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ANN: eric4 4.0.0 release
by Detlev Offenbach 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

Hi, I am proud to announce the availability of the first official release of eric4. eric4 is the successor of the well known eric3 Python development environment. What is eric4? -------------- eric4 is an Integrated Development Environment for the Python (and Ruby) language. It comes with all batteries included. It has too many features to list here. For details please visit http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index.html Regards, Detlev -- Detlev Offenbach detlev(a)die-offenbachs.de

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Jinja 1.1 Released
by Armin Ronacher 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

Jinja 1.1 Released ================== Jinja 1.1 codenname sinka is out! And with more changes then ever. Here a small summary of the new features and improvements: - blocks now support ``{{ super() }}`` to render the parent output. - the template lexer keeps not track of brace, parenthesis and bracket balance in order to not break variable tags apart if they are configured to look like this: ``${expr}``. This also fixes the problem with nested dicts in variable expressions. - added whitespace management system for the template designer. - many new filters and helpers such as `lipsum`, `batch`, `slice`, `sum`, `abs`, `round`, `striptags` and others. - reimplemented Buffet plugin so that you can use Jinja in pylons. - added optional C-implementation of the context baseclass. - it's now possible to stream templates. - reworked loader layer. All the cached loaders now have "private" non cached baseclasses so that you can easily mix your own caching layers in. - added `MemcachedLoaderMixin` and `MemcachedFileSystemLoader` contributed by Bryan McLemore. - many new unittests, bugfixes and improvements. The whole list of changes can be found in the `changelog`_. Get it while it's hot from the `cheeseshop`_. .. _changelog: http://jinja.pocoo.org/documentation/changelog#version-1-1 .. _cheeseshop: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Jinja/1.1

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[ANN]: 'twander' Cross-Platform File Manager Version 3.224 Released And Available
by Tim Daneliuk 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

'twander' Version 3.224 is now released and available for download at: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/twander The last public release was 3.210. This release fixes a number of bugs and adds a variety of useful new features. See the WHATSNEW.txt file for all the details. --------------------------------------------------------------------- What Is 'twander'? ------------------ 'twander' is a macro-programmable Filesystem Browser that runs on both Unix-like systems as well as Win32 systems. It embraces the best ideas of both similar GUI-driven programs (Konqueror, Windows Explorer) as well as text-based interfaces (Midnight Commander, List, Sweep). Or, If You Prefer The "Elevator Pitch" -------------------------------------- 'twander' is: - A better file browser for Unix and Win32. (Tested on FreeBSD, Linux, Win32. Probably works on Mac OS/X, but not tested.) - A way to make browsing the same on all the OSs you use. - A macro-programmable tool that lets *you* define the features. - A GUI navigation front-end for your shell. - A way to "can" workflows for your technically-challenged colleagues. - A way to free yourself from the shackles of the mouse. - A way to significantly speed up your day-to-day workflow. - A Python/Tkinter application - about 5000 lines of code/comments - A RCT (Really Cool Tool) that will have you addicted in a day or two See the web page for more information, a screen shot, and the complete documentation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Complete details of all fixes, changes, and new features can be found in the WHATSNEW.txt and documentation files included in the distribution. Users are strongly encouraged to join the twander-users mailing list as described in the documentation. A FreeBSD port has been submitted as well.

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itools 0.15.5 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

