Mailman 3 February 2005 - Python-announce-list

Guido speaking Thursday 2/17 in Palo Alto
by Sanford Rockowitz Feb. 15, 2005

Feb. 15, 2005

Guido van Rossum speaks this Thursday evening, February 17, in Palo Alto as part of SDForum's Distinguished Speaker Series (http://www.sdforum.org/dss). The topic is "Python: Building an Open Source Project and Community". Details: Date: Thursday, February 17, 2005 Time: Registration and Networking: 6:00 PM, Program 7:00 PM Location: PARC Auditorium, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto Co-hosts: Computer History Museum, Institute for the Future, ACM San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, The Chinese Software Professionals Association, BayPIGgies Abstract In 1991, Guido van Rossum made his creation, the Python programming language, open source. Today, Python is one of the three "P-languages" which enjoy massive popularity among developers as part of the open source LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python). In this retrospective, Guido looks back on the early days of the Python community, describes its development into maturity, and explains why he is still having a good time after 13 years of herding cats. Registration Cost: $15 for pre-registered members of SDForum and Co-Hosting Organizations, $25 for all others. At the door, add $5 to member and non-member prices. Special student rate for this event: Students with valid student identification can register for $10 by calling the SDForum office at (408)494-8378. NOTE THAT PRE-REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 2 PM THE DAY OF THE EVENT. For further details and to register online, see http://www.sdforum.org/SDForum/Templates/CalendarEvent.aspx?CID=1547&mo=2&y…, or go to the main DSS page (http://www.sdforum.org/dss) and click on the link to Guido van Rossum's talk. To register by phone, call the SDForum office at (408)494-8378. About the Series The SDForum Distinguished Speaker Series presents people who have made major contributions to how software is created, or who have helped us to understand the role of software in the larger society. speaking on topics of current interest. Our theme for the 2004-2005 season is The Software Commons. In recent years, many in the software community have emphasized the importance of constructing a shared space of knowledge, techniques, and ideas that both enhance our lives today and can be handed down to future generations. For its 2004-2005 season, the Distinguished Speaker Series is presenting leading figures in the realm of the software commons: the practitioners who are creating this shared space in its many forms, and he activists, critics, and commentators who are debating the significance of the phenomenon. The series is co-hosted by the Computer History Museum, the Institute for the Future, the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the ACM, and the Chinese Software Professionals Association. For more information about the series, see http://www.sdforum.org/dss.

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ANN: Naja 1.1.7 is now available
by webmaster＠keyphrene.com Feb. 14, 2005

Feb. 14, 2005

Naja is a download manager and a website grabber written in Python/wxPython.You can add some plugins (newsreader, FTP -FTPS - SFTP client,WebDAV client) and take control of your downloads from your office. Naja supports proxy (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP,SOCKS v4a, SOCKSv5), and use some authentication methods.The downloading maybe achieved by splitting the file being downloaded into several parts and downloading these parts at the same time (HTTP,HTTPS,FTP). Donwload speeds are increased by downloading the file from the mirrors sites,when the sites propose it. Others features: Csv filter Cheksums (CRC32, MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA, SHA1, MDC2, RMD160) Crypt (Only for the eXtended version) and Decrypt (AES, DES, 3DES ...) newsreader, newsposter (uue, yEnc) CGI & WebDAV Server Web Interface basic and digest authentication for client and server Compress and decompress (zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2) Picture viewer Text Editor Naja is available for download from the Keyphrene web site: http://www.keyphrene.com/products/naja

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[ANN] PyComicsViewer 0.9.8
by ionutz Feb. 14, 2005

Feb. 14, 2005

PyComicsViewer-0.9.8 has been released. 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 0.9.8 (2005/02/14) ============================= * started to work on panning with the mouse * hopefully solved navigation bug with the keyboard when the viewer didn't jump to the next image * support navigation with keypad keys and with the SPACE key * added bookmark support * added support for showing and hiding the browser * remember browser size after restart 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-0.9.8.tar.gz http://borco.net/html/PyComicsViewer/PyComicsViewer-0.9.8.zip http://borco.net/html/PyComicsViewer/PyComicsViewer-0.9.8.win32-py2.4.exe Cheers,

