Mailman 3 May 2006 - Python-announce-list

released: RPyC 2.60
by sebulba 19 May '06

19 May '06

Remote Python Call (RPyC) 2.60 has been released. changelog: * added: __version__ to the package (i.e., assert Rpyc.__version__ > (2,50)) * added deliver, the counterpart of obtain() * deliver and obtain now support transfering functions * added DeliveringNamespace * added isproxy * improvements to the isinstance/issubclass mechanism * improved memory consumption with __slots__ to all objects (proxies can be plentiful, so it's better to keep them small) * fix: SecSocketConnection now raises LoginError instead of tlslite's internal errors see the release notes (on the website) for more info home: http://rpyc.wikispaces.com -tomer

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Reminder: call for proposals "Python Language and Libraries Track" for Europython 2006
by Samuele Pedroni 18 May '06

18 May '06

Registration for Europython (3-5 July) at CERN in Geneva is now open, if you feel submitting a talk proposal there's still time until the 31th of May. If you want to talk about a library you developed, or you know well and want to share your knowledge, or about how you are making the best out of Python through inventive/elegant idioms and patterns (or if you are a language guru willing to disseminate your wisdom), you can submit a proposal for the Python Language and Libraries track """ A track about Python the Language, all batteries included. Talks about the language, language evolution, patterns and idioms, implementations (CPython, IronPython, Jython, PyPy ...) and implementation issues belong to the track. So do talks about the standard library or interesting 3rd-party libraries (and frameworks), unless the gravitational pull of other tracks is stronger. """ The full call and submission links are at: http://www.europython.org/sections/tracks_and_talks/call-for-proposals Samuele Pedroni, Python Language and Libraries Track Chair

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Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.4.3-1
by Jason Tishler 18 May '06

18 May '06

New News: === ==== I have updated the version of Python to 2.4.3-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following are the notable changes since the previous release: o upgrade to Python 2.4.3 o apply SourceForge patch #1490224 to fix the time.altzone DST offset problem Old News: === ==== Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. If interested, see the Python web site for more details: http://www.python.org/ Please read the README file: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/python-2.4.3.README since it covers requirements, installation, known issues, etc. Standard News: ======== ==== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: cygwin(a)cygwin.com . *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com(a)cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6

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Karrigell version 2.2.5 - licence changes to BSD
by Pierre Quentel 17 May '06

17 May '06

A new version of the web framework Karrigell (http://www.karrigell.com) has been released The main changes in this version are : - the Open Source licence changes from GPL to BSD - logging management (written by Radavan Garabik) : new options loggingFile and loggingParameters - new options in configuration file : debug manages the "Debug" button when exceptions occur in scripts ; reloadModules specifies if modules must be reloaded at each request Bug fixes - option encodeFormData was not managed correctly (bug report by Helmut Jarausch) - cookies attributes (path, expiry date...) was erased at each request. 2 variables now manage cookies : COOKIE is the cookies received from the browser ; SET_COOKIE is used by a script to set a cookie in the browser. Bug report by Joe Correia - for security reasons, mask modules k_session and KarrigellRequestHandler for virtual hosts Download page : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67940 Tutorial : http://quentel.python-hosting.com/wiki

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Statestep Python code generation
by news-noreply＠statestep.com 16 May '06

16 May '06

Python code can now be generated from a Statestep model using a template available at http://statestep.com/templates.html About Statestep: Statestep enables you to easily define and address millions of combinations of possibilities. While designed to support a particular method of specification, it can also be used in more general ways, for example, as a powerful replacement for decision table tools. Statestep is free for non-commercial use. Code generation templates are open source. More details and download available at statestep.com Sample keywords: combinatorics; finite state machines; decision tables; specification; automatic code generation; completeness and consistency checking; exhaustive testing

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Pythomnic 2.0, framework for building reliable highly dynamic network services
by dmitry＠targeted.org 15 May '06

15 May '06

Major new features in version 2.0: * Support for distributed transactions * Network-wide service health monitoring * Dynamic service discovery at runtime * Support for module level persistency * Full support for JMS integration The what's new page: http://www.pythomnic.org/changes.html Pythomnic is a Python framework for distributed service networks. It focuses on the following main principles: * Network services are relied upon and volatile at the same time. This dilemma has to be addressed. Pythomnic supports transparent code and configuration changes that do not require service restart. * Building reliable network services is an integration task more than anything else. Pythomnic offers facilities to build distributed services spanning multiple machines. * Nothing is fail-safe, the service must be fault-tolerant to survive. Pythomnic offers the developers various fault-tolerance techniques. Project site: http://www.pythomnic.org/

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[ANN] IMDbPY 2.5
by alberanid＠libero.it 15 May '06

15 May '06

IMDbPY 2.5 is available (tgz, deb, rpm, exe) from: http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/ IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about both movies and people. With this release, support for tv series episodes and database-independence was introduced; a lot of bugs were fixed. Platform-independent and written in pure Python (and few C lines), it can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole database. IMDbPY package can be very easily used by programmers and developers to provide access to the IMDb's data to their programs. Some simple example scripts are included in the package; other IMDbPY-based programs are available from the home page. -- Davide Alberani <alberanid(a)libero.it> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://erlug.linux.it/~da/

