Mailman 3 May 2002 - Python-announce-list

CD 2002 Call for Participation
by Kathrin Berg May 6, 2002

May 6, 2002

First International IFIP/ACM Working Conference on Component Deployment (CD 2002) June 20 - 21, 2002 Berlin, Germany http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/cd02/ Co-located with ACM SIGPLAN 2002 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) --------------------------------------------------------------------- C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n --------------------------------------------------------------------- Early registration: May 22, 2002 Fees and registration form: http://swt.cs.tu-berlin.de/cd02/ Full programme now available Component technology has additional roles and activities in the software life-cycle that relate to assembly and deployment of components into a running system. These new activities affect all dimensions of software engineering. Deployment needs to be specified, designed, implemented, verified and tested. It requires new software processes, languages and tools, standards and inter- operability. During deployment attention must be paid to quality requirements, customisation, maintainability, system evolution, and constraints concerning scarce resources. Although many of these issues are being addressed in isolation, there is no well founded notion of software deployment that com- bines and interrelates the underlying principles. CD 2002 brings together experts from such disparate fields, and seeks to establish component deployment as a major research area within component-based software engineering. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote by Bertrand Meyer - ETH Zurich, Switzerland: "From contracts to trusted components'' 13 papers, 6 short paper displays, 2 panels (planned) -------------------------------------------------------------------- The CD 2002 proceedings are being published in the Springer-Verlag LNCS series and copies will be distributed at the conference. Co-Chairs ---------- Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, South Africa Stephan Herrmann, TU Berlin, Germany Sponsored by IFIP TC2 and WG 2.4 In-cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN, ACM SIGSOFT and GI Industrial Sponsors: Siemens, Microsoft Organized by TU Berlin Contact: cd02(a)swt.cs.tu-berlin.de

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ANN: Silicon Valley Python UG mtg WED nite 5/8 7:30pm
by wesc＠deirdre.org May 6, 2002

May 6, 2002

What: BayPIGgies (Silicon Valley Python users group) meeting When: Wednesday, 8 May 2002, 7:30-9 PM Where: Coco's Restaurant, 1209 Oakmead Pkwy, Sunnyvale, CA Agenda: Eating Out with Python (Python round table) Speaker: everyone... The host (and BayPIGgies volunteer) for our normal meetings at Python will be out of the country, so we will be gathering at a local restaurant for a Python round table. We will be at the Coco's Restaurant in Sunnyvale on the Lawrence Expressway and Oakmead Parkway right off US-101. Yahoo! Map/Driving Directions (gee... i wonder what language they use to build their CGI-oriented scripts...): http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypMap.py?Pyt=Typ&tuid=9803594&ck=1088317771 The round table is totally informal and ranges from current topics and news from the Python community or recent newsgroup postings, talking about Python and how it is used in some of your projects, or to help those are making an effort to learn about a new area of Python programming they are exploring. If we finish early, those who are interested may head to the Digital Guru bookstore or Fry's Electronics. Both are within 1-2 minutes by car from the restaurant. Come along to join in having dinner *and* being able to talk about your favorite development language... and be sure to invite friends and co-workers along who may be interested in Python. Hope to see you there! -wesley Call For Talks: We are actively seeking speakers for BayPIGgies! If you would like to give a talk at one of our meetings (any Python related topic), contact us to coordinate! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall PTR, © 2001 http://starship.python.net/crew/wesc/cpp/ Silicon Valley-San Francisco Bay Area Python Users Group (BayPIGgies) http://deirdre.org/baypiggies wesley.j.chun :: wesc at deirdre.org cyberweb.consulting : henderson, nv : cyberweb at rocketmail.com http://roadkill.com/~wesc/cyberweb/

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[ANN] QuantLib-Python 0.3.0
by Ferdinando Ametrano May 6, 2002

May 6, 2002

QuantLib-Python 0.3.0 --------------------- http://quantlib.org QuantLib-Python is a SWIG wrap of QuantLib. QuantLib is a free/open-source quantitative finance C++ library for modeling, pricing, trading, and risk management in real-life. A tool for derivatives and financial engineering. Version 0.3.0 of the C++ library and the Python extension have been released. What's new ------------ - in sync with QuantLib 0.3.0 - more info on the tested library - using old version of the library forbidden - Using unittest methods for signaling failures - bug fixing - Exported derived and composite market element - Extended Monte Carlo tests URL: http://quantlib.org License: BSD style Categories: Miscellany Ferdinando Ametrano (ferdinando(a)ametrano.net) http://www.ametrano.net -- <P><A HREF="http://quantlib.org">QuantLib-Python 0.3.0</A> - A module for quantititative finance. (6-May-02)</P> --

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AVPython 1.2 released on SourceForge
by Bruce Dodson May 4, 2002

