Mailman 3 March 2006 - Python-announce-list

ANN: Ajaxterm a web based terminal
by Antony Lesuisse 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Ajaxterm is a web based terminal, totally inspired by anyterm.org. Ajaxterm written in python (and some AJAX javascript for client side). It works almost exactly like http://anyterm.org/ (but feels faster IMHO). However by being only dependent on python it is much more easier to install. Homepage: http://antony.lesuisse.org/qweb/trac/wiki/AjaxTerm -- Antony Lesuisse al AT udev.org

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ANNOUNCE: Zenoss 0.19.3 Available
by Bill Karpovich 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Version 0.19.3 of Zenoss is available for download. This version fixes several bugs and switches to Zope-2.8.6. To download: http://www.zenoss.org/download http://dev.zenoss.org/downloads/zenoss-0.19.3.tar.gz Release Notes: http://dev.zenoss.org/trac/wiki/zenoss-0.19 List of Closed Tickets: http://dev.zenoss.org/trac/query?status=closed&milestone=zenoss-0.19.3 ----------- Project Blurb: Zenoss is a powerful network and systems monitoring application written in Python/Zope. Zenoss provides monitoring of organization-wide infrastructure in an integrated product. Key features include: - Monitoring across layers (network, servers, apps, environment...) - Monitoring across platforms (windows, linux, unix...) - Monitoring across perspectives (availability, perf, events, config) - Support for various collection methods (SNMP, WMI, SSH, Telnet, ICMP) - Automated modeling of the IT environment - Role-based access/management through web portal - GPL License Enjoy, Bill Bill Karpovich bk(a)zenoss.org

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ftputil 2.1 released
by Stefan Schwarzer 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

ftputil 2.1 is now available from http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/download . Changes since version 2.0 ------------------------- - Added new methods to the FTPHost class, namely makedirs, walk, rmtree. - The FTP server directory format ("Unix" vs. "Windows") is now set automatically (thanks to Andrew Ittner for testing it). - Border cases like inaccessible login directories and whitespace in directory names, are now handled more gracefully (based on input from Valeriy Pogrebitskiy, Tommy Sundström and H. Y. Chu). - The documentation was updated. It's also on the website at http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/trac/wiki/Documentation . - A Russian translation of the documentation (currently slightly behind) was contributed by Anton Stepanov. It's also on the website at http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/trac/wiki/RussianDocumentation . - New website, http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/ with wiki, issue tracker and Subversion repository (thanks to Trac!) Please enter not only bugs but also enhancement request into the issue tracker! Possible incompatibilities: - The exception hierarchy was changed slightly, which might break client code. See http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/trac/changeset/489 for the change details and the possibly necessary code changes. - FTPHost.rmdir no longer removes non-empty directories. Use the new method FTPHost.rmtree for this. What is ftputil? ---------------- ftputil is a high-level FTP client library for the Python programming language. ftputil implements a virtual file system for accessing FTP servers, that is, it can generate file-like objects for remote files. The library supports many functions similar to those in the os, os.path and shutil modules. ftputil has convenience functions for conditional uploads and downloads, and handles FTP clients and servers in different timezones. License ------- ftputil 2.1 is Open Source software, released under the revised BSD license (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php ). Stefan

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[ANN] Firedrop 0.2.1
by Fuzzyman 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Firedrop 0.2.1 has just been released. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/firedrop2/ A bugfix release. * Removed mistaken dependency on `pythonutils <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/pythonutils.html>`_ * Fixed bug where cancelling the new site dialog would still report that the site was created **Firedrop2** is a cross-platform blogging tool written in `Python <http://www.python.org>`_. It keeps your blog source files on your computer, making it a *clientside* tool. This means you control your blog, and can easily move it from one server to another, with no risk of losing data. It also means you can manage your blog *offline*. It is fully open source, and has all the features you expect from a modern blogging program : * {acro;RSS;Really Simple Syndication} feed generation * Categories * Automatic archive generation * A powerful set of plugins, including spell checker and emailer * Entries can be made in text, {acro;HTML}, {acro;ReST}, textile, sextile or markdown markup * HTML templating system and macros for all sorts of tricks * Built in {acro;FTP} capability for uploading your blog to a server * Because it's written in Python, it is easy to extend Firedrop or create new plugins for it

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ANNOUNCE: PyGTK 2.8.5
by Johan Dahlin 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

I am pleased to announce version 2.8.5 of the Python bindings for GTK. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.8/pygtk-2.8.5.tar.gz What's new since 2.8.4: - String list bug fix (Christopher Aillon) - Improved examples (Johan) - Proper refcounting in gdk.Window constructor (John Ehresman) - Fix a bunch of reference leaks (Gustavo) - __init__.py fixes for pydoc (Johan) - gtk.Dialog.new_with_buttons leak (#332771, Gustavo) Blurb: GTK is a toolkit for developing graphical applications that run on POSIX systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It provides a comprehensive set of GUI widgets, can display Unicode bidi text. It links into the Gnome Accessibility Framework through the ATK library. PyGTK provides a convenient wrapper for the GTK+ library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GTK+ library itself PyGTK is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full features applications. PyGTK requires GTK+ >= 2.8.0 and Python >= 2.3.5 to build. Bug reports, as always, should go to Bugzilla; check out http://pygtk.org/developer.html and http://pygtk.org/feedback.html for links to posting and querying bug reports for PyGTK. -- Johan Dahlin johan(a)gnome.org

