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SQLObject 0.8.0b1
by Oleg Broytmann Dec. 18, 2006

Dec. 18, 2006

Hello! I'm pleased to announce the 0.8.0b1 release of SQLObject. This is the first beta of the new branch. Taking into account that it is a result of rather large job the beta period will be prolonged. Meanwhile the stable 0.7 branch will be maintained, and there will be at least 0.7.3 release. What is SQLObject ================= SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are described as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be easy to use and quick to get started with. SQLObject supports a number of backends: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Firebird. It also has newly added support for Sybase, MSSQL and MaxDB (also known as SAPDB). Where is SQLObject ================== Site: http://sqlobject.org Development: http://sqlobject.org/devel/ Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sqlobject-discuss Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlobject Download: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SQLObject/0.8.0b1 News and changes: http://sqlobject.org/devel/News.html What's New ========== Features & Interface -------------------- * It is now possible to create tables that reference each other. Constraints (in the DBMSes that support constraints) are added after the tables have been created. * Added ``createSQL`` as an option for sqlmeta. Here you can add related SQL you want executed by sqlobject-admin create after table creation. createSQL expects a string, list, or dictionary. If using a dictionary the key should be a dbName value (ex. 'postgres') and the value should be a string or list. Examples in sqlobject/tests/test_sqlobject_admin.py or at <http://sqlobject.org/sqlobject-admin.html#the-create-command> * Added method ``sqlhub.doInTransaction(callable, *args, **kwargs)``, to be used like:: sqlhub.doInTransaction(process_request, os.environ) This will run ``process_request(os.environ)``. The return value will be preserved. * Added method ``.getOne([default])`` to ``SelectResults`` (these are the objects returned by ``.select()`` and ``.selectBy()``). This returns a single object, when the query is expected to return only one object. The single argument is the value to return when zero results are found (more than one result is always an error). If no default is given, it is an error if no such object exists. * Added a WSGI middleware (in ``sqlobject.wsgi_middleware``) for configuring the database for the request. Also handles transactions. Available as ``egg:SQLObject`` in Paste Deploy configuration files. * New joins! ManyToMany and OneToMany; not fully documented yet, but still more sensible and smarter. * SELECT FOR UPDATE * New module dberrors.py - a hierarchy of exceptions. Translation of DB API module's exceptions to the new hierarchy is performed for SQLite and MySQL. * SQLiteConnection got a new keyword "factory" - a name or a reference to a factory function that returns a connection class; useful for implementing functions or aggregates. See test_select.py and test_sqlite_factory.py for examples. * SQLObject now disallows columns with names that collide with existing variables and methods, such as "_init", "expire", "set" and so on. Small Features -------------- * Configurable client character set (encoding) for MySQL. * Added a close option to .commit(), so you can close the transaction as you commit it. * DecimalValidator. * Added .expireAll() methods to sqlmeta and connection objects, to expire all instances in those cases. * String IDs. * FOREIGN KEY for MySQL. * Support for sqlite3 (a builtin module in Python 2.5). * SelectResults cannot be queried for truth value; in any case it was meaningless - the result was always True; now __nonzero__() raises NotImplementedError in case one tries bool(MyTable.select()) or "if MyTable.select():..." Bug Fixes --------- * Fixed problem with sqlite and threads; connections are no longer shared between threads for sqlite (except for :memory:). * The reference loop between SQLObject and SQLObjectState eliminated using weak references. For a more complete list, please see the news: http://sqlobject.org/devel/News.html Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd(a)phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 18)
by Paul Boddie Dec. 18, 2006

