From pybrenda@wormhole.snurgle.org  Mon Aug  2 03:05:12 1999
From: pybrenda@wormhole.snurgle.org (pybrenda@wormhole.snurgle.org)
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 99 02:05:12 GMT
Subject: PyBrenda 0.4.0 alpha:  C-Linda-like system for parallel processing
Message-ID: <mt2.0-3002-933559512@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Web site:  http://www.snurgle.org/~pybrenda/

This is an alpha release.


+ What is PyBrenda?

PyBrenda is a system for easily doing parallel computation using the
Python programming language.  It is somewhat similar to the C-Linda
language; it uses the notion of "tuple space" to simplify the
interactions among processes.

PyBrenda coordinates requests for more processors to be involved in
computations and facilitates data sharing among those processors.

+ What do I need to use PyBrenda?

PyBrenda only runs on UNIX systems.

At minimum, you will need Python 1.5.  For parallel computing, you
will require at least two computers networked together.  Ideally these
computers (and you) would have access to a network drive (e.g., via
NFS).  There must be identical paths to that drive on all machines
(i.e., identically-named mount points).  The rsh client and service
are also required for parallel computing.


== 
Milton L. Hankins  ><>

<P><A HREF="http://www.snurgle.org/~pybrenda/">PyBrenda 0.4.0 alpha</A> -
a system for easily doing parallel/distributed computation using the Python
programming language; somewhat similar to C-Linda.  (31-Jul-99)

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From skaller@maxtal.com.au  Mon Aug  2 03:08:12 1999
From: skaller@maxtal.com.au (John MaxSkaller)
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 99 02:08:12 GMT
Subject: Interscript 1.0a9 released
Message-ID: <mt2.0-3002-933559691@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

ANN: MAXTAL INTERSCRIPT version 1.0a9 RELEASED 1 August 1999
----------------------------------------------------------

Maxtal Interscript is an advanced literate programming system, 
designed to support integrated development of code and documentation. 
It requires Python 1.5.2 [C version]  [http://www.python.org] to operate, 
[Note 1.5.1 will not do!]

It benefits from availability of some Posix features and common tools.
[For NT, Cygnus' gnu tools packages is recommended]

This is an ALPHA version, and is provided for experiment
and evaulation.

Version 1.0a9 has some major new features:
  
INTERNATIONALISATION SUPPORT

   *  generates navigation tags and other fixed information
      in any language. (Some data for French, German and
      Spanish are provided, but the data tables are not complete)

  * select sections by language -- allows writing books and documentation
     in multiple languages, and generating documents for any subset
    simultaneously (for multiple weavers!)

  * full support for reading ISO-10646 encoded as UTF-8,
      UTF-16, UCS-2 (Unicode), UCS-2le,UCS4, UCS-4le, 
      ISO8599-x encodings for European languages, 
      ShiftJis (Japanese), Big5 (Chinese), GB (Chinese),
      Wansung (Korean), Johab (Korean), and a large set of
      Microsoft/IBM code pages (DOS, Windows and Mac versions).
 
   * Interscript always generates UTF-8 (Standard for the Internet,
     and Linux, compatible with ASCII)

IMPROVED SCRIPT DEBUGGING

  * errors in client script are now reported in exquisite detail
    with nice formatting

  * completely revamped trace control: 'verbosity' is gone,
    there are now switches for tracing particular event classes

MUCH FASTER TANGLING

   * interscript now does some dependency checking
     and skips included files which haven't changed
    --- this only works for tangling at present ---

BUG FIXES

  * several nasty bugs have been fixed, including incorrect
    scope control for client functions

MINOR FEATURES

    * better support for formatting data in table cells
    * cursory support for software metrics
    * cursory support for attributions, licences, copyright
      information, etc
    * more coherent policy on caching FTP'd files
    * more systematic treatment of weavers and tanglers
      as 'plug in' components
    * generate HTML subdocument groups by name

COMMAND LINE CHANGES

   Note interscript now _requires_ a new command line
switch to generate documents: --language=xx,
where xx is the ISO code for the country of the language.
Web document files are prefixed by the language code.
Also, verbosity is gone, replaced by --tracing=event-class.



