performance improvements and bug fixes. There is a new domain, scintilla.org for this project. Two mailing lists, one for announcements and one for discussions are hosted by scintilla.org. As Scintilla/SciTE versions often have no Python specific changes, this will be the last announcement made to comp.lang.python.announce. Future announcements will be made on the scintilla-announce list and http://freshmeat.net/ Python specific development is still being done, but this is mostly for the PythonWin environment which incorporates Scintilla. Web site: http://www.scintilla.org/ 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://www.scintilla.org/">Scintilla 1.01</A> - a source code editing component for Win32 and GTK, and a demonstration text editor (SciTE). (29-Sep-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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New PyKDE/PyQt Mailing List
by Markus Fleck 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

Thorsten Horstmann (horstman(a)informatik.uni-bonn.de.NO.SPAM) has created a mailing list for the Python bindings to the Qt/KDE GUI libraries. You can find further information and subscribe to the list at the following web page: http://mats.gmd.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde <A HREF="http://mats.gmd.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde">PyKDE/PyQt Mailing List</A> - a new mailing list for the discussion of Phil Thompson's PyKDE/PyQt <A HREF="http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/">bindings</A>. (28-Sep-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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Distutils 0.1
by Greg Ward 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

Python Module Distribution Utilities release 0.1 September 29, 1999 The Python Module Distribution Utilities, or Distutils for short, are a collection of modules that aid in the development, distribution, and installation of Python modules. (It is intended that ultimately the Distutils will grow up into a system for distributing and installing whole Python applications, but for now their scope is limited to module distributions.) The Distutils will be a standard part of Python 1.6. This release is intended to provide a wider audience an early opportunity to try out the system, improve its portability, shake out the bugs, make suggestions, and so forth. Do not expect perfection: if you're trying out this release, it should be because you want to help debug and develop, not because you need a stable, working system immediately. You can download the Distutils from the Distutils SIG home page: http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/ Any feedback, comments, bug reports, success reports, etc. should be reported to the Distutils SIG at distutils-sig(a)python.org If you're not yet a member of this mailing list, you can join at http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig Reports of minor bugs (patches are especially welcome!) can be sent directly to me (Greg Ward) at gward(a)python.net. Anything that expects a longer response than "Thanks for the bug report/fix!" should be directed to the SIG. <A HREF="http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/">Distutils 0.1</A> - early preview version of the Python Module Distribution Utilities, a collection of modules that aid in the development, distribution, and installation of Python modules; will become a standard part of Python 1.6. (29-Sep-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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Zope Weekly News - Wed, 29 Sep 1999
by Amos Latteier 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

Hi, This week saw Zope firing on all cylinders. Performance enhancements trickled into CVS, while Zopistas far and wide released cool new Zope stuff. * After some Apache problems last week, Zope.org seems to be running well. Zope.org now sports 50 user contributed How-Tos and 20 user contributed Zope products. Go team! http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To http://www.zope.org/Products * beehive released 'beehive Calendar' another cool Zope product. http://www.zope.de/software/beeCal/index_eng_html http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-September/000040.html * The prolific Evan Simpson released SiteAccess 0.0.1 and PythonMethod 0.1.2. The PythonMethod product allows editing Python methods through the web, and the SiteAccess product allows virtual hosting support. http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/PythonMethod http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001672.html * There was quite a bit of discussion on zope-dev about WYSIWYG tools and Zope. Dylan Jay kicked off the conversation and many others chimed in with opinions about how Zope should or could support WYSIWYG editing. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001624.html * Another hot topic on zope-dev was source control and how to get access to object versions from outside ZODB. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010902.html * Jim Fulton proposed a SiteObject Zope product to allow virtual hosting from one Zope process. Lots of folks expressed opinions. There seem to be several Zope products in development along these lines already, including Adam Feuer's VirtualHostFolder and Evan Simpson's SiteAccess product. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001603.html * Hugh Emberson's sqltest patch hit CVS. Here's yet another great community contribution! http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010870.html * Paul Everitt announced that a Sybase level 3 database adapter is now under development. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010914.html * Chris Baron pointed out that Zope was mentioned in Infoworld as example of a Linux application server in Maggie Biggs's "Enterprise Toolbox" column. http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/biggs/990920mb.htm * The ZClasses Tutorial has been updated for Zope 2.0. This tutorial is the first chapter in the forthcoming Zope Developer's Guide. http://www.zope.org:8080/Documentation/Reference/ZClasses * Pavlos Christoforou announced ZSupervisor V0.1a a utility to control ZServer. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/011156.html Keep on Zopin'. == 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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Linux Journal reviews "Learning Python"
by James C. Ahlstrom 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

There is a (favorable) review of "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz and David Ascher in the currect (October) Linux Journal page 114. The reviewer is Phil Hughes. Jim Ahlstrom http://207.178.22.52/lj-issues/issue66/3541.html - Review http://207.178.22.52/articles/conversations/005.html - GvR Interview <A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com">Linux Journal Articles</A> - a <A HREF="http://207.178.22.52/lj-issues/issue66/3541.html">review</A> of the ''Learning Python'' book in the October issue (#66) of <A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com">Linux Journal</A> and an <A HREF="http://207.178.22.52/articles/conversations/005.html">interview</A> with Guido van Rossum about teaching Python to non-CS students. (28-Sep-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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More Python books coming...
by Guido van Rossum 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

-- forwarded message -- >From: Guido van Rossum <guido(a)cnri.reston.va.us> >Newsgroups: comp.lang.python >Subject: More Python books coming... >Date: 27 Sep 1999 17:06:15 -0400 >Message-ID: <5lpuz483p4.fsf(a)eric.cnri.reston.va.us> I did a search for Python on Amazon.com and found several new Python books that are likely to hit the shelves soon. Here's the list: The Quick Python Book Daryl Harms, Kenneth McDonald. Published by Manning Publications. Expected September 1999. Python Essential Reference David Beazley. With a foreword by Guido van Rossum. Published by New Riders. Expected October 1999. Programming with Python Tim Altom. Published by Prima Publishing. Expected October 20, 1999. Python and Tkinter Programming John E. Grayson. Published by Manning Publications. Expected November 1999. Python Annotated Archives Martin Brown. Published by McGraw-Hill. Expected September 1999. Python Programming on Win 32 Mark Hammond, Andy Robinson. Published by O'Reilly. Expected September 1999. Sams Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours Ivan Van Laningham. Published by Sams. Expected November 1999. We expect to have a bookstand at the Python conference in January where you can buy these and other Python books. I've also added this to http://www.python.org/doc/Books.html. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) -- end of forwarded message -- -- ----------- 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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