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ANN: SimPy 1.5.1 release
by Klaus Muller Feb. 13, 2005

Feb. 13, 2005

It is our pleasure to announce the release of SimPy 1.5.1. It can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=62366 SimPy is a process-based discrete-event simulation package based on standard Python. From this version on, SimPy is released under the GNU Lesser GPL (LGPL). This change in licensing (from mGPL oroginally)has been made to allow/encourage the use of SimPy by commercial firms. SimPy provides the modeller with components of a simulation model. These include processes, for active components like customers, messages, and vehicles, and resources, for passive components that form limited capacity congestion points like servers, checkout counters, and tunnels. It also provides monitor variables to aid in gathering statistics. Changes relative to version 1.5: - MAJOR LICENSE CHANGE: Starting with this version 1.5.1, SimPy is being released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), instead of the GNU GPL. - Minor re-release otherwise - No additional/changed functionality - Includes unit test file'MonitorTest.py' which had been accidentally omitted from 1.5 - Provides updated version of 'Bank.html' tutorial on using SimPy for queuing models. - Provides an additional tutorial ('Bank2.html') which shows how to use the new synchronization constructs introduced in SimPy 1.5. - More logical, cleaner version numbering in files. - Improved source code/API documentation (produced by Epydoc). Klaus Muller Tony Vignaux

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ANN: Pyro 3.5 beta (remote objects)
by Irmen de Jong Feb. 13, 2005

Feb. 13, 2005

I'm glad to announce the new version of Python's own powerful remote method invocation technology -- Pyro 3.5 (beta)! You can get it via http://pyro.sourceforge.net, then go to the SF project homepage download area. It has many new features and improvements over Pyro 3.4, which was released almost a year ago. Most important new stuff: - more efficient socket code, up to 20% performance gain - mobile code bug fixes - name server bug fixes - added a few interesting new examples - manual has been updated - various other minor fixes and improvements For the full list, see the change log in the manual: http://pyro.sourceforge.net/pyro-manual/12-changes.html#latest Because it is a beta release, there may still be bugs. Please test this version and let me know of any issues. Have fun, and thanks for your interest, support, and feedback! --Irmen de Jong ---> What is Pyro? Pyro is an acronym for PYthon Remote Objects. Pyro is an advanced and powerful Distributed Object Technology system written entirely in Python, that is designed to be very easy to use. It is extremely easy to implement a distributed system with Pyro, because all network communication code is abstracted and hidden from your application. You just get a remote Python object and invoke methods on the object on the other machine. Pyro offers you a Name Server, an Event Service, mobile objects, remote exceptions, dynamic proxies, remote attribute access, automatic reconnection, a very good and detailed manual, and many examples to get you started right away.

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mxCGIPython binaries for Python 2.3.5
by Oleg Broytmann Feb. 11, 2005

Feb. 11, 2005

http://phd.pp.ru/Software/Python/misc/mxCGI/ mxCGIPython binaries for Python 2.1.3, 2.2.3, 2.3.5 and 2.4.0 on Linux, Solaris 2.5.2, FreeBSD 4.9 and FreeBSD 5.3. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd(a)phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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ANN: Kamaelia's Axon 1.0.3 released
by Michael Sparks Feb. 11, 2005

