Mailman 3 April 2002 - Python-announce-list

Python-based Amphora light groupware system 2.0 beta available
by Tanel Tammet 17 Apr '02

17 Apr '02

IT Meedia (www.itmeedia.ee, itmeedia(a)itmeedia.ee) has made available the 2.0 beta version of the Amphora light groupware system. Amphora light 2.0 is covered by GPL. See http://www.amphora.ee/freeware/ Amphora light is a powerful groupware server for small and medium sized enterprises, based on Linux, Python, Zope, Postgresql and Apache, to name the most important components. The functionality of Amphora light is similar to, and in several respects exceeds MS Exchange and Lotus Notes, providing: - Browser interface for Netscape, Mozilla, MS IE - Simple file (document) sharing capabilities - Calendars - Tasks - Contacts - Discussions - Simple databases - Web-based email - Integrating front page - An optional MS Windows client for synchronisation with MS Outlook - Hierarchical system or rights, management of rights Version 2.0 introduces a number of improvements over the version 1.0 made available last year: - Full source available, licenced under GPL. - Supported on RedHat 7.2 - Based on Zope 2.4.x and new versions of python, postgresql, etc. - Does not require a devoted server machine - Should be much easier to port and install than version 1.0 - Simple file (document) sharing capabilities added - Simple database creation and usage capabilities added - By default, mail is based on sendmail instead of qmail - Numerous improvements to functionality, scalability and stability A devoted Bugzilla site has been made available for bug reports, see http://www.amphora.ee/freeware/amphoralightdevelopment.html IT Meedia is also marketing a professional version of Amphora (see http://www.amphora.ee/eng/), which contains powerful additional components: - Full-fledged document management - CRM (clients, contacts, sales, etc connected to the rest) - Message registration and delegation system - ASP mode Contact: itmeedia(a)itmeedia.ee www.itmeedia.ee Tanel Tammet

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[ANN] Pyro 2.6 available
by Irmen de Jong 16 Apr '02

16 Apr '02

You can get the latest Pyro version (2.6) at http://pyro.sourceforge.net This is mostly a bug-fix release. Fixed mobile code (agents), documentation enhancements, fixed python-2.2 dependency that had crept in, Event Server clients will now correctly terminate, various other bug fixes. 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] bedevere: The Python wrapper to GNU Prolog
by Tony Seward 15 Apr '02

15 Apr '02

bedevere provides a SWIG wrapper to the GNU Prolog compiler. Current emphasis is on Python support. Other languages supported by SWIG will likely be accepted as long as they do not interfere with Python support. This is the initial public release. I would like to see who is interested in using this wrapper and for what purposes. I will then plan a 1.0 release schedule based on the response. It is essentially working now, but with the caveat that some things require gprolog on the path. There are three working examples in this release: 1) A Python rewrite of the top level of the gprolog interpreter. 2) A Python rewrite of the new_main_c.c example from GNU Prolog. 3) A simple Python script that queries a small Prolog database. See the homepage for instructions. Homepage: http://bedevere.sourceforge.net/ Mailing list: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bedevere-users SourceForge page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bedevere/ The GNU Prolog homepage http://gnu-prolog.inria.fr/ ajs

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ZEO 1.0 final release
by Jeremy Hylton 15 Apr '02

15 Apr '02

I am happy to announce that ZEO 1.0 final was released today. Zope Enterprise Objects (ZEO) provides the ability for multiple processes to use a single Zope Object Database. ZEO turns the Zope object system in a distributed architecture, allowing multiple processors, machines, and networks to act as one website. For more information and downloads, see the ZEO web page at http://www.zope.org/Products/ZEO. ZEO 1.0 will work with Zope 2.2 or higher and with StandaloneZODB 1.0. The 1.0 release comes after one year of beta testing, which results in several important bug fixes and increased stability. ZEO 1.0 has been used in production environment supporting hundreds of requests per second. See CHANGES.txt for details about bugs fixed. Jeremy

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RPy 0.2
by walterm＠cmat.edu.uy 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

