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WebLog 1.0 - Web logfile parsing and manipulation
by Mark Nottingham May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Announcing WebLog 1.0 The WebLog package of modules and classes enables Python programmers to easily parse and manipulate several kinds of Web logfiles (including Squid proxy logs). With them, you can parse, combine, filter, resolve, and access components of the URLs within, among other things. All of this comes in an interface that is easy to use for the programmer. Examples of use are provided in the distribution. For a more complex example, see http://www.pobox.com/~mnot/squij/ WebLog is … [View More]

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mxODBC Package - Version 1.1.0
by M.-A. Lemburg May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

ANNOUNCING: mxODBC Version 1.1.0 A Python Extension Package providing a generic Interface to ODBC 2.0 API compliant Database Drivers or Managers WHAT IT IS: mxODBC is an extension package that provides a Python Database API compliant interface to ODBC 2.0 capable database drivers and managers. In addition to the capabilities provided through the standard API it also provides a rich set of catalog … [View More]methods that allow you to scan the database for tables, procedures, etc. Furthermore, it uses the mxDateTime package for date/time value interfacing eliminating most of the problems these types normally introduce. mxODBC is known to work with Adabas, MySQL, iODBC Unix ODBC Manager, Solid, Sybase, OpenLink and Intersolv ODBC drivers, Oracle/NT, EasySofts ODBC-ODBC bridge and the Windows ODBC Manager. This covers pretty much the whole range of well known relational database engines and gives you all the connectivity you'll need for doing great database work in Python. WHAT'S NEW ? The 1.1.0 version is the start of moving from DB API 1.0 to DB API 2.0. Not all changes have been implemented yet, but most of the interface was overhauled in order to become DB API 2.0 compatible. Since mxODBC has been using an extended version of the DB API standard for some time already the changes are kept to a minimum. See the documentation for more details. Starting with this version, mxODBC knows about two different ways to bind Python data to SQL statement parameters: The first was in use ever since the first version: SQL type binding. In this mode the database is queried for the data type and the Python parameters are then converted into those types. The new binding mode in this version is Python type binding. Here, the Python programmer has to know which types are to be used for the parameters and the conversion is left to the database. This is of course not as elegant as the first method, but the only way to get some database to work together with mxODBC (since their drivers are missing an important ODBC API). As a result, mxODBC can now also be used to connect to MS Access. In fact, the archive contains a precompiled binary which will let you start working right away. To test your database's capabilities (and the mxODBC connection to it), the package now comes with a generic test script. This provides two features: 1. column type detection and 2. memory leak detection. Note that there are no known leaks in mxODBC; OTOH, several ODBC drivers do leak. WHERE CAN I GET IT ? The full documentation and instructions for downloading and installing can be found at: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxODBC.html The mxDateTime package needed for mxODBC can be found at: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxDateTime.html WHAT DOES IT COST ? mxODBC comes with a slightly modified Python-style license: Usage is free for non-commercial and commercial internal use. Redistribution of the package in commercial products requires a separate license and will only be free if the product itself is free. Detailed license information is available at: http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxODBC-License.html WHERE CAN I GET SUPPORT ? I am offering commercial support for this package through Python Professional Services Inc. (http://www.pythonpros.com). Look on their support pages for details or contact me directly. REFERENCE: <P><A HREF="http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxODBC.html"> mxODBC 1.1.0</A> - ODBC Interface. (27-Apr-99) == Marc-Andre Lemburg Y2000: 248 days left --------------------------------------------------------------------- : Python Pages >>> http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/ : --------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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Mahogany 0.21a
by Karsten Ballueder May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Announcing Mahogany Version 0.21a ===================================================================== Mahogany is an OpenSource(TM) cross-platform mail and news client. It is available for X11/Unix and MS Windows platforms, supporting a wide range of protocols and standards, including POP3, IMAP and full MIME support. Thanks to its built-in Python interpreter it can be extended far beyond its original functionality. Mahogany's wealth of features and ease of use make it one of the most … [View More]powerful clients available, providing a consistent and intuitive interface across all supported platforms. It aims at supporting GNOME (and KDE for that matter) and includes an extendable address book system with support for other program``s address database formats. Currently Mahogany``s native format and (X)Emacs`` BBDB address books are supported. Mahogany is being developed using the free wxWindows application framework, building on the gtk toolkit on Unix. Mahogany is constantly tested on the Linux-x86, Linux-alpha, Solaris-sparc and MS Windows. It should compile and work on any major Unix platform. A binary release for MS Windows will appear with the next release. CHANGES ===================================================================== Apart from bug fixes, the following major additions are new in this release: + working IMAP, NNTP and newsspool support + improved message editor + much better configurability + auto-collection of mails from multiple incoming folders + support for faxes received from EFax.com + improved address auto-collection + more support for slow connections + many user interface improvements + gtk 1.2.x support DOWNLOAD ===================================================================== http://mahogany.home.dhs.org/ http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~karsten/Mahogany/ ftp://ronnie.phy.hw.ac.uk/pub/Mahogany/ ftp://ftp.gdev.net/pub/Mahogany/ NEXT ===================================================================== We have another release, this time including a Windows version, planned for the beginning of June. For this we are currently working on the following: - completion of filtering rules/scoring code - subscription management for NNTP/IMAP/newsspool - DND with KDE/Gnome filemanagers (now supported by wxGTK) - Finish the new message editor code: selections, cut&paste, rich-text editing - Templates/style-sheets for message composition and flexible reply handling - Windows version release (End of May?) - Messages sorting, threading, scoring and searching - multi-threading to avoid delays and timeouts - GPG/PGP support - built-in HTML viewer == Karsten Ballüder http://Ballueder.home.dhs.org/ mailto:karsten@phy.hw.ac.uk Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland Tel. +44-(0)-131-4513068 Fax. +44-(0)-131-4513136 "In a world without fences, who needs Gates?" <P><A HREF="http://mahogany.home.dhs.org/">Mahogany 0.21a</A> - open-source graphical mail/news client for Unix and MS Windows, using the wxWindows toolkit. (12-Apr-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ [View Less]

