Mailman 3 June 2004 - Python-announce-list

ANN: PyGUI 1.5
by greg 27 Jun '04

27 Jun '04

PyGUI 1.5 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/ This version adds a GLView class for 3D graphics using OpenGL. See 90-glview.py and 91-glview-task.py in the Tests directory of the distribution for examples of its use. What is PyGUI? -------------- PyGUI is an experimental highly-Pythonic cross-platform GUI API. Implementations are currently available for MacOSX and Gtk. For a full description of the project goals, see the PyGUI web page at the address above.

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ANN: pyXSLdoc 0.62
by csad7＠t-online.de 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

what is it ---------- An application to produce documentation for XSLT files in XHTML format, similar to what javadoc does for Java files. changes since the last release ------------------------------ * new options -v, --verbose show more detailed information while generarating the documentation --helpfile show the information of a ReST .txt file on the help page. Default is ``./HELP.txt``. --windowtitle browser window title for the documenation * documentation of xsl:namespace-alias shows prefixes with connected URIs now. (thanks to Jarno Elovirta) * parameters of named templates are commented now and properly linked from index page * id and class attributes are filtered out of ReST XHTML to not interfere with pyXSLdocs own CSS classes * removed unused "deprecated" tab from navigation * updated to Pyana 0.9, should still work with Pyana 0.8 though * code documentation, refactoring and simplification (not all though ;) * lots of bugfixes and small changes see http://cthedot.de/pyxsldoc/README.txt for a complete list of changes license ------- pyXSLdoc is published under the LGPL. download -------- download pyXSLdoc v0.62 - 040626 from http://cthedot.de/pyxsldoc/ pyXSLdoc needs * Python 2.3 (tested with Python 2.3.4 on Windows XP only) * Pyana (tested with Pyana 0.9 only) * Docutils (tested with Docutils 0.3 only) usage ----- Copy the XSLT files to document in a directory below pyXSLdoc (you could also give the complete path to your files but that would end up like that in the documentation). Then start the documentation process with >python xsldoc.py DIRNAMES FILENAMES [options] DIRNAMES directories with XSLT files to document,e.g. dir1 dir2 All directories and XSLT files below a given directory will be processed, so you can just use your XSLT package main directory name (new from v0.50). FILENAMES single XSLT files to document, e.g. file1.xsl path/file2.xsl options ~~~~~~~ -h, --help show this help message and exit -sSOURCEPATH, --sourcepath=SOURCEPATH sourcepath to XSLTs, all XSLT files under this path will be documented and SOURCEPATH/overview.txt will be used for the overview. You might also simply list all dirs and XSLT files as parameters. -j, --javadoc, --htmldocs process comments in Javadoc style (HTML and @tags), default style is reStructuredText (ReST) -dDOCPATH, --docpath=DOCPATH documentation target directory, default is ./_xsldoc -oOVERVIEW, --overview=OVERVIEW show the information of this ReST .txt file on the overview page --helpfile=HELPFILE show the information of this ReST .txt file on the help page. Default is "./HELP.txt". --windowtitle=WINDOWTITLE browser window title for the documentation, text only, no tags -r, --removedocs remove all comments from given XSLTs and save results in COMMENTSTRIPPEDPATH. present files will be OVERWRITTEN! -cCOMMENTSTRIPPEDPATH, --commentstrippedpath=COMMENTSTRIPPEDPATH path where XSLTs will be saved after removing of all docs. Only used when option "-r" is given. Default directory is ./_optimized. -v, --verbose show more detailed information while generating the documentation thanks for the interest. any comment is appreciated christof hoeke http://cthedot.de <P><A HREF="http://cthedot.de/pyxsldoc/">pyXSLdoc 0.62</A> - generate XSLT documentations (26-Jun-04)

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OSAF announces open source Chandler subproject - PyLucene
by Ted Leung 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

We invite you to take a look at the new OSAF project at http://pylucene.osafoundation.org PyLucene is a Python wrapper around the Lucene indexing and search engine. It was developed by Andi Vajda at OSAF for use in Chandler. PyLucene is a way of letting Python use Lucene to do full text indexing. There has been a lot of interest and feedback from the Python developer community that it would be nice to be able to get this functionality without having to deal with all of the Chandler source tree. This interest lead naturally to the idea of a separate project. During the weekly OSAF IRC Office Hour on June 23, 2003 there was a discussion with Andi, the original developer of PyLucene about its origins, scope, and current status. You can review this conversation on the IRC log <http://kahuna.osafoundation.org/~ducky/ getIrcTranscript.cgi?%20date=20040623> (from 11:00 to noon). ---- Ted Leung Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) PGP Fingerprint: 1003 7870 251F FA71 A59A CEE3 BEBA 2B87 F5FC 4B42

