Mailman 3 January 2000 - Python-announce-list

4DOM 0.9.1
by Uche Ogbuji Jan. 11, 2000

Jan. 11, 2000

FourThought LLC (http://FourThought.com) announces the release of 4DOM 0.9.1 ----------------------- An XML/HTML Python library using the Document Object Model interface 4DOM is a Python library for XML and HTML processing and manipulation using the W3C's Document Object Model for interface. 4DOM implements DOM Core level 2, HTML level 2 and Level 2 Document Traversal. 4DOM should work on all platforms supported by Python. If you have any problems with a particular platform, please e-mail the authors. 4DOM is designed to allow developers rapidly design applications that read, write or manipulate HTML and XML. 0.9.1 News ---------- This is a bug-fix release. 0.9.0 Changes ------------- - Major re-write to match the general consensus DOM binding for Python. Code formerly in the form "node.getChildNodes()" is now to be used in the form "node._get_childNodes()" or simply "node.childNodes". Similarly "text.setData("spam")" becomes "text._set_data("spam")" or text.data = "spam" - Update to full Level 2 support in core and HTML, including namespace-support. - Many bug-fixes More info and Obtaining 4DOM ---------------------------- Please see http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4DOM Or you can download 4DOM from ftp://FourThought.com/pub/4Suite/4DOM 4DOM is distributed under a license similar to that of Python. == Uche Ogbuji FourThought LLC, IT Consultants uche.ogbuji(a)fourthought.com (970)481-0805 Software engineering, project management, Intranets and Extranets http://FourThought.com http://OpenTechnology.org <A HREF="http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4DOM">4DOM 0.9.1</A> - CORBA-aware implementation of the W3C Document Object Model (DOM), supports Fnorb, ILU and "ORB-less" operation. (04-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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Sybase module - release 0.4
by Dave Cole Jan. 11, 2000

Jan. 11, 2000

This is the "first" release of my Sybase module for Python Sybase is a module which provides a Python interface to the Sybase relational database system (surprise). The Sybase package supports almost all of the Python Database API, version 2.0 with extensions. The Sybase package is designed to work with Python versions 1.5.2 and later and Sybase versions 11.0.3 and later. It is based on the Sybase Client Library (ct_* API), and the Bulk-Library Client (blk_* API) interfaces. The module contains the following items: Module interface Connection objects Cursor objects Bulkcopy objects The homepage http://www.itga.com.au/~djc/sybase.html contains a description of the deviations from the Database API specification. The module can also be downloaded from ftp://ftp.itga.com.au/pub/python/Sybase-0.4.tar.gz - Dave <A HREF="http://www.itga.com.au/~djc/sybase.html">Sybase module 0.4</A> - a Python interface to the Sybase relational database system, mostly compatible with the Python Database API, v2.0. (04-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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python davserver 0.5
by ruebe＠aachen.heimat.de Jan. 11, 2000

Jan. 11, 2000

Hi Release 0.5 of my davserver for python is ready for download. Now MOVE and COPY also work. Moreover some internal stuff has changed to make it more flexible. And of course bugs also have been fixed. python davserver is supposed to act as generic server which can easily be used by different applications. All one has to do is to write an interfaces class which acts as a link between the application and the actual WebDAV server. You can download it at: ftp://comlounge.net/webdav/davserver-0.5.tar.gz The homepage is available at: http://comlounge.net/webdav/ best wished for 2000 (still 2:20 h to go here..) -- Christian _______________________________________________ dav-announce maillist - dav-announce(a)lyra.org http://dav.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/dav-announce <A HREF="http://comlounge.net/webdav/">python davserver 0.5</A> - an extensible <A HREF="http://www.webdav.org/">WebDAV</A> (RFC 2518) server class for Python; for adding WebDAV functionality to a variety of applications. (01-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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GMatH
by Hassan Aurag Jan. 11, 2000

Jan. 11, 2000

Hi, I am here to announce GmatH, a gnome interface to Numerical Python! For more information and eye-candy, please go to http://gmath.sourceforge.net Thanks H. Aurag <A HREF="http://gmath.sourceforge.net">GMatH</A> - a GNOME user interface for Numerical Python. (01-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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pysco: a python module for composers
by Paul Winkler Jan. 11, 2000