May 4, 2002

AVPython 1.2 is released, and is now hosted on SourceForge. Version 1.2 should work out of the box with all current versions of Python 2.x, and of course can be compiled for other releases from 1.5.x on (probably with no source code changes). AVPython adds Python scripting functionality to ArcView GIS, and allows Python scripts (when hosted in AVPython) to access the Avenue scripting language and class library. I want to invite those who are using AVPython in their projects to share scripts, samples, and enhancements through the SourceForge project site for AVPython. http://sourceforge.net/projects/avpython/

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ANNOUNCE: SCons 0.07 is now available
by Steven Knight May 3, 2002

May 3, 2002

Version 0.07 of SCons has been released and is available for download from the SCons web site: http://www.scons.org/ Or through the download link at the SCons project page at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/ RPM and Debian packages and a Win32 installer are all available, in addition to the traditional .tar.gz and .zip files. WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE? IMPORTANT: This release contains the following interface changes: - The former -U option function is now -D. -U now functions like -u, except only targets defined in the local SConscript file are built. - The default F77 command line on Win32 now uses /Fo instead of -o. - The target Node is now passed to a Scanner function as its third argument. An optional fourth node takes an FS object. - Command generator functions now take a fourth "for_signature" argument. This release adds the following features: - The SConscript() function can now take "dirs" and "name" keyword arguments to avoid having to specify "SConscript" on every file. - Builder objects can now take arbitrary keyword arguments to create ad-hoc attributes for use by function Actions, Builder emitter functions, or command generators. - Builders can now take an emitter= argument to specify a function for massaging the target and source file lists. - Command generators can now return anything that can be made into an Action, and take a for_signature argument to support returning separate contents for signature generation vs. execution. - Support for building shared libraries has been added. - Support for Win32 .def files has been added. - SCons now supports long MSVC linker command lines through use of a temporary file. - A Split() function has been added to support explicit splitting of space-separated strings into individual file names. (The automatic splitting that SCons does will go away in 0.08). - An SConscriptChdir() method has been added to support automatically changing to each SConscript file's directory. - A new --debug=dtree option prints out only derived files. - A new --implicit-cache option caches dependency signatures of files. - A new .abspath construction variable modifier has been added. - $SOURCE is now a synonym for ${SOURCES[0]}. - Python modules can now be imported into an SConscript file from its local directory. The following fixes have been added: - The -c option now deletes .h files generated by yacc. - Relative CPPPATH directories were broken in 0.06; now fixed. - The -n option used with -c now properly does not remove targets. - .c and .C files are now treated the same on case-insensitive (Win32) systems. - The PDF builder now uses pdftex or pdflatex directly instead of going through a .dvi intermediate file. - The --debug=tree option now works with directory targets. - .sconsign files are now written on error or interrupt to save intermediate build results. - Aliases now work with the -u, -U and -D options. - Nodes can now be passed to SConscript files. Performance has been improved as follows: - Construction variable substitution has been optimized. - Content signatures are now cached for each file. The following changes have been made to the SCons packaging: - The scons.bat file has been improved to support more than nine arguments on Win32 systems that support it. - The Debian package has been updated. WHAT IS SCONS? SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, or make tool) written in Python. Its design is based on the design which won the Software Carpentry build tool competition in August 2000 (in turn derived from the Perl-based Cons build tool). Distinctive features of SCons include: - configuration files are Python scripts, allowing the full use of a real scripting language to solve build problems - a modular architecture allows the SCons Build Engine to be embedded in other Python software - a global view of all dependencies; no multiple passes to get everything built - the ability to scan files for implicit dependencies (#include files); - improved parallel build (-j) support - use of MD5 signatures to decide if a file has changed - easily extensible through user-defined Builder and Scanner objects - build actions can be Python code, as well as external commands An scons-users mailing list has been created for those interested in getting started using SCons. You can subscribe at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scons-users Alternatively, we invite you to subscribe to the low-volume scons-announce mailing list to receive notification when new versions of SCons become available: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scons-announce ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special thanks to Chad Austin, Charles Crain, Alex Jacques, Steve Leblanc, Anthony Roach, and Moshe Zadke for their contributions to this release. On behalf of the SCons team, --SK

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Python OR Zope class in El Paso, Las Cruces, Juarez area
by Luis May 3, 2002

May 3, 2002

Hello, I am an instructor at New Horizons El Paso and I wanted to see if there was any interest in a Zope or Python class in the El Paso TX /Las Cruces NM /Juarez Mex area. I have 6 years software engineering experience and would like to teach either course IF there are people interested. If YOU are, please zap me an email and cc: jessej(a)nh-elpaso.com and let us know! Thanks, Luis.

