Mailman 3 November 2000 - Python-announce-list

ANNOUNCE: FXPy-0.99.143 (Python Bindings to FOX GUI Library)
by Lyle Johnson Nov. 14, 2000

Nov. 14, 2000

This is an update of FXPy, a Python extension module which provides an interface to the FOX cross-platform GUI library: Home Page: http://home.hiwaay.net/~johnson2/FXPy Download Source: ftp://ftp.cfdrc.com/pub/FOX/FXPy-0.99.143.tar.gz Windows Binaries: ftp://ftp.cfdrc.com/pub/FOX/FXPy-0.99.143-win32.exe To build FXPy from the sources, you will also need to download version 0.99.143 of the FOX library: FOX Home Page: http://www.cfdrc.com/FOX/fox.html Download Source: ftp://ftp.cfdrc.com/pub/FOX/fox-0.99.143.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cfdrc.com/pub/FOX/fox-0.99.143.zip As you may have guessed by now, the latest release of FXPy is version 0.99.143. What is it? ----------- FXPy is a Python extension module which provides an interface to the FOX cross-platform GUI library. With a few minor exceptions, FXPy provides a complete interface to FOX. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing graphical user interfaces easily and effectively. Some of the significant features of FOX include: * A rich set of widgets (including dials, shutters, tree lists, and many other "modern" widgets). * Powerful but easy-to-use layout managers. * Extensive support for 3-D modeling using OpenGL or Mesa. * Supports the XDND (v4) protocol for drag-and-drop. * Registry for persistent application settings. * Runs natively under Unix/X and Microsoft Windows. * And much, much more! Please see the FOX home page (URL listed above) for more details about the FOX library's features. Also consider subscribing to the foxgui-users mailing list for the latest news about FOX development; again, see the FOX home page for information on this. FXPy is (c) 1999, 2000 Lyle Johnson (lyle(a)users.sourceforge.net) and is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. <P><A HREF="http://home.hiwaay.net/~johnson2/FXPy">FXPy-0.99.143</A> - interface to the FOX cross-platform GUI library. (13-Nov-00)

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ANN: ScanErrLog 1.6
by Jerome Alet Nov. 14, 2000

Nov. 14, 2000

Hi, I'm pleased to announce that ScanErrLog 1.6 is out. ScanErrLog is a tool to parse Apache's error_log files and generate reports based on the number of occurences of each error message. This is particulary useful for web sites maintainers or hosting providers to know what are the most frequent/annoying errors web surfers encounter when visiting their web sites. You can test it online at http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/scanerrlog/TRY-ME.html ScanErrLog can be used as a standalone program, as a CGI script, or you can import it in your own Python programs and use the classes it defines. ScanErrLog can produce reports in HTML, PDF, XML and plain TEXT format. This new version fixes the last known bug in the PDF output (You'll need ReportLab 1.01 - http://www.reportlab.com). You can download ScanErrLog from http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/scanerrlog/ Comments are very welcome. thank you for reading. -- Jerome ALET - alet(a)unice.fr - http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome Fac de Medecine de Nice http://wwwmed.unice.fr Tel: (+33) 4 93 37 76 30 Fax: (+33) 4 93 53 15 15 28 Avenue de Valombrose - 06107 NICE Cedex 2 - FRANCE

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Data Plotting Library DISLIN 7.4
by Helmut Michels Nov. 14, 2000

Nov. 14, 2000

I am pleased to announce version 7.4 of the data plotting software DISLIN. DISLIN is a high-level and easy to use plotting library for displaying data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-colour plots, surfaces, contours and maps. Several output formats are supported such as X11, VGA, PostScript, CGM, HPGL, TIFF, PNG and Prescribe. The software is available for several C, Fortran 77 and Fortran 90 compilers. Plotting extensions for the interpreting languages Perl, Python and Java are also supported for the most operating systems. Some of the new features of DISLIN version 7.4 are: - TeX instructions for plotting mathematical formulas can be used in all text plotting routines; - plotting of isosurfaces based on the Marching Cubes method is supported; - lighting can be enabled for shaded surfaces; - the PPM format is added to the list of output formats. DISLIN distributions and manuals in PDF, PostScript and HTML format are available from the DISLIN Home Page http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin and via FTP from the server ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/grafik/dislin ------------------- Helmut Michels Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Phone: +49 5556 979-334 Max-Planck-Str. 2 Fax : +49 5556 979-240 D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau Mail : michels(a)linmpi.mpg.de

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 13)
by Grant Edwards Nov. 14, 2000