Dec. 18, 2006

QOTW: "c.l.python is just a small speck at the outer parts of the python universe. most python programmers don't even read this newsgroup, except, perhaps, when they stumble upon it via a search engine." -- Fredrik Lundh (on comp.lang.python, prompting the editor to offer greetings to those of you who are not reading Python-URL! via that channel) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/4d73a2da72c87226 "That's the kind of features I have in mind, and the best thing is that conceptually a lot of the work consists of connecting dots that already out there. But as there are so many of them, a few extra pencils would be quite welcome <wink>" -- Willem Broekema (on comp.lang.python, referring to the ongoing CLPython - Python in Common Lisp - project) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b72788cc5569d778 http://trac.common-lisp.net/clpython/ Registration for PyCon (the North American Python conference) is now open: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2006/12/registration-for-pycon-2007-is-now.html http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/Registration Meanwhile, the EuroPython planners get ahead of themselves, thinking about conference venues as far in the future as 2010, if not 20010! http://mail.python.org/pipermail/europython/2006-December/006158.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/europython/2006-December/006161.html PyMite - the embedded Python interpreter - gets an update: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/msg/b335a476d40332… http://pymite.python-hosting.com/ This week's Python advocacy discovery had to be the revelation that YouTube runs on Python, helping to diminish concerns about Python's suitability for large scale Internet applications and services: http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2006/12/youtube-runs-on-python.html http://www.python.org/about/quotes/#youtube-com Of related things "flexible and fast", development in the Cherokee Web server community produces the 100% Python implementation of SCGI: the logically named PySCGI. http://www.alobbs.com/news/1193 And on the advocacy front, volunteers are sought to write informative materials (flyers, whitepapers) promoting Python in different domains: http://wiki.python.org/moin/AdvocacyWritingTasks Video conferencing on the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) prototype takes shape with a mixture of technologies and "a few lines of Python": http://www.robot101.net/2006/12/12/telepathy-and-olpc/ After an influx of competing XML technologies and now drifting free without an appointed maintainer, is the era of PyXML over? http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2006-December/011620.html On a more administrative level, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) invites nominations for new directors: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2006/12/call-for-nominations-of-psf-directors.h… The PSF also suggests that you might consider a donation towards their work of protecting the Python copyrights and trademarks: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2006/12/remember-psf-in-your-year-end.html ======================================================================== 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 The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiats". http://pythonpapers.org/ 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-- Phaseit, Inc. (http://phaseit.net) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. Watch this space for upcoming news about posting archives.

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itools 0.14.7 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" Dec. 18, 2006

Dec. 18, 2006

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 In this release a bunch of bugs have been fixed: - [itools.handlers] The method "acquire" works (#597). - [itools.catalog] Fix unindexing in some obscure conditions. Fix search for on-memory catalogs. - [itools.xml] Raise "NotImplementedError" when building a bare XML document from scratch, instead of failing later with an obscure error. - [itools.ical] Fix problem with CRLF in property values (#594). - [itools.http] Fix loading form values from multimart requests, when there is more than one value assigned to the same name. Loading request objects from files or strings works now (not just from sockets). - [itools.web] The response "304 Not Modified" is working again (#601). - [itools.cms] Now the calendar widget can show conflicts for the week and month views (#626). Credits: - Hervé Cauwelier fixed some bugs; - Nicolas Deram fixed some bugs; - J. David Ibáñez fixed some bugs; Resources --------- Download http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.14.7.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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Paste 1.1
by Ian Bicking Dec. 18, 2006

Dec. 18, 2006

Paste 1.1 --------- This release includes a security fix, fixing a situation where you could escape the root when serving static files and running the Paste HTTP server publicly. If you used other WSGI servers or used the Paste HTTP server behind Apache this does not effect you. For an update of Paste 1.0 that includes *only* the security fix, use "easy_install Paste==1.0.1" What Is Paste? -------------- URL: http://pythonpaste.org Install: easy_install Paste PasteScript PasteDeploy News: http://pythonpaste.org/news.html http://pythonpaste.org/script/news.html http://pythonpaste.org/deploy/news.html Paste is a set of WSGI components, each of which can be used in isolation. But used together they form an unstoppable force. Team WSGI, unite! These components let you do things like create applications that proxy to other websites, mount multiple applications under different prefixes, catch exceptions and interactively inspect the environment, and much more. Paste Deploy is a configuration system for these components. Paste Script is a jack of all trades that builds new project file layouts, runs WSGI server stacks, and does application deployment. Interesting News ---------------- Paste ~~~~~ * Security fix for paste.urlparser.StaticURLParser. The problem allowed escaping the root (and reading files) when used with paste.httpserver (this does not effect other servers, and does not apply when proxying requests from Apache to paste.httpserver). * paste.httpserver and paste.fixture.TestApp url-unquote SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO, as specified in the CGI spec. Thanks to Jon Nelson for pointing out both these issues. * paste.registry now works within the EvalException interactive debugger. * Added a __traceback_decorator__ magic local variable, to allow arbitrary manipulation of the output of paste.exceptions.collector before formatting. * Added unicorn power to paste.pony (from Chad Whitacre) * For paste.httpserver SSL support: add support loading an explicit certificate context, and using ssl_pem='*' create an unsigned SSL certificate (from Jason Kirtland). Paste Script ~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Allow variable assignments at the end of paster serve, like paster serve http_port=80; then you can use %(http_port)s in your config files (requires up-to-date Paste Deploy). Paste Deploy ~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Really nothing interesting. -- Ian Bicking | ianb(a)colorstudy.com | http://blog.ianbicking.org

