Mailman 3 April 2004 - Python-announce-list

WindPySend: a GUIAPI for windows machines
by vincent_delft＠yahoo.com 03 Apr '04

03 Apr '04

WindPySend is a DLL that allows you to simulate keyboard input and Mouse mouvement on your Windows 98/NT/2000 machine. I've just add a windows installer for Python-2.3. Visit: http://users.swing.be/wintclsend/windpysend/index.html Thanks

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PyGTA (Toronto Python users group) next meeting: Tuesday April 27th
by Peter Hansen 03 Apr '04

03 Apr '04

As noted in the updated wiki page http://www.engcorp.com/pygta/wiki/NextMeeting, the next meeting of PyGTA (the Toronto-area Python users group) will be held at this time and place, courtesy of our friends at Givex. Site: Givex offices (www.givex.com) Room: Suite 400 Address: 366 Adelaide St. West, just east of Spadina Date: Tuesday April 27 Time: 7-9 PM (A Yahoo!Maps link is on the wiki page.) This month we will be witness to a demonstration of the all-Python collaborative workflow management platform from AB Strakt of Sweden. Jacob Hallén, CTO and chairman, and Laura Creighton, company co-founder (and former Torontonian), will be showing how their product can allow partners to configure working systems for customers with only days of effort. The system is suitable for a wide range of markets where managing workflow and documents is critical, including accounting, law firms, medical practices, procurement, and so on. One or more of Mike Fletcher, Chris Garland and I (Peter) will also be around to tell you about PyCon 2004, which was a grand success with over 350 people attending! Hoping to see you there, -Peter Hansen and Ian Garmaise, meeting organizers P.S. If you are quite sure you'll be attending, please email me at peter(a)engcorp.com in advance so we can ensure there's adequate seating. I don't know how the March meeting went, but February's was pretty packed... P.P.S.: Also posted to comp.lang.python.announce since we haven't been using that channel to announce lately, preferring our mailing list. I guess doing this every six months or is a good idea...

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makeExe.bat - An explanation
by Premshree Pillai 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Hello, An explanation of makeExe.bat (http://premshree.resource-locator.com/j/post.php?id=152) has been appended to (http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/20247/0/page/3) "Create Python Executables Automatically" (http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/20247/). -Premshree Pillai ===== -Premshree [http://www.qiksearch.com/] ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Insurance Special: Be informed on the best policies, services, tools and more. Go to: http://in.insurance.yahoo.com/licspecial/index.html

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Announce: wxPython 2.5.1.5
by Robin Dunn 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Announcing ---------- I'm pleased to announce the 2.5.1.5 release of wxPython, now available for download at http://wxpython.org/download.php or http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10718&package_id=1055… What is wxPython? ----------------- wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is implemented as a Python extension module that wraps the popular wxWidgets cross platform GUI library, which is written in C++. wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program will usually run on multiple platforms without modifications. Currently supported platforms are 32-bit Microsoft Windows, most Linux or other Unix-like systems, and Macintosh OS X. Changes in 2.5.1.5 ------------------ The changes in this version are too numerous to list here, please see the following websites for more details. If you are upgrading from 2.4.x then please do read the MigrationGuide fully before as there are some backwards incompatible changes. http://wxpython.org/recentchanges.php http://wxpython.org/migrationguide.php -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

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IMDbPY 1.0
by alberanid＠libero.it 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

IMDbPY 1.0 is available here: http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/ IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database. IMDbPY aims to provide an easy way to access the IMDb's database using a Python script. Platform-independent and written in pure Python, it's theoretically independent from the data source (since IMDb provides two or three different interfaces to their database). IMDbPY is mainly intended for programmers and developers who want to build their Python programs using the IMDbPY package, but some example scripts - useful for simple users - are included. So far the only data source supported is the IMDb web server, and the search is restricted to movie titles. On the same page, you can find videodb_imdbpy 0.2, a set of Python scripts to populate/update/insert data in the VideoDB database (a PHP/mysql db written by Andreas Gohr, useful to manage your personal movie collection). -- Davide Alberani http://digilander.libero.it/alberanid/

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Tapestry uncovered
by jacob＠cd.chalmers.se 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

