Mailman 3 April 2005 - Python-announce-list

ANN: wxPython 2.6.0.0
by Robin Dunn 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Announcing ---------- I'm pleased to announce the 2.6.0.0 release of wxPython, now available for download at http://wxpython.org/download.php. This release consists of one more round of stabalization work (bug fixes and such) since the 2.5 series, and a few minor new features. This first 2.6 release marks the begining of a new stable release series, which for Python means that there will be no API compatibility breakage for the life of the series. (It means more than that for the core C++ code, see http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/ReleaseSeries) See the changes list below for details. What is wxPython? ----------------- wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is implemented as a Python extension module that wraps the GUI components of the popular wxWidgets cross platform library, which is written in C++. wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program will usually run on multiple platforms without modifications. Currently supported platforms are 32-bit Microsoft Windows, most Linux or other Unix-like systems using GTK or GTK2, and Mac OS X. Changes in 2.6.0.0 ------------------ wxMSW: Fixed wx.TransientPopupWindow (and therefore wx.TipWindow) to auto-dismiss when the mouse is clicked outside of the popup like it is supposed to. wxMSW: Fixed bug #1167891 wx.Notebook display problem with wx.NB_MULTILINE. wxMSW: Fixed bad cliping of hidden windows inside of wx.StaticBox. wxGTK: The configure flags for selecting GTK+ 1.2.x or 2.x has changed slightly. It is now --with-gtk[=VERSION] where VERSION is either '1', '2' or 'any'. The default is '2'. wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the following methods for alternate ways to set and fetch text from the document buffer. They work similarly to the existing methods of the same name, except that they don't go through the same string/unicode <--> wxString conversions. The "Raw" methods will do no conversions at all and in a unicode build of wxPython the strings will be in the utf-8 encoding and in an ansi build no assumption is made about the encoding. The "UTF8" functions will attempt to always get/set utf-8 text, which it will always be able to do in a unicode build, and in an ansi build it will depend on the content of the utf-8 used being compatible with the current encoding, (you'll get an exception otherwise.) =================== ==================== AddTextRaw AddTextUTF8 InsertTextRaw InsertTextUTF8 GetCurLineRaw GetCurLineUTF8 GetLineRaw GetLineUTF8 GetSelectedTextRaw GetSelectedTextUTF8 GetTextRangeRaw GetTextRangeUTF8 SetTextRaw SetTextUTF8 GetTextRaw GetTextUTF8 AppendTextRaw AppendTextUTF8 =================== ==================== wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl: Added the StyleSetFontEncoding(style, enc) method that allows you to set the encoding to be used by the font for a particular style. wxMac: Fixed wx.ComboBox to forward the EVT_CHAR, EVT_KEY_DOWN, EVT_KEY_UP and EVT_TEXT events from its embedded text control. wxMac: Corrected refresh bugs in wxGrid. XRCed: Updated to version 0.1.5. * Added wxWizard, wxWizardPageSimple (only from pull-down menu). * Hide command for test window. * Replacing classes works better. * Added Locate tool. -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

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ANN: KirbyBase 1.8.1
by Jamey Cribbs 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

KirbyBase is a simple, plain-text, database management system written in Python. It can be used either embedded in a python script or in a client/server, multi-user mode. You use python code to express your queries instead of having to use another language such as SQL. KirbyBase is disk-based, not memory-based. Database changes are immediately written to disk. You can find more information on KirbyBase at: http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase.html You can download KirbyBase for Python at: http://www.netpromi.com/files/KirbyBase_Python_1.8.1.zip The credit for this release goes entirely to Pierre Quentel, the author of Karrigell (http://karrigell.sourceforge.net). Pierre contributed every code change that made it into this version. Thanks! Changes in Version 1.8.1: -Added the ability to select, update, delete multiple records by specifying a list of record numbers. -Cleaned up the internals of _getMatchesByRecno by not splitting the record line into fields if user is selecting all records, and by using a generator to return matches instead of building a list of matches and returning the whole list. Jamey Cribbs jcribbs(a)twmi.rr.com

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ZODB 3.2.7 final released
by Tim Peters 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.2.7 (final). This corresponds to the ZODB that will be released in Zope 2.7.6 (final) tomorrow. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2 ZODB 3.2.7 fixes a critical bug in BTree conflict resolution, which could, in rare cases, lead to silent data loss. It's strongly recommended that all ZODB 3.2 users upgrade to 3.2.7 for this reason alone. There are also a small number of minor bugfixes, and new code allowing for better control of ZEO server processes on Windows. See the news file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.2/NEWS 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). Note that 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 3.2.7 can be used with Zopes in the 2.7 line, at or after Zope 2.7.3. Note that ZODB 3.2.7 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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ANN: PyDev 0.9.1 released
by Fabio Zadrozny 25 Apr '05

25 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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Europython 2005 registration open
by jacob＠cd.chalmers.se 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

