Mailman 3 September 2003 - Python-announce-list

ANN: LatLongUTMconversion 1.0 - convert lat/lon to UTM
by Russell Nelson 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Finally got around to publishing one of the modules that makes up pygps. With it, you can convert latitude/longitude coordinates into UTM coordinates. There's actually a bunch of flavors of lat/lon, so you have to specify which datum you want. GPS receivers use datum #23, WGS-84, so if you're using LLtoUTM with a GPS receiver to make map coordinates, you'll hard-code 23 as the first parameter. This is mature code; haven't changed it in over a year. Note that this code doesn't convert the other way, even though I have the algorithm to do it. Why not? I just never needed it. If you do, bug me about it by showering $20 bills on my head. Or go create a project with the Public Software Fund at http://pubsoft.org/ . http://pygps.org/LatLongUTMconversion-1.0.tar.gz -- --My blog is at angry-economist.russnelson.com | Can I recommend python? Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Just a thought. 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | -Dr. Jamey Hicks Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |

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ANN: ClientForm 0.1.9 and 0.0.12 released (first 0.1.x stable release)
by jjl＠pobox.com 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/ 0.1.9 is the first stable release of 0.1.x. Changes from 0.1.8b to 0.1.9: * HTMLForm.attrs now works (the dict contents were incorrect). Equivalent changes were made in 0.0.12. Requires Python >= 1.5.2. ClientForm is a Python module for handling HTML forms on the client side, useful for parsing HTML forms, filling them in and returning the completed forms to the server. It has developed from a port of Gisle Aas' Perl module HTML::Form, from the libwww-perl library, but the interface is not the same. Simple example: from urllib2 import urlopen from ClientForm import ParseResponse forms = ParseResponse(urlopen("http://www.acme.com/form.html")) form = forms[0] print form form["author"] = "Gisle Aas" # form.click returns a urllib2.Request object # (see HTMLForm.click_request_data.__doc__ if you're not using urllib2) response = urlopen(form.click("Thanks")) John

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LCA 2004 Python mini-conf -- Call For Speakers
by Andrew Bennetts 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

I'm organising a one-day Python mini-conf to be held at Linux.conf.au 2004[1]. I'm looking for people to speak at the mini-conf. I'm interested in any Python-related talks or tutorials you might want to give -- Linux-related is *not* a requirement. Also, unlike the main conference, I don't expect you to write a full paper and present that -- I'm aiming for a slightly more relaxed and informal atmosphere, given that we're smaller than the main conference. I'm also happy to accept talks shorter than an hour, so don't hold back just because you've only got a quick half-hour talk. So, if you have a pet Python project or library you develop or just enjoy using, and would like to talk about it, I'm interested. Mini-conf speakers and attendees will need to register for the main conference, and meet all costs of travel and accomodation themselves. See these sites for more details: - http://pig.slug.org.au/miniconf/ - http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ -Andrew. [1] Linux.Conf.Au is Australia's national Linux conference to be held at the University of Adelaide from Wednesday January 14 to Saturday January 17, 2004. IBM is proud to be Linux.Conf.Au 2004's Penguin Sponsor. http://lca2004.linux.org.au.

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Spe-0.2.0.a Python IDE with Blender and wxGlade (gui design) support
by stani_＠hotmail.com 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

