Mailman 3 May 2005 - Python-announce-list

ANNOUNCE: KirbyBase 1.8.2
by Jamey Cribbs May 4, 2005

May 4, 2005

This is an *Emergency* bug-fix release. Fred Pacquier alertly pointed out a bug I introduced in the last version. It occurs when you select all records in a table; newline characters were not getting stripped off the end of every returned record. The bug has been fixed in this version. Thanks Fred! 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_1.8.2.zip Jamey Cribbs jcribbs(a)twmi.rr.com

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Myghty 0.97 Released
by mike bayer May 3, 2005

May 3, 2005

Myghty 0.97 Released Myghty is a Python Server Page templating framework and view-controller paradigm designed for large-scale, high availability websites and applications. Written and optimized from the ground up to complement mod_python, as well as WSGI, CGI and application embedded environments, its conceptual design and template syntax is derived from HTML::Mason, the most widely used web application platform in the mod_perl world. It is designed with both the migrating Mason user and the original Python user in mind, supporting not just the full featureset of Mason, including a fully componentized development paradigm, page inheritance, autohandlers, dhandlers, component caching, friendly exception handling, etc. but also many Pythonic and environment-agnostic enhancements including full Python whitespace support within templates, a "module component"-based controller paradigm (compare to Servlets), a fully customizable rule-based URI resolver, full support and helper methods for multithreaded environments, component-specific flags for buffering, caching and whitespace trimming, environment-agnostic session support, full support for WSGI, an out-of-the-box demonstration runner, and a streamlined design taking full advantage of Python's unique architectural features. Version 0.97 brings higher-scaling memory management features, a new resolver strategy paradigm allowing full control of URI resolution and caching, fully customizable error handling, multiple character encoding support, and a new AJAX toolkit example illustrating seamless integration of Python functions and Myghty Methods with javascript. Since its last comp.lang.python.announce announcement in October 2004, Myghty has gained a fair userbase in its first nine months which is growing at a fast pace, being used on a handful of commercial and non-commercial sites. It receives favorable reviews for its ease of use, small footprint, quick and smooth operation, and great flexibility. Myghty is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Documentation, examples and download links can be found at: http://www.myghty.org Michael Bayer mike...(a)myghty.org <P><A HREF="http://www.myghty.org">Myghty 0.97</A> - A high performance Python Server Page templating framework derived from HTML::Mason. (03-May-05)

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 3)
by Simon Brunning May 3, 2005

May 3, 2005

QOTW: "The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a 'standard' application then software written in MS Office VBA must be 'safe.' Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl, Cygwin) are 'unsafe' and can't be installed." - Peter Olsen "There's nothing wrong with open source projects catering to a market, and there's nothing wrong with running open source software on a proprietary operating system." - Steve Holden Efficiently running a regex over a large file: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6… Readable switch construction without lambdas or dictionaries: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/410692 Lexical Analysis, Python-style: http://jason.diamond.name/weblog/2005/04/26/lexical-analysis-python-style What happened at Python UK: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7… http://www.reportlab.org/~andy/accu2005/accu2005.html Europython 2005: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3… PyCon Brasil is a success! http://www.livejournal.com/users/gniemeyer/ Using the logging module: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/412552 Sparklines in data: URIs: http://bitworking.org/news/Sparklines_in_data_URIs_in_Python Static typing is a sleeping policeman: http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/nls_ebiznaked050426/ Got some free time? The Python Challenge will fix that: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7… Let Python be Python: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9700/ur0504k/ Yet another Python code sharing site: http://www.pycode.com/ Notable releases: ID3Writer http://www.comfortableshoe.co.uk/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Home/Python/id3Writer.… Snakelets 1.40 http://snakelets.sourceforge.net/ Roundup 0.8.3 http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ wxPython 2.6.0.0 http://wxpython.org/ PyDev 0.9.3 http://pydev.sourceforge.net/ PythonCAD 24 http://www.pythoncad.org/ ======================================================================== 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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Re: Voidspace Python Guestbook 1.4.1 (etc)
by Fuzzyman May 3, 2005

May 3, 2005

Oops... those links should have read : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/guestbook.html http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/downman.py?file=guestbo... http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/guestbook.py http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/guestbook2.py #~$%"£&# Very sorry about that. Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python

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[ANN] introducing pytest: a testing interpreter for Python
by Chad Whitacre May 3, 2005

May 3, 2005

Dear All, I'd like to announce the initial release of pytest. Pytest is a testing interpreter for Python. Unlike a testing /framework/, pytest requires nothing of its test scripts that is not included in the Python language itself. Pytests are regular Python scripts that are interpreted in a special way. Specifically, all explicit comparison statements (i.e., those with a comparison operator), are interpreted as tests, and their results are tallied and reported on following execution of the script. Documentation and downloads are available at: http://www.zetadev.com/software/pytest/ This initial release, version 0.3.0, is a development release. It will be of interest to those with a special interest in testing under Python, but will have bugs that may frustrate general users. Pytest is released under the following license: (c) 2005 Chad Whitacre <http://www.zetadev.com/> This program is beerware. If you like it, buy me a beer someday. No warranty is expressed or implied. Thank you. Chad Whitacre http://www.zetadev.com/ chad [at] zetaweb [dot] com ---------- Announcement per http://python.org/community/clpya-guidelines.txt: <P><A HREF="http://www.zetadev.com/software/pytest/">pytest 0.3.0</A> - a testing interpreter for Python. (03-May-05)

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[ANN] Release 0.35 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink May 2, 2005

