Mailman 3 June 2004 - Python-announce-list

[ANNOUNCE] gmpy 1.0 alpha released
by Alex Martelli 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

See http://gmpy.sourceforge.net/ for details. What is it: a wrapper for the GMP library, to provide multi-precision arithmetic for Python. Multi-precision floats, and unbounded-precision rationals, are not present in stock Python; multi-precision integers ('long') are, but gmpy's version of multi-precision integers is faster for some operations (NOT all -- used to be, but Python 2.3 did serious enhancements to some operations on longs) and provides lots of nifty pre-packaged additional functions. Minor changes and bug-fixes since the latest 0.9 pre-alpha; support for Python 2.3. The Windows binary release is now for Python 2.3 _only_ (if you're stuck with Python 2.2 on Windows, you can keep using gmpy 0.9 pre-alpha and not really suffer from that). Known bug on Windows: the scan0 and scan1 functions appear broken (perhaps related to the lack of a GMP 4.0 library for Windows -- haven't found one around yet). Alex

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ZODB 3.2.2 (final) released
by Tim Peters 07 Sep '04

07 Sep '04

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.2.2 (final). This is the version of ZODB that will ship with Zope 2.7.1 (final). Upgrading to ZODB 3.2.2 is strongly recommended for all users, and is critical for sites running ZRS. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2 As promised with the ZODB 3.2.2b1 release last week, the tests for the unsupported Berkeley-based storages are now disabled in 3.2.2. In addition, a small but critical bug in FileStorage.restore() was identified and repaired. This bug didn't affect the Zope core, but is critical for sites running ZRS. See the news file for more detail: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.3/NEWS Note that ZODB 3.2.2 does not support Zope X3 (Zope 3 requires ZODB 3.3 -- as will Zope 2.8).

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ANN: lfm 0.91
by Iñigo Serna 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Hi out there, after almost 2 years since last public release, tonight I announce the more stable, rock, solid and powerful new version of lfm (v0.91). lfm is a 'midnight commander'-clone written in Python and licensed under GNU Public License. It should work on any UNIX with a modern (n)curses library and Python curses module compiled in. See README file or visit the web page for more information. Download it from: http://www.terra.es/personal7/inigoserna/lfm or if it doesn't show last version (crap of ISP reverse proxy), try this low-bandwidth home server: http://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm Of course, all comments, suggestions etc. are welcome. Changes since version 0.9: Version 0.91 ("It rocks... yeah!") - 2004/06/30: + quite stable and robust, doesn't crash + faster + new option: show_dotfiles flag + new option: detach_terminal_at_exec flag: useful f.e. if you want to run elinks as web browser attached to lfm terminal + file associations and applications can be configured in preferences + now each application has only 1 associated program, *breaking old .lfmrc* + perms dialog: users & groups sorted alphabetically + uncompress in other panel + resizing terminal works in lfm, pyview. Be careful with dialogs + columns size eliminated from preferences + 1-panel view redesigned + ESC closes dialogs, not lfm or pyview + Ctrl-D: select bookmark dialog + code reorganized: actions.py, vfs.py + added classifiers to setup.py script Version 0.90 was never publically released Best regards, -- Iñigo Serna <inigoserna (AT) terra (DOT) es> Katxijasotzaileak

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ANN: Pyana 0.9.1 Released
by Brian Quinlan 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

ANN: Pyana 0.9.1 Released You can find it here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28142 Changes: - Fixes a bug in Pyana 0.9.0 where repeated warning messages could cause a crash What is Pyana? Pyana is a Python interface to the Xalan-C XSLT processor. It provides a simple and safe API for doing XSLT transformations from Python but with the performance of a C processor. For example: import Pyana source_url = 'http://pyana.sourceforge.net/examples/helloworld.xml' style_url = 'http://pyana.sourceforge.net/examples/helloworld.xsl' print Pyana.transform2String( source=Pyana.URI(source), style=Pyana.URI(style)) Some more complex examples are provided here: http://pyana.sourceforge.net/examples/ Cheers, Brian

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ANN: XIST 2.5
by Walter Dörwald 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

XIST 2.5 has been released! What is it? =========== XIST is an XML-based extensible HTML generator written in Python. XIST is also a DOM parser (built on top of SAX2) with a very simple and Pythonesque tree API. Every XML element type corresponds to a Python class, and these Python classes provide a conversion method to transform the XML tree (e.g., into HTML). XIST can be considered "object oriented XSL". What's new in version 2.5? ========================== * Specifying content models for elements has seen major enhancements. The boolean class attribute empty has been replaced by an object model whose checkvalid method will be called for validating the element content. * A new module ll.xist.sims has been added that provides a simple schema validation. Schema violations will be reported via Pythons warning framework. * All namespace modules have been updated to use sims information. The SVG module has been updated to SVG 1.1. The docbook module has been updated to DocBook 4.3. * It's possible to switch off validation during parsing and publishing. * Experimental support for Holger Krekel's XPython has been added. * Creating global attributes has been simplified. Passing an instance of ll.xist.xsc.Namespace.Attrs to an Element constructor now does the right thing: * ll.xist.xsc.CharRef now inherits from ll.xist.xsc.Text too, so you don't have to special case CharRefs any more. When publishing, CharRefs will be handled like Text nodes. * ll.xist.ns.meta.contenttype now has an attribute mimetype (defaulting to "text/html") for specifying the MIME type. * ll.xist.ns.htmlspecials.caps has been removed. * Registering elements in namespace classes has been rewritten to use a cache now. * Pretty printing has been changed: Whitespace will only be added now if there are no text nodes in element content. * Two mailing lists are now available: One for discussion about XIST and one for XIST announcements. For changes in older versions see: http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/History.html Where can I get it? =================== XIST can be downloaded from http://ftp.livinglogic.de/xist/ or ftp://ftp.livinglogic.de/pub/livinglogic/xist/ Web pages are at http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/ ViewCVS access is available at http://www.livinglogic.de/viewcvs/ For information about the mailing lists go to http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/Mailinglists.html Bye, Walter Dörwald

