Mailman 3 August 2002 - Python-announce-list

CherryPy-0.5 released
by Remi Delon 08 Aug '02

08 Aug '02

We're pleased to announce the release of CherryPy-0.5. This release adds two new features: - FastCGI support - New tag to allow webdesigners to work on separate files ------------------------------------------ About CherryPy: CherryPy is a Python-based tool for developing dynamic websites. It uses many powerful concepts together, which makes it unique in its approach to website development. CherryPy sits between an application server and a compiler. You write source files, compile them with CherryPy and CherryPy generates an executable containing everything to run the website (including an HTTP server). Key properties/features of CherryPy are: - Based exclusively on Python (runs everywhere Python runs) - Delivers fast, robust, and scalable websites - Developers can use OOP as well as AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) concepts to develop websites - True separation of content and presentation - Simple but powerful templating language - "HTML editor safe" templating language (templates can go back and forth between designers and developers) - Powerful standard libraries to make your life easy Other properties/features are: - Can be linked to many databases (Oracle, Sybase, MySql, PostgreSql, ...) - Can run behind another webserver (Apache, ...) - Easy clustering and load-balancing set up for high-traffic websites - Built-in caching capability Remi. http://www.cherrypy.org

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ANNOUNCE: APUG -- Austin Python User's Group
by eric jones 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

Hey group, We would like to start a Python user's group in the Austin, Texas area. If you are interested, please contact me at eric(a)enthought.com. We have tentative plans for our first meeting at Enthought, Inc. on Wednesday, August 21 at 6:30 pm. We'll provide pizza for this one. I'll give a talk on weave, a module for inlining C/C++ in Python. Enthought is located downtown at 6th and Congress in the Bank of America building. We're located on the 16th floor in Suite 1614. Free parking is somewhat scarce downtown, but the dedicated can find it. For everyone else, the Littlefield parking garage is next to our building. Its entrance is between 5th and 6th street on Brazos. If you have any questions, please email me. Our conference room can hold about 15 people -- many more than that and we'll have to find an alternative meeting location. If your company has a larger meeting room we can use, please let me know. Free parking wins bonus points. Thanks, eric

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ANN: Using SNMP with Python (BayPIGgies mtg Wed 8/14)
by Wesley Chun 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

What: Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area Python Users Group (BayPIGgies) When: Wednesday evening, August 14, 2002, 7:30 pm - 9 pm Where: Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Agenda: Using SNMP with Python: the pyNMS project Speaker: Keith Dart In this talk, we will discuss the pyNMS package -- what's in it, where to find it, and how to use it. The pyNMS package is a collection of Python (and some C) modules for use in network management applications. It is also useful for testing and other types of applications. This package contains a real grab-bag of modules, the most notable are SNMP Management, MIB browsing, XML and XHTML file manipulation, and other miscellaneous modules you may find useful. For more information and dirrections, go to the website: http://www.baypiggies.net hope to see you next week! -wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "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://www.baypiggies.net wesley.j.chun :: wesc at deirdre.org cyberweb.consulting : henderson, nv : cyberweb at rocketmail.com http://roadkill.com/~wesc/cyberweb/

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New release of SalStat Statistical Analysis package
by Alan james Salmoni 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

SalStat, the cross-platform package for scientific statistical analysis written using Python and wxPython, has made a new release (20020803). It is available from the home page (http://salstat.sunsite.dk) and has a sourceforge site too. There is also a mailing list available for anyone interested (salstat-developers(a)lists.sourceforge.net). This release adds the Cochranes Q nonparametric test, and fixes a bug in the between subjects analysis of variance. Have fun! Alan James Salmoni SalStat Developer.

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[Chat] New Python Channel
by Jonas Geiregat 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

Where ? on the undernet server #python

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ANN: Kaa 0.4.3, a Python weblogging tool
by Hans Nowak 04 Aug '02

04 Aug '02

Kaa is a weblogging tool written in Python. The current version is *highly* experimental, but with the "release early and often" motto in mind, I make this public anyway. At this point, it's unsuitable for serious purposes, though. The "download page" can be found here: http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/aquila/blog/blogger.html This is really the page of my temporary blog; there are links to the distribution (a zip file) and to a page with an introduction to Kaa. Any comments, bug reports, tips, feature requests, etc etc, are welcome. Particularly eloquent flames will be published on my blog. :-) License? What's that? This experimental version (0.4.3) can be considered public domain. The license of future versions may differ. Cheers, -- Hans (base64.decodestring('d3VybXlAZWFydGhsaW5rLm5ldA==')) # decode for email address ;-) The Pythonic Quarter:: http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/

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[Module] GeoIP 0.2.0
by TJ Mather 03 Aug '02

