Mailman 3 August 2000 - Python-announce-list

Experimental BerkeleyDB 2.9.1 release
by A.M. Kuchling 30 Aug '00

30 Aug '00

I've released another version of the experimental new BerkeleyDB module. The code can be downloaded from <URL:ftp://starship.python.net/pub/crew/amk/new/>. Change log for version 2.9.1: * Fixed core dumps on attempting to re-open a database object * Fixed emulation of old bsddb module functions * Make module compatible with Python 1.5.2 * Makefile.pre.in fix for Python 1.5.2 * Added test suite (test/testdb.py) from Stefane Fermigier. Requires PyUnit (pyunit.sourceforge.net). --amk

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[PyWX] ANNOUNCE: PyWX release 0.6
by Michael Haggerty 30 Aug '00

30 Aug '00

I am pleased to announce the release of PyWX version 0.6. This is an alpha release but is fairly stable and is being used in several development environments. PyWX can be retrieved from SourceForge, http://download.sourceforge.net/PyWX/PyWX-0.6.tar.gz The PyWX homepage is http://pywx.idyll.org What is PyWX? ------------- PyWX is a Python module for AOLserver. AOLserver is a free, open-source, enterprise-class, multi-threaded web server whose performance on dynamic content is reputed to beat Apache. It is used at many large web sites including AOL and ArsDigita. It includes an internal database API that allows persistent database connections. Python is a clean, object-oriented scripting language with excellent support for complicated data structures and great libraries for web programming. PyWX embeds a Python interpreter into AOLserver, allowing threaded execution of Python scripts--even CGI scripts--within the server process. It also allows the Python script to access almost all of AOLserver's internal API via a C extension module. PyWX supports many other features, including + Full access to AOLserver's Tcl interpreter from Python, and vice versa. + Access to AOLserver's persistent database mechanism. + Optional compiled-script caching. + Threaded execution of CGI scripts within emulated CGI environment. + Cross-connection data-persistence. + An internal Webware adaptor. What's new in version 0.6? -------------------------- + SWIG-assisted wrapping of AOLserver's C API functions. Almost all of AOLserver's facilities are available to Python scripts, wrapped in an object-oriented fashion. + More of PyWX itself is written in Python. + Much-improved documentation. + Significant cleanup, bug fixes, and plugging of memory leaks. + Improved example scripts. Version 0.6 is fairly stable and is being used in several development environments, although there are still some problems under heavy loads. As a rough measure of the performance, PyWX can deliver a trivial Python script at about 230 pages per second on a single-processor Pentium 3/500MHz under Linux. Please check out our home page at http://pywx.idyll.org for more information on PyWX, including mailing lists, development archives, and several example pages. You may also be interested in: http://www.aolserver.com -- AOLserver http://www.python.org -- the Python programming language http://webware.sourceforge.net -- Webware toolkit Yours, Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger(a)alum.mit.edu

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 28)
by Grant Edwards 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

Luis Forra announces availability of Interbase database adapter Win32 binary. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=660587655 Alex Martelli, et al., on how to interface to MS-Access (and whether you actually want to). http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=660905475 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=660994748 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661065383 Fiona Czuczman posts updates to FAQTS Python Knowledge Base http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=660963425 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662182278 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662220551 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=663360876 Martijn Faassen writes up a nice summary of the "conditionally call main/test at the end of the module" method of module organization. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661196470 Andreas Jung announces PyStream - a C++ stream emulation. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661239888 Timothy O'Malley announces version 1.5 of timeoutsocket.py http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661423293 Stefan Migowsky posts a patch to send KeyboardInterrupt Exception to all threads in a Win32 embedded interpreter. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661481024 Colin announces version 1.0.0 of maillist.py - a mailing list manager. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661525880 Guido Van Rossum on the license for Python 1.6. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661712995 David Ascher announces 1.6 beta release of ActivePython - an easy-to-use binary Python distribution. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661762539 Tim Peters posts [PEP 223] Change the Meaning of \x Escapes. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661806865 Robin Dunn announces wxPython 2.2.1 for Python 1.5.2 and 1.6b1. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=661833845 Stephen R. Figgins seeks Python news informants for weekly column. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662052314 Andrew Dalke announces Martel-0.2 - a parser generator. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662171006 JP Schnapper-Caseras on Ocularis - A Linux Distribution for the visually impaired: volunteers needed. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662195257 M.-A. Lemburg posts [PEP 224] Attribute Docstrings http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662392279 Alex Martelli provides an example of building an extension using VC++6 and Python 1.6b1. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662569748 Robert Kern announces Clifford Algebra module for Python. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662575210 Jürgen Hermann announces MoinMoin 0.2 - a collaborative hypertext environment http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662908139 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=662909241 Robert Roebling announces wxDesigner 1.1, a commercial RAD tool for wxWindows and wxPython http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=663411983 ======================================================================== 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 PythonWare complements this digest with the daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily 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 The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ 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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testing all the way through redux
by Big Jimmy Egypt 25 Aug '00

25 Aug '00

Please ignore. This message tests the Python announce list posting via comp.lang.python.announce.

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testing all the way through
by bwarsaw＠beopen.com 25 Aug '00

25 Aug '00

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Moderation test #1 -- please ignore.
by Big Jimmy Egypt 24 Aug '00

24 Aug '00

This is a test of the new moderation arrangement for comp.lang.python.announce. Please ignore.

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