Mailman 3 November 2004 - Python-announce-list

gthumpy: create static HTML slide shows
by Thomas Guettler 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

Gthumpy is small collection of scripts for handling images from digital cameras. One script creates thumbnails, one script lets you enter metadata for every picture (date, description, title) in a GUI and an other creates static html files. The created files don't need a http server or CGI, you can burn a CD/DVD and give this to your friends (which might use windows). You only need a webbrowser to view the created HTML files. It is not tested on win32. http://guettli.sourceforge.net/gthumpy/ http://guettli.sourceforge.net/gthumpy/example/ Thomas Güttler -- Thomas Guettler <guettli(a)thomas-guettler.de> http://www.thomas-guettler.de

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BayPIGgies: November 11, 7:30pm
by Aahz 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs, Nov 11 at 7:30pm. Python was designed for easy integration with C, but it has never been trivial. There are many different tools available, each with different strengths and weaknesses. Chad will be leading a series of mini-tutorials to expose the audience to some or all of the following: Boost, ctypes, Pyrex, Scons, SIP, SWIG, Weave We haven't settled the agenda, so go to the BayPIGgies mailing list and vote! BayPIGgies meetings are in Stanford, California. For more information and directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/ Before the meeting, we may meet at 6pm for dinner in downtown Palo Alto. Discussion of dinner plans is handled on the BayPIGgies mailing list. Advance notice: The December 9 meeting agenda has not been set. Please send e-mail to baypiggies(a)baypiggies.net if you want to make a presentation. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ WiFi is the SCSI of the 21st Century -- there are fundamental technical reasons for sacrificing a goat. (with no apologies to John Woods)

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Chicago Python Users Group Meeting, Thurs 11 November
by Ian Bicking 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

The Chicago Python User Group, ChiPy, will have its next meeting on Thursday, 11 November, starting at 7pm. For more information on ChiPy see http://chipy.org Presentation ------------ This month we will be talking about database programming in Python. Ian Bicking will give a presentation on his project SQLObject (http://sqlobject.org), a popular object-relational mapper for Python. In addition, Chris McAvoy will give a short presentation on his web-based automated cat feeder (http://kittens.lonelylion.com/) There will also be time to chat, and many opportunities to ask questions. We encourage people at all levels to attend. Location -------- This month we will be meeting at the Imaginary Landscape offices, at 5121 N Ravenswood on Chicago's north side, between Foster and Lawrence. Parking is available. It is near the Ravenswood station on the Metra North Short line, and the 22 Clark bus. About ChiPy ----------- This will be ChiPy's (cardinal number) meeting. We meet once a month, on the second Thursday of the month. If you can't come this month, please join our mailing list: http://lonelylion.com/mailman/listinfo/chipy -- Ian Bicking / ianb(a)colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org

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ANN: Released Pixies 0.1
by Matteo Merli 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

Pixies is a formatter that convert XSL-FO documents to PDF. It is written in Python and is particularly focused on the production of PDF files from DocBook documents. This is the very first release of the program that at this point only support a small subset of the XSL-FO specification. It uses ReportLab (www.reportlab.org) to write PDF files. Home Page: http://merlimat.net/software/pixies Sources : http://download.berlios.de/pixies/pixies-0.1.tar.bz2 Matteo

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ANN: urwid 0.8.2 - curses UI library re-released under LGPL
by Ian Ward 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

Announcing urwid 0.8.2 ---------------------- Urwid home page: http://excess.org/urwid/ Tarball: http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.8.2.tar.gz New in this release: - Re-released under GNU Lesser General Public License. Enjoy! About Urwid =========== Urwid is a curses-based UI/widget library for Python. It features fluid interface resizing, multiple text layout options, simple markup for attributes, powerful scrolling list boxes and flexible edit boxes. Urwid maximizes the use of your available screen real estate. It does not provide code for box drawing or simulated drop shadows. It aims to make writing professional, responsive console applictions easier. Ian Ward <ian#excess,org> <P><A HREF="http://excess.org/urwid/">urwid 0.8.2</A> - curses-based UI/widget library (08-Nov-04)

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ANN: IPython 0.6.4 is out.
by Fernando Perez 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

