Mailman 3 February 2004 - Python-announce-list

PyCon DC Early bird rate EXTENDED until Feb 22, 2004
by Guido van Rossum 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Due to overwhelming success, the early bird deadline for PyCon DC 2004 has been *extended* to February 22. The early bird registration fee is only $175 ($125 for students). Monday the 23rd it goes up to $250 (really). To register, visit: http://www.pycon.org/dc2004/register/ Speakers, you too!!! DC 2004 will be held March 24-26, 2004 in Washington, D.C. The keynote speaker is Mitch Kapor of the Open Source Applications Foundation (http://www.osafoundation.org/). Famous C++/Java/Python author/evangelist Bruce Eckel will give a closing keynote. There will be a four-day development sprint before the conference. For all PyCon information: http://www.pycon.org/ See you all there! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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[ANN] Data Plotting Library DISLIN 8.2
by Helmut Michels 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

I am pleased to announce version 8.2 of the data plotting software DISLIN. DISLIN is a high-level and easy to use plotting library for displaying data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-colour plots, surfaces, contours and maps. Several output formats are supported such as X11, VGA, PostScript, PDF, CGM, WMF, HPGL, TIFF, PNG, BMP and SVG. The software is available for several C, Fortran 77 and Fortran 90 compilers. Plotting extensions for the interpreting languages Perl, Python and Java are also supported for the most operating systems. DISLIN distributions and manuals in PDF, PostScript and HTML format are available from the DISLIN Home Page http://www.dislin.de and via FTP from the server ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/grafik/dislin ------------------- Helmut Michels Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Phone: +49 5556 979-334 Max-Planck-Str. 2 Fax : +49 5556 979-240 D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau Mail : michels(a)linmpi.mpg.de

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SC-Track Roundup 0.6.5 - an issue tracking system
by Richard Jones 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

================================================= SC-Track Roundup 0.6.5 - an issue tracking system ================================================= I'm pleased to announce this maintenance release of Roundup which fixes some bugs: - mailgw handles of subject-line errors better - allow serving of FileClass file content when the class isn't called "file" (eg. messages and other FileClasses) - allowed negative ids (ie. new item markers) in HTMLClass.getItem, allowing "db/file_with_status/-1/status/menu" to generate a useful widget - fixed content-type when templates are serving up xml (thanks Godefroid Chapelle) - fixed IE double-submit when it shouldn't (sf bug 842254) - fixed check for JS pop()/push() to make more general (sf bug 877504) - fix re-enabling queries (sf bug 861940) - use supplied content-type on file uploads before trying filename - fixed roundup-reminder script to use default schema (thanks Klamer Schutte) - fixed edit action / parsePropsFromForm to handle index-page edits better - safer logging from HTTP server (sf bug 896917) If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Note that the Zope interface still doesn't work - it is fixed in the 0.7 development codebase. Roundup requires python 2.1.3 or later for correct operation. Python 2.3.1 or later is strongly recommended. 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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CJKPython 2.3.3 is released.
by Hye-Shik Chang 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

CJKPython 2.3.3 final release is now available at http://cjkpython.i18n.org/index.html#CJKPython CJKPython is a CJK-localized Python distribution for Windows. It comes with CJKCodecs and several CJK patches and third-pathy modules. What's different from the standard Python for Windows? ------------------------------------------------------ * Includes CJKCodecs as of incorporated edition in Python 2.4. * Includes the following third-party modules: - hangul 1.0 (manipulates Hangul, the Korean alphabet system) - pykf 0.3.3 (converts JIS codes) - ctypes 0.6.2 (interface to native dynamic libraries) * Respects system locale by default. * sys.displayhook is locale-aware so that users can see CJK strings as it is. * Shift-JIS localization patches by Atsuo Ishimoto are also available in this distribution and it's default for Japanese systems. Thanks! Hye-Shik Chang February 14, 2004

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[ANN] Atox 0.2 released
by mlh＠furu.idi.ntnu.no 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