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ANN: Vancouver Python Workshop - Last day for early bird registration
by Brian Quinlan 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

What's New? =========== Early bird conference registration closes TODAY (June 30th). Late registration will be available until the conference starts, but at a greater cost. This is also the last day for early bird registration at the Hyatt and other hotels are filling fast. So this is the best time to register! To register, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/registration For general conference information, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference About the Vancouver Python Workshop =================================== The conference will begin on July 31st with a keynote address by Guido van Rossum (the creator of Python). Further talks (and tutorials for beginners) will take place on August 1st and 2nd. The conference will be roughly divided into three tracks: o General Python Topics o Web application development with Python (esp. Zope and Plone) o Python for beginners More information see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/ or contact Brian Quinlan at: brian(a)sweetapp.com Vancouver ========= In addition to the opportunity to learn and socialize with fellow Pythonistas, the Vancouver Python Workshop also gives visitors the opportunity to visit one of the most extraordinary cities in the world (1). For more information about traveling to Vancouver, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/travel.html http://www.tourismvancouver.com Important dates =============== Attendee registration: June 4th to June 30th Late registration: from July 1st Keynotes, preconference sprints & tutorials: July 31st Conference and tutorial dates: August 1st and 2nd (1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2299119.stm http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml?idContent=1128760 Cheers, Brian

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BayPIGgies: July 8, 7:30pm
by Aahz 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs July 8 at 7:30pm. It will feature Roger Binns talking about BitPim, a program that manipulates data on cell phones. http://bitpim.sf.net/ BayPIGgies meetings are in Stanford, California. For more information and directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/ Before the meeting, some people meet at 6pm for dinner in downtown Palo Alto. Ducky Sherwood is handling that; please send RSVPs to ducky(a)osafoundation.org Discussion of dinner plans is handled on the BayPIGgies mailing list. NOTE: Please RSVP by 3pm 7/8 if you want to attend the dinner. Advance notice: The August 12 meeting agenda has not been set. Please send e-mail to baypiggies(a)baypiggies.net if you want to make a presentation. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Typing is cheap. Thinking is expensive." --Roy Smith, c.l.py

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ANN: python-ldap-2.0.1
by Michael Ströder 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

Find a new pre-release of python-ldap: http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/ python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs and LDAPv3 schema). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Released 2.0.1 2004-06-29 Changes since 2.0.0: dsml: * Fixed wrong exception message format string ldap.schema.models: * Fixed Entry.__delitem__() to delete really everything when deleting an attribute dictionary item.

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ANN: Vancouver Python Workshop - Complete schedule available
by Brian Quinlan 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

The complete schedule for the Vancouver Python Workshop is now available! For details, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/programme.html Early bird conference registration is only open until Wednessday (June 30th) so you should register as soon as possible! For general conference information, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference About the Vancouver Python Workshop =================================== The conference will begin on July 31st with keynote addresses by Guido van Rossum (the creator of Python) and Paul Everitt (co-founder of Zope Corp). Further talks (and tutorials for beginners) will take place on August 1st and 2nd. The conference will be roughly divided into three tracks: o General Python Topics o Web application development with Python (esp. Zope and Plone) o Python for beginners More information see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/ or contact Brian Quinlan at: brian(a)sweetapp.com Vancouver ========= In addition to the opportunity to learn and socialize with fellow Pythonistas, the Vancouver Python Workshop also gives visitors the opportunity to visit one of the most extraordinary cities in the world (1). For more information about traveling to Vancouver, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/travel.html http://www.tourismvancouver.com Important dates =============== Attendee registration: June 4th to June 30th Late registration: from July 1st Keynotes, preconference sprints & tutorials: July 31st Conference and tutorial dates: August 1st and 2nd (1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2299119.stm http://www.mercerhr.com/pressrelease/details.jhtml?idContent=1128760 Cheers, Brian

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ANN: Talk deadline for Python track at OSDC 2004 is closing
by Graeme Cross 28 Jun '04

28 Jun '04

A reminder that the deadline for submitting a paper proposal for the Python track at the Australian Open Source Developers Conference is rapidly approaching (technically it is June 28, but a day or two late isn't going to hurt :) For details on submitting a paper, see: http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/call_for_papers.html For information about the Python track, and OSDC in general, see: http://www.osdc.com.au/python/index.html http://www.osdc.com.au/ Regards Graeme -- Graeme Cross, graeme(a)osdc.com.au OSDC 2004: The Australian Open Source Developers' Conference

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