Mailman 3 September 2005 - Python-announce-list

RELEASED Python 2.4.2, release candidate 1
by Anthony Baxter Sept. 22, 2005

Sept. 22, 2005

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.4.2 (release candidate 1). Python 2.4.2 is a bug-fix release. See the release notes at the website (also available as Misc/NEWS in the source distribution) for details of the more than 60 bugs squished in this release. Assuming no major problems crop up, a final release of Python 2.4.2 will follow in about a week's time. For more information on Python 2.4.2, including download links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.4.2 Highlights of this new release include: - Bug fixes. According to the release notes, more than 60 have been fixed, including bugs that prevented Python from working properly on 64 bit HP/UX and AIX systems. Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.4) are available from the Python 2.4 page, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html Enjoy the new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter anthony(a)python.org Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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ANN: JpyDbg V0.0.12
by Jean-Yves Mengant Sept. 21, 2005

Sept. 21, 2005

JpyDbg is a Python/Jython IDE/Debugging environnement pluggin for JEdit editor.(http://www.jedit.org) Version 0.0.12 of JpyDbg has been released. Check the Home page : http://jpydbg.sourceforge.net for details blog page : http://jpydbg.blogspot.com/ What's new in V0.012 : + BIG IMPROVEMENT : The variable Window is now a clean and lean Python Object memory browser based on a Swing tree table : You can navigate recursivelly Local and global Python instances and last but not least you can dynamically change the final node data instances + IMPROVEMENT: Jython environment configuration have been simplifed. + IMPROVEMENT : Clean isolation of Jython and Python configuration contexts + IMPROVEMENT : Check button for Jython / Python configuration correctness + IMPROVEMENT : PYTHON PATH management has been revisited and improved Cheers Jean-Yves

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ANNOUNCE: KirbyBase 1.9
by Jamey Cribbs Sept. 20, 2005

Sept. 20, 2005

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_1.9.zip I would like to thank David Edwards and Pierre Quentel for their contributions to this release. Changes in Version 1.9: -Fixed a bug that can occur on very fast machines when sending data between the client and the server. Thanks to David Edwards for this fix. -Added a method, setDefaultReturnType, that allows you to, set the default return type of results from the select method. The default is still 'list', but you can set it to 'list', 'object', or 'dict'. Thanks to David Edwards for this suggested enhancement. -Added methods addFields and dropFields. These allow you to add new columns to a table and remove existing columns from the table. Thanks to Pierre Quentel for the code for these two enhancements. Jamey Cribbs jcribbs(a)twmi.rr.com

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 19)
by Diez B. Roggisch Sept. 19, 2005

Sept. 19, 2005

QOTW: "Python makes data-driven programming easy :-)" -- Kent "Python rewards abstraction." -- Alex Martelli As unicode becomes more and more prevalent, the issue of regular expressions matching unicode character sets occurs more often. A current thread has advice: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a4b7d3e24a514afd Todd Steury learns about large float representations in python - and that applying some algebra sometimes yields better results than the naive approach: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/7f5afb4976277ddc pyparsing, the de-facto-standard for parser generation in python, is available at version 1.3.3: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/msg/ff39b02ac712ac… A new PyRex version addressing bugs ships: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/msg/b30bd0575b6bd0… Metaclasses are so complicated as to make some of their artifacts appear buggy - but luckily they aren't ... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a1190851125ce7b5 .NET 3.0 features provoke a discussion on python's nested-tuple function arguments: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/ee80ba95b76d76b Stackless receives popular publicity for its gaming ability: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/05/09/17/182207.shtml?tid=156&tid… Note how dramatically memory-management perspectives can differ: http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=162565&cid=13587741 Sudoku puzzles are fun to solve -- both "in real", and by writing software solvers. Python-based solvers on different levels of complexity can be seen here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/f7cb534119b877b9 Accessing COM-components from python is usually done with win32com -- but in certain corner cases, comtypes serves you better (or at all): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/e4075543c2d30200 Creating histograms is a common problem -- another problem is which one is the preferred way to do so: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/60d405c52… ======================================================================== 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… There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments for and against are occasionally entertained. 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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Free seminar on domain-specific modeling
by Martijn Iseger Sept. 19, 2005

Sept. 19, 2005

Domain-specific modeling makes software development 5-10 times faster than approaches based on UML or MDA. It accelerates development and reduces complexity by automatically generating full code from higher-abstraction design models. Learn from speakers Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Jack Greenfield, Steven Kelly and Krzysztof Czarnecki about DSM and how to implement it. Time: Friday, October 21, 2005. 8:00am - 12:00noon. Right after OOPSLA. Place: Town & Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego. More info and registration: http://www.metacase.com/DSMseminar

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[ANN] Release 0.47 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink Sept. 18, 2005

