Mailman 3 December 2004 - Python-announce-list

PyCrypto Binary for Python 2.4
by fuzzyman＠gmail.com 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Because of export restrictions, Andrew is unable to offer prebuilt binary versions of his excellent PyCrypto module. I've built a windows installer for Python 2.4. Actually download it here : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html#crypto Visit PyCrypto Homepage - http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html I was able to build the binary by installing microsofts free optimising compiler - VC Toolkit - and hacking distutils to use it. I followed the excellent instructions at - http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/ Regards, Fuzzy

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ANN: PyOpenOffice 0.31 released
by me.simon＠t-online.de 12 Dec '04

12 Dec '04

New since release 0.3: * Use data with carriage returns in it (for example from a database) and make them printable in SXW or PDF - read the docstring of makeSerialLetters. * new class persistentDict for the history and cleanup function (the shelve module was not always reliable). * Several bugfixes. Have a look at: http://www.bezirksreiter.de/PyOpenOffice.htm Martin Simon

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ANN: xsdb does XML, SQL is dead as disco :)
by aaronwmail-usenet＠yahoo.com 11 Dec '04

11 Dec '04

The xsdbXML framework provides a flexible and well defined infrastructure to allow tabular data to be published, retrieved, and combined over the Internet. It's a little bit like the daughter of the Gadfly SQL engine in the buff, on steroids. This is a major departure from the previous releases of xsdb. Please read about it and download it from http://xsdb.sourceforge.net Note that the download is over 90% documentation and example data files -- the software itself is small. The xsdb framework makes all of the following assertions true. Database queries over web distributed data: Databases may be broken up into multiple files or servers on multiple machines and queried as a single resource. Simple Publication: Publishing a queriable collection of data (a context) can be as simple as placing an XML document on a web server. Sophisticated Publication: Large and complex databases may also be published using server software which provides indexing and other optimizations. Heterogeneity: Published data collections may be built using parts of remotely defined data collections. External Data: A data context may make reference to another arbitrary web object. Open formats and definitions: Databases may be constructed and queried using standard formats and standard web protocols using any programming language in any computational environment. Simple formats The content of a database or query may be expressed in a manner which is easy to parse and interpret (both for human readers and for computer programs). Data, queries and query responses are represented using the same language of expressions. Clear definition The meaning of database entries and queries are defined using simple mathematical definitions. thanks for your attention! -- Aaron Watters There ain't no sanity clause.

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ANN: PSF Licensing FAQ
by Stephan Deibel 11 Dec '04

11 Dec '04

Hi, The Python Software Foundation (PSF) board recently wrote up a licensing FAQ that we hope will help to clear up some of the confusion that has surrounded the PSF License. There are quite a few projects out there (on Source Forge and otherwise) that misuse this license in ways potentially detrimental to those projects. If you are the author or maintainer of a project that uses the PSF License, please read this: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonSoftwareFoundationLicenseFaq In short: The PSF License was originally developed specifically and only for Python itself (and its standard library). It can be reused but not verbatim without modifying the copyright and product name in the license. Also, the entire "license stack" that comes with Python is irrelevant to 3rd party projects and should not be reproduced outside of Python. The above document also covers contribution of code to the PSF, which is only an issue if your code will become part of the Python distribution. The contribution process is still being set up, so this part of the document is subject to change. Thanks! Stephan Deibel Chairman of the Board Python Software Foundation http://python.org/psf

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 10)
by Josiah Carlson 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

