Mailman 3 December 2004 - Python-announce-list

PyCon Registration Opens Today!
by Steve Holden 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

Dear Python User: Following my last message, I am pleased to be able to announce that you can register for PyCon DC 2005 on the web at http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/register.html starting at 1700 EST today (December 23). Thanks to George Belotsky of Open Light Software for assistance in preparing the credit card processing software. As always, further information about PyCon is available in the usual places: http://www.pycon.org/ http://www.python.org/pycon/ I look forward to meeting you at PyCON DC 2005. In the meantime please let me offer my best wishes for a happy and peaceful holiday season. regards Steve Holden Chairman, PyCON DC 2005 -- PyCon DC 2005: The third Python Community Conference http://www.pycon.org/ http://www.python.org/pycon/ The scoop on Python implementations and applications

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ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0
by Uche Ogbuji 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4Suite/amara Amara XML Toolkit is a collection of Pythonic tools for XML data binding. Not just tools that happen to be written in Python, but tools built from the ground up to use Python idioms and take advantage of the many advantages of Python over other programming languages. Amara builds on 4Suite, but whereas 4Suite focuses more on literal implementation of XML standards in Python, Amara adds a much more Pythonic face to these capabilities. Amara provides tools you can trust to conform with XML standards without losing the familiar Python feel. The components of Amara are: * Bindery: data binding tool (fancy way of saying: a very Pythonic XML API) * Scimitar: implementation of the ISO Schematron schema language for XML; converts Schematron files to Python scripts * domtools: set of tools to augment Python DOMs * saxtools: set of tools to make SAX easier to use in Python There's a lot in Amara, but here are highlights: Amara Bindery: XML as easy as py -------------------------------- Based on the retired project Anobind, but updated to use SAX rather than DOM to create bindings. Bindery reads an XML document and returns a data structure of Python objects corresponding to the vocabulary used in the XML document, for maximum clarity. Bindery turns the document <monty> <python spam="eggs">What do you mean "bleh"</python> <python ministry="abuse">But I was looking for argument</python> </monty> Into a set of objects such that you can write binding.monty.python.spam In order to get the value "eggs" or binding.monty.python[1] In order to get the value "But I was looking for argument". There are other such tools for Python, and what makes Anobind unique is that it's driven by a very declarative rules-based system for binding XML to the Python data. You can register rules that are triggered by XPattern expressions specialized binding behavior. It includes XPath support and is very efficient, using SAX to generate bindings. Scimitar: exceptional schema language for an exceptional programming language ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Merged in from a separate project, Scimitar is an implementation of ISO Schematron that compiles a Schematron schema into a Python validator script. You typically use scimitar in two phases. Say you have a schematron schema schema1.stron and you want to validate multiple XML files against it, instance1.xml, instance2.xml, instance3.xml. First you run schema1.stron through the scimitar compiler script, scimitar.py: scimitar.py schema1.stron A file, schema1.py is generated and can be used to validate XML instances: python schema1.py instance1.xml Which emits a validation report. Amara DOM Tools: giving DOM a more Pythonic face ------------------------------------------------ DOM came from the Java world, hardly the most Pythonic API possible. Some DOM-like implementations such as 4Suite's Domlettes mix in some Pythonic idiom. Amara DOM Tools goes even further. Amara DOM Tools features pushdom, similar to xml.dom.pulldom, but easier to use. It also includes Python generators-based tools for DOM processing. And a function to return an XPath location for any DOM node. Amara SAX Tools: SAX without the brain explosion ------------------------------------------------ Tenorsax (amara.saxtools.tenorsax) is a framework for "linerarizing" SAX logic so that it flows more naturally, and needs a lot less state machine wizardry. License ------- Amara is open source, provided under the 4Suite variant of the Apache license. See the file COPYING for details. Installation ------------ Amara requires Python 2.3 or more recent and 4Suite 1.0a3 or more recent. Make sure these are installed, unpack Amara to a convenient location and run python setup.py install -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html Full XML Indexes with Gnosis - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/08/py-xml.html Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286UBL 1.0 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html Use Universal Feed Parser to tame RSS - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipufp.html Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html A survey of XML standards - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand4/ The State of Python-XML in 2004 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/10/13/py-xml.html

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Snurf 0.2.1 - A Python-based Blogging System
by Mark Rowe 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