Jan. 11, 2000

Pysco is a Python module for generating scores for Csound, a software synthesis language. Pysco replaces Pscore, my old Perl csound-score- generating module. Pysco does everything Pscore did and more. It has recently reached a stage of development at which it might actually be musically useful. The current version is 0.0.2 Eventually I hope to abstract the data to the point that pysco can usefully generate other types of musical output (such as midi files or streams). The current idea of pysco is that you import it into a python script and then compose / program music in your script. There is a little sample piece ("song1.py") included with the source, but it's not very interesting (yet). More information and downloading: http://www.ulster.net/~abigoo/pw_linux/code.html#pysco == ................ paul winkler .................. slinkP arts: music, sound, illustration, design, etc. A member of ARMS -----> http://www.reacharms.com or http://www.mp3.com/arms or http://www.amp3.net/arms personal page ----> http://www.ulster.net/~abigoo <A HREF="http://www.ulster.net/~abigoo/pw_linux/code.html#pysco"> pysco</A> - a Python module for generating scores for Csound, a software synthesis language; for music composers. (29-Dec-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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pyCA-0.6.3 - tools for setting up a certificate authority
by Michael Ströder Jan. 11, 2000

Jan. 11, 2000

HI! I would like to announce a new beta release of my package pyCA, a set of scripts and CGI-BIN programs written in Python for setting up and running a X.509 certificate authority using OpenSSL. See http://www.pyca.de/ for more details. Note: This will be the last feature release in the 0.6.x series. Only bug fixes will be added in this branch. The upcoming release 0.7.0 and above will be incompatible to 0.6.x installations. Plans for 0.7.0 - based on M2Crypto (a Python module for accessing the OpenSSL libs) - database support for storing cert and user data - replacement for "openssl ca" command - localization support for different character sets This may take a while... Ciao, Michael. Changes since 0.6.2: - Many small bugfixes and small enhancements <A HREF="http://www.pyca.de/">pyca-0.6.3</A> - scripts and CGI-BIN programs for setting up and running a certificate authority using OpenSSL. (27-Dec-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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KOALA 0.9.0 released: A database `microsoft access'-4GL-like backen
by Paul Sheer Jan. 11, 2000

