Mailman 3 May 2002 - Python-announce-list

PySeen 0.9.0
by William Dode May 10, 2002

May 10, 2002

Viewer of picture with wxPython http://www.flibuste.net/pythreries/pyseen -- William Dodé - Informaticien Indépendant http://www.flibuste.net

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Wing IDE for OS X beta1
by Wing IDE Announce May 10, 2002

May 10, 2002

Hi, Wing IDE is now available for OS X also. OS X Beta Info: http://wingide.com/psupport/prerelease/osx/osx-beta.html Product Details: http://wingide.com/wingide Thanks, The Wing IDE Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wing IDE for Python Archaeopteryx Software, Inc www.wingide.com Take Flight!

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ANN: PythonCard 0.6.6
by Kevin Altis May 10, 2002

May 10, 2002

PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Release 0.6.6 includes 30 sample applications, new additions include a source code editor and a sample for creating flat file databases. This release also supports the new wxPython 2.3.3 preview for Mac OS X. All the information you need about PythonCard can be found on the project web page at: http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/ The installation instructions and walkthroughs are available on the main documentation page: http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/documentation.html You can download the latest release at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19015 For a list of some of the samples that have been built with PythonCard and screenshots of them in action go to: http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/samples.html A description of each sample is included in the readme.txt file in each sample directory. The kind people at SourceForge host the project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythoncard/ If you want to get involved the main contact point is the Mailing list: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pythoncard-users PythonCard requires Python 2.1.x or later and wxPython 2.3.2.1 or later. wxPython can be downloaded at http://www.wxpython.org/ ka --- Kevin Altis altis(a)semi-retired.com

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pyRXP 0.7 - very fast validating XML parser
by Andy Robinson May 9, 2002

May 9, 2002

ReportLab are proud to present pyRXP version 0.7 - probably(*) the fastest validating XML parser available for Python. http://www.reportlab.com/xml/pyrxp.html RXP is a very fast and fully compliant validating XML parser written by Richard Tobin of the University of Edinburgh, Language Technology Group. pyRXP is a wrapper around this which constructs a lightweight in-memory "tuple tree" in a single call. This structure is the lightest one we could define in Python, and it is constructed entirely in C code, resulting in unprecedented speed; the memory footprint is also several times more compact that DOM Node objects in either Python or Java. The deployment is a single Python extension module of approximately 100kb. PyRXP, like RXP is under the General Public License. Commercial licenses are available from ReportLab for situations where GPL is not appropriate, such as embedding in closed source products. This is not a full DOM implementation. But if you need to get XML data into memory, we think it will do what 90% of the people want, in 10% of the time. And with validation. Enjoy! Andy Robinson CEO/Chief Architect, ReportLab Inc. * We have been informed that Daniel Viellard's Python wrapper for libxml2 may be a contender, but have not been able to do a comparable benchmark. No parser using Python SAX events even comes close.

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ANN: Pyrex 0.2.1
by Greg Ewing May 9, 2002

May 9, 2002

Minor bug fix release, to correct a stuffup that I introduced concerning access to builtins. (That'll teach me to release spiffy new features without proper re-testing!) http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ What is Pyrex? -------------- Pyrex is a new language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix operations on Python and C data, with all Python reference counting and error checking handled automatically. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand To get my email address, please visit my web page: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg

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[ANN] Puffin Web Testing Framework, Version 0.8.9 Release
by A. Keyton Weissinger May 9, 2002

