Mailman 3 March 2002 - Python-announce-list

ANN: Installer 5b3 (bug fix release)
by Gordon McMillan March 22, 2002

March 22, 2002

Announcing version 5b3 of Installer: http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/installer_dnld.html This is a bug fix release. Fixed: - import lock to prevent clashes between threads - reload implemented - ability to gather .pyo's - ability to set Py_OptimizeFlag - fixed a buffer overflow in a debug statement Platforms: Windows Linux Unix (relying on volunteers) Python versions: tested with Python 1.5 to 2.2 What is it: The Installer package is any easy way to deploy Python apps to systems without Python installed (or with incompatible Pythons installed). Installer support single-file and single-directory deployments. On Windows, Installer supports COM, including in-process COM servers. License: MIT style. Contact: gmcm(a)hypernet.com <P><A HREF="http://www.mcmillan- inc.com/installer_dnld.html">Installer Release 5b3</A>Easy Python app deployment. (22-Mar- 2002). -- Gordon http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/

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Puffin Testing Framework 0.7 Release
by A. Keyton Weissinger March 22, 2002

March 22, 2002

The Puffin Testing Framework is a Python-based web application testing system that allows you to dynamically test even the most complex web systems as though they were black boxes. Using pure Python, I built puffin to be easily extensible and infinitely customizable. It is built from the ground up to provide for any type of customization you need to accomplish. Getting started is easy. Once downloaded and installed, you simply customize the framework to your web application, write one or more test plans (in one of two formats) and away you go. Test plans allow for repitition, dependencies, includes, etc (for a frame of reference, test plan files are similar in format to Ant build files). Though there are several other testing systems out there for web applications, puffin allows for more flexibility than most and is better documented than almost any you will find. Take a look: https://sourceforge.net/projects/puffin/ I hope it comes in useful. Please provide me any feedback you can. I'm interested in making it the best web application testing system out there and I cannot do it alone... Keyton keyton(a)weissinger.org

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[ANN] Pyro 2.5 available
by Irmen de Jong March 21, 2002

March 21, 2002

You can get the latest Pyro version (2.5) at http://pyro.sourceforge.net What's new: Install script fixes New URIs to make object lookup even simpler Problems with PYRO_STORAGE fixed Checksumming of network traffic configurable Documentation updates What is Pyro? Pyro is an acronym for PYthon Remote Objects. It is a basic Distributed Object Technology system written entirely in Python. It is extremely easy to implement a distributed system with Pyro, because all network communication code is abstracted and hidden from your application. You just get a remote Python object and invoke methods on the object on the other machine. Pyro offers you a Name Server, an Event Service, mobile objects, remote exceptions, dynamic proxies, remote attribute access, automatic reconnection, a detailed manual, and many examples to get you started right away. Irmen de Jong

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ANN: Replacement for wave.py ( reading and setting cuepoints on win32 )
by Janos BEKESI March 21, 2002

March 21, 2002

Hi, if anyone was ever troubled with reading or setting cuepoints of *.wav-files under win32 she should try the drop-in replacement for lib/wave.py. Usage information is provided in the doc-string. Though the module still is under construction, it works sufficiently (at least for my purposes); I decided to release it quite early because even at its present stage it could be helpful for people working on cuepoint-related projects. Improvements and testing reports are welcome, of course. Find it on http://bekesi.freezope.org/python/wave_py and have fun! -- dr. janos bekesi, vienna, austria http://www.meta-ware.at http://bekesi.freezope.org

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[ANN] PEP 279 -- Updated to version 1.8
by Raymond Hettinger March 21, 2002

March 21, 2002

PEP 279 has been reposted with the following changes: -- Fixed indentation error in the logger() function. -- Changed variable names in indexed() to start and stop. -- Generator parameter passing proposal moved to a separate PEP (not yet posted) -- Added comments and voting results from the community. -- Revised the author response to comments Note, this PEP has been submitted to GvR for pronouncement. Raymond Hettinger

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ANN: Logging Module v0.4 released
by vinay_sajip＠yahoo.co.uk March 21, 2002

