Mailman 3 September 2002 - Python-announce-list

Flightdeck-UI -- a Cockpit for your Desktop (initial release)
by fdui＠openlight.com 25 Sep '02

25 Sep '02

The goal of the Flightdeck-UI project is to apply ideas from aircraft instrumentation design to general purpose user interfaces. The project homepage is at "http://www.openlight.com/fdui/". Flightdeck-UI is open source. It is written in Python and requires Tkinter. A whitepaper and the initial code release are available at the project website. The library modules in the current release include two virtual instruments (altimeter-style and VSI-style gauges) and a demonstration program. The demonstration program ("cmdwatch.py") will monitor the output of a Unix command of your choice (you also enter a regex filter and a numerical expression, so that the final result is a number), displaying the quantity and rate of change using two gauges on the screen. A "SHRINK" button puts up a small window with two scaled-down gauges, and hides everything else -- so you can keep it running in a corner of your screen. As a quick experiment, you can run several instances of "cmdwatch.py" to monitor multiple variables. A more comprehensive application -- the Multi-Variable Monitor "mvm.py" is being planned. Some good places to use Flightdeck-UI are operations centers that perform monitoring (typically 24x7), as well as tools for System Administrators who need to keep an eye on multiple machines while concentrating on other work. Questions can be emailed to originating address of this message. Have fun! George

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ANN: eGenix.com mx EXPERIMENTAL Package 0.7.0
by M.-A. Lemburg 25 Sep '02

25 Sep '02

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING: eGenix.com mx EXPERIMENTAL Extension Package for Python Version 0.7.0 Experimental Python extensions providing important and useful services for Python programmers. ________________________________________________________________________ WHAT IS IT ?: The eGenix.com mx Experimental Extensions for Python are a collection of alpha and beta quality software tools for Python which will be integrated into the other mx Extension Packages after they have matured to professional quality tools. Python is an object-oriented Open Source programming language which runs on all modern platforms (http://www.python.org/). By integrating ease-of-use, clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid application design, Python establishes an ideal programming platform for todays IT challenges. ________________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S NEW ? This release fixes a few minor bugs and solves the distutils problem with mxNumber. It also comes with an updated distutils setup which installs the RPMs into /usr/ rather than /usr/local/. ________________________________________________________________________ EGENIX.COM MX EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE OVERVIEW: mxNumber - Python Interface to GNU MP Number Types mxNumber provides direct access to the high performance numeric types available in the GNU Multi-Precision Lib (GMP). This library is licensed under the LGPL and runs on practically all Unix platforms. eGenix.com has ported the GMP lib to Windows, to also provide our Windows users with the added benefit of being able to do arbitrary precision calculations. The package currently provide these numerical types: 1. Integer(value) -- arbitrary precision integers much like Python longs only faster 2. Rational(nom,denom) -- rational numbers with Integers as numerator and denominator 3. Float(value[,prec]) -- floating point number with at least prec bits precision 4. FareyRational(value, maxden) -- calculate the best rational represenation n/d of value such that d < maxden mxTidy - Interface to HTML Tidy (HTML/XML cleanup tool) mxTidy provides a Python interface to a thread-safe, library version of the HTML Tidy. command line tool. HTML Tidy helps you to cleanup coding errors in HTML and XML files and produce well-formed HTML, XHTML or XML as output. This allows you to preprocess web-page for inclusion in XML repositories, prepare broken XML files for validation and also makes it possible to write converters from well-known word processing applications such as MS Word to other structured data representations by using XML as intermediate format. mxURL - A URL Datatype mxURL provides a new datatype for storing and manipulating URL values as well as a few helpers related to URL building, encoding and decoding. The main intention of the package is to provide an easy to use, fast and lightwheight datatype for Universal Resource Locators (note the W3C now calls these URIs). mxUID - A UID Datatype mxUID provides a fast mechanism for generating universal identification strings (UIDs). The intent is to make these UIDs unique with high probability in order to serve as object or data set identifiers. A typical use lies in generating session IDs. Other areas where unique IDs play an important role are RPC-implementations, ORBs, etc. ________________________________________________________________________ WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD IT ? The download archives and instructions for installing the packages can be found at: http://www.egenix.com/ Note that in order to use the eGenix.com mx EXPERIMENTAL package you will first need to install the eGenix.com mx BASE package which can be downloaded from the same location. ________________________________________________________________________ WHAT DOES IT COST ? The EXPERIMENTAL packages uses different licenses in its subpackages. Please refer to the subpackage documentation for details. Some of them may be integrated into the BASE package, others will be integrated into the COMMERCIAL package. The package comes with full source code ________________________________________________________________________ WHERE CAN I GET SUPPORT ? Commercial quality support for these packages is available from eGenix.com. Please see http://www.egenix.com/files/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions.html#Support for details about our support offerings. ________________________________________________________________________ Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.lemburg.com/python/

