Mailman 3 May 2006 - Python-announce-list

ANN: org.keyphrene 0.5.9 is now available
by webmaster＠keyphrene.com 15 May '06

15 May '06

org.keyphrene is a Python binding for LibSSH2, OpenSSL, Hunspell, Par2 libraries. This toolkit for python featuring the following: SSH2 protocol (SFTP, SCP, SSH terminal ...) HMACs, message digests, ciphers (AES, DES, BlowFish), RSA, DSA, DH,SSL functionality yEnc encoder and decoder hunspell (spell checker) Par2 (create Par2, and repair files) tidy crc64 winnet (get you DNS server list, only for win32) ... org.keyphrene is available for download from the Keyphrene web site: http://www.keyphrene.com/products/org.keyphrene Tutorial: http://blog.keyphrene.com/keyphrene/index.php/Tutorialorgkeyphrene

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[ANN] Release 0.58 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink 14 May '06

14 May '06

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce release 0.58 of Task Coach. New in this release: Bugs fixed: * On Mac OSX, Task Coach would seg fault upon exiting. * Right-clicking a task in the task tree view would, correctly, pop up the context menu, but would not select the underlying task. * The memory leak in the TreeListCtrl was fixed in wxPython 2.6.3.2. The installer for Windows and the disk image for Mac OSX use wxPython 2.6.3.2, thus fixing the memory leak in Task Coach. If you use the source distribution of Task Coach you will have to install wxPython 2.6.3.2 yourself to get the fix. * Filtering on task categories was improved. * Hitting Delete when editing the text in the find dialog would delete any selected tasks. Unfortunately, to fix this bug some accelerators had to be changed: the accelerator for "Delete task" is now Ctrl-Delete, for "New task" it is now Ctrl-Insert, and for "New subtask" it is now Shift-Ctrl-Insert. * Don't close the current file when user cancels opening another file. Features added: * Added toolbar button for 'new subtask'. * Task Coach searches incrementally as you type a query in the find bar. * When dragging a task in the tree view, hover over a tree button (a boxed plus-sign or a triangle, depending on your platform) to expand the sub tree. * To promote a sub task to a top-level task in the tree view, drag it and drop it anywhere as long as it is not on another task. * When filtering tasks by multiple categories, you may either choose to view tasks that belong to at least one of the selected categories, or view tasks that belong to all selected categories. What is Task Coach? Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and is developed using Python and wxPython. You can download Task Coach from: http://taskcoach.niessink.com https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach/ A binary installer is available for Windows XP and a disk image is available for Mac OSX, in addition to the source distribution. Note that Task Coach is alpha software, meaning that it is wise to back up your task file regularly, and especially when upgrading to a new release. Cheers, Frank

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ooo2any: Batch convert office documents with openoffice.org
by Thomas Guettler 14 May '06

14 May '06

ooo2any.py is a small script to convert office documents with openoffice.org. It can read and write any format which is supported by openoffice. It uses pyuno to connect to a running openoffice process. It is developed on linux but should be portable to windows, too. http://www.thomas-guettler.de/scripts/ooo2any.py.txt -- Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de Spam Catcher: niemand.leermann(a)thomas-guettler.de

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NovelSpace Media, LLC announces the launch of their new online bookstore and web portal devoted to developers and programmers.
by paquejd＠gmail.com 13 May '06

13 May '06

NovelSpace Media, LLC has announced the launch of its new online bookstore, NovelSpace.com. Located at http://www.novelspace.com, it features a wide and varied selection of books for computer aficionados, developers, software engineers, and programmers. In addition to low prices and shipping fees, NovelSpace.com boasts an easily navigated interface along with quick checkout and simple account management. Proceeds from each purchase are donated in support of various open source projects. NovelSpace Media is also inaugurating Developer Haven, the first in a series of web portals to be developed by the company. Designed as an online resource for programmers and software developers, Developer Haven features a section devoted to industry news and a directory of links to websites with code samples, tutorials, components, and software packages. Users can also test-drive a beta version of DH Search, an internet search engine tasked exclusively to researching material related to programming and software development. Developer Haven can be accessed from NovelSpace.com, or on its own at http://developerhaven.novelspace.com. About NovelSpace Media, LLC NovelSpace Media is a development firm currently specializing in e-commerce and portal websites. The driving goal of the company is to offer customers easy access to books and resources at competitive prices, as well as building thriving online communities around rich content offered through topic specific web-portals. info(a)novelspace.com

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ANN: uuid-0.3.2 released
by Jürgen Urner 12 May '06

12 May '06

Happy to announce the release of uuid-0.3.2 (bugfix release) What is uuid? uuid is a python module to create RFC 4122 compatible UUIDs The module supports generation off RFC 4122 compatible time based, random, sha1 and md5 based UUIDs Whats new? x. some minor changes For download and documentation see http://home.arcor.de/jurner/python/

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ANN: Leo 4.4 Final released
by Edward K. Ream 11 May '06