March 21, 2002

A new version of the proposed Python standard logging module (as per PEP 282) has been released. You can get all the information from http://www.red-dove.com/python_logging.html There is a download link at the top of that page, and there is quite a lot of new stuff including syslog and NT event log support, support for user defined levels and more! As always, your feedback is most welcome (especially bug reports, patches and suggestions for improvement). Cheers Vinay Sajip Red Dove Consultants Ltd. Changes since the last version: ================================= Added level filtering for handlers. Return root logger if no name specified in getLogger. Added distutils setup.py script. Added formatter initialization in Handler.__init__. Tidied up docstrings. Added removeHandler to Logger. Added removeFilter to Logger and Handler. logrecv.py modified to keep connection alive until client closes it. SocketHandler modified to not reset connection after each logging event. Added shutdown function which closes open sockets, etc. Renamed DEFAULT_LOGGING_PORT->DEFAULT_TCP_LOGGING_PORT. Added DEFAULT_UDP_LOGGING_PORT. Added log_test4.py (example of arbitrary levels). Added addLevelName, changed behaviour of getLevelName. Fixed bugs in DatagramHandler. Added SMTPHandler implementation. Added log_test5.py to test SMTPHandler. Added SysLogHandler (contribution from Nicolas Untz based on Sam Rushing's syslog.py). Modified log_test1.py to add a SysLogHandler. Added rollover functionality to FileHandler. Added NTEventLogHandler (based on Win32 extensions). Added MemoryHandler implementation. Added log_test7.py to test MemoryHandler. Added log_test8.py to test FileHandler rollover. Added logException method to Logger. Added formatException method to Formatter. Added log_test6.py to test NTEventHandler and logException. Numerous internal method renamings (sorry - but better to do this now, rather than when we enter beta status).

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ANN: xdialog 0.2 released
by Christopher Arndt March 21, 2002

March 21, 2002

NAME: xdialog.py - Wrapper classes for the Xdialog program SYNOPSIS: import xdialog DESCRIPTION: This module eases the use of the dialogs provided by the Xdialog program with Python. It wraps every dialog in a python class, that hides the details of calling Xdialog and getting the return status and possibly output. USAGE: import xdialog box = xdialog.YesNo("Do you really want to shoot your computer now?", title="Confirm kill") stat, out = box.show() if stat == 0: print "Bang!" elif stat == 1: print "I'll have mercy on you, for now!" else: print "Someone closed the box, you lucky bastard!" See the source and/or the docs for Xdialog for available dialogs and options. HOMEPAGE: You can get information about xdialog and my other software on: <http://www.chrisarndt.de/software_en.html> DOWNLOAD: Get your copy at: <http://www.chrisarndt.de/software/xdialog-0.2.tar.bz2> AUTHOR: Christopher Arndt <chris.arndt(a)web.de> NOTES: This is the initial public release. Version 0.1, which is almost the same, was never announced to the public. I fixed some bugs now and am releasing the module to get some feedback. Have fun!

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ANN: PyChecker v0.8.10 released
by Neal Norwitz March 20, 2002

March 20, 2002

A new version of PyChecker is available for your hacking pleasure. PyChecker is a tool for finding bugs in Python source code. It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages, like C and C++. It is similar to lint. Comments, criticisms, new ideas, and other feedback is welcome. NOTE: This is the last release I plan to support Python 1.5.2. Changes from 0.8.9 to 0.8.10: * Add --unpack option to warn when unpacking a non-sequence * Add --unpacklen option to warn when unpacking sequence of wrong size * Add --changetypes option to warn when setting a variable to different types * Add --stringiter option to warn when iterating over a string * Add --input option to warn when using input() * Fix crash with checking properties or deriving from objects (2.2 only) * Fix crash with nested scopes and lambdas * Fix spurious warnings for constant conditionals when using ('%s' % value) * Fix spurious warnings for unused identifiers caused by from XXX import * * Add more information when module cannot be imported * Fix spurious warnings for implicit returns when using while 1: * Fix spurious warnings for implicit returns when using try/finally: * Fix spurious warning with globals that start w/__ * Fix spurious warnings for modifying default arguments when calling {}.get(), {}.has_key(), [].index(), [].count(), etc. * Fix spurious warnings in Python 1.5.2 when using from/import PyChecker is available on Source Forge: Web page: http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/ Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pychecker/ Mailling List: pychecker-list(a)lists.sourceforge.net Neal -- pychecker-list(a)lists.sourceforge.net

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Chicago Area Python Interest group
by Aaron Johnson March 20, 2002

March 20, 2002

Hello, I'm looking to start a Python Interest group for Chicago. If anyone is interested, please reply. Perhaps with enough of us we might put an announcement on python.org Cheers, Aaron. --

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Python 2.2 loadable SSL module for Windows
by Val Shkolnikov March 20, 2002

March 20, 2002

Hi, The Windows distribution of Python 2.2 does not include SSL support. I developed a loadable module ssl.pyd and an enhancement to httplib.py called httpsub.py to allow use of chunked transfer encoding. Please refer to http://home.pacbell.net/nvsoft/2.2/ssl_wrapper.html -Val

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