Mailman 3 February 2007 - Python-announce-list

ANN: PyEnchant 1.2.0
by Ryan Kelly 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

Hi All, I'm pleased to announce the release of PyEnchant version 1.2.0. This version includes some important updates in the underlying enchant library, and implements basic "filters" to allow skipping of email addresses, WikiWords, URLs, etc during a spellchecking session. Cheers, Ryan About: ------ Enchant (http://www.abisource.com/enchant/) is the spellchecking package behind the AbiWord word processor, is being considered for inclusion in the KDE office suite, and is proposed as a FreeDesktop.org standard. It's completely cross-platform because it wraps the native spellchecking engine to provide a uniform interface. PyEnchant brings this simple, powerful and flexible spellchecking engine to Python: http://pyenchant.sourceforge.net/ It also provides extended functionality including classes for tokenizing text and iterating over the spelling errors in it, as well as a ready-to-use text interface and wxPython dialog. Current Version: 1.2.0 Licence: LGPL with exemptions, as per Enchant itself ChangeLog for 1.2.0: -------------------- * Implemented "filters" that allow tokenization to skip common word forms such as URLs, WikiWords, email addresses etc. * Now ships with enchant-1.3.0, meaning: * PWLs can return a useful list of suggestions rather than the empty list * Hunspell replaces MySpell as the default Windows backend * Tokenization doesnt split words at non-alpha characters by default * GtkSpellCheckerDialog contributed by Fredrik Corneliusson * Removed deprecated functionality: * Dict.add_to_personal * All registry handling functionality from enchant.utils * enchant.utils.SpellChecker (use enchant.checker.SpellChecker) * Removed PyPWL, as native enchant PWLs can now suggest corrections -- Ryan Kelly http://www.rfk.id.au | This message is digitally signed. Please visit ryan(a)rfk.id.au | http://www.rfk.id.au/ramblings/gpg/ for details

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Three days left for Zope3 boot camp registration
by Chris Calloway 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Registration ends Friday: http://trizpug.org/boot-camp/camp5 -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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[ANN] mlabrap-1.0b: a high level python to matlab bridge
by Alexander Schmolck 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

URL --- <http://mlabwrap.sourceforge.net> Description ----------- Mlabwrap-1.0 is a high-level python to matlab(tm) bridge that makes calling matlab functions from python almost as convenient as using a normal python library. It is available under a very liberal license (BSD/MIT) and should work on all major platforms and (non-ancient) python and matlab versions and either numpy or Numeric (Numeric support will be dropped in the future). News ---- version 1.0b brings python 2.5 compatibility and various small fixes (improved error handling for 7.3, improvements to setup.py etc.). Provided I don't get any bug reports within the next two weeks or so the only difference between this version and 1.0 final will be cheeseshop support. Since mlabwrap 1.0 will be the last version that offers Numeric support anyone who wants to put off the switch to numpy a bit longer and is interested in using mlabwrap is strongly encouraged to download, test and possibly submit a bug report now. Examples -------- Creating a simple line plot: >>> from mlabwrap import mlab; mlab.plot([1,2,3],'-o') Creating a surface plot: >>> from mlabwrap import mlab; from numpy import * >>> xx = arange(-2*pi, 2*pi, 0.2) >>> mlab.surf(subtract.outer(sin(xx),cos(xx))) Creating a neural network and training it on the xor problem (requires netlab) >>> net = mlab.mlp(2,3,1,'logistic') >>> net = mlab.mlptrain(net, [[1,1], [0,0], [1,0], [0,1]], [0,0,1,1], 1000) Thanks go to Taylor Berg and many others who tested and provided feedback for the upcoming 1.0 release; more acknowledgements can be found on the website. cheers, 'as

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Software Security Summit
by djesposito 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Are you responsible for building in security at the applications development level? Then don't miss the Software Security Summit, April 16-17 at the San Mateo Marriott, San Mateo, CA. This comprehensive security program is for software developers. Check out the full listing of expert speakers (Gray McGraw, Caleb Sima, Ryan Berg) at www.S-3con.com.

