Mailman 3 August 2005 - Python-announce-list

SoCal Piggies meeting: August 16th 7PM at USC
by Grig Gheorghiu Aug. 10, 2005

Aug. 10, 2005

Python enthusiasts from the L.A/Orange County areas are invited to the next SoCal Piggies meeting on Tuesday August 16th from 7 PM to 9 PM. The meeting will take place at USC. Directions available here: <http://socal-piggies.org/scp/USC_Salvatori_Computer_Science_Center,_room_222> On the agenda: * "Demo of interactive multi-player game based on Python, CGI and Javascript" - Charlie Hornberger * "Demo/presentation of a commercial wxWindows-based Python application" - Steve Williams

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ZODB 3.4.1 final released
by Tim Peters Aug. 10, 2005

Aug. 10, 2005

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.4.1 final. This corresponds to the ZODB that will ship in Zope 2.8.1. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.4 Note that there are two Windows installers, for Python 2.3 (2.3.5 is recommended) and Python 2.4 (2.4.1 is recommended). There have been many bugfixes in various areas since ZODB 3.4. In addition, optional ZEO client cache tracing was badly broken with the introduction of multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) in ZODB 3.3, and ZODB 3.4.1 is the first attempt to repair that. See the news file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.4/NEWS.html Note that ZODB 3.4.1 does not support any version of Zope 2.6 or 2.7. Current Zope 2.8 development uses ZODB 3.4.1, and current Zope3 development uses a ZODB 3.5 prerelease. The ZODB 3.3 line is officially retired (3.3.1 final was the last release in the 3.3 line).

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ANN: unicode 0.4.7
by garabik-news-2005-05＠kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk Aug. 10, 2005

Aug. 10, 2005

unicode is a simple python command line utility that displays properties for a given unicode character, or searches unicode database for a given name. It was written with Linux in mind, but should work almost everywhere (including MS Windows and MacOSX), UTF-8 console is recommended. Changes since previous versions: * accept --color as synonym of --colour * -v switch to display UniHan properties (you need Unihan.txt and it is slow) Author: Radovan Garabík URL: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/unicode/ License: GPL -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!

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ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 1.0
by Uche Ogbuji Aug. 9, 2005