Jan. 11, 2000

SOFTWARE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT ============================= KOALA - Version 0.9.0 --------------------- Availability: ------------- ftp://ftp.obsidian.co.za/pub/koala/ What is this package: ===================== This is an object-database / GUI / database-backend / data-widget / Microsoft-Access thingie for postgres. It allows you to create any type of incredibly complicated interlinked set of database tables without typing a single line of code. It supports every kind of postgres type corresponding to every type of gnome/gtk widget. You all do it from within a GUI. And the GUI form layouts are also stored within the database in their own table. Koala gives a form and dialog backend to any postgres database. Koala is written in Python with gnome-python (thanks James) for the interface. Koala is distributed under the GNU General Public License. ---------------------------------- Paul Sheer <psheer(a)obsidian.co.za> README.koala>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Koala's user reference: Theory and practical for creating GUI tables. ============================================= This documentation is by no means a comprehensive description of what is going on. It is to be read in combination with running the demos. Between the two, is all of what you may need to know to create tables and dialogs from within the GUI. `Koalii' is the plural of `koala'. A dialog is a form with lots of widgets inside it that usually need filling in. What is a koala: A koala is a widget in a dialog that corresponds to a column in a database table. It is hence a DATA WIDGET (term used in some circles). The dialog itself corresponds to the whole table. A particular instance of the dialog corresponds to a particular row of the table. A koala is also an python object that knows how to create that widget as well as format that data for the particular column in SQL. Koalii usually hold strings, integers, dates etc - like a persons name or his shoe size. A `compound' koala is a koala that holds only an integer where the integer is a reference to a row id of another table. For instance, a dialog of personal details may contain a string koala that holds the persons preferred brand of cologne. It would be better to rather have a table of all brands of cologne and then just store the particular row id of the brand instead of storing a string of the full name of the brand (This allows all brands to be accounted for and makes it impossible to input a non-existing, but similar sounding brand name into the widget). The table of all known colognes would have its own koalii: such as a string containing the name, another for manufacturer etc. These strings are called sub-koalii of the integer koala for this cologne. In postgres (the SQL server), row id's are actually called oid's (Object ID's) and are unique across the entire database. So we may have an oid referring to a person. The person has a row containing a lot of strings and integers describing them. One these integers is an oid, and is a reference to a row in another table of cologne brands. The cologne brand row will contain strings, integers etc describing it, and possibly some oid's linked to other tables of manufacturers, ingredients... and so on. In fact, the manufacturer may contain a list of employees which link all the way back to the persons table: in this way, the database can circular. A compound koala can hence be displayed in two ways: as a form with all its sub-koala represented as widgets (checkboxes, entry widgets etc.); or, when it itself is a sub-koala, as a widget inside the form of its parent-koala. The form has to be laid out neatly so that many sub-koala can be represented. This is actually quite tricky when you are dealing with a table of fifty fields. To do this neatly we group associated koala, displaying each group on a separate page of a gtk notebook. So for example, a `person' koala would have one page for his identity (first name, last name, title), and another page for his address (street, city, country, zip) and so on. In the code, these are called `pages', and there might be only one of them if there are only three or four fields. The form of each page is described by a formatting language, so that a form of a checkbox with an entry widget above it may look like this: ( %Cf / %Exf )f The details of these forms are as per the gtk_dialog_cauldron.3 man page, or the gnome sgml documentation of the gtk_dialog_cauldron() C function. There is one change however: You may mostly use %X instead of an actual format specifier, because the code will test the type of the koala being passed to that format specifier and then substitute the %X for an appropriate widget type. An exception is the checkbox (%C) and radiobutton (%R) widgets. There is no way to tell them apart because the are both `boolean' koalii. Instead of %X you should explicitly specify %R or %C as the case may be. The complete list of user widgets is as follows: koala_string This is the most basic type. It is a Gnome entry widget (%Eg) in the form and a `text' postgres type. koala_int A number entry widget, and an `int' postgres type. This has a calculator button to bring up a calculator even if it is totally inapplicable to the purpose of the data. The calculator also doesn't work, because it fails to add a grab or something - Gnome bug. koala_float Same but for a `float' postgres type. koala_floatrange Spin button widget and `float' type. koala_intrange Spin button widget and `int' type. koala_text Editor widget and `text' type. koala_largetext Same but with scrollbars. koala_bool Checkbox or radio button as explained, and a `bool' type. koala_date Gnome date edit widget and a `date' type. koala_datetime Gnome date edit widget with 24 hours and a `date' type. koala_time Three spin buttons with 0-23, 0-59 and 0-59, time sql type. koala_minutes Two spin buttons with 0-23 and 0-59, time sql type. koala_money Gtk entry widget with format of 999999.99 and `float' type. Note: One of the libpg (postgres library) or _pg (python postgres module) libraries has a bug that causes a segfault when using the `money' sql type. Hence the money koala now uses the float type in tables. koala_null If you read the gtk_dialog_cauldron.3 man page, you will see that some tokens in the format string require an argument merely for display purposes (such as a title to a frame). You can use the null koala for this, which does not represent a column in the table. koala_password An entry widget. This is NOT a password entry of the tradition type where asterisks replace characters. It is for storing passwords so that they can only be read by trusted users. The widget has a check button to the right that, when depressed, decrypts the text and then encrypts it again when raised. The encryption is done with triple-DES. This koala might be used, for instance, in a service IT business that has a database of customers machines that they administer. Each machine has a root password which you can safely store using this koala, only the encrypted text is transfered to the database. The key used to do the encryption is a hash of a password entered with the do_passwd() dialog. A few characters of the intermediate hash can be passed as the second argument to verify that the typed password is correct. koala_mutable This is the compound entity explained above. The widget is a Gnome entry widget that contains text that refers to the first sub-koala on the first page (i.e. the first column in the table). For instance a cologne koala would have the brand name as the first sub-koala, so the brand name would appear in an entry widget in the parent dialog. Next to the entry widget are two buttons, [?] and [^]. The first brings up a list box of possible values that may appear in the entry widget - it does a search through the table. The second displays the full dialog of the koala - the notebook with all its pages. Two extra pages appear in the notebook besides the ones containing sub-koala widgets. The are the `Edit' and `Access' pages. The Access page allows the user `postgres' to restrict or allow access to the particular koala in various ways. koala_auto This is just like the mutable koala, but the dialog is automatically created from a pre-existing table. This can be used in intermediate stages where you quickly want to create some kind of access to a table, where it doesn't have to look pretty. Type is `oid' like mutable. koala_mutablearray This widget is gtk clist - i.e. a table with column headings for each field. The table has `Add', `New', `Edit' and `Delete' buttons. The `Edit' button brings up a dialog just like the mutable koala, from where pages can be added and