Spe is a python IDE with auto-indentation, auto completion, call tips, syntax coloring, syntax highlighting, class explorer, source index, auto todo list, sticky notes, integrated pycrust shell, python file browser, recent file browser, drag&drop, context help, ... Special is its blender support with a blender 3d object browser and its ability to run interactively inside blender. Spe is extensible with boa. :Links: - Homepage: http://spe.pycs.net - Website: http://projects.blender.org/projects/spe/ - Screenshots: http://spe.pycs.net/pictures/index.html - Forum: http://projects.blender.org/forum/?group_id=30 - RSS feed: http://spe.pycs.net/weblog/rss.xml Spe now ships with wxGlade, a GUI designer! Screenshots are at http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/img/group.png A tutorial is included in the help menu.Now it acts independantly from spe, but the purpose is to integrate it tighter. Any help here would be welcome. Spe runs now also fine inside Blender2.28c Andrei compares wxGlade to Boa: *"I like Boa and as Delphi programmer it was my first choice when I looked into GUIs. But as Python user, I find wxGlade suits my needs better, because it doesn't encourage integration of GUI and code and because of its excellent support for sizers, which are a must-have for cross-platform development. Those non-resizeable frames we are used to in Windows seem really weird to Linux users - and with good reason."* :Batteries included: - Kiki: Regular Expression (regex) console. Altough still a pre-alpha release, it might be already usefull. - wxGlade: wxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create wxWindows/wxPython user interfaces. As you can guess by the name, its model is Glade, the famous GTK+/GNOME GUI builder, with which wxGlade shares the philosophy and the look & feel (but not a line of code). For more info: http://wxglade.sourceforge.net :New features: - wxGlade: see above :Requirements: - full python_ 2.2 or 2.3 - wxpython_ 2.4.1.2 - optional blender_ 2.28c :Contributors: - the wxGlade team http://wxglade.sourceforge.net

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spe-0.1.8.c
by stani_＠hotmail.com 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Spe 0.1.8.c Spe is a python IDE with auto-indentation, auto completion, call tips, syntax coloring, syntax highlighting, class explorer, source index, auto todo list, sticky notes, integrated pycrust shell, python file browser, recent file browser, drag&drop, context help, ... Special is its blender support with a blender 3d object browser and its ability to run interactively inside blender. Spe is extensible with boa. Hopefully this release can be a milestone. For the first time it contains a plugin from an user. I would be happy if this would happen more. Any wxDialog, wxFrame or wxPanel can be easily integrated in spe. So, many thanks to Andrei (http://project5.tk), who contributed Kiki, a regular expression console. :Links: - Homepage: http://spe.pycs.net - Website: http://projects.blender.org/projects/spe/ - Screenshots: http://spe.pycs.net/pictures/index.html - Forum: http://projects.blender.org/forum/?group_id=30 - RSS feed: http://spe.pycs.net/weblog/rss.xml :New features: [a] - Kiki: *"Kiki is a Regex tool which I think could be useful in Spe for the idiots who, like me, aren't capable of Thinking In Regex. It's inspired by - but has no code at all in common with - a Tkinter tool called Recon (regex console). I've attached the current snapshot, which is very much not the finished product, even though it does work. Planned features include: colored parentheses showing the start/end of groups in re matches (currently parens just wrap the match), overviews of all named and unnamed groups for every match, docs in the Help."* Andrei :Fixes: [c] - SetColumnWidth(-1,...) maybe fixed (Linux) - sys.system_info fix (Linux) - open files on command line was not working - sys.argv error when spe is started from Blender - blenpy send to fix - spe.INFO problem - improved user path retrieval [a] - @ was shortcut for contact, now it is Ctrl+@ :Requirements: - full python_ 2.2 or 2.3 - wxpython_ 2.4.1.2 - optional blender_ 2.28b (will be available soon) :Contributors: [c] - Tina Hirsch (feedback) - Andrei (improved user path retrieval) http://come.to/project5 [a] - Andrei (new feature: kiki) http://come.to/project5

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Re: [ANN] pygantt-0.9.3
by Alexandre Fayolle 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 06:43:43PM +0200, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: > This release fixes the way to find the PIL fonts. It also fixes a bug in > the resource filter (many thanks to Mitry Samersoff for providing a > patch) My sincerest apologies to Dmitry Samersoff for misspelling his name. -- Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org Développement logiciel avancé - Intelligence Artificielle - Formations

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[ANN] pygantt-0.9.3
by Alexandre Fayolle 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Logilab has released pygantt-0.9.3 What's new? ----------- This release fixes the way to find the PIL fonts. It also fixes a bug in the resource filter (many thanks to Mitry Samersoff for providing a patch) About Pygantt ------------- Pygantt is a project management tool, which can use XML files describing tasks and resources and generate Gantt diagrams for the project. It can use Logilab's constraint satisfaction solver to schedule the different tasks. URLs ---- Homepage: http://www.logilab.org/projects/pygantt/ Download: ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/pygantt/pygantt-0.9.3.tar.gz -- Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org Développement logiciel avancé - Intelligence Artificielle - Formations