Nov. 14, 2000

Arcege announces beta release of ExpectPy 1.9 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=690007045 Gordon McMillan's web pages on stackless python. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=690118682 Mike Clarkson announced version 8.1.0 of Tix widget set. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=690402323 Alex Martelli discusses "interfaces" and Python. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=690096797 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=691164862 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=691013918 David Bolen with hints on thread programming. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=691029995 Alex Martelli and Steve Horne on how to implement conditionals in lambdas http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=691631820 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=691650417 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=691682649 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=691590465 Martelli, Hammond, et al. on exporting events from Python COM classes http://deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=692080474 ======================================================================== Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional center of Pythonia http://www.python.org although PythonLabs.com bills itself as "The Python Source", which is becoming increasingly true in 2000 http://www.pythonlabs.com/ PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly. http://deja.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce Andrew Kuchling writes marvelous summaries twice a month of the action on the python-dev mailing list, where the future of Python is truly determined http://www.kuchling.com/python/dev/ The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ 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 Cetus does much of the same http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py 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/ is hibernating. Just e-mail us ideas directly.] 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

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PyXML 0.6.2
by Martin von Loewis Nov. 13, 2000

Nov. 13, 2000

Version 0.6.2 of the Python/XML distribution is now available. It should be considered a beta release, and can be downloaded from the following URLs: http://download.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.6.2.tar.gz http://download.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.6.2.win32-py1.5.exe http://download.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.6.2.win32-py2.0.exe http://download.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.6.2-1.5.2.i586.rpm http://download.sourceforge.net/pyxml/PyXML-0.6.2-2.0.i586.rpm Changes in this version, compared to 0.6.1: * Synchronize with standard library from Python 2.0 * Updated to 4DOM from 4Suite 0.9.1. This corrects many errors, see the 4Suite ChangeLog for details. Most notably, the SAX reader interface has been expanded to support arbitrary parsers, and a PyExpat reader class was added. * Add minidom functions: normalize and hasAttribute. * Fix a number of minor bugs. * More tests pass now, in particular test_dom, and test/dom/test. The Python/XML distribution contains the basic tools required for processing XML data using the Python programming language, assembled into one easy-to-install package. The distribution includes parsers and standard interfaces such as SAX and DOM, along with various other useful modules. The package currently contains: * XML parsers: Pyexpat (Jack Jansen), xmlproc (Lars Marius Garshol), sgmlop (Fredrik Lundh). * SAX interface (Lars Marius Garshol) * DOM interface (Stefane Fermigier, A.M. Kuchling) * 4DOM interface from Fourthought (Uche Ogbuji, Mike Olson) * Various utility modules and functions (various people) * Documentation and example programs (various people) The code is being developed bazaar-style by contributors from the Python XML Special Interest Group, so please send comments, questions, or bug reports to <xml-sig(a)python.org>. For more information about Python and XML, see: http://www.python.org/topics/xml/ -- Martin v. Löwis http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis

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ANN: Mahogany 0.60 GTK+/Win32 mail client with Python scripting
by Vadim Zeitlin Nov. 10, 2000

Nov. 10, 2000

A new release of the `Mahogany' e-Mail and News client has been made. ===================================================================== Source and binaries for a variety of Linux and Unix systems are available at http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/mahogany/ Binaries for Win32 systems and debian packages will be made available in a couple of days. In this message: 1. Announcing Mahogany Version 0.60 2. Changes against the previous release Announcing Mahogany Version 0.60 ===================================================================== Mahogany is an OpenSource(TM) cross-platform mail and news client. It is available for X11/Unix and MS Windows platforms, supporting a wide range of protocols and standards, including POP3, IMAP and full MIME support as well as secure communicaionts via SSL. Thanks to its built-in Python interpreter it can be extended far beyond its original functionality. Mahogany's wealth of features and ease of use make it one of the most powerful clients available, providing a consistent and intuitive interface across all supported platforms. It aims at supporting GNOME (and KDE for that matter) and includes an extendable address book system supporting hierarchical organisation of entries, group aliases, searching the database and easy editing, with support for other program's address database formats. Currently Mahogany's native format, (X)Emacs' BBDB address books and PalmOS address books are supported. Mahogany is being developed using the OpenSource wxWindows application framework, building on the GTK+ toolkit on Unix. Mahogany is constantly being tested on a variety of Linux system, Solaris-sparc and MS Windows. It should compile and work on any modern Unix platform. Changes Since Release 0.50 ===================================================================== Key changes are: - fixes to all serious bugs from version 0.50 - significantly improved IMAP support: it is now possible to subscribe to all folders on an IMAP server with a single click or to manually select them from a dialog; Mahogany also uses server side message functions when possible resulting in huge performance improvement - new, improved filtering system (warning: old filters won't work any more, contact us if this is really a serious problem for you) - charset and encoding support for message contents and headers (including autodetecting the charset of incoming messages and setting it for the outgoing ones) - mail can be sent using local MDA (sendmail) in addition to SMTP - import of settings and folder collections from Pine and XFMail, vCard support (import/export from addess book, attach to messages) UI improvements: - drag and drop for message copying and moving - "Quick Move" and "Quick Filter" functions - folders now can (finally) be renamed - quoted text highlighting in the message viewer! - sort the messages display by simply clicking on the corresponding column, the sorting dialog also has been improved - folders with new/recent messages are highlighted in the folder tree Other miscellaneous improvements: - it is possible (although still discouraged) to run Mahogany as root - passwords in the config file are encrypted using TwoFish algorithm - option to always use external editor by default - messages from oneself are optionally marked as such - support for password protected SMTP and NNTP servers - more verbose error reporting and detection - OpenSSL loaded dynamically if available - PalmOS module supports AvantGo/MAL synchronisation - templates now may be used for replying/forwarding as well - many other various fixes New experimental features include: - supporting multiple-identities and easy switching between them - support of storing configuration settings on an IMAP server allowing to share them between different machines/accounts Please see the CHANGES file in the distribution for an even more detailed list of changes. Future Plans ===================================================================== Next, we hope to tackle the following: - improving the message editor (work in progress) - full HTML message editing/displaying (almost complete) - better POP support by using persistent message IDs and flags - multi-threading to allow network operations to happen in background - PGP/GPG support - LDAP support Please direct any queries to mahogany-developers(a)lists.sourceforge.net and don't hesitate to contact us if you would like to participate in Mahogany development! Known bugs: ----------- There are always some, listed on our bugtracker at http://www.wxwindows.org/m-bugs/ and we are working on them. Hoping you will find Mahogany usefull, M dev-team

