Mailman 3 January 2000 - Python-announce-list

Schedule changes for IPC8
by Barry A. Warsaw 06 Jan '00

06 Jan '00

There have been a few minor scheduling changes for the Tuesday and Wednesday sessions of IPC8. Please see the web site http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ for details. -Barry -- ----------- 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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IPC8 Hotel Group Rate Extension
by Barry A. Warsaw 06 Jan '00

06 Jan '00

For those of you who are coming to the 8th International Python Conference and are planning to stay at the hotel, but have /not/ yet made your room reservations, please note that the hotel has extended the Python group rate of $129/night (plus tax) until close of business (US East Coast time) on January 6th, 2000. After this date, the least expensive room the hotel will offer is $179/night (plus tax). For more information on the conference see http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ Hotel information is available at http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/hotel.html See you there! -Barry -- ----------- 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 Conference -- Early Bird Registration ends Jan 5!
by Guido van Rossum 04 Jan '00

04 Jan '00

This is the last warning. The conference is getting booked full, don't wait till the last moment! If you haven't registered and paid by January 5, you will paying full price... So, be smart and register NOW. Also don't forget to book your hotel room by January 3 to qualify for the conference rate! Some highlights from the conference program: - 8 tutorials on topics ranging from JPython to Fnorb; - a keynote by Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond; - another by Randy Pausch, father of the Alice Virtual Reality project; - a separate track for Zope developers and users; - live demonstrations of important Python applications; - refereed papers, and short talks on current topics; - a developers' day where the feature set of Python 2.0 is worked out. Our motto, due to Bruce Eckel, is: "Life's better without braces." Come and join us at the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn (across the bridge from Georgetown), January 24-27 in 2000. Make the Python conference the first conference you attend in the new millennium! The early bird registration deadline is January 5. More info: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ The program is now complete with the titles of all presentations. There is still space in the demo session and in the short talks session. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) -- ----------- 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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EVBU 0.1 -- 68HC11 microcontroller simulator
by Andrew Sterian 04 Jan '00

04 Jan '00

EVBU 0.1 is a simulator for the Motorola 68HC11 microcontroller. It is written in pure Python and is free software released under the GPL. The software can be downloaded from: <http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana/Python> <P><A HREF="http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana/Python">EVBU 0.1</A> - a freeware simulator for the 68HC11 microcontroller. (30-Dec-99) Andrew Sterian | <mailto:steriana@gvsu.edu> Assistant Professor | <http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana> Padnos School of Engineering | (616) 771-6756 Grand Valley State University -- ----------- 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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Pyro 0.8
by Irmen de Jong 04 Jan '00

04 Jan '00

PYRO - Python Remote Objects - version 0.8 by Irmen de Jong - irmen(a)bigfoot.com WHAT IS PYRO? Pyro is an acronym for PYthon Remote Objects. It is a basic Distributed Object Technology system written entirely in Python, and for use in Python only. With this, it closely resembles Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI). It has less similarity to CORBA - which is a system- and language independent Distributed Object Technology and has much more to offer than Pyro or RMI. However, Pyro has some interesting features: - Naming Service which keeps record of the location of objects. The location of the NS can be discovered by use of a broadcast mechanism, if need be. - Support for Python types only restricted by those that the standard 'pickle' module handles (all builtin types, and user created classes). Objects as arguments are also supported when the code for those user defined classes is also available on the server side. - Support for all Python argument types (variable argument lists and keyword arguments, *args and **keywords). - Exceptions that occur in the remote object will actually be raised too on the client, just as if the error occured locally. Pyro's exception transportation mechanism makes this possible. - Proxy compiler which automates the task of creating wrapper (proxy) classes. - Dynamic Proxies if you don't like to have pregenerated proxies. - Full source code in Python The most important changes since the previous version are: - Separate system and user logs. - Cleaner exception handling. - Major documentation update: a whole new chapter with a practical guide about how to develop Pyro programs has been added. - Various small changes such as Win32 GUID support, localhost optimization, delegate pattern for object implementation, new argument parser. WHERE CAN I GET IT ? >From my Python homepage: http://www.bigfoot.com/~irmen/python.html It comes with a Python-style license, but is otherwise free for commercial and non-commercial use. REFERENCE: <P><A HREF="http://www.bigfoot.com/~irmen/python.html">Pyro 0.8</A> - Distributed Object system for Python. (30-Dec-99) == Irmen de Jong - irmen(a)bigfoot.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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Zope Weekly News - Wed, 29 Dec 1999
by Mike Pelletier 04 Jan '00

