Mailman 3 June 2002 - Python-announce-list

ANN: Pyrex 0.3.2
by greg 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

Pyrex 0.3.2 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ Lots of little bug fixes and improvements, including: - Fixed the & operator that got broken in 0.3.1 - Stopped the weird "SystemError: 'finally' pops bad exception" - Various crashes - 2-element slice indexing expressions work now - Most arithmetic operations now allowed in constant expressions (so you can have negative enum values now!) 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.

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spyce
by Rimon Barr 26 Jun '02

26 Jun '02

SPYCE - Server Python Pages http://spyce.sourceforge.net SPYCE is a drop-in Apache plugin that supports simple and efficient Python-based dynamic HTML scripting. Those who like Python and are familiar with JSP, or PHP, or ASP, should have a look at this engine. It allows one to generate dynamic HTML content just as easily, using Python for the dynamic parts. Its modular design makes it very flexible and extensible. It can also be used as a command-line utility for HTML pre-processing. Version 1.1.8 released on 27 Jun 2002. WWW: http://spyce.sourceforge.net Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spyce/?topic_id=92 Download: tgz: http://freshmeat.net/redir/spyce/30174/url_tgz/spyce-1.1.8-1.tgz?download rpm: http://freshmeat.net/redir/spyce/30174/url_rpm/spyce-1.1.8-1.i386.rpm?downl… Changes: http://freshmeat.net/redir/spyce/30174/url_changelog/ Web CVS Tree: http://freshmeat.net/redir/spyce/30174/url_cvs/ Your comments and suggestions are welcome. Enjoy, Rimon. -- * Rimon Barr Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Cornell University | barr(a)cs.cornell.edu - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/barr - Y!IM: batripler | | Understanding is a kind of ecstasy. +---- -- Carl Sagan

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Wing IDE version 1.1.5
by Wing IDE Announce 26 Jun '02

26 Jun '02

Hi, We've just released Wing IDE version 1.1.5 for Windows and Linux. This is the latest maintenance release of the Wing IDE Standard and Wing IDE Lite products. Wing IDE is a powerful development environment for the Python programming language that features: * A networked graphical debugger, reduces debugging time for embedded scripts, stand-alone apps, and even web apps running under a web server * Interactive debug probe, lets you run a Python interactive shell in a selected stack from of your paused debug process * A Python source browser, reveals code structure, making it easier to understand and maintain your code * An advanced code editor, reduces typing burden and coding errors with analysis-informed auto-completion, auto-indent, and many other features * A project manager, organizes your code for speedy access * Works with Tkinter, wxPython, pyQt, pygtk, Zope, mod_python, numpy, and many other Python add-ons Highlights of this release include: Support for mod_python, several debugger enhancements and optimizations, improved and expanded auto-completion, expanded keyboard navigability, and a number of other enhancements. A complete log of changes is in the release. Trial license: http://wingide.com/wingide/demo Downloads: http://wingide.com/downloads More info: http://wingide.com/wingide Last Chance to Get Free Py with Wing IDE ---------------------------------------- Through the end of June you can still get a free subscription to Py with Wing IDE. Order now to take advantage of this great deal! Details: http://wingide.com/promo/pyzine Zope Users ---------- Stay tuned for the coming release of new and much improved Zope support. This will be much easier to use and will allow you to use Wing IDE with an unpatched copy of Zope. In the interim the existing Zope patches and Zope for Wing IDE distribution for Windows will work with Wing IDE 1.1.5. The Wing + Zope bundle for Linux has not been updated and will be superceded, along with all other existing Zope support, by the new Zope support module. Sincerely, The Wing IDE Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wing IDE for Python Archaeopteryx Software, Inc www.wingide.com Take Flight!

