Mailman 3 September 2005 - Python-announce-list

py2exe 0.6.1 released
by Thomas Heller Sept. 5, 2005

Sept. 5, 2005

py2exe 0.6.1 released ===================== py2exe is a Python distutils extension which converts python scripts into executable windows programs, able to run without requiring a python installation. Console and Windows (GUI) applications, windows NT services, exe and dll COM servers are supported. Changes in this release: * py2exe can now bundle binary extensions and dlls into the library-archive or the executable itself. This allows to finally build real single-file executables. The bundled dlls and pyds are loaded at runtime by some special code that emulates the Windows LoadLibrary function - they are never unpacked to the file system. This part of the code is distributed under the MPL 1.1, so this license is now pulled in by py2exe. * By default py2exe now includes the codecs module and the encodings package. * Several other fixes. Homepage: <http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe> Download from the usual location: <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15583> Enjoy, Thomas

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ANN: PyPy Sprint in Paris October 10th to 16th
by Ludovic Aubry Sept. 5, 2005

Sept. 5, 2005

Here is the official sprint announcement You can also find it here : http://codespeak.net/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/paris-2005-sprint.html PyPy Sprint in Paris 10th - 16th October 2005 ========================================================== The next PyPy sprint will take place in Paris at Logilab's office in France from the 10th to the 16th of October 2005 (both days fully included). To learn more about the new PyPy Python implementation look here: http://codespeak.net/pypy Goals and topics of the sprint ------------------------------ Now that pypy-0.7.0_ has been released, it is time for refactoring and planning of the next features. For these reasons the currently scheduled main topics of this sprint will be: - threading and GC - refactoring and translation features - discussing/experimenting towards JIT_ and `continuation-passing`_ style translation Moreover, we are open to work in other areas that participants are interested in. Please raise topics on the mailinglist_. Location & Accomodation ------------------------ The sprint will be held in Logilab's offices in Paris. The exact address is:: 10 rue Louis Vicat 75015 Paris We'll provide WLAN connection and there is a small kitchen to make tea and coffee. `See here`_ for a map of the area nearby. There are two metro lines and three bus lines that stop close to Logilab's: - Metro line 12 : stop "Porte de Versailles" - Metro line 13 : stop "Malakoff plateau de Vanves" - Bus 89 or 58 : stop "Carrefour Albert Legris" - Bus PC1 : stop "Porte de la Plaine" Those are more or less within 5 minutes walk. There is a huge number of hotels_ in Paris, all of which are unfortunately rather expensive. Here is another site for `hotels en France`_. It should be no problem to reach the sprint venue from anywhere in Paris using public transportation. However it would be better to find accomodation in the southern districts (14th, 15th) or in the nearby towns (Malakoff, Vanves) not far from Paris. Another good choice is to find an hotel near one of the metro line above. (avoid long bus trips as it takes more time.) Looking at the map here: hotels_, the area you should look at is between (3) and (6), (5) is still ok. As an alternative you could also try to group (4 or 5 people) and try to rent a furnished appartment for the week. Almost all announces from French websites come from `Lodgis agency`_. They are rather expensive but most of the time it can be cheaper than hotels. For the more adventurous you can look on the french site pap_ which lists rental ads. (select appartements, dÃ©partement=75, arrondissements=15,14,13) For transportation we strongly recommend the public transportation (metro and buses). There are weekly tickets (monday to sunday) from 15.70 euros (Zone 1-2). You need a picture (ID format) and ask for a *Carte Orange*. Don't get the tourist's cards which are more expensive and valid only for 5 days. Also note that zone 1-2 won't pay for your ticket from the airport and is valid only (mostly) inside Paris. If you arrive by plane this will be most probably at Roissy airport and from there you can take the RER line B to Paris for about 8 euros. .. _`See here`: http://www.logilab.com/contact .. _hotels: http://www.hotel-paris.net/index-hotels-English.htm .. _`hotels en France`: http://www.0800paris-hotels.com/ .. _pap: http://www.pap.fr/immobilier/offres/offre-location-vacances.asp .. _`Lodgis agency`: http://www.lodgis.com/ Exact times ----------- The PyPy sprint is held Monday 10th October - Sunday 16th October 2005. Hours will be from 09:00 until 20:00. It's a good idea to arrive a day before the sprint starts and leave a day later. In the middle of the sprint there usually is a break day and it's usually ok to take half-days off if you feel like it. Network, Food ------------- There are plenty of restaurants and sandwich places around and a big supermarket for those who would rather make their own food. You will probably need a wireless network card to access the network but we can provide ethernet cables for those who don't have one. Registration etc. ----------------- Please subscribe to the `PyPy sprint mailing list`_, introduce yourself and post a note that you want to come. Feel free to ask any questions there! There also is a separate `Paris people`_ page tracking who is already thought to come. If you have commit rights on codespeak then you can modify yourself a checkout of http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/paris-2005-people.txt .. _`Paris people`: http://codespeak.net/pypy/index.cgi?extradoc/sprintinfo/paris-people.html .. _`mailinglist`: .. _`PyPy sprint mailing list`: http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-sprint .. _`pypy-0.7.0`: http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/release-0.7.0.html .. _JIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation .. _`continuation-passing`: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_passing_style

