Mailman 3 February 2004 - Python-announce-list

[ANN] Atox 0.1 released
by mlh＠furu.idi.ntnu.no 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

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. Atox is hosted at SourceForge (http://atox.sf.net) and the current release (0.1) is available for download via its project page (http://sf.net/projects/atox). Feedback is much appreciated. -- 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: Leo 4.1 rc4: An outlining editor
by Edward K. Ream 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Leo 4.1 release candidate 4 is now available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ This release fixes numerous bugs reported since 4.1 rc3 and makes several other improvements, including several nifty new plugins. The highlights version 4.1: --------------------------- - Leo runs in batch mode when invoked with --script aScriptFile.py - Leo supports Unicode characters (e.g. Chinese) in path and file names. - @directives and section references are now valid when executing scripts. - @ignored and orphan nodes now valid in @file-nosent trees. - Script-based find/change commands. - Check Outline command. - Hoist & DeHoist commands. - A new gui-agnostic architecture: useful for batch mode and unit tests. - Several new configuration settings. - Many new unit tests. - A host of bug fixes. Quotes of the month ------------------- I'm a newbie to Leo(a couple of weeks) and I feel addicted to programming again...in fact it has resurrected a dead project of mine :) The outline has proven most liberating in terms of testing ideas out. Thanks a lot! -- anon "Wow, wow, and wow. I just started using Leo about a month ago..Now I finally understand how to use clones and I realized that this is exactly how I want to organize my information. Multiple views on my data, fully interlinkable just like my thoughts...Thanks for a great tool! -- anon "I *LIKE* it; I was amazed at how [different the Leo] experience was compared to flat-filing. It was almost Forth-like in the way that it was possible to work top-down or bottom-up at will (I believe this is the key to its strength, btw)." --Tarvin Rhodes What is Leo? ------------ - A programmer's editor, an outlining editor and a flexible browser. - A literate programming tool, compatible with noweb and CWEB. - A data organizer and project manager. Leo provides multiple views of projects within a single outline. - Fully scriptable using Python. Leo saves its files in XML format. - Portable. leo.py is 100% pure Python. - Open Software, distributed under the Python License. Leo requires Python 2.1 or above and tcl/tk 8.3 or above. Leo works on Linux, Windows and MacOs X. Links: ------ Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 CVS: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=3458 Wiki: http://leo.hd1.org/ Edward K. Ream February 3, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward K. Ream email: edreamleo(a)charter.net Leo: Literate Editor with Outlines Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html --------------------------------------------------------------------

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BayPIGgies Thurs 2/12: SpamAI
by Aahz 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

The next BayPIGgies meeting is Thurs Feb 12 at 7:30pm. The speaker will be Dennis Reinhardt, talking about SpamAI (http://www.spamai.com/). BayPIGgies meetings are held at Stanford, California. For more info, see http://www.baypiggies.net/ -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR

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[ANN]PyCrash 0.2-stable released
by Carmine Noviello 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Hi, a new version of PyCrash is released with some bug fixes done. You can download it at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=98026&package_id=105… Enjoy! _______________________________________________________________________ About PyCrash Project: PyCrash is a crash handler that handles uncaught exceptions during program execution and collects information about the program context. PyCrash can be very useful in report bug information, because the programmer can easily analyse the program execution context of the crashed application. Major information collected by PyCrash in the crash dump is: - Information about operating system, Python and Python Standard Library version and general information about the program that is crashed (e.g., program name and version, time at witch program started and ended, and so on) - Information about the uncaught exceptions, like the exception type, the context (namely method name) in which the exception occurred and the exception value - General information about variables state - Information about the stack of each thread, like the list of stack frames, the variables value in each stack frame, and so on - General information about source code, like variable and function position in source file that can be useful for the programmer to find quickly bugs in source tree The format of the crash dump file generated by PyCrash is XML, so the programmer can easily read this file to understand why the program is crashed. Now, is also available a GUI browser, named PyCrashViewer, which allows developers to analyze quickly and easily PyCrash crash dump files in a graphical manner. Next version of PyCrash will include at least these features: - Full support to new-style classes - Cryptographic functionalities, which allow programmers to cypher crash dump in order to protected sensible information in crash files. More information can be found at: http://pycrash.sourceforge.net Thanks! <P><A HREF="http://pycrash.sourceforge.net">PyCrash 0.2</A> - a crash handler for Python written applications. (03-02-04)</P> -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG

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OSCON Reminder: proposal deadline Februrary 9
by Guido van Rossum 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Just a quick reminder: you have another week to submit a proposal for the Python 12 Conference at OSCON: The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) will be held July 26-30, 2004 at the Portland Marriott Downtown in Portland, OR. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2004/ Proposals Submission Information--Deadline: February 9, 2004 http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/create/e_sess --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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Soprano 0.05c released!
by frank 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Soprano 0.05c released! there was a problem with the ping timeout, fixed now. everything should work fine. I was away for the weekend so i did not fix it before now sorry about that. Download and read more at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/soprano/

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WindPySend : GuiAPI
by vincent_delft＠yahoo.com 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

With this DLL you can simulate keyboard input and Mouse mouvement on your Windows 98/NT/2000 machine. It's design to : -test application, -simulate user inputs on remote machines, -automize some tasks within your preferred applications. -You can build, what I call a GuiAPI. Check at : http://users.swing.be/wintclsend/windpysend/ This is the clone of WinTclSend wich runs since about 4 years (http://users.swing.be/wintclsend/) Thanks.

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ANN: Vancouver Python and Zope User Group meeting
by Brian Quinlan 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Tomorrow, February 3rd 2004, at 6:00 there will be the usual monthly VanPyZ meeting. The meeting will be held at ActiveState on 580 Granville Street, Vancouver. At this month's meeting we will discuss Python on Mac OS/X, Linux and other Unices. Topics will include GUI programming, bridging to Objective-C, Python's POSIX library and wrapping C code with Python. Cheers, Brian

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ANN: Simulation package SimPy 1.4 has been released
by Klaus Muller 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

SimPy (Simulation in Python) is a process-based discrete event simulation package. This new version of SimPy has significantly more capabilities than version 1.3. They have been developed from the ideas and with great collaboration of the very active SimPy user and developer communities Get SimPy 1.4 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpy/ and enjoy! Read more on SimPy at simpy.sourceforge.net. Here are the major changes and additions in SimPy 1.4: SimulationRT ------------ - A module which allows synchronization between simulated and wallclock time. SimulationStep -------------- - A module which allows the execution of a simulation model event-by-event, with the facility to execute application code after each event. SimGUI ------ - A Tk/Tkinter-based module which provides a SimPy GUI framework. SimPlot ------- - A Tk/Tkinter-based module which provides for plot output from SimPy programs. Resources ---------- - The wait queue and active servers of Resource objects can be Monitored for simulation data collection Monitor ------- - Module *Monitor.py* has been merged into module *Simulation.py* and all *SimulationXXX.py* modules. Import of *Simulation* or any *SimulationXXX* module now also imports *Monitor*. - *Monitor* now inherits from *list*. New style classes ----------------- - All classes in the SimPy API are now new style classes, i.e., they inherit from *object* either directly or indirectly. Histogram --------- - A class *Histogram* has been added to *Simulation.py* and all *SimulationXXX.py* modules.

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[ANN] Atox 0.1c1 released
by mlh＠furu.idi.ntnu.no 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

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. Atox is hosted at SourceForge (http://atox.sf.net) and the current release (0.1c1) is available for download via its project page (http://sf.net/projects/atox). Feedback, especially about bugs and installation problems, is much appreciated. -- 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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