Mailman 3 August 2003 - Python-announce-list

[ANNOUNCE] gmpy 1.0 alpha released
by Alex Martelli Nov. 13, 2005

Nov. 13, 2005

See http://gmpy.sourceforge.net/ for details. What is it: a wrapper for the GMP library, to provide multi-precision arithmetic for Python. Multi-precision floats, and unbounded-precision rationals, are not present in stock Python; multi-precision integers ('long') are, but gmpy's version of multi-precision integers is faster for some operations (NOT all -- used to be, but Python 2.3 did serious enhancements to some operations on longs) and provides lots of nifty pre-packaged additional functions. Minor changes and bug-fixes since the latest 0.9 pre-alpha; support for Python 2.3. The Windows binary release is now for Python 2.3 _only_ (if you're stuck with Python 2.2 on Windows, you can keep using gmpy 0.9 pre-alpha and not really suffer from that). Known bug on Windows: the scan0 and scan1 functions appear broken (perhaps related to the lack of a GMP 4.0 library for Windows -- haven't found one around yet). Alex

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ANN: SciParam 1.0.0
by Thomas Koester Sept. 29, 2003

Sept. 29, 2003

SciParam 1.0.0 is a Python package to easily add additional quality control for entering scientific parameters in wxPython-based user interfaces. See http://great-er.intevation.org/sciparam/ for download, documentation and screenshots. License ======= Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Intevation GmbH <intevation(a)intevation.de> Georgstrasse 4 D-49074 Osnabrueck Germany Author: Thomas Koester <tkoester(a)intevation.de> After my wedding on July 30th, 2003: Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas(a)intevation.de> SciParam is released under the GNU General Public License. -- Email: rufus(a)o-town.de (at work: tkoester(a)intevation.de) http://rufus.o-town.de/

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PyXR 0.9.3- Cross-Referenced HTML from Python Source
by logistix Aug. 31, 2003

Aug. 31, 2003

PyXR 0.9.3- Cross-Referenced HTML from Python Source PyXR generates HTML pages from python source files. It also generates cross-referenced hyperlinks and integrates with the Python Library Reference as well, which makes it distinctive from the 8 million other prettyprinters out there. It's been tested on 2.3 for Windows, OpenBSD 3.2 and RedHat 7.3. There's no reason it shouldn't work on other platforms with minor configuration. 0.9.3 is a minor release. It was primarily issued as an "official" 2.3-compatible release, although previous versions should run on 2.3 as well. Other features include: - Per-line-number hyperlinks, to make emailing source code references easier and more accurate. - Upgrade of the PyXR'ed source on my website to 2.3's standard library. A PyXR'ed version of Python 2.3's source can be viewed at: http://www.cathoderaymission.net/~logistix/PyXR/python23/src/ More information about PyXR itself is available at: http://www.cathoderaymission.net/~logistix/python/pyxr.html The package is available at: http://www.cathoderaymission.net/~logistix/python/PyXR.zip Enjoy!

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ANN: pyM3U 0.1
by Lawrence Oluyede Aug. 31, 2003

Aug. 31, 2003

Summary ------- pyM3U is a simple script (it can be used also as a module) to generate M3U playlists Requirements ------------ - Python 2.2 or greater - pymad 0.4.1 - id3-py - Linux (devel platform) or Win (not tested) -- Lawrence "Rhymes" Oluyede http://loluyede.blogspot.com rhymes(a)NOSPAMmyself.com

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SLIMP3 V 0.1 - Python interface for the SLIMP3 player
by Andreas Jung Aug. 31, 2003

Aug. 31, 2003

The SLIMP3 package for Python provides an interface to the SLIMP3 MP3 player (www.slimp3.com). Content: slimp3.py - the wrapper around the commandline interface of the SLIMP3 server slimp3player.py - replaces the shuffle mode of the SLIMP3 server and can be customized to reflect your personal shuffle preferences (e.g. only play Jazz in the morning and classics in the evening) Current version: 0.1 Author: Andreas Jung (andreas(a)andreas-jung.com) Download: http://www.andreas-jung.com/SLIMP3/slimp3.tar.gz The SLIMP3 package is published under the MIT Public License.

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SC-Track Roundup 0.6.1 - an issue tracking system
by Richard Jones Aug. 31, 2003

Aug. 31, 2003

================================================= SC-Track Roundup 0.6.1 - an issue tracking system ================================================= I'm pleased to announce this maintenance release of Roundup. This release introduces python 2.3 compatibility. My thanks to Paul Dubois for contributing the csv module compatibility layer. If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Unfortunately, the Zope frontend for Roundup is currently broken. I hope to revive it in a future 0.6 maintenance release. Roundup requires python 2.1.3 or later for correct operation. This release fixes some bugs: - Add note about installing cgi-bin with a different interpreter - Importing wasn't setting None values explicitly when it should have been - Fixed import warning regarding 0xffff0000 literal, finally, really this time. Checked on win2k. (sf bug 786711) - Fix CGI editCSV action to handle metakit's integer itemids - Apply fix for "remove" links from Klamer Schutte - Added permission check on "remove" link while I was there.. - Applied CSV fix for python2.3 (sf bug 790363) - Fixed form padding in LHS menu (sf bug 790502) - Fixed upgrading docs for timezones (sf bug 790498) - Set the content type on page templates (can have XML templates now) - Various cosmetic fixes (thanks James Kew for being persistent :) - Applied patch 739314 (sorry John!) 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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ANN: Coil 0.4
by Jeff Simpson Aug. 31, 2003

