Mailman 3 December 2002 - Python-announce-list

PyBluetooth 0.1.0
by Fred Strauss Dec. 23, 2002

Dec. 23, 2002

PyBluetooth 0.1.0 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This is to announce the 1st release of a python bluetooth module. It requires The BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack to work, and is just a wrapper for libbluetooth1. At the moment very few of the functions are wrapped, you can scan for bluetooth devices and get their bdaddresses and from that their names. An example python program is included that does exactly that. The rest of the functions will come soon though. Have a look at http://www.strider.co.za/projects/pybluetooth/ Comments welcome. Testers on different platforms very welcome. Thanks Fred -- Fred Strauss Team Leader Observe (a division of Obsidian Systems) http://www.observe.co.za fred(a)observe.co.za

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[Application] bakonf-0.5
by Iustin Pop Dec. 21, 2002

Dec. 21, 2002

bakonf-0.5 ---------- A system tool for making backups of configuration files bakonf is a tool for making backups of configuration files on GNU/Linux or Unix-like systems. It uses various methods to reduce the size of the backups it creates, and is designed to be useful for unattended remote servers. URL: http://www.nongnu.org/bakonf Download: http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/bakonf/unstable.pkg/0.5/bakonf-0.5.tar.… License: GPL Platform: Unix Requires: tarfile optik bz2 Binaries: rpm Categories: Utility Apps Iustin Pop (iusty(a)k1024.org) -- <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/bakonf">bakonf-0.5</a> -- A system tool for making backups of configuration files

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[ANNOUNCE] PythonCAD - A Python-based CAD program
by Art Haas Dec. 21, 2002

Dec. 21, 2002

I'd like to announce the first release of a new open-source CAD package for Linux - PythonCAD. As the name implies, PythonCAD is written entirely in Python. The goal of this project is to create a fully scriptable drafting program for open-source software users. PythonCAD is being released under the GNU Public License (GPL). PythonCAD requires Python 2.2. The interface is GTK 2.0 based, and uses the PyGTK module for interfacing to GTK. The design of PythonCAD is built around the idea of separating the interface from the back end as much as possible. By doing this, it is hoped that both GNOME and KDE interfaces can be added to PythonCAD through usage of the appropriate Python module. Addition of other interfaces will depend on the availability of a Python module for that particular interface and developer interest and action. The initial release is capable of basic drawing functionality, simple horizontal and vertical dimensioning, and file saving and reloading. There are some simple editing abilities as well. As this is the first release, there are many things that PythonCAD can't do, and things that it doesn't do well. These shortcomings will be addressed in future releases. I've set up a web site for PythonCAD. The site provides much more information about the program, such as software requirements, installation and usage instructions, and other issues pertaining to PythonCAD. There are even a few screen shots show PythonCAD in action. http://www.pythoncad.org Come and join me in developing PythonCAD into a first class drafting program! I'd like to thank the entire Python development team for all their efforts in creating and maintaining Python. My project would not exist without your work! Art Haas -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

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Middleware2003: Exteded Deadline: 30th December
by Fabio M. Costa Dec. 20, 2002

