Mailman 3 August 2002 - Python-announce-list

ANN : Music Drawing [ Yes ] for hobby musicians, in python
by skodela＠hotmail.com 17 Aug '02

17 Aug '02

Hi guys I wrote a python / Tkinter framework for a program which lets you create an arbitary number of canvases and draw on them. Then you can use one canvas for the notes and other canvas for volume. The frame work can load plugins to process the drawing on the canvases and create music. I write one plugin which is extremely basic but functional. However it did produce music. You can download it on sourceforge. search for musex or try http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/musex/ If anyone is interested in participating please send me a mail on sreekant UNDERSCORE kodela at yahoo dot com. regards sreekant

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[Module] Pexpect -- a Pure Python Expect-like module
by Noah Spurrier 16 Aug '02

16 Aug '02

Pexpect -- a Pure Python Expect-like module ------------------------------------------- Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning applications; controlling them; and responding to their output. The purpose of the pexpect module is to make Python be a better glue. Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning child applications; controlling them; and responding to expected patterns in their output. pexpect works like Don Libes' Expect. Use pexpect when you want to control another application. It allows you to start a child application and have your script control it as if a human were typing commands. Pexpect can be used for automating interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, telnet, etc. It can be used to a automate setup scripts for duplicating software package installations on different servers. It can be used for automated software testing. pexpect is in the spirit of Don Libes' Expect, but pexpect is pure Python. Other Expect-like modules for Python require TCL and Expect or require C extensions to be compiled. pexpect does not use C, Expect, or TCL extensions. It should work on any platform that supports the standard Python pty module. The pexpect interface was designed to be easy to use so that simple tasks are easy. URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pexpect/ Download: http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/pexpect-current.tgz License: Open Source Categories: Python Tools/Extensions Noah Spurrier (noah(a)noah.org) http://www.noah.org/ -- <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pexpect/">Pexpect -- a Pure Python Expect-like module</a> -- Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning applications; controlling them; and responding to their output.

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ANN: rpm_utils 0.5
by Nicholas Henke 16 Aug '02

16 Aug '02

Hey Folks-- Here is a set of tools that will make dealing with RPMs a bit nicer. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1316&release_id=105563 rpm_utils 0.5 FEATURES: - merge multiple directories containing various versions of RPMs in to on directory that has symlinks to the most up to date version of each package. (merge_rpms.py) - install packages based on name, and have all of the dependencies installed automatically (rpm_install.py) - update all of the RPMs on a system (do_update.py) - great examples of using various features in the python rpm module Nic -- Nicholas Henke Linux Cluster Systems Programmer henken(a)seas.upenn.edu

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[Module] TestOverall/0.1
by James Ashley 16 Aug '02

16 Aug '02

TestOverall/0.1 --------------- Comprehensive (?) test wrapper for unit testing Add some extra testing, and wrap up all the unit test modules for the current project (right now, it's limited to the current directory). Works with a set of (arbitrary, right now) coding conventions: 1) A project directory will have a set of "Implementation" files named *.py 2) Each implementation module should have a corresponding unit test module, named 'Test' + implementation module name 3) Every "public" class in the implementation module needs a corresponding test class. 4) All the unit test modules are named Test*.py. Each has a module level function named Suite() which returns something compatible with unittest.TestSuite. This builds a set of unit tests to enforce those conventions. It also checks through the project for recursive imports. And it imports Test*.py and runs all the unittests found that way. Feedback-wantingly-yr's, James URL: www.makgifts.com/James Download: www.makgifts.com/James/TestOverall.py Categories: Python Utilities, Programming Tasks James Ashley (j_r_ashley(a)makgifts.com) www.makgifts.com/James -- <a href="www.makgifts.com/James">TestOverall/0.1</a> -- Comprehensive (?) test wrapper for unit testing

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pyOpenSSL 0.5 released
by Martin Sjögren 15 Aug '02

15 Aug '02

I'm happy to announce that pyOpenSSL 0.5 has been released. It includes many bug fixes and a lot of new functionality. Mainly thanks to numerous contributions from an (apparently!) growing user base. Thank you everyone! The goodies include: * X509Extensions * PKCS7 * Better support for RPM building * More example code * It works with Python 1.5 (for what it's worth ;)) Grab the release from http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=31249&release_id=105405 Regards, Martin Sjögren -- Martin Sjögren martin(a)strakt.com ICQ : 41245059 Phone: +46 (0)31 7710870 Cell: +46 (0)739 169191 GPG key: http://www.strakt.com/~martin/gpg.html

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Reminder: Pike Conference 2002
by Johan Sundström 15 Aug '02