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Pyd: Extending Python with D
by Kirk McDonald Dec. 17, 2006

Dec. 17, 2006

This is not a release announcement per se, but I just got this library working on Linux, so I am prepared to show it to the Python community at large. http://pyd.dsource.org/ Pyd is a library for the D programming language. It is analogous to Boost.Python. It wraps the Python/C API with a much cleaner interface, allowing you to directly expose your D functions and classes to Python, without touching the C API. See the website for some simple examples. It's also pretty easy to build (it uses distutils for compilation) and compiles lightning fast (a strength of D's), at least compared to Boost.Python. D, if you're unfamiliar with it, is a systems programming language. It aims to be a successor to C++. It is multi-paradigm, statically-typed (but has many type inference features), compiles to native machine code, uses single inheritance plus interfaces and mixins, and is garbage collected. Dynamic arrays and hash tables are built-in language constructs. It is link-compatible with C, but doesn't bother to be syntax compatible (although it does use a C-style syntax). Linking against C libraries (like the Python/C API) is a usually simple matter of re-writing the header files in D. D is designed by Walter Bright, who has been writing C and C++ compilers for 20 years. D will be undergoing a 1.0 release on January 1st. There are two implementations of D: The reference implementation, written by Walter Bright, which is called DMD (http://digitalmars.com/d/), and the open-source implementation, which is called GDC (http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/). The former has a Windows bias, and the latter has a Linux bias, although both mostly work on both. It is my opinion, and the view of several others in the D community, that Python and D are a perfect fit for each other. With Pyd, it is very easy to code rapidly in Python, and drop into D when more speed is required. Pyd is still a relatively new library. I started development on it in June, and I could count the current number of users on one hand. I also haven't done a proper release, as I am still rapidly adding features. For all that, I am insterested in what people think of it. The library's deficiencies won't become clear until people start using it. -Kirk McDonald http://pyd.dsource.org/

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Call for Nominations of PSF Directors
by David Goodger Dec. 17, 2006

Dec. 17, 2006

The Board of Directors of the Python Software Foundation is issuing this call for nominations of new Directors. Self-nominations are the norm, so don't wait for somebody else to nominate you. If you are interested in serving as a Director, please write to psf(a)python.org. Directors need not be PSF members. Since the PSF is a small organization, the Directors and Officers are the PSF's executive in more than name: we not only discuss the work to be done, we also initiate and oversee the work (through committees), and we get a lot of the work done ourselves. It is therefore beneficial to have a large number of active Directors. As Tim Peters eloquently put it, This is pragmatic: volunteer time is hard to come by for PSF busy work, and, overall, directors seem to feel more compelling obligation in this regard than non-director PSF members. So, the bigger the board, the more gets done. At the annual Members' Meeting in 2004 nine people stood for election to the Board, but there were only seven positions, so two candidates were not elected. This was a mistake; we cannot afford to turn away volunteers. In 2005, when eight people stood for election, the Board was first increased to eight positions, allowing all the candidates to serve. The size of the Board can change again. (Section 5.4 of the PSF bylaws states: "the number of directors shall be fixed by the members at each annual meeting of members.") The PSF's Directors and Officers conduct business via monthly meetings (one hour on IRC) and an active mailing list. We discuss the work being done and the work to be done, and Directors vote on resolutions. David Goodger, PSF Secretary On behalf of the PSF Board of Directors

