Mailman 3 December 2006 - Python-announce-list

Release: "DirectPython 0.7" and "DirectX for comtypes 0.1"
by Heikki Salo Dec. 12, 2006

Dec. 12, 2006

New versions of DirectPython and DirectX for comtypes are now available at http://directpython.sourceforge.net/ What are these? ----------- DirectPython is a C++ extension to the Python programming language which provides basic access to DirectX (9.0c) API, including Direct3D, DirectSound, DirectShow and DirectInput. The full distribution is very easy to install and it includes many samples and documentation which shows the basics of DirectPython programming. No additional packages are needed. DirectX for comtypes is a package which contains the COM interface definitions which can be used to call DirectX through comtypes. This package is still experimental and currently only supports Direct3D. Whats new in 0.7.0? ------------------ -Bug fixes -Features added -New samples -Better support for NumPy (and some other libraries, too). And much more. Check the release notes for further information. Requirements ------------- A Windows operating system with Python 2.4.x and DirectX 9.0c installed.

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ANN: rthread - distributed computing by remote threads
by Antti Kervinen Dec. 12, 2006

Dec. 12, 2006

Hello! I just wrote rthread library that makes distributed computing look like writing multi-threaded programs. Here is a simple example that runs print_hello function remotely and prints the name of the remote operating system. *** import rthread import time def print_hello(): import commands print "Hello from %s" % commands.getoutput("uname -o") return 10 r=rthread.start_remote_thread(print_hello,(), remotehost="hostname.domain") time.sleep(2) print "Finished: %s" % (r.status==rthread.status_finished) print "Returned: %s" % r.retval *** The only thing required from remote hosts is ssh server and executable rthread_server (included in the package) in PATH. (The library executes "ssh -C -c blowfish remotehost 'rthread_server'", and uses stdin and stdout of that process as a communication channel.) There is no need for interface definitions, no need to open communication ports, no need to copy remotely run function code to remote hosts. The library is working (three examples are included in the package), but it still lacks some features, especially related to serialisation of objects. If you are interested, please check: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ask/rthread/index.html Yours, Antti Kervinen

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[ANN] AzJython 0.3 - Jython plugin for Azureus
by Allan Crooks Dec. 11, 2006

Dec. 11, 2006

AzJython is a plugin for Azureus which provides a Jython environment inside Azureus - it's currently useful as a debugging tool, and later versions will make it more useful as a plugin prototyping tool, as well as providing an environment to make it much easier to write scripts to provide additional functionality to Azureus. Version 0.3 is the first public release of AzJython. This is currently limited to providing a basic Jython interpreter inside Azureus - with some default values provided to allow investigation and experimentation through the plugin API. This version is still a bit rough around the edges, but later releases will improve the usability of the interpreter. This plugin will only work with recent betas of Azureus, so any version which 2.5.0.1 b32 or higher will work. You can install the plugin directly from Azureus, or download the JAR file directly from the plugin list page for Azureus. You need to install Jython separately for this plugin to work - if you find any problems with versions other than 2.1, please let me know. Website: http://dopal.sourceforge.net/jython.html Download: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=azjython

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LDBackup Release 00.08.05
by daftspaniel＠gmail.com Dec. 11, 2006

Dec. 11, 2006

Release 00.08.05 http://www.latedecember.com/sites/software/LDBackup/ Introduction Why another Backup tool? Simple, I wanted something that would suit a Home or Small office environment and that I could hand out to friends. A batch file and xcopy would probably be enough but friendly a GUI would be worthwhile for the non-techies. 11/12/06 - Release 00.08.50 - This is and early public release of LD Backup and it is not quite 'ready'. The purpose of this release is to get some feedback and maybe find a developer or two to contribute. It is a small project to encourage newbies to Python to take part in OSS software. The program has been tested on Windows XP SP2 and on Ubuntu Linux 6.06 so it may still need some work on other platforms. Cross-platform support is a high priority for version 1.0. Thanks, Davy Mitchell

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ANN: amplee 0.3.6 - Atom Publishing Protocol implementation
by Sylvain Hellegouarch Dec. 11, 2006