Hello. RPy version 0.2 is released. You can download it from the Sourceforge site: http://rpy.sourceforge.net WHAT IS RPy? RPy is a very simple, yet robust, Python interface to the R Programming Language (http://www.r-project.org). It can manage all kinds of R objects and can execute arbitrary R functions (including the graphic functions). All the errors from the R language are converted to Python exceptions. Any module that later were installed on the R system, can easily be used from within Python, without introducing any changes. Currently it works only on POSIX systems. CHANGES IN RPy 0.2 Fixed bugs o There were several bugs related to memory and R and Python garbage collectors, which caused Python segfaults. o There was a problem with signals traped by R, which made Python crash when <Ctl-C> was pressed. o R objects of class 'factor' or 'data.frame' were incorrect converted to Python. o Instances of any class converted to R were treated as sequences and made Python segfault. Conversion o RPy has now a new system for conversion of types from R to Python (see the docs), which includes user defined conversion functions. o The conversion to R types is also customizable. o Some utility functions are added. o When Numeric (NumPy) is available, it is used for the standard conversion between R arrays and Python objects. Documentation o The documentation is converted to texinfo format, updated and enlarged. In particular, better documentation for the compilation procedure and for the location of libraries is included. Distribution o There are now some examples included in the distribution. o Regression tests are also included.

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[ANN] Puffin Website Goes Live
by A. Keyton Weissinger 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

The website for the Puffin web application testing framework is now live! Now you can keep up with the latest developments for the definitive, open-source web application regession testing system! Check it out: http://puffin.sourceforge.net Keyton Weissinger keytonw(a)users.sourceforge.net

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ANN: Logging Module v0.4.3 released
by vinay_sajip＠yahoo.co.uk 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

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 are "download" and "recent changes" links at the top of that page. The new stuff includes thread-safety additions and the ability to change the logging configuration of an application while it is running! An example is provided in the distribution. 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: ================================= Bug fix one-off error message to go to sys.stderr rather than sys.stdout. logrecv.py fix TCP for busy network. Thread safety - added locking to Handler and for shared data in module, and log_test16.py to test it. Added socket listener to allow on-the-fly configuration and added log_test17.py to test it.

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ANN: port of Python 2.2.1 to OS/2+EMX
by Andrew MacIntyre 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

I have uploaded a port of Python 2.2.1 to the incoming directories of the Hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/) software archive. The distributed archives are: python-2.2.1-emx-bin-020414.zip (binary installation package, 3.1MB) python-2.2.1-emx-src-020414.zip (source patches and makefiles, 101kB) The zlib module in the binary package is statically linked against zlib 1.1.4 (the makefile for which is in the source patches archive). While not exhaustively tested, dynamically loadable extension modules (.pyd) built for the 2.2 port should work with this release. More information about the port is available at http://www.andymac.org/python.html, along with the above archives are if you can't find them at Hobbes. OS/2 users enjoy! -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac(a)bullseye.apana.org.au | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac(a)pcug.org.au | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia

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Re: RELEASED: Python 2.1.3
by Sean Reifschneider 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:55:40PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote: >Today, April 8th 2002, we've released Python 2.1.3, the latest version I have recently put up RPMs for 2.1.3, sources and bnaries compiled against Red Hat 7.2. See: http://www.python.org/2.1.3/rpms.html or ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/2.1.3/rpms/ for more information. Sean -- Do bad programmers wake up on Christmas morning to find coal in their sockets? -- Sean Reifschneider Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo(a)tummy.com> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python

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ANN: pdx 1.4.2
by Harry George 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

Pdx is a POD-style markup language, which outputs html, latex, or docbook. For documentation and tarball, see: http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/index.html Bugfix for nested includes with relative path redirections. #CHANGES 2002-04-13: v1.4.2 - Revised Base.do_include_getdata. It was just looking at the last item on the pathstack, thus failing to handle multiple redirections. Now concatenates the full stack. -- Harry George hgg9140(a)seanet.com

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