Mailman 3 March 2005 - Python-announce-list

ANN: PythonDoc 2.1 beta 3 (march 25, 2005)
by Fredrik Lundh 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

PythonDoc is a documentation tool for Python, inspired by JavaDoc. Like JavaDoc, PythonDoc scans your Python code for doc comments, and generates API documentation in XML and HTML formats. Python- Doc supports basic JavaDoc tags like @param and @return, and adds a few Python-specific tags. You can use PythonDoc comments to describe module-level variables and constants, functions, classes, methods, and attributes. PythonDoc comes with a standard HTML generator, but you can plug in your own output handlers, or use XSLT or other tools to process the PythonDoc XML format. PythonDoc 2.1b3 parses docstrings and adds them to the XML model. It also includes some minor bug fixes. See the README file for details. Downloads: http://effbot.org/downloads#pythondoc http://effbot.org/downloads#elementtree Documentation: http://effbot.org/zone/pythondoc.htm enjoy /F

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ANN: Vampire 1.5, an extension module for mod_python.
by grahamd＠dscpl.com.au 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Vampire 1.5 is now available. http://www.dscpl.com.au/projects/vampire http://www.dscpl.com.au/downloads/vampire-1.5-20050325.tar.gz Vampire is an extension module for mod_python, which provides a more flexible dispatch mechanism for basic content handlers, as well as an alternative implementation of the mod_python.publisher module. A range of other useful features are also provided which make using mod_python a much more pleasant experience. For a quick overview of the features that Vampire provides check out: http://www.dscpl.com.au/projects/vampire/articles/vampire-001.html The most important new feature in this release is "vampire::publisher", an attempt at a drop in replacement for mod_python.publisher which avoids many of the problems present in the original in respect of module loading. This version also addresses all the currently known bugs and some limitations listed for mod_python.publisher on the mod_python bugs list. Other features worthy of mentioning are a handler object which can be used selectively in place of a basic content handler to introduce publisher style URL mapping for a single resource. Two handler objects which allow a function exported as a publisher to accept additional path information and have that supplied as a single parameter or for each part of the additional path to be supplied in distinct parameters. Finally, a handler object is provided which allows publisher style URL mapping for XML-RPC service requests. Although Vampire is up to version 1.5, this is the first time it has been announced in this forum.

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IMDbPY 1.8 released
by alberanid＠libero.it 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

IMDbPY 1.8 is available (tgz, deb, rpm, exe) from: http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/ IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database. With this release, it's possible to retrieve many of the still missing pieces of informations about movies and persons. Many bugs were fixed; there are performance improvements and initial support for small systems (like hand-held devices) is introduced. IMDbPY aims to provide an easy way to access the IMDb's database using a Python script. Platform-independent and written in pure Python, it's independent from the data source (since IMDb provides two or three different interfaces to their database). IMDbPY is mainly intended for programmers and developers who want to build their Python programs using the IMDbPY package, but some example scripts - useful for the end users - are included. Other IMDbPY-based programs are available from the home page. -- Davide Alberani <alberanid(a)libero.it> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://erlug.linux.it/~da/

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ANN: Twisted version 2.0
by Christopher Armstrong 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

http://twistedmatrix.com/ TASMANIA (DP) -- Found on the Internet on 2005-03-22 by an anonymous programmer, Twisted 2.0 was obtained by local authorities and kept isolated for public safety and further study. On 2005-03-25, however, nano-probes were released from the package's surface and propagated the software to the public. Version 2.0 is said to have originated from ancient underground ruins somewhere in Australia, but their existence has not yet been verified. Christopher Armstrong, enslaved release archaeologist, was only able to say "Aieeya! Release?? What release? I just found this here tablet under some sand. Ia!" Project lead Glyph Lefkowitz was not available for comment, as he has fled the planet in fear of the repercussions of the software's new release. Record-keeper Mary Gardiner said "It will be interesting to see if the Twisted Sumo distribution collapses into a singularity. I guess there's a potential that Earth will be destroyed." As of this release, radix's soul, which has been included in Twisted since version 0.8.0, has been split off from the main project and given back to him to maintain in a separate sub-project. ---- Twisted 2.0 is a major upgrade, changing many things not only in the code but also in the structure of the project. As of 2.0, Twisted was split up into many sub-projects which you can read about in the Twisted Split FAQ[1]. 2.0 also marks the first release including the migration to the Zope Interface framework as opposed to Twisted's own built-in interface/adapter system. Another FAQ was made available[2] for those curious about the change. Many, tons, and lots of other changes have been made in this release. The NEWS[3] file contains a high-level overview of most of these changes. Changes in now-split subprojects are available on their individual project pages[4]. Tarballs are currently available at the twistedmatrix.com site, and packages for win32, Debian, and other OSes are currently on the way. 1: http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/upgrades/2.0/split.html 2: http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/upgrades/2.0/component… 3: http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/NEWS.txt 4: http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/ ---- WHAT IS TWISTED? Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications which works on Python 2.2.X and 2.3.X. The following are the (important) modules included with Twisted: - twisted.application A "Service" system that allows you to organize your application in hierarchies with well-defined startup and dependency semantics, - twisted.cred A general credentials and authentication system that facilitates pluggable authentication backends, - twisted.enterprise Asynchronous database access, compatible with any Python DBAPI2.0 modules, - twisted.internet Low-level asynchronous networking APIs that allow you to define your own protocols that run over certain transports, - twisted.manhole A tool for remote debugging of your services which gives you a Python interactive interpreter, - twisted.protocols Basic protocol implementations and helpers for your own protocol implementations, - twisted.python A large set of utilities for Python tricks, reflection, text processing, and anything else, - twisted.spread A secure, fast remote object system, - twisted.trial A unit testing framework that integrates well with Twisted-based code. Twisted supports integration of the Tk, GTK+, GTK+ 2, Qt, Mac OS X, or wxPython event loop with its main event loop. The Win32 event loop is also supported. For more information, visit http://www.twistedmatrix.com, or join the list at http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python There are many official Twisted subprojects, including clients and servers for web, mail, DNS, and more. You can find out more about these projects at http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/ -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | -- http://radix.twistedmatrix.com | Release Manager, Twisted Project \\\V/// | -- http://twistedmatrix.com |o O| | Founding Member, Hobart Hacking Society w----v----w-+ -- http://hackingsociety.org/chapters/hash

