Mailman 3 June 2005 - Python-announce-list

ANN: eric3 3.7.0 released
by Detlev Offenbach 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Hi, this is to let all of you know about the release of eric3 3.7.0. Next to a bunch of bugfixes, it adds these features. - support for Ruby projects (debugger, syntax highlighting) - support for the generation of KDE UIs - introduction of watchpoints - added class browsers for Ruby and CORBA IDL files - added bookmark capability to the file browser - added context menus for directories to the various browsers - added tasks and a task viewer and a bunch of little improvements. As usual it is available via http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html Go get it and enjoy working with it. Many thanks to all people who have tested the snapshots, send bug reports and supported the development by sending patches and translating the eric3 UI. What is it ---------- Eric3 is a full featured development environment for Python and Ruby released under the conditions of the GPL. Please see above URL for more information and download. Regards, Detlev -- Detlev Offenbach detlev(a)die-offenbachs.de

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PloneLive 1.0 Available Now!
by Michel Pelletier 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Plone Live is the result of a year of work, full- and part-time, of the two authors, Michel Pelletier and Munwar Shariff, our technical editor, Jean Jordaan, and our copy editor, Amy Kesic. But this book is more than what you are holding (or reading on the screen), because this book is live; every month, the authors add new content and fix typos, responding to the feedback our readers leave on our site, http://plonelive.com. Over the next year, this book will tackle one of the greatest challenges for any book about modern, open source software: remaining current. Using the traditional publishing method, books quickly become out-of-date and irrelevant, rather than remaining up-to-date, useful references. By updating this book every month, SourceBeat has created a unique publication format that solves these problems with traditional publication methods. First, it's hard to get a book about a complex piece of open source software 100% correct; in fact, almost impossible when one or two authors and one technical reviewer must often document a system built by dozens or perhaps hundreds of programmers. By creating orderly, feature-based releases each month, the book can evolve over time to cover more and more complex features of the software, and we can catch errors quickly in the first few updates. Second, open source software, like Plone, often does not follow a hard-and-fast feature plan, but instead adds new, innovative features as they are thought up by creative developers trying to solve real world problems. By updating the book each month, the book can quickly adapt to cover any new technologies or trends that emerge from the community of users. Books that are released once every year or two cannot follow or easily adapt to these trends. Third, like open source software, books have communities. However, traditional books have a large disconnect between the reader and the author because there is no way for the reader to get feedback to the author. Even if they could, there are seldom clear, easy-to use-channels for redistributing books or errata. By creating the “live” book format, SourceBeat is creating a new way for readers and authors to make better books cooperatively. You can buy this book online from Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0976553406/002-2820793-0614428% 29%2Cas/104-8538093-5697530

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Snakelets 1.41 and Frog 1.6
by Irmen de Jong 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

I'm happy to announce the release of Snakelets 1.41 and at the same time Frog 1.6. Snakelets is a Python web application server. This project provides a threaded web server, Ypages (HTML+Python language, similar to Java's JSPs) and Snakelets: code-centric page request handlers (similar to Java's Servlets). Frog is a Blog server application written for Snakelets. It is small but has many features, such as BBcode markup, XHTML+CSS page output, multiple users, no database required, anti-spam measures, email notification, Smileys, RSS feeds, and more. Please find more info on both projects here: http://snakelets.sourceforge.net/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41175 The detailed release notes have been added to the version section. Have fun! --Irmen de Jong

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PAMIE 1.5 released! Now supports IE automation with frames.
by calfdog＠yahoo.com 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

