Mailman 3 September 2001 - Python-announce-list

Redfoot 1.0 Released
by Daniel 'eikeon' Krech 07 Sep '01

07 Sep '01

We are delighted to announce the release of Redfoot 1.0. Today marks the one year anniversary of the initial project submission to SourceForge and so what better way to celebrate Redfoot's first birthday than by releasing version 1.0? Redfoot is an open source framework for building distributed data-driven web applications with RDF and Python. It can be used to develop personal or workgroup information environments, community web sites or any kind of web application that involves managing the relationships between different information objects in a consistent yet extensible manner. Redfoot is distributed under a BSD-style license and is available at: http://redfoot.sourceforge.net/ <P> <A HREF="http://redfoot.sourceforge.net/">Redfoot 1.0</A> - Redfoot Homepage. (07-Sep-01) </P> James Tauber and Daniel 'eikeon' Krech jtauber(a)jtauber.com eikeon(a)eikeon.com

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ANNOUNCEMENT: The PythonWare PY21 distribution (september 6, 2001)
by Fredrik Lundh 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

more software: The PythonWare PY21 distribution is a small and self-contained Python distribution for Windows. This kit includes Python 2.1.1, Tkinter/Tk 8.3.3, PIL 1.1.2, PST, and other useful extensions. Get your copy from: http://www.pythonware.com/products/python Note that this is unsupported software. Commercial support for this distribution is available to PythonWorks customers. For more information, contact us at info(a)pythonware.com enjoy, the pythonworks team "Secret Labs -- makers of fine pythonware since 1997."

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ANNOUNCE: Grouch 0.1
by Greg Ward 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

Grouch 0.1 ========== Grouch is a system for describing and enforcing a Python object schema. That is, it provides you with a language for describing the intended type signatures of your objects (collectively, the "object schema"), and tools to walk an object graph, checking that every value found matches your object schema. In the current version, your object schema is described in specially-formatted class docstrings. (I have vague plans for a standalone schema language but don't really have a need for it myself, so haven't done any work in that direction.) The gen_schema script walks a directory tree looking for Python modules, parses any class docstrings it finds, and writes the resulting (pickled) object schema to a file. The second phase is to type-check some existing data -- i.e. make sure that every value in an object graph conforms to the object schema extracted from your class docstrings. This is done with the check_data script, which knows about a couple of popular Python persistence mechanisms (just ZODB and pickle so far). If you just want to check an object graph in memory, you'll have to write a few lines of code to take the place of running check_data on a persistent object store (this is not yet covered by the documentation). [Grouch was pre-announced to the types-sig in late August when it was still called Oscar. The only change is the name -- there are too many things called Oscar already in the world.] REQUIREMENTS ------------ Grouch requires Python 2.0 or greater, with Jeremy Hylton's "compiler" package installed. At least in Python 2.0 .. 2.1.1, this package is included in Python's source distribution, but not installed as part of the standard library. Grouch also utilizes the SPARK parser framework by John Aycock; for your convenience, a copy is included with Grouch. AUTHOR & AVAILABILITY --------------------- Grouch was written by Greg Ward <gward(a)mems-exchange.org>. Includes code (lib/spark.py) written by John Aycock, which is licensed separately. For the latest version, visit http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/grouch/ -- Greg Ward - software developer gward(a)mems-exchange.org MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org

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Dive Into Python chapter 4 released
by Mark Pilgrim 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

"Dive Into Python" is a free Python book for experienced programmers. Chapter 4, "HTML Processing", is now available: http://diveintopython.org/dialect_divein.html Chapter 4 teaches HTML processing with the sgmllib module. Along the way, it also covers - the urllib module for retrieving web pages - locals() and globals() functions - dictionary-based string formatting - classes as first-class objects - the world's gentlest introduction to regular expressions The book is free, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, and can be downloaded in PDF, HTML, text, Word, or WinHelp: http://diveintopython.org/index.html#download The book is written in DocBook XML. Translators and other adventurous parties can download the XML files and build scripts at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/diveintopython/ Mark Pilgrim f8dy(a)diveintopython.org -- You're smart; why haven't you learned Python yet?

