Mailman 3 October 2006 - Python-announce-list

pyIDL-0.4
by Michael McKerns 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

python bindings for IDL http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/software.html # Version 0.4: 10/06/06 added support for idl_6.3 improved support for NumPy removed dependency on Numeric --- Mike McKerns California Institute of Technology http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns

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ANN: lwebstring 0.5
by L. C. Rees 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

lwebstring is a lxml-based implementation of webstring, an XML template engine where Python is the template language. lxml exposes the power of the libxml2 and libxslt libraries to the Python programmer using the elegant and powerful yet simple ElementTree API. lwebstring extends this power to easy XML and HTML templating using the highly Pythonic webstring API inspired by PyMeld. lwebstring can be downloaded from its Python CheeseShop page at: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lwebstring/ or installed using setuptools' easy_install: easy_install lwebstring More information on lwebstring including documentation and an introductory tutorial can be found at: http://psilib.sourceforge.net/webstring.html Highlights of 0.5 include: - Support for including external XML files in an XML document using XInclude. This is useful for reusing common features between XML templates. - Function decorators for WSGI templating. This allows XML and HTML templating to be just another piece of WSGI middleware instead of using a separate API standard.

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Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, October 10, 2006, 8:00pm
by Mike Müller 08 Oct '06

08 Oct '06

========================= Leipzig Python User Group ========================= Next Meeting Wednesday, October 10, 2006 ---------------------------------------- We will meet on October 10 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany (http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html). We will evaluate the workshop from September. Mike Müller will give his presentation "Python - der stille Erfolg einer Programmiersprache". He will present this talk again on October 16 at the bookstore Lehmanns in Leipzig. It is an introduction to Python. Food and soft drinks are provided. Please send a short confirmation mail to info(a)python-academy.de, so we can prepare appropriately. Everybody who uses Python, plans to do so or is interested in learning more about the language is encouraged to participate. While the meeting language will be mainly German, English speakers are very welcome. We will provide English interpretation if needed. Current information about the meetings can always be found at http://www.python-academy.com/user-group/index.html ========================= Leipzig Python User Group ========================= Stammtisch am 10.10.2006 ------------------------- Wir treffen uns am 10.10.2006 um 20:00 Uhr wieder im im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig (http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html). Wir werden den Workshop vom September auswerten. Mike Müller wird seinen Vortrag "Python - der stille Erfolg einer Programmiersprache" als Generalprobe halten. Dieser Vortag wird am 16. Oktober 2006 in der Fachbuchhandlung Lehmanns in Leipzig die Programmiersprache Python vorstellen. Für das leibliche Wohl wird gesorgt. Wir bitten um kurze Anmeldung per e-mail an: info(a)python-academy.de An den Treffen der Python Anwendergruppe kann jeder teilnehmen, der Interesse an Python hat, die Sprache bereits nutzt oder nutzen möchte. Die Arbeitssprachen des Treffens ist Deutsch. Englisch sprechende Python-Enthusiasten sind trotzdem herzlich eingeladen. Wir übersetzen gern. Aktuelle Informationen zu den Treffen sind immer unter http://www.python-academy.de/User-Group/index.html zu finden.

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Templess 0.2 released
by Johnny deBris 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Hi! I wanted to let you guys know that I've just released version 0.2 of my 'Templess' library. Templess is an extremely simple XML (attribute) based XML templating system. Since it doesn't allow any logic inside the template, it's relatively friendly to programmers: XML templating with Templess quite resembles string interpolation, except that the dictionaries can contain list values (for repeating items) and XML nodes and such. Of course this isn't always the easiest way to deal with certain things, since even simple view-related logic has to be done in code (think 'odd' and 'even' table rows), but if you're a purist, don't trust your template designers to even touch code, or just hate having to fiddle about with restricted Python or domain-specific languages in your templates, Templess may suit your needs... The library is released under a BSD-style license. Most important changes since 0.1: * major cleanups and bugfixes * added 'not' directive * removed 'lxml' dependency in favour of a simple SAX-like solution(1) * speed improvements and more predictable behaviour (both related to the previous point) Downloads can be found here: http://johnnydebris.net/templess.txt or direct link to 0.2: http://johnnydebris.net/.files/templess-0.2.tar.gz For more information, see http://templess.johnnydebris.net/, or send me an email or whatnot... Cheers, Guido Wesdorp (1) Sorry, lxml guys... It's a great lib, but has rather heavy dependencies (libxml2, libxslt, pyrex)...

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Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.2.1
by Richard Jones 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

I'm proud to release version 1.2.1 of Roundup. Bugs fixed in 1.2.1: - E-mail subject line prefix delimiter configuration was being ignored. - Password confirm field in user editing. New Features in 1.2.x: - supports Python 2.5, including the sqlite3 module - full timezone support (sf patch 1465296) - handle connection loss when responding to web requests - match incoming mail In-Reply-To against existing messages when no issue id is specified in the Subject - added StringHTMLProperty wrapped() method to wrap long lines in issue display - include the popcal in Date field editing and search fields by default - @required in forms may now specify properties of linked items (sf patch 1507093) - update for latest version of pysqlite (sf bug 1487098; patch 1534227) - update for latest version of psycopg2 (sf patch 1429391) - new "exporttables" command in roundup-admin (sf bug 1533791) - roundup-admin "export" may specify classes to exclude (sf bug 1533791) - sorting and grouping by multiple properties is now supported by the backends *and* the classic template. - sorting, grouping, and searching by transitive properties (e.g., messages.author.supervisor) is now supported in all backends - added filter_sql to SQL backends which takes an arbitrary SQL statement and returns a list of item ids There was also a lot of bugfixes - see the bundled CHANGES.txt file for the list. If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.3 or later for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: roundup-demo Release info and download page: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and five database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, metakit, mysql and postgresql).