MAILING LIST

  interscript-dev@eGroups.com 

mailing list for developers and serious users.

ONLINE DOCUMENTATION

You will find the complete HTML documentation for 
Interscript version 1.0a9 at

  http://www.triode.net.au/~skaller/interscript


DOWNLOAD
--------------------

You can download Maxtal Interscript using anonymous FTP.

  ftp://ftp.triode.net.au/ftp/skaller/interscript_1_0_a9.tgz
  
is the complete Maxtal Interscript package WITHOUT DOCUMENTATION
as a gzipped, tarred, archive.

The tarball is 1 Meg, and includes ready to run Python script, 
the full interscript sources.

The full package including documentation can be got from

  ftp://ftp.triode.net.au/ftp/skaller/interscript_1_0_a9_doc.tgz

As this include the full Unicode character tables, as well as tables
for all the other encodings, in HTML form, the documentation
is quite large [2.9Meg]. Note this is the SPANISH version. The browser
navigation buttons are in Spanish, and the introductory
paragraphs are also in Spanish [but the rest is in English]

You can also get the tarballs by http:

http://www.triode.net.au/~skaller/interscript/interscript_1_0_a9.tgz
http://www.triode.net.au/~skaller/interscript/interscript_1_0_a9_doc.tgz

FEEDBACK
--------

Please 

  mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au
  
to contact the author, John Skaller. Interscript is easy to install,
but somewhat trickier to generate.

OSS Licence
-----------

Software on the FTP site is available free for any use, 
except where components are, or are derived from, third party components,
in which case the licence for those components applies. 

Commercial Support
------------------

I will consider any requests for commercial support.
Please feel free to contact me if you're considering a serious
investment in literate programming. Interscript is free,
but paid support is recommended for institutions and
companies intending serious use: please contact
me early with your requirements.

Enjoy!

John Max Skaller                ph:61-2-96600850              
mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au       10/1 Toxteth Rd 
http://www.maxtal.com.au/~skaller  Glebe 2037 NSW AUSTRALIA


John Max Skaller                ph:61-2-96600850              
mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au       10/1 Toxteth Rd 
http://www.maxtal.com.au/~skaller  Glebe 2037 NSW AUSTRALIA

<P><A HREF="http://www.triode.net.au/~skaller/interscript/">Maxtal
Interscript 1.0a9</A> - advanced literate programming system, designed
to support integrated development of code and documentation.  (01-Aug-99)

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From wware-nospam@world.std.com  Mon Aug  2 03:39:11 1999
From: wware-nospam@world.std.com (Will Ware)
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 99 02:39:11 GMT
Subject: Python microthreads (experimental)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-3498-933561550@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I have been interested in using Python to program simulated
swarms of interacting agents. For this purpose, I have implemented
what I call "microthreads" in Python, modifying Python's virtual
machine, and maintaining a frame stack for each thread. I have
successfully run 1500 threads simultaneously. Source code and some
example usages are available at

  ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/wware/uthread.tgz

for anybody interested in this. This is a pre-pre-thinking-about-
alpha-some-day release, and probably buggy, but the examples run
as expected.

== 
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Resistance is futile. Capacitance is efficacious.
Will Ware	email:    wware @ world.std.com

[Moderator's note: the following is taken from the package's README file.]

**************************************************************************

Microthreads for Python
Will Ware <wware@world.std.com>

It would be nice to use Python for programs involving huge numbers of
very light-weight threads. This would make it easy to simulate large
swarms of interacting agents, which sounds like fun.

Python functions are compiled to a bytecode, which runs on a virtual
machine, defined in Python/ceval.c in the eval_code2 function. Python
uses frame objects to administer information involved in nested
function calls. In ceval.c, the frame stack is implicitly embedded in
the C stack, because eval_code2 calls itself recursively when one
Python function calls another.