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ANN: Python FAM
by Robert Sander 25 Sep '02

25 Sep '02

Hi! I would like to announce release 1.0.1 of Python FAM. http://python-fam.sourceforge.net/ Python FAM is a port (or wrapper module) of libfam from the File Alteration Monitor project at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/. The included test.py does everything test.c++ (the original example) does, so I am quite confident that it works. ;-) This is my first adventure in the large world of extending Python with C modules. Therefore feedback is very appreciated. Greetings -- Robert Sander Manager Information Systems www.epigenomics.com Kastanienallee 24 +493024345330 10435 Berlin

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ANN: Python CVS RDF news feeds
by Dinu Gherman 25 Sep '02

25 Sep '02

I'm making available RDF news files with pointers to the latest changes in the Python (and ReportLab) CVS repositories (using ViewCVS on SourceForge): http://me.in-berlin.de/~darwin/cvspysf.rdf (Python, 48 h) http://me.in-berlin.de/~darwin/cvsrlsf.rdf (ReportLab, 72 h) There is also one such file for Stackless Python, but given that there is no ViewCVS for it (yet), the links point some- where into Nirwana: http://me.in-berlin.de/~darwin/cvsstpy.rdf (Stackless, 72 h) All are updated each hour. You can point any GUI tools like SlashDock* (on OS X) to them and save time by forgetting about typing the respective URLs or CVS commands for quickly tracking changes. BTW, another interesting news file is ActiveState's one, which will let you keep an eye on the newest Python recipes in their cookbook website: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/index_rss Regards, Dinu * http://homepage.mac.com/stas/slashdock.html

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Wing IDE 1.1.6 adds much improved Zope support
by Wing IDE Announce 25 Sep '02

25 Sep '02

Hi, Wing IDE version 1.1.6 is now available. Wing IDE is a commercial software development environment for the Python programming language, featuring a powerful source editor, source code browser, networked graphical debugger with interactive debug shell, and project manager. Highlights of this release include: * Much easier to use support for debugging Python code running under Zope 2.4.0 and later. Just drop the WingDBG Zope product into your Zope installation to configure and control Zope debugging from the Zope Management Interface. * Improved and simplified build system for compiling the product sources (which now build also on Solaris and FreeBSD) * Fixed several annoying bugs in source scrolling behaviors during debugging and source browsing * Properly set and propagate PYTHONHOME and other PYTHON* environment variables * Better handling of errors typed in interactive shell and debug probe * Added recent buffer toggle command * Added key pad arrow key support * Several other bug fixes and minor feature enhancements Wing runs on Windows 98 through XP and Intel Linux (2.x kernel, libc6). Mac OS X support is available in beta form (requires XDarwin). Solaris and FreeBSD are now also supported for customers willing to compile the product from source code (requires non-disclosure agreement). Wing IDE is available in both a full-featured Standard edition ($179) and a Lite edition ($35). Wing IDE Lite omits some of the features listed above and is for non-commercial use only. Complete change log: ftp://wingide.com/pub/wingide/1.1.6/CHANGELOG.txt Product info: http://wingide.com/wingide Obtain a demo: http://wingide.com/wingide/demo Download an update: http://wingide.com/downloads Purchase: http://wingide.com/order Enjoy! Sincerely, The Wing IDE Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wing IDE for Python Archaeopteryx Software, Inc www.wingide.com Take Flight!