What is it? =========== Atox is a framework for automated markup. With it one can quite easily write custom scripts for converting plain text into XML in any way one wishes. Atox is normally used as a command-line script, using a simple XML language to specify the desired transformation from text to markup, but it is also possible to build custom parsers using the Atox library. The name (short for ASCII-to-XML) is inspired by such UNIX tools and system functions as atops and atoi. What's new in 0.2? ================== There's a new demo directory with some examples, which also double as regression tests. There are two new features: Glued matching (for making sure two features occur side by side) and indentation parsing (for implementing nested structures based on indentation). Although the indentation functionality works well, it is still a bit experimental. Feedback is appreciated on how it might be expanded (or modified) to be of more practical use. Where can I get it? =================== Atox is hosted at SourceForge (http://atox.sf.net) and the current release (0.2) is available for download via its project page (http://sf.net/projects/atox). -- Magnus Lie Hetland "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, http://hetland.org but a fire to be lighted." [Plutarch]

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ANN: HarvestMan 1.3.2
by pythonguy＠Hotpop.com 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

I announced the minor version 1.3.1 of HarvestMan two days back. URL: http://harvestman.freezope.org Freshmeat: http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/harvestman The next minor version 1.3.2 is ready. This adds a minor feature of being able to limit number of simultaneous requests to a server. This release also adds installation scripts to the package. HarvestMan can be installed as a python package from this release on. Thanks to all those who gave feedback to 1.3.1 version. -Anand

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ANN: PyPayflowPro 0.1.0 is released
by Mark McEahern 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

PyPayflowPro is a Python wrapper for the Verisign PayflowPro SDK. With PyPayflowPro, you can use the Verisign Payflow Pro SDK directly in Python. This allows you to process credit card transactions (and other financial transactions) using Verisign Payment Services (http://www.verisign.com/products/payflow/pro/). PyPayflowPro requires: * Pyrex (to build the extension module) * Verisign PayflowPro for your platform PyPayflowPro is hosted at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pypfpro/) where the current release (0.1.0) is available for download. Feedback is most appreciated. Thanks, Mark McEahern

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SpamBayes 1.0a9 (0.9)
by Tony Meyer 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

The SpamBayes team is pleased to announce the latest release of SpamBayes - 1.0a9 (0.9). This is both a release of the source code *and* of binaries for Microsoft Windows users, including, for the first time, an installation program for all Windows users, not only those that use Microsoft Outlook. As such, we recommend that all SpamBayes users, including those currently running from source, and those using the Outlook plug-in, upgrade to this release. The Windows installation program will install either the Outlook add-in (for Microsoft Outlook users), or the SpamBayes server program (for all other mail client users, including Microsoft Outlook Express). All Windows users (including existing users of the Outlook add-in) are encouraged to use the installation program. If you wish to use the source-code version, you will also need to install Python - see README.txt in the source tree (or view it online) for more information. This release fixes a large number of bugs in the last release, and includes a few new features, too. For a detailed description of everything (well, everything we remember) that has changed since the last release, you can view our WHAT_IS_NEW.txt file, either online, or in the source distribution. Get it from the 'Download' page at http://www.spambayes.org/download.html Enjoy the new release and your spam-free mailbox :-) Tony (on behalf of the SpamBayes team) --- What is SpamBayes? --- The SpamBayes project is working on developing a Bayesian (of sorts) anti-spam filter (in Python), initially based on the work of Paul Graham. The major difference between this and other, similar projects is the emphasis on testing newer approaches to scoring messages. The project includes a number of different applications, all using the same core code, ranging from a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, to a POP3 proxy, to various command-line tools.

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ZODB 3.2.1 and 3.1.5 released
by Jeremy Hylton 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

ZODB 3.2.1 and 3.1.5 were released today from the usual places: http://www.zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2 http://www.zope.org/Products/ZODB3.1 These releases correspond to the Zope 2.7 and 2.6.4 releases made yesterday. They are bug fix releases, and users of earlier versions are encouraged to upgrade. There are no significant changes since the release candidates of three weeks ago. The most important fixes in ZODB 3.2 are for a pack bug in FileStorage that could cause data loss and for a ZEO performance problem caused by logging code. The same pack bug was fixed in ZODB 3.1. The NEWS files on the web site provide describe other, less significant changes. Jeremy

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.6.4 Released
by Brian Lloyd 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Hi all, Zope 2.6.4 final has been released. You can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.4/ For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.4/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.4/HISTORY.txt For more information on the available Zope releases, guidance for selecting the right distribution and installation instructions, please see: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/InstallingZope.html Brian Lloyd brian(a)zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com

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