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ANN: PAMIE web dev testing with Internet Explorer (2 New ShowMeDo.com Videos)
by Ian Ozsvald 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Summary: Robert Marchetti has created two videos showing you how to use his PAMIE tool to interactively drive Internet Explorer for web development and testing: http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=pythonMarchettiPamieSeries Detail: The first PAMIE video covers driving IE interactively (querying Google, check the html src, clicking a button, visiting the Python homepage as a result). The second video shows you how to configure PAMIE with an XML file to automatically form-fill a web page for testing. This video also shows nice usage of the ElementTree module. The videos are 9 minutes and 11 minutes respectively and should play on all platforms. About ShowMeDo.com: Free videos (we call them ShowMeDos) showing you how to do things. The videos are made by us and our users, for everyone. Over half of our content is for Python. We'd love to have more contributions - would you share what you know? The founders, Ian Ozsvald, Kyran Dale -- ian <at> showmedo.com http://www.showmedo.com

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ANN: Tftpy 0.1 - Pure Python TFTP Library
by Michael P. Soulier 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Announcing new project, Tftpy, a Pure Python TFTP implementation. About Release 0.1: ================== This is an initial release in the spirit of "release early, release often". Currently the sample client works, supporting RFC 1350. The server is not yet implemented, and RFC 2347 and 2348 support (variable block sizes) is underway, planned for 0.2. About Tftpy: ============ Tftpy is a TFTP library for the Python programming language. It includes client and server classes, with sample implementations. Hooks are included for easy inclusion in a UI for populating progress indicators. It supports RFCs 1350, 2347 and 2348. This library was developed against Python 2.4.1. Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tftpy/ License is the CNRI Python License. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/pythonpl.php -- Michael P. Soulier <msoulier(a)digitaltorque.ca> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein

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Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.1.3
by Richard Jones 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

I'm proud to release version 1.1.3 of Roundup. Feature: - supports Python 2.5, including the sqlite3 module - full timezone support (sf patch 1465296) - handle connection loss when responding to web requests - match incoming mail In-Reply-To against existing messages when no issue id is specified in the Subject - added StringHTMLProperty wrapped() method to wrap long lines in issue display - include the popcal in Date field editing and search fields by default - @required in forms may now specify properties of linked items (sf patch 1507093) - update for latest version of pysqlite (sf bug 1487098; patch 1534227) - update for latest version of psycopg2 (sf patch 1429391) - new "exporttables" command in roundup-admin (sf bug 1533791) - roundup-admin "export" may specify classes to exclude (sf bug 1533791) - sorting and grouping by multiple properties is now supported by the backends *and* the classic template. - sorting, grouping, and searching by transitive properties (e.g., messages.author.supervisor) is now supported in all backends - added filter_sql to SQL backends which takes an arbitrary SQL statement and returns a list of item ids There was also a lot of bugfixes - see the bundled CHANGES.txt file for the list. If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.3 or later for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: roundup-demo Release info and download page: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and five database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, metakit, mysql and postgresql).

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 4)
by Cameron Laird 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

QOTW: "If you want your objects to know their name, give them a name as an attribute." - Georg Brandl "Unfortunately forty years of programming experience has taught me that there's an essentially infinite supply of mistakes to make ... your mistakes just get smarter most of the time." - Steve Holden timbot and other seniors explain several aspects of memory management applicable to a specific "pathologic example ... [for which it's an advantage] to disable garbage collection": http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/66ecc1… No, Ruby isn't more virtuously object-oriented than Python (although it *is* more Smalltalk-like). John Roth details the factual distinctions: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/25e108… Duncan Booth, effbot, Steve Holden, and others surpass Lewis Carroll in the care with which they distinguish a character, the name of the character, what it's called, ...: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/14885c… Sybren Stuvel's article on Open Office and Python is important enough to merit correction: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c7bee8… With a far different programming model, Python also can boss Excel around to the extent of inserting images: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8a0a11… How do you realize the source for a class definition so it's useful, that is, effectively able for use in the future? James Stroud and Scott David Daniels tell their stories: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/99d80c… WSGI has its own PEP, Wiki, high-profile introduction, ...: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/09/27/introducing-wsgi-pythons-secret-web-wea… ======================================================================== 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 Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html 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/python/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 Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python hyperlinks retains a few gems. 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://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/ 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!". Write to the same address to unsubscribe. -- 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: Urwid 0.9.7.1 - Console UI Library
by Ian Ward 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Announcing Urwid 0.9.7.1 ------------------------ Urwid home page: http://excess.org/urwid/ Tarball: http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.9.7.1.tar.gz About this release: =================== This release fixes bugs introduced in the Padding and Overlay classes in the previous release. These bugs prevent the graph.py example program from running. New in this release: ==================== * Fixed bugs in Padding and Overlay widgets introduced in 0.9.7. About Urwid =========== Urwid is a console UI library for Python. It features fluid interface resizing, UTF-8 support, multiple text layouts, simple attribute markup, powerful scrolling list boxes and flexible interface design. Urwid is released under the GNU LGPL.

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