Mailman 3 October 2005 - Python-announce-list

[ANN] XPN 0.5.5 released
by Nemesis 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

XPN (X Python Newsreader) is a multi-platform newsreader with Unicode support. It is written with Python+GTK. It has features like scoring/actions, X-Face and Face decoding, muting of quoted text, newsrc import/export, find article and search in the body, spoiler char/rot13, random taglines and configurable attribution lines. You can find it on: http://xpn.altervista.org/index-en.html or http://sf.net/projects/xpn Changes in this release: * improved support for outgoing/draft articles, now is possible to re-edit queued articles. * added a simple SSL connection support (no certificates checks) * added multipart article support (no binary attachments support) * added German translation (thanks to Rene Fischer) * fixed a bug that caused crashes with strange Date fields * fixed a bug in newsrc importing, now is alse possible to import not standard newsrc files like the Xnews ones. * fixed a bug in the newsrc system that caused a crash with groups containings lots of articles * a lot of little bug-fixes and little enhancements XPN is translated in Italian French and German, if you'd like to translate it in your language and you are familiar with gettext and po-files editing please contact me (xpn(a)altervista.org). -- This is not a beer belly. It's a fuel tank for a sex machine. |\ | |HomePage : http://nem01.altervista.org | \|emesis |XPN (my nr): http://xpn.altervista.org

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ZODB 3.4.2 final released
by Tim Peters 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.4.2 final. This corresponds to the ZODB in Zope 2.8.2 final. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.4 Note that there are two Windows installers, for Python 2.3 (2.3.5 is recommended) and Python 2.4 (2.4.2 is recommended). ZODB 3.4.2 mostly contains obscure error-case bugfixes relative to 3.4.1. One important fix: most applications that do subtransaction commits do so to reduce RAM consumed by the ZODB memory ("pickle") cache. When subtransactions were reimplemented on top of savepoints, this cache reduction no longer occurred. That was an oversight, and is repaired in 3.4.2. See the NEWS file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.4/NEWS.html The current status of all active ZODB lines can be seen here: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/CurrentStatus

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ZODB 3.2.10 final released
by Tim Peters 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.2.10 final. This corresponds to the ZODB in Zope 2.7.8 final. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2 Note that there are two Windows installers, for Python 2.3 (2.3.5 is recommended) and Python 2.4 (2.4.2 is recommended). ZODB 3.2.10 contains a few bugfixes relative to 3.2.9, all in obscure error cases. The most serious is a workaround for what appears to be a rare race bug in Microsoft's implementation of socket binding on Windows platforms. See the NEWS file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2/NEWS The current status of all active ZODB lines can be seen here: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/CurrentStatus

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SMTP mailsink - route all SMTP email to a file
by Adam Feuer 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Folks, This little class starts up an SMTP server which acts as an email sink, collecting all received emails destined for any address. All emails are routed to a Portable Unix Mailbox file. This is very handy for testing applications that send email. It runs in its own thread, so you can easily use it from a test fixture to collect your emails and verify them for correctness. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440690 Enjoy! -adam -- Adam Feuer <adam at adamfeuer dot com>

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ANN: Nufox 0.1.0
by Timothy Stebbing 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Nufox is a remote-XUL server framework for building live, event-driven, through-the-web GUI applications without writing markup, just python. This is the initial release and represents several months work, much thanks to cablehead, radix, exarkun et al for their advice and contributions. url: http://trac.nunatak.com.au/projects/nufox download: http://trac.nunatak.com.au/trac/Nufox-0.1.0.tar.gz Timothy <tjs> Stebbing

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Nuxeo releases CalCore 1.3, a python calendaring component
by Lennart Regebro 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Paris, October 12, 2005 -- Nuxeo is happy to release CalCore 1.3.0 CalCore is an advanced, flexible calendaring component for Python. It allows the Python developer do write advanced calendaring applications either using their own event storage or integrating with external calendar servers. Features of the CalCore include among others: * Support for making private calendars, shared calendars, resource booking and more. * integration with iCalendar clients (Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, KOrganizer...) using the iCalendar protocol, * invitation workflow, * meeting support, including helper functions to look for free time, * recurring event support (thanks to SchoolTools recurrence implementation, http://www.schooltool.org), * etc. CalCore is being used as the core of Nuxeos CalZope and CPSSharedCalendar products, products for integrating with Zope and CPS. These products provide a complete web-based user interface to the CalCore calendaring. CalCore defines (but do not depend on) Zope 3 interfaces and schemas.It also uses Max M's iCalendar module. These packages are all included in the bundle tgz. For more functional and technical information, see the web site: http://www.cps-project.org/sections/projects/calendar_server CalCore 1.3.0 can be downloaded here: http://www.cps-project.org/static/misc/CalCore-bundle-1.3.0.tgz If you'd like to help with CalCore development or integration with calendar servers, please join the cps-devel mailing list at http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/cps-devel (a dedicated list will be created if needed in the future).

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ANN: pyc -- python compiler in python
by Chad Crabtree (IT - Kelly Services) 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

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Reminder: PyCon proposal deadline is Oct. 31st
by A.M. Kuchling 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

The deadline for PyCon proposals is now three weeks away; proposals must be received by Oct. 31st. Read the call for proposals for what we're looking for and how to submit: <http://www.python.org/pycon/2006/cfp> The proposal submission site is <http://submit.python.org>. A.M. Kuchling Chair, PyCon 2006 amk(a)amk.ca

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REMINDER: SoCal Piggies: October 13, 7 PM at USC
by Grig Gheorghiu 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

The Southern California Python Interest Group will meet on October 13 at 7 PM at USC. Directions are available at <http://socal-piggies.org/scp/USC_Salvatori_Computer_Science_Center,_room_222> (note that there is a room change: this time we'll meet in room 322 and not 222). The theme for the meeting is "Python graphics and visualization". Presentations: "PIL tutorial" -- Brian Leair "matplotlib overview" -- Diane Trout "Creating sparklines with matplotlib" -- Grig Gheorghiu Please consider joining us if you are in the area. For more details on SoCal Piggies activities, see the group's home page at <http://socal-piggies.org/scp>. Grig

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REMINDER: BayPIGgies: October 13, 7:30pm (IronPort)
by Aahz 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs, October 13 at 7:30pm at IronPort. Tim Thompson will describe and demonstrate the interaction between Burning Man and Python using two applications, Radio Free Quasar and Ergo. BayPIGgies meetings alternate between IronPort (San Bruno, California) and Google (Mountain View, California). For more information and directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/ Before the meeting, we sometimes meet at 6pm for dinner. Discussion of dinner plans is handled on the BayPIGgies mailing list. Advance notice: We've got some options on the plate for November 10 but haven't settled anything yet. Please send e-mail to baypiggies(a)baypiggies.net if you want to suggest an agenda (or volunteer to give a presentation). The meeting agenda for December 8 has been set. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." --Red Adair

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