Mailman 3 January 2006 - Python-announce-list

PyCon TX 2006: Early-bird registration ends Jan. 15!
by A.M. Kuchling 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Early bird registration for PyCon TX 2006 ends on January 15th, so there's only a week left. To register, please go to: http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/Registration You can still register after Jan. 15th, but the cost will go up by US$65 (US$25 for students). This year PyCon will feature a day of tutorials before the three days of regular presentations. Course outlines for all the tutorials have been posted; see http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/Tutorials All of the PyCon tutorials are still open for new registrations, but space is limited. Don't forget to book your hotel room, too. PyCon TX 2006 is being held at a Dallas/Addison hotel, and we have negotiated a special low rate of $79 plus applicable taxes: http://us.pycon.org/Addison/Hotels We hope to see you in Texas! Regards, A.M. Kuchling amk(a)amk.ca Chair, PyCon 2006 http://us.pycon.org

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Zope 3.2.0 released!
by Stephan Richter 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce Zope 3.2.0. Zope 3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. It is our opinion that Zope 3 is more than ready for production use, which is why we decided to drop the 'X' for experimental from the name. We will also continue to work on making the transition between Zope 2 and Zope 3 as smooth as possible. As a first step, Zope 2.8 includes Zope 3 features in the form of Five. This is a long term effort. We're not there yet. **You can't run Zope 2 applications in Zope 3.** Downloads http://zope.org/Products/Zope3 Installation instructions for both Windows and Un*x/Linux are now available in the top level 'README.txt' file of the distribution. The binary installer is recommended for Windows. Zope 3.2 requires Python 2.4.2 to run. You must also have zlib installed on your system. Most Important Changes Since 3.1 - The ZServer has been replaced with the Twisted server. The Twisted server supports all that the ZServer supporting has well has HTTP over SSL natively and SFTP (disabled for now because of error handling problems). Also in the future it brings a better chance of other non-HTTP related protocols from being implemented for Zope3, like SMTP-in and IMAP. ZServer is still supported and will be used if you use the --zserver when you run mkzopeinstance. - Added a test browser. The test browser simulates a real Web browser as much as possible as a Python object. This allows us to write functional tests the same way the site would be experienced by the user. This greatly simplifies functional tests, makes documentation better and even helps analyzing usability. And of course, it can be used in functional doctests. - Changed the way returning large results is handled. The response.write method is no longer supported. Applications can now simply return files to the publisher. - Implemented the password managers proposal. Main idea beside the proposal is a standard way to implement password encoders/checkers, see zope.app.authentication.interfaces.IPasswordManager for details. + Added basic password managers: Plain Text, MD5, SHA1. + Support for password managers added for ZCML principals and principals saved in local PrincipalFolers. + Added bin/zpasswd command line script which helps to create ZCML principals. + Password managers support integrated into bin/mkzopeinstance. + New database generation created for convert local principals to new format. - Implemented the language namespace proposal. Now you can override the browser preferred language through the URL, like this: http://site.org/++lang++ru/path Note: If you want to use a custom IUserPreferredLanguages adapter and the '++lang++' feature together you should use zope.app.publisher.browser.CacheableBrowserLanguages adapter as a base class or at least as example. - Implemented a new object introspector. Instead of just providing information of the object's class, the new introspector focuses on providing information that is specific to the instance, such as directly provided interfaces and data, for example attribute values and annotation values. - Implemented the `devmode` switch for `zope.conf`. When turned on a ZCML feature called `devmode` is provided. Packages can then register functionality based on this feature. In Zope 3 itself, the devmode is used to only load the API doc is devmode; turning off the devmode thus closes a potential security hole and increases the start time by more than a second. - addMenuItem directive supports a `layer` attribute. - Added a re-implementation of i18n message IDs (now simply called ``Message``) that is immutable and thus can be treated like unicode strings with respect to security proxying. This implementation will replace the old one in upcoming versions. - Added "test" message catalog for testing i18n. If you specify ++lang++test in a URL, then all translated strings will be translated to [[domain][message_id], as in "[[zope][Preview]]". Text without the domain marker isn't translated. For a complete list of changes see the 'CHANGES.txt' file. Resources - "Zope 3 Development Web Site":http://dev.zope.org/Zope3 - "Zope 3 Dev Mailing List":http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-dev - "Zope 3 Users Mailing List":http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users - IRC Channel: #zope3-dev at irc.freenode.net Acknowledgments Thanks goes to everyone that contributed. Enjoy! The Zope 3 Development Team