Dec. 20, 2002

(Due to a number of requests, the deadline for the submission of Full Papers has been extended. Please note there won´t be any further extensions.) ACM/IFIP/USENIX INTERNATIONAL MIDDLEWARE CONFERENCE http://middleware2003.inf.puc-rio.br http://gsd.ime.usp.br/middleware2003 Rio Othon Palace Hotel Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 16-20 June 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINES ==================== Full Papers (Extended Deadline!): 30 December 2002 Work in Progress Papers, Workshop Papers, and Posters : 20 February 2003 Tutorial Proposals: 01 February 2003 THE CONFERENCE ============== Following the success of past conferences in this series (Lake District/UK, Palisades/NY, and Heidelberg/Germany) and building upon the success of past COOTS conferences, the 4th International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research and technology in 2003. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for future computing and communication environments. Highlights of the conference include a high-quality technical program, tutorials, invited speakers, poster presentations, and workshops, all held in one of Brazil's most outstanding areas of natural beauty. The proceedings of Middleware'2003 will be published as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: * Distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) middleware platforms * Reliable and fault-tolerant middleware platforms * Support for multimedia in middleware platforms * Novel quality of service (QoS) architectures and evaluation techniques * Event-based, publish/subscribe and asynchronous middleware platforms * Open architectures for reconfigurable middleware * Adaptive and reflective middleware * Middleware protocols and services for information assurance and security * Formal Methods applied to middleware * Management and use of component-based systems in distributed environments * Applications of middleware technologies, including telematics and e-commerce * Novel paradigms, APIs, and languages for distributed systems * Integration of middleware with model-integrated computing architectures, such as OMG MDA * Extensions and refinements to RM-ODP, CORBA, J2EE, .NET, etc. * Impact of emerging Internet technologies and standards on middleware platforms * Integration of middleware platforms with Web services and Java technologies * Distributed systems management and interactive configuration and development tools * Issues of scalability in existing and new distributed systems platforms * Engineering distributed systems in heterogeneous and mobile networks * Middleware for ubiquitous and mobile computing ORGANIZATION ============ General Chair: Carlos J.P. Lucena (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Program co-Chairs: Douglas Schmidt (UC Irvine, USA) Markus Endler (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Local Arrangements co-Chairs: Alexandre Sztajnberg (UERJ, Brazil) Renato Cerqueira (PUC-Rio, Brazil) WiP and Posters Chair: Guruduth S. Banavar (IBM T.J. Watson, USA) Advanced Workshops Chair: Gordon Blair (Lancaster University, UK) Tutorials Chair: Frank Buschmann (Siemens AG, Germany) Publicity co-Chairs: Fabio Costa (UFG, Brazil) Fabio Kon (IME-USP, Brazil) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Gul Agha (UIUC, USA) Jean Bacon (Cambridge U., UK) Gordon Blair (U. of Lancaster, UK) Don Box (Microsoft, USA) Roy Campbell (UIUC, USA) Andrew Campbell (Columbia U., USA) Geoff Coulson (Lancaster U., UK) Naranker Dulay (Imperial College, UK) Svend Frolund (HP Labs, USA) Chris Gill (WUSL, USA) Andy Gokhale (Vanderbilt U., USA) Rashid Guerraoui (EPF L., Switzerland) Arno Jacobsen (U. of Toronto, Canada) Peter Honeyman (CITI U. Michigan, USA) Fabio Kon (U. of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Doug Lea (SUNY Oswego, USA) Guy LeDuc (U. of Liege, Belgium) Orlando Loques (UFF, Brazil) Joe Loyall (BBN Technologies, USA) Raimundo J.A. Macedo (UFBA, Brazil) Edmundo R. Madeira (UNICAMP, Brazil) Jan de Meer (condat AG, Germany) Klara Nahrstedt (UIUC, USA) Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie Mellon U., USA) Carlos Pereira (UFRGS, Brazil) Vijay Raghavan (DARPA, USA) Kerry Raymond (DSTC, Australia) Luis Rodrigues (U. of Lisboa, Portugal) Isabelle Rouvellou (IBM, USA) Bill Sanders (UIUC, USA) Rick Schantz (BBN Technologies, USA) Alexander Schill (Technical U. Dresden, Germany) David Sharp (The Boeing Company, USA) Jacob Slonim (Dalhousie U., Canada) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, Grenoble, France) Joe Sventek (Agilent Labs, UK) Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt U., USA) Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine, USA) Steve Vinoski (IONA Technologies, USA) Werner Vogels (Cornell U., USA) Martina Zitterbart (U. of Karlsruhe, Germany) FOR MORE INFORMATION ==================== For further information, please visit the conference home page: http://middleware2003.inf.puc-rio.br or http://gsd.ime.usp.br/middleware2003. For questions regarding the conference program, contact the PC chairs, Douglas Schmidt (schmidt(a)cs.wustl.edu) or Markus Endler (endler(a)inf.puc-rio.br). For other questions contact the local arrangements chairs, Alexandre Sztajnberg (alexszt(a)uerj.br) or Renato Cerqueira (rcerq(a)inf.puc-rio.br).