Feb. 11, 2005

Axon 1.0.3 has been released! What is it? =========== Axon is a collection of pure python modules from the Kamaelia project which allow you to build concurrent systems in a compositional manner using communicating python generators. Components are python generators are augmented by inbox and outbox queues (lists) for communication in a CSP like fashion. Put another way this allows you to build complex systems out of small concurrent components in a fashion similar to unix pipelines, except rather than being limited to just stdin/stdout you can have whatever inputs/outputs you desire. (The defaults are inbox/outbox, control/signal) Axon should be relatively feature complete and the API stable, given its design has been fleshed by use in the Kamaelia project. Given Kamaelia components for building network servers, pygame wrappers & vorbis playback have been written using Axon so far, we expect that Axon should be useful for other areas where multiple activities need to be handled within a single thread, whilst allowing the code to remain looking more or less single threaded. Documentation is generated directly from the test suite output. What's new in version 1.0.3? ============================ Major performance enhancements for the general case where people run without -OO flags to Python. (It's actually practical to run without the -OO flags now) The reason for this is that the debug subsystem was rewritten. Changes to the debug system should also reduce the risk of Heisenbugs at a later point in time. * Split debug.debug.debug/debug.debug.note into two halves: * areDebugging(self,section,level) This performs the check to see if we're debugging at a specific level * debugmessage(self, section, *message) This outputs the specific message with associated debug formatting. * All functions in Axon (more or less - couple of exceptions) changed over to use the new style debugging approach. Means that in order to have sensible runtime speed you no longer have to run with python -OO flags. Also from version 1.0.2: * API documentation has been added (though a work in progress!) * Examples Directory with corrected examples Where can I get it? =================== Axon is a sub-project of the BBC R&D Kamaelia project, which means Axon is downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/projects/kamaelia/ Web pages are here: http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Docs/Axon.html http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/ (includes info on mailing lists) ViewCVS access is available here: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kamaelia/ Best Regards, Michael -- Michael.Sparks(a)rd.bbc.co.uk British Broadcasting Corporation, Research and Development Kingswood Warren, Surrey KT20 6NP This message (and any attachments) may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated.

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Incubus Data Modeler
by Eric Jardim Feb. 11, 2005

Feb. 11, 2005

We are trying to develop a *real good* Free Software (GPL) data modeler. We are using Python and Qt3 (until Qt4 is not ready). Everybody that uses Relational Databases should take a look and help the project: http://incubus.sf.net bye

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ANN: ActivePython 2.3.5.236 and ActivePython 2.4.0.244 are available
by Trent Mick Feb. 11, 2005

Feb. 11, 2005

I'm pleased to announce that ActivePython 2.3.5 build 236 and ActivePython 2.4.0 build 244 are now available from: http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/ActivePython ActivePython 2.3.5.236 is a bug-fix release matching core Python 2.3.5. ActivePython 2.4.0.244 is a bug-fix release matching core Python 2.4.0. Both of these releases contain an important security fix for SimpleXMLRPCServer as detailed here: http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/advisory.plex http://www.python.org/security/PSF-2005-001/ Builds for Linux, Solaris and Windows are available. We would welcome any and all feedback to: ActivePython-feedback(a)ActiveState.com Please file bugs against ActivePython at: http://bugs.ActiveState.com/ActivePython What is ActivePython? --------------------- ActivePython is ActiveState's quality-assured binary build of Python. Builds for Windows, Linux and Solaris and made freely available. ActivePython includes the Python core and core extensions (zlib 1.2.1, bzip2 1.0.2, bsddb 4.2.52, Tk 8.4.4, and Tix 8.1.4). On Windows, ActivePython includes the PyWin32 suite of Windows tools developed by Mark Hammond, including bindings to the Win32 API and Windows COM, the Pythonwin IDE, and more. ActivePython also includes a wealth of Python documentation, including: - the core Python docs - Andrew Kuchling's "What's New in Python" series - the Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python - Mark Pilgrim's excellent "Dive into Python", and - a snapshot of the Python FAQs, HOWTOs and PEPs. An online version of the docs can be found here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.3/welcome.html http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/welcome.html In particular the Release Notes: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.3/relnotes.html http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/relnotes.html and the Installation Guide: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.3/installnotes.html http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/installnotes.html Extra Bits ---------- This release of ActivePython also includes the following packages: - a Windows "debug" package: debug-built binaries for ActivePython users building debug versions of their binary Python extensions - ActivePython23.chm & ActivePython24.chm: an MS compiled help collection of the full ActivePython documentation set. Linux users of applications such as xCHM might find this useful. These packages are available from: ftp://ftp.activestate.com/ActivePython/etc/ On behalf of the team at ActiveState, Thanks, and enjoy! -- Trent Mick trentm(a)activestate.com

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www.python.org down - power outage
by webmaster＠python.org Feb. 11, 2005

Feb. 11, 2005

Yes, we know that www.python.org is down. XS4ALL is suffering a power outage. Yes, they have backup and redundant power, but it's not working properly for the segment of the building the web server is located in. Fortunately, mail.python.org is located in a different part of the building, which is still getting power. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR

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