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[ANN] DOPAL 0.54 - Python library for Azureus
by Allan Crooks 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

DOPAL is a library to allow programs written in Python to easily communicate the Java BitTorrent client Azureus, via the XML/HTTP plugin (allowing communication over a network). Version 0.54 is the first public release of DOPAL - which I've been working on (on and off) for the last 18 months. It provides a very Pythonic way of interacting with the objects available in Azureus's Plugin API - you can interact with remote objects and invoke methods on them as easily as any normal Python object (while all the connection handling and XML generation and parsing is done behind the scenes). It also allows you to write code which can do just the same things as Java plugins for Azureus can (well, almost). Please give it a try, let me know what you think... http://dopal.sourceforge.net/ Here's some sample output of DOPAL being used - a more elaborate example can be found here: http://dopal.sourceforge.net/examples.html ----- Python 2.3.5 (#62, Feb 8 2005, 16:23:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import dopal.main >>> connection = dopal.main.make_connection(host='10.0.0.4') >>> plugin_interface = connection.getPluginInterface() >>> print connection AzureusObjectConnection for 10.0.0.4 [Azureus 2.3.0.6] >>> downloads = plugin_interface.getDownloadManager().getDownloads() >>> len(downloads) 177 >>> example_download = downloads[0] >>> print example_download Download: Rarities [Stopped, 0.0%] >>> print example_download.scrape_result DownloadScrapeResult: Seeds: 272, Peers: 123 >>> example_download.restart() # Starts the download >>> # Let a little time elapse... >>> example_download.refresh_object() >>> print example_download Download: Rarities [Downloading, 23.3%]

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BayPIGgies: January 12, 7:30pm (Google)
by Aahz 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs, January 12 at 7:30pm at Google, room Tunis. Meet in the lobby of building 43. This will be a combo meeting: * First Marilyn Davis will practice her "Why Python?" talk -- she's looking for feedback and suggestions on improving it. * We'll fill the rest of the time with a "Newbies Night"; this is your opportunity to get realtime responses to questions about Python BayPIGgies meetings alternate between IronPort (San Bruno, California) and Google (Mountain View, California). For more information and directions, see http://baypiggies.net/ Before the meeting, we sometimes meet at 6pm for dinner. Discussion of dinner plans is handled on the BayPIGgies mailing list. Advance notice: We need speakers for February and later; the February meeting is currently reserved for PyCon speakers wanting practice, and the March meeting will probably be a PyCon wrap-up. Please e-mail baypiggies(a)python.org if you want to suggest an agenda (or volunteer to give a presentation). -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis

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Ann: FarPy GUIE v0.3.1
by dberlin＠gmail.com 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

GUIE (GUI Editor) provides a simple WYSIWYG GUI editor for wxPython. The program was made in C# and saves the GUI that was created to a XML format I called GUIML. This GUIML is a pretty standard representation of the GUI created with the program. Next, GUIE takes these GUIML files and translates it to wxPython Python code. You may ask yourself why I took the extra step? Why didn't I go straight from C# controls to wxPython code? Why is GUIML necessary? Well, it isn't. It is there simply for people (or maybe I) to take the GUIML and convert it to other languages. This, by effect can convert this tool from a Python GUI editor, to "any programming language with a GUI module" GUI editor. http://farpy.holev.com Changes (as of v0.3.1) Added: Cut + Copy + Paste Functionality! Added: Code window (shows exported code; possible to disable in settings) Added: Error reporting option Changed: Preperations for multi GUI language support