Dec. 11, 2006

Hi all, I'm glad to announce the release of amplee in version 0.3.6 This release is a bug fixes but with a few new features as well: * Fixed the AtomMember class * Refactored most of the member internal code * Fixed a few issues with both the CherryPy and pure WSGI handlers * Added new examples but separated them from the main distribution. * Fixed the XHTML member class * Fixed the storage API issue when listing resources * Fixed a bug when checking for the existing of a resource * Moved to support bridge 0.2.1 * Started to add unit tests * Removed the genser dependency The API should not have changed a lot apart from specific cases. I hope this won't break too much code. I would like to thank David Turner for his great feedback. == Download == * easy_install -U amplee * Tarballs http://www.defuze.org/oss/amplee/ * svn co https://svn.defuze.org/oss/amplee/ == Documentation == http://trac.defuze.org/wiki/amplee http://www.defuze.org/oss/amplee/doc/html/ == Examples == You can get some source code examples at http://defuze.org/oss/amplee/amplee-examples-0.3.6.tgz == TODO == * Add more tests * Improve documentation Have fun, -- Sylvain Hellegouarch http://www.defuze.org Reply

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Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 11)
by Paul Boddie Dec. 11, 2006

Dec. 11, 2006

QOTW: "I still want to keep compile time type checking to make sure I don't make any mistakes." "Sounds like you want two wives, but I'm pretty sure polygamy gets a checkbox in the naughty category on Santa's list" -- George Jempty (commenting on "Dear Open Source Santa," by Paul Browne) http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/dear_open_source_santa.html#c… "But if you care to give it a closer look, you may understand that Python's main advantage is not seizable by feature and performance charts." -- Soni Bergraj (on comp.lang.python, responding to a cross-posted Lisp vs. Python inquiry) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/3112282696d61bb8 "Have you programmed in Python ? The standard libraries are a bit disorganised but there is clear documentation, most things that one wants are provided, and if there is more than one of anything then all but one are explicitly deprecated with a reference to the preferred interface. (I'm not a fan of Python, by the way, but like any programmer in the larger world I deal with it occasionally.)" -- Ian Jackson (on comp.lang.lisp, showing that even Python's non-fans can say good things about the language) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/011ffd16e6364e8f "It would probably be fair to say that the more you know about a variety of languages, the more you appreciate Python." -- Harry George (on comp.lang.python, providing a quote of the week by "popular demand") http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/7c41f6c78e882b6e It's the final public PyPy sprint in PyPy's EU-funded era: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/270d99cd4… On another "performant Python" front, Shed Skin's author gets back to development on that particular Python-to-C++ compiler... http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/2006/12/shed-skin-0015.html ... and discovers an interesting Python-powered tool for subverting certain Apple-branded music devices: http://shuffle-db.sourceforge.net/ Employing the previously mentioned pyplus in a game development setting, "Galcon was originally created for the April 2006 Ludum Dare competition. It won the contest with first places in four categories and second place in the fifth." http://www.pygame.org/projects/20/340/ The industrious Martin v. L=F6wis reports back on possible Linux Standard Base (LSB) inclusion for Python: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-December/070186.html Although PyCon is still some time away (late February), lots of work has already been done reviewing talk proposals (as mentioned in the previous Python-URL!). Here are the hard-working reviewers: http://pycon.blogspot.com/2006/12/notes-on-proposal-selection.html And a recent Ron Stephens Python411 podcast seeks to prepare us for the event: http://www.awaretek.com/plf.html Meanwhile, a real Python-related event took place at the time of writing; that was OSDC 2006 in Melbourne, Australia: http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/log/Python/OSDC_2006_report_so_far http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/log/Python/OSDC_2006_wrapup Barry Warsaw's recent NASA-sited Python talk becomes generally available. http://isandtcolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/webcasts.html Diez B. Roggisch talks CORBA, or at least takes issue with notions of its complexity, adding a link to an amusing imagined dialogue between a Web Services architect and a developer: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/cd31fafd0fdc8609 Contrary to popular belief, CORBA implementations remain vital - Duncan Grisby announces omniORB 4.1.0 and omniORBpy 3.0: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_frm/thread/… And for the obligatory Web programming item, awareness of the decentralised identity system OpenID seems to be growing in the different Web framework communities, with many mentions of the Python-OpenID libraries: http://www.openidenabled.com/openid/libraries/python/ Good luck to the many Users Groups focused on Python, including, in particular, nation-wide ones: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iranianpythonprogrammers ======================================================================== 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-- 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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Dex Tracker .011 beta (tracker for csound) released
by edexter Dec. 11, 2006

