Mailman 3 February 2003 - Python-announce-list

RELEASE: ClientCookie 0.3.1b
by John J Lee 17 Feb '03

17 Feb '03

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/ Changes since 0.3.0b: * Fixed many bugs, some important. Requires Python >= 1.5.2. urllib2 is recommended. 1.5.2-compatible urllib2 / urllib is at http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ 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 handling, zero-time Refresh handling, and lazily-seekable responses. It has developed from a port of Gisle Aas' Perl module HTTP::Cookies, from the libwww-perl library. import ClientCookie response = ClientCookie.urlopen("http://foo.bar.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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ANN: Twisted 1.0.3, the framework of your internet
by Itamar Shtull-Trauring 16 Feb '03

16 Feb '03

Twisted is an event-driven networking framework for server and client applications. More detailed information can be found after the "What's New" section. For more information, visit http://www.twistedmatrix.com, join the list http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python or visit us on #twisted at irc.freenode.net. What's New in 1.0.3 =================== - Refactored Lore documentation generator - Improvements to the instant messaging package - Generic listener and connector support in the reactor - PyUI event loop integration - Many bug fixes, documentation improvements, and small feature enhancements What is Twisted? ================ Twisted is an event-driven framework for building networked clients and servers. It contains a powerful and simple networking core, a full-featured suite of interoperable protocols, among them a powerful web server and applications framework. Twisted supports many event loops for both server apps and GUI integration on the client side, including: - Win32 events, including GUI support - GTK+ - GTK+ 2 - Qt - wxPython - Tkinter - Java Twisted can run protocols over TCP, SSL, UDP, multicast, Unix sockets and subprocesses. It also includes scheduling support, threading integration, RDBMS event loop integration and other basic requirements for networked applications. Also included are implementations of many protocols. In some cases this includes complete frameworks providing facilities on top of the base protocol: - SSH - FTP - HTTP, including a complete web framework - XML-RPC - SOAP server framework - NNTP and complete NNTP server framework - SOCKSv4 (server only) - SMTP - IRC - telnet - POP3 - AOL's instant messaging TOC - OSCAR, used by AOL-IM as well as ICQ (client only) - DNS - MouseMan serial mice, and GPS devices - Twisted Perspective Broker, a remote object protocol

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[Module] initgroups/0.1
by Paul Swartz 16 Feb '03

16 Feb '03

initgroups/0.1 -------------- A module to allow access to the initgroups function, This is a module to allow access to the initgroups function, which sets up the groups for a user. This help Python software implement programs like shells. Download: http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/z3p/initgroups-0.1.tar.gz License: LGPL Platform: *nix Categories: O/S Support Paul Swartz (z3p at twistedmatrix dot com) http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/z3p.twistd/ -- <a href="http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/z3p/initgroups-0.1.tar.gz">initgroups/0.1</a> -- A module to allow access to the initgroups function,

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[Module] PyShadow/0.1
by Paul Swartz 16 Feb '03

16 Feb '03

PyShadow/0.1 ------------ Module to access the shadow password f ile This is a module to allow access to the shadow password file. It also includes md5_crypt, which implemtns the md5_crypt function used to encrypt passwords in the shadow password file. Download: http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/z3p/pyshadow-0.1.tar.gz License: LGPL Platform: *nix Categories: O/S Support Paul Swartz (z3p at twistedmatrix dot com) http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/z3p.twistd/ -- <a href="http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/z3p/pyshadow-0.1.tar.gz">PyShadow/0.1</a> -- Module to access the shadow password f ile

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Python: Scripting Power for Java: Talks Slides Online
by gerald＠vamphq.com 16 Feb '03

16 Feb '03

My slides (40+) for last week's JUG Austria Python talk entitled "Python: Scripting Power for Java: Do More With Less (Lines of Code)" are now online in an all-in-one HTML page (aka papyrus edition) at http://luxor-xul.sourceforge.net/talk/jug-feb-2003/slides.html Here's the talk's agenda: * Why Python? One Language Can't Do It All * Python Panorama - Servus Austria * Python History - Guido Who? * Python Goodies Missing in Java * Python In A Rice Corn * Alternative Scripting Languages in 100 % Java * Jelly: Something Completly Different * Python Books and Links Enjoy. - Gerald

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[Module] Pyxasw 0.1
by Les Smithson 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

Pyxasw 0.1 ---------- A Python extension that interfaces to the XA distributed transaction processing standard. Pyxasw interfaces between a Transaction Manager and a Resource Manager, using the XA standard interface. It allows an embedded Python script to participate in Distributed Transactions and two phase commit of databases and other resources. URL: http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/pyxasw Download: http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/pyxasw License: Open Source Platform: linux Binaries: redhat 7.3 Categories: Remote and Distributed Les Smithson (lsmithso(a)hare.demon.co.uk) http://www.hare.demon.co.uk -- <a href="http://www.hare.demon.co.uk/pyxasw">Pyxasw 0.1</a> -- A Python extension that interfaces to the XA distributed transaction processing standard.