I am pleased to announce `Snurf 0.2.1`_, a bug-fix release for the Snurf blogging system. .. _Snurf 0.2.1: http://snurf.bdash.net.nz/2004/12/22/snurf-0-2-1-available/ What is Snurf? --------------- Snurf is a Python-based blogging system that differs from many similar systems in that it uses the file-system for data storage, and generates static HTML files which are then served by a standard web-server. Changes -------- * Web addresses entered in comments now have http:// prepended if it is not already present. Previously such addresses would have been interpreted by the web browser as a URL relative to the post's address. * The default templates now use HTML entities rather than UTF-8 characters for non-ASCII characters. This removes the need to configure the web server to send the correct "charset" field in the Content-Type header of Snurf-generated pages. Download -------- Snurf 0.2.1 is available for `download`_. Installation instructions are provided in the included `README.txt`_. .. _download: http://snurf.bdash.net.nz/files/snurf-0.2.1.tar.gz .. _README.txt: http://bdash.net.nz/svn/snurf/tags/snurf-0.2.1/README.txt --- Mark Rowe <http://bdash.net.nz/>

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ANN: sharep - share price downloader module
by Mark Carter 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

sharep is a Public Domain python module for downloading share prices from the internet. Currently only UK shares are supported. Feel free to submit support for other countries. News 21-Dec-2004 Version 0.1 released Example >>> # download bid and ask price for Glaxo Pharmaceuticals; symbol name GSK >>> import sharep.uk >>> sharep.uk.bid('GSK') '1,184.00' >>> sharep.uk.ask('gsk') '1,186.00' Download http://www.markcarter.me.uk/computing/python/sharep/sharep-0.1.zip Contact me: mcturra2000 yahoo co uk Author: Mark Carter Created: 21-Dec-2004 http://www.markcarter.me.uk/computing/python/sharep/sharep.htm

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Python Users Nederland - python-nl mailing list
by Johannes Gijsbers 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

Python Users Nederland, PUN, houdt haar tweede meeting op dinsdag 11 januari om 20.00. "Agenda" -------- We beginnen om 20.00 met een presentatie van 1-1,5 van Martijn Faassen. Hij zal spreken over de Zope 3 component architectuur, met misschien een aantal uitweidingen over Five (Zope 3 in Zope 2). Na de presentatie kunnen we uitwijken naar één van de kroegen rond het Leidseplein. Locatie ------- De locatie is in principe het kantoor van Amaze (http://www.amaze.nl), maar als blijkt dat er veel belangstelling is (>15/20) dan kunnen we waarschijnlijk uitwijken naar een ruimte van XS4ALL. Meldt het dus als je van plan bent te komen. Over PUN -------- Python Users Nederland is een beginnende gebruikersgroep. We hebben een website (http://www.py.nl) en een mailinglist (http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-nl). De mailinglist wordt ook gebruikt om Nederlandse Python-gebruikers voor andere projecten op te sporen. Cheers, Johannes

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[ANNOUNCE] Twentieth release of PythonCAD now available
by Art Haas 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

Hi. I'm pleased to announce the twentieth development release of PythonCAD, a CAD package for open-source software users. As the name implies, PythonCAD is written entirely in Python. The goal of this project is to create a fully scriptable drafting program that will match and eventually exceed features found in commercial CAD software. PythonCAD is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). PythonCAD requires Python 2.2 or Python 2.3. The interface is GTK 2.0 based, and uses the PyGTK module for interfacing to GTK. The design of PythonCAD is built around the idea of separating the interface from the back end as much as possible. By doing this, it is hoped that both GNOME and KDE interfaces can be added to PythonCAD through usage of the appropriate Python module. Addition of other PythonCAD interfaces will depend on the availability of a Python module for that particular interface and developer interest and action. The twentieth release of PythonCAD improves the undo/redo abilities of the program by making layer creation and deletion actions that can be undone or redone. Also, the addition and removal of chamfers and fillets is now an undoable and redoable action. The code for managing undo/redo operations has been improved, and various bug fixes for these actions have been applied. Another improvement in this release is a reworked set of file saving operations. The code for saving a file onto disk has been made more robust by adding additional error checks and by ensuring the new version of a file is stored successfully prior to replacing the existing copy. A good number of bug fixes and code improvements are included in this release as well. PythonCAD is now two years old! The first public release was on December 21, 2002. Celebrate PythonCAD's second birthday by downloading and installing the twentieth release! The mailing list for the development and use of PythonCAD is available. Visit the following page for information about subscribing and viewing the mailing list archive: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad Visit the PythonCAD web site for more information about what PythonCAD does and aims to be: http://www.pythoncad.org/ Come and join me in developing PythonCAD into a world class drafting program! Art Haas -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822

