I'd like to announce the release of a new, simple
program to allow individuals the joy that
is webmail.
Requiring python 2.2, openssl, the m2crypto
module and a pop client that can deposit mail into /var/mail unix-like files
ppwm v0.0.4.1.0 will serve email over a secured http connection.
It can handle MIME attachments as well.
Give it a try.
ClientCookie 0.02a
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/README-ClientCookiehttp://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie-0.02a.tar.gz
or http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie-002a.zip
WARNING: this is an alpha release: interfaces may change (probably not,
though). Since this is a port rather than completely new code though, it
does actually seem to work quite well! Also note that redirects are not
handled correctly yet when used with the extended urllib2 callables
(urlopen, HTTPHandler, etc): they'll probably accept and send cookies when
they shouldn't in some cases.
This is a Python port of Gisle Aas' HTTP::Cookies Perl module from the
libwww-perl web client library. The purpose of this Python package is
to allow the easy extraction of HTTP cookies from "Set-Cookie" and
"Set-Cookie2" (RFC 2965) headers, and generation of "Cookie" and
"Cookie2" headers appropriate for a particular HTTP request. Incoming
cookies are checked for acceptability based on the host name, etc.
Cookies are only set on outgoing requests if they match the request's
host name, path, etc.
Python 2.0 or above is required (though I may fix it to work with 1.52
eventually), and urllib2 is recommended. Note that the version of
urllib2.py from Python 2.0 is too old: you need the version from Python
2.1 (available from the source distribution or CVS from
http://www.python.org), which itself depends on inspect.py -- just copy
them into your Python search path.
import ClientCookie
import urllib2
request = urllib2.Request("http://www.acme.com/")
# note we're using the urlopen from ClientCookie, not urllib2
result = ClientCookie.urlopen(request)
# let's say this next request requires a cookie that was set in result
request2 = urllib2.Request("http://www.acme.com/flying_machines.html")
result2 = ClientCookie.urlopen(request)
(lower-level usage is also possible)
Distrubuted under the Perl Artistic License.
John J. Lee <jjl(a)pobox.com>
April 2002
Hi all,
after some time of consideration,
I have decided to move the interface to Stackless
Python's multitasking towards the ideas behind
the Limbo Language.
Besides the tasklets, there are "channel" objects,
which allow for communication between tasklets.
This approach is simple and powerful. Blocking of
tasklets takes place on writes when no tasklet
is listening, or on reads, when no data is available.
There is some nice introduction to Limbo at
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/descent.html
written by Brian W. Kernighan, one of the inventors
of the C language.
I hope to have a prototype ready by end of April.
See the stackless homepage for more news,
including the new sponsorship honor page at:
<http://www.stackless.com/>
--
Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:tismer@tismer.com>
Mission Impossible 5oftware : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's
Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9a : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/
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work +49 30 89 09 53 34 home +49 30 802 86 56 pager +49 173 24 18 776
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whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/
Zope Corporation is seeking an experienced and highly motivated
Software Engineer to deliver cutting-edge Zope solutions for
external and internal customers. More information is available
at:
http://www.zope.com/Corporate/CareerOpportunities
We are also seeking an experienced Project Manager / Technical
Lead to manage project delivery to internal and external customers.
Information on this position is also available at:
http://www.zope.com/Corporate/CareerOpportunities
Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com
V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716
Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com
Zope 2.5.1 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org:
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.1/
The binary releases for Zope 2.5.1 contain the Python 2.1.3 final
release. Users of the Zope source release should note that Python 2.1.3
is now the required platform. Python 2.1.3 includes a fix to an issue
that could cause crashes in Zope.
The Linux binary is linked against RedHat 5.2 libraries; users of more
recent distributions are encouraged to install the source release
instead of the binary release of Zope.
Particular features of interest in Zope 2.5.1:
*
Fixed a crashing bug which affected sites making heavy use of DTML
or Python scripts (Python 2.1.3 fixes this).
*
Miscellaneous bugfixes (see the changelog), including collector
issues 17, 33, 166, 167, 185, 207, 210, 227, 236, 250, 254, 259,
275, 278, 303, 319, 325, 341, 343
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/2.5.1/CHANGES.txt
*
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.5.1/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
--
Matt Kromer
Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/
Zope 2.4.4 has been released - you can download it from Zope.org:
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.4/
The binary releases for Zope 2.4.4 contain the Python 2.1.3 final
release. Users of the Zope source release should note that Python 2.1.3
is now the required platform. Python 2.1.3 includes a fix to an issue
that could cause crashes in Zope.
The Linux binary is linked against RedHat 5.2 libraries; users of more
recent distributions are encouraged to install the source release
instead of the binary release of Zope.
Particular features of interest in Zope 2.4.4:
*
Fixed a crashing bug which affected sites making heavy use of DTML
or Python scripts (Python 2.1.3 fixes this).
*
Miscellaneous bugfixes (see the changelog), including collector
issues 185, 236, 254, 275, 278, 319, 341 and 343.