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ANN: Vancouver Python Workshop - Preliminary talk list available
by Brian Quinlan 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

A preliminary list of talks has been compiled for the upcoming Vancouver Python Workshop. The list can be found at the end of this e-mail. 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 Python language and applications o Content management 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 Tentative Talk List =================== This list is subject to change and does not included tutorials for beginning Python programmers. It also does not reflect the scheduling of the talks in any way. "Python Question and Answer Session" - Guido van Rossum "A strategic commercial perspective on ... Python? Really?" - David Ascher "Taking control of Windows" - Andy McKay "Python Quirks, Gotchas and Warts" - Paul Prescod "Komodo's Code Intelligence System" - Trent Mick "Using Zope/Plone with Relational Databases" - Joel Burton "Just add water: a newbie's guide to customizing Plone's look and feel" - Andrew Coates "Using Python and Zope to write a movie restoration system" - Ian Cavén "Extending Python With Pyrex" - Fraser Hanson "Constraint Programming in Python" - Toby Donaldson "Python Optimization" - Brian Quinlan "Twisted Picture: Building a client-server app with WxPython and Twisted" - Carlos Choy "Blocks & Views" - Scott David Daniels "Groupthink: the approaches to collaboration in Plone" - David Morriss "Open Source GIS with Python" - Mishtu Banerjee "Keep It Simple with PythonCard" - Kevin Altis "Stagehand - A Python BPEL4WS Implementation" - Andrew Francis "The Prothon Language" - Mark Hahn "Pygame: Implementing the big ideas from little developers" - Dethe Elza "Using Plone to devolve Web site management and maintenance" - Dominic Hiles "Using PyObjC to Avoid Writing Code" - Jim Tittsler "Using Plone to publish the Mouse Atlas of Gene Expression" - Kevin Teague "Object-Oriented Basics" - Jim O'Leary "New Models for Processing Text and XML with Python" - Sam Wilmott Cheers, Brian

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ANNOUNCEMENT: MMA 0.8 Release
by Bob van der Poel 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

I'm pleased to announce the release of my program mma - Musical MIDI Accompaniment version: Beta 0.8 MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform over from a user supplied file containing chords and MMA directives. MMA is very versatile and generates excellent tracks. It comes with an extensive user-extendable library with a variety of patterns for various popular rhythms, an extensive user manual, and several demo songs. MMA is a command line driven program. It creates MIDI files which need a sequencer or MIDI file play program. MMA is written in Python. You'll need version 2.2 of Python for MMA to function. MMA is supplied in 4 tar.gz archives. Included: mma-bin -- the main script and library files. mma-html -- documentation in HTML format. mma-ps -- documentation in Postscript format. mma-songs -- a collection of about 120 songs in MMA format. If you get the entire download package it is well under 1meg in size. MMA is currently in BETA. We are looking for lots of help in debugging the program, creating songs for distribution, and new and improved library files. Best of all, MMA is free. It is released under the terms of the GNU public license. It has been developed on a Linux platform, but should be usable on just about any system. MMA is available on my personal home page: http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp/mma/mma.html If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bvdp(a)uniserve.com Enjoy! Beta 0.8: Some major cleanups and minor syntax changes. Binaries now work with MSDOS-like systems. Complete rewrite of PATTERN code. The sound and style of the resulting tracks has been greatly improved! This is approaching a 1.0 release, so please let me know of any major problems or concerns before the we start to do a final wrap. Comments appreciated! -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bvdp(a)uniserve.com WWW: http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp

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Script to condense the review page
by Skip Montanaro 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

I help moderate a couple mailing lists on python.org. The biggest challenge for me is vetting messages which were held for review. The information density in the Mailman review page is pretty low, typically showing only two or three messages per screen. Most of the time all I'm really interested in are the subject and the disposition buttons. I wrote a script to display just that information (and set the default disposition to "discard"): http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/mmfold.py The subject links to the full review page for that message, so you still have access to all the bells and whistles available should you want them. Ideally something like this will be incorporated into Mailman itself, but for now mmfold.py is a reasonable substitute and should serve as a decent place to experiment with other ideas. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? http://www.spambayes.org/ skip(a)pobox.com