Why wait, when you could be using this to Automate now!... It's Free!!! http://pamie.sourceforge.net ======================================================================== What is PAMIE? PAMIE stands for Python Automation module for Internet Explorer. Requirements: ------------ * Window 2000, WinNT, WinXP * Python 2.4. (I use Active State Python 2.4.x since it installs the needed win32all library) Optional tools for writing scripts: * Eclipse with pydev plugin ( great for writing, running and debugging scripts) - recommended!! * Emacs - for script writing * Notepad++ - for script writing * PythonWin IDE installed with Activestate Python - http://www.Activestate.org - for script writing and running ========================================================================== This was completely written in Python to be used as a QA/Development tool for Web testing. You will find this is one of the easiest automation tool to use for automating Internet Explorer. PAMIE is a class file (cPAMIE.py) that you import and you can calls its methods to write scripts that automate your IE browser client. Used with PY unit you can write complex Web testing frameworks. Uses: * Automate Web testing * Use along with Jmeter for Performance testing. * Load Testing ========================================================================== New Enhancements: ---------------- Frames support improved report status Just a few of the methods available: ------------------------------------ _frameWait - waits for user speficied frame document to load _wait - wait for documetn to load checkForFormName - check to see if a formname exists in the document checkForFrameName -- check to see if a framename exists ClickBtnImage - Clicks on an input type image button ClickButton - Click on a button ClickImage - clicks on an Image ClickLink - Clicks on a link ClickMenu - Clicks on an menu item,link ClickMenuImage - Clicks on an menu item that is a image. Click a Menu or Sub Menu Item ClickNthImage click on the Nth Image ClickNthLink - click on the Nth link ClickOuterLink - clicks on a link using outertext ClickPageLink - click on the page link GetTextBox - get tectbox value SettextBox - Sets texbox value GetNames - get the names of the form elements GetListbox - gets selected listbox item SetlistBox - sets selected listbox item GetRadioButton - Gets Radio button status SetRadioButton - Sets Radio button GetRadioButtonSet - same as above and much much more !!! Check it out! Thank you R.L. Marchetti

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For review: PEP 343: Anonymous Block Redux and Generator Enhancements
by Guido van Rossum 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

After many rounds of discussion on python-dev, I'm inviting public comments for PEP 343. Rather than posting the entire PEP text here, I'm inviting everyone to read it on line (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0343.html) and then post comments on a Wiki page I've created for this purpose (http://wiki.python.org/moin/WithStatement). I think this is a good one; I hope people agree. Its acceptance will obsolete about 4 other PEPs! (A sign that it fulfills a need and that the proposed solution is powerful.) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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[ANN] IPython 0.6.15 - minor bugfix
by Fernando Perez 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Hi all, I've just put out a minor bugfix release, 0.6.15. It really only fixes one thing, tab-completion inside strings: In [1]: foo('/etc/hos <<<--- TAB HERE /etc/host.conf /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny In [1]: foo("/etc/ini <<<--- TAB HERE /etc/init.d /etc/initlog.conf /etc/inittab If anyone is interested in this functionality, you'll need to fix ~/.ipython/ipythonrc, so the readline delimiters configuration reads: readline_remove_delims -/~ (or at least, make sure neither ' nor " are in there). Where to get it? ---------------- As usual, downloads at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist WHAT is IPython? ---------------- 1. An interactive shell superior to Python's default. IPython has many features for object introspection, system shell access, and its own special command system for adding functionality when working interactively. 2. An embeddable, ready to use interpreter for your own programs. IPython can be started with a single call from inside another program, providing access to the current namespace. 3. A flexible framework which can be used as the base environment for other systems with Python as the underlying language. Cheers, f

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ANN: Pythonutils, listquote, and ConfigObj UPDATE
by Fuzzyman 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

*UPDATE* to the Pythonutils modules. (Please note that due to technical difficulties updated evrsions of ConfigObj and rest2web aren't yet available from Sourceforge - pelase download from Voidspace instead - apologies) The main update is to the listquote module, which has two bugfixes and several optimisations. Because of the bugfixes it is recommended that all users of listquote, pythonutils, fullconfigobj, and configobj, upgrade to newer versions which are now available. The previous version would lose the last list member in a string like '["first member", "second member", ""]'. listquote Version 1.3.0 1st June 2005 http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#listquote Parsing strings into lists (even nested lists). Handles comments and quotes. (etc) Fixed bug in lineparse handling of empty list members. Thnks to bug report and fix by Par Pandit The 'unquote' function is now regex based. (bugfix it now doesn't return a tuple if fullquote is 0) Added the simplelist regex/function. elem_quote and uncomment use a regex for clarity and speed. Added a bunch of asserts to the tests. pathutils Version 0.2.0 1st june 2005 http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml#utils Changes since 0.1.0 Added walkdirs generator. Added rounding to formatbytes and improved bytedivider with divmod. Now explicit keyword parameters override the configdict in formatbytes. The pythonutils module 0.1.1 This contains both updates above and an updated version of cgiutils. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/pythonutils.html If the windows binary installer isn't available (I need to find a Python 2.3 machine to build it on as installers built on 2.4 require the dll from MSVC 7 on the *target machine*) then just use the source distribution - it's a pure python module anyway.