Aug. 9, 2005

http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4suite/amara ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/Amara/ Changes in this release: * Bug fixes and documentation improvements * Incorporation of prerequisites (from 4Suite) into compact allinone package. You no longer need anything except for Python to install Amara from one package in one step. Amara XML Toolkit is a collection of Python tools for XML processing-- not just tools that happen to be written in Python, but tools built from the ground up to use Python idioms and take advantage of the many advantages of Python. Amara builds on 4Suite [http://4Suite.org], but whereas 4Suite focuses more on literal implementation of XML standards in Python, Amara focuses on Pythonic idiom. It provides tools you can trust to conform with XML standards without losing the familiar Python feel. The components of Amara are: * Bindery: data binding tool (a very Pythonic XML API) * Scimitar: implementation of the ISO Schematron schema language for XML; converts Schematron files to Python scripts * domtools: set of tools to augment Python DOMs * saxtools: set of tools to make SAX easier to use in Python * Flextyper: user-defined datatypes in Python for XML processing There's a lot in Amara, but here are highlights: Amara Bindery: XML as easy as py -------------------------------- Bindery turns an XML document into a tree of Python objects corresponding to the vocabulary used in the XML document, for maximum clarity. For example, the document <monty> <python spam="eggs">What do you mean "bleh"</python> <python ministry="abuse">But I was looking for argument</python> </monty> Becomes a data structure such that you can write binding.monty.python.spam In order to get the value "eggs" or binding.monty.python[1] In order to get the value "But I was looking for argument". There are other such tools for Python, and what makes Anobind unique is that it's driven by a very declarative rules-based system for binding XML to the Python data. You can register rules that are triggered by XPattern expressions specialized binding behavior. It includes XPath support and supports mutation. Bindery is very efficient, using SAX to generate bindings. Scimitar: Schematron for Pytthon -------------------------------- Merged in from a separate project, Scimitar is an implementation of ISO Schematron that compiles a Schematron schema into a Python validator script. You typically use scimitar in two phases. Say you have a schematron schema schema1.stron and you want to validate multiple XML files against it, instance1.xml, instance2.xml, instance3.xml. First you run schema1.stron through the scimitar compiler script, scimitar.py: scimitar.py schema1.stron The generated file, schema1.py, can be used to validate XML instances: python schema1.py instance1.xml Which emits a validation report. Amara DOM Tools: giving DOM a more Pythonic face ------------------------------------------------ DOM came from the Java world, hardly the most Pythonic API possible. Some DOM-like implementations such as 4Suite's Domlettes mix in some Pythonic idiom. Amara DOM Tools goes even further. Amara DOM Tools feature pushdom, similar to xml.dom.pulldom, but easier to use. It also includes Python generator-based tools for DOM processing, and a function to return an XPath location for any DOM node. Amara SAX Tools: SAX without the brain explosion ------------------------------------------------ Tenorsax (amara.saxtools.tenorsax) is a framework for "linerarizing" SAX logic so that it flows more naturally, and needs a lot less state machine wizardry. License ------- Amara is open source, provided under the 4Suite variant of the Apache license. See the file COPYING for details. Installation ------------ Amara requires Python 2.3 or more recent. If you do not have 4Suite, grab the Amara-allinone package. If you already have 4Suite installed, grab the stand along Amara package. In either case, unpack to a convenient location and run: python setup.py install -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://fourthought.com http://copia.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org Use CSS to display XML, part 2 - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss2-i.html XML Output with 4Suite & Amara - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/04/20/py-xml.html Use XSLT to prepare XML for import into OpenOffice Calc - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-oocalc/ Schema standardization for top-down semantic transparency - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think31.html

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itools 0.10.0 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" Aug. 9, 2005

Aug. 9, 2005

What is it? itools is a Python library, it groups a number of packages into a single meta-package for easier development and deployment. The packages included are: itools.catalog itools.datatypes itools.gettext itools.handlers itools.html itools.i18n itools.ical itools.resources itools.rss itools.schemas itools.tmx itools.uri itools.web itools.workflow itools.xhtml itools.xliff itools.xml What's new? Now Python 2.4 is required. Data Types - The module "itools.types" has been renamed to "itools.datatypes", and features a better programming interface. By David Ibáñez. Schemas - New module "itools.schemas" provides a registry of schemas (collections of data-types), a feature that has been moved from "itools.xml.namespaces". By David Ibáñez. Resources - Now Zope 2 resources use "bobobase_modification_time". By David Ibáñez. Catalog - Implement range search. By David Ibáñez. Simple Template Language - New keyword "none" in STL expressions (#71). By Hervé Cauwelier. - Omit the STL namespace declaration after processing (#81). By Hervé Cauwelier. iCalendar - Added support for RFC 2445 (itools.ical). By Nicolas Deram. RSS - Added support for RSS 2.0 (itools.rss). By Piotr Macuk. TMX - Added support for the "Translation Memory eXchange" file format (itools.tmx). By Nicolas Oyez. XLIFF - Added support for the "XML Localisation Interchange File Format" (itools.xliff). By Nicolas Oyez. Web - New package "itools.web" provides high level API to build web applications. Proof-of-concept implementations for CGI and standalone server. Obsoleted package "itools.zope" removed. By David Ibáñez. Packaging - Improving unit tests. By Hervé Cauwelier. Links - Download and Documentation, http://www.ikaaro.org/itools - Mailing list, http://in-girum.net/mailman/listinfo/ikaaro - Bug Tracker, http://in-girum.net/cgi-bin/bugzilla/index.cgi -- J. David Ibáñez Itaapy <http://www.itaapy.com> Tel +33 (0)1 42 23 67 45 9 rue Darwin, 75018 Paris Fax +33 (0)1 53 28 27 88

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SyPy Meetup - August 15 - Chris Withers
by Alan Green Aug. 9, 2005

Aug. 9, 2005

Chris Withers, Zope guru and a major contributor to SquishDot (http://www.squishdot.org/) is coming to Sydney (Australia) for a few days, and would like to meet up with some Sydney Pythoneers on Monday August 15. Date: Monday August 15 Time: 6:30-7:00pmish onwards Place: James Squires Brewhouse 2 The Promenade, King St Wharf Sydney Fee: $0.00 It promises to be an interesting evening, both for Zope programmers, and for those curious about Zope. Alan.

