Mailman 3 February 2005 - Python-announce-list

[ANN] Fail2Ban 0.3.0
by Cyril Jaquier Feb. 24, 2005

Feb. 24, 2005

The version 0.3.0 of Fail2Ban is available. Fail2Ban is written in Python. It scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too much password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address. Currently, iptables, ipfwadm and ipfw are supported. Needs log4py. http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net Best Regards, Cyril Jaquier

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Python Online Programming Contest
by Varun Feb. 24, 2005

Feb. 24, 2005

Hi Friends, Department of Information Technology, Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, India is conducting a technical symposium, Samhita. As a part of samhita, an Online Programming Contest is scheduled on Sunday, 27 Feb 2005. This is the first Online Programming Contest in India to support Python !!!!. Other languages supported are C and C++. For Registration and Rules of the contest, http://www.samhita.info/opc For details about samhita http://www.samhita.info/ Regards, -Online Programming Contest team

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SPE 0.7.2.C Python IDE with wxGlade, UML & Blender support
by s_t_a_n_i＠yahoo.com Feb. 24, 2005

Feb. 24, 2005

Spe is a python IDE with auto-indentation, auto completion, call tips, syntax coloring, uml viewer, syntax highlighting, class explorer, source index, auto todo list, sticky notes, integrated pycrust shell, python file browser, recent file browser, drag&drop, context help, ... Special is its blender support with a blender 3d object browser and its ability to run interactively inside blender. Spe ships with wxGlade (gui designer), PyChecker (source code doctor) and Kiki (regular expression console). Spe is extensible with wxGlade. If you like SPE, please contribute by coding, writing documentation or donating. I would like to thank especially Mike of Partner2Partner, who gave a nice donation to SPE. Also I would like to thank Michael Foord, who made SPE part of a new Python distribution, called "movable python". It gives you the possibility to carry your favorite developping environment on a USB stick. So you can continue your work on any computer or test your modules for different python versions. This distribution opens a lot of new possibilities, check it out!! For more info, visit http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/programs.shtml#movpy :Batteries included: - Kiki: Regular Expression (regex) console. For more info: http://project5.freezope.org/kiki/index.html - PyChecker: PyChecker is a tool for finding bugs in python source code. It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages, like C and C++. It is similar to lint. For more info: http://pychecker.sourceforge.net - wxGlade: wxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create wxWindows/wxPython user interfaces. As you can guess by the name, its model is Glade, the famous GTK+/GNOME GUI builder, with which wxGlade shares the philosophy and the look & feel (but not a line of code). For more info: http://wxglade.sourceforge.net :Bug fixes: - right click menu :Donations(50 euro): - Mike (Partner2partner) :Contributors: - Thurston Stone :Requirements: - full python 2.3+ - wxpython 2.5.3.8+ - optional blender 2.35+ :Links: - Homepage: http://spe.pycs.net - Website: http://projects.blender.org/projects/spe/ - Screenshots: http://spe.pycs.net/pictures/index.html - Forum: http://projects.blender.org/forum/?group_id=30 - RSS feed: http://spe.pycs.net/weblog/rss.xml

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 24)
by Cameron Laird Feb. 24, 2005

Feb. 24, 2005

QOTW: "Who's 'Guido'?" -- Ilias Lazaridis "I know this document. It has no relevance to me." -- Ilias Lazaridis, on <URL: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > "Nobody asked them to do this (AFAIK), it's more that nobody could _stop_ them from doing it." -- timbot, on the work of Jason Tishler and Andrew MacIntyre with Cygwin and OS/2 EMX, respectively Hot off the virtual press: Py2.4 Quick Reference: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5… For a decade now, confident people have declaimed in managers' meetings and conferences that {local,Web} applications are {dead,utterly triumphant}, in all combinations (and sometimes at the same venues) (and sometimes by the same people!) (although not by the same people at the same time). Real Programmers know they need judgment and expertise on both sides. The principal implications for Python: client-side Web scripting is one of the few domains where Python is *not* nearly ideal (although not for technical reasons); but the best "Weblications" still can result from co- operation between Python and other languages: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b… Kartic and Tony Meyer provide nice two-minute tutorials on imaplib, and, more generally, network programming: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c… Tkinter has modal dialogues: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8… Ron Stephens entertainingly advertises pyGoogle: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e… Peaceful coexistence: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3… http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3… ======================================================================== 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 Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're subject with a vision of what the language makes practical. http://www.pythonology.com/success 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 Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches. http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch 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. del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary. It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence. http://del.icio.us/tag/python *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/ (requires subscription) http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=python-url+group:comp.lang.python*&s… 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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[ANN] Spineless Game Engine 0.1.0
by Jussi Lepistö Feb. 24, 2005

Feb. 24, 2005

Spineless is a generic cross-platform 3D game engine implemented in Python with Pyrex optimizations. Focus is on flexibility, clean design and ease of use, not pure speed. It's currently fully functional on Windows only, but full support for Linux and OSX is planned for the next release. Spineless is released under the BSD license. This is the first "serious" release of Spineless, after over half a year since the first release, which was more like a quickly thrown together pre-release. Almost everything has changed in the engine (for the better), so instead of listing the changes, I invite you to visit the home page at http://spineless.sourceforge.net/ and check it out yourself. -Jussi <selkrank(a)users.sourceforge.net>

