Mailman 3 May 2004 - Python-announce-list

TimeFormat 1.0.0 Released
by cms103＠owlfish.com 11 May '04

11 May '04

Hi, I've released a small library that provides a more capable alternative to time.strftime(). It allows formatting strings that can produce valid W3C DateTime formats with timezone (something that can't be done with strftime), and allows padding policies to be specified for individual elements (e.g. day with no padding, space padding, or 0 padding). It's licensed under a BSD Style license, and avialable here: http://www.owlfish.com/software/TimeFormat/index.html Colin.

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ANN: EasyDialogs for Windows version 1.14.0
by Jimmy Retzlaff 11 May '04

11 May '04

EasyDialogs for Windows is available at: http://www.averdevelopment.com/python/ EasyDialogs for Windows is a ctypes based emulation of the EasyDialogs module included in the Python distribution for Macintosh. It attempts to be as compatible as possible. Code using the Macintosh EasyDialogs module can often be run unchanged on Windows using this module. The module has been tested on Python 2.3 running on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. I would appreciate feedback at jimmy(a)retzlaff.com about experience running this on other version of Windows (I attempted to avoid APIs that weren't available on Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0). EasyDialogs is written in pure Python using Thomas Heller's ctypes module (http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/) to call Windows APIs directly. No Python GUI toolkit is used. This means that relatively small distributions can be made with py2exe (or its equivalents). A simple test of all the dialogs in EasyDialogs bundled up using py2exe results in a distribution that is about 1.25MB. Compressing the exe, dll, and pyd files using UPX (http://upx.sourceforge.net) drops that to about 550KB. Prerequisites EasyDialogs for Windows requires Windows, Python 2.3, and ctypes 0.6.3. License: MIT This is the initial public release of EasyDialogs for Windows. Jimmy

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[ANN] PyLint 0.4
by Sylvain Thénault 11 May '04

11 May '04

Hello all ! I'm pleased to announce the 0.4 release of PyLint. This release provides some new configuration options and a bunch of bug fixes. You will need the latest logilab.common package (0.5) to use this release. Enjoy ! What's new ? ------------ * fix file path with --parsable * --parsable option has been renamed to --parseable * added patch from Andreas Amoroso to output message to files instead of standard output * added Run to the list of correct variable names * fix variable names regexp and checking of local classes names * some basic handling of metaclasses * no-docstring-rgx apply now on classes too * new option to specify a different regexp for methods than for functions * do not display the evaluation report when no statements has been analysed * fixed crash with a class nested in a method * fixed format checker to deals with triple quoted string and lines with code and comment mixed * use logilab.common.ureports to layout reports What is Pylint ? ---------------- Pylint is a python tool that checks if a module satisfy a coding standard. Pylint can be seen as another pychecker since nearly all tests you can do with pychecker can also be done with Pylint. But Pylint offers some more features, like checking line-code's length, checking if variable names are well-formed according to your coding standard, or checking if declared interfaces are truly implemented, and much more (see http://www.logilab.org/pylint/ for the complete check list). The big advantage with Pylint is that it is highly configurable, customizable, and you can easily write a small plugin to add a personal feature. The usage it quite simple : $ pylint mypackage.mymodule This command will output all the errors and warnings related to the tested code (here : mypackage.mymodule), will dump a little summary at the end, and will give a mark to the tested code. Pylint is free software distributed under the GNU Public Licence. Home page --------- http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint/ Download -------- ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/pylint/ Mailing list ------------ mailto://python-projects@lists.logilab.org -- Sylvain Thénault LOGILAB, Paris (France). http://www.logilab.com http://www.logilab.fr http://www.logilab.org

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[ANN] Python and Embedded Systems -- a Success Story
by George Belotsky 10 May '04

10 May '04

Here is a story about the use of Python in an embedded development environment. "http://pythonology.org/success&story=carmanah". The company being discussed is Carmanah Technologies Inc.; it designs and manufactures a large variety of solar-powered LED lighting systems. The story has a few unusual twists, from the Carmanah's beginnings (as the navigation lights were failing on the founder's sailboat in the middle of the Pacific) to the surprising usefulness of Python in a microcontroller environment (where the target has just a few K of ROM). A picture of a finished product that benefited significantly from the use of Python is included. There is also a photograph of the prototype, interacting with a Python-based program. Enjoy! George.