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[ANN] pylint-0.2
by Alexandre Fayolle 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Logilab has released pylint-0.2 What's new? ----------- In addition to a large number of bug fixes, this release adds two new checkers, for missing encoding declaration, and for FIXME comments. Zope support was improved. About Pylint ------------ Pylint is a lint-like tool for Python code. It performs almost all the verifications that pychecker does, and additionally can perform some stylistic verification and coding standard enforcements. The checked code is assigned a mark based on the number and the severity of the encountered problems. The previous mark of a given piece of code is cached so that you can see if the code quality has improved since the last check. URLs ---- Homepage: http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint Download: ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/pylint/pylint-0.2.tar.gz -- Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org Développement logiciel avancé - Intelligence Artificielle - Formations

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[ANN] logilab-common-0.3.2
by Alexandre Fayolle 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Logilab has released logilab-common-0.3.2 This release fixes several problems in the astng module, as well as in the modutils module, which was partly rewritten to use a different import mechanism. A couple a functions were added to fileutils. logilab-common contains some modules used by different projects released by Logilab, including abstract syntax tree manipulation tools, database helper functions, HTML generation, command line argument parsing, logging, and process daemonization. The home page of the project is http://www.logilab.org/projects/common/ The source can be downloaded at ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/common/common-0.3.2.tar.gz -- Alexandre Fayolle LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org Développement logiciel avancé - Intelligence Artificielle - Formations

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Lightweight Languages 2003 (LL3) CFP
by Jeremy Hylton 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Lightweight Languages Workshop 2003 (LL3) ---------------------------------- Saturday, November 8, 2003, MIT, Cambridge, MA http://ll3.ai.mit.edu/ mailto:ll3@ai.mit.edu CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS LL3 will be an intense, exciting, one-day forum bringing together the best programming language implementors and researchers, from both academia and industry, to exchange ideas and information, to challenge one another, and to learn from one another. The workshop series focuses on programming languages, tools, and processes that are usable and useful. Lightweight languages have been an effective vehicle for introducing new features to mainstream programmers. We encourage presentations on topics of interest to the community of lightweight language users and designers. We prefer topics that will interest a broad audience. We do not require the presentation of novel research ideas. Proposal Abstracts ------------------ Due Friday Oct. 17 We seek two to five page abstracts of talks to be given at the workshop. Talks will be 30 minutes long, including time for questions and answers. Presenters are not expected to submit papers, but slides will be published on the workshop web site. We will also consider proposals for talks of different lengths. Some suggested topics are: * Language design: New language features, type systems and other reasoning tools, critiques of existing languages. * Implementation techniques: Interpreters and virtual machines, optimizations, cross-language interactions. * From scripts to programs: Software engineering with lightweight and/or a mix of languages. How to (or not to!) scale from little scripts to large, complex applications. Application war stories. * From ivory tower to cubicle -- what language implementors need to know from academic programming languages research -- and back. * Lightweight pearls: Elegant and instructive examples of programs in lightweight languages. * Programming tools and development processes. Send submissions to: ll3-submit(a)ai.mit.edu We want presentations that will inspire, motivate, and educate. We want language implementors and researchers to leave the workshop fired up with ideas for future languages, features, and implementation tricks. We want language users to leave the workshop fired up with new ideas and new tools. In addition to submitted presentations, there will be two invited talks. After the workshop, there will be an evening social event and dinner. Dates: Tuesday, Oct. 17 -- submissions due by end of day. Tuesday, Oct. 24 -- notification of acceptance or rejection Saturday, Nov. 8 -- 9am-7pm, LL3! Program Committee: Ken Anderson, BBN (co-chair) Jeremy Hylton, Python Software Foundation (co-chair) Geoffrey Knauth, BAE Systems Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University Erik Meijer, Microsoft Research Dan Sugalski, Perl Foundation Greg Sullivan, MIT CSAIL

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