Mailman 3 November 2006 - Python-announce-list

ANN: python-ldap-2.2.1
by Michael Ströder 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Find a new release of python-ldap: http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/ python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs and LDAPv3 schema). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Released 2.2.1 2006-11-15 Changes since 2.2.0: Modules/ * Fix for Python 2.5 free(): invalid pointer (see SF#1575329) * passwd() accepts None for arguments user, oldpw, newpw (see SF#1440151) Lib/ * ldif.LDIFWriter.unparse() now accepts instances of derived dict and list classes (see SF#1489898)

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Initial release of new PythonQt binding
by Florian Link 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

PythonQt is a dynamic and lightweight script binding of the Qt4 framework to the Python language. It can be easily embedded into Qt4 applications and makes any QObject derived object scriptable via Python without the need of wrapper code generation. The first public beta release is available as source code under the LGPL license. The binding has been used for quite a while in a commercial product and we are looking for new developers to join the project on Source Forge. http://pythonqt.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythonqt/ <P><A HREF="http://pythonqt.sourceforge.net/">PythonQt 0.9</A> - dynamic scripting binding of Qt4 to Python (15-11-06) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Florian Link MeVis Research Universitaetsallee 29, D-28359 Bremen, Germany http://www.mevis.de email: link(a)mevis.de voice: +49 421 218 7772, fax: +49 421 218 4236

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MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment 1.0
by bvdp＠xplornet.com 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Version 1.0 of MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - is now available for downloading. Included in this release: Minor changes in the install scripts, Command line option cleanup, Minor bug fixes. MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details please visit: http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ MMA is written entirely in Python. If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bob(a)mellowood.ca

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ANN: ludevit 1 available
by garabik-news-2005-05＠kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

ludevít is a simple program translating standard Slovak language into the L. Štúr version. The program is probably interesting only to Slovak speakers. Requirements: Python at least version 2.3, only standard library modules are used. The program is intended to be used in Unix environments with UTF-8 locale, but should work everywhere python runs, if you provide UTF-8 input and are content with UTF-8 output. License: GPL >=2.0 Where to download: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/ludevit/ Online demo: http://vvv.juls.savba.sk/ludevit/ This is an initial release. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | 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] httpy 1.0a1 -- smooths out WSGI's worst warts
by Chad Whitacre 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Greetings, program! I'm pleased to announce version 1.0a1 of httpy, middleware to smooth out WSGI's worst warts. With httpy in your stack, you can return a string, or return or raise an httpy.Response object, instead of mucking with start_response and iterables. This version marks a major change of scope for httpy, from WSGI competitor to itty-bitty middleware. I'm late to the party, but it turns out Kool-Aid is still good warm. Help yourself: http://www.zetadev.com/software/httpy/ Thanks. Chad Whitacre http://www.zetadev.com/

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 13)
by Cameron Laird 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

QOTW: "It is humbling to see how simple yet powerfull python`s view on things is...." - Éric Daigneault http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/bbd842715bb5b6eb "[I]f a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent." - Alan Turing, 20 February 1947, lecture to London Mathematical Socity on ACE <URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE_(computer) > Stefan Schukat illustrates an instructive use of COM in a multi-threaded context which manages a MATLAB instance: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c13315… Someone should capture the scattered but valuable observations of this report on Windows-hosted extending into a more enduring document: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/36c13e238… Paul Boddie provides references on concurrency in Python: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/4a507814e704b782 Microsoft publicizes IronPython's ASP.Net capabilities: http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/06/… http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2053498,00.asp?kc=EWWHNEMNL110906EOAD The latest release of eric3 supports QScintilla autocompletion, and more: http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric.html Is a "parameter-holding class" reasonable? Probably so, at least on occasion: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/64d84a… ======================================================================== 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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An Invitation to Get Involved in Python Advocacy
by Jeff Rush 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

