Dear fellow Pythoneers, the articles queue for comp.lang.python.announce has been stalled since August 22, 1999 - mostly due to a temporary lack of time on my part. There is currently a backlog of about 80 messages. You can help to speed up the moderation process significantly by adhering to the posting guidelines that are posted bi-weekly to comp.lang.python and comp.lang.python.announce. In particular, life would become a lot easier for me if all submitted announcements already included the requested HTML mark-up footer (which is used to give a one-sentence summary of each announcement at the www.python.org home page). You can always find the latest version of the comp.lang.python.announce posting guidelines at the following URL: <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.lang.python/python-newsgroup-faq>. Currently pending announcements will not be sent out all at once, but will be distributed over the next few days, so as to avoid overloading the inboxes of those people who have subscribed to comp.lang.python.announce via the "python-announce-list" mailing list. If you want to convert your mailing list subscription to digest format, or temporarily suspend your mailing list subscription, you should do so now by visiting the list's Mailman web page at <http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list>. I appreciate your patience, and the offers for help that I have received. Of course, I am truly delighted to see so many announcements being posted to comp.lang.python.announce - and all the time we're getting closer to having the 1000th posting to comp.lang.python.announce by Y2K... -:^) Happy hacking, -- Markus Fleck (Moderator) from sys import*;from string import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!= '-',a);d='-d'in a;e,n=atol(p,16),atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce( lambda x,y:(x<<8L)+y,map(ord,s)),e,n):chr(b>>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1))) -- RSA in Python (or so I've been told <wink>) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------