edited. New entities that are created within the form editor will appear as new columns in the table. The sql type is `text'. This is the one koala that uses more than one row. The table itself has an extra column `_key'. All `_key' with the same value belong together. koala_mutablestring Above we said that compound koala's have an oid value that indexed a row. Mutablestring is a mutable koalii that has a string as the index instead of an oid of the row. The string represents the first koala on the first page - which must be of sql type `text' - and would be the first column of the table. Note that there is not yet protection of duplicate entries. The user should make sure that two rows do not have the same index. koala_mutableint This is the same as mutablestring, but with an integer as an index. Note on editing pages: ---------------------- When you edit a page from within the GUI, it will not appear immediately in the notebook. You have to first test the page by clicking the `Test' button and then `Cancel' the dialog and then `Cancel' the parent dialog. Only then are the previous form layouts cleared from memory. The method append_mutable_page appends koala that do not appear in the page table. If koala already exist, no action is taken, even if the column types or form layout differs. This means that once you have created a page with append_mutable_page you can only alter it from within the GUI. Alternatively you can do a DELETE FROM table_pagearray WHERE _key = 'my_table'; Which will clear out the form and reference to any koalii. Stale (unlinked) koalii from this page will remain in table_entityarray, but these may be ignored. Note on date style: ------------------- Postgress outputs dates as 4/28/1984 or 28/4/1984 depending on the locale. I force my date to european style (28/4/1984) by using, postmaster -o -e ... in my init script (see postmaster(1) and postgres(1)). If you use non-european style, set, european_date_style = 0 in object_bases.py. This has nothing to do with the way that the date will display in the widget, which is has to do with Gnome and not with me. Be absolutely sure about what date style postgres is outputting, by actually creating a table with dates in it and doing a SELECT on them. Koala cannot autodetect this and will read the date incorrectly. Note on quotation marks: ------------------------ At the moment, the python code replaces all ' with ` before committing any string value to a table. How to jump in and create a database: ------------------------------------- There are two ways: one is to just run extended_bases.py as the main program (i.e. su postgres python extended_bases.py ) and then begin creating tables with the `New' button. Follow this example as a tutorial. Here we create a table of motor vehicles. 0. Postgres should be set up so that a user `postgres' can access a database called postgres and create and delete tables. See the postgres documentation about installing and configuring postgres. 1. run su postgres python extended_bases.py 2. Click on `New' 3. Enter `table_vehicles' 4. A notepad will appear with two pages: `Edit' and `Access' Raise the `Edit' page and click on `New'. 5. Enter `Identity' on the Title page, `100' in the `Order' field on the `Form' page. Now enter your form in the text area: ( (Registration Number:) %Xxf )f / ( (Make:) %Xxf )f / ( (Model:) %Xxf )f / ( (Year:) %Xxf )f It would be wise to read the full gtk_dialog_cauldron(3) man page. Note that newlines are completely ignored. 6. Now raise the `Koalii' page and read the message their. 7. Click on `Ok' 8. Click on `Edit' and go back to the `Koalii' page. 9. Click on `New' in the `Koalii' page. 10. A Koalii dialog will appear, enter: `Registration Number' in the `Title' field, `10' in the `Order' field, `string' in the `Type' field, `ident_registration' in the `Table column' field, and leave the rest blank. 11. Now repeat steps 9 and 10 for each of make, model and year. In each case, the `Table column' MUST be different and the `Title' field must be something descriptive. The `Order' field should indicate the order that the koalii appear in the form, preferably with large gaps in case you need to add new ones later, eg 20 for make, 30 for model, and 40 for year. 12. In the `Koalii' page of the `Pages' dialog, check A: that you have four entries B: that each entry has a different Column field C: that each entry has a properly descriptive Title field D: that each entry has a type of `string' E: that the order of the entries matches the order within the form 13. Hit `Ok' to go back to the `Edit' page of the `table_car' dialog. 14. You will notice that under `Enabled' is an `f'. Click on `Test' to test the page and then `Close' the test dialog. If there was something wrong with the form string, an appropriate error message may be printed (see README.patch_first). You may also get error messages that are very cryptic. Don't scratch your head trying to understand them, just double check all your koalii and your form string and try to make the page simpler. 15. `Cancel' the `table_car' dialog. 16. You will now notice a new button on the main menu: `table_car'. click on this button. 17. You can continue to add other pages to the notebook. Though do not ever delete pages and then reuse column names. Postgres lacks the `DROP COLUMN' feature (its also dangerous to use in this case) so stale columns will hang around. You can drop them by recreating the table, but this must be done with psql on the command line. Other way to create a table: ---------------------------- The other way to create a table is to program it in python. Here is a python script that does the same: #!/usr/bin/python from extended_bases import * class koala_car (koala_mutable): def widget_create (self, *args): self.append_mutable_page ("Identity", "( (Registration Number:) %Xxf )f /" "( (Make:) %Xxf )f /" "( (Model:) %Xxf )f /" "( (Year:) %Xxf )f", (("string", "ident_registration", "Registration Number", ""), ("string", "ident_make", "Make", ""), ("string", "ident_model", "Model", ""), ("string", "ident_year", "Year", ""))) return koala_mutable.widget_create (self) def do_table (heading, table): a = koala_mutable ("", heading, "", db, table) a.widget_create () s = search_dialog ("Search: " + heading) if s: a.list (heading, s[0]) db = initialise_bases ("postgres", "localhost", 5432) init_mutable_table (koala_car, db, "table_car") do_table ("Cars", "table_car") --------- Above, the last arguments were always left blank (i.e. ""). These are the default values for the field. In the above cases there is no entry that is more likely than any other, so we left them blank. Now that the form has been created, goto the `Access' page and add some groups so that others besides the postgres login can use the table. You must first create users and groups as explained in README.groups. You need only create one group. Then edit the `Identity' page again and goto `Access'. Here again you must add a group to the list. That concludes a trivial database. To create a complex database with links requires very little more effort... Here we are going to add an owner to the car. First we need to create a `table_person' table. (There may already be one as an example). Add a new page to your car notepad like this: Title: Owner Form: ( (Owner:) %Xxf )f / ( (Date of purchase:) %Xxf ) Entities: Title Order Type Column Table --------------- ------- --------------- --------------- ------------ Owner 10 mutable owner_owner table_person Date Purchased 20 date owner_date The entry widget next to `Owner' will have two buttons to select from a list of people and to add a new person to the list, respectively. You should beware of adding duplicate entries because these are perfectly allowable with a mutable koala, but may create confusion in the database. If there would never be a duplicate entry for the table you have created, then you can use mutablestring instead of mutable which indexes the table by the first column and does not allow duplicate entries. For table_person, the first column contains only the last name of the person. Since there can be many people with the same last name, mutable is used instead of mutablestring. 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Jhb . . . +27 11 792 6500 L I N U X . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Choice of a GNU Generation <A HREF="ftp://ftp.obsidian.co.za/pub/koala/">KOALA 0.9.0</A> - a database/GUI forms package for PostgreSQL and Gnome (uses Python 1.5.1). (26-Dec-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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PySol 3.10 - a solitaire game collection
by Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer Jan. 11, 2000

