Mailman 3 August 2001 - Python-announce-list

[Module] pypopt
by Parnassus Submission 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

pypopt ------ bindings for the popt (command-line processing) library pypopt is a set of bindings for the Popt library. This provides another way for Python developers to do command-line parsing besides the standard Python getopt module. URL: http://agrajag.linuxpower.org/projects/pypopt/ License: LGPL Platform: Linux Requires: popt Categories: Parsing/Formatting Jag -- <a href="http://agrajag.linuxpower.org/projects/pypopt/">pypopt</a> -- bindings for the popt (command-line processing) library

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ANN: updated port of Python 2.1.1 to OS/2+EMX
by Andrew MacIntyre 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

I have uploaded an updated port of Python 2.1.1 to the incoming directories of the Hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu) and LEO (http://archiv.leo.org/) OS/2 software archives. The update contains the following changes:- - os.spawnv() and os.spawnve() use the native EMX routines rather than emulate them with fork(); - pythonpm.exe is now a real PM app with behaviour somewhat akin to the pythonw.exe in the Windows distribution. The distributed archives are: python-2.1.1-os2emx-bin-010812.zip (binary installation package, 3.0MB) python-2.1.1-os2emx-src-010812.zip (source patches and makefiles, 106kB) For those who already have the 010805 distribution, you only need to get python-2.1.1-os2emx-upd-010812.zip (250kB) Note that the update archive has not been uploaded to Hobbes or LEO. It is available at http://www.andymac.org/python.html, along with the above archives are if you can't find them at Hobbes or LEO. OS/2 users enjoy! -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac(a)bullseye.apana.org.au | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac(a)pcug.org.au | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia

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ANN: PyOpenGL development status
by Tarn Weisner Burton 11 Aug '01

11 Aug '01

PyOpenGL has been undergoing intense development in the last six months by the PyOpenGL SourceForge group. For those who aren't in the know, PyOpenGL is a Python binding for OpenGL. There are currently two PyOpenGL code branches. The first is based on David Ascher's PyOpenGL 1.5.5 and is a collection of hand written C extensions. About a week ago the PyOpenGL team released what will probably be the last major release of this branch, PyOpenGL 1.5.7. This is mostly a bug fix release but also includes the integration of some array routines into the codebase. The second branch is a complete rewrite of PyOpenGL using the wrapper generator SWIG (you don't need SWIG to build it, only to hack on it). This is the 2.0 branch, which is currently in beta, and offers significant impovements over the previous version of PyOpenGL. Some of the new features are: 1) Complete coverage of OpenGL 1.1 2) GLU 1.3 support 3) GLUT 3.7 support 4) GLE support (Tubing and Extrusion library) 5) Support for a whole pile of OpenGL, GLU, and WGL extensions (~200) Also like PyOpenGL 1.5.7, the new PyOpenGL 2.0 includes the Tkinter widget Togl. PyOpenGL 2.0 is currently known to run Win32 and Linux but will probably work on Unix and Mac (volunteers to test this platform?). To check out either PyOpenGL 1.5.7 or 2.0 see http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net For those so inclined, new developers are always welcome, specifically we would like see PyOpenGL 2.0 running on some other platforms. Drop me a line if you're interested! We are also conducting a *short* survey regarding PyOpenGL usage, fill out copy if you get a chance and help the development effort! http://sourceforge.net/survey/survey.php?group_id=5988&survey_id=12087 thanks, Tarn Weisner Burton

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[ANNOUNCE] PyUnit 1.4.1 released
by Steve Purcell 10 Aug '01

10 Aug '01

Version 1.4.1 of the PyUnit testing framework has just been released. This is the inevitable minor bugfix release relative to Monday's 1.4 release. Summary of changes since version 1.4: - fixed an incorrect code example in cookbook document - fixed bug when running 'unittest.py' from the command line in order to execute tests in other modules (thanks to Gary Todd) * - corrected version number in distutils 'setup.py' (spotted by Jerome Marant) The release is available from the PyUnit homepage at http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/ Very best wishes to all, -Steve * This bug is also fixed in the Python CVS tree. -- Steve Purcell, Pythangelist Get testing at http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/ Fingerprint: EB79 2AB1 D494 16F9 8C3B DAC6 5341 30CE BCCA EBEA

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[Package] FontTools: a font manipulation library
by Just van Rossum 10 Aug '01