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ANN: numarray-1.2.2
by Todd Miller Feb. 23, 2005

Feb. 23, 2005

Release Notes for numarray-1.2.2 Numarray is an array processing package designed to efficiently manipulate large multi-dimensional arrays. Numarray is modelled after Numeric and features c-code generated from python template scripts, the capacity to operate directly on arrays in files, arrays of heterogeneous records, string arrays, and in-place operation on array memory mapped onto files. I. ENHANCEMENTS 1. Support for user defined universal functions with arbitrary numbers of parameters. See numarray/Examples/ufunc/setup_special.py 2. Additional modifications to support numarray operation with scipy_base. 3. Import time roughly halved thanks to Rory Yorke. 4. Improved sorting functions from Chuck Harris. 5. Simplified array() and fromfile() from Rory Yorke. 6. Port of Numeric's dotblas extension for faster matrix multiplication when linked against ATLAS, LAPACK, BLAS, etc. 7. Improvements to array indexing speed from Francesc Alted and Tim Hochberg. II. BUGS FIXED / CLOSED 1120138 Document ieeespecial 1119411 No file named "LinearAlgebra2/setup.py" 1119265 'print' fails on masked arrays 1111765 python setup.py bdist_rpm fails (1.2a) 1110655 Problem with the ufunc .sum() and a rank-0 array. 1110607 f2py file paths on windows 1108374 count method in string.array wrong 1102874 remove use of basestring in fromfile for Python 2.2 1100435 Remove NUL bytes in nd_image/test.py 1099974 .sum() gives wrong results 1091474 log(0) should be -inf 1089116 CharArray maxLen bug 1088817 Convolution with complex kernels gives wrong answer 1087378 LinAlgError is a string, not an Exception 1087304 Add toUpper() and toLower to CharArray 1087158 Float64 == records.CharType 1075802 masked_print_option produces incorrect output 1075795 float() and int() don't work on masked arrays 1075794 correlate2d should do autocorrelations 1075793 convolve2d/correlate2d should create output arrays 1075789 resized() pads with nulls not blanks: numarray 1.2.2 1069032 A little bug in setup.py 1068768 KeyboardInterrupt shows strange behavior 1067238 memory leak in determinant 1056649 Memory leak with dot and transpose 1052488 Modify sum() result type for boolean arrays 1050292 Side effects of putmask 1047272 Update license references 1045518 A disconnected numarray rant 1044885 complex number ieee oddities 1044788 wrong typecode 1038528 Making PyArray_CanCastSafely safer on 64-bit machines 1038397 numarray sum() has a possible memory leak 1038064 tofile() of zero length array 1037038 boolean cummulative operator leak 1036327 Buffer overflow in sum and add_Int64_reduce 1035701 numerical array from string list loops 1033860 Wrong array indexing when byteorder is changed 1031883 MA __setslice__ bug 1031356 Sequences with Python longs --> Int64 1030023 problem with matrixmultiply 1029547 IndexError in 4.8 Index Arrays example 1028782 matrixmultiply reference counting 1028738 atlas/blas library listings in addons.py 1025160 gcc error during install: duplicate case value 1022523 chararray concatentation problem 1018252 bad memory leak in reduce/accumulate See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=450446&group_id=1369&func=browse for more details. III. CAUTIONS This release should be backward binary compatible with numarray-1.1.1. WHERE ----------- Numarray-1.2.2 windows executable installers, source code, and manual is here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369 Numarray is hosted by Source Forge in the same project which hosts Numeric: http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/ The web page for Numarray information is at: http://stsdas.stsci.edu/numarray/index.html Trackers for Numarray Bugs, Feature Requests, Support, and Patches are at the Source Forge project for NumPy at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=1369 REQUIREMENTS ------------------------------ numarray-1.2.2 requires Python 2.2.2 or greater. AUTHORS, LICENSE ------------------------------ Numarray was written by Perry Greenfield, Rick White, Todd Miller, JC Hsu, Paul Barrett, Phil Hodge at the Space Telescope Science Institute. We'd like to acknowledge the assitance of Francesc Alted, Paul Dubois, Sebastian Haase, Chuck Harris, Tim Hochberg, Nadav Horesh, Edward C. Jones, Eric Jones, Jochen Kuepper, Travis Oliphant, Pearu Peterson, Peter Verveer, Colin Williams, Rory Yorke, and everyone else who has contributed with comments and feedback. Numarray is made available under a BSD-style License. See LICENSE.txt in the source distribution for details. -- Todd Miller jmiller(a)stsci.edu

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ANN: PyQwt-4.2 released
by Gerard Vermeulen Feb. 23, 2005