Hi all, I'm glad to announce that IPython 0.6.4, an enhanced interactive Python shell, is finally out. IPython's homepage is at: http://ipython.scipy.org and downloads are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist I've provided RPMs for Python 2.2 and 2.3, plus source downloads (.tar.gz and .zip for Windows users). Debian, Fink and BSD packages for this version should be coming soon, as therespective maintainers have the time to follow their packaging procedures many thanks to Jack Moffit, Andrea Riciputi and Dryice Liu) Many thanks to Enthought for their continued hosting support for IPython, and to all the users who contributed ideas, fixes and reports. *** WHAT is IPython? IPython tries to: 1. Provide an interactive shell superior to Python's default. IPython has many features for object introspection, system shell access, and its own special command system for adding functionality when working interactively. 2. Serve as an embeddable, ready to use interpreter for your own programs. IPython can be started with a single call from inside another program, providing access to the current namespace. 3. Offer a flexible framework which can be used as the base environment for other systems with Python as the underlying language. *** IMPORTANT NOTE: Unless any important bugs are found, this version will likely be the last ipython release for quite some time. I intend to (finally) start a major internal cleanup, as described in: http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/new_design.pdf This process will likely take a while; even though it's relatively straightforward, there is a _lot_ of code to go through. In a few weeks, I will probably open a separate CVS branch for this, so that I can still fix bugs for version 0.6.4 in CVS HEAD if they are found. Needless to say, any volunteers are welcome to help :) Once the new branch becomes reasonably stable, it will be released, and I hope this will soon after lead to an official '1.0' release for ipython. *** NEW for this release: Now, on to the usual summary of changes in IPython 0.6.4 vs 0.6.3. As always, the complete NEWS file can be found at http://ipython.scipy.org/NEWS, and the whole ChangeLog at http://ipython.scipy.org/ChangeLog. - License changed to BSD: IPython is now fully licensed under the terms of the BSD license (except for a few MIT-licensed files which have always been there; the MIT license is very similar to BSD). - Changed the explicit magic escape from @ to %, to conform with the introduction of Python @decorators in Python 2.4. IPython 0.6.4 should be 100% compatible with Python 2.4. - Many small improvements which mainly matter to users of the matplotlib support (via -pylab). These fix a number of problems, crashes and annoyances present in 0.6.3. - Small fixes and hardenings against crashes which could be caused by buggy third-party code run from within ipython. There are currently no known ipython crash cases. Enjoy, and as usual please report any problems. Regards, Fernando Perez.

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ANN: pymssql 0.6.0
by jooncheol＠gmail.com 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

pymssql 0.6.0 - Simple MSSQL python extension module pymssql supports "almost all" of the DB-API 2.0 URL: http://pymssql.sourceforge.net Download: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40059 Change: datetime field support.

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Zope X3 3.0.0 final released
by Stephan Richter 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