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ANN: PyMite release 04
by dwhall Dec. 16, 2006

Dec. 16, 2006

.. Hello, .. .. I would like to announce the fourth release of PyMite. .. PyMite is for 8-bit embedded developers wanting to code in Python, .. NOT for Python programmers wanting to develop for 8-bit systems <smiley>. .. .. !!Dean ====== PyMite ====== :Author: Dean Hall :Copyright: Copyright 2002 Dean Hall. All of the source code for PyMite is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2. :Release: 04 :Site: http://pymite.python-hosting.com/ Purpose ------- PyMite is a flyweight Python interpreter written from scratch to execute on 8-bit and larger microcontrollers with resources as limited as 32 KiB of program memory (flash) and 4 KiB of RAM. PyMite supports a subset of the Python syntax and can execute a subset of the Python bytecodes. PyMite can also be compiled, tested and executed on a desktop computer. Thanks ------ My thanks go to these people for their contribution to PyMite: - Josh Lifton: Used PyMite in PhD work, donated many code fixes and tests. - Philipp Adelt: Enhancements to pmImgCreator.py, issues and fixes. - www.webfaction.com: for providing quality, free project hosting on www.python-hosting.com Release Notes ------------- This is PyMite release 04 * Release 04, 2006/12/14 - #62: Created Release 04 package - #51: Updated to Python 2.5 bytecodes - #57: Created doc showing what PyMite does [not] support - #60: Implemented heap_sweep - #59: Improved bytecode UNPACK_SEQUENCE - #58: Added support for keyword "in" - #26: Implemented more builtin functions - #49: Removed null check from object methods - #56: Implemented \*_POWER bytecodes - #17: Completed the implementation of obj_isEqual() - #54: Changed seglist API to encapsulate segnum & segindx - #10: Created sequence_getSubscript() - #33: Created new ARM target - #36: Deprecated dwh_types.h - #53: Fixed Win32/x86 build break - #38: Made use of pycscope.py conditional in Makefile - #37: Created PM_RAISE() - #34: Converted all "Py" to "Pm" - #50: Integrated __LINE__ into PM_RAISE - #48: Organized and deploy unit tests - #45: Finished interpret loop edits - #35: Macroized all operations on object descriptors - #42: Fixed misuse of PM_RAISE - #43: Fixed mem_getInt() - #40: Fixed heap chunk transfer .. :mode=rest:

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[ANN]: 'twander' 3.204 Released And Available
by Tim Daneliuk Dec. 16, 2006