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Python DSV 1.3.9
by Cliff Wells Dec. 20, 2002

Dec. 20, 2002

DSV 1.3.9 is available for download: http://python-dsv.sf.net This is a bugfix release with no new features (other than correct operation ;) What is it? Python-DSV is a Python module for importing and exporting DSV (delimiter separated values) files. DSV is a generalization of CSV (comma separated values). CSV is a common file format used by many programs to import and export data. Features: - Pure Python - Optional wxPython GUI - Optional heuristics for determining file format - Handles embedded quotes, delimiters and newlines - Customizable error handling - Simple to use - Portable (tested on Linux and Windows) Requirements: - Python 2.0 or greater Optional: - wxPython 2.3 or greater (if you use the GUI) -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 x308 (800) 735-0555 x308

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ANN: PEP 302, New Import Hooks
by Just van Rossum Dec. 20, 2002

Dec. 20, 2002

Folks, There's a new PEP (Python Enhancement Proposal) up for review at: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0302.html It proposes a mechanism for hooking custom import logic into the existing builtin import mechanism. An implementation is available as a patch on sourceforge: http://www.python.org/sf/652586 Since this is proposed as an addition to Python 2.3, there isn't much time left to iron out any wrinkles, so please give this a thorough review. It would be greatly appreciated if any discussion on comp.lang.python would be Cc-ed to me and Paul Moore, since I'm not so sure how much time we can spend monitoring that group. This is not needed for followups to python-dev; both of us do monitor that list rather closely. Just

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ANN: 'twander' 2.29 Released
by Tim Daneliuk Dec. 19, 2002

Dec. 19, 2002

'twander' 2.29 is released and available at: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/twander/ What Is "twander"? ------------------ "twander" is a Filesystem Browser which runs on both Unix-like systems as well as Win32 systems. It embraces the best ideas of both similar GUI-driven programs (Konqueror, Windows Explorer) as well as text-based interfaces (Midnight Commander, List, Sweep). Why Is "twander" Different? --------------------------- While the "twander" interface is graphical, all the major navigation, selection, and execution commands can be entered from the keyboard, not just the mouse. This means Power Users who are strong typists can minimize dependency on the mouse and materially speed up their interactions with the system. Moreover, unlike the other programs, "twander" does not have a built-in set of commands (which typically cannot be changed). Instead, "twander" supports a rich macro configuration language for virtually limitless user-definition of commands. The configuration language provides a simple mechanism for communicating the list of items currently selected in the GUI to the user-defined commands. Each user is thus free to configure a command set unique and appropriate to their needs. As with the navigation commands, user-defined commands can be invoked with either the keyboard (a single keystroke) or the mouse (a menu selection). Who Might Like "twander"? ------------------------ 1) People who type well and find the mouse a distraction when working. 2) People who want to customize the commands available in their file browser to do things *their* way instead of the way the browser wants to do things. 3) People who wish to provide their less technical colleagues with a tool that has a limited set of "canned" features. For instance, it would be trivial to use "twander" to automate ftp transfers for use by non-technical administrative staff. 4) People interested in the inner workings of a Python/Tkinter program. The entire program is written in Python using the Tkinter GUI modules and is extensively commented throughout. Additional program documentation is provided in Unix 'man' format, PostScript, html, and plain text. 5) Oddly, and as an unintended side-effect of the original design, "twander" will serve the visually-impaired very well. Colors, font type, size, & weight, and window size can all be trivially set on the "twander" command line. So, for instance, it is quite easy to run the program with very large fonts, thus improving readability. Program Requirements -------------------- "twander" runs on Unix-like systems (FreeBSD, Linux) as well as a variety of Win32 systems. It requires the presence of Python 2.2 (or later) and the associated Tkinter support for the target system. These are freely available from: http://www.python.org -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk tundra(a)tundraware.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk tundra(a)tundraware.com

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Subject: [Web Site] How-To: Easy CGI Session Handling with pso.session
by thanos＠0x01.com Dec. 19, 2002