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ANN: http Tutorials (urllib2 and Basic Authentication)
by Fuzzyman 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

*NEW* http Tutorials Two new tutorials on http related subjects with Python. (1) A tutorial on using urllib2. It covers fetching URLs, coping with errors, and using handlers and openers. It should be useful to anyone new to using urllib2. (2) A tutorial on BASIC authentication with Python. It first illustrates how BASIC authentication works - manually encoding the username/password into the request. Next we show the *proper* way to do it - with password manager, handler, and opener; a subject which has been known to confuse even intermediate level Python Programmers. See : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml#http (errata welcomed by the way - see the website for a contact address)

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ANN : rest2web 0.2.0
by Fuzzyman 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

*UPDATE* rest2web 0.2.0 This is a major update to rest2web, introducing lots of new features and improvements. The main new features are : * rest2web now renders pages a whole directory at a time and builds a tree of the site structureas it goes. This allows the new standard functions to provide very simple ways of automatically building sidebars. The data strucures are also available for you to process yourself. * The new *standard functions* also include a one line way to print navigation trails. * You can now specify your template encoding and output encoding - rest2web is fully unicode internally. It ought to 'do the right thing' if you don't specify what encodings are being used (even if you mix encodings). * A new system of macros for frequently used shorthands (including smilies and Python source coloring). * Lots more values available in the template namespace. :Author: Michael Foord :Contact: fuzzyman(a)voidspace.org.uk :Version: 0.2.0 :Date: 2005/06/01 :License: BSD-License http://www.voidspace.org.uk/documents/BSD-LICENSE.txt :Home Page: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web :Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rest2web :Development: SVN Repository https://svn.rest2web.python-hosting.com/trunk/ :Support: Pythonutils Mailing List http://www.voidspace.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/pythonutils_voidspace.org.uk :Quick Download: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace.py?file=rest2web.zip (725k) Note : rest2web requires the pythonutils module http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/pythonutils.html What is restweb ? =================== rest2web is a tool for automatically building websites, or parts of websites. It allows you to maintain your content as reST (see http://docutils.sourceforge.net ) - a relaxed (WYSIWYG) text markup. (You can keep content as HTML as well if you prefer). It will generate HTML from your contents and insert it into HTML templates, automatically building index pages, sidebars, and navigation trails (breadcrumbs) as it goes. It features a simple templating system, macros, and more. Adding pages to your site can be as simple as dropping the text file of cotnent into the desired directory. rest2web will add it to the index page and build the target file. If you delete a page, rest2web can automatically update the indexes for you. Because rest2web resolves all links locally, it can be used to create HTML files viewable from the filesystem. This makes it an ideal way to create documentation. See the docs and example site (included in the distribution) : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web The example site illustrates most of the features of rest2web, which is now building a significant proportion of Voidspace - see http://www.voidspace.org.uk/technology for a live example. What's Changed Since 0.1.0 ? =============================== Version 0.2.0 2005/06/01 Various minor changes especially additions to the namespace pages are rendered in. Sites are rendered a whole section at a time. This means pages have index data for that section available. This is the ``sections`` variable in the namespace. Added the ``output-encoding`` and `final_encoding`` values to the restindex. Added the ``template-encoding`` value to the restindex. rest2web is now entirely unicode internally. It's now possible to specify title and description for the default section. Added indextree and thispage, allows building of sidebars. Added standard functions. Added macros. Started using subversion repository. Changed all line endings to 'LF'. What's Next ? =============== The next step is to have rest2web automatically create contents and sitemaps for sites it is creating. I'd like to integrate with a system that inspects Python objects for helping to automate some of the process of documenting Python projects.

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Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG June 8
by Gary Poster 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG June 8 Please join us June 8, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the inaugural meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). Tres Seaver, architect of the Zope Content Management Framework, will present. Further meetings are planned for the second Wednesday of every month. Location will be at the Zope Corporation offices. Further details below, and at http://www.zope.org/Members/poster/fxbgzpug_announce. Gary --------- Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00 First meeting: June 8, 7:30. Speaker: Tres Seaver, architect of the Zope Content Management Framework (CMF). Topic: Selenium (automated cross-platform, cross-browser application browser tests, http://selenium.thoughtworks.com/index.html), as integrated with Zope 2 in Zelenium (http://www.zope.org/Members/ tseaver/Zelenium). Location: Zope Corporation offices (http://tinyurl.com/duoab or http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Zope+Corporation,+513+Prince+Edward +Street,+Fredericksburg,+VA +22401&ll=38.298600,-77.457900&spn=0.032410,0.068500&hl=en) Parking: Zope Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince Edward Street. Future topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the constraints of having to do with Python. Possible topics include presentations referencing Zope 3, Zope 2, Twisted Framework, core Python topics, Python and XML, Zope Object Database (ZODB), Macintosh OS X application development with Python, etc.

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