Mailman 3 November 2006 - Python-announce-list

ANN: PyEnchant 1.2.0
by Ryan Kelly 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Hi All, I'm pleased to announce the release of PyEnchant version 1.2.0. This version includes some important updates in the underlying enchant library, and implements basic "filters" to allow skipping of email addresses, WikiWords, URLs, etc during a spellchecking session. Cheers, Ryan About: ------ Enchant (http://www.abisource.com/enchant/) is the spellchecking package behind the AbiWord word processor, is being considered for inclusion in the KDE office suite, and is proposed as a FreeDesktop.org standard. It's completely cross-platform because it wraps the native spellchecking engine to provide a uniform interface. PyEnchant brings this simple, powerful and flexible spellchecking engine to Python: http://pyenchant.sourceforge.net/ It also provides extended functionality including classes for tokenizing text and iterating over the spelling errors in it, as well as a ready-to-use text interface and wxPython dialog. Current Version: 1.2.0 Licence: LGPL with exemptions, as per Enchant itself ChangeLog for 1.2.0: -------------------- * Implemented "filters" that allow tokenization to skip common word forms such as URLs, WikiWords, email addresses etc. * Now ships with enchant-1.3.0, meaning: * PWLs can return a useful list of suggestions rather than the empty list * Hunspell replaces MySpell as the default Windows backend * Tokenization doesnt split words at non-alpha characters by default * GtkSpellCheckerDialog contributed by Fredrik Corneliusson * Removed deprecated functionality: * Dict.add_to_personal * All registry handling functionality from enchant.utils * enchant.utils.SpellChecker (use enchant.checker.SpellChecker) * Removed PyPWL, as native enchant PWLs can now suggest corrections -- Ryan Kelly http://www.rfk.id.au | This message is digitally signed. Please visit ryan(a)rfk.id.au | http://www.rfk.id.au/ramblings/gpg/ for details

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Shed Skin Optimizing Python-to-C++ Compiler 0.0.10
by Mark Dufour 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi all, I have just released version 0.0.10 of Shed Skin, an optimizing Python-to-C++ compiler. It allows for translation of pure (unmodified), implicitly statically typed Python programs into optimized C++, and hence, highly optimized machine language. Many non-trivial benchmarks (ray tracer, chess player, othello player, sat solver, 3 sudoku solvers..) run typically 2-40 times faster than when using Psyco, 12 times on average, and 2-220 times than when using CPython, 45 times on average. Besides many bug fixes, this release adds many error messages for unsupported features, so it should be much easier to try out the compiler and work around problems. Please download this new release from http://mark.dufour.googlepages.com and let me know about any problems/successes. Thanks, Mark Dufour. -- if vars: self.output('; '.join([self.type(var)+' '+name for (name,var) in vars.items()])+';')

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ANN: Advanced Python training course, Nov 8-10, San Francisco
by wesley chun 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

FINAL REMINDER... we still have some seats left! What: Advanced Python Programming When: Nov 8-10 2006 Where: San Francisco (SFO/San Bruno), CA, USA http://cyberwebconsulting.com (click on "Python Training") This course, meant to follow our in-depth introduction class, adds new tools to the Python programmer's toolkit. We explore advanced topics such as: network programming with sockets, Internet clients, GUI development, Web/CGI, databases/SQL, Extending Python with C, threads, etc. Lectures and lab will get attendees comfortable developing applications in these areas. Come join us in beautiful Northern California for another rigorous Python training event taught by software engineer, "Core Python Programming" author, and technical instructor, Wesley Chun. This course will take place in San Bruno right near the San Francisco International Airport at the: Staybridge Suites San Francisco Airport 1350 Huntington Ave San Bruno, CA 94066 USA +1-650-588-0770 LOCALS: accessible from the entire Bay Area: parking + easy 101/280/380 access, across the street from San Bruno BART and up the street from San Bruno CalTrain stations VISITORS: free shuttle to/from the airport, lots of free food and wireless The cost is $1295 per attendee. Discounts available. For more information and registration, go to the website above. 2007 CALENDAR: Feb 7-9 (Intro), May 16-18 (Advanced), Aug 20-22 (Intro) hope to see you in class! -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 http://corepython.com wesley.j.chun :: wescpy-at-gmail.com python training and technical consulting cyberweb.consulting : silicon valley, ca http://cyberwebconsulting.com

