Mailman 3 January 2006 - Python-announce-list

ANN: PyLucid 0.6.0 stable released
by jens 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

It is finally done! The v0.6.0 version is stable. (I think.) About: ------ PyLucid is a lightweight, OpenSource (GPL 2.x or newer) content management system 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. Changes: -------- * major changes o NEW: Module/Plugin Administration available. o NEW: Basic User Management o The Module-Manager is complete rewritten. o Plugin-Config now in a seperate File. o Plugins can have own SQL-Tables, internal_pages and stylesheets. o NEW: internal_pages can be written in simpleTAL * minor / internal changes o Rewritten internal_pages: Used CSS instead of tables. o enhanced: manual encoding from data base o bugfixes in tinyTextile Markup o Tables plugin and plugindata where now in use ;) o page_internals with no markup use SQL-'NULL' instand of ID 1 -------- http://pylucid.org/index.py?p=/Download/History Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=146328&package_id=161… how to install PyLucid: http://www.pylucid.org/index.py?p=/Download/install+PyLucid update instructions: http://www.pylucid.org/index.py?p=/Download/update+instructions -- Mfg. Jens Diemer ---- CMS in pure Python CGI: http://www.pylucid.org

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ANN: AsciiDoc 7.1.0 released
by Stuart Rackham 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

This release introduces a2x(1), an AsciiDoc DocBook toolchain wrapper to automate the generation and sequencing of toolchain commands (see also http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/CHANGELOG.html). What is it? ----------- AsciiDoc is an uncomplicated text document format for writing articles, short documents, books and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML, XHTML (with CSS2) and DocBook (articles, books and refentry documents) using the asciidoc(1) command. AsciiDoc is configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file syntax and the backend output markups (which can be almost any type of SGML/XML markup) can be customized and extended by user. Requisites ---------- Python 2.3 or higher. Obtaining AsciiDoc ------------------ The latest AsciiDoc version, examples and online documentation can be downloaded from http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ AsciiDoc is also hosted at the SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/ Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Rackham <srackham(a)methods.co.nz>

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 18)
by Magnus Lycka 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

QOTW: "*what* the value is is defined by the operations that the object supports (via its type). *how* the value is represented inside the object is completely irrelevant; a Python implementation may use electric charges in small capacitors, piles of rocks, diapers,or an endless supply of small guys in odd costumes to encode the value inside an object. Changes to the value may be carried out by CPU instructions, caterpillars, toddlers with gasmasks, or an endless supply of small guys in odd costumes. The only thing that's important is that you can, in your Python program, access an objects value via its type, and get other objects back when you do." - Fredrik Lundh "I have never seen a case where a dictionary didn't improve the design." - Ivan Van Laningham PyCon Early bird registration ends, FrOSCon 2006 issues a "Call for Papers" and OSCON 2006 (Python 14 Conference) issues a "Call for Proposals": http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_frm/thread/3… http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_frm/thread/a… http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_frm/thread/8… With release 0.6, OSAF's Python based PIM Chandler includes an "experimentally usable" calendar, with support for recurring events, time-zones and the ability to share calendars with others: http://chandler.osafoundation.org/ Fynali asks "How to remove subset from a file efficiently?". Follow-ups, as has happened so often before, reduce his runtime from a few minutes to a few seconds: http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/929fcdf0ff… Tim Peters explains why you shouldn't expect much from atexit + threads: http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/fe9e426650… Scott David Daniels suggests use of decorators to handle unit tests that are known to fail: http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/7ea0762494… Robin Becker requests "some smart/fast way to flatten a level one list" and receives a number of suggestions: http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/383aab2c34… A discussion of the draft for a new Python.org web site leads to a conclusion of general happiness with the new look: http://beta.python.org Brian Blais asks "how do 'real' python programmers work?" and receives a sample of development processes that Pythonistas use, focused on what kind of windows people have on their screen, but also including such important aspects as test driven development: http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/82b4f2f90b… Michael Galvin receives a few suggestions on how to get both text and graphics to a printer from Python: http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/bc0742534d… Duncan Booth and others explain how to make a dictionary aware of its own changes: http://groups.google.se/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/eeca4df105… ======================================================================== 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/topic/python/ (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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ANN:NewEdit 3.2 Released
by limodou 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