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ANN: pyx12-1.2.0
by John Holland Aug. 8, 2005

Aug. 8, 2005

What's New: =========== Created DTD for the simple XML output form. Changed URL. Removed generation of DTD line for idtag and idtagqual XML output forms. Added a new XML output form: idtagqual. This form appends the ID value to non-unique segment IDs Added draft map for Unsolicited 277: 277U.4010.X070.xml Base map_if segment children on dictionary - faster lookups Corrected validation bugs. Added more unit and functional tests. Altered segment interface. See CHANGELOG.txt for all changes. What is Pyx12? ============== Pyx12 is a HIPAA X12 document validator and converter. It parses an ANSI X12N data file and validates it against a representation of the Implementation Guidelines for a HIPAA transaction. By default, it creates a 997 response. It can create an html representation of the X12 document or can translate to and from an XML representation of the data file. Where can I get it? =================== Pyx12 is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyx12/

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Chicago Python Users Group, Thurs Aug 11, 7pm
by Ian Bicking Aug. 8, 2005

Aug. 8, 2005

The Chicago Python User Group, ChiPy, will have its next meeting on Thursday August 11th, starting at 7pm. For more information on ChiPy see http://chipy.org Presentations ------------- * Aaron Lav will talk about Unicode and middleproxy, a proxying web application that adds links to definitions of Chinese characters. * Ian Bicking will talk about distutils and setuptools -- how to use Python packages and how to make your own. * If time permits, Michael Tobis will talk on the pdb module, probably along with a "symbolic debuggers, who needs 'em?" discussion. There will also be time to chat, and many opportunities to ask questions. We encourage people at all levels to attend. Location -------- This month we will be meeting at Imaginary Landscape at 5121 N Ravenswood, on Chicago's North Side. Parking is available. See the website for more transportation information. About ChiPy ----------- This will be ChiPy's (cardinal number) meeting. We meet once a month, on the second Thursday of the month. If you can't come this month, please join our mailing list: http://lonelylion.com/mailman/listinfo/chipy

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BayPIGgies: August 11, 7:30pm (Ironport)
by Aahz Aug. 8, 2005

Aug. 8, 2005

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs, August 11 at 7:30pm at Ironport. Hasan Diwan will present RRsR, a web-based RSS reader written using feedparser and python CGI. This is expected to be a short presentation; afterward, anyone who was at OSCON is invited to summarize what they saw/heard. BayPIGgies meetings alternate between IronPort (San Bruno, California) and Google (Mountain View, California). For more information and directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/ Before the meeting, we plan to meet at 6pm for dinner. Discussion of dinner plans is handled on the BayPIGgies mailing list. This week will probably be at Creperie du Monde, six long blocks from IronPort (i.e., walking distance). Advance notice: The September 8 meeting agenda has not been set. Please send e-mail to baypiggies(a)baypiggies.net if you want to suggest an agenda (or volunteer to give a presentation). We already have a speaker for October. -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ The way to build large Python applications is to componentize and loosely-couple the hell out of everything.

