Mailman 3 March 2006 - Python-announce-list

ANN: PyQt v3.16 Released
by Phil Thompson 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of PyQt v3.16 available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/. The main benefit of this release is that it can be installed side by side with the soon-to-be-released PyQt v4 (for Qt v4). Other changes since the last release include: - improved interoperability between QString and Python's string and unicode objects. PyQt is a comprehensive set of Qt bindings for the Python programming language and supports the same platforms as Qt. Like Qt, PyQt is available under the GPL (for UNIX, Linux and MacOS/X), a commercial license (for Windows, UNIX, Linux and MacOS/X) and a free educational license (for Windows). PyQt is implemented as a set of 9 extension modules containing 300 classes and over 5,750 functions and methods. PyQt also includes bindings to QScintilla, the port to Qt of the Scintilla editor component. PyQt can be used either as a rapid prototyping tool, or as an alternative to C++ for developing large Qt applications. PyQt includes the pyuic utility which generates Python code to implement user interfaces created with Qt Designer in the same way that the uic utility generates C++ code. Third party tools are also available - such as eric3, a comprehensive IDE (including an editor, debugger, class browser, integration with Qt Designer, re-factoring tools, unit testing tools and integration with source code control systems). eric3 is written entirely using PyQt and is available from http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html. Phil

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ANN: SIP v4.4 Released
by Phil Thompson 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of SIP v4.4 available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/. SIP is a tool for generating Python modules that wrap C or C++ libraries. It is similar to SWIG. It is used to generate PyQt and PyKDE. Full documentation is available at http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Docs/sip4/sipref.html. SIP is licensed under the Python License and runs on Windows, UNIX, Linux and MacOS/X. SIP requires Python v2.3 or later (SIP v3.x is available to support earlier versions of Python). This release includes the following changes: - support for class and mapped type templates - support for global operators - support for signed char, long long and unsigned long long types - support for Python's buffer interface - support for ellipsis in function arguments - support for __hash__ - namespaces can now be split across Python modules. Other features of SIP include: - extension modules are implemented as a single binary .pyd or .so file (no Python stubs) - support for Python new-style classes - generated modules are quick to import, even for large libraries - support for Qt's signal/slot mechanism - thread support - the ability to re-implement C++ abstract and virtual methods in Python - the ability to define Python classes that derive from abstract C++ classes - the ability to spread a class hierarchy across multiple Python modules - support for C++ namespaces - support for C++ exceptions - support for C++ operators - an extensible build system written in Python that supports over 50 platform/compiler combinations. Phil

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wxPython in Action
by Robin Dunn 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Hi All, Just a quick note to let you know that our book, "wxPython in Action" is now officially available for sale. The book is currently only available at Manning's website but will slowly become available through retail stores over the next few weeks. Anyone in a hurry can order it at the publisher's website and get a free e-book with the print edition (the e-book is not sold anywhere else). http://www.manning.com/books/rappin -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

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ANN: Python Enthought Edition Version 0.9.3 Released
by Travis N. Vaught 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Enthought is pleased to announce the release of Python Enthought Edition Version 0.9.3 (http://code.enthought.com/enthon/) -- a python distribution for Windows. 0.9.3 Release Notes: -------------------- Version 0.9.3 of Python Enthought Edition includes an update to version 1.0.3 of the Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) Package-- you can look at the release notes for this ETS version here. Other major changes include: * upgrade to VTK 5.0 * addition of docutils * addition of numarray * addition of pysvn. Also, MayaVi issues should be fixed in this release. Full Release Notes are here: http://code.enthought.com/release/changelog-enthon0.9.3.shtml About Python Enthought Edition: ------------------------------- Python 2.3.5, Enthought Edition is a kitchen-sink-included Python distribution for Windows including the following packages out of the box: Numeric SciPy IPython Enthought Tool Suite wxPython PIL mingw f2py MayaVi Scientific Python VTK and many more... More information is available about all Open Source code written and released by Enthought, Inc. at http://code.enthought.com

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ANNOUNCE: twill 0.8.4
by Titus Brown 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

ANNOUNCING twill v0.8.4. twill is a simple language for browsing the Web. It's designed for automated testing of Web sites, but it can be used to interact with Web sites in a variety of ways. In particular, twill supports form submission, cookies, redirects, and HTTP authentication. A twill script to use the "I'm feeling lucky" button on Google looks like this: setlocal query "twill Python" go http://www.google.com/ fv 1 q $query submit btnI # use the "I'm feeling lucky" button show (Note that using this script abuses Google's Terms of Service. So don't.) This is the ninth public release of twill, version 0.8.4. You can install twill with easy_install, or download this release at http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-0.8.4.tar.gz Documentation is included in the .tar.gz and is also online at http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/twill/ Miscellaneous details: twill is implemented in Python and uses pyparsing and mechanize. In addition to the existing simple command language, twill can easily be extended with Python. twill also provides a fairly simple and well-documented wrapper around mechanize. twill does not understand JavaScript, I'm sorry to say. --- Significant changes with 0.8.4: * improved installation docs and simplified installation; * added link checking, requirements processing, and arguments parsing extension modules. * improved extension module handling; added extension module documentation. * fixed memory leaks. * fixed tidy problem on Windows. * line number of scripts printed on traceback. * fixed file:// URLs. * added option for debugging HTTP-EQUIV REFRESH code.