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 15)
by Peter Otten 15 May '06

15 May '06

QOTW: "It seems if you lurk here [on comp.lang.python] long enough you eventually get all you[r] questions answered without even asking!" - Ted Landis "We're going to learn from Python. JavaScript is pretty close to Python" - Brendan Eich Scott David Daniels shows how to find all occurrences of a string in another string without using regular expressions. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/f19cdf6de899c755 Learn more about Python string formating by watching James Tauber as he develops a simple templating system in twelve steps. http://jtauber.com/2006/05/templates.html Steven Bethard extends optparse's OptionParser to check for positional arguments. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/9c363a089d70fcbb Miki Tebeka and Cameron Laid use the CherryPy web framework and Cheetah template engine to build a small addressbook application. http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=10075/ur0604h/ Alex Martelli calculates the "length" of a generator. Whether it would be a good idea to incorporate the approach into the built-in len() function is discussed in the same thread. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/3ec6fd2119192bd0 Pythonthreads has an interview with Titus Brown, developer of twill, a tool for automated web crawling and scraping. http://www.pythonthreads.com/articles/interviews/python-community-is-extrem… Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, draws inspiration from Python for the evolution of his language. http://www.pcwelt.de/news/englishnews/137850/index.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 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, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett Cannon 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/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!". -- 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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ANN: Vancouver Python Workshop
by Brian Quinlan 15 May '06

15 May '06

Vancouver Python Workshop ========================= Building on the huge success of the 2004 Vancouver Python Workshop, the Vancouver Python and Zope User Group is pleased to announce the 2006 Vancouver Python Workshop. The conference will begin with keynote addresses on August 4st. Further talks (and tutorials for beginners) will take place on August 5th and 6th. The Vancouver Python Workshop is a community organized conference designed for both the beginner and for the experienced Python programmer with: * tutorials for beginning programmers * advanced lectures for Python experts * case studies of Python in action * after-hours social events * informative keynote speakers * tracks on multimedia, Web development, education and more More information see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/ or contact Brian Quinlan at: brian(a)sweetapp.com Vancouver ========= In addition to the opportunity to learn and socialize with fellow Pythonistas, the Vancouver Python Workshop also gives visitors the opportunity to visit one of the most extraordinary cities in the world (1). For more information about traveling to Vancouver, see: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/vancouver.html http://www.tourismvancouver.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver Important dates =============== Talk proposals accepted: May 15th to June 15th Early registration (discounted): May 22nd to June 30th Normal registration: from July 1st Keynotes: August 4th Conference and tutorial dates: August 5th and 6th (1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2299119.stm Cheers, Brian

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[ANN] PyYAML-3.02: YAML parser and emitter for Python
by Kirill Simonov 15 May '06

15 May '06

======================== Announcing PyYAML-3.02 ======================== A new bug-fix release of PyYAML is now available: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML Changes ======= * Fix win32 installer. Apparently bdist_wininst does not work well under Linux. * Fix a bug in add_path_resolver. * Add the yaml-highlight example. Try to run on a color terminal: `python yaml_hl.py <any_document.yaml`. Resources ========= PyYAML homepage: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML PyYAML documentation: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAMLDocumentation TAR.GZ package: http://pyyaml.org/download/pyyaml/PyYAML-3.02.tar.gz ZIP package: http://pyyaml.org/download/pyyaml/PyYAML-3.02.zip Windows installer: http://pyyaml.org/download/pyyaml/PyYAML-3.02.win32.exe PyYAML SVN repository: http://svn.pyyaml.org/pyyaml Submit a bug report: http://pyyaml.org/newticket?component=pyyaml YAML homepage: http://yaml.org/ YAML-core mailing list: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/yaml-core About PyYAML ============ YAML is a data serialization format designed for human readability and interaction with scripting languages. PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for Python. PyYAML features a complete YAML 1.1 parser, Unicode support, pickle support, capable extension API, and sensible error messages. PyYAML supports standard YAML tags and provides Python-specific tags that allow to represent an arbitrary Python object. PyYAML is applicable for a broad range of tasks from complex configuration files to object serialization and persistance. Example ======= >>> import yaml >>> yaml.load(""" ... name: PyYAML ... description: YAML parser and emitter for Python ... homepage: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML ... keywords: [YAML, serialization, configuration, persistance, pickle] ... """) {'keywords': ['YAML', 'serialization', 'configuration', 'persistance', 'pickle'], 'homepage': 'http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML', 'description': 'YAML parser and emitter for Python', 'name': 'PyYAML'} >>> print yaml.dump(_) name: PyYAML homepage: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML description: YAML parser and emitter for Python keywords: [YAML, serialization, configuration, persistance, pickle] Copyright ========= The PyYAML module is written by Kirill Simonov <xi(a)resolvent.net>. PyYAML is released under the MIT license. -- xi

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