May 9, 2002

** PUFFIN 0.8.9 RELEASE! ** It's my distinct pleasure to announce the release of the 0.8.9 release of the Puffin web application testing framework! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Highlights: - HEADER EXTRACTION BUGFIXES - SEVERAL USER GUIDE UPDATES - DUPLICATE TEST ACTION CONFIG CHECK - ABILITY TO INCLUDE TEST ACTION INCLUDE FILES IN PUFFIN CONFIG - ADDITION OF APPCONTEXTALIAS TESTACTION ATTRIB FOR SIMPLER CONFIG - LIST PROCESSORS NOW ALLOW TOKEN EXPRESSIONS - OTHER ASSORTED BUGFIXES. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Details: - (HEADER EXTRACTION BUGFIXES) There were plenty of problems in the header extraction output processor that user BNorman helped me to see. These are all fixed now. - (SEVERAL USER GUIDE UPDATES) A few of the updates from 0.8.8 did not get incorporated into the user guide updates. These are all there now. - (DUPLICATE TEST ACTION CONFIG CHECK) In previous versions, if you configured the same test action multiple times in the same puffin config file, an error occurred. This is checked for now. If you have duplicates you are given a warning that only the first will work and the rest are ignored. - (ABILITY TO INCLUDE TEST ACTION INCLUDE FILES IN PUFFIN CONFIG) You can now include test action include files in your puffin config file. This allows multiple people to work on different sets of test actions all at the same time. Just include them all into one puffin config file. This EXCELLENT feature was suggested by user BNorman. - (ADDITION OF APPCONTEXTALIAS TESTACTION ATTRIB FOR SIMPLER CONFIG) The <testActions> element in the main puffin config file now allows for a "appContextAlias" attribute that allows you to name your web app. Puffin will take this value and add it to your path automatically. For example, if your CGI Application alias is "/puffindemoapp/" then you could do: <testActions appContextAlias="puffindemoapp"> And all <path> values for all test actions will have /puffindemoapp added to the beginning. So for the following test action <testAction name="login"> <path>/login.cgi</path> . . . Puffin will actually use the path: /puffindemoapp/login.cgi when executing this test action. - (LIST PROCESSORS NOW ALLOW TOKEN EXPRESSIONS) You can now use token expressions as listItems for LIST input processors (you were already able to do this for LIST-type output processors). - (ASSORTED BUGFIXES) As always, Ernie or I fixed a few small bugs and refactored in many a place, including the fixShebang.pl script in the demo/iteration1 folder. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Puffin New Features Survey I'm planning the next big release (0.9) and would like your help. What would you like to see added to puffin? a) A GUI front end to make config, test plan construction and test plan execution simpler and more intuitive. b) A multithreaded execution controller to get many puffin instances hammering a web application at the same time. (This would be called "flock" as in a "flock of puffins." Sorry.) c) More/different/better documentation. d) More core input/output processors. e) Something else? --------------------------------------------------------------------- What is Puffin? Puffin allows you to test any web application or service. Once customized to your web application, you can use Puffin to unit test individual web pages, system test your entire web application, or load test your entire site. Have a complex web application that needs to be rigorously tested? Puffin is the answer! Check out Puffin TODAY at http://puffin.sourceforge.net Keyton Weissinger keyton(a)weissinger.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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ANN: Pyrex 0.2 released
by Greg Ewing May 9, 2002

May 9, 2002

Pyrex 0.2 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ New features in 0.2: * Executable statements allowed at module level. * Python class definitions. * & (address-of) operator for C variables. Various bugs have also been fixed. What is Pyrex? -------------- Pyrex is a new language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix operations on Python and C data, with all Python reference counting and error checking handled automatically. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand To get my email address, please visit my web page: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg

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py2exe 0.3.3 released
by Thomas Heller May 8, 2002

May 8, 2002

py2exe is a distutils extension to convert python scripts into windows exe-files (plus maybe a few dlls), able to run on computers without requiring a python installation. New in release 0.3.3: Fixed the broken ModuleFinder included in previous releases. Services now print a readable traceback to the eventlog (or the console if run with the --debug flag). Services' _svc_deps_ are now supported - thanks to Matthew King for the patches. py2exe should run again under Win98. Yasushi Masuda has translated the homepage page into Japanese: http://www.python.jp/Zope/articles/tips/py2exe . Download from the usual location: http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ Thomas

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PyQt-3.1 available for QNX 6.1
by a-steinhoff＠web.de May 7, 2002

May 7, 2002

Hi, PyQt-3.1 and SIP-3.1 is now available at http://www.sf.net/projects/openqnx Have fun ... Armin http://www.steinhoff-automation.com

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ClientCookie 0.05b released
by John J. Lee May 6, 2002

May 6, 2002

ClientCookie 0.05b http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie Changes since 0.03b * Now works with Python 1.5.2 (including urllib2). * Fixed Windows issues with _HTTPDate and _TimeLocal; all tests now pass on both Unix and Windows. * Tested with Python versions 1.52, 2.0.0, 2.1.1 and 2.2.0. * Set line endings to Unix convention. ClientCookie is a Python module for handling cookies on the client side, useful for accessing web sites that require cookies to be set, and returned later. It is a port of Gisle Aas' Perl module HTTP::Cookies, from the libwww-perl library. Both RFC 2965 and Netscape cookies are supported. 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(request2) Python 1.5.2 or above is required, and urllib2 is recommended but not required. Note that the version of urllib2 from Python 2.0 is too old: if you have Python 2.0, get the version from Python 2.1 (available from the source distribution or CVS from http://www.python.org/), or use the 1.5.2-compatible version included with the ClientCookie distribution. Distributed under the Perl Artistic License. John

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