Mailman 3 January 2000 - Python-announce-list

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 19)
by Fredrik Lundh 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

Last chance to register on-line for the Eighth International Python Conference: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ The Software Carpentry announces a Python-oriented open source design competition with $100,000 in prize money (!): http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=572973351 http://www.software-carpentry.com The May 2000 issue of Linux Journal is going to be accompanied by a special edition Python Supplement! Sign up for your free copy at: http://www.linuxjournal.com/python On the newsgroup: Edward Welbourne proposes a unified namespace system: http://www.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=573542571 http://www.chaos.org.uk/~eddy/dev/toy/python2.html Manuel Gutierrez Algaba has started a python web ring. Sign up your python pages here: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/pythonring.html Mark Adler announces an IDE in progress: VIPER (Visually Integrated Python EnviRonment) http://www.PinehillProducts.com Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer releases pysol 3.20 (now supports 151 distinct solitaire games!): http://pysol.tsx.org Mark Lutz teams up with Perl folks to offer Python training for anyone. Next session in February: http://rmi.net/~lutz/boulder-classes.html Seen on the net: Andrew Kuchling looks at some of the recent Python books: http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/writing/books.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 The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ 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, ask <claird(a)neosoft.com> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. == Cameron Laird <claird(a)NeoSoft.com> Business: http://www.Phaseit.net Personal: http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.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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PySol 3.20 - a solitaire game collection
by Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- PySol - a Solitaire Game Collection Version 3.20 http://pysol.tsx.org Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000 Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <markus.oberhumer(a)jk.uni-linz.ac.at> What is PySol ? =============== PySol is an exciting collection of 151 solitaire card games. Among the supported games are classics like Aces Up, Baker's Game, Canfield, FreeCell, Forty Thieves, Golf, Klondike, Monte Carlo, Osmosis, Pyramid, Scorpion, Spider, Yukon, and many more... PySol may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. PySol aims to be Commercial Quality Freeware. Why yet another solitaire game ? ================================ Here are some highlights of PySol: - freely available - distributed under the GNU GPL with full source code - currently supports 151 (!) distinct solitaire variants - based upon an extensible solitaire engine - very nice look and feel including multiple cardsets and background table tiles - unlimited undo & redo - load & save games - player statistics and log files - hint system - demo games - support for user written plug-ins - add your own solitaire variants - integrated HTML help browser - lots of documentation - fully portable across Unix/X11, Windows 95/98/NT and MacOS - written in 100% pure Python - just run it - no need to compile anything Nice. And what's new ? ======================= * Added 8 Hanafuda type games (Oonsoo, Pagoda, MatsuKiri, ...) Many thanks to T. Kirk. * Added 2 Poker type games (Poker Shuffle, Poker Square) * Added 13 other new games (Der Katzenschwanz, Perpetual Motion, Die Schlange, Three Shuffles and a Draw, Vegas Klondike, ...) * Background music now is supported under Win32 as well. * Added 2 cardsets to the PySol-Cardsets collection. Cool. Where can I get it ? ========================== Point your browser to http://pysol.tsx.org The PySol Gallery is awaiting your visit as well. What do I need to start playing ? ================================= PySol requires Python 1.5.2 and Tcl/Tk 8.0.5. Both packages are freely available for Unix, Windows 95/98/NT and Macintosh. The Windows version ships as a completely self-contained setup file. BTW, there is no need to compile anything since the whole program is just a Python script. Just run it, and that's all. License terms ============= PySol is Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer PySol is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file COPYING. Have fun, Markus http://pysol.tsx.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOISZnm10fyLu8beJAQFb9AP8Dy5ejjFXjb6rxVuke4a1xdslmnG62kGx uckyKJJ1UHPxACj6esVE+GDASz/X5SH8fs0Rg8GkiLIKfE6VBoF8r7mfVJJ2dedm zoWJxlZDtT3435oCI7UQ4PrzLVszOIYbZ+RXJqX+AUAFoZsbOAvtjKws+HDqzCek 9ojKr6x+FOk= =ILMM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- <A HREF="http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html">PySol 3.20</A> - new version of Python Solitaire Games (using Tkinter); now supports 151 (!) distinct solitaire card game variants. (18-Jan-2000) -- ----------- 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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Cryptography modules now available worldwide
by A.M. Kuchling 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