15 Aug '02

Last Call for Participation Pike Conference 2002 - Aug 22-24 Pike and the Semantic Web In one week, during August 22-24, 2002, RISE will host a Pike User Group Meeting in Linköping, Sweden (http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2002/). RISE invites the Pike programmers all over the world to come to Linköping and hear about the future of Pike, the Semantic Web and make friends with other Pike people from all corners of the world. Pike is a second generation Java-like language, has a fast and reliable implementation, many killer applications, and a well running open source development community (http://pike.ida.liu.se/). Pike runs on most flavours of Unix, on the Win32 platform and MacOS X. Besides maintaining Pike a fast and reliable platform as it has been in the past, a main RISE goal is to make it the first scripting language for the Semantic Web. As a language, Pike is much better suited for the Semantic Web than Java or C#, since it provides multiple inheritance, sets, relations, and dynamic arrays. A second goal is to embed software composition technology into Pike. In the long run, Pike will be extended with modern concepts such as connectors or aspects. This way, Pike will strengthen the RISE center, whose mission is to develop practical composition and integration technology for software components. There will be workshops/discussions on various topics and an opportunity for people to present papers on relevant topics, give short presentations of projects etc. (Papers, abstracts and other material should be submitted in advance so we can schedule them properly. The tentative deadline is July 31 for such submissions.) The conference will charge a small fee (20 Euro) to cover arrangement expenses. Payment can be made in cash on arrival. Registration can be submitted by email to stensson(a)pike.ida.liu.se (or just hit reply), or in a web form at http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2002/register.xml For more information, visit http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2002/. Your Pike people at IDA; Uwe Aßmann, Marcus Comstedt, Martin Nilsson, Johan Sundström, Leif Stensson

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SkunkWeb 3.3 Released
by Jacob Smullyan 15 Aug '02

15 Aug '02

Release 3.3 of The SkunkWeb Web Application Server has just been released. The release is available from the SkunkWeb home page at http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net or directly from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/skunkweb/skunkweb-3.3.tgz Changes in 3.3 ======================================== * Developer's manual updated * fix to PyDO/mysql so that you can put NULL values into columns * minor change to handling of python code files (__name__ is now set to '__main__' in the document namespace), so precompiled Cheetah templates work. * fix to the cachekey generator so it won't dump core under certain conditions ---3.3 beta 0 cut * the build process was revised to facilitate changing the installed directory structure using standard configure options; FHS-compliant packaging and installation is now feasible. * PSP support added. For now should be considered alpha * Prebuilt documentation is now included in the distribution (HTML and paper-formats in letter dimensions) * now can have skunkweb started as root (can set who you actually want it to run as) so you can bind to low ports * new extcgi service so you can run CGI's from SkunkWeb! * new pycgi service for running Python CGI's in process -- still in alpha. * vfs.FS has new method, split_extra(), that finds extra path info; the rewrite service has a new DynamicRewriter subclass, ExtraPathFinder, which takes advantage of it (although a simple rewrite rule is still more efficient to use when possible -- see the FAQ). * fixed userModuleCleanup bugs when using MySQL service and/or used <:img:> tag with PIL installed. * pydo/mysql now supports connection caching using the mysql service. * PyDO documentation updates * The userdir service will now function properly when operating with a scoped docroot * Now converts non-native line-endings in exprs to the native line ending so that when editing templates on non-native machines, expressions will work properly * auth service fix when using multiple auth schemes simultaneously -- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE AHEAD--- If you customized the login/logout pages copied from the auth service directory, NOTE THE FOLLOWING CHANGE!! change the <:import SkunkWeb Configuration:> to <:import auth:> change the Configuration.authAuthorizer bits to auth.getAuthorizer(). If you copied them and didn't change them, recopy them. * the logger now handles some really bizarre cases that shouldn't ever happen in reality (but of course have, or I wouldn't have fixed them). Oh the benefits of a machine with bad memory to make you test for things that shouldn't happen. Cheers, Jacob Smullyan

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Pygame-1.5.2 Released
by Pete Shinners 15 Aug '02

15 Aug '02

A minor patch release of pygame is now available, version 1.5.2. (All great packages deserve a 1.5.2 release i suppose) Pygame 1.5.2 released on Aug 14, 2002 Pete Shinners (pete(a)shinners.org) http://www.pygame.org Version 1.5.2 was mainly released to fix a licensing problem with the included default font. Originally we included the "helmet bold" font included with openoffice. We have switched to the FSF's FreeMonoBold font, which is comparable. There are only minor enhancements, and no major bugfixes since the previous 1.5 version. Pygame is a set of python modules written to help create games in Python, using the SDL library. It allows for the creation of high quality games, yet simple enough for the beginning user to get started immediately.

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ANN: WeaselWeb 1.2
by ny_r_marquez＠yahoo.com 15 Aug '02

15 Aug '02

This may interest you if have a Palm Pilot, or if you are interested in custom parsing html files. Those of you with Palm Pilots may be familiar with Weasel reader (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gutenpalm/). I really like this reader because, besides being free software, it gives the best compression that I have seen, and it allows for bookmarks to be generated on the fly as it converts from txt format to its ztxt (pdb) format. The problem for me was that the converter did not know how to handle html files. So I wrote a little Python program to do this and I called it WeaselWeb. It is licensed as free software under the GPL. WeaselWeb will attempt to convert html files by preserving many of the characteristics of the original file, such as tables, bullets, and other formatting features. If you are interested, get it from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gutenpalm/ There is a nice self installing package for Windows. However, the Linux version will need a little help since I do not yet have a usable Linux machine. I would like to eventually create a standalone version for Linux as well. (If some one would like to help with this, please be my guest.) Any way, I hope you enjoy it. -Ruben

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ANN: Pyrex 0.4.1
by Greg Ewing 15 Aug '02

15 Aug '02

Pyrex 0.4.1 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ The main new feature is that you can now deal with C header files that define structs this way: typedef struct { ... } Foo; by using the new "ctypedef struct" statement. See the Language Overview for details: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/version/Doc/overview.ht… Plus various bug fixes. 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 http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg

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