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IMDbPY 2.9
by Davide Alberani 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

IMDbPY 2.9 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. This is a transitional release and will be the last one to access the old IMDb's web layout; since 3.0 IMDbPY will parse the new layout. This version contains mostly minor bugfixes, mainly in the "http" and "sql" data access systems. Problems with handling Unicode data have been fixed ( well, hopefully ;-) ) 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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Shed Skin Optimizing Python-to-C++ Compiler 0.0.20
by Mark Dufour 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Hi all, Here goes Shed Skin 0.0.20. No major new features this time, but lots of bugs were squashed. A changelog: -improvements to aug-assignments with subscripting ('a[x, y] += 1' and such) -fixed some problems with slice-assignments ('a[1:-1] = [1,2]) -make integer division (/,//,divmod,floordiv) equal to CPython for negative/positive combinations of arguments -make printing of floats closer to CPython -move generic functions/methods to header file -many small fixes (allow 'self' as function argument, list.extend takes iterable, __delitem__ overloading, raw_input regression, 'return' from generator..) -improved error checking for dynamic types Please see http://mark.dufour.googlepages.com for more information about Shed Skin. Thanks, Mark Dufour. -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code" - Ken Thompson

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Epydoc 3.0 beta release
by Edward Loper 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Epydoc 3.0 beta is now available for download from SourceForge. Epydoc is a tool for generating API documentation for Python modules, based on their docstrings. - Epydoc homepage. <http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/> - Download epydoc 3.0 beta <http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php? group_id=32455> For some examples of the documentation generated by epydoc, see: - The API documentation for epydoc. <http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/api/> - The API documentation for the Python 2.5 standard library. <http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/> - The API documentation for NLTK, the natural language toolkit. <http://nltk.sourceforge.net/lite/doc/api/> The most significant change since Epydoc 2.1 has to do with the way that epydoc extracts documentation information about python modules. In previous versions, epydoc extracted information about each module by importing it, and using introspection to examine its contents. The new version of epydoc still supports introspection, but is also capable of extracting information about python modules by parsing their source code. Furthermore, the new version of epydoc can combine these two sources of information (introspection & parsing). This is important because each source has its own advantages and disadvantages with respect to the other. For information about the new features in epydoc 3.0, see the "What's New" page: <http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/whatsnew.html> If you find any bugs, or have suggestions for improving epydoc, please report them on sourceforge: - Bugs: <http://tinyurl.com/odvfw> - Features: <http://tinyurl.com/p2rl8> Or send email to <epydoc-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>. ----- <P><A HREF="http://epydoc.sourceforge.net">Epydoc 3.0 beta</A> - a tool for generating API documentation for Python modules, based on their docstrings. (27-Feb-07)

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gmpy moving to code.google.com
by aleax＠mac.com 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

If you're interested in gmpy (the Python wrapper of GMP, for unlimited-precision arithmetic, rationals, random number generation, number-theoretical functions, etc), please DO check out http://code.google.com/p/gmpy/ -- gmpy 1.02 is there (as far as I can tell) in a workable state. Source on Subversion (and a prerelease zipfile too), downloadable binaries for MacOSX (download and read the README file first!) and Windows (for Python 2.4 and 2.5 only, built and minimally tested on a shaky Win2K+mingw -- on -- Parallels/MacOSX setup... I have no other Windows machine to check 'em out...!). Please help me check that the move-and-upgrade went OK -- download some or all of the pieces (including an svn checkout of the sources), build, install, test, try it out. I will HEARTILY welcome feedback (mail aleaxit(a)gmail.com) telling me what worked and/or what didn't so I can finalize this release -- and hopefully move on to a future 1.03 (I won't aim to 1.03 until I'm convinced that 1.02 is OK...). Thanks in advance, Alex

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ANN: pynakotheka v1.1.0
by Iñigo Serna 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

Hi there, I'm pleased to announce a new release of Pynakotheka. Pynakotheka is a simple GPL-licensed python script which generates static HTML photo albums to be added to web sites or to be burnt into CDs. It includes some templates and it's easy to create more. It depends on python, Mako Templates, EXIF and PIL. Read more and download it from: http://inigo.katxi.org/devel/pynakotheka or http://www.terra.es/personal7/inigoserna/pynakotheka Changes from v1.0.3 to v1.1.0: ============================== * use Mako Templates instead of Cheetah Templating System: - html creation is much faster now - old problems with text encodings should be solved now * file names encoded in UTF8 works ok now, or so I hope * added a "--version" option As always, all comments, suggestions etc. are welcome. Best regards, Iñigo Serna

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Pythin for UIQ
by Luca Cassioli 25 Feb '07

25 Feb '07

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2004-June/003172.html Is this project still under development? It does nnot work on my UIQ phone (Motorola a1000), and I would like to see it working! Is it possibile to compile the project using Carbide.c++? Or even just command line? How? Where do I download sources from?

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