Dec. 16, 2006

'twander' Version 3.204 is now released and available for download at: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/twander The last public release was 3.195. If you are unfamiliar with this program, see the end of this message for a brief description. --------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW FEATURES - A new boolean configuration option, CMDMENUSORT (default: False), has been added. This allows the user to force the Command Menu to appear in sorted order (as opposed to the default which is to display commands in the order they are defined). - It is now possible to temporarily assign the current directory to any of the Directory Shortcut keys. The user presses KEDIRSCSET (default: Control-8) and is presented with a dialog to enter which of the 12 Directory Shortcut keys to load with the current directory. This allows directory waypoints to be saved as shortcuts during the user's workflow. The shortcuts revert to the definitions found in the Configuration File if the program is exited and restarted or if a configuration reload (default: Control-r) is initiated within the running program. - A new configuration verb, ASSOC, has been added to implement file "Associations". Associations allow the user to define which program to start when the user selects a non-executable file and does a mouse doubleclick or presses "Enter". For example, this configuration statement associates files whose names end with the string ".text" with emacs: ASSOC .text emacs [SELECTION] There is also provision for a "default" association that is invoked if the user double-clicks or presses "Enter" on a non-executable file that has no specific association defined for it: ASSOC * MyFineEditor [SELECTION] The right-hand-side of association statements can make use of almost all of the 'twander' configuration language features such as runtime prompting, symbolic variable substitution, execution variables, and so forth. CHANGES & BUG FIXES - The default mouse assignment to popup the shortcut menu (MOUSESC) has been moved to Alt-Control-LeftButton. This was necessary because the previous assignment interfered with the mouse command to move up a directory level (MOUSEUP). - The "Shortcut Key" help menu has been removed. It was redundant with the identical menu on the menu bar and mouse popup menu. - The titlebar status strings have been shortened to keep to overall title length more reasonable. - Selected help menus have now been formatted into 3 columns (as opposed to the previous 2 column format) to make long help screens fit on the display better. - A new help menu, "Associations" has been added to display any user-defined Associations (as described above). - The order of the help menus has been changed to be slightly more intuitive (to the author anyway :). DOCUMENTATION - The new features and changes are reflected in the manual. - The example Configuration File (.twander) now contains examples of "Execution Variables". These were introduced in 3.193 but examples were not included in the example configuration. Complete details of all fixes, changes, and new features can be found in the WHATSNEW.txt and documentation files included in the distribution. Users are strongly encouraged to join the twander-users mailing list as described in the documentation. A FreeBSD port has been submitted as well. What Is 'twander'? ------------------ 'twander' is a macro-programmable Filesystem Browser that runs on both Unix-like systems as well as Win32 systems. It embraces the best ideas of both similar GUI-driven programs (Konqueror, Windows Explorer) as well as text-based interfaces (Midnight Commander, List, Sweep). Or, If You Prefer The "Elevator Pitch" -------------------------------------- 'twander' is: - A better file browser for Unix and Win32. (Tested on FreeBSD, Linux, Win32. Probably works on Mac OS/X, but not tested.) - A way to make browsing the same on all the OSs you use. - A macro-programmable tool that lets *you* define the features. - A GUI navigation front-end for your shell. - A way to "can" workflows for your technically-challenged colleagues. - A way to free yourself from the shackles of the mouse. - A way to significantly speed up your day-to-day workflow. - A Python/Tkinter application - about 5000 lines of code/comments - A RCT (Really Cool Tool) that will have you addicted in a day or two See the web page for more information, a screen shot, and the complete documentation. twander(a)tundraware.com

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ANN: Tftpy 0.4 - Pure Python TFTP Library
by Michael P. Soulier Dec. 16, 2006

Dec. 16, 2006

Copyright, Michael P. Soulier, 2006. About Release 0.4: ================== This release adds a TftpServer class with a sample implementation in bin. The server uses a single thread with multiple handlers and a select() loop to handle multiple clients simultaneously. Only downloads are supported at this time. About Release 0.3: ================== This release fixes a major RFC 1350 compliance problem with the remote TID. About Release 0.2: ================== This release adds variable block sizes, and general option support, implementing RFCs 2347 and 2348. This is accessible in the TftpClient class via the options dict, or in the sample client via the --blocksize option. 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: ============ Purpose: -------- 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. Dependencies: ------------- This library was developed against Python 2.3. Trifles: -------- Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tftpy/ License is the CNRI Python License. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/pythonpl.php See COPYING in this distribution. Limitations: ------------ - Server only supports downloads. - Client only supports downloads. - Only 'octet' mode is supported - The only option supported is blksize -- 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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ANN pyfs: python shell+ftp for PC, Nokia and XBOX
by Michele Andreoli Dec. 15, 2006

Dec. 15, 2006

Pyfs is a (sort of) python replacement for shell+rsh+ftp+telnet, in a very alpha development stage. Pyfs works on every platforms supporting Python, with network connections in mind. Having the pyfs server running on the machine A (a PC, a Nokia phone with Symbian S60, an XBOX console), you can connect to A from another machine B (using the pyfs client), either via TCP/IP, either via Bluetooth. After the connection is established, you can interact with the remote python shell on A, or also start a form of UNIX-like shell on A, with commands like cp, rm, ls, mkdir, etc, and even transfer files, in both directions. Home page: http://mulinux.sunsite.dk/pyfs/ Thanks You, Michele

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