Mailman 3 January 2002 - Python-announce-list

[Module] Zephyr 6.1
by Brian Gallew 01 Feb '02

01 Feb '02

Zephyr 6.1 ---------- Zephyr bindings for python, including a GUI client This package provides an extension module with bindings for all of the necessary zephyr functions. Additionally, there is a GUI client provided which require pygtk. URL: https://www.as.cmu.edu/~geek/Zephyr.html Download: https://www.as.cmu.edu/~geek/transferables/Zephyr-6.1.tar.gz License: Open Source Gui: pygtk Categories: Net Applications Brian Gallew (geek+python(a)cmu.edu) https://www.as.cmu.edu/~geek/ -- <a href="https://www.as.cmu.edu/~geek/Zephyr.html">Zephyr 6.1</a> -- Zephyr bindings for python, including a GUI client

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[ANN] HMM-0.1
by Alexandre Fayolle 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

hmm is a python module designed to work with Hidden Markov Models. Usual algorithms (Viterbi, Baum-Welsh) are implemented using Numeric Python. This module has been tested with Python 2.1 and NumPy-20.3, but it should work with python 2.2. The home page of the project is http://www.logilab.org/hmm/ Discussions about hmm should take place on the ai-tools(a)logilab.org mailing list. More information on the list can be found at http://lists.logilab.org/mailman/listinfo/ai-tools/ Alexandre Fayolle -- LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org Narval, the first software agent available as free software (GPL).

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[ANN] xmldiff 0.5.3
by Sylvain Thenault 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

What's new ? ------------ Fix packaging problem. See the ChangeLog file for more information. What's xmldiff ? ---------------- Xmldiff is a Python tool that figures out the differences between two similar XML files, in the same way the diff utility does for text files. Home page --------- http://www.logilab.org/xmldiff Download -------- ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/xmldiff -- Sylvain Thenault LOGILAB http://www.logilab.org

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Preorder the First Issue of Py
by cook＠pyzine.com 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

Preorders for the first issue of Py, a print zine covering Python development, are now available at www.pyzine.com. Preorder price is only US$2.00. Full details, including instructions for ordering, can be found at www.pyzine.com/purchase.phtml The first issue of Py will ship the first week of April 2002.

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ANNOUNCE: SCons 0.04 now available
by Steven Knight 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

Version 0.04 of SCons has been released and is available for download from the SCons web site: http://www.scons.org/ Or through the download link at the SCons project page at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/ RPM and Debian packages and a Win32 installer are all available, in addition to the traditional .tar.gz files. WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE? Version 0.04 of SCons contains the following changes: - targets are automatically removed before being built unless the new Precious() method suppresses their removal - a new Ignore() method allows dependencies to be ignored - changes to -I or -L options (include or lib directories) don't cause a rebuild unless an underlying file changed - a --debug=pdb option re-invokes SCons under the Python debugger - you can specify var=value arguments on the command line - a directory can now be a Default() target - function actions now return None upon success, and raise exceptions properly - Action() and Scanner() can be called from subsidiary SConscripts - binary file signatures on Win32 systems are now calculated correctly - LIBS and LIBPATH construction variables can now be strings - an action is now executed just once for a list of targets, not once for each target in the list - SCons will now find the library directory properly if you specify your own --prefix= value at installation - more performance improvements, including calculating a build signature just once per node - documentation improvements, including corrected mistakes and additional examples For a complete list of changes in version 0.05, see the CHANGES.txt file in the release itself. WHAT IS SCONS? SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, make tool) written in Python. Its design is based on the design which won the Software Carpentry build tool competition in August 2000 (in turn derived from the Perl-based Cons build tool). Distinctive features of SCons include: - configuration files are Python scripts, allowing the full use of a real scripting language to solve build problems - a modular architecture allows the SCons Build Engine to be embedded in other Python software - a global view of all dependencies; no multiple passes to get everything built - the ability to scan files for implicit dependencies (#include files); - improved parallel build (-j) support - use of MD5 signatures to decide if a file has changed - easily extensible through user-defined Builder and Scanner objects An scons-users mailing list has been created for those interested in getting started using SCons. You can subscribe at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scons-users Alternatively, we invite you to subscribe to the low-volume scons-announce mailing list to receive notification when new versions of SCons become available: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scons-announce ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special thanks to Charles Crain, Steven Leblanc, and Anthony Roach for their contributions to this release. On behalf of the SCons team, --SK