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ANN: MoinMoin 1.3.5 (advanced wiki engine) released
by Alexander Schremmer Aug. 6, 2005

Aug. 6, 2005

_ _ /\/\ ___ (_)_ __ /\/\ ___ (_)_ __ / \ / _ \| | '_ \ / \ / _ \| | '_ \ __ / /\/\ \ (_) | | | | / /\/\ \ (_) | | | | | /| _) \/ \/\___/|_|_| |_\/ \/\___/|_|_| |_| |.__) ============================================== MoinMoin 1.3.5 advanced wiki engine released ============================================== MoinMoin is an easy to use, full-featured and extensible wiki software package written in Python. It can fulfill a wide range of roles, such as a personal notes organizer deployed on a laptop or home web server, a company knowledge base deployed on an intranet, or an Internet server open to individuals sharing the same interests, goals or projects. A wiki is a collaborative hypertext environment with an emphasis on easy manipulation of information. MoinMoin 1.3.5 is a maintenance release that fixes several bugs and introduces some new features. See below. Upgrading is recommended for all users. - http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinDownload Major bugs that were fixed -------------------------- * Fixed minor security bug when acl of deleted page was ignored. See: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs/ACLIgnoredAfterDelete * Fixed shortcut link non-existent page detection. * Fixed a few bugs related to Python 2.2.x. * Fixed traceback which occurred on negated searches. * Fixed core code to support external formatters better. * Fixed url_mappings to work in proxied setups and sent mails again. Also fixed for image links. Thanks to JohannesBerg. * Fixed migration script 10 to run on Python 2.2.2. * The twisted server defaulted to a socket timeout of 12 hours! We reduced that to a more sane 10 minutes, that should still be more than enough. This fixed the "too many open files" problem we encountered quite often recently. Thanks to Helmut Grohne! * Various other bugfixes. Major New features ------------------ * Integrated Lupy indexer for better search performance. It is disabled by default as of 1.3.5 as it still has known issues. * Integrated MonthCalendar 2.1 with some new features. * Added the new XSLT parser and the DocBook parser. This should increase the 4suite compatiblity. See HelpOnXmlPages. Thanks to Henry Ho! * Added the DocBook formatter. This will let you generate DocBook markup by writing simple wiki pages. It needs PyXML. * New standalone server classes: ThreadPoolServer using pool of threads, ThreadingServer with thread limit and ForkingServer. * An option "PythonOption Location" in mod_python setup to solve script_name problems. * HTTPS using the Twisted server For a more detailed list of changes, see the CHANGES file in the distribution or http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinRelease1.3/CHANGES Major new features in 1.3 ========================= * MoinMoin speaks your language! Complete Unicode support, translated system and help pages in more than ten languages, and support for languages written from right to left are the base features of our internationalisation support. * Fresh look and feel. New default user interface design, improved existing themes and enhanced theme plug-in framework that make it easier to modify the design or create completely new user interface. * Find anything on your wiki, instantly. New search engine and streamlined Google-like search interface, using multiple search terms, regular expressions, search term modifiers and boolean search. * Antispam - keep spammers out of you wiki. Protect your wiki with automatically updated spam patterns maintained on the MoinMaster wiki, and shared by all MoinMoin wikis worlwide. * Underlay directory - easy upgrade and maintenance. New streamlined directory layout protects all system and help pages in a separate underlay directory. * Run with your favorite server. Use either a standalone server that requires only Python, the high performance Twisted server, Apache with Fast CGI, mod_python or plain CGI. * Multiconfig - easier, more powerful configuration. New class-based configuration allow you to easily configure single or multiple wikis sharing a common setup. MoinMoin History ================ MoinMoin has been around since year 2000. Most of the codebase was written by Jürgen Hermann; it is currently being developed by a growing team. Being originally based on PikiPiki, it has evolved heavily since then (PikiPiki and MoinMoin 0.1 consisted of just one file!). Many large enterprises have been using MoinMoin as a key tool of their intranet, some even use it for their public web page. A large number of Open Source projects use MoinMoin for communication and documentation. Of course there is also a large number of private installations. More Information ================ * Project site: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ * Feature list: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinFeatures * Download: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinDownload * This software is available under the GNU General Public License v2. * Changes: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinRelease1.3/CHANGES * Known bugs: * http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/KnownIssues * http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs sent by Alexander Schremmer for the MoinMoin team

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