03 Aug '02

GeoIP 0.2.0 ----------- Lookup Country by IP Address Wrapper to GeoIP C library. The C library includes a free database of IP address to country mappings that is updated every year. URL: http://maxmind.com/geoip/api/python.shtml License: BSD Style Platform: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris Requires: GeoIP C library Categories: Internet TJ Mather (tjmather(a)tjmather.com) http://tjmather.com/ -- <a href="http://maxmind.com/geoip/api/python.shtml">GeoIP 0.2.0</a> -- Lookup Country by IP Address

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ANN: Leo 3.3 outlining editor
by Edward K. Ream 03 Aug '02

03 Aug '02

leo.py 3.3 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ The highlights of 3.3: ---------------------- - Added support for Unicode. - Improved the Import commands. - Fixed numerous bugs related to configuration settings. - Fixed the "Javadoc" bug and several latent bugs related to it. leo.py requires Python 2.2 and tcl/tk 8.3 or above. What is Leo? ------------ - A programmer's editor, an outlining editor and a flexible browser. - A literate programming tool, compatible with noweb and CWEB. - A data organizer and project manager. Leo provides multiple views of projects within a single outline. - Fully scriptable using Python. Leo saves its files in XML format. - Portable. leo.py is 100% pure Python. - Open Software, distributed under the Python License. Links: ------ Leo: http://personalpages.tds.net/~edream/front.html Home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 CVS: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=3458 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward K. Ream email: edream(a)tds.net Leo: Literate Editor with Outlines Leo: http://personalpages.tds.net/~edream/front.html --------------------------------------------------------------------

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ANN: numarray-0.3.6
by Todd Miller 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Numarray 0.3.6 --------------------------------- Numarray is an array processing package designed to efficiently manipulate large multi-dimensional arrays. Numarray is modelled after Numeric and features c-code generated from python template scripts, the capacity to operate directly on arrays in files, and improved type promotions. Version 0.3.6 has 2 bugfixes and 1 new feature: 1. sort/argsort implementations were fixed to better handle pathlogical cases with many equal values. 2. NDArray.tofile() and _bytes.copyToString() were fixed to properly handle multi-megabyte multi-dimensional arrays. 3. The default array repr has been changed to summarize output for arrays with more than 1000 elements total. This feature is configured by the functions arrayprint.set_summary and arrayprint.summary_off. This is an initial implementation of a widely requested feature. Feedback is welcome. WHERE ----------- Numarray-0.3.6 windows executable installers and source code tar ball is here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369 Numarray is hosted by Source Forge in the same project which hosts Numeric: http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/ The web page for Numarray information is at: http://stsdas.stsci.edu/numarray/index.html Trackers for Numarray Bugs, Feature Requests, Support, and Patches are at the Source Forge project for NumPy at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=1369 REQUIREMENTS -------------------------- numarray-0.3.6 requires Python 2.0 or greater. AUTHORS, LICENSE ------------------------------ Numarray was written by Perry Greenfield, Rick White, Todd Miller, JC Hsu, Paul Barrett, Phil Hodge at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Thanks go to Jochen Kupper of the University of North Carolina for his work on Numarray and for porting the Numarray manual to TeX format. Numarray is made available under a BSD-style License. See LICENSE.txt in the source distribution for details. -- Todd Miller jmiller(a)stsci.edu

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[Module] MP3Info
by Vivake Gupta 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

MP3Info ------- MP3 Metadata Extractor Extracts a variety of metadata from MP3 files including information from the MPEG headers and from ID3 headers. Supports ID3v1, ID3v1.1, ID3v2, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, and ID3v2.4. Also supports Xing's VBR headers. URL: http://www.omniscia.org/~vivake/python/ Download: http://www.omniscia.org/~vivake/python/MP3Info.py License: GPL Categories: Sound/Audio Vivake Gupta (vivake(a)yahoo.com) http://www.omniscia.org/~vivake/ -- <a href="http://www.omniscia.org/~vivake/python/">MP3Info</a> -- MP3 Metadata Extractor

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MSS 1.0 Re-Location
by Matt Whiteley 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

What is MSS ? MSS is a bit like Microsoft's IIS in the scheme of the whole .NET development thing. It's basically a server that allows modules written in Python to be plugged into it - allowing these modules to then be called like you would any other web resource. i.e. via accessing a URL. Once you get the hang of it - which should take about 10 mins given the demo services provided, new services are extremely quick and simple to add in. I recommend using MSS if you need a middle-tier that needs to be accessible as a web service. Even better that, using IIS, this Python implementation is far more secure. Oh, and it's been done in Python ;-) Find it at its new home : http://www.ansolve.btinternet.co.uk/mss/index.htm Matt Whiteley

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