Sept. 18, 2005

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce release 0.47 of Task Coach. New in this release: Bugs fixed: * 'View'->'All tasks' now also resets any search criterium entered by the user in the search bar. * When opening a task with a (long) description, the cursor will be positioned on the first line of the text, instead of on the last line. * When viewing tasks due before a certain date in the tree view, tasks with subtasks due before that date will be visible. Features added: * Added Hungarian translation thanks to Majsa Norbert * The task tree view now also shows columns with task details, similar to the task list view * Sorting on task subject can now also be case insensitive. See the menu item 'View' -> 'Sort' -> 'Sort case sensitive'. * Recent files are remembered and can be opened from the File menu. The maximum number of recent files shown can be set in the Preferences dialog. Set the maximum to zero to disable this feature. * The last modification time of tasks can be viewed. 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. Note that Task Coach is alpha software, meaning that it is wise to back up your task file regularly, and especially when upgrading to a new release. Cheers, Frank

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ANN: formatflowed 1.0.0 released
by Martijn Pieters Sept. 17, 2005

Sept. 17, 2005

The formatflowed.py python library provides en- and decoding functionality for `RFC 2646`_ and `RFC 3676`_ text, also called format=flowed text. The development of this library was generously sponsored by `Logicalware`_. Version 1.0.0 is available from the project homepage at: http://www.zopatista.com/projects/formatflowed Changes since 0.9.0 ------------------- Only metadata was changed, and a simple README.txt was added. .. _RFC 2646: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2646.html .. _RFC 3676: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3676.html .. _Logicalware: http://www.logicalware.com/ -- Martijn Pieters

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ANN: TurboGears 0.5 front-to-back web framework
by Kevin Dangoor Sept. 17, 2005

Sept. 17, 2005

TurboGears (http://www.turbogears.org) brings together four major pieces to create an easy to install, easy to use web megaframework. It covers everything from front end (MochiKit JavaScript for the browser, Kid for templates in Python) to the controllers (CherryPy) to the back end (SQLObject). The TurboGears project is focused on providing documentation and integration with these tools without losing touch with the communities that already exist around those tools. TurboGears is easy to use for a wide range of web applications. To get a quick idea of what TurboGears is like, take a look at the 20 Minute Wiki tutorial and screencast. The total screencast with brief intro and conclusion did take a little over 23 minutes, but it's close to 20 minutes :) 20 Minute Wiki: http://www.turbogears.org/docs/wiki20/index.html TurboGears site: http://www.turbogears.org/ A big thanks to Remi Delon, Ian Bicking, Bob Ippolito, Ryan Tomayko, Phillip Eby and the many other contributors who have provided all of these great tools. -- Kevin Dangoor Author of the Zesty News RSS newsreader email: kid(a)blazingthings.com company: http://www.BlazingThings.com blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com

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ANN: eric3 3.7.2 released
by Detlev Offenbach Sept. 17, 2005

Sept. 17, 2005

Hi, this is to let you know about the release of eric3 3.7.2. This is a bugfix release, which is compatible with PyQt 3.15. It is available at http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html What is it? ----------- Eric3 is a Python and Ruby IDE written in Python and PyQt. It comes with all batteries included. Please see the above URL for more info. Regards, Detlev -- Detlev Offenbach detlev(a)die-offenbachs.de

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ANN: PyLucid release v0.4
by jens Sept. 16, 2005

Sept. 16, 2005

Info ---- 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 ). more info: http://www.pylucid.org History v0.4 ------------ EN * complete new Module-Manager and Page-Parser * Change in all Modules to handle special characters like "/" * Admin-Front-Menu and Admin-Sub-Menu are editable internal pages * install_PyLucid can partially re-initialisation DB tables * DBdump is now MySQLdump. There are improvement in MySQLdump. Now you can partially dump tables. Now you can setup the path to mysqldump, thus it works with windows. * SiteMap: There are more CSS-statements to format. * NEW: Dir 'PyLucid_plugins', i moved RSS.py and SourceCode.py in this dir. Here are space for external increments. * NEW: delete CMS pages possible. DE * Neugeschriebener Module-Manager und Page-Parser * Änderungen in allen Modulen damit Seitennamen auch sonderzeichen wie "/" erhalten können * Admin-Front-Menu und Admin-Sub-Menu sind jetzt veränderbare interne Seiten * install_PyLucid kann nun Tabellen (einzeln auswählbar) zurücksetzten (Wichtig beim Update, wenn sich z.B. internal Pages geändert haben) * DBdump heißt nun MySQLdump. Man kann nun einzeln bestimmen welche Tabellen gesichert werden sollen. Außerdem kann man den Pfad angeben, somit klappt es auch unter Windows. * SiteMap: Es werden jetzt mehrere CSS-Angaben gesetzt damit man gezielt Einträge hervorheben kann. * NEU: Verzeichnis 'PyLucid_plugins', darin hab ich RSS.py und SourceCode.py verschoben. Hier haben externe Erweiterungen Platz. * NEU: löschen von CMS Seiten nun möglich. update instructions: http://pylucid.org/index.py?p=/Doku/update+instructions -- Mfg. Jens Diemer ---- http://www.python-forum.de http://www.pythonwiki.de

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