QOTW: "I still think this is a silly idea, but at least it doesn't track mud all over Python's nice clean rugs." -- Michael J. Fromberger http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d… "Basically, in tk, canvases are for vector drawing; in other toolkits, they're more for bitmap drawing. And this makes quite a difference..." -- Eric Brunel Lovers of the eric3 editor get a new 3.5.1 release. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-November/252450.html Lovers of the Wing IDE editor get a new 2.0.1 release. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/253698.html Sometimes the `struct` module's use and structure aren't obvious to the new user. Tim Peters and Peter Hanson help clarify. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-November/252741.html A company in New York is looking for a Python deveoper for Zope work. I know there has to be someone in NYC with that kind of experience. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/252840.html Locks, mutexes, Semaphores - Oh My! Discussion of when to use what. Hint: they are basically the same, only speed and internal implementation really set them apart. RLock, Condition, Event, etc., add functionality. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/252869.html Gordon Williams asks about set intersections. Raymond Hettinger confirms that set intersection with the `set` module does the right thing. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/253142.html A nice one-liner for DNA recombinations. Be careful with the size of your input, you don't want to go and segfault with a 512M element list... http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/252970.html Armin Ringo releases Psyco 1.3, for those of us who like our Python to execute faster. Support for Python 2.1-2.4 is included, as well as more support for local variables. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/253234.html Alia Khouri asks "why no python setup.py uninstall?" and gets basically no response. It brings up the topic of Python package management, which has been discussed before. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/253316.html http://python.org/peps/pep-0301.html Andre Roberge asks for advice on naming a new (claimed better) version of "Guido van Robot", which is an instructional tool for new programmers. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/253453.html ======================================================================== Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Notice especially the master FAQ http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the marvelous daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new) World-Wide Web articles related to Python. http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL are utterly different in their technologies and generally in their results. comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week. http://www.python.org/dev/summary/ The Python Package Index catalogues packages. http://www.python.org/pypi/ The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references to all sorts of Python resources. http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ The Python Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies that base their business on ... Python." http://www.python-in-business.org Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're subject with a vision of what the language makes practical. http://www.pythonology.com/success The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. http://www.python.org/psf/ Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation. http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches. http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch Cetus collects Python hyperlinks. http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and interesting recipes. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are http://www.python.org/channews.rdf http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi http://python.de/backend.php For more, see http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a SourceForge reincarnation. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com. editor(a)pythonjournal.com and editor(a)pythonjournal.cognizor.com welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work. *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.com Archive probing tricks of the trade: http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100 http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.pyth… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lan… Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. E-mail to <Python-URL(a)phaseit.net> should get through. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning (approximately), ask <claird(a)phaseit.net> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.

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UK Python Conference - 20-23 April 2005 - Call for papers
by Andy Robinson 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

The UK Python Conference for 2005 will take place at the Randolph Hotel, Oxford on 20-23 April 2005. We hereby invite speakers to submit proposals for talks. About the event =============== This will once again be held as a track within the ACCU conference. The conference site is here, and more details on the Python track will appear shortly. http://www.accu.org/conference/ The ACCU event is one of the foremost conferences for programmers, attracting the inventors and/or leading proponents of C, C++, Java, .NET and Python over the last few years. Past Python speakers have included Guido van Rossum, David Ascher, Alex Martelli, Armin Rigo, Paul Everitt, Marc-Andre Lemburg and many others, and the ACCU now treats Python as being fully on par with Java and C++. The event is priced midway between commercial and community events, at approx. £100 per day, and is professionally managed. It is located in a historic hotel in the centre of Oxford and is ideal for anyone wanting to combine a holiday with a conference. Conference Format ================= The Python conference will span THREE days, with ONE track. The first slot each morning is taken by the cross-conference keynote. This was the overwhelming preference of those we polled last year. (There will NOT be a separate Open Source track this year; the "rotating special subject" is Security. As a result, Python-related security talks would be of interest) You may propose 90 minute or 45 minute talks. The ACCU's general preference is for a small number of high quality, well prepared talks on subjects of broad interest to programmers, and the Python track will follow this. There will also be space for less formal lunchtime talks, evening BOFs and other events. Speakers' compensation is yet to be confirmed, but in the past those doing 90 mimutes (or 2x45 minute talks) will be eligible for 4 days paid accomodation and admission to the 4 day event; 45 minute speakers will gain 1 day's admission. Where possible, we will attempt to allocate resources to ensure that the best speakers are able to attend irrespective of circumstances. Submission Procedure =================== Please send an email to pyuk2005_talks(a)reportlab.com not later than 26th December, with the following information: Your Name Short Biography Talk Title Talk Synopsis This is a simple mailbox; the committee will review and acknowledge submissions a couple of times a week. If this shows promise, you will be given a chance to refine the details through a web based system later. Committee ========= A small committee will be formed to scrutinize talk proposals including those whol volunteered last year. This includes myself, Dr. Tim Couper and Dr. John Lee. General discussion about the event should be directed to the python-uk list (python-uk(a)python.org) ReportLab Europe Ltd. is managing parts of the event infrastructure and will be providing some staff time to provide a guaranteed point of contact. --- Best Regards Andy Robinson CEO/Chief Architect ReportLab Europe Ltd tel +44-20-8544-8049