Jan. 11, 2000

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- PySol - a Solitaire Game Collection Version 3.10 http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <markus.oberhumer(a)jk.uni-linz.ac.at> What is PySol ? =============== PySol is an exciting collection of 128 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: - currently supports 128 (!) 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 - freely available - distributed under the GNU GPL with full source code Yeah, I know. But what's new ? ============================== * Implemented 17 new games. * Added sound support including samples and background MP3/MOD music. Sound is implemented by a rather generic server (a C program) using the SDL library for low-level mixing and playing. * Wrote some really fancy tree dialogs - Python programmers will definitely love these :-) * Added 19 great cardsets to pysol-cardsets. Many thanks to T. Kirk. Cool. Where can I get it ? ========================== Point your browser to http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html 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. BTW, there is no need to compile anything since the whole program is just a Python script. Just run it, and that's all. Contributions ============= I'm looking for people who want to contibute new games, provide additional graphics, scan cardset packs, improve the docs, etc. Please see the README in the distribution about details. License terms ============= PySol is Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 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://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOGAYJ210fyLu8beJAQH9EgQAsRwAPJHhEm1aMN9C+FVbhcDHrkqOUOmT WrD7sJRtvFpFfZ72GrcYpczgmB3tjwJsfh2C4dOtajrBGdIZuCh5z+f7aHnp77n7 oOPKxmpmQzlq/l5t2hlhewbE2dXFMh8+dbbygzfGVgORs0SbKi8CxTQFjzoZPy4t p6TiDKXl9bw= =5B4i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- <A HREF="http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html">PySol 3.10</A> - new version of Python Solitaire Games (using Tkinter); now supports 128 (!) distinct solitaire card game variants. (22-Dec-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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pyhints - Python function signatures in VIM
by morse＠harborcom.net Jan. 11, 2000