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Free Py subscription with Wing IDE 1.1.4
by Wing IDE Announce May 3, 2002

May 3, 2002

Hi, We're happy to announce that we're offering a free subscription to Py with each purchase of Wing IDE. With the release of Wing IDE 1.1.4, now is a great time to take a test flight! Free Py with Wing IDE --------------------- Now through June 30th, get a free one year, six-issue subscription to Py with your purchase of Wing IDE. Py is a new independent technical journal for Python programmers. We were impressed with the first issue, and wanted to help promote this great new resource for the Python community. For details: http://wingide.com/promo/pyzine Wing IDE 1.1.4 -------------- Both the Standard and Lite editions have just been updated with a number of important enhancements: * Optimized for better performance on large source bases * Expanded emacs key bindings * Zope support updated for 2.5.1 and 2.4.4 * Many other improvements Downloads: http://wingide.com/downloads Trial licenses: http://wingide.com/wingide/demo Change log: ftp://wingide.com/pub/wingide/1.1.4/CHANGELOG.txt Thanks, The Wing IDE Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wing IDE for Python Archaeopteryx Software, Inc www.wingide.com Take Flight!

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ANN: xdialog 0.3 released
by Christopher Arndt May 3, 2002

May 3, 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, examples and/or the docs for Xdialog for available dialogs and options. HOMEPAGE: You can get information about xdialog and other software on: <http://www.chrisarndt.de/software/python/> DOWNLOAD: Get your copy at: <http://www.chrisarndt.de/software/python/download/xdialog-0.3.tar.bz2> AUTHOR: Christopher Arndt <chris.arndt(a)web.de> NOTES/WHAT'S NEW: - more dialog boxes - example scripts included - more docstrings - many bugfixes -- ... cause we all have wings, but some of us don't know why! (INXS) Christopher Arndt [t] +49 173-9542751 system administration [w] www.chrisarndt.de & linux training [e] chris.arndt(a)web.de

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ANN: auth-modules 1.0b released
by Christopher Arndt May 3, 2002

May 3, 2002

NAME: auth-modules - a module collection for password authentification issues DESCRIPTION: A module collection for managing user databases and handling password authentification. Also included a command line tool for managing a DBM user database and another tool for maintaining an encrypted database in which you can store passwords and other data for different accounts. USAGE: See the included pydoc generated API documentation. HOMEPAGE: You can get information about auth-modules and other software on: <http://www.chrisarndt.de/software/python/> DOWNLOAD: Get your copy at: <http://www.chrisarndt.de/software/python/download/auth-modules-1.0b.tar.bz2> AUTHOR: Christopher Arndt <chris.arndt(a)web.de> LICENSE: LGPL NOTES: The announcements on Parnassus had wrong URLs. This should be fixed now. -- ... cause we all have wings, but some of us don't know why! (INXS) Christopher Arndt [t] +49 173-9542751 system administration [w] www.chrisarndt.de & linux training [e] chris.arndt(a)web.de

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ANN: Logging Module v0.4.4 released
by vinay_sajip＠yahoo.co.uk May 3, 2002

May 3, 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 are "download" and "recent changes" links at the top of that page. The new stuff is mostly tidying up, but includes a new example filter, the ability to stop the test servers in logrecv.py programmatically, easier FileHandler rollover, a new Filter for more precise match-based filtering, and more! One notable change is that SOAPHandler moves from the core to an example script. The same functionality is available - it's just that since RPC method signatures will probably differ from user to user, there's no point to hardcoding one in the logging module. Another change is that some of the scripts can now be called from a single test harness, log_test.py. This produces files stdout.log and stderr.log which could be used for regression testing. 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: ================================= getEffectiveLevel() returns ALL instead of None when nothing found. Modified references to level=0 to level=ALL in a couple of places. SocketHandler now inherits from Handler (it used to inherit from StreamHandler, for no good reason). getLock() renamed to createLock(). Docstring tidy-ups, and some tidying up of DatagramHandler. Factored out unpickling in logrecv.py. Added log_test18.py to illustrate MatchFilter, which is a general matching filter. Improved FileHandler.doRollover() so that the base file name is always the most recent, then .1, then .2 etc. up to the maximum backup count. Renamed formal args and attributes used in rollover. Changed LogRecord attributes lvl -> levelno, level -> levelname (less ambiguity) Formatter.format searches for "%(asctime)" rather than "(asctime)" Renamed _start_time to _startTime. Formatter.formatTime now returns the time. Altered logrecv.py to support stopping servers programmatically. Added log_test.py as overall test harness. basicConfig() can now be safely called more than once. Modified test scripts to make it easier to call them from log_test.py. Moved SOAPHandler from core to log_test13.py. It's not general enough to be in the core; most production use will have differing RPC signatures.

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