Microthreads are implemented with a modified version of the eval_code2
function. This version allows different threads to maintain different
frame stacks explicitly. This version also executes a predetermined
number of opcodes, whereas eval_code2 normally runs an infinite loop,
terminating only when a function reaches either an error or a return
statement.

Two data structures have been defined. One is a thread object, which
includes a frame stack, and also stacks for program counters and stack
pointers. The other is a semaphore object, which provides an ability
for threads to coordinate with one another. Using a semaphore it is
possible to define a mailbox in Python, whereby one thread can send
messages to another.

The included example files demonstrate how threads and semaphores
work, and how to implement a mailbox.

**************************************************************************

<P><A HREF="ftp://ftp.std.com/pub/wware/">Python microthreads</A> - 
experimental implementation of interpreter-level threads using a
modified Python byte code interpreter.  (01-Aug-99)

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From Ivan.Porres@abo.fi  Mon Aug  2 19:08:25 1999
From: Ivan.Porres@abo.fi (Ivan Porres Paltor)
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 99 18:08:25 GMT
Subject: Deeply Embedded Python 0.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-5892-933617305@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Deeply Embedded Python is a minimal version of the Python virtual
machine. It is targeted to small embedded systems where it is
necessary a trade-off between language features and memory footprint
of the interpreter. With this patch, it is possible to build a python
interpreter WITHOUT support for float, complex and long numbers, file 
objects, parser, compiler and depedencies with any operating system.

Deeply Embedded Python is distributed as a patch file for the Python
1.5.1 source tree. You can download the patch and its documentation
from:

http://www.abo.fi/~iporres/python 

The patch can be distributed freely.

Enjoy!
Ivan

== 

<P><A HREF="http://www.abo.fi/~iporres/python/">Deeply Embedded Python
0.1</A> - A minimal version of the Python virtual machine for small
embedded systems.  (02-Aug-99)

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Åbo Akademi, Department of Computer Science  Phone: +358-2-2154033   
Lemminkäinengatan 14A                             
FIN-20520 Turku - Finland                    http://www.abo.fi/~iporres

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Tue Aug  3 18:33:08 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 99 17:33:08 GMT
Subject: [fm] Pybliographer 0.5
Message-ID: <mt2.0-10028-933701588@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  Pybliographer 0.5
  Fred - August 02nd 1999, 21:56 EST

  Pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases. It
  currently supports BibTeX files, but could be extended to other formats.
  It can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc. In fact, it's
  a simple framework that provides easy to use python classes and
  functions, and therefore can be extended to many usages (generating HTML
  pages according to bibliographic searches, etc).

  Changes: Pybliographer now comes with a Gnome interface for viewing and
  searching (not yet editing, but emacs does the job...)

 Download: http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer/pybliographer-0.5.tar.gz
 Homepage: http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer.html

                  Author: Frederic Gobry
                 License: GPL
                Category: GNOME/Misc
              Depends on: python glib recode gnome

 Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer.html">Pybliographer
0.5</A> - a framework for managing bibliographic databases; currently
supports BibTeX files.  (02-Aug-99)

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From da@ski.org  Wed Aug  4 22:15:03 1999
From: da@ski.org (David Ascher)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 99 21:15:03 GMT
Subject: CVS snapshots of Python, Zope, etc.
Message-ID: <mt2.0-14161-933801303@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

So that those behind firewalls and otherwise without CVS access can access
the latest and buggiest (uh, I mean greatest) versions of Python projects,
I've setup a nightly job to make snaphots of CVS trees.

So far, I have nightly snapshots for:

  Python:   http://starship.python.net/crew/da/pythondists
  Zope:     http://starship.python.net/crew/da/zopedists
  PyOpenGL: http://starship.python.net/crew/da/pyopengldists

(the Zope snapshot is a little out of date because of unrelated network
routing issues).

I'm willing to add new projects to this list, within reasonable disk space
limits.  If you're interested in adding a project, email me at
da@python.net with the relevant CVS information.