11 May '06

Leo 4.4 release Final is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html The highlights of Leo 4.4: -------------------------- - An Emacs-like mini-buffer: you can now execute any command by typing its long name, with tab completion. - Many new commands, including cursor and screen movement, basic character, word and paragraph manipulation, and commands to manipulate buffers, the kill ring, regions and rectangles. You can use Leo without using a mouse. - Flexible key bindings and input modes. You can emulate the operation of Emacs, Vim, or any other editor. - A tabbed log pane. The Find and Spell Check commands now use tabs instead of dialogs, making those commands much easier to use. Plugins or scripts can easily create new tabs. The Completion tab shows possible typing completions. - Autocompletion and calltips. To enable autocompletion, bind a key to the auto-complete command. - Dozens of other new features and bug fixes since Leo 4.3.3. Links: ------ Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 CVS: http://leo.tigris.org/source/browse/leo/ Quotes: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/testimonials.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward K. Ream email: edreamleo(a)charter.net Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Mercurial v0.9 released!
by Bryan O'Sullivan 10 May '06

10 May '06

Version 0.9 of the Mercurial SCM is now available at: http://selenic.com/mercurial/release/mercurial-0.9.tar.gz More information available at: http://selenic.com/mercurial/ Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects, while also excelling for small projects. It is written in Python. Mercurial runs on all popular platforms. It is used by such well-known projects as Xen, OpenSolaris, MoinMoin, and microformats. Many thanks to the numerous developers, testers, and users who contributed to this release. Enjoy! Major changes between Mercurial 0.8.1 and 0.9: - The repository file format has been improved. - This has resulted in an average 40% reduction in disk space usage. - The new format (called RevlogNG) is now the default. - Mercurial works perfectly with both the old and new repository file formats. It can transfer changes transparently between repositories of either format. - To use the new repository format, simply use `hg clone --pull` to clone an existing repository. - Note: Versions 0.8.1 and earlier of Mercurial cannot read RevlogNG repositories directly, but they can `clone`, `pull` from, and `push` to servers that are serving RevlogNG repositories. - Memory usage has been improved by over 50% for many common operations. - Substantial performance improvements on large repositories. - New commands: - 'archive' - generate a directory tree snapshot, tarball, or zip file of a revision - Deprecated commands: - 'addremove' - replaced by 'add' and 'remove --after' - 'forget' - replaced by 'revert' - 'undo' - replaced by 'rollback' - New extensions: - Bugzilla integration hook - Email notification hook - Nested repositories are now supported. Mercurial will not recurse into a subdirectory that contains a '.hg' directory. It is treated as a separate repository. - The standalone web server, 'hg serve', is now threaded, so it can talk to multiple clients at a time. - The web server can now display a "message of the day". - Support added for hooks written in Python. - Many improvements and clarifications to built-in help.

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[ANN] 'tdir' 1.69 Released And Available
by Tim Daneliuk 10 May '06

10 May '06

'tdir' Version 1.69 is released and available at: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tdir/ A FreeBSD port update has also been submitted. What's New ---------- This version introduces the -D option which supresses "dotfile/dir" display. What Is 'tdir'? --------------- 'tdir' is a reimplementation and enhancement of the old 'xdir' CP/M utility from Ancient Times. 'tdir' is an advanced directory display utility written in Pure Python, and runs on both *nix and Win32 systems.\ With 'tdir' you can display directories sorted by file "extension", display directory trees, and separate directories from files in the output listing.

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BayPIGgies: May 11, 7:30pm (Google)
by Aahz 10 May '06

10 May '06

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs, May 11 at 7:30pm at Google. Note: Dennis Reinhardt is coordinating Google badges. Please send e-mail to DennisR(a)dair.com by 4pm Weds 5/10 to get an advance badge. Dennis Reinhardt will present a short tutorial of using ctypes with the Windows API, followed by Stephen McInerney discussing the results of the BayPIGgies member survey. BayPIGgies meetings alternate between IronPort (San Bruno, California) and Google (Mountain View, California). For more information and directions, see http://baypiggies.net/ Before the meeting, we sometimes meet at 6pm for dinner. Discussion of dinner plans is handled on the BayPIGgies mailing list. Advance notice: We can use a speaker for June. Please e-mail baypiggies(a)python.org if you want to suggest an agenda (or volunteer to give a presentation). -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." --Richard Bach

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 8)
by Peter Otten 08 May '06

08 May '06

QOTW: "If you can find a workable solution not involving metaclasses and decorators, don't use them" - Michele Simionato "Newest Beautiful Soup beta solves everyone's problems that I know of." - Leonard Richardson Jeff Croft gives a good introduction to the Django web framework. Don't let the "for non-programmers" tag deter you. http://www2.jeffcroft.com/2006/may/02/django-non-programmers/ The recording of a presentation given by Django developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss takes little more time to download and consume, but requires only basic Python knowledge, too. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-70449010942275062 [290 MB, 75 min] Debian now provides Python OpenCV bindings. http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/opencv/ If you know some C it may be interesting to learn how to translate error handling and passing of multiple result values into idiomatic Python. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/95c4918d139c0089 The basics of Python and SSL are discussed here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/4f6386b59… You have to be careful when you test a Queue's state, but that is business as usual in a multithreaded environment. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/7379ddaffb4d5fad The best way to pass a verbosity option around in your programm is using the logging package instead. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/75e65baa1… While most Python users don't compete with the effbot by putting more than a dozen Python versions on their computer, having a few around for compatibility tests doesn't pose big problems, either. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/9c8ca8bd9a6e5105 Voicecode promises to make the keyboard superfluous for writing Python, C, and C++ code. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8681 ======================================================================== 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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