The US government has recently made various relaxations to the export control policies applied to encryption software, particularly when the source code is available. As a result, the Python cryptography modules are now available world-wide, with no CGI script or other foolery required to download them. The URL is: ftp://starship.python.net/pub/crew/amk/crypto/ This is not a new release of the code, and the modules are still no longer maintained. Do *not* write new software that uses them, because I was young and stupid when I wrote them, so their design is poor in several ways. Instead, now that I'm slightly older :), I advise you to should use mxCrypto or M2Crypto instead. This release is mostly of historical interest; people outside the US working on crypto code can now check their compatibility with my original modules. == A.M. Kuchling http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/ I can see you've been doing the TARDIS up a bit. I don't like it. -- The second Doctor, in "The Three Doctors" <A HREF="ftp://starship.python.net/pub/crew/amk/crypto/">Cryptography modules now available worldwide</A> - re-release of (historical) crypto modules; may now be downloaded world-wide due to relaxed US export control policies; however, please use mxCrypto or M2Crypto for new projects instead. (17-Jan-2000) -- ----------- 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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yahootochannel.py 1.0
by sspitzer＠sspitzer.org 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

yahootochannel.py is a python cgi that turns yahoo webmail status (how many new messages you have in your yahoo webmail acocunt) into a netcenter channel. three simple setps 1) add the level 1 .yahoo.com cookies to the cgi 2) host the cgi on a website 3) go to http://my.netscape.com/publish and create a my.netscape.com channel here's the script: http://www.sspitzer.org/netcenter/yahootochannel.py -Seth == http://www.sspitzer.org <A HREF="http://www.sspitzer.org/netcenter/yahootochannel.py">yahootochannel.py 1.0 (click to download script)</A> - a Python CGI script that turns Yahoo webmail status (how many new messages you have in your Yahoo webmail acocunt) into a Netcenter channel. (16-Jan-2000) -- ----------- 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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Numerical Python now at SourceForge
by Paul F. Dubois 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

We are in the process of moving Numerical to SourceForge, a service provided by VA Linux for Open Source software projects. Here are some of the things you can do: 1. Visit the Numerical Python web page, http://numpy.sourceforge.net. A link on that page will direct you to the Numerical Python Project pages, where you will find downloads, read about and report bugs, and browse the CVS source tree. 2. Using CVS, you can check out a the latest source by using the following instructions. cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.numpy.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/numpy login When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key. cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.numpy.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/numpy co Numerical Later updates from within the module's directory do not need the -d parameter. Official releases are as shown on the project page. By using the latest source via anonymous CVS, you are getting both the latest bug fixes and the latest accidently-introduced bugs. Cavaet downloader. 3. Currently 3 people are enabled as developers: David Ascher, Travis Oliphant, and myself. Once we are a little more setttled in we will be open to adding developers. 4. Once you have the source tree you can make a compressed tar file for moving to other machines by executing, in the Numerical directory, python setup.py dist To avoid confusion, we suggest that you rename the file produced so that it does not match the official release number. Or, you can change that number in setup.py. This feature requires your Python have Distutils installed (http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig). Note: if you browse the CVS tree you will see a top-level directory "numpy" but there are no files underneath. This was the result of an early error and when we can figure out how to destroy it, we will. The module you want is "Numerical". The SourceForge homepage (http://sourceforge.net) will lead you to some CVS documentation if you are unfamilar with it. Note: all other LLNLDistribution modules are still in LLNLDistribution11.tgz, available via xfiles.llnl.gov. Over the next month or two we will be moving these to new homes. The xfiles machine itself has become somewhat unstable and the server often dies on weekends. Security changes will require us to move everything anyway, so this is a good time for some housekeeping. In the meantime, please be patient with us. This change does not mean that LLNL has lessened its involvement with Python or its commitment to supporting Numerical. The intent is just to move the project forward by opening up the development process. Fortuitously, SourceForge has sprung full-blown from the brow of Zeus -- or maybe it just seems that way to me. <A HREF="http://numpy.sourceforge.net">Numerical Python</A> - Numerical facility for Python, now hosted at SourceForge. (16-Jan-2000) -- ----------- 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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linkdl! 0.2 (module for linked lists)
by Jérôme Loisel 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