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CPS 3.1.0 (development branch) has been released today.
by Stefane Fermigier 10 May '04

10 May '04

CPS 3.1.0 (development branch) has been released today. CPS 3.1.0 (development branch) is an intermediate release that takes place in the development process of the future stable release of CPS3, which will be CPS 3.2.0 (stable branch). It is fairly stable, and most of the products are currently used in production, but, except for unit tests which are usually written along the code, it has not received yet a thourough QA process. Some API may also change until CPS 3.2. It has been tested and should work on Zope 2.6.1, 2.6.4 and 2.7.0. It includes the new CMF 1.4.3 as well as several other third-party products. CPS 3.1.0 (development branch) improvements over CPS 3.0 are the following: * Interoperability and accessibility improvements: switch to XHTML 1.0 Transitional and move to more semantic HTML code. This is an ongoing effort to soon switch to XHTML 1.0 Strict and to assert the degree of accessibility of CPS with respect to the [2]Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). * A new [3]CPSSubscriptions product which brings a powerful and generic subscription and notification framework for CPS. * Thanks to the many users' and clients' feedback, many bug fixes and improvements on the [4]CPSDocument and [5]CPSSchemas products have been done. Those result in more usable widgets and forms in particular and in a more enjoyable user experience in general. * Many bug fixes in the CPSCalendar (= shared calendar) product. * General switch to the CPSSchema/CPSDocument framework. Most of the CPS components are now CPSDocuments on their own with all the new functionalities and services that it provides. So Sections, Workspaces and CPSForum posts are all now CPSDocuments. * Use of the new [6]CPSInstaller product for easier understanding, maintenance, stability and third party developments over CPS. * Indexation and previewing of new document types: MS Excel, MS Powerpoint. * Integration of the [7]CPSRSS syndication product. * Integration of the [8]CPSChat chat product. * Integration of the CPSCollector poll and user input collector (not converted yet to CPSSchema/CPSDocument, though). * Integration of the popular third-party [9]CPSSkins theme creation and management product by Jean-Marc Orliaguet. ([10]screenshots here). * New translation: German, which brings to 6 the number of languages available for CPS (some of these translation may not be complete as of now): + English + French + Spanish (thanks to Álvaro Tejero Cantero) + Italian (thanks to Paolo Dina) + Dutch (thanks to CapGemini Belgium) + German (thanks to Georg Hennemann) * In summary, there have been about 1200 commits by 13 commiters since the CPS 3.0 release. CPS 3.1.0 is available at: http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPS3/CPS-3.1.0 What is CPS ? [11]Nuxeo CPS is an extensive collaborative Web content management system (CMS) implemented on top of Zope and the CMF. Nuxeo CPS enables organizations to easily, quickly and efficiently implement collaborative intranet, extranet or internet applications. [12]CPS3 is the next generation of CPS, and builds on the strengths of CSP2. As CPS2, it provides: * Collaborative publication of documents * Indexation and previewing of office automation documents (MS Office, StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, PDF, RTF, XML, etc.). * Integrated search engine * Versioning * Mailing lists * Workflow * Integrated Meta Directory * Security (based on roles) The new functionalities and features only available on CPS3 are: * Flexible revision and translation framework for content. * Single repository for content objects, that stores versions of documents. * Event service: flexible tool to manage communication between tools. * Everything is workflow-driven, with placeful (local) workflow association. Workflow can be tuned for very different purposes (e.g. collaboration vs. publication). * Portal customisation system based on "boxes" with several boxes types already provided. * Internationalisation. More information You can find more information about CPS3 in the [13]EuroPython 2003 slides See also the [14]Nuxeo web site and [15]CPS Project for more details. Getting involved There is a [16]cps-devel mailing list for CPS3 (and CPS2) developers. CPS users lists ([17]cps-users (english) and [18]cps-users-fr (french)) are also available. References 1. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPS3/CPS-3.1.0 2. http://www.w3.org/WAI/ 3. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSSubscriptions/ 4. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSDocument/ 5. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSSchemas/ 6. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSInstaller/ 7. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSRSS/ 8. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPSChat/ 9. http://www.medic.chalmers.se/~jmo/CPS/ 10. http://www.medic.chalmers.se/~jmo/CPS/screens.html 11. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPS3/ 12. http://zope.org/Members/nuxeo/Products/CPS3/ 13. http://www.europython.org/Talks/Slides/cps_europython_2003.pdf 14. http://www.nuxeo.com/en/ 15. http://www.cps-project.org/ 16. http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/cps-devel 17. http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/cps-users 18. ttp://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/cps-users-fr -- Stéfane Fermigier, Tel: +33 (0)6 63 04 12 77 (mobile). Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server: http://www.nuxeo.com/cps Gestion de contenu web / portail collaboratif / groupware / open source!