I'd like to extend an invitation to those who would like to get involved in advocating the use of Python. In August, the PSF hired me, for a 6-mo contract, to coordinate the Python advocacy effort. Since then I've been working to make the next PyCon one of the best conferences yet, and putting in place the infrastructure of a newcomer portal (http://advocacy.python.org) focused on drawing in those people who don't know much about Python but have developed an interest for various reasons. The portal also has an entry point (http://advocacy.python.org/getinvolved) to organize the materials and activities of those already in the Python community who want to get involved. I've also established a new mailing list <advocacy(a)python.org> on which to discuss advocacy, replacing the <marketing-python(a)wingide.com> list, and a blog.(http://python-advocacy.blogspot.com) for keeping the Python community up-to-date about advocacy goings on. The blog is aggregated into the official Planet Python (but I can't seem to reach the coordinator of the *unofficial* Planet Python). A bit about the newcomer portal to place it in context; the portal is designed to help someone who has just become aware of Python decide if the language is right for them. It seeks to quickly direct visitors to the information they want, and bring to their attention how diverse and vibrant the support for Python is. The audience is not only programmers but also journalists, project managers, scientists/engineers, recruiters and educators. Different audiences come at Python with different needs and often need different explanations. And some are indeed programmers, but using other languages, who wonder how Python compares to what they are using now. For the newcomer portal we have a need for content writers to focus on specific problem domains, for the various subcommunities to provide technology roadmaps and representative samples of source code that would entice someone to check them out. As one example, the SciPy/NumPy group could write about what makes their software attractive to the scientific community and provide one-page sources that illustrates certain common operations, to show off the clarify and expressiveness of Python. I've found plenty of material on the SciPy website that I'm weaving into the newcomer portal. The portal is not designed to replace what we have at www.python.org but to complement it, and to serve as an organizing point for the extensive content already on www.python.org and elsewhere. The portal also specifically supports dynamic content, relational database storage of information and easy plug-in of new components to add new features. Such features will eventually include, among other things, a searchable roster of user groups, a registry of speakers and trainers and a catalog of books about Python, each with RSS feeds where appropriate. And for the curious, the portal is written using the Zope 3 component system, building on the underlying Twisted subsystem for internal background scheduling and hooked to a PostgreSQL database. The site makes use of Zope 3 viewlets to provide pluggable display elements, reStructured text documents for a clean separation between content and infrastructure, and Nabu for synchronization of document collections into the indexing engine and persisting of the reST DOMs to enable content manipulation at presentation time according to what is to be viewed (biblio data, abstracts, content). The portal is located on the python.org servers and all software and content are checked into svn.python.org. In closing, I am greatly honored by the trust of the foundation members in me and hope to serve the community well. As coordinator, I invite others to get involved and will strive to provide an assistive environment within which everyone can be productive. The primary discussion area is the new mailing list which can be joined at: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy and a list of what is needed is at: http://advocacy.python.org/getinvolved I am also maintaining a list of accomplishments and near-term To-Do's for myself at: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonAdvocacyCoordinator Jeff Rush Python Advocacy Coordinator

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Seeking Photo Links for Past PyCons
by Jeff Rush 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

In working with the graphic designer we've hired for PyCon 2007, we'd like to add some diversity to the typical conference photos. We want a new photo montage similar to the one we've had for many years at the page top at: http://us.pycon.org/TX2006/HomePage The graphic designer has gone over Flickr with the 'pycon' keyword but not found a single photo of women at PyCon. For those with a bit of time and perhaps a photo inclination could we get a few volunteers to locate and send me links to any photos they feel represent PyCon well? And if the photos zero in a specific person we'll need to get their permission before plastering their likeless all over the place. ;-) Thanks, Jeff Rush PyCon 2007 Co-Chair

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Dex Tracker .007 available
by edexter 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

Dex Tracker .007 is now available. Dex Tracker is a tracker csound front end. Now Includes .sco editor and live help where you can just click and ask your questions on a google group. Included with Dex Tracker is csound routines a bunch or routines to manipulate csound files written in python. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dex-tracker/

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Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, November 14, 2006, 8:00pm
by Mike Müller 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

========================= Leipzig Python User Group ========================= Next Meeting Tuesday, November 14, 2006 ---------------------------------------- We will meet on November 14 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany (http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html). We will have an open discussion about 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 14.11.2006 ------------------------- Wir treffen uns am 14.11.2006 um 20:00 Uhr wieder im im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig (http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html). Diesmal haben wir eine offene Diskussionsrunde zu Python. 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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