EuroPython is held -for the second time- in Göteborg, Sweden, during the week of June 27-29, 2005. Registration is open and now is your chance to submit a proposal (or more). Several topics are handled in parallel tracks at EuroPython2005, these include: Business, Education, Lightning talks, Python Frameworks, Python Language, Refereed papers, Science, Social skills/General topics, Tutorials/Neopythes, Zope and Zope Related, Zope Lightning talks. If you would like to tell the community something about your work, interest or experience, then then submit button is your way to go. The Refereed Track is intended for prestigious peer-reviewed talks for presenting technical and scientific papers. To our knowledge, EuroPython is the only Python conference, with peer-reviewed talks. Everybody can submit a paper for the Refereed Track, as long as it follows the Refereed paper instructions. For detailed information concerning this subject, please have a look at the Tracks & Talks webpage of EuroPython. To give you yet another opportunity to submit a refereed paper, we have extended the deadline to coincide with the deadline for regular talks. Lat day for submission is 1 May 2005! If you don't want to participate as a speaker, you might be interested in hearing the talks. Registration for EuroPython2005 is now open. Several registration alternatives are possible. Pre-Registration will be available until 17th of June, but Early Bird registration will end on May the 15th. Everybody is welcome: from novice to advanced. Our keynote speakers will be Guido van Rossum and Steve Pemberton. You may not have heard of Steve, since his focus is in an area that is not directly connected to Python. However, we expect him to give you an interesting perspective on what is going on in the industry. Find out more at http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/. If you don't know who Guido van Rossum is, you really need to come to Europython to find out. Feel free to spread the word about EuroPython2005 to your friends, family, colleagues, ... For all conference details, go to: http://www.europython.org See you at Göteborg. EuroPython Team. About EuroPython: Europython is an annual conference for the Python and Zope communities. It circulates between different sites in Europe. Having started in Charleroi, Belgium, it is now in Göteborg, Sweden and will move to CERN in Swizerland next year. Europython is a community conference run by volunteers. --

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 25)
by Simon Brunning 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

QOTW: "Sure, but what about the case where his program is on paper tape and all he has for an editor is an ice pick?" - Grant Edwards "And in this case, you get improved usability *and* improved speed at the same time. That's the way it should be." - Fredrik Lundh The Simplest Possible Metaclass: http://orbtech.com/blog/simplemetaclass Enumerating formatting strings: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3… Andrew Dalke continues to produce interesting articles at a frankly preposterous rate. A selection, covering tracing python code, using XML-RPC, screen scraping, parsing and statistics: http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/20/tracing_py… http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/21/using_xmlr… http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/21/screen_scr… http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/22/parsing.ht… http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/22/statistics… Wing 2.0.3 is available: http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/press/2.0.3-release.html Why does Python slicing work the way it does? http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9… Another Python tool from Google; this one a MySQL status monitor: http://goog-mmaim.sourceforge.net/ Processing XML one 'record' at a time: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4… GOTO hell: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8… Launching a subprocess without a console window on Windows: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/409002 Python or PHP? Duh! http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6… ======================================================================== 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 Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett Cannon 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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mxCGIPython binaries for Python 2.4.1
by Oleg Broytmann 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Hello! http://phd.pp.ru/Software/Python/misc/mxCGI/ New: mxCGIPython binaries for Python 2.4.1 on x86 Linux, SPARC Solaris 2.5, x86 FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4. More on mxCGIPython at http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxCGIPython.html PS. I've lost access to FreeBSD 4.9 - all comuters were upgarded to at least 5.3. I am also slowly loosing access to the SPARC computer; I will loose it completely sooner or later. 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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Wing IDE version 2.0.3 released
by Wingware Announce 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Hi, I'm happy to announce the release of Wing IDE version 2.0.3, an advanced development environment for the Python programming language. This is a free upgrade for Wing IDE 2.0 users. The release can be downloaded from: http://wingware.com/downloads Wing IDE provides powerful debugging, editing, code intelligence, and search capabilities that reduce development and debugging time, cut down on coding errors, and make it easier to understand and navigate Python code. Highlights of this release include: * New keyboard personality for OS X * Debugging support for 64-bit Linux versions of Python * Editor performance improvements A complete list of changes is available here: http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/2.0.3/CHANGELOG.txt This release is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and can be compiled from sources on *BSD, Solaris, and other Posix operating systems. For more information see: Product Info: http://wingware.com/products Sales: http://wingware.com/store/purchase Upgrades: http://wingware.com/store/upgrade Sincerely, Stephan Deibel -- Wingware Wing IDE for Python Advancing Software Development www.wingware.com

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[ANN] Fail2Ban 0.4.0
by Cyril Jaquier 24 Apr '05

24 Apr '05

I'm proud to announce the first stable release of Fail2Ban. 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. Homepage: http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net Best Regards, Cyril Jaquier

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BayPIGgies: May *THIRD* Thursday at Google (May 19)
by Aahz 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

Pre-announcement: Our May meeting will be the *THIRD* Thursday, May 19. We will *NOT* be meeting the *SECOND* Thursday. This will be our first meeting at Google, with Alex Martelli's presention on design patterns. More details later! -- 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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