10 Aug '01

My FontTools project has moved to SourceForge: http://fonttools.sourceforge.net/ Blurb: FontTools is an open source library for manipulating fonts, written in Python. It supports reading and writing of TrueType fonts, PostScript Type 1 fonts as well as AFM files and some MacOS-specific formats. Goals: quality, completeness, flexibility. Killer app: The package contains command line tools to convert TrueType fonts to an XML-based format, and back. These tools are also known as TTX. This is really a pre-announcement: the project hasn't yet released any files, so for now you're stuck with CVS or the "nightly tarball". FontTools has been in development for about two years, and parts of it (most notably the ttLib subpackage) are quite stable. I need help in the following area: installation on Windows. I would love to offer an easy to install for TTX, ready for *end users*. Yet I know virtually nothing about Windows and I don't even have access to a Windows box. I wouldn't know whether py2exe or the McMillan Installer would be more suited to this particular project. I've created two mailing lists, one for general discussion and development: fonttools-discussion(a)lists.sourceforge.net And one for CVS checkin messages, powered by syncmail, of python-checkins fame (Hi Barry!): fonttools-checkins(a)lists.sourceforge.net For subscription info please follow the "Mailing Lists" link at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/. Just

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Zope/Python Users Group Meeting (Wash, DC USA): Tues Aug 21
by Joel Burton 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

The Zope/Python Users Group (held in Washington, DC USA) is holding our third sell-out meeting. Our first hour (Zope stuff) features the fine folks from ZopeCorp; our second hour (Python-o-rama) features Python & Zope guru Andreas Yung. Our meetings are open to everyone, regardless of their knowledge of Python & Zope. The meetings are a great place for networking with Zopistas and Pythoneers, learning about implementing Zope, and picking up rumors about upcoming products and changes. The meeting is held at the Support Center of Washington (Directions at scw.org/about/directions), on Tuesday, August 21, from 7pm to 9pm. Light refreshments are provided at the meeting; for more serious refreshments, we're heading out to a local pub afterwards. For info about zpug, or to join our mailing list, please visit http://zpug.org. -- Joel Burton <jburton(a)scw.org> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington

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[ANNOUNCE] SkunkWeb 3.0 Beta 1 Released!
by Drew Csillag 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

Version 3.0beta1 of The SkunkWeb Web Application Server has just been released. This is the first public release of skunkweb. The license is the GPL. What is it? ------------------------------ SkunkWeb is (yet another) web application server. The things that make it different from other app servers are: Uses Python * Python is easy to learn for both new programmers and experts alike * senior programmer types like it too (vs. say tcl) * extensible with C/C++ for speed and/or linkage to C/C++ libraries via static *or* dynamic linking Extensible * Relatively simple extension API * can easily handle authentication, custom url building/parsing schemes and custom tags Encourages component based design * more than just "include" * not just another ASP/JSP like thing * a powerful templating language * encouraged by caching options (see below) * component output can be either HTML or Python objects * can write components in either STML or Python * can also call components on other skunkweb servers Message Catalogs * makes multi-lingual sites much easier * support variable substitution in messages Speed * templates are compiled to Python bytecode * extensive caching (to disk and optionally memory) of: o compiled forms of templates o digested message catalogs o output of components o python modules and python components * cache *is* sharable between machines if using a shared filesystem! (can be more than one shared filesystem for speed, redundancy and flexibility) * caching is flexible and as finite as your disk space * components can be rendered after the response is sent if a slightly stale version is available --- resulting in better response times via deferred components Documentation * extensive documentation available in HTML, PostScript, PDF & text --well not yet, but getting there * have automatic documentation tools to generate documentation for STML templates (but don't use the manual stuff, it sucks). Process Model * Uses multi-process, versus multi-threading which makes better use of multiple processors (because of the global interpreter lock in Python), and is safer in that if one process crashes, it won't kill the entire server. No magic (zodb <wink>). The release is available from the SkunkWeb home page at http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net or directly from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/skunkweb/skunkweb-3.0beta1.tgz Very best wishes to all, -Drew -- print(lambda(m,d,y):['Sun','Mon','Tues','Wed','Thurs','Fri','Sat'][( lambda(m,d,y):(23*m/9+d+4+y/4-y/100+y/400)%7)(m<3and(m,d+y,y-1)or(m, d+(y-2),y))])(map(int,raw_input('mm/dd/yyyy>').split('/')))+'day'