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ANN: pywinauto 0.3.1 released - Performance tune-ups
by Mark Mc Mahon 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hi, The 0.3.1 release of pywinauto is now available. pywinauto is a set of open-source (LGPL) modules for using Python as a GUI automation 'driver' for Windows NT based Operating Systems (NT/W2K/XP). SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto Download from SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157379 Here is the list of changes from 0.3.0: 0.3.1 Performance tune-ups ------------------------------------------------------------------ 30-Mar-2006 * Change calculation of distance in findbestmatch.GetNonTextControlName() so that it does not need to square or get the square root to find the real distance - as we only need to compare values - not have the actual distance. (Thanks to Stefaan Himple) * Compiled regular expression patterns before doing the match to avoid compiling the regular expression for window that is being tested (Thanks to Stefaan Himple) * Made it easier to add your own control tests by adding a file extra_tests.py which needs to export a ModifyRegisteredTests() method. Also cleaned up the code a little. * Updated notepad_fast.py to make it easier to profile (adde a method) * Changed WrapHandle to use a cache for classes it has matched - this is to avoid having to match against all classes constantly. * Changed default timeout in SendMessageTimeout to .001 seconds from .4 seconds this results in a significant speedup. Will need to make this value modifiable via the timing module/routine. * WaitNot was raising an error if the control was not found - it should have returned (i.e. success - control is not in any particular state because it does not exist!). * Added ListViewWrapper.Deselect() per Chistophe Keller's suggestion. While I was at it I added a check on the item value passed in and added a call to WaitGuiIdle(self) so that the control has a chance to process the message. * Changed doc templates and moved dependencies into pywinauto subversion to ensure that all files were availabe at www.openqa.org and that they are not broken when viewed there. * Moved all timing information into the timings.Timings class. There are some simple methods for changing the timings. If you want to follow this project then please sign up to the mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pywinauto-users Thanks Mark -------------------------------------------- Mark Mc Mahon Manchester, NH 03110, USA <P><A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto">pywinauto 0.3.1</A> Simple Windows GUI automation with Python. (30-Mar-06)

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RELEASED Python 2.4.3, final.
by Anthony Baxter 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.4.3 (final). Python 2.4.3 is a bug-fix release. See the release notes at the website (also available as Misc/NEWS in the source distribution) for details of the more than 50 bugs squished in this release, including a number found by the Coverity Scan project. Assuming no major bugs pop up, the next release of Python will be Python 2.5 (alpha 1), with a final 2.4.4 release of Python shortly after the final version of Python 2.5. The release plan for Python 2.5 is documented in PEP-0356. For more information on Python 2.4.3, including download links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.4.3/ Highlights of this new release include: - Bug fixes. According to the release notes, at least 50 have been fixed. - A small number of bugs, regressions and reference leaks have been fixed since Python 2.4.3 release candidate 1. See NEWS.txt for more. Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.4) are available from the Python 2.4 page, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html Enjoy this new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter anthony(a)python.org Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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LDTP 0.4.0 released !!!
by A Nagappan 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Issue VII - 29 March 2006 Welcome to the seventh issue of LDTP Newsletter! We are now celebrating our 0.4.0 release. This release features exhaustive list of bug fixes. LDTP is now stable than ever before.Useful references have been included at the end of this article for those who wish to hack/use LDTP. About LDTP Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the "Accessibility" libraries to poke through the application's user interface. Thanks to the Accessibility team. LDTP automation framework helps in automatically executing test cases for verifying the functionality of the software being tested. This release includes.... * Refined object search from the appmap table * Data XML are now transmitted and received with in CDATA * Reimplemented getwindowlist, getobjectlist, getobjectinfo,getobjectproperty * Memory leak fixed - Freed memory resources when client disconnects And now take a deep breath and go through the exhaustive list of bug fixes which makes this version of LDTP the most stable of the lot. A special thanks to Patrick from Sun Microsystems who has actively hacked LDTP and helped us identify and resolve many issues. * client-handler.c (add_item_to_list): A common function to generate XML object list. * client-handler.c (send_response): If data sent in chunks from server to client, then the peek code in client was not able to continue reading the next chunk as the recv with peek option always returns the first chunk. * client-handler.c (handle_request): Implemented getwindowlist, getobjectlist, getobjectinfo, getobjectproperty. Modified initappmap to get the file name from gslist only once. Memory leak fixed - Freed memory resources when client disconnects. * ldtp.c (ldtp_print): Indentation * ldtp-appmap.c (remove_appmap_entries): Memory leak fixed - Freed memory resources when client disconnects. * ldtp-appmap.c (search_obj_after_stripping_space): Added new function to search for an object after stripping spaces. * ldtp-appmap.c (add_child_attributes): Modified it as static function. * ldtp-appmap.c (ldtp_appmap_free): If appmap is not NULL then only traverse the hash table. To avoid a critical warning. * ldtp-appmap.c (search_label_based): Modified the logic to check for label or label_by and also, if under score is in value, then remove it and then look for the match. * ldtp-command.c (ldtp_command_init_command_table): Added getwindowlist, getobjectlist, getobjectinfo, getobjectproperty commands to the list of commands. * ldtp-error.c (ldtp_error_get_error_message): Added new error messages. * ldtp-gui.c (ldtp_gui_get_gui_handle): If appmap is not initialized, then try to initialize it by updating the window handle. * ldtp-gui.c (update_cur_window_appmap_handle): Checked for argument NULL to avoid crash. * ldtp-logger.c (ldtp_log): vprintf also will be printed iff LDTP_DEBUG option is enabled. * ldtp-request.c (ldtp_request_fill_request): When XML packet is NULL don't process further, which avoids a crash. * ldtp-utils.c (escape_character): Modified function name escape_under_score to escape_character and also added one parameter to make this function a generic one. Check if argument is not NULL then continue else return immediately. * remap.c (get_keybinding, filter_appmap_data, get_object_info, add_appmap_data): Checked for NULL arguments to avoid crash. * remap.c (accessible_object_handle): Avoided memory fragmentation as the same data is allocated multiple times. LDTP 0.4.0 is available is rpm package. Thanks to Damien Carbery and Dave Lin of Sun Microsystems for creating LDTP packages for solaris. LDTP makes news An article has been published in the German journal "Software-Wydawnictwo Sp. z o.o" about LDTP. If your in Germany, dont let this oppurtunity slip away. Grab a copy and check out the simple article which covers the length and breadth of LDTP. Downloads... You can download the latest version of LDTP from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Downloads LDTP is available as rpm package. LDTP is also available as deb package for Debian and Ubuntu distributions. Thanks to Casanova (prashmohan(a)gmail.com) for the providing the same. For a step by step instruction on setting up LDTP please refer http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/How_20to_20setup_20pyldtp_20in_20GNU_2fLin… References For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org All the published newsletters including the current one can be downloaded from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Newsletters For release notes of every release including the current one please refer http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Release_20Notes For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/API_20Reference To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net For suggestions to improve this newsletter, please write to jpremkumar(a)novell.com Nagappan A <anagappan(a)novell.com> Linux Desktop Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org http://nagappanal.blogspot.com