May 2, 2005

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce release 0.35 of Task Coach. New in this release: Bugs fixed: * Toolbar icons had a black background instead of a transparent background on some Windows platforms (1190230). * Package i18n was missing (1190967). Features added: * Internationalization support. Task Coach is available with Dutch and English user interface (1164461). * Added 'expand selected task' and 'collapse selected task' menu items to the view menu and the task context menu (1189978). Features removed: * 'Select' -> 'Completed tasks'. This can be done through the View menu too. What is Task Coach? Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and is developed using Python and wxPython. You can download Task Coach from: http://taskcoach.niessink.com https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach/ A binary installer is available for Windows XP, in addition to the source distribution. Cheers, Frank

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IMDbPY 1.9 released
by alberanid＠libero.it May 2, 2005

May 2, 2005

IMDbPY 1.9 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 support for systems with limited CPU power and bandwidth (like PDA, mobile phones and hand-held devices) is introduced. Some bugs were fixed and now it's possible to search for "adult" titles. A GUI for Symbian Series 60 smart phones, developed by Tero Saarni, is available at http://kotisivu.mtv3.fi/terosaarni/python/imdbpygui/ 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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ANNOUNCE: tclpython-4.0
by jfontain＠free.fr May 2, 2005

May 2, 2005

### CHANGES ### --- version 4.0 --- allowed evaluation of Tcl code in parent Tcl interpreter from Python interpreters (thanks to Daniel Savard) added tclpython.h file for possible use in extensions to tclpython allowed Tcl interpreter access from C code so tclpython can be extended included Tcl stubs checking macros in tclpython.c ### README ### tclpython version 4.0: a Python package for Tcl This package allows the execution of Python (version 2.2 or above) code from a Tcl interpreter, as in: package require tclpython 4 set interpreter [python::interp new] $interpreter exec {print("Hello World")} puts [$interpreter eval 3/2.0] python::interp delete $interpreter You can actually create several Python interpreters this way, if the tclpython package was linked against a Python library compiled with threads support, otherwise only 1 Python interpreter can exist at a time. Starting with version 4.0, you can also access and use the parent Tcl interpreter from a Python interpreter: package require tclpython 4 set interpreter [python::interp new] puts [$interpreter eval {tcl.eval('clock format [clock seconds]')}] python::interp delete $interpreter You should pay attention to space with the python interpreter. The line in the sample will work but this one will not: puts [$interpreter eval { tcl.eval('clock format [clock seconds]') }] This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ### you may find it now at my homepage: http://jfontain.free.fr/tclpython-4.0.tar.gz http://jfontain.free.fr/tclpython-4.0-1.i386.rpm http://jfontain.free.fr/tclpython-4.0-1.spec http://jfontain.free.fr/tclpython.htm

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PyMoney
by Batista, Facundo May 2, 2005

May 2, 2005

People: I'm glad to announce the kick-off of PyMoney project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymoney The project goal is to produce a Money module for Python. If yu want to participate, start reading the pep.txt file, which is the result of two Open Sessions in PyCon2005 mixed with previous Money attempts. Facundo Batista Desarrollo de Servicios Movistar (54 11) 5130-4643 Cel: 15 5097 5024 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADVERTENCIA. La información contenida en este mensaje y cualquier archivo anexo al mismo, son para uso exclusivo del destinatario y pueden contener información confidencial o propietaria, cuya divulgación es sancionada por la ley. Si Ud. No es uno de los destinatarios consignados o la persona responsable de hacer llegar este mensaje a los destinatarios consignados, no está autorizado a divulgar, copiar, distribuir o retener información (o parte de ella) contenida en este mensaje. Por favor notifíquenos respondiendo al remitente, borre el mensaje original y borre las copias (impresas o grabadas en cualquier medio magnético) que pueda haber realizado del mismo. Todas las opiniones contenidas en este mail son propias del autor del mensaje y no necesariamente coinciden con las de Telefónica Comunicaciones Personales S.A. o alguna empresa asociada. Los mensajes electrónicos pueden ser alterados, motivo por el cual Telefónica Comunicaciones Personales S.A. no aceptará ninguna obligación cualquiera sea el resultante de este mensaje. Muchas Gracias.

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Roundup Issue Tracker release 0.8.3
by Richard Jones May 2, 2005

May 2, 2005

Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. This 0.8.3 release adds one feature and fixes some bugs: Feature: - chinese translation by limodou Fixed: - fix reference to The Zope Book in Roundup FAQ - disabled file logging in Roundup test suite (sf bug 1155649) - return original string if message issue xref isn't valid - fix nosyreaction.py to stop it setting the nosy list unnecessarily (see doc/upgrading.txt for how to fix in your trackers) - after logout, always display tracker home page - web forms don't create new items if no item properties are set from UI - item creation failed if multilink fields had invalid entries (sf bug 1177602) - fix bdist_rpm (sf bug 1164328) - fix checking of "Email Access" for Anonymous email registration (sf bug 1177057) - disable "Email Access" for Anonymous by default to stop spam regsitering users on public trackers - send errors in the web interface to a logfile by default. Use the "debug" multiprocess mode (roundup-server) or the DEBUG_TO_CLIENT var (roundup.cgi) to have the errors appear in your browser - fix setgid typo (sf bug 1171346) - fix faulty find_template filename facility (sf bug 1163629) - fix roundup-admin "export" so it creates the target dir if needed - "fix" roundup-admin "import" to not use "universal newline support" since the csv module appears to have its own ideas about such things (sf bug 1163890) - fix installation docs referring to old-style configuration variables If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.3 or later for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: python demo.py Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Release Info (via download page): http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and five database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, metakit, mysql and postgresql).

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