Hello all! I am happy to announce the widely-anticipated v.0.2 release of linkdl! (My brother and ex-girlfriend were *really* looking forward to it! :-)) linkdl stands for LinkedLists. linkdl is a module providing a LinkedLists data types. That data type allows you to create, modify and view lists which are to remain linked both vertically and horizontally. Think of it as a rudimentary spreadsheet (without an UI, of course...). It keeps rows and columns, and sorts along either the rows or the columns. (I am actually quite happy with the sorting: if there are ties, linkdl looks to the next row or column to resolve them, up to the last row or column... Hmmm... Well, *I* think it's pretty cool. :-)) The following is the main __doc__ string. Please do tell me if you look at the code. As this is my first mostly serious module, I would very much appreciate any feedback. linkdl seems to work quite well, but I have only done basic testing. You should also be aware that it is not optimized and will probably only offer mediocre performance under very heavy loads. Cheers, and happy coding! Jérôme Loisel http://linkdl.sourceforge.net/ (or, if your DNS has not caught it yet...) http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1460 [Moderator's note: the module source code originally included here has been removed due to bandwidth considerations.] <A HREF="http://linkdl.sourceforge.net">linkdl 0.2</A> - a linked lists module for Python. (15-Jan-2000) -- ----------- 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 Design Competition - Software Carpentry
by Greg Wilson 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

Los Alamos National Laboratory CodeSourcery, LLC Software Carpentry http://www.software-carpentry.com Open Source Design Competition $100,000 in Prizes! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Software Carpentry project is pleased to announce its first Open Source design competition, with prizes totaling $100,000. Students and professionals from any country, working individually or in teams, are invited to submit design outlines for: * a platform inspection tool to replace autoconf; * a dependency management tool to replace make; * an issue tracking system to replace gnats and Bugzilla; and * a unit and regression testing harness with the functionality of XUnit, Expect, and DejaGnu. The best four entries in each category will be awarded $2500, and invited to submit full designs by June 1, 2000. The best design in each category will then receive an additional $7500, while runners-up will each receive $2500. Once winning designs have been announced, $200,000 will be available through open bidding for implementation, testing, and documentation. Participants may submit separate entries in one or more categories by March 31, 2000. Entries must be in English, and no more than 5000 words long. For more information, see the Software Carpentry web site at http://www.software-carpentry.com. All of the project's work will be Open Source; all tools will be written in, or scriptable with, Python, and will be required to run on both Linux and Microsoft Windows NT. The competition will be judged by a panel that includes the following noted software developers, authors, and computational scientists: Stephen Adler Brookhaven National Laboratory Frank Alexander Los Alamos National Laboratory Donnie Barnes Red Hat Chris DiBona VA Linux Paul Dubois Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Andrew Hunt Pragmatic Programmers, LLC Stephen R. Lee Los Alamos National Laboratory Josh MacDonald University of California, Berkeley Brian Marick Reliable Software Technologies Doug Mewhort Queen's University Bruce Perens co-founder of the Open Source Initiative Dave Thomas Pragmatic Programmers, LLC Jon Udell author of Practical Internet Groupware Guido van Rossum inventor of Python Tom Van Vleck TransIlluminant Phil Wadler Bell Labs Scot Wingo AuctionRover ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Software Carpentry project is sponsored by the Advanced Computing Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory (http://www.acl.lanl.gov), and administered by CodeSourcery, LLC (http://www.codesourcery.com). The project's aim is to encourage adoption of better software development practices by making software tools easier to use, and by documenting design, testing, and related activities. For more information on the project, or to let us know that you intend to submit a proposal, see http://www.software-carpentry.com, or mail info(a)software-carpentry.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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pylice 0.4.3
by The Dude 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