Feb. 23, 2005

What is PyQwt? - it is a set of Python bindings for the Qwt C++ class library which extends the Qt framework with widgets for scientific, engineering and financial applications. It provides a widget to plot 2-dimensional data and various widgets to display and control bounded or unbounded floating point values. - it requires and extends PyQt, a set of Python bindings for Qt. - it supports the use of PyQt, Qt, Qwt, the Numerical Python extensions (either Numeric, or numarray or both) and optionally SciPy in a GUI Python application or in an interactive Python session. - it runs on POSIX, MacOS/X and Windows platforms (practically any platform supported by Qt and Python). The home page of PyQwt is http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net. PyQwt-4.2 is a maintenance release to keep up with the recent releases of PyQt-3.14 and its code generator SIP-4.2. PyQwt-4.2 supports: 1. Python-2.4 downto -2.1. 2. PyQt-3.14 downto -3.10. 3. SIP-4.2 downto -4.0, and SIP-3.11 downto -3.10. 4. Qt-3.3.4 downto -2.3.0. 5. Qwt-4.2.0. Have fun -- Gerard Vermeulen

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Sydney Python Meetup: March 10
by Alan Green Feb. 22, 2005

Feb. 22, 2005

When: Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 6:30 PM Where: James Squire Brewhouse 22 The Promenade King St Wharf Sydney, NSW 02 8270-7999 This month's topic is Python Web Frameworks, an area of interest to many, and we are expecting lively discussion. The room will be open from 6:30pm, and the formal portion of the evening will consist of an hour of short talks from 7:00. You are welcome to stay until the management turns off the lights. Come along and meet other Pythonistas from Sydney and beyond. More details and RSVP: http://python.meetup.com/96/events/?eventId=4239674&action=detail PS: If you'd like to give a ten to fifteen minute presentation on your favourite web framework, please contact the organizer (http://python.meetup.com/96/suggestion/). PPS: Please pass this invite along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Alan Green (agreen(a)cirrustech.com.au)

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ANNOUNCE: SiGeFi v0.3
by Batista, Facundo Feb. 21, 2005

Feb. 21, 2005

We're proud to announce the 0.3 version of SiGeFi, which you can find at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sigefi What is SiGeFi? --------------- SiGeFi is a Financial Management System, with focus in the needs of the administration of the money in each personal life and house. Always keeping the easy usage and concepts, SiGeFi has features of a complex Management system: - Complies with Double Entry Accounting - Has a Budget-based Money Distribution system - Allow to make Loans between accounts (with associated financial costs) And of course, it's completely written in Python (didn't decided the GUI yet). What is in this version? ------------------------ Functionality change: - Added the LoanChecker, a programmable asynchronous alert that verifies the loans due date. Internal changes: - Ended the docstrings, and generated the classes documentation using epydoc (that soon will be published in the web as part of its content). - Translated all the code texts to English, and did the gettext integration, so now SiGeFi is multilanguage (so far we have English and Spanish only). - Bugfixing. Specified the SiGeFi graphic interface. In the manual-gui.html document we described each window's functionality, and also we added an image for each one, so if you want to have a preview of how the GUI will look, there you have it). See roadmap.txt to find out the milestone for each version. Be aware that most of the documentation is not translated yet, it's only in Spanish. What can I expect for the next version? --------------------------------------- To us to finish the GUI (with all that that implies) and some other improvements: - See if we replace the PersitentDict with a shelve. - Study the consistency controls of Pickle, and implement some if necessary. - Define the boot procedure and code it in config.py. - Set up the web page. How can I help? --------------- In a thousand ways, there's a lot of things to do: documentation, fixing code, translations, set up the web page, etc... If you want to participate, send us a mail to the list (sigefi-list(a)lists.sourceforge.net) or directly to us. Thank you. . Facundo Bitácora De Vuelo: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog PyAr - Python Argentina: http://pyar.decode.com.ar/

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[ANN] PyComicsViewer 0.9.10
by ionutz Feb. 21, 2005

Feb. 21, 2005

What is PyComicsViewer? ======================= Is a comics viewer written in python, PyGTK and PIL. I made it as I didn't fully like any of the existing viewers and I wanted something that works the same (nice) way on both Linux and Windows. Because of the way it was implemented, you can also use it like a kind of image browser/viewer, but this is not its primary destination. Browsing images from uncompressed directories is provided because resulted naturally from the implementation and because I've seen some people that distribute their scaned comics uncompressed. Changes in 0.9.10 (2005/02/20) ============================= * added logging system based on python's logging system and a tab in preferences to configure it * show the ReadMe window when other windows than the pycomicsviewer.py are started directly. * close the application with the ESC key * show corectly the name of the current file on the status bar * solved bug that prevented the open of a comic after trying to open a non-existing comic (using the history, for example) Licensing ========= PyComicsViewer is released under the GPL. Where can I get it? =================== Home page: http://borco.net/html/PyComicsViewer/ Latest version: http://borco.net/html/PyComicsViewer/PyComicsViewer-0.9.10.tar.gz http://borco.net/html/PyComicsViewer/PyComicsViewer-0.9.10.zip http://borco.net/html/PyComicsViewer/PyComicsViewer-0.9.10.win32-py2.4.exe Cheers,

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