Dear Python Community, The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce Zope X3 3.0.0 final. After almost three years of development it has finally arrived! Zope X3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. The "X" in the name stands for "experimental", since this release does not try to provide any backward-compatibility to Zope 2. Zope is an open source web application server primarily written in the Python programming language. It features a transactional object database which can store not only content and custom data, but also dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, and relational database (RDBMS) connections and code. It features a strong through-the-web development model, allowing you to update your web site from anywhere in the world. To allow for this, Zope also features a tightly integrated security model. Built around the concept of "safe delegation of control", Zope's security architecture also allows you to turn control over parts of a web site to other organizations or individuals. Zope users include Viacom, Boston.com, Lufthansa, SGI, AARP, Bell Atlantic Mobile (now Verizon Wireless), Red Hat, NASA, the US Navy, ishophere.com, i-Gift, IDG (Brazil), GE, Digital Garage, Verio, www.HireTechs.com, Park City Ski Area, and Storm Linux. Downloads http://zope.org/Products/ZopeX3 Installation instructions for both Windows and Un*x/Linux are now available in the top level README.txt of the distribution. The binary installer is recommended for Windows. Add-on packages will also be available at http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope3-Packages Documentation There are several documentation sources for learning Zope 3. - "Zope 3 Developers Book":http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/Zope3Book. This book will be published later this year by Sams Publishing. - "Zope 3 Programmer Tutorial":http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ProgrammerTutorial - The "API Doc Tool" is available as part of the Zope 3 online help. Once you started Zope 3, you can reach it via 'http://localhost:8080/++apidoc++'. - "Zope 3 Developer Info":http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/Zope3DeveloperInfo - "Web Component Development with Zope 3" is a second Zope 3 book that will be out in January 2005 by Springer Verlag. Resources - "Zope 3 Development Web Site":http://dev.zope.org/Zope3 - "Zope 3 Dev Mailing List":http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-dev - IRC Channel: #zope3-dev at irc.freenode.net Notes - On Windows, you must uninstall any previous installation of Zope X3 before installing the new release. - Zope X3 depends on 'zlib', which is usually compiled into Python by default, but if your system does not have the 'zlib' library installed, it will skip to build the 'zlib' module. - When creating the Zope 3 installation using the 'configure'/'make' process, a few tests will sometimes fail, if you specify a relative 'prefix' path. If this happens to you, just use the absolute path. Acknowledgements Thanks goes to everyone that contributed. Albertas Agejevas, Steve Alexander, Don Baarda, Volker Bachschneider, Anthony Baxter, Michael Bernstein, Stuart Bishop, R. Sean Bowman, Axel Bringenberg, Tom Cameron, Godefroid Chapelle, Fred Drake, Phillip Eby, Ulrich Eck, Bruce Eckel, Suresh Babu Eddals, Paul Everitt, Martijn Faassen, David Fregon, Jim Fulton, Marius Gedminas, Shane Hathaway, Christian Heimes, Eckart Hertzler, Any Hird, Michael Howitz, Dominik Huber, Jeremy Hylton, Roger Ineichen, Richard Jones, Andreas Jung, Alexander Limi, Kevin Littlejohn, Chris McDonough, Mark McEahern, R. David Murray, Gustavo Niemeyer, Scott Pascoe, Tim Peters, Gary Poster, Kiki Pruvot, Sathya Rangaswami, Stephan Richter, Paul Roe, Guido van Rossum, Alan Runyan, Tres Seaver, Sidnei da Silva, Peter Simmons, Garret Smith, Jan Smith, Adam Summers, Kapil Thangavelu, Christian Theune, Bjorn Tillenius, Dimitry Vasiliev, Richard Volpato, Barry Warsaw, Gregoire Weber, Philipp von Weitershausen, Paul Winkler, Chris Withers, Nathan Yergler, Rob Zaar, Viktorija Zaksiene Enjoy! The Zope 3 Development Team

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SPE 0.5.1.G: Python IDE with Blender & wxGlade support
by stani_＠hotmail.com 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

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 ships with wxGlade (gui designer), PyChecker (source code doctor) and Kiki (regular expression console). Spe is extensible with wxGlade. Links: - Homepage: http://spe.pycs.net - Downloads: 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 - Author: http://www.stani.be About this version: I'm very happy to announce that SPE is now sponsored by Zettai (http://www.zettai.net) Thank them for making this release possible. They host my new personal website http://stani.be If you like SPE and you don't want to donate money, you would do me a great favour by putting a link to http://stani.be on any website and let me know by email. This is a major bugfix release. **WARNING** Appearantly there is a bug in Mozilla/Firefox which corrupts downloading of tar.gz archives. So please use wget or another download program to download the tar.gz archive. :Fixes: - better tab indentation fix - activepython documentation can be combined with the enthought distribution - jump to source fix - function names def* truncated in explore - "Save changes to" doesn't show document - File|Exit should use X as accel key - Ctrl-F doesn't switch to open "Find" dlg - bug in importing modules to shell - Edit Preferences :Donations (65 euro): - Manuel Ulloa - Anne Ebel - Kyle Odom (second time, thanks!)

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ANN: Naja 1.1.1 is now available
by webmaster＠keyphrene.com 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Naja is a download manager and a website grabber written in Python/wxPython.You can add some plugins (newsreader, FTP client,WebDAV client) and take control of your downloads from your office. Naja supports proxy(HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SOCKS v4a, SOCKS v5), and use some authentication methods. The downloading maybe achieved by splitting the file being downloaded into several parts and downloading these parts at the same time (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP). Donwload speeds are increased by downloading the file from the mirrors sites, when the sites propose it. Others features: Csv filter Cheksums (CRC32, MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA, SHA1, MDC2, RMD160) Crypt (Only for the eXtended version) and Decrypt (AES, DES, 3DES ...) newsreader, newsposter (uue, yEnc) CGI & WebDAV Server Web Interface basic and digest authentication for client and server Compress and decompress (zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2) Picture viewer Text Editor Naja is available for download from the Keyphrene web site: http://www.keyphrene.com/products/naja

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