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[ANN] Release 0.54 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce release 0.54 of Task Coach. New in this release: Bugs fixed: * The accelerators INSERT and Ctrl+INSERT were mapped to 'c' and 'Command-Copy' on the Mac, which caused Task Coach to create a new task whenever the user typed a 'c'. Fixed by changing the accelerators for new task and new subtask to Ctrl+N and Shift+Ctrl+N (on the Mac only). * It was possible to enter control characters -- by copy-and-pasting -- resulting in invalid XML in the Task Coach file. * One python file was missing in the source distribution of release 0.53. Added a test to check that all python files in the source are actually added to the source distributions, so hopefully this will never happen again. Feature added: * Effort can be exported as iCalendar (ICS) file and imported into e.g. Mozilla Sunbird. Each effort record is exported as a "VEVENT". This is an experimental feature. Patch provided by Gissehel. 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: mountpy 0.5
by garabik-news-2005-05＠kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

mountpy is a python script for quick automatic mounting and umounting of external filesystems, especially suited for USB removable devices. mountpy is developed on linux, and is meant for modern linux systems. This is version 0.5, changes from previous version: - use setuid wrapper from python source distribution (suggested by Олег Бройтман/Oleg Broytmann) - do not try to umount directory which is not a mountpoint (caused some confusing, though harmless, messages) URL: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/mountpy/ 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: Leo 4.4a5 released
by Edward K. Ream 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Leo 4.4 alpha 5 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 This release completes the last major features of Leo 4.4: - User-specified key-binding modes. - Support for multiple key-bindings for individual minibuffer commands. This will be the last alpha version of Leo 4.4. Beta 1 is coming in about a week. You should be able to use this version safely; there are no known serious bugs. To learn about Leo, 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. Support for tab completion. - 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. - Support for most commands in the Emacs Cmds menu, including cursor and screen movement, basic character, word and paragraph manipulation, and commands to manipulate buffers, the kill ring, regions and rectangles. - Per-pane key bindings. You can bind shortcuts to multiple commands depending on which of Leo's panes presently has focus. For example, you can use arrow keys to move nodes in the outline pane, while retaining their defaults in Leo's body pane. - User-specified key-binding modes. This feature makes it possible to emulate all aspects of Emacs and Vim as far as key bindings are concerned. - Leo recovers from crashes much more reliably than in any previous version. - @command nodes create minibuffer commands. You can bind key shortcuts to @button and @command nodes. - Leo handles key events and updates the screen immediately rather than queuing them for idle time. - Leo updates the screen immediately rather than waiting for idle time. This improves response. 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 email: edreamleo(a)charter.net Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG Meeting: January 11, 7:30-9:00 PM
by Benji York 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Please join us January 11, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the seventh meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). Squid and Zope! Python and Zope roundtable! Free food! * Andrew Sawyers will discuss using the open source cache server Squid with Zope, including a discussion of the O'Reilly book about Squid (this talk was moved from our November meeting). * We will have a Python and Zope roundtable for questions and ideas about Zope or Python. Have a question you want to ask a Zope core developer or a Python core developer or a community Zope or Python user? Come by! * We will serve delicious food and soft drinks. We've had a nice group for all the meetings. Please come and bring friends! We also are now members of the O'Reilly and Apress user group programs, which gives us nice book discounts (prices better than Amazon's, for instance) and the possibility of free review copies. Ask me about details at the meeting if you are interested. General ZPUG information When: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00. Where: Zope Corporation offices. 513 Prince Edward Street; Fredericksburg, VA 22408 (tinyurl for map is http://tinyurl.com/duoab). Parking: Zope Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince Edward Street. Topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the constraints of having to do with Python or Zope. Contact: Gary Poster (gary(a)zope.com)

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PyCon: hotel issues resolved
by A.M. Kuchling 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

I'm assured that the reservation issues with the hotel have now been resolved, so you can now go ahead and book your hotel room for PyCon at the conference rate. See http://us.pycon.org/Addison/Hotels for more information and a link to Marriott's reservation site. If you've already booked a hotel room at the standard rate, call the hotel back and have them change your reservation to the conference rate. A.M. Kuchling amk(a)amk.ca Chair, PyCon 2006 http://us.pycon.org

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