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Ann: FarPy GUIE v0.5.3
by dberlin＠gmail.com 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

About http://farpy.holev.com GUIE (GUI Editor) provides a simple WYSIWYG GUI editor for wxWidgets. 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 with some helpful additions for .NET. Next, GUIE takes these GUIML files and translates it to either wxPython Python code or wxRuby Ruby code (more languages in the future). 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. The GUI Editor was built to be as point & click as possible, trying to avoid wx's sizers completly. This means that controls can go anywhere, and you have the freedom to play with the GUI however you want. *new* GUIE goes Open Source - Source-Code now available for download! Changes (as of v0.5.3) Added: Support for different tab-types (space & real-tabes), see settings Fixed: Error when trying to export empty PictureBox Changed: Removed dotted background Fixed: Align to grid offset fix Added: Align to grid to settings file, now choice is saved Changes (as of v0.5.2) Added: IronPython GUI Support! (Microsoft .NET Windows Forms in Python) Changes (as of v0.5.1) Added: Drag & Drop functionality for adding controls Changed: Settings mechanism. "settings.opt" replacing "settings.xml". Fixed: Bug causing panel background color to be other than white Changes (as of v0.5) Added: Source release Added: Partial wxPerl support Fixed: Splash screen causes loading delay Fixed: When saving guiml, controls got a gray background-color Changed: Certain GUI improvements in settings form Fixed: Actions should be disabled when no form is open Changed: Logo in splash screen Fixed: XY Coords incorrect when hovering controls Added: Unicode support in guiml files http://farpy.holev.com

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ANN: FileTrack 0.1-beta3 is released
by t.koutsovassilis＠gmail.com 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

FileTrack is a Web-enabled communication log, keeping track of all of your company's inbound and outbound documents. It supports multiple logs, auto-archiving of older entries, and generates simple reports based on multiple criteria. One or more log entries, contacts, or documents can be grouped together into an issue for easier monitoring. This release of FileTrack is fully compatible with Porcupine v0.0.8. Moreover, it includes a few minor bug fixes and the UI has taken advantage of the new box layout QuiX widget, which has replaced the non-interactive splitters. This application is also a good sample for those willing to develop a Porcupine application, as it includes code for all of the three layers (custom schema, servlets and presentation) and all forms of servlets (PSP pages, XMLRPC and QuiX servlets). Installation instructions can be found at http://wiki.innoscript.org/index.php/Administrators/HowToInstallPPFiles Other available Porcupine applications can be downloaded from http://www.innoscript.org/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,33/func,se…

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odict the Ordered Diction 0.2.2
by Fuzzyman 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

After a break of almost a year there has been an update to `odict the Ordered Dictionary <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html>`_. The latest version is 0.2.2, with changes implemented by Nicola Larosa. Despite over 700 downloads since May (plus 1300 as part of `pythonutils <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/pythonutils.html>`_) there have been no bug reports, only improvements [#]_. {sm;:-)} * `Quick Download <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/downman.py?file=odict.py>`_ What is odict? ========== **odict** is a pure Python implementation of an ordered dictionary. It keeps keys in insertion order and allows you to change the order. Methods (including iteration) that would return members in an arbitrary order are now ordered. There is also the `SequenceOrderedDict <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html#sequenceordereddict>`_ that behaves like a sequence as well as a dictionary. It allows slicing and the keys, values and items methods are special sequence objects (which are also callable and so behave as methods too). What's New ? ========== Code ------- Removed the TODO and CHANGELOG sections in the tail docstring (they are in the docs anyway). Disabled warnings during tests. Explicitly disabled tests execution on Python v.2.2 . In addition to the slicing tests, other ones are failing. Removed code duplication between the ``__init__`` and the ``update`` methods. Misc. cleanup. Also, based on code from `Tim Wegener`_: - added the ``rename`` method; - removed a ``has_key`` usage in the ``__setitem__`` method. Documentation ---------------------- Moved the ISSUES chapter from code's tail docstring to here. Moved up the `Creating an Ordered Dictionary <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html#creating-an-ordered-dictionary>`_ chapter. Added prompts to the code examples and removed the superfluous print statements (sometimes they were there, sometimes they were not). Misc. cleanup. .. [#] So either no-one is using it, or it's really good...

