Mailman 3 March 2005 - Python-announce-list

[ANNOUNCE] gmpy 1.0 alpha released
by Alex Martelli 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

See http://gmpy.sourceforge.net/ for details. What is it: a wrapper for the GMP library, to provide multi-precision arithmetic for Python. Multi-precision floats, and unbounded-precision rationals, are not present in stock Python; multi-precision integers ('long') are, but gmpy's version of multi-precision integers is faster for some operations (NOT all -- used to be, but Python 2.3 did serious enhancements to some operations on longs) and provides lots of nifty pre-packaged additional functions. Minor changes and bug-fixes since the latest 0.9 pre-alpha; support for Python 2.3. The Windows binary release is now for Python 2.3 _only_ (if you're stuck with Python 2.2 on Windows, you can keep using gmpy 0.9 pre-alpha and not really suffer from that). Known bug on Windows: the scan0 and scan1 functions appear broken (perhaps related to the lack of a GMP 4.0 library for Windows -- haven't found one around yet). Alex

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ANN: AsciiDoc 6.0.0 released
by Stuart Rackham 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

AsciiDoc -------- AsciiDoc is an uncomplicated text document format for writing short documents, articles, books and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML (with or without stylesheets), DocBook (articles, books and refentry documents) and LinuxDoc using the asciidoc(1) command. AsciiDoc is configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file syntax and the backend output markups (which can be almost any type of SGML/XML markup) can be customized and extended by user. Requisites ---------- Python 2.3 or higher. Obtaining AsciiDoc ------------------ The latest AsciiDoc version, examples and online documentation can be found at the AsciiDoc website http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ AsciiDoc is also hosted at the SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/ Best regards, --- Stuart Rackham <srackham(a)methods.co.nz>

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ANN: PyDev 0.9.1 released
by Fabio Zadrozny 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Hi All, PyDev - Python IDE (Python development enviroment for Eclipse) version 0.9.1 has just been released. You can check the homepage (http://pydev.sourceforge.net/) or my blog (http://pydev.blogspot.com/) for more details. ------------------------------------------------------ COMMENTS ON RELEASE: Content assistant improvements: - assign content assistant when assigned to variable strips the "get"; - move imports content assistant should be improved to move import closer to existant import and not to top of file; - Icons added to them; Others: - Ctrl+Shift+O: if no selection: Organizes all global imports from the file (sorts alphabetically); - Ctrl+Shift+O: if some line selection: sorts alphabetically the lines selected; - Ctrl+Shift+F: if no selection: Formats all code; - Ctrl+Shift+F: if some line selection: Formats selected code; - PyLint only blocks interface on "update results"; - the namespace in debug mode is not polluted anymore (Scott Schleiser provided the patch); - The PYTHONPATH used for debug now should be the same used in run. - Editor preferences Code Completion: - get parameters in code completion; - builtins like ' ', {}, [] should bring correct suggestions; - relative imports; - other bug-fixes; ------------------------------------------------------ Regards, Fabio Zadrozny ------------------------------------------------------ Software Developer ESSS - Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software www.esss.com.br

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ANN: ActivePython 2.4.1 build 245 is available
by Trent Mick 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

I'm pleased to announce that ActivePython 2.4.1 build 245 is now available from: http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/ActivePython ActivePython 2.4.1.245 is a bug-fix release matching the recent core Python 2.4.1 release. ActivePython builds for Linux, Solaris and Windows are available. We 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 8.4.9, 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/2.4/welcome.html In particular the Release Notes: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/relnotes.html and the Installation Guide: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/installnotes.html Extra Bits ---------- ActivePython releases also include the following packages: - a Windows "debug" package: debug-built binaries for ActivePython users building debug versions of their binary Python extensions - ActivePython24.chm: an MS compiled help collection of the full ActivePython documentation set. Linux users of applications such as xCHM might find this useful. This package is installed by default on Windows. 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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[ANN] Fail2Ban 0.3.1
by Cyril Jaquier 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

The version 0.3.1 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 many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address. Currently, iptables, ipfwadm and ipfw are supported. It needs log4py. http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net Best Regards, Cyril Jaquier