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RELEASED: Pymacs 0.17
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

Hi! A new release of Pymacs is available as: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/pymacs/Pymacs.tar.gz Pymacs allows Emacs users to extend Emacs using Python, where they might have traditionally used Emacs LISP. Pymacs runs on systems having sub-processes. The oldish `import pymacs; from pymacs import lisp' interface is gone. The usual interface is definitely `from Pymacs import lisp'. The `setup' script has been reduced even more, it now only takes care of installing the Emacs Lisp side of Pymacs. The Distutils `setup.py' script does the rest. So, the `-P', `-b', `-p' and `-x' options of `setup' are gone. Syver also gave me a few hints about how to modify `setup' for Win32 systems. Some tuning was needed for Python 2.2 hexadecimal escape sequences, which Emacs does not grok in some cases. This is the reason for this release. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard

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[ANN] SciPy '02 - Python for Scientific Computing Workshop
by Travis N. Vaught 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

---------------------------------------- Python for Scientific Computing Workshop ---------------------------------------- CalTech, Pasadena, CA Septemer 5-6, 2002 http://www.scipy.org/site_content/scipy02 This workshop provides a unique opportunity to learn and affect what is happening in the realm of scientific computing with Python. Attendees will have the opportunity to review the available tools and how they apply to specific problems. By providing a forum for developers to share their Python expertise with the wider industrial, academic, and research communities, this workshop will foster collaboration and facilitate the sharing of software components, techniques and a vision for high level language use in scientific computing. The two-day workshop will be a mix of invited talks and training sessions in the morning. The afternoons will be breakout sessions with the intent of getting standardization of tools and interfaces. The cost of the workshop is $50.00 and includes 2 breakfasts and 2 lunches on Sept. 5th and 6th, one dinner on Sept. 5th, and snacks during breaks. There is a limit of 50 attendees. Should we exceed the limit of 50 registrants, the 50 persons selected to attend will be invited individually by the organizers. Discussion about the conference may be directed to the SciPy-user mailing list: mailto:scipy-user@scipy.org http://www.scipy.org/MailList ------------- Co-Hosted By: ------------- The National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR, SDSC, San Diego, CA) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ http://nbcr.sdsc.edu The mission of the National Biomedical Computation Resource at the San Diego Supercomputer Center is to conduct, catalyze, and enable biomedical research by harnessing advanced computational technology. The Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR, CalTech, Pasadena, CA) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ http://nbcr.sdsc.edu CACR is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the field of high-performance computing, communication, and data engineering. Major activities include carrying out large-scale scientific and engineering applications on parallel supercomputers and coordinating collaborative research projects on high-speed network technologies, distributed computing and database methodologies, and related topics. Our goal is to help further the state of the art in scientific computing. Enthought, Inc. (Austin, TX) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ http://enthought.com Enthought, Inc. provides business and scientific computing solutions through software development, consulting and training. Enthought also fosters the development of SciPy (http://scipy.org), an open source library of scientific tools for Python.

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Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.1-1
by Jason Tishler 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

New News: === ==== I have updated the version of Python to 2.2.1-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. This package supports threads! Many thanks to Rob Collins (and others) who enhanced Cygwin's pthreads support to the level needed by Python. The _socket module is still being built static instead of shared to workaround a fork() issue with DLL base address conflicts. See the README for more details. Old News: === ==== Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. If interested, see the Python web site for more details: http://www.python.org/ Please read the README file: /usr/doc/Cygwin/python-2.2.1.README since it covers requirements, installation, known issues, etc. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. Note that we have recently stopped downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update. In the US, ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ is a reliable high bandwidth connection. In Germany, ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/ is usually pretty good. In the UK, http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/ is usually up-to-date within 48 hours. If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package then you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another mirror. The setup.exe program will figure out what needs to be updated on your system and will install newer packages automatically. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: cygwin(a)cygwin.com . I would appreciate if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general. If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com(a)cygwin.com Jason

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[ANN] Py 01.02 Ships
by cook＠pyzine.com 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