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ANN: CherryPy 3.0 RC1
by Christian Wyglendowski 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Hello everyone, I'm happy to announce the first release candidate for CherryPy 3.0. Here are a few highlights since the beta2 release: * A builtin dispatcher for Routes ( http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1390 ) * The InternalRedirect mechanism was reworked entirely (http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/600 ) * Numerous bug fixes and enhancements. You can download CherryPy 3.0 RC1 from http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/CherryPyDownload . For everything that's new in CherryPy 3.0, see http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/WhatsNewIn30. To upgrade from a previous version, see http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/UpgradeTo30. Christian Wyglendowski http://www.dowski.com

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itools 0.14.6 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

itools is a Python library, it groups a number of packages into a single meta-package for easier development and deployment: itools.catalog itools.http itools.uri itools.cms itools.i18n itools.vfs itools.csv itools.ical itools.web itools.datatypes itools.rss itools.workflow itools.gettext itools.schemas itools.xhtml itools.handlers itools.stl itools.xliff itools.html itools.tmx itools.xml The focus of this release is performance and bug hunting. First the speed: - Indexing of office documents (PDF, OpenDocument, Word, etc.) has been massively improved in both speed and memory usage. - The "get_handler" and "traverse2" methods (from itools.handlers) now accept the optional parameter "caching"; if set to False caching won't be active for this call, see #569 for the details. - The catalog has been optimized to be about 12% faster with the index and unindex operations. - The whole module "itools.i18n.oracle" (whose purpose is to guess the language of a text) has been rewritten for better performance and readibility. And now for the bugs: - A serious bug has been fixed in "itools.cms": under some conditions the catalog was not synchronized with the data. The issue was solved with an update of the catalog, but still very annoying. - Some bugs in itools.xhtml and itools.html have been fixed related to the the semi-automatic translation of (X)HTML templates and documents. And the unit tests have been updated. See #279 for the details. - Many bugs have been fixed in the itools.cms web interface: #294, #438, #512, #563, #576, #577, #578 and #579. Credits: - Luis Belmar-Letelier helped fixing bugs; - Hervé Cauwelier worked on the performance and fixed some bugs; - Nicolas Deram helped fixing bugs; - J. David Ibáñez helped with the performance and fixed many bugs. Resources --------- Download http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.14.6.tar.gz Home http://www.ikaaro.org/itools Mailing list http://mail.ikaaro.org/mailman/listinfo/itools Bug Tracker http://bugs.ikaaro.org/ -- J. David Ibáñez Itaapy <http://www.itaapy.com> Tel +33 (0)1 42 23 67 45 9 rue Darwin, 75018 Paris Fax +33 (0)1 53 28 27 88

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 27)
by Paul Boddie 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