What's it? ======== It's an Editor based on wxPython. NewEdit uses Mixin and Plugin technique as its architecture. Most of its classes can be extended via mixin and plugin components, and finally become an integrity class at creating the instance. So NewEdit is very dynamic. You can write the new features in new files, and hardly need to modify the existing code. And if you want to extend the existing classes, you could write mixins and plugins, and this will be bound to the target class that I call "Slot Class". This technique will make the changes centralized and easily managed. What are its features? ================ * Cross platform o based on wxPython, so it can run anywhere that wxPython works, such as: Windows, Linux. o Unicode support. * Most features of wxStyledTextCtrl(Scintilla) o Syntax highlighting, support Python, c/c++, html, plain text, perl, ruby, css, javascript o Folding o Brace Matching o ... * Extended selection o Extended word selection -- You can press Ctrl+?MouseDoubleClick to select a word including '.' o Matched selection -- Select text in quoted chars like: (), [], {}, '', "". * Other editing extension o Duplicating text -- Just like Vim Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P, and more. You can duplicate above or below char, word, line o Quoting text -- Add some quoted chars before and after selected text, just as: "", '', (), [], {}, and o Text convertion and view -- python -> html, reStructured Text -> html, textile -> html, and you can output or view o Utf-8 encoding auto detect o Changing document encoding o Auto backup o Last session support -- It'll save all the filenames as closed, and reopen the files as next started. o Smart judge the indent char -- It'll auto guess the indent char, and sets it. o Finding in files o Bookmark support * Python support o built-in python interactive window based on ?PyShell, support Unicode o Auto completion o Function syntax calltips o Run, run with argument, stop python source o Auto change current path o Python class browser * Code snippets o You can manage your code snippets with categories, and each category can have many items. Every item will represent a code snippet. You can insert an item just by double-clicking on it. It even supports importing and exporting. * Simple project support o Can create a special file _project, so every file and folder under the folder which has the _project can be considered as a whole project. * Extension mechanism o Script -- You can write easy script to manipulate the all resource of NewEdit, just like: text conversion, etc. o Plugin -- Customized function. More complex but more powerful. Can easily merge with NewEdit, and can be managed via menu. o Shell command -- Add often used shell commands, and execute them. * Ftp support o You can edit remote files through ftp. You can add, rename, delete, upload, download file/directory. * Multilanguage support o Currently supports two languages: English and Chinese, which can be auto-detected. * Shipped plugins(must be configed as used them before) o Document links -- Python documentation and wxPython documentation. o Many plugins can be found at NewEdit wiki page. * Shipped scripts o Many scripts can be found at NewEdit wiki page. * Wizard (New) o You can make your own wizard template. The wizard can input user data, combine with template, and output the result. And wizard also support code framework created. This feature will help you improving coding efficiency. * Direcotry Browser(New) o Browse multiple directories, and you can really add, delete, rename directories and files. Double click will open the file in Editor window. * AutoComPlete(acp)(New) o Suport user autocomplete file, it can help to input code very helpful and functional. Just like EditPlus, but may be more powerful. Where to download it? ================ download lastest version 3.2: http://wiki.woodpecker.org.cn/moin/NewEdit?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=… also have windows installer: http://wiki.woodpecker.org.cn/moin/NewEdit?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=… wiki: http://wiki.woodpecker.org.cn/moin/NewEdit svn: http://cvs.woodpecker.org.cn/svn/woodpecker/newedit maillist: http://groups.google.com/group/NewEdit If you have any problem as using NewEdit, welcome to join the NewEdit maillist to discuss. Hope fun! -- I like python! My Blog: http://www.donews.net/limodou NewEdit Maillist: http://groups.google.com/group/NewEdit

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ANN: Leo 4.4b1 released
by Edward K. Ream 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Leo 4.4 beta 1 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 The code is stable; there are no known serious bugs. Some features are incomplete. Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html The highlights of Leo 4.4: ---------------------------------- - An Emacs-like mini-buffer: you can now execute any command by typing its long name, with tab completion. - Many new commands, including cursor and screen movement, basic character, word and paragraph manipulation, and commands to manipulate buffers, the kill ring, regions and rectangles. You can use Leo without using a mouse. - Flexible key bindings and input modes. You can emulate the operation of Emacs, Vim, or any other editor. - A tabbed log pane. The Find and Spell Check commands now use tabs instead of dialogs, making those commands much easier to use. Plugins or scripts can easily create new tabs. The Completion tab shows possible typing completions. - Dozens of other new features and bug fixes since Leo 4.3.3. Links: ------ Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 CVS: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=3458 Quotes: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/testimonials.html Edward K. Ream January 17, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward K. Ream email: edreamleo(a)charter.net Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html --------------------------------------------------------------------

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ANN: Firedrop2 0.1.3 the Python Blog Client
by Fuzzyman 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Firedrop2 has had a new release and a complete docs overhaul. The release is a minor update, but the new tutorial will take you from downloading and installing, through setting up your blog to making entries. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/firedrop2/ What's New ? ========== The new release contains a fix so that wxfiredrop.py can be run outside the installed directory. * Introduction & Download * Getting Started * Configuring Firedrop2 * Basic Templating * Making Entries For news and inforamtion, use the `Firedrop2 Mailing List <http://groups.google.com/group/firedrop2/>`_ What is Firedrop2 ? ============== Firedrop2 is a cross-platform blogging tool written in Python. It keeps your blog source files on your computer, making it a clientside tool. This means you control your blog, and can easily move it from one server to another, with no risk of losing data. It also means you can manage your blog offline. It is fully open source, and has all the features you expect from a modern blogging program : * RSS feed generation * Categories * Automatic archive generation * A powerful set of plugins, including spell checker and emailer * Entries can be made in text, HTML, ReST, textile or sextile markup * HTML templating system and macros for all sorts of tricks * Built in FTP capability for uploading your blog to a server * Because it's written in Python, it is easy to extend Firedrop or create new plugins for it