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ANN: eGenix.com mx EXPERIMENTAL Package 0.4.0
by M.-A. Lemburg 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING: eGenix.com mx EXPERIMENTAL Extension Package for Python Version 0.4.0 Experimental Python extensions providing important and useful services for Python programmers. ________________________________________________________________________ WHAT IS IT ?: The eGenix.com mx EXPERIMENTAL Extensions for Python are a collection of alpha and beta quality software tools for Python which will be integrated into the other mx Extension Packages after they have matured to professional quality tools. Python is an object-oriented Open Source programming language which runs on all modern platforms (http://www.python.org/). By integrating ease-of-use, clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid application design, Python establishes an ideal programming platform for todays IT challenges. ________________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S NEW ? This version includes a new package called *mxTidy*. See below for details. The mxNumber package was only tweaked a little to be more in sync with what Guido thinks numeric types should output under str(). ________________________________________________________________________ EGENIX.COM MX EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE OVERVIEW: mxNumber - Python Interface to GNU MP Number Types mxNumber provides direct access to the high performance numeric types available in the GNU Multi-Precision Lib (GMP). This library is licensed under the LGPL and runs on practically all Unix platforms. eGenix.com has ported the GMP lib to Windows, to also provide our Windows users with the added benefit of being able to do arbitrary precision calculations. The package currently provide these numerical types: 1. Integer(value) -- arbitrary precision integers much like Python longs only faster 2. Rational(nom,denom) -- rational numbers with Integers as numerator and denominator 3. Float(value[,prec]) -- floating point number with at least prec bits precision 4. FareyRational(value, maxden) -- calculate the best rational represenation n/d of value such that d < maxden mxTidy - Interface to HTML Tidy (HTML/XML cleanup tool) mxTidy provides a Python interface to a thread-safe, library version of the HTML Tidy. command line tool. HTML Tidy helps you to cleanup coding errors in HTML and XML files and produce well-formed HTML, XHTML or XML as output. This allows you to preprocess web-page for inclusion in XML repositories, prepare broken XML files for validation and also makes it possible to write converters from well-known word processing applications such as MS Word to other structured data representations by using XML as intermediate format. ________________________________________________________________________ WHERE CAN I GET IT ? The download archives and instructions for installing the packages can be found at: http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/ ________________________________________________________________________ WHAT DOES IT COST ? The EXPERIMENTAL packages uses different licenses in its subpackages. Please refer to the subpackage documentation for details. Some of them may be integrated into the BASE package, others will be integrated into the COMMERCIAL package. The package come with full source code ________________________________________________________________________ WHERE CAN I GET SUPPORT ? There currently is no support for these packages, since they are still in alpha or beta. Feedback is welcome, though, so don't hesitate to write us about the quirks you find. ________________________________________________________________________ REFERENCE: <P><A HREF="http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/">eGenix.com mx EXPERIMENTAL Extension Package 0.4.0</A> - eGenix.com mx EXPERIMENTAL Extension Package 0.4.0 with precompiled binaries for Windows and Linux. (08-Aug-2001) ________________________________________________________________________ Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.lemburg.com/python/

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[announce] Roundup issue tracker version 0.2.6
by Richard Jones 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

Roundup 0.2.6 - an issue tracking system *** Roundup is now released under the same terms as the Python License. *** This is predominantly a bugfix release - a couple of bugs in the init were found which caused problems getting started. Feature: . Added tests for instance initialisation. No more releasing the software with bugs in roundup.init! . Now bundling unittest with the package so that python 2.0 users can use the tests. . Much better error handling and messages generated by the mail gateway. Fixed: . Implemented correct mail splitting. Added unit tests. Also snips signatures now too. . Bug #447671 - typo in roundup/init.py . Changed date.Date to use regular string formatting instead of strftime - win32 seems to have problems with %T and no hour... or something... . Bug #448484 - now catching correct exception from makedirs. . Instances are now opened by a special function that generates a unique module name for the instances on import time. Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.0+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates and three database back-ends. Back-ends for relational databases are being developed. Source is available at the website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup/

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ANN: lfm 0.5
by Iñigo Serna 07 Aug '01

07 Aug '01

Hello again, Here am I to announce the second public release of Last File Manager, version 0.5. lfm is a 'midnight commander' clone written purely in Python and licensed under GNU Public License. It should work on any Unix (and Linux, of course) with curses module compiled in. See README file or visit the web page for more information. http://www.terra.es/personal7/inigoserna/lfm These are the changes since last released version: Version 0.5 ("Last call to London") - 2001/08/07: + F2 file menu, added many functions + F9 general menu, added many functions + Implemented find and grep + File permissions, owner and group has a window now + Implemented preferences, edition has to be improved, of course, but loading and saving works + Added 'show filesystems info' feature + Now 'q' or F10 exits to current path, see proper README section + Default pager changed to 'less' + Documentation has been improved + 'setup.py' now installs docs + Many bug fixes and functions rewrites: - home and end keys work ok now - not all people use bash-type shells, so don't use 2>&1 - use popen2.popen3 instead of os.popen to catch messages - manage problems with move while files don't fit into destination - option 'b' does not exist in Solaris' 'du -s' command - fix a problem while moving files if destination has no enough space - many others Version 0.4 - 2001/07/19: + First public release I'm going to spend a few days in London so I hope to have my mail full of comments, suggestions, patches in the return ;-) Best regards, Iñigo Serna

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