Mailman 3 April 2005 - Python-announce-list

[ANNOUNCE] gmpy 1.0 alpha released
by Alex Martelli 12 Nov '05

12 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 09 Jun '05

09 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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Llearn a Little About Artificial Neural Networks and TKinter
by I. Myself 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

The VizANN package is a free download from annevolve.sf.net. It contains a python program that graphically demonstrates a recurrent binary neural network. There is also an explanatory text file. Mitchell Timin -- "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." http://annevolve.sourceforge.net is for those seeking something to do with their wetware. Humans may know that my email address is zenguy at shaw dot ca.

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[ANN] Voidspace Python Guestbook 1.4.1 (etc)
by Fuzzyman 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

My Honoured Guests ===================== Yup... the time has come, **The Voidspace Python Guestbook 1.4.1** has been released into the wild. * `The Guestbook Homepage`__ * `Quick Download Link (120k)`__ * `Plain Guestbook Example`__ * `Voidspace Guestbook`__ [#]_ __ http://www.voidsapce.org.uk/python/guestbook.html __ http://www.voidsapce.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/downman.py?file=guestbook.zip __ http://www.voidsapce.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/guestbook.py __ http://www.voidsapce.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/guestbook2.py What is the Voidspace Python Guestbook ======================================== Guestbook is a Python script that allows you to add a 'guestbook' facility to your website. It is fully customisable using HTML templates - so the guestbook will appear to be fully integrated with your website. The entries are saved in a plain text file, for easy editing, and there is a naughty word filter as well. Almost every aspect of the appearance is editable using the templates. A few other user settings can be configured as well. All the instructions are contained in the template file. It can email you when an entry is made by someone, and also features smilies, spam protection, javascript form validation, and allows a limited set of html in comments. It is regularly improved and updated. What's New ? =============== This is a major update since the last release [#]_. The new features are : * Javascript form validation (client side) * More advanced anti-spam features (we do a basic check that the entry was made by a human rather than a bot) * A limited set of html is now allowed in entries * Smilies !!!! * Better use of CSS in the standard template * Counter tells you how many times the guestbook has been viewed * A few other bugfixes and improvements Because of the changes there are a few external files (python modules and javascript files) that will need to be installed, as well as the smiley images. Full instructions come with the docs. .. [#] Using the HTML templates .. [#] Version 1.3.0 was the last released version. 1.4.0 did exist for a few days before it was superceded..... *Also*... FireMail the firedrop plugin has been updated. It now resolves the macros before emailing. The plugin.zip also now contains rest.py (reST support for firedrop) which has also been updated, and the update isn't yet included in the official distribution. See http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/programs.shtml#firedrop *Also*.... A couple of new 'recipes' that *may* be of interest. googlerank How Well Ranked is Your Website ? Version 0.1.0 18th April 2005 googlerank is a small recipe that uses the google api. You give it a domain (by setting a variable), and then a set of search terms via stdin. It then does google searches until a result from your domain is found (so long as it is within the first 200 results - 20 searches). This tells you how far down the list your site appears for given search terms. This is a useful tool for working with website design - it's also very interesting. It produces results that look like : For the search term "python cookies" : Out of an estimated 176000 results. Your website came at position "7". With URL - "http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml" see : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml#google CGIHTTPServerWithSSI A Simple Server with SSI Processing Version 0.1.0 15th April 2005 This is a simple server implementation, this one based on CGIHTTPServer. It does everything that CGIHTTPServer does, with some SSI processing as well. So far it handles include and flastmod, but adding additional instructions would be easy. Simply drop it in a directory and it will serve webpages, with that directory as the root directory. Any pages that end in .shtml or .shtm, it does SSI processing on. see : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml#ssi Best Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python

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email 2.5.6
by Barry Warsaw 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

I've just released version 2.5.6 of the standalone email package. This fixes some problems with Message.get_filename() and Message.get_content_charset() when headers encoded with RFC 2231 style parameters contain bogus or non-existent charsets. email-2.5.6 is compatible with Pythons going back to 2.1. I will soon be porting the patches forward into Python 2.4 and 2.5 to fix the email 3.0 package, which is only compatible with Python 2.3 and newer. You can download the email 2.5.6 tarball from the email-sig page: http://www.python.org/sigs/email-sig/ Cheers, -Barry

