PyScilab. Scilab into Python.
Release 0.0.1: Acid apple.
This is an inmature release oriented to programmers who could help to
the development of the package.
The code is functional but there are some topics missing.
The source code is aviable at:
http://pdilib.sf.net
If you don't know what is python nor scilab
http://www.scilab.org, the best free matrix computation package aviable.
http://www.python.org, the best free general use scripting language aviable.
README ---------------------------------------------------------------
PyScilab. Rodrigo Benenson. 2003. under GPL.
Release 0.0.1: THIS AN HACKER RELEASE, NOT RECOMENDED FOR END USERS
The main objective are:
- allow to python devellopers to use a true matrix processing system.
- allow the scilab users to use they function in other contexts.
- to have a true pythonic interface.
The expected methods are:
- init and destroy scilab sessions
- create matrix, vectors, lists, (sciobjects in general)
- automaticaly detect the aviable functions
- offer a pythonic interface to call all of this functions
- allow operators between sci objects
- allow plotting
The aviables methods are:
- init an scilab session
- create matrix, vectors, numbers
- allow pythonic scilab code calls
- allow pythonic scilab data retreival
Example session (real example, with release 0.1):
scilab = ScilabSession(SCI= os.getcwd() + '/scilab-2.7/', STAR =
os.getcwd() + '/scilab.star', )
print 'setting a, and b'
a = [[1,2],[3,4]]
b = [[5,6],[7,8]]
scilab['a'] = a
scilab['b'] = b
print 'a:', scilab.get('a')
print 'b:', scilab.get('b')
print
print 'calling "c= a + b"'
scilab.call('c= a + b')
print 'Obtaining the result'
print 'c : ', scilab['c']
print
print 'calling "c= a * b"'
scilab.call('c= a * b', a= [5,3], b= 2)
print 'c : ', scilab['c']
print
print 'calling "e= svd(a), a = [1,2;3,4]"'
scilab.call('e= svd(a)', a= a)
print 'Obtaining the result'
print 'e:', scilab['e']
print
returns
[rodrigob@localhost pyscilab]$ python2.2 ./pyscilab.py
PyScilab test.
==========
scilab-2.7
Copyright (C) 1989-2003 INRIA/ENPC
==========
Starting with exec("/home/rodrigob/projets/pyscilab/scilab.star",-1);quit;
Startup execution:
loading initial environment
setting a, and b
a: [[ 1. 2.]
[ 3. 4.]]
b: [[ 5. 6.]
[ 7. 8.]]
calling "c= a + b"
Obtaining the result
c : [[ 6. 8.]
[ 10. 12.]]
calling "c= a * b"
c : [[ 10.]
[ 6.]]
calling "e= svd(a), a = [1,2;3,4]"
Obtaining the result
e: [[ 5.4649857 ]
[ 0.36596619]]
Know bugs:
- Any window invoking function should crash the python (please fix it!)
- The instalation is tricky and will probably fail
- If the objects are not matrix, vectors or numbers, everything crash
Feedback:
This realease is an acid green apple. Please, help us, report a
succesfull compilation, report an unsuccesfull compilation,
hack the setup.py to be more flexible, hack the code to allow plotting,
report a successfull usage or just say hello.
Please fell free to mail any feedback at
rodrigob at elo dot utfsm dot cl
Other notes:
The development is made using Leo, the outline editor.
http://leo.sf.net
Look at the pyscilab.leo file for more info.
Hi everyone,
Just to announce a new release of the SalStat Statistics Package, the
cross-platform, Python/wxPython powered application for scientific
statistical analysis (version 20030513).
There is a self-installing Windows binary for people who don't have
Python (so why am I telling this to this list then???), and for
everyone else, the source code is available.
Website is: http://salstat.sunsite.dk
Source code: http://salstat.sunsite.dk/salstat.20030513.zip
Binary for Win32: http://salstat.sunsite.dk/salstat.20030513.setup.exe
Download page: http://salstat.sunsite.dk/download.html
I have also been tabled to talk about SalStat at EuroPython - I'm not
exactly sure what shape the talk will be in, but I'm working on it.
Hope to meet a lot of you people there!
Have fun and be good!
Alan.
Hi everyone,
The Sydney Python Interest Group is on this Monday.
Alan Green will talk about "Python Web Services using the Zolera SOAP
Infrastructure". He will begin with a quick introduction to Web
Services. and then move onto implementing both "quick and dirty" and
"proper" web services.
Date: Monday May 19th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Broadway campus,
building 10, room 2.440 (computer lab, on the entrance level).
-Mary
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Sydney Python Interest Group meetins are announced on:
* comp.lang.python.announce and python-announce-list(a)python.org[0]
* the Australasian Python users list[1]
* The Sydney Linux User's Group announce list[2]
[0] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list
[1] http://starship.python.net/mailman/listinfo/python-au
[2] http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/announce/
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The Sydney Python Interest Group is, while not restricted to Python on
Linux, a Special Interest Group of the Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG),
and would like to thank SLUG for its support.
See the PIG webpage: http://pig.slug.org.au/ for previous talks.
Hi.
I'm pleased to announce that a mailing list for PythonCAD is now active.
Visit the following page for information about subscribing to the list:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad
My thanks to Barry Warsaw for setting up the list on the Python home.
Art Haas
--
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we
are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic
and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, Kansas City Star, 1918
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* Cross-platform Connection Objects: The Zope DA will automatically
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* Per Connection Adjustable ODBC Interface: mxODBC comes with many
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to select these subpackages on a per-connection basis.
