Mailman 3 August 2004 - Python-announce-list

ZPUG DC-Metro, this Thursday @ 7pm
by jonahfish Aug. 4, 2004

Aug. 4, 2004

The Zope/Python Users Group of DC exists to promote and serve the user and developer community in Washington, DC, for Python, Zope, and Plone. We will hold meetings and networking events, and provide a mailing list to our members. We meet on the first Thursday and third Monday of every month. We've scheduled meetings through the end of September. For now, our meetings are scheduled in downtown DC, in a meeting room at Porter Novelli. ______________________________________________________________ Main presentation: Durus, a new and cool object database from the MEMS Exchange (David Binger). Mini-presentation: Python (ultra) debugger (James Rosey) 8/05/2004 from 19:00 to 21:00 For more info please visit: http://zpugdc.org/meetings/mtg3 Hope to see any and all interested there, Jonah

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Third Python Bug Day
by A.M. Kuchling Aug. 2, 2004

Aug. 2, 2004

The third Python Bug Day is coming up this Saturday, August 7 2004. What's a bug day? ================= Participants meet in an IRC channel and collaboratively go through the Python bug database, fixing and closing bugs as they go. You don't need to have previous experience with modifying the Python source; in fact bug days offer a good opportunity to learn the basics by asking questions and working on relatively simple bugs. Bug day participation also helps the developers and makes Python 2.4 a better release by reducing the backlog of bugs and patches. Plus, it's fun! When? ===== This Saturday, August 7, 2004, from 9AM to 5PM EDT (1PM to 9PM GMT). You don't need to be around all day; feel free to stop by for a few hours and contribute. Where? ====== The #python-dev channel on irc.freenode.net. More information ================ For instructions and more information, see http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonBugDay --amk

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ANN: libgmail 0.0.7 - Gmail access via Python - Now with FTP Proxy!
by follower＠gmail.com Aug. 2, 2004

Aug. 2, 2004

libgmail -- Python binding for Google's Gmail service <http://libgmail.sf.net/> The `libgmail` project is a pure Python binding to provide access to Google's Gmail web-mail service. The library currently ships with a demonstration utility to archive messages from a Gmail account into mbox files, suitable for importing into a local email client. Also includes a demonstration utility that acts as a SMTP proxy to allow mail to be sent from any standard mail client that uses SMTP (e.g. Mail.app, Mozilla etc). (Now handles attachments.) New demonstration utility to provide access to Gmail message attachments via a download-only FTP proxy--this allows retrieval of suitably marked attachments by a standard FTP client. Utilize more of your Gmail space! License: GPL 2.0 (gmailftpd.py is dual licensed with PSF) Major changes since 0.0.6: * Demo FTP proxy enables marked Gmail message attachments to be download via FTP. * Implemented sending & receiving of message attachments. * Updated SMTP Proxy demo to handle sending attachments. * Added 'getMessagesByQuery' function. Major changes since 0.0.5: (Repeated from last announcement) * Implemented SMTP proxy to enable Gmail to be send with a standard mail client via (E)SMTP. * Extended standard SMTP class to handle ESMTP EHLO & AUTH PLAIN commands. * Utility function '_retrieveJavascript' to retrieve current version of Gmail Javascript file. (By request.) <p><a href="http://libgmail.sf.net/">libgmail 0.0.7</a> - The `libgmail` project is a pure Python binding to provide access to Google's Gmail web-mail service; includes SMTP & FTP proxies. (03-Aug-04)</p>

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 2)
by Peter Otten Aug. 2, 2004

Aug. 2, 2004

QOTW: "We can't really say much more about thread safety than this, we think the interpreter will survive. The rest is up to the programmer." - Donn Cave "Despite the seemingly endless necessity for doing so, it's actually not possible to reverse-engineer intended invariants from staring at thousands of lines of code (not in C, and not in Python code either)." - Tim Peters Marduk wants to use string formatting with an arbitrary iterable instead of a tuple. Hans Nowak posts a format function that fits the bill. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=40FF1A61.9050408%40zephyrfalcon.org The release of IronPython 0.6, a Python implementation for .Net and Mono, spawns a broader discussion on the merits of .Net and the Common Language Runtime. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=278de0e.0407281353.27b6a457%40posti… http://www.ironpython.com Christopher T. King takes a closer look at Yaroslav Bulatov's attempt to benchmark various approaches to sum many floating point numbers. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=Pine.LNX.4.44.0408011847510.21160-1… Premshree Pillai writes an SMS-to-LiveJournal gateway in Python http://www.livejournal.com/users/premshree/33967.html How would you iterate over a list two consecutive items at a time? That's a the heart of jblazi's question, and it turns out that there are two ways to do it. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=pan.2004.07.31.12.27.23.547000%40ho… Patrick Rutledge has written an introduction on how to create games using pygame. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7694 Is Python fully thread-safe? Jeff Epler is poking fun at the questioner, but Francois Pinard (sorry, no cedilla today) points the discussion into a more serious direction. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.775.1090684870.5135.python-… "Btw, thank you for those footnotes in Thinking in Java that encouraged me to try Python :-)" - Dan Bishop. Bruce Eckel, author of "Thinking in Java", asks for a test for string similarity. He receives various answers and a thank-you. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=mailman.958.1091195562.5135.python-… Dan Sugalski has lost the "Pie-thon" bet to Guido van Rossum that Python would run faster on Parrot, the virtual machine meant to power Perl 6. Images of Guido throwing the pie are finally available. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/5346 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oscon2004/friday/index.html ======================================================================== Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Notice especially the master FAQ http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the marvelous daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new) World-Wide Web articles related to Python. http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL are utterly different in their technologies and generally in their results. comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week. http://www.python.org/dev/summary/ The Python Package Index catalogues packages. http://www.python.org/pypi/ The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references to all sorts of Python resources. http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ The Python Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies that base their business on ... Python." http://www.python-in-business.org The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. http://www.python.org/psf/ Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation. http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html Cetus collects Python hyperlinks. http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and interesting recipes. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are http://www.python.org/channews.rdf http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi http://python.de/backend.php For more, see http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a SourceForge reincarnation. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com. editor(a)pythonjournal.com and editor(a)pythonjournal.cognizor.com welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work. *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.com Archive probing tricks of the trade: http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100 http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.pyth… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lan… Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. E-mail to <Python-URL(a)phaseit.net> should get through. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning (approximately), ask <claird(a)phaseit.net> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.

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