Mailman 3 December 2003 - Python-announce-list

ANN: bkmChk
by Patrick Useldinger 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

1.1. What is bkmChk? ==================== bkmChk is a stand-alone Python program which checks URLs to detect dead links. After the control, it shows a list of all the URLs that were unreachable. In order to achieve resonable response times, the program uses threads to launch several queries in parallel. The number of threads is configurable. 1.2. Technical requirements =========================== bkmChk is written in Python and needs a Python interpreter, version 2.3 or above. Python is freely available from the Python web site (http://www.python.org). 1.3. Feedback ============= Please feel free to send your feedback to <pu (a) vo lu>. 1.4. License ============ All the programs included in this distribution are set into public domain, and may be used freely, with no warranty whatsoever. 1.5. Download ============= Get bkmChk at http://www.homepages.lu/pu/bkmChk.html -- http://www.homepages.lu/pu/

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cx_OracleDBATools 2.0
by Anthony Tuininga 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

What is it? cx_OracleDBATools is a set of Python scripts that handle Oracle DBA tasks in a cross platform manner. These scripts are intended to work the same way on all platforms and hide the complexities involved in managing Oracle databases, especially on Windows. Binaries are provided for those who do not have a Python installation. Where do I get it? http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining http://www.computronix.com/utilities.shtml utronix.com (it may be a few days before the second site is updated) What's new? 1) Added tool ExortControlFile to create a file containing the statements necessary for recreating a control file. This file is similar to the one created by the statement "alter database backup controlfile to trace" but it allows you to specify the file name and it also modifies the statements output such that recreating the controlfile is possible without any changes. 2) Added tool CloneDB to clone a database. This tool copies all of the files associated with the database and then creates a new control file and starts the cloned database. 3) Added tool BackupDB to perform a cold backup on a database. 4) Added tool RestoreDB to restore a database from a backup performed by the tool BackupDB. This tool can also be used to restore a database with a different SID and different paths so that a backup file can be restored on a different machine so long as the platform and Oracle version remain constant. 5) Added tool RemoveDB to remove a database completely from the machine. 6) Added option --all to StartDB and StopDB to start or stop all databases on the machine. 7) Added option --all-auto to StartDB to start all databases marked as automatic start (similar to the Oracle script dbstart on Unix). 8) Added ability to StartDB and StopDB to start or stop multiple databases at once. 9) Added option --shutdown-mode to StopDB to allow for issuing a shutdown abort, for example. 10) Added option --config-file-name on all tools to allow overriding the configuration file name and also give an indication of where the default configuration file is located. -- Anthony Tuininga anthony(a)computronix.com Computronix Distinctive Software. Real People. Suite 200, 10216 - 124 Street NW Edmonton, AB, Canada T5N 4A3 Phone: (780) 454-3700 Fax: (780) 454-3838 http://www.computronix.com

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ANN: HarvestMan 1.3
by pythonguy＠Hotpop.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

HarvestMan 1.3 release is available for download at http://harvestman.objectis.net . HarvestMan is a webcrawler, with highly customizable features written entirely in Python. It can be used to 'harvest' data from the internet. The new release adds a webpage filtering option by words based on my ASPN recipe at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/252526 . Freshmeat: http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/harvestman Mirror : http://harvestman.freezope.org Thanks -Anand Pillai

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Stackless site update
by Christian Tismer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi Stackless friends, There is a small update of the Stackless web site. The binaries are updated, the CVS address is corrected, and a few words about the Stackless Python Alliance to be founded are there. Also there is a link to the new Zope demo page on the new server. http://www.stackless.com/ thanks for you patience - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:tismer@tismer.com> Mission Impossible 5oftware : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9a : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 89 09 53 34 home +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/

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[Stackless] Stackless site update
by Christian Tismer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi Stackless friends, There is a small update of the Stackless web site. The binaries are updated, the CVS address is corrected, and a few words about the Stackless Python Alliance to be founded are there. Also there is a link to the new Zope demo page on the new server. http://www.stackless.com/ thanks for you patience - chris -- Christian Tismer :^) <mailto:tismer@tismer.com> Mission Impossible 5oftware : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg 9a : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14109 Berlin : PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/ work +49 30 89 09 53 34 home +49 30 802 86 56 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/ _______________________________________________ Stackless mailing list Stackless(a)www.tismer.com http://www.tismer.com/mailman/listinfo/stackless

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cx_Oracle 4.0
by Anthony Tuininga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

What is cx_Oracle? cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a few exceptions. Where do I get it? http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining http://www.computronix.com/utilities.shtml (it may be a few days before the second site is updated) What's new? 1) Added support for subclassing connections, cursors and session pools. The changes involved made it necessary to drop support for Python 2.1 and earlier although a branch exists in CVS to allow for support of Python 2.1 and earlier if needed. 2) Connections and session pools can now be created with keyword parameters, not just sequential parameters. 3) Queries now return integers whenever possible and long integers if the number will overflow a simple integer. Floats are only returned when it is known that the number is a floating point nubmer or the integer conversion fails. 4) Added initial support for user callbacks on OCI functions. See the documentation for more details. 5) Add support for retrieving the bind variable names associated with a cursor with a new method bindnames(). 6) Add support for temporary LOB variables. This means that setinputsizes() can be used with the values CLOB and BLOB to create these temporary LOB variables and allow for the equivalent of empty_clob() and empty_blob() since otherwise Oracle will treat empty strings as NULL values. 7) Automatically switch to long strings when the data size exceeds the maximum string size that Oracle allows (4000 characters) and raise an error if an attempt is made to set a string variable to a size that it does not support. This avoids truncation errors as reported by Jon Franz. 8) Add support for global (distributed) transactions and two phase commit. 9) Force the NLS settings for the session so that test tables are populated correctly in all circumstances; problems were noted by Ralf Braun and Allan Poulsen. 10) Display error messages using the environment handle when the error handle has not yet been created; this provides better error messages during this rather rare situation. 11) Removed memory leak in callproc() that was reported by Todd Whiteman. 12) Make consistent the calls to manipulate memory; otherwise segfaults can occur when the pymalloc option is used, as reported by Matt Hoskins. 13) Force a rollback when a session is released back to the session pool. Apparently the connections are not as stateless as Oracle's documentation suggests and this makes the logic consistent with normal connections. 14) Removed module method attach(). This can be replaced with a call to Connection(handle=) if needed. -- Anthony Tuininga anthony(a)computronix.com Computronix Distinctive Software. Real People. Suite 200, 10216 - 124 Street NW Edmonton, AB, Canada T5N 4A3 Phone: (780) 454-3700 Fax: (780) 454-3838 http://www.computronix.com