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RELEASED Python 2.4.3, release candidate 1
by Anthony Baxter 23 Mar '06

23 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 (release candidate 1). 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 problems crop up, a final release of Python 2.4.3 will follow in about a week's time. 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 since 2.4.2. 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 On a personal note, according to my records this is the 25th release of Python I've made as release manager. So enjoy this silver anniversary release, Anthony Anthony Baxter anthony(a)python.org Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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IAF Release 0.01
by Gil Mueller 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

The IAF Release 0.01 is now available. This is the initial release of IAF. IAF (=Interaction Framework) is a framework for reactive and distributed systems. It provides high-level message passing services based on group communication. It is also very useful for integrating component-based systems. It is freely available for personal and commercial use. Proceed to http://www.gil-mueller.com/freecorner.html for more information and for downloading the IAF. -- Gil Müller Felgergasse 5, D-70372 Stuttgart Tel. +49(0)711-5091785 Fax +49(0)711-5091711 E-Mail: gil.mueller(a)nexgo.de WWW: http://www.gil-mueller.com

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An Efficient Scalar Class in Python
by uymqlp502＠sneakemail.com 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

My previous announcement on this was only nine days ago, but in retrospect I think that release was premature. I have made substantial simplifications and improvements since then. Here is the abstract from the three-page user guide (which is in PDF): A Python class was designed to represent physical scalars and to eliminate errors involving implied physical units (e.g., confusing angular degrees and radians). The standard arithmetic operators are overloaded to provide syntax identical to that for built-in numerical types. The scalar class allows the user to easily define a set of appropriate physical units for any particular application or domain. Once an application has been developed and tested, the units can easily be switched off, if desired, to achieve the execution efficiency of operations on built-in numerical types (which can be two orders of magnitude faster). The scalar class can also be used for discrete units to enforce type checking of integer counts, thereby enhancing the built-in dynamic type checking of Python. Give it a try. If you do scientific or engineering computation, I bet you'll like it! http://RussP.org/scalar.htm

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ANN: ClientForm 0.2.2 released
by John J Lee 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/ This is the first stable release of ClientForm 0.2. (See below for the list of changes since 0.2.1b.) Many improvements have been made as part of the 0.2 release, thanks largely to Gary Poster, Benji York and their employer Zope Corporation as part of their work on zope.testbrowser. These include: * 0.1 backwards compatibility mode (backwards_compat switch). * Greatly improved support for labels, including control labels. * Added first-class support for list items and labels. * A few methods have been added, and many superfluous methods deprecated. * The example script on the web page / README.html is now an executable script in the examples directory, that runs against a test page on the wwwsearch.sourceforge.net site. * Label matching is now by substring (after compression of whitespace), not by exact string equality. * Support for list item ids. * Finding controls or items now raises AmbiguityError if no nr argument is supplied and the other arguments do not uniquely identify the control or item. The old behaviour is restored by passing nr=0. * Fix multiple identical list item behaviour. * Fixed a bug where disabled list items were successful (got sent back to the server). * More intuitive disabled list item behaviour. * Large sections of the module have been reimplemented using classes Item and Label, making for better code. * Added ListControl.get(), ListControl.get_items(), HTMLForm.set_value_by_label(), and HTMLForm.get_value_by_label() methods. * Applied patch from Titus Brown to add .clear() method to all Controls. * The following ListControl methods have been deprecated: possible_items get_item_attrs set_item_disabled get_item_disabled set_single toggle_single set toggle * The following HTMLForm methods have been deprecated: possible_items set_single toggle_single set toggle * The by_label argument of the following methods has been deprecated: get_value set_value * Added support for setuptools / EasyInstall / Python Eggs. * Make entitydefs more sane. Expose entitydefs in ParseFile / ParseResponse functions. Changes since 0.2.1b: * Fixes to setup.py &c. * Follow IE and Firefox on algorithm for choosing MIME boundary -- servers are buggy on this. * Fix POST multipart/form-data parameter ordering (patch from Balazs Ree) and ImageControl ordering. * Fix .fixup() of disabled select with no selected options (John Wayne). * Encoding fixes. * Add BeautifulSoup support (not yet well tested). * Switch from htmllib to sgmllib. * Add form name to str(HTMLForm). * Make parser debugging a bit easier. Requires Python 2.0 or newer. ClientForm is a Python module for handling HTML forms on the client side, useful for parsing HTML forms, filling them in and returning the completed forms to the server. It developed from a port of Gisle Aas' Perl module HTML::Form, from the libwww-perl library, but the interface is not the same. Simple example: from urllib2 import urlopen from ClientForm import ParseResponse forms = ParseResponse(urlopen("http://www.example.com/form.html"), backwards_compat=False) form = forms[0] print form form["author"] = "Gisle Aas" # form.click() returns a urllib2.Request object # (see HTMLForm.click.__doc__ if you don't have urllib2) response = urlopen(form.click("Thanks")) John

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ANN: SCSIPYTHON added to Sourceforge
by sam 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

I have updated and moved my SCSI diagnostic tools from starship to sourceforge. I will be still maintaining these files at both locations as long as starship exists. These tools allow low level tests to be conducted on storage devices under the Windows operating system. These routines access all storage devices through the Windows SCSIPASSTHROUGH layer, which maps all storage devices (SCSI,IDE/ATA,USB,PCMCIA,DVD,CD) to look like a SCSI device that is accessed using SCSI command descripter blocks. The move to Sourceforge also places the sourcecode,and files under CVS control. Starship link: http://starship.python.net/crew/samschul Sourceforge link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scsipython Sam Schulenburg

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