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Tibia 0.1 DOM-based website editor
by Robert Brewer 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Tibia is an in-browser editor for web pages. It allows you to quickly and easily modify the content of your web pages. It allows you to directly view, edit, and save files on your webserver. It also allows you to upload files from your local filesystem to your webserver, and then edit those documents. It also allows you to grab web pages from other websites and save them on your server, and then edit _those_. Stick the single tibia.tba file on your webserver (assuming Python is installed) and you're off and editing files in the same folder or below. Admins can edit any element; non-admins can edit any element for which admins give them permission. You should probably have IE6 or Firefox; IE has limitations. If you want to test it with another recent browser (it's all DOM-based), feel free and let me know what breaks: tibia(a)aminus.org. Ditto for other webserver/OS/Python versions. You can also fill out complete bug reports or feature requests at http://www.casadeamor.com/FogBugz. Download: http://www.aminus.org/rbre/tibia/tibia.tba Subversion: svn://casadeamor.com/tibia/trunk Help: http://www.aminus.org/rbre/tibia/tibia.html Demo: http://www.aminus.org/rbre/tibia/demo/tibia.tba Log in as an admin with iwethey/yammer. Log in as a guest with guest/guest. Please don't break my little home webserver ;) Robert Brewer MIS Amor Ministries fumanchu(a)amor.org

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Snurf 0.2
by Mark Rowe 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

I am pleased to announce Snurf 0.2, the first released version of my Python-based blogging system. It 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. Features -------- Snurf sports support for the `Movable Type`_ XML->RPC interface that is commonly used by blogging clients to create and edit posts. Thanks to a contribution to a contribution from `David Creemer`_ it also supports the MetaWeblog interface used to upload images and other media content. By leveraging the power of the `Cheetah templating library_` it is incredibly simple to radically change the look and feel of Snurf's output. The default template, as seen on the `Snurf website`_, is intelligently structured so that the look of the website can be changed entirely through CSS. Download -------- Snurf 0.2 is available for `download`_. Installation instructions are provided in the included `README.txt`_. .. _Movable Type: http://www.movabletype.org .. _David Creemer: http://www.zachary.com/blog/ .. _Cheetah templating library: http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ .. _Snurf website: http://snurf.bdash.net.nz/ .. _download: http://snurf.bdash.net.nz/files/snurf-0.2.tar.gz .. _README.txt: http://bdash.net.nz/svn/snurf/tags/snurf-0.2/README.txt

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FAQtor 0.7 - The FAQ generaTOR
by stuff＠mailzilla.net 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

New to version 0.7: The XML input file can now contain html tag delimiters. Prior versions required the html tag brackets to be replaced with entities. FAQtor will now replace these brackets with the entities before parsing the XML. This should make FAQ generation less tedious for the end user. About FAQtor: FAQtor is a python script that generates customizable FAQs from a simple XML input file. FAQtor can be downloaded from: http://faqtor.sourceforge.net More information about FAQtor can be found at the above URL. FAQtor is released under the GPL and generated faqs can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes. FAQtor makes it easy for all websites to include a FAQ because it takes the tedious nature out of it. There is no longer any need to manually edit the FAQ and update links to answers, etc... After initial (optional) customization, all that is necessary when updating a FAQ is to update the XML input file and re-run FAQtor. The XML file contains all of the information necessary to create a professional looking FAQ. Phil

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[ANN] Release 0.18 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Hi all, I am pleased to announce release 0.18 of Task Coach. New in this release: - Settings are saved automatically - You can track time spent on tasks. Note that the reporting facilities are still very limited (i.e. only a total time spent, no breakdown by day, week, or month yet). - A new date chooser popup that hopefully is a bit more user friendly than the previous one. If you are able to run Task Coach on other platforms than Windows XP (home or pro) I'd appreciate a note. If you run into problems, please mail me as well. In the latter case, please include all platform details, Python version and wxPython version, and of course a detailed description of the problem. What is Task coach? Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and uses wxPython. You can download Task Coach from: http://taskcoach.niessink.com. A binary installer is available for Windows XP, in addition to the source distribution. Thanks, Frank

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