--david ascher

<P><B>CVS Snapshots</B> -
daily snapshots of <A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/da/pythondists/">Python</A>,
<A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/da/zopedists/">Zope</A> and
<A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/da/pyopengldists/">PyOpenGL</A>
CVS development versions.  (04-Aug-99)

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From Amos@digicool.com  Thu Aug  5 00:19:49 1999
From: Amos@digicool.com (Amos Latteier)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 99 23:19:49 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 4 Aug 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-14724-933808789@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hello,

This week saw the launch of Bruce Perens's Technocrat.net. This is one
of the highest profile Zope sites to date. Butch Landingin's Squishdot
product for Zope is a big part of what makes the site tick. Way to go
Bruce and Butch!

Another major thread on the Zope lists this week was e-commerce. Scott
Robertson released a credit card processing product for Zope, and there
was a lot of discussion about existing Zope e-commerce packages and
where to go from here.

Finally, activity continues at a fairly intense rate in CVS as
preparations for beta two are made. And thanks to David Ascher, you can
now easily download snapshots of the Zope development tree.

  * Bruce Perens's new technology policy site, Technocrat.net made a big
splash this week. Bruce Perens is a major open source figure, and his
new site runs on Zope using the Squishdot product.  
  
  http://technocrat.net/
  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/07/27/205246&mode=thread
  http://technocrat.net/932767939/

  * Zope showed up on Slashdot again in an Ask Slashdot article.
  
  http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/07/31/0323235.shtml
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007580.html
  
  * Scott Robertson announced a Cyber Cash Connector for Zope. This
allows you to conduct credit card transactions. A long discussion of
e-commerce and Zope followed on the zope-dev list.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007606.html

  * Chris Petrilli announced a Database Adapter status page.
  
  http://www.zope.org/Download/DAStatus
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007432.html
  
  * Paul Everitt posted a note showing the growth of interest in Zope as
evidenced by the number of hits on Zope.org and the number of
subscribers to the Zope mailing lists.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007456.html
  
  * Chris Petrilli announced the availability of slides used in a Zope
training.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-July/007431.html
  http://www.digicool.com/Solutions/Training/Material/
  
  * Chris Petrilli posted a Database adapter roadmap.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-July/001013.html
  http://www.zope.org/Information/DARoadmap
  
  * Paul Everitt posted an announcement about Zope/Python activities at
the upcoming O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention.
  
  http://www.zope.org/Information/OReillyConferenceInfo
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007581.html

  * Michel Pelletier announced ZSybaseDA 1.0.1, a Database Adapter for
Sybase.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007637.html
  http://www.zope.org/Download/ZSybaseDA/
  
  * Steve Spicklemire announced Zieve, Z-subclassable class that assists
in sorting ZClasses in various ways.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007691.html
  
  * Brian Lloyd responded to a question about Pluggable Brains with an
informative post illuminating this powerful and under-documented
feature.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007743.html
  
  * Python guru David Ascher set up a nightly CVS snapshot archive for a
couple major Python projects including Zope. This allows you to get
access to the latest sources from CVS without using CVS.
  
  http://starship.python.net/crew/da/zopedists/

  
Keep on Zopin!

-Amos  

== 
Amos Latteier         mailto:amos@digicool.com
Digital Creations     http://www.digicool.com

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From info@pythonware.com  Sat Aug  7 01:57:38 1999
From: info@pythonware.com (PythonWare)
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 99 00:57:38 GMT
Subject: PIL 1.0 final - Python Imaging Library
Message-ID: <mt2.0-22899-933987458@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities
to your Python interpreter. This library supports many file formats,
and provides powerful image processing and graphics capabilities.

PIL 1.0 final is now available from:

    http://www.pythonware.com/

Changes since the last beta include faster text rendering, support
for using PIL as a package, mechanisms to hook into a standard Tkinter
build, better GIF encoding, incremental image decoding, and various
bug fixes.  see the README and CHANGES files for the full story.