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FrOSCon 2006 - Call for Papers
by M.-A. Lemburg 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

I'm sending this on behalf of Sebastian Bergmann, one of the organizers of FrOSCon: Hello, The first Free and Open Source Conference "FrOSCon" takes place on 24th and 25th June 2006 in St. Augustin, near Bonn, Germany, Organized by a committed team, it aims to become a significant event for free software in the Rhineland. The conference is hosted by the faculty of computer science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in collaboration with the student body and the Linux/Unix User Group St. Augustin. In a Call for Papers [1], the organizers ask for submission of contributions. A broad variety of topics concerning free and open source software is desired. Particularly welcome are contributions about programming languages, free software on the desktop, security, systems administration and networks. Aspects of free software in busincess and industry are also a focus of the conference. Contributions can be submitted in English or German and should summarize the intended talk concisely and succinctly; talks should range from 45 to 60 minutes in length. Deadline for submission is 15th March 2006. -- [1] http://www.froscon.org/wiki/CallforPapers http://cfp.froscon.org/ -- Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09E4 98CD 6277 0E5B 6867 C514 B85B 5D69

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Ann: pywinauto 0.1.1 (initial release) released
by Mark Mc Mahon 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I'm pleased to announce the first public release of pywinauto 0.1.1 pywinauto is a set of open-source (LGPL) modules for using Python as a GUI automation 'driver' for Windows NT based Operating Systems (NT/W2K/XP). SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto Download from SourceForge http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pywinauto/pywinauto-0.1.1.zip?download pywinauto-users mailing list http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pywinauto-users pywinauto was nudged into existence by the creation of Watsup (http://www.tizmoi.net/watsup/intro.html) a similar tool based on Simon Brunning's (http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/index.html) winGuiAuto.py. There are many similar tools that do this (see: http://tejasconsulting.com/open-testware/feature/gui-test-driver-survey.html) So how is pywinauto different? It is still in early stages of development (but is about as functional as many of the other automation tools). I think I have designed pywinauto in such a way that it should be easy to add new actions for Controls. For example imagine # 10th item on 1st level, 21st item on 2nd, 45th on 3rd dlg.TreeView.Select("#10\#21\#45") # Or Possibly (or even both!) TreeView.Select(path_re = "Desktop\\.*\\.*c:\\Temp") It supports Typing accented/Unicode text (by sending them to the text area directly - rather then using SendKeys which does not appear to handle extended/Unicode text well. It does not require previous analysis of the dialogs to be automated or for 'reference' information to be saved. I have also kept in mind that to have language neutral scripts is more or less impossible - but I am planning to enable a flag that would enable lookup in previously saved reference information (saved during development of the script probably) that should enable scripts to run unmodified. (At least that's the idea - though there are cases where sorting - e.g. listboxes - might make that impossible). There is currently no documentation and the examples do double duty as tests. I am hoping to improve this. Any interest in my first publicly release code would help my ego greatly :-) Requirements: ctypes http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/ Sendkeys http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys/index.html (Optional) PIL http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm (Optional) elementtree http://effbot.org/downloads/ Very simple test of Notepad automation (notice no time.sleep() ;-) ----------------------- :< ----------------------- import application app = application.Application() app._start(ur"c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe") app.Notepad.MenuSelect("File->PageSetup") # ----- Page Setup Dialog ---- # Select the 'Letter' combobox item app.PageSetupDlg.ComboBox1.Select("Letter") # Now close the dialog app.PageSetupDlg.Ok.Click () # type some text app.Notepad.Edit.SetText(u"Typíng söme tèxt\r\n2nd lïne") # Close Notepad (and don't save) app.Notepad.MenuSelect("File->Exit") app.Notepad.No.Click () ----------------------- :< ----------------------- pywinauto makes significant use of ctypes, I would like to extend my thanks to Thomas Heller and the whole Python community for producing such intuitive tools! Thank you Mark -------------------------------------------- Mark Mc Mahon 24 Plummer Rd., Manchester, NH 03110, USA <P><A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto">pywinauto 0.1.1</A> Simple Windows GUI automation with Python. (12-Jan-06)

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PyCon: last day for early bird registration
by A.M. Kuchling 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

Sunday, January 15th, is the last day on which you can obtain the lower early-bird registration price. The cost of registration will be going up on Monday; I'm quite sure that the early bird period will *not* be extended again. Another reminder: if you're coming to PyCon and staying in the conference hotel, you *must* reserve your hotel rooms before February 1st in order to get the lower conference rate; if you reserve after the 1st, you'll be stuck paying the hotel's standard room rate. Go to http://us.pycon.org/Addison/Hotels for hotel information and a link to the reservation page for PyCon. A.M. Kuchling amk(a)amk.ca Chair, PyCon 2006 http://us.pycon.org

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[ANN] Release 0.55 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce release 0.55 of Task Coach. New in this release: Bug fixed: * Sorting by total budget was broken. Feature added: * Simple reminders. Dependency changed: * Task Coach now requires wxPython 2.6.1.0-unicode or newer (this is only relevant if you use the source distribution). 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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