With pylice you can check your HTML documents for broken links. Pylice checks recursively and multithreaded. Output can be HTML, colored or normal text. Pylice is licensed under the GNU Public License. URL: http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~calvin/software/ EMAIL: calvin(a)cs.uni-sb.de <A HREF="http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~calvin/software/">pylice 0.4.3</A> - checks your HTML documents for broken links. (14-Jan-2000) -- ----------- 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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- PyRecode
by Andreas Jung 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

I am happy to announce the availability of PyRecode. PyRecode is a wrapper around the functionality of Recode. Recode is a tool (under GPL) for converting text from one character set to another one. Recode is very useful when you are working with texts in different formats, languages and character sets. The sources are available from http://www.suxers.de/PyRecode.tgz At the moment it has been only tested under Linux, Python 1.5.2 and recode 3.5. More platforms will follow soon. Cheers, Andreas Jung <A HREF="http://www.suxers.de/PyRecode.tgz">PyRecode (click to download .tar.gz file)</A> - wrapper around the functionality of the GNU Recode character set conversion tool. (13-Jan-2000) -- ----------- 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, 12 Jan 2000
by Mike Pelletier 21 Jan '00

21 Jan '00

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday evening. Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively. Suggestions for ZWN items are happily accepted. Please mail them to <mike(a)digicool.com>, put 'ZWN' somewhere in the subject and remember to include URLs. Announcements * Hadar Pedhazur <hadar(a)opticality.com> announced on the Zope mailing list that Digital Creations and Zope will have a presence at the Linux WorldExpo in February. This is thanks to Tucows.com graciously sharing their booth. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-January/016931.html * Andrew M. Kuchling <akuchlin(a)mems-exchange.org> announced the release of version 0.05 of the Oedipus package. Oedipus is a Python package for creating and maintaining hierarchical trees of Web links. A prototype Zope product is included in the package that allows browsing through an Oedipus database. http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/python/oedipus/ * "tseaver" noticed an updated review of Zope by Linux Planet and passed along the link. This is the review that appeared about two weeks ago, with the same ultimate conclusions but with some reporting errors corrected and the "Response from Digital Creations." http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/1319/1/ New Products * "johanc" submitted "XMLRPC Client for Internet Explorer 5". It has been released as a part of the Zope Internet Explorer project, which aims to build a rich interface to Zope around Internet Explorer 5. http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/ZIE/xmlrpc_client Updates * "rossl" updated the LDAPAdapter Product. This product allows you to authenticate user against data stored on an LDAP server. The current version is 0.95. http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter Zope.org items * "Bill" wrote a How-To, titled "Conditional SQL How-To available" which describes how to construct a ZSQLMethod with a dynamic query. http://www.zope.org/Members/Bill/Documentation/ConditionalSQL * "anthony" has composed a very good How-To, "Choosing to store data in SQL vs ZODB", which discusses the relative merits and drawbacks of using Zope's native database and using an external SQL database to store data. http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/sql_vs_ZODB * "gwachob" has contributed a beginner level How-To about DTML scripting, "Making Folder Directory Listings". In it, he describes the DTML needed to generate a dynamic list of certain kinds of objects in a folder. http://www.zope.org/Members/gwachob/directorylisting Notable Discussions * Nico Grubert <nico(a)beehive.de> is looking for ideas for fairly substantial (20-40 pages) tutorials. Suggestions so far: News site app with workflow, a shopping cart app, and methods for handling file uploads. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-January/016594.html * Steve Jibson <stevej(a)parlant.com> developed a large ZClass, and then needed to change the ZClass's base classes. Not wanting to have to rebuild his ZClass from scratch, he asked the list for alternatives. Several are offered. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-January/016627.html == Mike Pelletier. -- ----------- 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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