Dec. 11, 2006

Dex Tracker beta .11 is out new features include a code generater for a simple sampler utilities for combing all files in a .csd/.orc A utility to remove all instruments from a orc/sco combination. The ability to place a help file in a .html or .txt file (other formats may be added later). The ability to use the old winsound from csound 4 (some assembly required). A handfull of instrumets that are already set up for use in the tracker. public domain tools Harmonise used to generate score files and space a file generator to be used with gen28 and to be used with csound opcode space are included in this version. csound command line help and csound utility list have been added as tools along with the command line. Files required to run the project are on the homepage. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156455&package...

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ANN: 4Suite XML 1.0.1
by Uche Ogbuji Dec. 11, 2006

Dec. 11, 2006

4Suite XML 1.0.1 is now available from Sourceforge and ftp.4suite.org. Thanks to all the testers, there are a number of important fixes and improvements since 1.0, and we recommend upgrade from all previous versions. Changes include: * Fixed error handling the interactive Python sys.path entry of '' * Handle overridden default namespace properly in Ft.Xml.Domlette.ParseFragment * default namespace fix for Ft.Xml.Domlette.GetAllNs * Memory leak fixes * Documentation tweaks * Bug fixes, including installer fixes 4Suite consists of three separate packages: 4Suite XML - XML, XPath, XSLT, related technologies and support libraries 4Suite RDF - RDF processing libraries and stand-alone DBMS 4Suite Repository - XML and RDF repository This is a release of only the first component. 4Suite XML is a comprehensive library for XML processing. It is implemented in Python and C and supports XML (SAX-like and DOM-like), XPath, XSLT, RELAX NG, XUpdate, XInclude, XPointer, and more. Many users will be able to use easy_install. See the bottom of this announcement for more information. General information: http://4suite.org/ http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4Suite/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/foursuite/ Source code, Python eggs, Windows installers, and documentation: ftp://ftp.4suite.org/pub/4Suite/ (primary) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=39954 (secondary) http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/4Suite-XML/ (alternative) You only need to download one distribution (source, egg, or .exe). Installation requirements and other details: http://4suite.org/docs/README Installation: You can install without any separate download using: easy_install 4Suite-XML For more information see: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall Otherwise use one of the packages listed above, or one provided by your software distributor. Documentation: Documentation is distributed separately from the source and eggs. Windows installers come with documentation; no separate download needed. The 4Suite XML core manual is included in the documentation. It can be browsed online at http://4suite.org/docs/CoreManual.xml -- Uche Ogbuji Work: The Kadomo Group, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://kadomo.com http://copia.ogbuji.net Lead dev at http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/

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Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, December 12, 2006, 8:00pm
by Mike Müller Dec. 10, 2006

Dec. 10, 2006

========================= Leipzig Python User Group ========================= Next Meeting Tuesday, December 12, 2006 ---------------------------------------- We will meet on December 12 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany (http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html). We will talk about the workshop proceedings. 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 12.12.2006 ------------------------- Wir treffen uns am 12.12.2006 um 20:00 Uhr wieder im im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig (http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html). Wir werden uns mit dem Tagungsband zum Workshop beschäftigen. 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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[ANN] Next meeting of PUG Cologne 13.12.2006
by Christopher Arndt (no sig) Dec. 10, 2006

Dec. 10, 2006

Hello everybody, the next meeting of the new Python User Group Köln (Cologne) takes place on: Date: 13.12.2006 Time: 18:30 h Location: Pool 0.14, computing centre (RRZK-B) of the University Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 Köln Detailed information can be found on our page in the German Python Wiki: http://wiki.python.de/User_Group_K%C3%B6ln#Termine We invite everybody in the area who's interested in the Python programming language to join our meetings or take part in the discussions on our mailing list. If you are planning to come to this meeting, it would be sensible, though not strictly necessary, to drop us a line on our mailing list or via private email to me, because the room we have at the university has a limited capacity. Looking forward to see many of you! Christopher Arndt

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