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 5)
by Diez B. Roggisch Sept. 5, 2005

Sept. 5, 2005

QOTW: "You can lead an idiot to idioms, but you can't make him think ;-)" -- Steve Holden "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (used by Tim Churches, and also found in http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html) PyPy has come a long way - and made great progress with release 0.7: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/5f12849e4c28fc6c Processing large XML files can be tedious, especially when using DOM. Jog shows ways to do so, and ElementTree is as usual amongst the best, both api- and performance-wise: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b1b259c448a867e9 Date processing is often way more difficult than one thinks - in languages that don't have a rich date api like python, that is: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/9d125ca55b83b17a Not exactly new, these new-style classes. But you can always find nifty details you didn't know about: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/3fa6468b4… Congratulations to SpamBayes contributors on the announcement that *Personal Computer World* awarded that project its "Editors' Choice" award, besting competitors including products from Symantec, McAfee, and so on: http://pcw.co.uk There is always room for new syntax proposals, like a "isa" keyword to sugar isinstance - and while it's unlikely to become part of the language, discussing it produces nice insights: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/36b504905a36155d Often requested, but never realized: a yield to yield them all. Apparently this won't change soon, but yield itself is going to become an expression: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/d66f346c98b8eac6 Using struct to marshal C-structures is easy - dealing with pointers in them, too: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/13eb61975154a25d ======================================================================== 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/ 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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Templess - another XML templating system for Python
by Guido Wesdorp Sept. 5, 2005

Sept. 5, 2005

Hello! I've just released Templess 0.1. Templess is an XML templating library for Python, that is very compact and simple, fast, and has a strict seperation of logic and design. It is different from other templating languages because instead of 'asking' for data from the template, you 'tell' the template what content there is to render, and the template just provides placeholders. Instead of calling into your code from the template, all data for the template is prepared in the code before it is handed over to the templating engine to render. This makes Templess very suitable for programmers, since everything is done from the Python code layer rather than using some domain-specific language from the XML. Version 0.1 is feature complete, and can be downloaded from: http://debris.demon.nl/templess_package Project pages (Trac) can be found here: http://debris.demon.nl:8080/cgi-bin/templess.cgi Templess is released under terms of a BSD-style license. It depends on the very cool 'lxml' package for XML parsing and generation (http://codespeak.net/lxml) and the even cooler py.test package from 'the py lib' (http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/). Cheers, Guido Wesdorp

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ANN: PyQt v3.15 Released
by Phil Thompson Sept. 4, 2005

Sept. 4, 2005

Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of PyQt v3.14 available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/. Changes since the last release include: - improved integration between Qt's ActiveQt framework and Python's win32com modules - support for QScintilla v1.6 - support for Python's cyclic garbage collector. PyQt is a comprehensive set of Qt bindings for the Python programming language and supports the same platforms as Qt. Like Qt, PyQt is available under the GPL (for UNIX, Linux and MacOS/X), a commercial license (for Windows, UNIX, Linux and MacOS/X) and a free educational license (for Windows). PyQt is implemented as a set of 9 extension modules containing 300 classes and over 5,750 functions and methods. PyQt also includes bindings to QScintilla, the port to Qt of the Scintilla editor component. PyQt can be used either as a rapid prototyping tool, or as an alternative to C++ for developing large Qt applications. PyQt includes the pyuic utility which generates Python code to implement user interfaces created with Qt Designer in the same way that the uic utility generates C++ code. Third party tools are also available - such as eric3, a comprehensive IDE (including an editor, debugger, class browser, integration with Qt Designer, re-factoring tools, unit testing tools and integration with source code control systems). eric3 is written entirely using PyQt and is available from http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html.

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ANN: SIP v4.3 Released
by Phil Thompson Sept. 4, 2005

Sept. 4, 2005

Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of SIP v4.3 available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/. SIP is a tool for generating Python modules that wrap C or C++ libraries. It is similar to SWIG. It is used to generate PyQt and PyKDE. Full documentation is available at http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/docs/sip/sipref.html. SIP is licensed under the Python License and runs on Windows, UNIX, Linux and MacOS/X. SIP requires Python v2.3 or later (SIP v3.x is available to support earlier versions of Python). This release includes the following changes: - Python's cyclic garbage collector is fully supported - support for mapping between Python and C++ exceptions - support for __pos__ and __abs__ - the support for accessing C structure members has been greatly improved - C structures can have constructors and destructors defined so that they can be made to behave more Pythonically. Other features of SIP include: - support for Python new-style classes - generated modules are quick to import, even for large libraries - support for Qt's signal/slot mechanism - thread support - the ability to re-implement C++ abstract and virtual methods in Python - the ability to define Python classes that derive from abstract C++ classes - the ability to spread a class hierarchy across multiple Python modules - support for C++ namespaces - support for C++ exceptions - support for C++ operators - an extensible build system written in Python that supports over 50 platform/compiler combinations.

