Mailman 3 September 1999 - Python-announce-list

Sketch 0.6.2 - A vector drawing program
by Bernhard Herzog Sept. 25, 1999

Sept. 25, 1999

Sketch 0.6.2 - A vector drawing program Sketch is a vector drawing program for Linux and other unices. It's intended to be a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams and other purposes. Despite the low version number, it already has advanced features like gradients, text along a path and clip masks and is fully scriptable due to its implementation in a combination of Python and C. Summary of the changes since version 0.6.1: * SVG import/export filters. * Improved AI … [View More]

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Cut The Cra* (CTC) v0.3.0 - Advertisment banner filter
by Constantinos A. Kotsokalis Sept. 25, 1999

Sept. 25, 1999

Cut The Crap is a proxy-like server that will cut advertisement banners from the web-pages you are reading. It is written in Python and uses Adam Feuer's zaplets (zaplets + zaplet engine are included in the archive). CTC's web page is: http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ckotso/CTC and you can download the tar'd and gzip'd archive from http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ckotso/CTC/CTC-0.3.0.tar.gz All feedback is welcome! Costas == Constantinos A. Kotsokalis - C.Kotsokalis(a)ece.ntua.gr -… [View More]

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[fm] pypvm 0.8.5
by Markus Fleck Sept. 25, 1999

Sept. 25, 1999

pypvm 0.8.5 W. Michael Petullo - September 18th 1999, 20:24 EST Pypvm is a Python module which allows interaction with the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) package. PVM allows a collection of computers connected by a network to serve as a single parallel computer. Pypvm is intended to be an educational and prototyping tool. To use Pypvm, import the pypvm module. Download: http://www.flyn.org/src/pypvm.tar.gz Packages: http://www.flyn.org/rpms/pypvm.i386.rpm … [View More]

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[fm] pyching 0.9.2
by Markus Fleck Sept. 25, 1999

Sept. 25, 1999

pyChing 0.9.2 kenoath - September 18th 1999, 05:40 EST pyChing is a program that allows you to 'consult' the I Ching. The I Ching is an ancient Chinese book of wisdom, which, apart from being read as a book, has also traditionally been consulted as an oracle. pyChing allows you to perform an I Ching 'reading' using the coin oracle, and then look up a brief interpretation from the I Ching. pyChing is completely written in Python, a cross platform, object oriented, programming … [View More]

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QIO - Quick I/O module for Python (for fast reading)
by Markus Fleck Sept. 25, 1999

Sept. 25, 1999

QIO The QIO module borrows a few tricks from INN and adds some of its own to make common Python file operations way lots more faster and stuff. It is suitable for reading sockets and large text files; it doesn't support writing. Because of the read-ahead buffering, QIO will work best with sequential access. For compatibility's sake it will handle slurping a whole file in one read() and doing random access, but the optimizations can actually work against you in those cases. The readline*() … [View More]

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[fm] pybliographer 0.9.2
by Markus Fleck Sept. 25, 1999

Sept. 25, 1999

Pybliographer 0.9.2 Fred - September 15th 1999, 08:18 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. … [View More]

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[fm] pydf 0.6
by Markus Fleck Sept. 25, 1999

Sept. 25, 1999

pydf 0.6 R.G. - September 15th 1999, 18:38 EST pydf displays the amount of used and available space on your filesystems, just like df, but in colours. The output format is completely customizable. 0.2 Changes: Initial release. 0.3 Changes: Restored original colour, added selection of file to get mount information from, workaround for (possible?) bug in RedHat 6.0 python interpreter. 0.4 Changes: Network filesystems with block size 0 recognized … [View More]

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4DOM 0.8.1
by Mike Olson Sept. 25, 1999

Sept. 25, 1999

FourThought LLC (http://FourThought.com) announces the release of 4DOM 0.8.1 ----------------------- An implementation of the W3C's Document Object Model in Python 4DOM is a close implementation of the DOM recommendation, including DOM Core level 1, DOM HTML level 1, NodeIterator and TreeWalker from DOM Level 2, and several utility and helper components. 4DOM can work in a CORBA* enviroment, or in a purely … [View More]

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4XSLT 0.7.1
by Mike Olson Sept. 25, 1999

Sept. 25, 1999

FourThought LLC (http://FourThought.com) announces the release of 4XSLT 0.7.1 ----------------------- A python implementation of the W3C's XSLT language 4XSLT is an XML transformation processor based on the W3C's specification for the XSLT transform language. http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt Currently, 4XSLT supports a sub-set of the August 13th working draft of XSLT including the following: Full … [View More]expression support and attribute-value template expansion xsl:include xsl:import xsl:template xsl:apply-imports xsl:apply-templates xsl:if xsl:for-each xsl:choose xsl:element xsl:when xsl:attribute xsl:otherwise xsl:text xsl:message xsl:value-of xsl:variable xsl:processing-instruction xsl:key xsl:preserve-space xsl:copy-of xsl:strip-space and literal elements and text 4XSLT produces its result tree by throwing standard SAX events to a document handler, so it can be easily modified to supply results to any SAX consumer. News ---- Changes in 0.7.1: - Fixed Ext functions in the Xslt Context. - Implemented the document extension function for absolute URIs - Implemented the following instructions: o key o import o apply-imports o if o choose o when o otherwise o message o variable o processing-instruction o copy-of o preserve-space o strip-space - Implemented modes for template rules - Implemented the key() method. Needs to be optimized - Implemented the following Extension functions: o current o generate-id o system-property o extension-function-available More info and Obtaining 4XSLT ----------------------------- Please see http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XSLT Or you can download 4XSLT from ftp://FourThought.com/pub/4Suite/4XSLT 4XSLT is distributed under a license similar to that of Python. == Mike Olson Mike.Olson(a)fourthought.com Consulting Member, FourThought LLC http://FourThought.com http://OpenTechnology.org <P><A HREF="http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XSLT">4XSLT 0.7.1</A> - XML transformation processor based on the W3C specification for the XSLT transform language. (14-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 ------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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[fm] mrdbc 0.9beta2
by Markus Fleck Sept. 25, 1999

Sept. 25, 1999

mrDBC 0.9beta2 Christian Scholz - September 13th 1999, 18:19 EST mrDBC is a set of python classes which make it easy to work with mySQL databases. The classes handle a main table with an additional table containing optional attributes. This makes it easy to add a new attribute without changing the table structure. MrDBC can also track create/modification information, can cache objects, can lock objects and more. Changes: Added support for link tables, which give you the chance … [View More]

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