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[ANN] Latest Puffin Article on IBM's developerWorks
by A. Keyton Weissinger 25 Sep '02

25 Sep '02

IBM has just published the latest article on the Puffin Automation Framework. Check it out: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks This article introduces the new architecture and the future of the system. What is the Puffin Automation Framework? As it's name implies, Puffin allows you to automate "actions." An action, in terms of Puffin, is any "high level" execution item that may require inputs, may produce outputs, and whose results may be validated for success or failure. For example, an action may involve making an HTTP request to a dynamic web page. It may involve grabbing a file's contents or even retrieving a specific email based on a keyword in the subject line. All of these are actions in the sense that they can be automated by Puffin. Puffin will manage all inputs, outputs, and validation for these actions. Puffin Web Page: http://www.puffinhome.org Keyton Weissinger keyton(a)puffinhome.org

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ANN: PyANT version 0.26 released
by erellon＠narod.ru 24 Sep '02

24 Sep '02

Project description: PyANT is a build tool with ANT-like makefiles with XML syntax. It based on Jakarta ANT logic and should help you to automate building and testing process for your Python programs (but not only Python programs) Visit http://jakarta.apache.org/ant to know more about ANT and visit http://pyant.sf.net to know more about PyANT Platforms tested: ActiveState Python v2.2 on Win2000 Linux RedHat v7.2 with Python 2.1 FreeBSD v4.6 with Python 2.1 Note: Some tasks like InnoCompile works only on Win32 platform Last changelog: 10.09.2002 Ivan V. Begtin (PyANT v0.26_debug) - added bin/pyantgui.py which require wxPython v2.3, still have bugs but should work. Comments appreciated - Project site reborned here http://pyant.sf.net, summary is here http://www.sf.net/projects/pyant - Some bugs fixed - <If> task added 03.09.2002 Ivan V. Begtin (PyANT v0.25_debug_internal) - Some tasks fixed: Copy, Mail and few others - Added more InnoSetup sections and tasks: InnoUnDeleteTask, InnoUnDeleteSection, InnoTasksSection, InnoAddTask (TODO: Need to implement [Run] section as soon as possible) - fixed setup.py script now It takes version number directly from module "pyant" - added sample custom task in opttask Best regards, Ivan V. Begtin aka Erellon (erellon%narod.ru)

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ANN: python-ldap-2.0.0pre06
by Michael Ströder 24 Sep '02

24 Sep '02

HI! Find a new pre-release of python-ldap: http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/ python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs and LDAPv3 schema). Download link: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/python-ldap/python-ldap-2.0.0pre06.tar.g… Changes since 2.0.0pre05: - Fine-grained locking when linking against libldap_r - New wrapper class ldap.ReconnectLDAPObject - Security fix to module ldapurl - Other fixes and improvements to whole package - LDAPv3 schema support (still somewhat premature and undocumented) Ciao, Michael.

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CAMFR 1.0 released
by Peter Bienstman 24 Sep '02

24 Sep '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We've released CAMFR 1.0, a fast, flexible, friendly full-vectorial Maxwell solver. It is written in C++, but uses Python as its interface. Although it can tackle general electromagnetic problems, its main focus is on CAD applications in the field of photonics, like lasers or nanophotonic devices. For more details and downloads, see http://camfr.sourceforge.net. CAMFR is released under the GPL. Peter Bienstman Gent University - Belgium Peter.Bienstman(a)rug.ac.be -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9kDX54dgPAIjyquoRAlArAKD++QCE7SZfSmz4Pti1Th7dU2b98QCgqcKW zd4xTfUnml2cPL1lrRN6o4s= =/a0o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ANN: omniORB 4.0.0 and omniORBpy 2.0
by Duncan Grisby 24 Sep '02

24 Sep '02

I am pleased to announce the release of omniORB 4.0.0 and omniORBpy 2.0. omniORB is a robust, high performance CORBA ORB for C++. omniORBpy is a version for Python. They are freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (for the libraries), and GNU General Public License (for the tools). For more information, see http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/ Highlights of the new features since omniORB 3.0 and omniORBpy 1: - Updated to CORBA 2.6. - Support for GIOP 1.1 and 1.2. - Wide string and codeset negotiation. - Unix domain and SSL transports. - Bidirectional GIOP. - Flexible thread pool mode. - PortableServer::Current. - Interceptors. - Fixed point. - Complete freeing of all heap allocations. - Efficient in-process calls between C++ and Python. - Python / C++ object reference translation API. - New comprehensive configuration mechanism. - Commercial support. See http://www.omniorb-support.com/ Release notes are available from http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=112373 and http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=112375 You can download the releases themselves via the release notes pages, or from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51138 Enjoy! Duncan. -- -- Duncan Grisby -- -- duncan(a)grisby.org -- -- http://www.grisby.org --

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