itools is a Python library, it groups a number of packages into a single meta-package for easier development and deployment: itools.catalog itools.i18n itools.vfs itools.cms itools.ical itools.web itools.csv itools.pdf itools.workflow itools.datatypes itools.rss itools.xhtml itools.gettext itools.schemas itools.xliff itools.handlers itools.stl itools.xml itools.html itools.tmx itools.http itools.uri This release has a single feature enhancement worth to comment: now "itools.cms" indexes the content of RTF files (for this to work the command "unrtf" must be installed). Also important is the requirement to run the "icms-update" script on existing instances of "itools.cms". This will just re-index the catalog (it is needed because of a little internal change on the "username" field). Still in "itools.cms", there have been a number of user interface tweaks here and there, but most notably in the tracker. There is a change in the "itools.catalog" API worth to comment. Now when the method search is called without any arguments, all indexed documents are returned. Also, the method "get_physical_path" has been added to all handlers. And path objects have gained the method "get_name". Packages and scripts that have seen minor fixes and improvements are: itools.catalog, itools.pdf, itools.web, itools.xml, isetup-build, icms-update and icms-restore. Credits: - Luis Belmar-Letelier worked on the tracker; - Hervé Cauwelier implemented the RTF indexer and worked on the user interface of itools.cms; - J. David Ibáñez fixed bugs here and there; - Henry Obein fixed bugs on RML (itools.pdf); - Sylvain Taverne fixed some bugs; Resources --------- Download http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.15.5.tar.gz Home http://www.ikaaro.org/itools Mailing list http://mail.ikaaro.org/mailman/listinfo/itools Bug Tracker http://bugs.ikaaro.org/ -- J. David Ibáñez Itaapy <http://www.itaapy.com> Tel +33 (0)1 42 23 67 45 9 rue Darwin, 75018 Paris Fax +33 (0)1 53 28 27 88

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PySWIP 0.1.3 released
by yuce 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

I am pleased to announce the 0.1.3 version of PySWIP. PySWIP is a GPL'd Python - SWI-Prolog bridge which enables querying SWI-Prolog in your Python programs. PySWIP includes both an (incomplete) SWI-Prolog foreign language interface and a utity class that makes it easy querying SWI-Python. Since it uses SWI-Prolog as a shared library and ctypes to access it, PySWIP doesn't require compilation to be installed. This version breaks the compatibility with previous versions. Example: >>> from pyswip.prolog import Prolog >>> prolog = Prolog() >>> prolog.assertz("father(michael,john)") [{}] >>> prolog.assertz("father(michael,gina)") [{}] >>> list(prolog.query("father(michael,X)")) [{'X': 'john'}, {'X': 'gina'}] >>> for soln in prolog.query("father(X,Y)"): ... print soln["X"], "is the father of", soln["Y"] ... michael is the father of john michael is the father of gina Foreign Functions Example: Since version 0.1.3 of PySWIP, it is possible to register a Python function as a Prolog predicate through SWI-Prolog's Foreign Function Interface. Here's an example: from pyswip.prolog import Prolog from pyswip.easy import registerForeign, getAtomChars def hello(t): print "Hello,", getAtomChars(t) return True hello.arity = 1 registerForeign(hello) prolog = Prolog() prolog.assertz("father(michael,john)") prolog.assertz("father(michael,gina)") list(prolog.query("father(michael,X), hello(X)")) Outputs: Hello, john Hello, gina Requirements: * Python 2.3 and higher. * ctypes 0.9.9.9 and higher. * SWI-Prolog 5.6.x and higher (most probably other versions will also work). * libpl as a shared library. * Works on Linux and Win32, should work for all POSIX. Changes since version 0.1.2: * Renamed `pyswip/util.py` to `pyswip/prolog.py`. * New module `pyswip.easy`. * Now it is possible to register a Python function as a Prolog predicate through SWI-Prolog's Foreign Function Interface. * Additions to the core library. * Added example, *register foreign* which shows how to register a Python function as an SWI-Prolog predicate. * Added example, *Towers of Hanoi* PySWIP homepage is at: http://code.google.com/p/pyswip Downloads at: http://code.google.com/p/pyswip/downloads/list Discussion Group is at: http://groups.google.com/group/pyswip Regards, Yuce Tekol yucetekol [at] gmail [dot] com>

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bug fix for scalar package
by uymqlp502＠sneakemail.com 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

A few days ago (May 28th), I announced release 1.3 of my scalar package. Unfortunately, it had a bug in the "format" function for output, but I just fixed it in release 1.3.1. My apologies to anyone who downloaded version 1.3. http://RussP.us/scalar.htm

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