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ANN: AsciiDoc 5.0.2 released
by Stuart Rackham 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

AsciiDoc -------- AsciiDoc is an uncomplicated text document format for writing short documents, articles, books and UNIX man pages. Version 5 adds support for the generation of single and multi-part DocBook books (including index, glossary, footnote, preface and appendix elements). AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML: (with or without stylesheets); DocBook (articles, books and refentry documents); and LinuxDoc using the asciidoc(1) command. AsciiDoc has also used to build and maintain websites. AsciiDoc is highly configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file syntax and the backend output markups (which can be almost any type of SGML/XML markup) can be customized and extended by user. Requisites ---------- Python 1.5.2 or higher. Obtaining AsciiDoc ------------------ The latest AsciiDoc version, examples and online documentation can be found at the AsciiDoc website http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ AsciiDoc is also hosted at the SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/ Best regards, --- Stuart Rackham <srackham(a)methods.co.nz>

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ANN: ClientCookie 0.4.11 released
by jjl＠pobox.com 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/ Stable bugfix release, but with an interface change for anybody not using the urllib2-workalike callables (ie. most people need not worry). Changes since 0.4.10: * Fixed a security bug. Previously, cookies could end up being sent to a server when they shouldn't (this happened only when a redirect occurred from a server to which cookies were returned, to a server which should have no cookies returned: in that case, the cookie header got left unchanged after the redirection). * People using the urllib2-workalike callables need not worry about the following interface change (RequestUpgradeProcessor hides it): Request is now documented to require .add_unredirected_header(), .has_header(), .get_header() and .iter_headers() methods. However, this will break code for people not using urllib2 (if so, you can probably just switch to using ClientCookie.Request, and use the new methods if you were poking about with Request.headers before). I had to change this because it's needed for the security fix above. * Bugfix: Don't clobber Cookie or Cookie2 headers if they're already present in the request. * Fixed bug in CookieJar.clear(): didn't work with three arguments. Requires Python >= 1.5.2. ClientCookie is a Python module for handling HTTP cookies on the client side, useful for accessing web sites that require cookies to be set and then returned later. It also provides some other (optional) useful stuff: HTTP-EQUIV and Refresh handling, automatic adding of the Referer [sic] header and lazily-seek()able responses. These extras are implemented using an extension that makes it easier to add new functionality to urllib2. It has developed from a port of Gisle Aas' Perl module HTTP::Cookies, from the libwww-perl library. Simple usage: import ClientCookie response = ClientCookie.urlopen("http://www.example.com/") This function behaves identically to urllib2.urlopen, except that it deals with cookies automatically. That's probably all you need to know. John

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SC-Track Roundup 0.6.4 - an issue tracking system
by Richard Jones 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

================================================= SC-Track Roundup 0.6.4 - an issue tracking system ================================================= I'm pleased to announce this maintenance release of Roundup which fixes some bugs: - fixed date arithmetic to not allow day-of-month == 0 (sf bug 853306) - fixed date arithmetic to limit hours-per-day to 24, not 60 - fixed activity displaying as future because of Date arithmetic fix in 0.6.3 (sf bug 842027). - hard-coded python2.3-ism (socket.timeout) fixed - fix Windows service mode for roundup-server (sf bug 819890) - fixed #white in cgitb (thanks Henrik Levkowetz) If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.1.3 or later for correct operation. Python 2.3.1 or later is strongly recommended. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: python demo.py 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 2.1+ 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 (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and six database back-ends (anydbm, bsddb, bsddb3, sqlite, metakit and mysql).

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PyCon DC 2004 - Submissions Now Open
by pycon-organizers＠python.org 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

Dear Python User: I am pleased to be able to announce that the submission process for PyCon DC 2004 is now open. Please direct your browser to http://submit.pycon.org/ and create your account by entering your email address and leaving the password field blank - a password will be sent to you by email, and you can submit your paper! Please remember that your submissions should ideally be in a single file, containing HTML or the reStructured Text format. Ultimately we would like to publish all accepted papers on the web, and these rules should make it easier to do so. Send enquiries about other formats to pycon-organizers(a)python.org If your paper is accepted and you prepare an electronic presentation (in PDF, PythonPoint or PowerPoint) we will also happily publish that on the web site when PyCon is over. We are interested in any and all submissions about uses of Python and the development of the language. Since there is expected to be a strong educational community presence for the next PyCon, teaching materials of various kinds are also encouraged. Please help us to make the next PyCon even better than the first one. See you in March! Sincerely Steve Holden Chairman PyCon DC 2004

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