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ANN: PIL 1.1.5 release candidate 2 (march 23, 2005)
by Fredrik Lundh 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

PIL 1.1.5 release candidate 2 is now available from effbot.org: http://effbot.org/downloads#imaging (look for Imaging-1.1.5c2.tar.gz for source, and PIL-115c2*.exe for windows binaries). For a list of changes in this release, see this page: http://effbot.org/zone/pil-changes-115.htm enjoy /F

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[ANN] QaTeX 0.1.1
by Jonathan Fine 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of version 0.1.1 of QaTeX. Here is a brief description of the package. (La)TeX macro programming is hard. Python is a powerful and easy to use scripting language. QaTeX allows Python modules to be used instead of (La)TeX style files. With QaTeX (pronounced `kwa-tech') TeX asks Questions and Python provides Answers. This release provides proof-of-concept. It is known to run under Linux and Mac OS/X. QaTeX is not yet secure, so please don't use it with untrusted documents. Another problem is that QaTeX does not yet run under Windows. QaTeX is released under the GPL. This release, and further information, is available via the project home page: http://qatex.sourceforge.net -- Jonathan

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 24)
by Cameron Laird 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

QOTW: [Must be seen to be believed] http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/7613422265cdc010 "If you don't read answers, don't post questions :-/" -- bruno desthuilliers News from PyCon2005 emerges almost continuously. See, for example, this blog startpoint: http://pycon.blogspot.com/ Want productivity? Get Python: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-March/052246.html Pythoneers produce side-splitting doggerel: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d… 'Suspect that essentially all computing problems have been solved, and all programs already written? The Python Poets put the lie to *that* proposition, and spectacularly: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2… Florent Guillaume, Fazal Majid, and others significantly advance the state of threading: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-March/051856.html Getting passwords right is ... a lot more challenging than the many inviting ways to do it wrong: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9… Understand Python scoping, even in the presence of generators: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4… ======================================================================== 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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ANNOUNCE: SpamBayes 1.0.4
by Tony Meyer 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

The SpamBayes team is pleased to announce release 1.0.4 of SpamBayes. This is a bug-fix release that fixes one major issue with the 1.0.3 release: if a 1.0.3 sb_server user's mail client tries to connect to the mail server, and the DNS lookup succeeds but the connection fails, then sb_server will write warnings to the log until there is no disk space left to do so. This specific problem is fixed in 1.0.4, and in addition 1.0.4 is again built with Python 2.3 (not 2.4), so should more closely match 1.0.1. Connection errors are also now only logged once per hour (unless the verbose option is set). No other changes have been made. As such, we strongly recommend that all sb_server users upgrade. sb_imapfilter, Outlook plug-in, and other users should notice no difference between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 and do not need to upgrade. You can get the release via the 'Download' page at http://spambayes.org/download.html Enjoy the new release and your spam-free mailbox :-) As always, thanks to everyone involved in this release. (For the curious, the oft-delayed 1.1a1 release should be made next week.) Tony. (on behalf of the SpamBayes team) --- What is SpamBayes? --- The SpamBayes project is working on developing a Bayesian (of sorts) anti-spam filter (in Python), initially based on the work of Paul Graham, but since modified with ideas from Robinson, Peters, et al. The project includes a number of different applications, all using the same core code, ranging from a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, to a POP3 proxy, to various command-line tools. The Windows installation program will install either the Outlook add-in (for Microsoft Outlook users), or the SpamBayes server program (for all other POP3 mail client users, including Microsoft Outlook Express). All Windows users (including existing users of the Outlook add-in) are encouraged to use the installation program. If you wish to use the source-code version, you will also need to install Python - see README.txt in the source tree for more information.

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SPE 0.7.3.A with Blender, wxGlade and PyChecker support
by s_t_a_n_i＠gmx.net 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

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. This is a fix release for wxPython 2.5.4.1 If you like SPE, please contribute by coding, writing documentation or donating. 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 :New features: - None :Bug fixes: - wxPython 2.5.4.1 :Donations(20euro): - Gerard Blais :Contributors: - None :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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MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment, Beta 0.12
by Hans Elst 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

I do not succeed in downloading MMA from http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp/mma/mma.html Error 404. Can you help me? Regards, Hans

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