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/2.4.4/CHANGES.txt
*
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.4.4/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
--
Matt Kromer
Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com/
pylibpcap-0.3
-------------
Python Module for libpcap packet capture library
This is a new release incorporating bug fixes and enhancements
contributed
by pylibpcap users. Pylibpcap now uses distutils. Thanks to all those
who contributed (PC Drew, Gustavo Carneiro, and Jon Nelson)!
URL: http://pylibpcap.sourceforge.net
License: BSD Style
Platform: Unix
Requires: libpcap
Binaries: RH 7.2 i386 RPM
Categories: Networking
David Margrave (davidma(a)eskimo.com)
--
<a href="http://pylibpcap.sourceforge.net">pylibpcap-0.3</a> -- Python
Module for libpcap packet capture library.
El Segundo, CA - 2002 April 23 - Py Parlour Press announced today that
subscriptions for Py, an independent print zine for Python developers,
were now available.
"The idea of being shackled to this zine for the next year of my life
apparently appeals to some deep masochistic subconscious yearning I am
unaware of in my waking hours" said Bryan Richard, editor and
publisher.
The cost for a Domestic subscription is US$10.00 and US$15.00 for all
orders outside the United States. A single subscription is for four
(4) issues of Py.
"Subscriptions were by far the most frequent request received, right
after a media type that didn't disintegrate when exposed to sunlight."
Pythonistas can subscribe online at www.PyZine.com.
In other news, PyZine.com just went through a massive facelift, making
it an almost usable website. A couple of new features were added (the
Py-O-Meter which carries a running total of zines sold) and the FAQ
was given a serious throttling.
About Py
It's a print zine. About Python. Get hip to that.
About Py Parlour Press (the multinational media conglomerate)
Py Parlour Press is a guy named Bryan Richard and the saints that
contribute articles (who spare you, the reader, from Bryan's writing).
Bryan is a book nerd, drives a beat blue Volvo, and listens to way too
much Songs:Ohia, which contains way too many E minor chords. With the
addition of subscriptions Bryan should be ensconced in Hearst Castle
before the year is out.
I've wrapped up a new, alpha-quality, release of the Python
Cryptography Toolkit. It's not backward-compatible with earlier
releases, in an effort to fix the design errors I've made in the past.
Dodgy algorithms have been dropped, and one new one, AES, has been added.
The public-key code is also gone.
A list of the changes in this version:
* Added Crypto.Cipher.AES.
* Added the CTR mode and the variable-sized CFB mode from the
NIST standard on feedback modes.
* Removed Diamond, HAVAL, MD5, Sapphire, SHA, and Skipjack. MD5
and SHA are included with Python; the others are all of marginal
usefulness in the real world.
* Renamed the module-level constants ECB, CFB, &c., to MODE_ECB,
MODE_CFB, as part of making the block encryption modules
compliant with PEP 272. (I'm not sure about this change;
if enough users complain about it, I might back it out.)
* Made the hashing modules compliant with PEP 247 (not backward
compatible -- the major changes are that the constructor is now
MD2.new and not MD2.MD2, and the size of the digest is now
given as 'digest_size', not 'digestsize'.
* The Crypto.PublicKey package is no longer installed; the
interfaces are all wrong, and I have no idea what the right
interfaces should be.
See the TODO file for a list of other fixes I'd like to make before
finalizing this as version 2.0. CVS is available through the pycrypto
project on SourceForge.
The source code is available at
http://www.amk.ca/files/python/pycrypto-1.9a1.tar.gz .
--
A.M. Kuchling http://www.amk.ca
run-time. n. (QA testing) the moment when the programmer shouts "Must
run!" and disappears.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, _The Computer Contradictionary_
The second beta release of the Python Computer Graphics Kit is
available at http://cgkit.sourceforge.net
What is it?
-----------
The kit is a collection of Python modules that contain the basic types
and functions required for creating 3D computer graphics images. The
kit includes several new types such as vectors, matrices and
quaternions. It contains a binding for Pixar's RenderMan interface
which is a renderer independent API to communicate 3D data to
renderers which will finally produce a 2D image. There are already
several RenderMan compliant renderers freely available (they are not
part of the kit). The kit also includes some of the functionality from
the RenderMan Shading Language which enables you to create procedural
models or textures from within Python.
Even though the kit focuses on RenderMan, the new types or the
Shading Language functionality can also be used for other rendering
mechanism such as OpenGL or other renderers such as POV-Ray.
The kit should run on any platform where Python (and a C/C++ compiler)
is available. Windows users can download a binary version for Python
2.1 or Python2.2.
What's new?
-----------
The noise module is far more complete than before. In addition to the
normal noise function there's a periodic noise function and a
cellnoise function which is constant between integer points. All
functions also have a vector version that return a vector instead of a
single float.
There has also been a small bugfix in the RenderMan binding
concerning CSG, and a few other minor modifications (see the
changelog).
The kit should also compile under Linux now (the noise module couldn't
be imported in the previous version).
For more information, visit:
http://cgkit.sourceforge.net
- Matthias -