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SC-Track Roundup 0.7.5 - an issue tracking system
by Richard Jones 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. 0.7.5 is a bug fix release, including: - - force lookup of journal props in anydbm filtering - - fixed lookup of "missing" Link values for new props in anydbm backend - - allow list of values for id, Number and Boolean filtering in anydbm backend - - fixed some more mysql 0.6->0.7 upgrade bugs (sf bug 950410) - - fixed Boolean values in postgresql (sf bugs 972546 and 972600) - - fixed -g arg to roundup-server (sf bug 973946) - - better roundup-server usage string (sf bug 973352) - - include "context" always, as documented (sf bug 965447) - - fixed REMOTE_USER (external HTTP Basic auth) (sf bug 977309) - - fixed roundup-admin "find" to use better value parsing - - fixed RDBMS Class.find() to handle None value in multiple find - - export now stores file "content" in separate files in export directory 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 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) iD8DBQFA2qfXrGisBEHG6TARAtIVAJoCUgmHxA6MNzVbgCbLPKsHJAQRbQCfXgdI cwlqWpBIEPtQMi0UKbRt0AY= =tqYq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Middleware'04 Call for Posters
by Middleware 04 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2004 Workshops Call For Posters Posters are meant for publicizing current research initiatives as well as interesting new systems implemented using middleware technology. Reports of preliminary experience from middleware use cases are solicited. A 500-word summary of the poster's contents should be submitted by July 10th, 2004. Along with the notification of acceptance, authors will receive formatting instructions for the posters to be presented at the conference. Poster summaries will be published as part of the workshop proceedings. Note that the poster summaries will not be published within the conference proceedings. Submissions should be in PDF or PS format and should be sent directly by e-mail to the Posters Chair at delara(a)cs.toronto.edu, with the following subject line: "Middleware 2004 Poster Submission". Important Dates: Poster submissions: July 10th, 2004 Notification of acceptance: August 10th, 2004 For additional information contact: Eyal de Lara Middleware2004 Posters Chair Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Tel: +1-416-946-8656; Fax: +1-416-978-4765 delara(a)cs.toronto.edu

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ANN: SIP v4.0 Released
by Phil Thompson 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of SIP v4.0 available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/. SIP is a tool for generating Python modules that wrap C or C++ libraries. It is similar to SWIG. Its main use to date has been to generate PyQt and PyKDE. While SIP has been around since 1998, this is the first release that is fully documented (see http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/docs/sip/sipref.html). SIP is licensed under the Python License and runs on Windows, UNIX, Linux and MacOS/X. SIP requires Python v2.3 or later (SIP v3.x is available to support earlier versions of Python). Other features of SIP include: - support for Python new-style classes - generated modules are quick to import, even for large libraries - support for Qt's signal/slot mechanism - thread support - the ability to re-implement C++ abstract and virtual methods in Python - the ability to define Python classes that derive from abstract C++ classes - the ability to spread a class hierarchy across multiple Python modules - support for C++ namespaces - support for C++ exceptions - support for C++ operators - an extensible build system written in Python that supports over 50 platform/compiler combinations. Phil

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ANN: SIP v4.0 Released
by Phil Thompson 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of SIP v4.0 available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/. SIP is a tool for generating Python modules that wrap C or C++ libraries. It is similar to SWIG. Its main use to date has been to generate PyQt and PyKDE. While SIP has been around since 1998, this is the first release that is fully documented (see http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/docs/sip/sipref.html). SIP is licensed under the Python License and runs on Windows, UNIX, Linux and MacOS/X. SIP requires Python v2.3 or later (SIP v3.x is available to support earlier versions of Python). Other features of SIP include: - support for Python new-style classes - generated modules are quick to import, even for large libraries - support for Qt's signal/slot mechanism - thread support - the ability to re-implement C++ abstract and virtual methods in Python - the ability to define Python classes that derive from abstract C++ classes - the ability to spread a class hierarchy across multiple Python modules - support for C++ namespaces - support for C++ exceptions - support for C++ operators - an extensible build system written in Python that supports over 50 platform/compiler combinations. Phil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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