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ANN: iTorrent alpha-1
by Michael Hobbs 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Announcing the first alpha release of iTorrent. iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes. It transforms BitTorrent podcasts so that you can update them just like any other podcast in iTunes. Details can be found at http://www.itorrent.cc. iTorrent is written in Python and is released under the GPL. Since this is its first alpha release, iTorrent isn't pretty, but it does work well -- for me. Please try it out on your own podcasts and let me know what doesn't work. Also, since this is an early release, I am only announcing it to a select group of knowledgeable Python users. Please don't spread the word; I'm not ready yet to handle bug reports from casual end users. Technical Details: iTorrent runs as an RSS proxy on your local machine and will fetch enclosures from a BitTorrent network on behalf of iTunes. The BitTorrent content will then be fed to iTunes via a standard HTTP loopback connection. It uses the official BitTorrent 4.4.0 code to perform the actual downloads from a BitTorrent network. (http://www.bittorrent.com) Regards, - Michael Hobbs <mike(a)hobbshouse.org>

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introducing Construct
by tomerfiliba＠gmail.com 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

"Construct -- parsing made fun" info, demos, and download at: http://pyconstruct.sourceforge.net ------------------------ about: ------------------------ Construct is a library for declaratively defining parsers and builders for arbitrary data structures. Constructs are symmetrical: they can do both parsing and building. Using the vast number of provided primitives, you can easily define your data structures, including advanced concepts like meta-constructs, as shown below. And it's declarative -- so you don't need to write any code for the common cases. You can also easily subclass Construct and write user-defined constructs. Unlike most parsers, Construct works at the bit-level, which means you can easily parse unaligned fields, or work with bit fields of arbitrary lengths. The library supports Fields, Structs, Unions, and Repeaters; Adapters and Validators; Switches, Pointers and other Meta-constructs. To show its power, I provided a fully functional ELF32 file parser, WITHOUT ONE LINE OF PROCEDURAL CODE. It's all declerative. I used it to parse python23.o (2.1MB), in 2.88 sec on my machine. The library comes with a demos folder, an "inventory" of useful ready-made protocols, and is fully documented with doc-strings, for easy viewing with pydoc and the like. ------------------------ examples: ------------------------ from Construct import * # # simple structures # ethernet_header = Struct("ethernet_header", Bytes("destination", 6), Bytes("source", 6), UInt16("type"), ) print ethernet_header.parse("123456ABCDEF\x08\x00") # # meta constructs -- uses meta data # tlv = Struct("tlv", Byte("type"), Byte("length"), MetaBytes("value", "_.length"), ) print ethernet_header.parse("\x01\x05ABCDE") ------------------------ -tomer

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