Py Parlour Press (www.PyZine.com) is proud, well perhaps relieved is a better word, to announce the second issue of Py (01.02) is now available. It seems the periodical elves accepted our offering and have allowed the second issue to pass along the emerald path to the United States Post Office, Bryan J Richard, Editor was quoted as saying. The second issue builds on the ambitious, if slight unstable, foundation laid last April in issue 01.01. Behold, the Table of Contents: - Config Files Made Easy by Sean Reifschneider - POOPy: Intro to Using Objects by Lindstrom Greg - Jython & zxJDBC by Brian Zimmer - Array Broadcasting with Numeric by Eric Jones - Part 2 of Extending Python with C by Alex Martelli The price still stands at $3.00 US and $5.00 The Rest of the World. Subscriptions are also available. I can think of no better Summer reading save for Balzac. Richard said. About Py. Py is a print technical zine for Python developers. A lack of competition does not keep us from being the best -- quite the opposite, in fact. http://www.PyZine.com About Py Parlour Press. >From the fringes of the publishing industry comes Py Parlour Press. Concerned only with producing the finest publications money can buy, this is outlaw tech at its finest. P3 is run by the editorial despot, Bryan J Richard, an enormous personality in the publishing industry who is bent on the ownership of Hearst Castle and has perhaps watched Citizen Kane one too many times. Subscribe Online http://www.PyZine.com/subscribe.phtml Write for Py. http://www.PyZine.com/write.phtml Contact Bryan J Richard, Editor bryan(a)pyzine.com

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[ANN] my_gui: a gui module for MySQL . First public release (0.24)
by Marco Stagno 24 Jun '02

24 Jun '02

This is the first public release for "my_gui". my_gui.py is a simple Grafic User Interface for MySql It can be used as Python module to create your own MySQL interface. Sorry, no documentation yet download it at http://www.prosa.it/projects/projects MAS!

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ANN: OpenLC 0.6
by Francesc Alted 24 Jun '02

24 Jun '02

I've released the first beta of OpenLC. It's version 0.6. It has several improvements over version 0.5: run database is redesigned (now using a mix of XML, NetCDF and HDF5), speed increase (up to 1500 trans/s in an Athlon 900), IMAP4 support, better and more configurable statistics, and last but not least much improved documentation!. If you're interested in give it a try, download it from http://www.sourceforge.net/openlc What is OpenLC?: OpenLC is a set of software tools designed to facilitate benchmarking and stress testing of a wide variety of information servers (such as web, email, FTP, LDAP, databases, and so on). The package is built around a microkernel that contains basic routines for benchmarking tasks, such as accessing intermediate results in real-time ("spying" on run data), setting up simulated clients, defining scenarios, handling database calls, comparing results of different runs, summarizing data, etc. For more information, visit http://openlc.sourceforge.net -- Francesc Alted PGP KeyID: 0x61C8C11F OpenLC microkernel benchmarking project: http://www.openlc.org Public PGP key available: http://www.openlc.org/falted_at_openlc.asc Key fingerprint = 1518 38FE 3A3D 8BE8 24A0 3E5B 1328 32CC 61C8 C11F

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SC-Track Roundup 0.4.2 - an issue tracking system
by Richard Jones 23 Jun '02

23 Jun '02

================================================= SC-Track Roundup 0.4.2 - an issue tracking system ================================================= Note: If you have an existing roundup installation, make a backup of your database. Make sure you read doc/upgrading.txt! Roundup requires python 2.1.1 for correct operation. Support for dumbdbm requires python 2.1.2 or 2.2. 2.1.3 and 2.2.1 are recommended. Big stuff in this release: - online demo at http://mechanicalcat.net/cgi-bin/roundup.cgi - fast full-text searching of messages - other speedups - bsddb3 backend is re-enabled - instance initialisation is a two-step process now, making mods easier - optionally auto-add the author and recipients of messages to the nosy - enhancements to make multilink editing through the web and email easier - cleaner use of auditors and reactors in the default schemas - demo scripts supplied in the scripts/ and detectors/ directories - Much, much more: see the CHANGES file for details Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Release Info (via download page): http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.0+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates and three database back-ends.

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