* Per Connection Error Handling: you can tell each connection whether
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* Transaction safe automatic reconnect: when the DA finds that a
connection has timed out, it automatically tries a reconnect
and replays the transaction on the connection (unlike other DAs
which break the transaction scheme by doing a reconnect without
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* Built-in Schema Cache: this results in improved performance under
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* Database Schema Access: all ODBC catalog methods are made available
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building generic database interrogation or manipulation tools and
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* Lazy Connect: the mxODBC Zope DA only connects to the database
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the natively used mxDateTime values instead of converting them
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EuroPython 2003, Charleroi, Belgium: 41 days left
Announcing Matplotlib 0.2
matplotlib is a pure python plotting library designed to bring
publication quality plotting to python with a syntax familiar to
matlab users. Although the goal of publication quality is not yet
attained, the library does produce high quality 2D plots. All of the
plotting commands can be accessed either via a functional interface
familiar to matlab users or an object oriented interface familiar to
python users.
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net
matplotlib requires python2.2, Numeric-22+ and pygtk-1.99.16, and
should run anywhere those packages are available. It has been
tested under linux and win32.
The following matlab compatible plotting commands are provided:
axes, axis, bar, close, errorbar, figure, gca, gcf, get, hist,
plot, scatter, set, subplot, text, title, xlabel, ylabel
What's new in 0.2
Font handling - Major improvements in font and text
handling. matplotlib 0.1 drew all text in the same,
non-configurable font. In 0.2, font name, size, weight, and
angle, color, rotation, and more are easily configurable. See
the text tutorial on the website
Multiple figures -- Multiple figures supported with the figure
command. See the Working with multiple figures and axes in the
tutorial
Interactive shell -- Interactive use from the python shell if you
have pygtk compiled with threads. See Using matplotlib
interactively.
Saving figures- Ability to save figures in arbitrary resolution PNG
or TIFF with a bug fix that caused saved figures to be corrupted
by anything blocking the figure window. A GUI widget has been
added to the figure toolbar to save figures and a new comand
savefig has been added.
Navigation - A new and hopefully improved navigation toolbar has
been added that doesn't require a wheel mouse, but still works
with one. See the Navigation tutorial.
More examples and screenshots - New examples and screenshot
illustrating the new text functionality, the new plot types, and
new commands. See the examples subdirectory in the src
distribution.
Patches - A Patch class added for drawing patches (rectangles,
polygons, circles). This supports three new plotting commands
scatter, hist and bar, with more to come.
New commands - New plotting commands bar, close, errorbar, figure,
hist, text, scatter, savefig, ylabel.
Matplotlib on sourceforge - matplotlib homepage moved to sourceforge
with a (hopefully) more useful homepage.
Documentation - Much better documentation and a tutorial.
Refactoring - Substantial rewrite of class library. All text now
handled by the AxisText class in text.py. Axis handling refactored
into a dedicated class Axis defined in figure.py.
SkunkWeb 3.4b3 has been released.
What It Is
----------
SkunkWeb is a configurable, extensible, scalable and robust
high-performance multi-process Python web application server with a
powerful templating system that encourages component based design. It
is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HPUX 11, MacOS X, and
Cygwin.
SkunkWeb includes services to provide, among other things, url
rewriting, database connection caching, product distribution, remote
component calls, usertracking, authorization, and persistent cgi. It
can be used with its builtin standalone web server, with apache using
the mod_skunkweb module, or with apache or another web server using a
scgi, fastcgi, or cgi connector.
SkunkWeb was created by Drew Csillag, and is maintained by him and
me (Jacob Smullyan).
What Is New
-----------
This release features many performance and feature enhancements,
including:
* Configuration variable lookups are now *much* faster.
* swpython (a Python interpreter which loads the SkunkWeb environment)
can now be used in shebangs for shell scripts.
* now works on HPUX 11.
* many enhancements to the standalone web server (httpd service),
including support for byte-range requests, Etag headers and gzip
compression.
* works with Python 2.3.
Resources
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Latest release: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/skunkweb/skunkweb-3.4b3.tar.gz
Home page: http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net/
Sourceforge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/skunkweb/
Online documentation: http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net/docs.html
Mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=32756
Two recent articles about SkunkWeb (by JS): http://opensourcedigest.com/
Cheers,
Jacob Smullyan
The Element type is a simple but flexible container object, designed to
store hierarchical data structures, such as simplified XML infosets, in
memory.
The ElementTree toolkit contains an Element implementation in Python,
and code to read XML and HTML files into trees of Element objects, and
write them out as XML.
You can get the ElementTree toolkit from:
http://effbot.org/downloads#elementtree
Changes in 1.1 include XML literal factory, a self-contained ElementTree
module, use ASCII as default encoding, various minor speed and memory
optimizations, etc. See the README file for details:
http://effbot.org/downloads/index.cgi/elementtree-1.1-20030511.zip/README
Brief documentation and some code samples (including an XML-RPC
unmarshaller in 16 lines) are available from:
http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm
For more background, see Uche Ogbuji's xml.com article:
"Simple XML Processing With elementtree"
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/12/py-xml.html
enjoy /F
BayPIGgies: Silicon Valley - San Francisco Bay Area Python Users's Group
When: May 14 @ 7:30pm
Where: Carnegie Institute of Washington at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Agenda: Compedium of talks from PyCon 2003
Speaker: Wesley Chun
We will give a high-level overview of some of the talks which were
given at the PyCon 2003 Python Community Conference which happened
at the end of March in Washington, DC.
For more information and directions, see:
http://www.baypiggies.net/
leo.py 3.11.1 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/
This version fixes two bugs found in the recent 3.11 version:
- Leo had startup problems on some Linux systems.
- Creating clones by control dragging did not always work.
This bug has existed in Leo for a long time.
What is Leo?
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- 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.
leo.py requires Python 2.1 or above and tcl/tk 8.3 or above.
leo.py works on Linux, Windows and MacOs X Jaguar.
Links:
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Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/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
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