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ANN: Jalopy and Login Tools
by Fuzzyman 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

Jalopy and Login Tools are ready for their first public release. Jalopy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/jalopy.html Login Tools http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/logintools.html Online Demo of Both http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/jalopydemo/jalopy.py Download http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/downman.py?file=jalopy_login.… Jalopy is a 'Collaborative Web Project'. It is a tool that enables a team to build a website together. It uses Kupu (http://kupu.oscom.org ) the WYSIWYG online editor to allow the editing/creation of webpages by non-technical team members. Jalopy handles autogenerating of the index pages as well as creating/editing/deleting pages. Login Tools was created for Jalopy. It is a module, and framework, for doing user authentication and account management. It includes login, new user signup, user 'edit account screen' and administrator screen. It is highly configurable and uses html templates to fit in with any website. It can be plugged in to any python CGI with the addition of as little as *two* lines of code. They are both alpha quality - but should work fine. Regards, Fuzzyman

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PyCon is coming - we need your help
by Steve Holden 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

Dear Python User: I wonder if you would be kind enough to take the time to read this email and help us to publicize PyCon DC 2005, being held March 23-26 at the Cafritz Conference Center of George Washington University. The Call for Participation went out some time ago, but it is a good time to remind people that the deadline for submissions is December 31. If you personally are thinking of submitting a paper then this can be a reminder to do so soon! We already have acceptances from two keynote speakers, and hope to announce them when a third is finalised shortly. As always you can find out about the conference at http://www.pycon.org/ http://www.python.org/pycon/ This year we are going to be able to accept credit card payments for the first time, which we hope will be more convenient for delegates. The registration fees this year are the same as for 2004: Early Bird (to Jan 22) $175 ($125 student) Regular (to Mar 19) $250 ($175 student) On-Site $300 ($225 student) A further announcment will be made when the registration site opens for business. In the meantime I would appreciate your assistance in posting this message via any channels you know of that have an interest in the Python language and its applications - publicity is the key to getting the most diverse group of people at PyCon. regards Steve Holden Chairman, PyCON DC 2005 -- PyCon DC 2005: The third Python Community Conference http://www.pycon.org/ http://www.python.org/pycon/ The scoop on Python implementations and applications

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SPE 0.7.0.a Python IDE now with UML Viewer
by www.stani.be 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

Spe is a python IDE with auto-indentation, auto completion, call tips, syntax coloring, uml viewer, 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. SPE offers now a built-in Python UML viewer. An Uml diagram is hierarchal 2d map of classes. See http://spe.pycs.net/pictures/800x600/11.html for a nice screenshot. Attentive users notice that the uml view also uses the separators of the class explorer for a better outline. Once you get used to it, you can't live without. I see that still a lot of people are unfortunately downloading old tar.gz versions. This makes absolutely no sense!! Because of problems with tar.gz archives on the blender website, Linux and Mac users must download the zip archive. I release them especially for that purpose. The exe installer is of course for Windows. A special thanks for everyone who donates. That always pushes me to new release (hint,hint,...) :Batteries included: - Kiki: Regular Expression (regex) console. For more info: http://project5.freezope.org/kiki/index.html - PyChecker: PyChecker is a tool for finding bugs in python source code. It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages, like C and C++. It is similar to lint. For more info: http://pychecker.sourceforge.net - 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: - UML viewer :Requirements: - full python 2.3+ - wxpython 2.5.3.8+ - optional blender 2.35+ :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

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ANNOUNCE: mountpy 0.1 (initial release)
by Radovan Garabik 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

mountpy is a python script for quick automatic mounting and umounting of external filesystems, especially suited for USB removable devices. mountpy is developed on linux, and is meant for modern linux systems. This is initial release, treat it as such. URL: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/mountpy/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!

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