QOTW: "Given these criteria, my recommendations for a first programming language would be Python or Scheme." - Peter Norvig (some time ago, but referenced on comp.lang.lisp this week) http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html "however if you want more visual effect with less hassle, consider learning Python instead. with Python you can get some graphical stuff working almost out-of-the box, while with Lisp it's matter of luck if particular thing will work on your system :)." -- Alex Mizrahi (on comp.lang.lisp) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/7a30146ff97f79b1 Those in California get to hear what Python's "benevolent dictator" does in his day job: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_frm/thread/… ...something which isn't fully explained in the Google Master Plan: http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/246.html And for the sake of intercontinental relevance, our European pick of events has to be the Plat_Forms Web development contest in Germany: http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/browse_frm/thread/2330ada0c8e… ... although RuPy also certainly deserves attention: http://rupy.wmid.amu.edu.pl/ (November 30th is a big day: it's the Plat_Forms registration deadline *and* Guido's talk, as well as the last day of Ingeniweb in Paris, ...) "Pitivi is written in Python and as such should be an easy project for developers to get started with." Apparently, the non-linear video editor in question could really move forward "if more python hackers came onboard to help out": http://blogs.gnome.org/view/uraeus/2006/11/22/0 http://www.pitivi.org/ Or if your interest is in audio editing, the Python/GTK/GNOME-based Jokosher might welcome your contributions: http://www.jokosher.org/contribute A fledgling free PDF journal appears. http://pythonpapers.org/ November's installment of the language popularity contest quickly leads to an investigation into the coherency of Python's Web programming options: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/02875f58a… Fundamental questions about the nature of time seem to arise when one is "blazin' some mad chronix": http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/95b64b889… Meanwhile, potentially better use of time can sometimes be achieved by compiling inline C code at runtime, using cinpy (C in Python) and the remarkable tcc (Tiny C Compiler): http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ask/cinpy/ And for those who want to pretend they're writing Python whilst really writing C++, pyplus maintains the illusion: http://www.imitationpickles.org/pyplus/ But without resorting to the joys of C++, some of those desirable "compile-time" checks can be run on Python source code, too, thanks to pylint: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_frm/thread/… Advice about moving from Matlab to Python isn't in short supply this week: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/a71af37fd… ======================================================================== 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 continues the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson, Brett Cannon, Tony Meyer, and Tim Lesher 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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DFW Pythoneers had a Successful Holiday Meeting
by Jeff Rush 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

The DFW Pythoneers had a great meeting this past Saturday, with 8 people showing up on the holiday weekend. We discussed Python descriptors, properties and lazy/cached computation, and then went into an informal discussion about metaclasses and played with a simple example. The ideas we covered took a bit of effort to get your head around, but everyone seemed to appreciate their value when we wrapped up. For those that don't know, the more formal presentations for our club are archived at: https://dfwpython.org/repo/Presentations/ * 2005-07-17-Serving-Web-Content-using-Python/ * 2005-08-17-Storing-Data-using-Python/ * 2006-03-25-About-Python-Eggs.odt * 2006-03-25-About-Python-Eggs.pdf * 2006-06-24-Python-Design-Patterns.odt * 2006-06-24-Python-Design-Patterns.pdf * 2006-07-08-Python-Design-Patterns-2.odt * 2006-07-08-Python-Design-Patterns-2.pdf * 2006-07-08-Python-Design-Patterns-Handout.odt * 2006-08-12-Python-2.5.odt * 2006-08-12-Python-2.5.pdf * 2006-08-12-Python-Design-Patterns-3.odt * 2006-08-12-Python-Design-Patterns-3.pdf * 2006-11-25-FunWithDescriptors/ And we have a slowly growing set of club projects at the following page. Note however that many of them are experimental or unfinished, so don't expect polished ready-to-run source. https://dfwpython.org/repo/Projects/ * DBUS/ * GnomeApplets/ * HalResponder/ * MailClients/ * PongInvaders/ * PyCon/ * PyIE/ * TwistedAddressbook/ * TwistedBase/ * TwistedCalendar/ * TwistedTaskmaster/ * challenges/ * googlewhack/ * rpmcleaner/ Last, at a recent meeting I went over the infrastructure of the Python advocacy website I'm working on, written in Zope 3. Still a bit rough, for those who've asked, here is where you can find the source: https://svn.python.org/www/trunk/advocacy.python.org/ I hope to see you at a future meeting. For meeting details, check out: http://python.meetup.com/10 http://www.dfwpython.org Jeff Rush DFW Pythoneers Organizer

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Python-announce-list November 2006