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pyrad 0.5 - native python RADIUS implementation
by Wichert Akkerman 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

pyrad is an implementation of a RADIUS client and server as described in RFC2865, 2866, and others. It takes care of all the details like building RADIUS packets, sending and receiving them, and en-/decoding responses. (RADIUS is a common protocol used for authentication, authorisation and accounting for remote access (and similar) services). This release features more work related to handling of accounting packets and introduces a new modules which allows one to use pyrad within twisted. Changes since previous release ------------------------------ * Fix typo in server class which broke handling of accounting packets * Create seperate AuthPacket and AcctPacket classes; this resulted in a fair number of API changes * Packets now know how to create and verify replies * Client now directs authentication and accounting packets to the correct port on the server * Add twisted support via the new curved module * Fix incorrect exception handling in client code * Update example server to handle accounting packets * Add example for sending account packets Example ------- Here is an example of a client doing authentication request: import pyrad.packet from pyrad.client import Client from pyrad.dictionary import Dictionary srv=Client(server="radius.my.domain", secret="s3cr3t", dict=Dictionary("dicts/dictionary", "dictionary.acc")) req=srv.CreateAuthPacket(code=pyrad.packet.AccessRequest, User_Name="wichert", NAS_Identifier="localhost") req["User-Password"]=req.PwCrypt("password") reply=srv.SendPacket(req) if reply.code==pyrad.packet.AccessAccept: print "access accepted" else: print "access denied" print "Attributes returned by server:" for i in reply.keys(): print "%s: %s" % (i, reply[i]) And an example for a trivial RADIUS server: from pyrad import dictionary, packet, server class FakeServer(server.Server): def _HandleAuthPacket(self, fd, pkt): server.Server._HandleAuthPacket(self, fd, pkt) reply=self.CreateReplyPacket(pkt) reply.code=packet.AccessAccept self.SendReplyPacket(fd, reply) srv=FakeServer(dict=dictionary.Dictionary("dictionary")) srv.hosts["127.0.0.1"]=server.RemoteHost("127.0.0.1", "s3cr3t", "localhost") srv.BindToAddress("") srv.Run() Requirements ------------ pyrad requires Python 2.0 or later. Author, copyright, availability ------------------------------- pyrad was written by Wichert Akkerman <wichert(a)deephackmode.org> The current version and documentation can be found at its homepage: http://www.wiggy.net/code/pyrad.xhtml Copyright 2002,2003 Wichert Akkerman. All rights reserved. pyrad is distributed under the BSD license. Please see the source archive for the full license text. -- Wichert Akkerman <wichert(a)wiggy.net> http://www.wiggy.net/ A random hacker

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Toronto-area Python/Zope user group will meet Tues. Feb. 18
by Peter Hansen 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

We're pleased to announce that the next meeting of PyGTA, the Toronto-area Python and Zope user group, will be on Tuesday February 18. It will be held at the 519 Church St. Community Centre, near Wellesley, from 8 to 10 p.m. This is the same building as last time but this time we'll be in the auditorium. Please visit http://web.engcorp.com/pygta/wiki/NextMeeting for other details of the meeting. As usual we're extending an invitation to you to come and present for 5-10 minutes on your own Python activity if you believe it will be of interest to others... just let us know ahead of time so we can leave time for it. If you don't get this message through email, you must not be on our announcement mailing list. Please visit the wiki to learn how to subscribe to it or to the general discussion list. -Ian Garmaise and Peter Hansen, PyGTA organizers

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Article: Simple XML Processing With elementtree
by Uche Ogbuji 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/12/py-xml.html "Uche Ogbuji introduces elementtree, a pythonic way of processing XML." <http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/12/py-xml.html> -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com The open office file format - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think15/ 4Suite Repository Features - https://www6.software.ibm.com/reg/devworks/dw-x4suite5-i/ XML class warfare - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=6965 See you at XML Web Services One - http://www.xmlconference.com/santaclara/

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PyWiew 1.0
by abpillai＠lycos.com 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

PyWiew, imageviewer using python/wxPython and incorporating PIL, version 1.0 released. URL---> http://members.fortunecity.com/anandpillai Thanks, Anand Pillai

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