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gmpy 0.1 (pre-alpha) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmpy/
by Alex Martelli Nov. 7, 2000

Nov. 7, 2000

A new module interfacing GMP 3 to Python 2. So far, only mpz (integer) and mpf (float) types, no mpq (rational); incomplete; sketchy docs. "Comes with" a "found-on-the-net" GMP.LIB for Win32/MSVC++6 and a working gmpy.pyd for Python 2 built with it (separate download from gmpy.c and distutils' setup.py). Needs some project-direction decisions pretty soon (keep types immutable or make them mutable; use C or C++...), so all interested parties are invited to visit the sourceforge pages & participate/advise. Alex

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ANN: Fetchem image newsgroup filter first release
by Edward C. Jones Nov. 6, 2000

Nov. 6, 2000

The first public version of Fetchem has been released. It can be found at "http://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchem/". Fetchem is a download/filter/decode program for image newsgroups written entirely in Python. It uses a variety of algorithms to filter spam out of image newsgroups. There is currently so much spam in these newsgroups that it has become very difficult to read them. Good spam filters require a fully powered programming language. Some of the spam can be removed by regex searches of the news article headers. But removing other spam, including the notorious high volume PH.E'R-OM,O^NE spam, requires the power of a complete programming language. Since Python (http://www.python.org) is easy to read and write, it is used in Fetchem. FEATURES Some of the features of Fetchem (terrible name) are: 1. Powerful filtering capabilities that the user can reprogram. (See match.py.) 2. Prepares HTML for your browser. "html.py" contains (yet another) HTML writing program. It uses Python's keyword arguments to pass in the attributes for each tag. For example, FONT('stuff', Color='ff0000') returns the string <FONT COLOR="ff0000">stuff</A> 3. The header data is kept in a robust MySQL database. 4. Downloads news article headers and bodies. Uses the uudeview library to decode the images. 5. Interfaces with your browser using a proxy server written using medusa. REQUIREMENTS A Linux system with Python 2.0 installed. MySQL, MySQLdb, medusa, and uudeview should be present.

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 6)
by Grant Edwards Nov. 6, 2000

Nov. 6, 2000

Johannes Nix posts a brief overview of graphics packages and requests advice http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688345444 Janko Hauser replies with a additional suggestion. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688348989 Jason Cunliffe suggests looking at Blender for game programming. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688907500 Steve Holden posts a utility to list functions, classes, and variabled from libraries. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688966613 Alex Martelli explains text search/replace methods. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=689031090 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=689168550 ======================================================================== Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional center of Pythonia http://www.python.org although PythonLabs.com bills itself as "The Python Source", which is becoming increasingly true in 2000 http://www.pythonlabs.com/ PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newly-revitalized newsgroup at least weekly. http://deja.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce Andrew Kuchling writes marvelous summaries twice a month of the action on the python-dev mailing list, where the future of Python is truly determined http://www.kuchling.com/python/dev/ The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ 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 Cetus does much of the same http://www.cetus-links.de/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py 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/ is hibernating. Just e-mail us ideas directly.] 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

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ExpectPy 1.8.3 (patch) and moving developement to SourceForge
by arcege＠shore.net Nov. 3, 2000

Nov. 3, 2000

I've made a patch to ExpectPy 1.8.2 to handle incompatibilities with Python 2.0's PCRE module ("re"). If you would like to upgrade to Python 2.0, please install this patch. I have also starting using SourceForge for development of ExpectPy. User lists, bug reporting, tarfiles, etc. are hosted there for the ExpectPy code. I hope this encourages people to help me improve the module. The URL at sourceforge is <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/ExpectPy> and the new patch is there as well. <URL:http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12571> -Arcege

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