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BayPIGgies: May 13, 7:30pm
by Aahz 10 May '04

10 May '04

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs May 13 at 7:30pm. It will feature a PyCon trip report from Guido van Rossum and Aahz. BayPIGgies meetings are in Stanford, California. For more information and directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/ Advance notice: The June 10 meeting will feature Bruce Eckel repeating his PyCon keynote on the Python type system. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Adopt A Process -- stop killing all your children!

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ANN: WhatOs + AutoState embedded system solution
by Mircea Hossu 10 May '04

10 May '04

WhatOS embedded system solution now incorporates AutoState, a general-purpose state machine source-code generator based on binary decision diagrams. http://www.sticlete.com/whatos http://sourceforge.net/projects/whatos New in 1.1 ========== * AutoState state machine C source code generation and verification (graphical simulation provided by WhatOS) * Much easier installation and usage * Two graphical demos (can be used as starter applications) WhatOS ====== WhatOS is a free open source embedded system development solution. It provides a complete set of tools for creating high-quality, reliable embedded systems. These include: a real-time operating system (RTOS) generator, a graphical simulator for testing and debugging generated systems, and tools for interacting with systems remotely after they have been embedded. WhatOS generates a finite-state machine (FSM) operating system that is architecture independent and can run on processors as small as resource-limited 8-bit microcontrollers. Key features ------------ * User friendly thanks to Python (primary API). * Automated testing thanks to Python's doctest and unit test. * Modular -- plug and play tasks without breaking the whole system; easily share device drivers, network protocols, etc. * Write tasks in C (C API). * Graphical simulator. * Uses friendly a-a-p recipes instead of make files. (www.a-a-p.org). * Host platform independence (currently Linux and Windows-Cygwin). * Target architecture independence. Change the target processor late in the design cycle with minimum penalty. * Do anything else you want -- use Python's comprehensive libraries and Python community software.

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SC-Track Roundup 0.7.1 - an issue tracking system
by Richard Jones 10 May '04

10 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This release fixes some bugs in the initial 0.7 release of Roundup: - - several temp files made it into the source distribution (sf bug 949243) - - typo in roundup/instance.py - - missing CRLF var in rfc822.py (sf patch 949471) - - fix user creation page - - have roundup server pass though the cause of a "403 Forbidden" response - - fix schema mutation in sqlite backends (thanks Tamer Fahmy) - - make popup Javascript IE 5.0 friendly (thanks Marlon van den Berg) - - fix RDBMS import (thanks Tamer Fahmy) Known issues: - - the metakit import feature currently has a bug and should not be used If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.1.3 or later for correct operation. 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 seven database back-ends (anydbm, bsddb, bsddb3, sqlite, metakit, mysql and postgresql). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAnu74rGisBEHG6TARAoLuAJ9Jg2drDDCLyxAxUl6EwvPH/0j1jACfWihX RFX1SPNQDmJiTrYG9S7LRKo= =dEaA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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PyFIT 0.3
by John Roth 09 May '04

09 May '04

FIT is Ward Cunningham's Framework For Integrated Testing. It's an acceptance testing tool that is intended to allow non-technical people to write acceptance tests with tools they are familiar with, including word processors and spreadsheets. This is an update of Simon Michael's port to Python. See fit.c2.com for details of what FIT is and how it works; the downloads page there contains Simon Michael's original port, which works with versions of Python up to 2.2.2. This version brings the port up to the last released Java version (Sept 15, 2003) and provides a clean interface for handling type related metadata. It's on Ron Jeffries' downloads page at http://www.xprogramming.com/software.htm The next version (0.4a1) is just around the corner; this will include interoperability with Fitnesse (see www.fitnesse.org) and most of the additions that Object Mentor made to the FIT product. It will also include [gasp!] real documentation, produced by Docutils, as well as somewhat better packaging for installation. Some day, if I can ever get Distutils to work... Have fun with it! John Roth

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ANN: eric3 3.4.2 released
by Detlev Offenbach 08 May '04

08 May '04

Hi, I just uploaded version 3.4.2 of eric3. This is mainly a bug fix release. It is available via http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/files/eric-3.4.2.tar.gz What is it? ----------- eric3 is a Python IDE written in Python using PyQt and QScintilla. It has all the features one expects from a modern IDE. For details please see http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html Detlev -- Detlev Offenbach detlev(a)die-offenbachs.de

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