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Mac OS X Installer for Python 2.4.1 available
by Anthony Baxter 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Thanks to Bob Ippolito, there's now an installer for Python 2.4.1 available for Mac OS X 10.3 and later. Grab it from the Python 2.4.1 page - http://www.python.org/2.4.1/ Anthony

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rlcompleter2-0.96 interactive tab-completion for python
by hpk＠trillke.net 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

hi folks, after much interest at Pycon 2005 (great to have been there, thanks to all who where there, btw!), i release version 0.96 of the interactive command line completer "rlcompleter2". rlcompleter2 provides tab-completion to the python interactive commandline interpreter much like bash does to the shell commandline. Main reason for the 0.96 release: I figure that people would actually like to have it run nicely on 2.3, 2.4 and CVS-python which it didn't before in not-so-uncommon cases. Sorry that i waited so long. Grab it from http://codespeak.net/rlcompleter2/download/rlcompleter2-0.96.tar.gz or try out the new PyPI downloading feature http://www.python.org/pypi/rlcompleter2/0.96 (I, for one, welcome our new PyPI / CPAN-For-Python overlords! thanks Richard, Barry and all those who helped make it happen!) And/or go to the home page at http://codespeak.net/rlcompleter2 cheers and have fun, holger

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RELEASED Python 2.4.1 (final)
by Anthony Baxter 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.4.1 (final). Python 2.4.1 is a bug-fix release. See the release notes at the website (also available as Misc/NEWS in the source distribution) for details of the bugs squished in this release. Python 2.4.1 should be a completely painless upgrade from Python 2.4 - no new features have been added. For more information on Python 2.4.1, including download links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.4.1/ Highlights of this new release include: - Bug fixes. According to the release notes, several dozen bugs have been fixed, including a fix for the SimpleXMLRPCServer security issue (PSF-2005-001). Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.4) are available from the Python 2.4 page, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html Enjoy the new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter anthony(a)python.org Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 30)
by Cameron Laird 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

QOTW: "This is a Python newsgroup. Assume that we all have been brainwashed." -- Peter Otten "[M]y experience porting Java to Jython is that it mostly involves deleting stuff :-)" -- Kent Johnson "[K]eep in mind, however, that not all problems in life can be solved with software." -- Roy Smith The Second Edition (of the *Cookbook*) hits the shelves! http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook2/ Most of the week's news had to do with PyCon2005: http://python.org/moin/PyConDC2005 http://programming.newsforge.com/programming/05/03/29/0747230.shtml?tid=108… http://oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6767 http://planetpython.org/ Notice that plenty of other PyEvents, including PyConDayBrasil in particular, are imminent: http://python.org/moin/PythonEvents#preview A Microsoft magazine publishes two favorable profiles of Python: http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1778141,00.asp http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1778250,00.asp How does a Linux-hosted Tkinter set its window icon? Jeff Epler knows: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9… Roy Smith and Larry Bates, among others, cogently counsel would-be language autodidacts: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3… Ivan Van Laningham addresses the off-topic matter of /bin/ls's performance with such precision as to illuminate Python use, particularly in its evocation of earlier threads: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9… http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d… Raymond Hettinger, so wise in the ways of iteration, also knows his way around the syntax of decimal numerals: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a… ======================================================================== 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. For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index much of the universe of Pybloggers. http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog http://www.planetpython.org/ http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html 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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CVXOPT 0.3 - A Python Package for Convex Optimization.
by Lieven Vandenberghe 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

CVXOPT is a package for specifying and solving convex optimization problems. Version 0.3 is a pre-release and includes the following. * Sparse and dense matrix extension types, interfaces to most of the BLAS 'double' routines, interfaces to the dense linear equation solvers and symmetric eigenvalue routines from LAPACK, interfaces to the sparse linear equation solvers UMFPACK and LDL and a simple C API for extension writers. * A linear programming solver written in Python. * A modeling tool for specifying convex optimization problems with piecewise-linear objective and constraint functions. Future releases will include solvers and modeling support for other classes of convex optimization problems (for example, quadratic, geometric, second-order cone and semidefinite programming). http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~vandenbe/cvxopt Joachim Dahl Lieven Vandenberghe

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