Dec. 19, 2002

How-To: Easy CGI Session Handling with pso.session -------------------------------------------------- How to painlessly adding session handling to a cgi script This document shows you how to use pso.session to add easy session handling to a CGI script. Python Service Objects is a open source internet service development system. The pso system allows you to develop platform and server independent CGI scripts that can later be promoted to NSAPI or modpython request handlers, often without any changes. *** ADDITIONAL NOTES WILL GO HERE, IF ANY *** URL: http://www.scriptfoundry.com/modules/pso/doc/session-cgi.html Categories: Tutorials, Internet thanos vassilakis (thanos(a)scriptfoundry.com) http://www.scriptfoundry.com/~thanos/ -- <a href="http://www.scriptfoundry.com/modules/pso/doc/session-cgi.html">How-To: Easy CGI Session Handling with pso.session</a> -- How to painlessly adding session handling to a cgi script

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ANN: Leo 3.10 outlining editor
by Edward K. Ream Dec. 19, 2002

Dec. 19, 2002

leo.py 3.10 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ leo.py requires Python 2.1 or above and tcl/tk 8.3 or above. 3.10 corrects bugs, improves Leo's documentation and adds many new features: The highlights of 3.10: ----------------------- - Rewrote the Scripting Chapter in Leo's Users Guide. - Improved the Customization Chapter of the Users Guide. - Adds several customizations contributed by Leo's users. Among these: @read-only nodes. Reading empty .leo files. Redirecting stderr and stdout to Leo's log pane. - New Mark Clones and Go To Next Clone commands. - New Export Headlines command. - Control-dragging a node now clones it. - New "Node Only checkbox in the Find/Change panel. - @root-code trees start in code mode by default. This allows @root trees to work like @file trees. - @root-doc trees start in doc mode by default. - Converted leoConfig.py to use @root-code - New at_root_bodies_start_in_doc_mode option in leoConfig.py. Specifies whether @root trees work like @root-code or @root-doc. - New synonyms: @file-asis = @silentfile @file-nosent = @nosentinelsfile ; @file-noref = @rawfile. - Leo now supports navigation of menus using underlined menus. - Added an easy way to replace any Leo method by a function. The code in customizeLeo.py can now override part of Leo's code! - Added routines to redirect stderr and stdout to Leo's log pane. These routines can be called from customizeLeo.py. - Added "event1" and "event2" hooks for customized event handling. - Improved Leo's window icon, and improved how that icon is loaded. - The usual assortment of bug fixes and minor improvements. Actually, this release fixes more than the usual number of bugs. Quote of the month ------------------ I must say I am very impressed. I have been absolutely seduced by Leo over the past few days. I tell you, I can not put it down. I feel like a kid with a shiny new bike...I'm already bursting with new ways I'd like to use the tool in the future -- Lyn Adams Headley What is Leo? ------------ - A programmer's editor, an outlining editor and a flexible browser. - A literate programming tool, compatible with noweb and CWEB. - A data organizer and project manager. Leo provides multiple views of projects within a single outline. - Fully scriptable using Python. Leo saves its files in XML format. - Portable. leo.py is 100% pure Python. - Open Software, distributed under the Python License. Links: ------ Leo: http://personalpages.tds.net/~edream/front.html Home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 CVS: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=3458 Edward -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward K. Ream email: edream(a)tds.net Leo: Literate Editor with Outlines Leo: http://personalpages.tds.net/~edream/front.html --------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Application] pyblosxom 0+5i_rev3
by Wari Wahab Dec. 19, 2002

Dec. 19, 2002

pyblosxom 0+5i_rev3 ------------------- PyBlosxom is an implementation of blosxom written in Python Pyblosxom is a weblog engine that uses standard text files located on your filesystem as a database of weblog entries. The concept is simple, managing content is as easy as editing a text file with your favourite text editor. In addition to the features of blosxom, on which it is based, it can be easily extended with preformatters, it also supports bloggerAPI, an XMLRPC interface that most weblog GUI tools supports. URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyblosxom/ License: Python Style Platform: POSIX, Win32(with minor modifications) Categories: Web Wari Wahab (wari(a)wari.per.sg) http://roughingit.subtlehints.net/ -- <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyblosxom/">pyblosxom 0+5i_rev3</a> -- PyBlosxom is an implementation of blosxom written in Python

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