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New release of pygtk-0.6.0 and gnome-python-1.0.2
by James Henstridge May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

I have made new releases of pygtk (my bindings for the GTK+ widget toolkit for X windows) and gnome-python (my bindings for the base libraries of GNOME (the GNU network object model environment)). These packages allow you to write GTK+ or GNOME applications easily in python. Note that the gnome-python package contains pygtk, so there is no point in downloading both packages. There are a number of bugs fixed in this release, but the main new feature is that the GTK main loop no longer blocks … [View More]

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rsiidl module V0.01 released (interface with RSI's IDL programs)
by Holger Duerer May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

This is to announce the first release of a simple python module to interface with Reseach Systems's IDL programs. (IDL is their visualisation program and has nothing to do with CORBA IDL etc.) This first version allows only cooperation with the idlrpc server and only allows setting variables and executing commands in the server. (That is all I needed so far.) You will need IDL, NumPy and swig installed to build the module. Find this (and hopefully later versions) on my WWW page on the … [View More]

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Hear ye! Snippets! Python-DX 1.5.2!
by Hans Nowak May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Howdy y'all, A short announcement: *) Python-DX, my Python version for DOS, is now updated to 1.5.2 (was: 1.5). The binaries are there, I will probably upload some makefiles too, and am still thinking about uploading the complete source somewhere (but I don't have so much homepage space, and the code really isn't that different from the original...) Go to http://www.cuci.nl/~hnowak/html/python-dx.html *) The Python Snippets page has been updated. It now has 62 snippets. Not really a … [View More]

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LLNL distribution 11 available
by Paul F. Dubois May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

xfiles.llnl.gov and ftp-icf.llnl.gov are now back up, and I have fought my way back through the security changes so I was able to fix the links to make them point to version 11. Versions 9 and 10 are also available via the ftp site. At version 11 the Windows distribution changes from a .exe file (an installer) to a .zip file that has a simple installation script you run with Python. This installation procedure requires Python 1.5. If you do not have Python 1.5 you will have to install by hand … [View More]

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Python for OpenVMS
by claird＠Starbase.NeoSoft.COM May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

See <URL:http://www.decus.de/~zessin/docu/refman/INTRO_REF.HTML>. I have no connection with this project, apart from enthusiasm. I'm posting this notice only because the project aparts to have the marketing effectiveness the world has come to expect of DEC. I haven't even yet taken the minimal step of contacting the maintainer, which I'm doing just now. Thanks to Geoff Eldridge, who reported on it in <URL:http://www.elj.com/>. == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.… [View More]

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New JPython domain and website
by bwarsaw＠python.org April 30, 1999

April 30, 1999

JPython users, I'm please to announce the new Web site for JPython, the 100% Pure Java implementation of Python. Please come visit http://www.jpython.org/ and update your links. The old site <http://www.python.org/jpython/> still exists but it will not be updated and will eventually go away. My thanks to Cathy Rey of CNRI for her help in getting the new site looking so good. A few other notables: - I'm starting a new bugs database using Jitterbug. The old bug reports won't (… [View More]

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pyca-0.4
by michael.stroeder＠propack-data.de April 27, 1999

April 27, 1999

HI! I would like to announce a new beta release of pyca, a set of scripts and CGI-BIN programs for setting up and running a certificate authority using OpenSSL. See http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/pyca/ for further details. Unfortunately thereŽs no real documentation available up to now and thereŽs still a lot to be done. Ciao, Michael. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User … [View More]

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