Jan. 11, 2000

Pyhints scans one or more Python source files and produces a VIM 'hint' script. When sourced, this script displays the function signature in the status line after you type the function name. This idea is from Dr. Cambell's flist program (http://users.erols.com/astronaut/vim/) , which does the same for C/C++. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/4673/python.html#pyhints <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/4673/python.html#pyhints">pyhints for VIM</A> - scans one or more Python source files and produces a 'hint' script describing function signatures; for the VIM editor. (21-Dec-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, 5 Jan 2000
by Mike Pelletier Jan. 6, 2000

Jan. 6, 2000

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. Announcements * A security hole has been found and patched. The problem, found thanks to Kevin Littlejohn's efforts, affects those sites which make their Zope management interface available to untrusted users. All Zope users are encouraged to read the announcement and update their Zope installation. Patches are available for both 2.x and 1.x. This patch forced two new Zope releases, 2.1.2 and 1.10.4. http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.2/Zope_212_release New Products * Jephte CLAIN has released a new NT Domain authenticator: jcNTUserFolder. Jephte's Product differs from "htrd"'s in that roles are given through the web and impersonation is not used. http://www.zope.org/Members/jephte/jcNTUserFolder Updates * "Drew" updated the Photo Product. Photo resizes images to the user's preferred size. The present version is 0.1.0. http://www.zope.org/Members/Drew/Photo * "vladap" updated the mysqlUserFolder Product. This update fixes a folder creation bug. mysqlUserFolder allows you to authenticate users with data stored in a mysql database. It also allows you to store arbitrary per-user data, and it supports HTTP and cookie-based authentication schemes. The present version is 0.3.2. http://www.zope.org/Members/vladap/mysqlUserFolder * Jephte CLAIN has also released two patches, one to the MIME tag, and one to the import/export system. The MIME patch adds *_expr versions of the type, disposition, encode and name attributes of the MIME tag. These allow you to evaluate an expression for the value of the attribute rather than specifying a literal value. The patch also adds the attributes filename and filename_expr to the tag. These attributes supply hints that the client will use to determine the file's name. The import/export patch allows you to import objects through the web instead of having to place files on the filesystem. http://www.zope.org/Members/jephte/MIMETag http://www.zope.org/Members/jephte/WebImport * "phd" released an update to the mod_pcgi2 package. This update adds a PCGI_ROOT command for virtual hosting. mod_pcgi2 is an Apache module which moves the PCGI client into Apache's address space, preventing the need to start a new process to avoid the "fork tax". The present version is 0.2.0. http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2 Zope.org items * "Gregor" had some quibbles with a couple aspects of Zope's user interface. He wrote and submitted a How-To describing how to prevent the "Powered by Zope" link from opening in a frame, and how to make the Zope document editing TEXTAREA soft-wrap. http://www.zope.org/Members/Gregor/misc_nitpicks Notable Discussions * Olivier Deckmyn <olivier.deckmyn(a)mail.dotcom.fr> has just started what stands to be an interesting thread for those wishing to take the first step developing Zope applications. Olivier has a set of classes which implement the logic of the application he wishes to produce. He is looking for advice on how to move from a set of standalone objects to a Zope application. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/016251.html * To ring in the new year, Wei Tao <taow(a)bd748.pku.edu.cn> started a Zope wishlist thread. Got a wish, rant or suggestion? Chime in. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-January/016318.html * A thread significant to Product developers: Martijn Faassen <m.faassen(a)vet.uu.nl> desires to develop a set of Product standards. He points out that there are some rather arcane things that one has to do to produce a well-behaved Zope Product, but that many people do not know what they are and even those who do know do not always know _why_ ("voodoo programming"). Martijn makes a number of suggestions to rectify this problem. Chris McDonough graciously offers to contribute some effort to the cause. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2000-January/002823.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2000-January/002824.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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