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ANN: python-ldap-2.0.7
by Michael Ströder 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Find a new release of python-ldap: http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/ python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs and LDAPv3 schema). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Released 2.0.7 2005-04-29 Changes since 2.0.6: * Added preliminary support for sending LDAP controls with a request. Contributors: - Deepak Giridharagopal - Ingo Steuwer (Receiving controls in LDAP results still not supported.) Modules: * LDAPObject.c: removed l_ldap_manage_dsa_it() * LDAPObject.c: Added missing #ifdef around l_ldap_passwd() for compability with older OpenLDAP libs. Lib:/ * New algorithm in ldap.schema.tokenizer.split_tokens() contributed by Wido Depping which is more robust when parsing very broken schema elements (e.g. Oracle's OID). * Fixed argument list (position of timeout) when calling LDAPObject.search_ext_s() from search_st() and search_s(). * LDAPObject.search_ext_s() correctly calls search_ext_s() now. * Re-implemented LDAPObject.manage_dsa_it() without calling _ldap.

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python.org mail flowing again
by webmaster＠python.org 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Thanks to Thomas Wouters for quickly getting mail.python.org back up once he was notified. The mail backlog seems to be mostly finished. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "It's 106 miles to Chicago. We have a full tank of gas, a half-pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it."

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mail.python.org down
by webmaster＠python.org 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Please be patient while we fix it. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "It's 106 miles to Chicago. We have a full tank of gas, a half-pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it."

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[ANNOUNCE] Twenty-fourth release of PythonCAD now available
by Art Haas 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

I'm pleased to announce the twenty-fourth development release of PythonCAD, a CAD package for open-source software users. As the name implies, PythonCAD is written entirely in Python. The goal of this project is to create a fully scriptable drafting program that will match and eventually exceed features found in commercial CAD software. PythonCAD is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). PythonCAD requires Python 2.2 or newer. The interface is GTK 2.0 based, and uses the PyGTK module for interfacing to GTK. The design of PythonCAD is built around the idea of separating the interface from the back end as much as possible. By doing this, it is hoped that both GNOME and KDE interfaces can be added to PythonCAD through usage of the appropriate Python module. Addition of other PythonCAD interfaces will depend on the availability of a Python module for that particular interface and developer interest and action. The twenty-fourth release contains numerous improvements to the code used for constructing the user interface and the entity drawing routines. This release utilizes the GTK Action and ActionGroup classes for building and controlling the menubar and menus. Using these classes greatly simplifies and enhances the ability to manipulate the menu items, and these features are used extensively in this release. Many menu choices are now activated when the functionality they provide can be used, and deactivated when their use is not possible. More enhancements of this nature will be appearing in future releases. Another significant improvement is the refactoring of the entity drawing routines. These routines are now provided as methods for each entity class, making their usage much clearer and simpler. Changing the drawing routines has allowed significant simplification of the code responsible for drawing as well as fixing several drawing bugs. Future releases of PythonCAD will build on this change to enhance and improve the graphical behavior of the program even further. A number of PyGTK deprecation warnings that slipped by in the previous release have been removed, and a good number of bug fixes and code enhancements are present in this release as well. A mailing list for the development and use of PythonCAD is available. Visit the following page for information about subscribing and viewing the mailing list archive: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad Visit the PythonCAD web site for more information about what PythonCAD does and aims to be: http://www.pythoncad.org/ Come and join me in developing PythonCAD into a world class drafting program! Art Haas -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822

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ZODB 3.2.8 final released
by Tim Peters 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.2.8 (final). Also irked, since ZODB 3.2.7 final was released just yesterday. Alas, an incompatible change in 3.2.7's ZopeUndo.Prefix implementation effectively made it impossible to use a 3.2.7 ZEO server with a Zope running a ZODB earlier than 3.2.7, or vice versa. Luckily, the release of Zope 2.7.6 final slipped until this coming Friday, and Zope 2.7.6 will ship with ZODB 3.2.8 (not, as announced yesterday, with ZODB 3.2.7). No other changes were made since yesterday's 3.2.7 release. See the NEWS file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2/NEWS You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2 Note that there are two Windows installers, one for use with the Python 2.3 line (2.3.5 is recommended), and one for use with the Python 2.4 line (2.4.1 is recommended). Python 2.4 has not yet been certified for use with Zope, but Python 2.4.1 is supported for standalone ZODB/ZEO use. ZODB 3.2.8 can be used with Zopes in the 2.7 line, at or after Zope 2.7.3. Note that ZODB 3.2.8 does not support development on Zope 2.8, Zope X3 or Zope 3 (they require the ZODB 3.4 line now).

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