First public announcement:
Indovinello - The Game of Numbers
is a console based number guessing game
inspired by The Book of Numbers by Conway/Guy.
It starts very gradual but features more than 100
number properties and the possibility to add more.
Current version: 0.76
Code: Python 1.52
Category: Games / Math
Platform: Unix, Win32 and others
License: GPL
URL: http://digilander.iol.it/jazariel/
Download: http://digilander.iol.it/jazariel/download.html
e-mail: jazariel(a)tiscalinet.it
Thomas Schulze
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TiscaliNet, libero accesso ad Internet.
http://www.tiscalinet.it
Canadian Movie Listing Finder v1.0
----------------------------------
View movie listing information at theatres in 67 Canadian cities.
Created with the Python v2.0 scripting language, and the Tkinter GUI.
The Canadian Movie Listing Finder lets the you find movie listings for
67 Canadian cities. It will then show you every movie currently playing
in the selected city, and all the theatres in operation in that city.
Detailed information about a movie, its rating; playing time; cast; and
description can be viewed. the showtimes for a movie at every theatre in
the selected city can be viewed. And information about a theatre, and
all movies playing at that theatre can also be viewed.
URL: http://www3.sympatico.ca/destra/rich/portfolio.html
Download: http://www3.sympatico.ca/destra/rich/files/movie_listings_1_0.zip
License: Python Style
Requires: Python v2.0 +
Gui: Tkinter
Categories: Net Applications
Rich Okopien (okopien(a)cs.concordia.ca)
http://beam.to/rich
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<a href="http://www3.sympatico.ca/destra/rich/portfolio.html">Canadian
Movie Listing Finder v1.0</a> -- View movie listing information at
theatres in 67 Canadian cities.
====== DEADLINE : February 1, 2001 ======
*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***
O'Reilly Open Source Convention
July 23-27, 2001
San Diego, California
*** Python Track ***
O'Reilly & Associates is pleased to announce the 3rd annual Open
Source Convention. This event is the central gathering place for the
Open Source community to exchange ideas, techniques, and to advance
the language. The Open Source Convention is a five-day event designed
for programmers, developers, and technical staff involved in Open
Source technology and its applications. The convention will be held at
the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, California, July
23-27, 2001.
The program committee of the Python track invites submissions of
tutorial and convention presentation on topics of interest to
Python programmers.
Tutorial Presentations
----------------------
The first two days of the convention are devoted to tutorials.
Tutorial proposals must include the following:
- Tutorial length (3 or 6 hours)
- Target audience including any recommended prerequisites.
- What attendees will learn.
- Tutorial outline--a short bullet list description of the
course itself.
- Speaker name
- Speaker biography
- Complete speaker contact information.
The program committee particularly encourages the submission of
tutorials that are designed to present core Python topics to a
technically sophisticated audience (i.e., tutorials should favor
technical depth versus advocacy and high-level overviews).
Conference Presentations
------------------------
Convention proposals will be considered for the following types of
talks:
- Focused discussions related to a specific Python technology or
programming technique. Typical examples might include
extension building, internationalization, programming with
threads, Tkinter, and XML.
- New product/technology demonstrations.
- Panel discussions.
- Applications and case studies that describe the use of Python
in real-world applications.
Convention proposals must include the following:
- Type of talk -- technology, new product, panel, or case-study.
- Title of talk or demonstration.
- Abstract of talk, maximum of 250 words.
- Speaker name.
- Speaker biography.
- Complete speaker contact information.
Submissions of novel and unusual Python applications are particularly
encouraged. Presentations by marketing staff or with a marketing
focus will not be accepted.
Submitting Your Proposal
------------------------
All proposals must be sent to oscon2001-proposals(a)oreilly.com
Proposals should be sent in plain text with no attachments. Submit one
proposal per email. The subject line of your email must follow this
format:
Last name: proposal type: proposal title
For example:
Johnson: Tutorial: Advanced Python Programming
You will receive an automatic confirmation upon receipt of each
proposal.
Important Dates
---------------
Tutorial and presentation proposals due: February 1, 2001
Notification to presenters : March 1, 2001
Tutorial presentations due : May 1, 2001
Convention presentations due : June 1, 2001
More Information
----------------
More information about the convention can be found at:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2001
Specific questions concerning the Python track can be sent
via e-mail to ora-python-pc(a)cs.uchicago.edu.