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ANNOUNCE: PyGTK 2.8.0
by Johan Dahlin Sept. 2, 2005

Sept. 2, 2005

I am pleased to announce version 2.8.0 of the Python bindings for GTK. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.8/pygtk-2.8.0.tar.gz Major changes: Improved GObject/Python Integration Properties as Object Attributes Container iteration interface GIOChannel, GSource wrappers Cairo support For a complete list, see the wiki page: http://live.gnome.org/PyGTK/WhatsNew28 Thanks to (this release would not have been possible without you!): Christopher Aillon, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro, Steve Chaplin John Ehresman, Tim Evans, Iñaki García Etxebarria, John Finlay Cedric Gustin, James Henstridge, Edward Hervey, Stepan Kasal Christian Kirbach, Tuure Laurinolli, Mark McLoughlin Yevgen Muntyan, Benjamin Otte, Christian Persch, Manish Singh Gian Mario Tagliaretti, Andy Wingo, Fernando San Martin Woerner What's new since 2.7.4: - GObject metaclass bugfix (John Ehresman) - Double free fix in type_register (Gustavo) - Make it buildable srcdir != buildir (Johan) - Improve GdkRectangle conversion (Tim Evans, Gustavo) - Use automake 1.8 (Johan) Blurb: GTK is a toolkit for developing graphical applications that run on POSIX systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS X (provided that the X server for MacOS X has been installed). It provides a comprehensive set of GUI widgets, can display Unicode bidi text. It links into the Gnome Accessibility Framework through the ATK library. PyGTK provides a convenient wrapper for the GTK+ library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GTK+ library itself PyGTK is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full features applications. PyGTK requires GTK+ >= 2.8.0 and Python >= 2.3 to build. Bug reports, as always, should go to Bugzilla; check out http://pygtk.org/developer.html and http://pygtk.org/feedback.html for links to posting and querying bug reports for PyGTK. -- Johan Dahlin johan(a)gnome.org

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ANN: unicode 0.4.8
by garabik-news-2005-05＠kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk Sept. 2, 2005

Sept. 2, 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: * catch an exception if locale.nl_langinfo is not present (thanks to Michael Weir). As a result, it works with ActiveState Python on MS Windows * default to no colour if the system in MS Windows * put back accidentally disabled left-to-right mark - as a result, tabular display of arabic, hebrew and other RTL scripts is much better (the bug manifested itself only on powerful i18n terminals, such as mlterm) 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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ZODB 3.5 final released
by Tim Peters Sept. 1, 2005

Sept. 1, 2005

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.5 final. This corresponds to the ZODB that will ship in Zope 3.1. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.5 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). ZODB 3.5 is very close to ZODB 3.4.1 in features. Subtransactions are deprecated in 3.5 (in favor of savepoints), and 3.5 adds a simple multi-database feature (a way to group multiple databases into a collection, such that a connection to any database in the collection can be used to obtain connections to the other databases in the collection). See the NEWS file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.5/NEWS.html It's traditional to give a long list of ZODB releases and their corresponding Zope releases at this point. To save time, henceforth I'm going to point to ZODB's "current status" page instead: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/CurrentStatus

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[ANN] PyLucid v0.3.3 released (CMS in pure Python CGI)
by jens Sept. 1, 2005

Sept. 1, 2005

Changes in v0.3.3: NEW: PyLucid automatically switch poormans_modrewrite on/off dependent on user agent. Better for search engines. Note: There are changes in config.py! Bugfixes: 1274352 index.py check_request(): HTTP_SERVER -> HTTP_HOST 1274329 wrong br-Tag in SourceCode.py 1274053 No internal pages editing possible 1274017 Modul SourceCode spaces between lines 1274014 RSS-Modul Traceback Error 1274012 RSS-Modul font size topic 1273980 SourceCode.py too much spaces... 1273954 HTML-Bug in RSS.py 1273863 error in "edit page" -> "abort" 1273854 can't "edit internal page" :( What? PyLucid is a lightweight, OpenSource ( GPL ) content management system ( CMS ) written in pure Python CGI. Nearly all output can be customized. No shell account is needed. To run PyLucid you need a standard Webserver with Python (at least v2.2.1) CGI and MySQL ( mySQLdb ). Information under: http://www.pylucid.org/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pylucid/ Jens Diemer

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