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REMINDER: 10th Python Conference -- Deadline reminder
by David Ascher 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

The deadline for paper submissions for the 10th Python Conference is coming up soon: !!! October 8, 2001 !!! The conference will be February 4-7, 2002 in Alexandria, VA. See www.python10.org for details. Contact me if you have questions. -- David Ascher Program Chair 10th International Python Conference.

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new page for Newbies
by Guido van Rossum 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

I finally broke down and created a new page collecting the most important resources for newbies (people who are new at programming): http://www.python.org/doc/Newbies.html We get several emails per day from people asking how to get started, so I figured this definitely serves a need. Please help us making this a better resource -- send your ideas for making the page more effective to webmaster(a)python.org. (Note: more effective could mean removing information as well as adding!) Please add this URL to other collections of links about Python. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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[Module] strptime 1.5
by Parnassus Submission 04 Sep '01

04 Sep '01

strptime 1.5 ------------ strptime is a module that attempts to supplant Python's distributed time.strptime() function strptime is an attempt to write a pure Python implementation of time.strptime(). It has support for creating your own locale settings. All extracting of data from the time string is done with regexes which can be edited by you to suit your needs. URL: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bac/Askewed_Thoughts/HTML/code/python.php3 Download: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bac/Askewed_Thoughts/code/Python/Scripts/strpt… License: BSD Style Categories: Python Tools/Extensions Brett Cannon -- <a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bac/Askewed_Thoughts/HTML/code/python.php3">strptime 1.5</a> -- strptime is a module that attempts to supplant Python's distributed time.strptime() function

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.4.1 released
by Brian Lloyd 04 Sep '01

04 Sep '01

Hello all, Zope 2.4.1 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.1/ Zope 2.4.1 contains several fixes including fixes to product auto-refresh, WebDAV locking and the ZCatalog. It also contains all hotfixes to date. For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.1/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.1/HISTORY.txt For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com Zope Corporation www.zope.com

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[ANN] vorbismodule 0.0b
by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 03 Sep '01

03 Sep '01

Well, I've slaved and toiled for two days straight, gone almost without sleep, and nearly had my brain explode, and what do I have to show for it? The new version of the Python module for reading and _writing_ Ogg Vorbis (http://www.vorbis.org/) files! What is it? ----------- It is a module that emulates the wave and sunau interface for Ogg Vorbis (http://www.vorbis.org/) encoded files. Where can I get it? ------------------- http://ignacio.openservices.net/devel/vorbis-0.0b.tar.bz2 What do I need for it? ---------------------- You need the libvorbis libraries available at http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/download.html. What's new in it? ----------------- - Latin-1 characters in comment values are now decoded - Now able to _write_ Ogg Vorbis files with bit-widths of 8, 16 or even _24_ bits! - Even easier configuration for installation What's still wrong with it? --------------------------- - The last little bit (about 3000 samples) of a song is cut off when encoding (Boo! Hiss!) - No Unicode support for Python 2.x yet for comment values - Still only tested under Linux (testers for other OSes, please come forward!) Who wrote it? ------------- Why, me of course! -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio(a)openservices.net>

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[Application] pyBlog 1.0
by Brett Cannon 03 Sep '01

03 Sep '01

pyBlog 1.0 ---------- pyBlog is a weblogging framework designed to integrate into an existing web site. pyBlog has been designed to allow you to add a weblog (referred to commonly as a blog) to an existing web site (although it can stand on its own without an existing site to start with). Its strength lies in its customizability; you are in no way restricted in what type of archival system is used, nor to set input fields for your post. It is also extensible by featuring a plug-in functionality that allows you to just "drop in" modules that affect your post before and after processing. URL: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bac/Askewed_Thoughts/HTML/code/python.php3 Download: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bac/Askewed_Thoughts/code/Python/Programs/pyBl… License: Public Domain Categories: CGI Scripts Brett Cannon (drifty(a)bigfoot.com) http://www.drifty.org/ -- <a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bac/Askewed_Thoughts/HTML/code/python.php3">pyBlog 1.0</a> -- pyBlog is a weblogging framework designed to integrate into an existing web site.

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