04 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. Announcements * Amos Lattier <amos(a)digicool.com> put out a call for FastCGI problems. Amos is revisiting FastCGI support, so the more you complain the better it will be. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/016202.html * Paul Everitt <paul(a)digicool.com> has alerted everyone to the latest issue of Linux Magazine, which contains an article "Gold Rush: Venture Capitalists Discover Linux". The article talks about Digital Creations and Hadar Pedhazur at length. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/016197.html Updates * "htrd" posted an update to his NTUserFolder product. It authenticates Zope users from NT user accounts. It only runs on Windows NT. The latest release is 1.3. http://yyy.zope.org/Members/htrd/NTUserFolder * "phd" has updated mod_pcgi2 several times this week. mod_pcgi2 moves PGCI's calling code into Apache's process to eliminate the so-called "fork tax". This makes requests more responsive. The latest version is 0.1.2. http://yyy.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2 Zope.org items * "z113" contributed a How-To on adding your own DTML tags to the language. http://yyy.zope.org/Members/z113/1 Notable Discussions * Art Hampton <arth(a)pacsg.css.mot.com> started a discussion presently underway about the relative merits of mod_pcgi2, vanilla PCGI and FastCGI. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/016198.html * Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> has made and released some modifications to ZCatalog. He's soliciting comments in zope-dev. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002780.htm; == 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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New Cephes module with arraymap method
by Travis Oliphant 04 Jan '00

04 Jan '00

I'm announcing the availability of Version 1.2 of the Cephes module at http://oliphant.netpedia.net Cephes module provides many special functions of physics to the Numerical Python user as ufuncs which are generalized functions that automatically map over array arguments and follow useful broadcasting rules. I would like to see more special functions added to the library even if they are written in Python. Towards that end, version 1.2 contains a new python wrapper module called SpecialFuncs.py that can include Python-only special functions. In addition, I have added a method to cephesmodule called arraymap that acts like the map function but performs the broadcasting rules of ufuncs and returns Numerical Python arrays as output. I have also included a class that allows wrapping a Python function that takes scalar inputs and returns scalar outputs and returns a ufunc-like function which automatically maps over array input arguments following the ufunc broadcasting rules to return appropriately-sized outputs. So, if you can't figure out how to "vectorize" your function. You can wrap it in this class and get mapping behavior automatically. The looping is all written in C and so is reasonably fast. Comments and contributions are welcome. Travis Oliphant Oliphant.Travis(a)altavista.net <P><A HREF="http://oliphant.netpedia.net/">SpecialFuncs 1.2</A> - an extension module also known as cephes which provides many special functions of physics to the Numerical Python user. (28-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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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 28)
by Gordon McMillan 04 Jan '00

04 Jan '00

The holiday week brought Pythondom three nice new shiny packages: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer announces that Version 3.10 of PySol is here (128 solitaire card games in one!): http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html Kevin Dahlhausen announces pyhints - a script that scans Python source and builds a hint script for VIM (prompts you with function signatures): http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563701938 Paul Sheer announces KOALA 0.9.0, a database / GUI forms package for postgres and Gnome (uses Python 1.5.1): http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=565059802 Bernard Herzog uncovers the reason why maintaining two Python installations on Linux is difficult: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563559697 Ng Pheng Siong provides a nice overview what must be done to use urllib with differnt sorts of firewalls: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563817592 In the Windows / COM world, we got two nice overviews: Eugene Goodrich provides hints for those doing ASP coding: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=564839534 John Nielsen (via Mark Hammond) offers help to those stuck with administering Exchange on NT (or using Python/COM with ADSI): http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563607231 Andrew M. Kuchling updates his "Python warts" page to reflect the most recent rounds of discussion on Python's shortcomings: http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/warts.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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IPC8 Developers Day
by bwarsaw＠python.org 04 Jan '00

04 Jan '00

The schedule for Developers' Day at IPC8 has been posted to http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/devday.html I will hopefully be getting position papers from folks soon after the new year, so please check back if you want to get a head start on the topics. There will be a little bit of time in the morning session for SIG updates, so if you're a SIG champion, please email me if you'd like to give a progress report. Depending on how many people sign up for the morning session, we may have time for other announcements or updates as well. Again, let me know if you'd like to reserve a slot (on the order of 5 - 10 minutes). -Barry -- ----------- 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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makepage-0.1beta.py
by Stefan Schwarzer 04 Jan '00

04 Jan '00

I would like to announce makepage.py 0.1 beta. makepage takes a "description file" and a file with HTML format information and generates HTML files. The description file contains the logical layout (title, sections, subsections) and the text of the document. Additionally, makepage generates a list of hyperlinks to the sections at the top of the page. By supplying an own format file the default formatting (see <http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/python/html_format.py>) can be changed easily. An example is at http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/python/makepage.html This is the makepage documentation page generated with makepage itself and only the default format file. The package can be downloaded from http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/download/makepage-0.1b.zip Please send comments, suggestions, bug reports to Stefan Schwarzer <s.schwarzer(a)ndh.net> . Stefan <P><A HREF="http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/download/makepage-0.1b.zip">makepage 0.1 beta (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ZIP FILE)</A> - generate a HTML file from a logical layout and a general HTML format file. (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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