Python Track Program Committee
------------------------------
Jason Asbahr, Origin/Electronic Arts
David Ascher, ActiveState
David Beazley, University of Chicago, Chair
Paul Dubois, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jeremy Hylton, Digital Creations
Andrew Kuchling, MEMS Exchange
Fredrik Lundh, Secret Labs AB/PythonWare
Tim Peters, Digital Creations
Andy Robinson, ReportLab
Greg Stein, Technical Advisor, ActiveState
Guido van Rossum, Digital Creations
Aaron Watters, ReportLab
With all of this CSV parsing discussion, I received a couple of
requests for enhancements to my fast CSV module. The enhancements
are:
- Parser object now has the field_sep attribute. This is the
character which is used to delimit fields in records.
I found (and reported) a bug in the Python PyMember_Set() function
while adding this feature.
- Parser object now has the join() method which combines the elements
in a sequence and returns a CSV record in a string.
The new module can be downloaded from:
http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/csv/
As pointed out on the page, the module runs only slightly slower than
string.split().
- Dave
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http://www.object-craft.com.au
Cash.py
-------
Wrapper for running gnucash & gnc-prices
Written under Python 1.5.2, used to run gnucash, purge the data files,
and obtain stock prices using gnc-prices
License: Python Style
Platform: Linux
Categories: Applications
Leon McClatchey (leonmcclatchey(a)homemal.com)
--
<a href="">Cash.py</a> -- Wrapper for running gnucash & gnc-prices
Hello all,
I hope you will join us for the Ninth International Python Conference in
Long Beach, California, March 5 - 8, 2001. You can find all the details
on this year's conference at http://www.python9.org/p9-brochure.pdf.
Register online today at http://www.python9.org to take advantage of
Early Bird rates! Early Bird registration closes on Friday, February 2,
2001 (Midnight, EST). For more information, please send email to
info(a)python9.org.
Kind Regards,
Joya Subudhi
Foretec Seminars, Inc.
mimelib-0.1
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Yet another MIME handling library for Python
This is yet another package for handling, parsing, and generating MIME
messages in Python. It differs from other such packages by splitting the
object model from the plain text parser and generator. Thus it is easier
to modify the object model, create one from scratch, etc. and then
generate the plain text when ready. Alternative parsers and generators
can, of course, be created.
Version 0.1 is very experimental. The mimelib package will be used in
the GNU Mailman project for all MIME and message handling. This version
is a snapshot of the current code base being developed for Mailman 2.1.
URL: http://barry.wooz.org/software/pyware.html
Download: http://barry.wooz.org/software/Code/mimelib.tgz
License: Python Style
Categories: Internet, E-mail
Barry Warsaw (barry(a)digicool.com)
http://barry.wooz.org
--
<a href="http://barry.wooz.org/software/pyware.html">mimelib-0.1</a> --
Yet another MIME handling library for Python
Thanks to the PythonLabs developers and the many hard-working
volunteers, I'm proud to release Python 2.1a1 -- the first alpha
release of Python version 2.1.
The release mechanics are different than for previous releases: we're
only releasing through SourceForge for now. The official source
tarball is already available from the download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5470
Additional files will be released soon: a Windows installer,
Linux RPMs, and documentation.
Please give it a good try! The only way Python 2.1 can become a
rock-solid product is if people test the alpha releases. Especially
if you are using Python for demanding applications or on extreme
platforms we are interested in hearing your feedback. Are you
embedding Python or using threads? Please test your application using
Python 2.1a1! Please submit all bug reports through SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470
Want to know what's new in this release first? Andrew Kuchling wrote
an excellent overview:
http://www.amk.ca/python/2.1/
The official release NEWS file is also on the SourceForge site.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
pysync 0.6
----------
A Python implementation of the rsync algorithm
This is a demonstration implementation of the rsync algorithm in Python.
It is not fast and is not optimised. The primary aim is to provide a
simple example implementation of the algorithm for reference, so code
clarity is more important than performance. Ideas have been liberaly
taken from libhsync, xdelta and rsync.
This was announced on Freshmeat some time ago, but not on Parnassus (it
was down at the time). There is a new version pending with significant
improvements, but I thought I'd belatedly announce this version in case
people were interested.
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pysync/
Download: ftp://minkirri.apana.org.au/pub/python/pysync-0.6.tar.bz2
License: GPL
Categories: Encryption/Encoding
Donovan Baarda (abo(a)minkirri.apana.org.au)
http://sourceforge.net/users/abo/
--
<a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/pysync/">pysync 0.6</a> -- A
Python implementation of the rsync algorithm