A magnificent discovery was made today, as a medeival tapstry foretelling the coming of Europython this summer was uncovered. "It is amazing in its precision" says Jacob Hallén, one of the organisers of the event. "And all the work that must have gone into it." A digitised image of the tapestry has been made. It can be viewed at http://www.europython.org/conferences/epc2004/news/Tapestry --

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ANNOUNCE: 'goto' for Python
by Richie Hindle 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Entrian Solutions is pleased to announce version 1.0 of the 'goto' module. This adds the 'goto' and 'comefrom' keywords to Python 2.3, adding flexibility to Python's control flow mechanisms and allowing Python programmers to use many common control flow idioms that were previously denied to them. 'goto' example: breaking out from a deeply nested loop: from goto import goto, label for i in range(1, 10): for j in range(1, 20): for k in range(1, 30): print i, j, k if k == 3: goto .end label .end print "Finished\n" 'comefrom' example: letting cleanup code take control after an error. from goto import comefrom, label def bigFunction(): setUp() if not doFirstTask(): label .failed if not doSecondTask(): label .failed if not doThirdTask(): label .failed comefrom .failed cleanUp() Computed 'goto's are also supported - see the documentation for details. Computed 'comefrom's are planned for a future release. Documentation and further examples: http://entrian.com/goto/index.html Downloads: http://entrian.com/goto/download.html The 'goto' module is released under the Python Software Foundation license, and requires Python 2.3 or later. Please note that this version does not work at the interactive Python prompt - code importing 'goto' must be in a .py file. This restriction will hopefully be lifted in a future release. -- Richie Hindle richie(a)entrian.com

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easylog alpha
by JimJJewett＠yahoo.com 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

The standard library's logging package is very powerful, but it doesn't scale *down* well. easylog is an attempt to better serve one-liner and midweight usage. easylog is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/easylog/ under the Python Software Foundation license. easylog relies on an underlying logging package, so it will benefit from future improvements to the core logging package. (Unfortunately, treating another module as a black box to inherit from left some of the internals ... ugly.) I would particularly appreciate feedback on what should be cleaned up before it leaves alpha/beta status. -jJ

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List for PyCon submission software
by A.M. Kuchling 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

This year the software for submitting proposals to PyCon was written extremely hurriedly, and often new features were added just before (or just after) a conference deadline. I'd like to do better next time by having the software be more polished before the proposal submission madness begins. To that end, a Wiki page for recording ideas for the conference software is at http://www.amk.ca/ng-arch/ConferenceSWIdeas Please add any suggestions you might have; suggestions from PyCon proposal authors will be especially valuable. I've also set up a mailing list named 'conf' for people who want to help test alphas and betas of software; you can join at http://www.amk.ca/mailman/listinfo/conf . My plan is to hack on the conference software fairly intensively for the next month or two, with mailing list readers trying out the current snapshot and offering comments/triggering bugs. Then I'll move on to other projects, at least until the CFP for PyCon 2005 goes out and new feature requests begin arriving. --amk

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BayPIGgies: April 8, 7:30pm
by Aahz 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs March 11 at 7:30pm. This meeting will have two sessions: A Practical Perspective on Python Performance Jimmy Retzlaff <jimmy(a)retzlaff.com> Jimmy will discuss a number of lessons learned regarding performance in a relatively large client-server Python application. Concepts including when, what, and how to optimize will be discussed. Technologies including extension modules, Pyrex (http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/), and Psyco (http://psyco.sourceforge.net/) will be briefly compared. The talk will conclude with some thoughts about the potential performance benefits of dynamic typing over static typing. Toying With Python - Highlighting "Keywords" in a Body of HTML Text Danny Yoo <dyoo(a)hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> Danny will demonstrate several approaches to solving a "simple" text processing problem including several wrong turns along the way to show what not to do. Both correctness and performance will be important in this problem. The tutorial should briefly cover: brute-force searching, dictionaries, regular expressions, and if we have time, maybe even something like the Aho-Corasick automaton. BayPIGgies meetings are in Stanford, California. For more information and directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/ Advance notice: The May 13 meeting will have a PyCon trip report from Guido van Rossum and Aahz. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "usenet imitates usenet" --Darkhawk

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