Aug. 31, 2003

Summary ------- Coil is an MVC framework for Python based on the Struts project. The goal of the project is to provide enough features to be useful and no more. Requirements ------------ - Apache 2.x - mod_python 3.x - Python 2.2 or greater - Linux (devel platform) or Windows (not thoroughly tested) Features -------- - Easy configuration - Automatic form handling (via XML config) - Multiple rendering layers or views (Cheetah, Spyce, and PSP) - It's Python instead of Java :)

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Unbrand America
by vincent＠unbrandamerica.org Aug. 30, 2003

Aug. 30, 2003

In the coming months a black spot will pop up everywhere . . . on store windows and newspaper boxes, on gas pumps and supermarket shelves. Open a magazine or newspaper - it's there. It's on TV. It stains the logos and smears the nerve centers of the world's biggest, dirtiest corporations. This is the mark of the people who don't approve of Bush's plan to control the world, who don't want countries "liberated" without UN backing, who can't stand anymore neo-con bravado shoved down their throats. This is the mark of the people who want the Kyoto Protocol for the environment, who want the International Criminal Court for greater justice, who want a world where all nations, including the U.S.A., are free of weapons of mass destruction, and who pledge to take their country back. -- He might absolutely burn rural and tastes our blank, short goldsmiths in front of a hill.

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ANNOUNCE: MyHDL 0.3
by Jan Decaluwe Aug. 30, 2003

Aug. 30, 2003

I am happy to announce the release of MyHDL 0.3, a Python package for using Python as a hardware description & verification language. This release has several new features to facilitate HDL modeling, including waveform viewing support. For the details on the new features, go here: http://jandecaluwe.com/Tools/MyHDL/whatsnew03/whatsnew03.html For a general overview and starting point, go here: http://jandecaluwe.com/Tools/MyHDL/Overview.html Regards, Jan -- Jan Decaluwe - Resources bvba - http://jandecaluwe.com Losbergenlaan 16, B-3010 Leuven, Belgium Bored with EDA the way it is? Check this: http://jandecaluwe.com/Tools/MyHDL/Overview.html

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ANN: numarray-0.7
by Todd Miller Aug. 29, 2003

Aug. 29, 2003

Release Notes for numarray-0.7 Numarray is an array processing package designed to efficiently manipulate large multi-dimensional arrays. Numarray is modelled after Numeric and features c-code generated from python template scripts, the capacity to operate directly on arrays in files, and improved type promotions. I. ENHANCEMENTS 1. Object Arrays numarray now has an object array facility. numarray.objects provides array indexing and ufuncs for fixed length collections of arbitrary Python objects. 2. Merger of NumArray/ComplexArray classes Numarray's NumArray and ComplexArray classes have been unified into a single class. Thus, a single base class can be used to derive array classes which operate on integer, real or complex numbers. Thanks to Colin Williams for this suggestion. 3. Indexing improvements The implementation of numarray's indexing has been simplified and improved. Ad-hoc logic for getting single array elements fast has been replaced by a full conversion to C of the top level of numarray's Python indexing code. The resulting code is simpler, prototyped in Python, and adds an additional kind of indexing which occurs entirely in C for speed: sub-arrays. Slicing and array indexing, however, still involve significant amounts of Python code. 4. IEEE Special Value Constants Standard constants for nan, plus_inf, minus_inf, and inf have been added to numarray.ieeespecial making it easier to assign IEEE special values to arrays in addition to finding or replacing special values. 5. Better Numeric interoperability (wxPyPlot port) numarray-0.7 addresses a couple compatibility and speed issues which hindered numarray's use with wxPyPlot. numarray now works fine with the wxPyPlot demos by changing "import Numeric" to "import numarray as Numeric". II. BUGS FIXED See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=450446&group_id=1369&func=browse for more details. 793421 PyArray_INCREF / PyArray_XDECREF deprecated 791354 Integer overflow bugs? 785458 Crash subclassing the NumArray class 784866 astype() fails sometimes 779755 Mac OS 10 installation problem 740035 Possible problem with dot III. CAUTIONS 1. numarray extension writers should note that the documented use of PyArray_INCREF and PyArray_XDECREF (in numarray) has been found to be incompatible with Numeric and has therefore been deprecated. numarray wrapper functions using PyArray_INCREF and PyArray_XDECREF should switch to ordinary Py_INCREF and Py_XDECREF. 2. Writers of numarray subclasses should note that the "protected" _getitem/_setitem interface for NDArray has changed. WHERE ----------- Numarray-0.7 windows executable installers, source code, and manual is here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369 Numarray is hosted by Source Forge in the same project which hosts Numeric: http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/ The web page for Numarray information is at: http://stsdas.stsci.edu/numarray/index.html Trackers for Numarray Bugs, Feature Requests, Support, and Patches are at the Source Forge project for NumPy at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=1369 REQUIREMENTS ------------------------------ numarray-0.7 requires Python 2.2.2 or greater. AUTHORS, LICENSE ------------------------------ Numarray was written by Perry Greenfield, Rick White, Todd Miller, JC Hsu, Paul Barrett, Phil Hodge at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Thanks go to Jochen Kupper of the University of North Carolina for his work on Numarray and for porting the Numarray manual to TeX format. Thanks also to Edward C. Jones, Francesc Alted, Paul Dubois, Eric Jones, Travis Oliphant, Pearu Peterson, Colin Williams, and everyone who has contributed with comments and feedback. Numarray is made available under a BSD-style License. See LICENSE.txt in the source distribution for details. -- Todd Miller jmiller(a)stsci.edu

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