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RELEASED: Pymacs 0.16
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

Hi! A new release of Pymacs is available as: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/pymacs/Pymacs.tar.gz (Beware: the capital `P' was a lower case `p' in previous announcements.) Pymacs allows Emacs users to extend Emacs using Python, where they might have traditionally used Emacs LISP. Pymacs runs on systems having sub-processes. No bugs were reported against the Pymacs proper. So, I got to risk some new ones :-). There is no real need to upgrade, but testers are welcome. As previously announced, Pymacs is now to be invoked by: from Pymacs import lisp, Let instead of: import pymacs from pymacs import lisp Let = pymacs.Let The goal is to turn Pymacs into a more genuine Python package, in the spirit of Distutils. A tiny module gets installed so the previous methods work, be warned that this compatibility module will disappear in some later release. The various `push' methods of the `Let' class now return the `Let' instance they act upon. This eases chaining pushes while creating such an instance. Finally, the `rebox.py' example had two bugs corrected, one about unusual argument flags, the other for older versions of Python. Keep happy! Enjoy, enjoy! :-) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard

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Sancho 0.0 (unit testing framework) released
by Andrew Kuchling 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

Version 0.0 of the Sancho unit testing framework is now available. Sancho is the unit test module that we use at the MEMS Exchange. Among the features it supports are: * Simple and relatively straightforward to use * Several different test functions: test_stmt, test_val, test_type, etc. * Optionally displays the code coverage of a test suite * Includes a script for running all test suites in a directory tree It's numbered version 0.0 because the code in sancho/unittest.py is fairly repetitive, and badly needs to be refactored and tidied up. This might require changing the public interface for Sancho at some future unknown date. I've released other packages that use Sancho for the test suite, though, which is why I've prepared this release. The Sancho home page is at: http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/sancho/ The code can be downloaded from: http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/files/sancho/ There's no mailing list for Sancho, but you can discuss it on the quixote-users mailing list: http://www.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/quixote-users/ --amk (www.amk.ca) Did you ever get to Troy, Drax? A little place in Asia Minor... -- The Doctor, in "The Armageddon Factor"

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Quixote 0.4.4 released
by Andrew Kuchling 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

Version 0.4.4 of the Quixote Web development toolkit is now available. Quixote uses a Python package to store all the code and HTML for a Web-based application. HTML is generated with PTL, Python Template Language; the basic syntax of PTL looks just like Python, but expressions are converted to strings and appended to the output. The change log for this version is: * Simplify munging of SCRIPT_NAME variable, fixing a bug. Depending on how Quixote was called, the path could have been appended to SCRIPT_NAME without a separating slash. (Found by Quinn Dunkan.) * On Windows, set mode of sys.stdout to binary. This is important because responses may contain binary data. Also, EOL translation can throw off content length calculations. (Found by David Ascher) * Added a demonstration of the form framework. (Neil) * Removed the outdated test/ directory. The Quixote unittest.py is now available as a separate package called Sancho (http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/sancho/). * Added an escape hatch for XML-RPC handlers; http_request.process_inputs() will no longer consume all of standard input when the Content-Type is text/xml. * Removed a debug print from form.widget. The Quixote home page is at: http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/python/quixote/ The code can be downloaded from: http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/files/quixote/ Discussion of Quixote occurs on the quixote-users mailing list: http://www.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/quixote-users/ --amk (www.amk.ca) Code generators are hacks. Sometimes necessary hacks, but hacks nevertheless. -- Paul Prescod, 7 Jun 2000

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temporal correction: ZODB-sans-Zope BOF at python 10
by Jeff Sasmor 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

It's actually Wednesday 1/2 hr after lunch begins - > If you're going to the Python 10 > conference, and have an interest in using the > Zope Object Database (ZODB) outside of the > Zope framework then you will be interested > in a BOF (Birds-of-a-Feather) session about that > subject Wednesday evening, 6 February 2002. >

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CFP: "Lightning Talks"
by Jeff Bauer 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

At next week's 10th International Python Conference we are going to devote one of the Developers' Day (Feb. 7th) sessions to Lightning Talks. These are very short 5-10 minute talks. Developers discuss the latest projects they've been working on -- projects that may be in their early stages (i.e. no documentation) but are of likely interest to the Python developer community. Don't hide your light under a bushel! If you have a top secret project you're working on and would like to present it to an attentive audience, please send a brief description to: developers(a)python10.org Jeff Bauer IPC 10 Developers' Day Chair

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