PIL 1.0 is (as before) shipped under a Python-style license, and can be
used without fee also in commercial projects.  However, we encourage
commercial users to support our development efforts by purchasing a
support package; for details, see:

    http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/support.htm

enjoy,
the PIL development team

<P><A HREF="http://www.pythonware.com/">Python Imaging Library 1.0</A>
- an image processing and graphics library for Python.  (06-Aug-99)

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From sketch@online.de  Sat Aug  7 01:59:52 1999
From: sketch@online.de (Bernhard Herzog)
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 99 00:59:52 GMT
Subject: Sketch 0.6.1 - vector drawing program
Message-ID: <mt2.0-22899-933987592@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Sketch 0.6.1 - A vector drawing program


Sketch is a vector drawing program for Linux and other unices.  It's
intended to be a flexible and powerful tool for illustrations, diagrams
and other purposes.

Despite the low version number, it already has advanced features like
gradients, text along a path and clip masks and its fully scriptable due
to its implementation in a combination of Python and C.


Changes since version 0.6.0:

  * Spanish messages.
  * The AI export filter can handle axial and radial gradients now.
  * The CMX import filter has better support for gradients.
  * The AI import filter supports guides


Homepage:
---------

http://www.online.de/home/sketch


Features:
---------

        o Drawing primitives:

                o Rectangles
                o Ellipses
                o Bezier curves
                o Bitmap images: JPEG, GIF,...
                  (all types the Python Imaging Library can read)
                o Encapsulated PostScript
                o Text

        o All objects, including images and text, can be rotated,
          scaled, sheared, etc. (all affine transformations are
          possible)

        o Gradient fills

        o Special Effects and Features:

		o Use rectangles, ellipses and bezier objects as guides

                o Blend Groups: Automatically updated interpolations of
                  arbitrary objects

                o Text can be converted to bezier objects.

                o Text along Path

        o Exports Encapsulated PostScript and Adobe Illustrator files

        o Imports XFig, Adobe Illustrator, Corel CMX and WMF files

        o Fully scriptable in Python

For more information, have a look at the sketch webpage.



License:
--------

Sketch is released under GNU Library General Public License.


<P><A HREF="http://www.online.de/home/sketch/">Sketch 0.6.1</A> - advanced
vector drawing program for Unix written in Python.  (06-Aug-99)

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From skip@mojam.com  Sat Aug  7 02:03:40 1999
From: skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 99 01:03:40 GMT
Subject: simple module to manipulate recurring dates
Message-ID: <mt2.0-22899-933987820@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

In Musi-Cal I frequently need to deal with recurring dates such as "every
Monday from 1pm to 3pm".  The fact that I can't easily process recurring
dates has been an ongoing problem.  After one of my partners posed a
question about recurring dates for another project a couple days ago, I
decided it was time to start thinking seriously about it.  The result is a
small module, recur.py, which you can get to through my Python Bits page at

    http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/

The module implements a single class, Recurrence.  You can intersect two
recurrences to get a new one or generate a finite series of absolute dates
from an infinite recurrence.  It doesn't yet do unions (my feeble brain
hasn't figured that out), nor can it parse limited English phrases such as
the one above into a Recurrence object.  Also, it can only represent simple
recurrences.  More complex recurrences like "Easter", "every other Friday"
or "the third Thursday of the month" are beyond it.

Marc-Andre Lemburg's mxDateTime module:

    http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/mxDateTime.html

is required.

I'd very much like to get some feedback on this, especially on the stuff it
can't do.  It's an area where I have virtually no past programming
experience (literature references would be most welcome!).  If I'm hiking
down the wrong trail I'd like to find out before I run into a lot of grizzly
bears (or even the occasional snake... ;-)

Thanks,

Skip Montanaro	| http://www.mojam.com/
skip@mojam.com  | http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/
847-971-7098

<P><A HREF="http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/recur.py">recur.py</A> -
a Python class to handle recurring dates; needs mxDateTime
module.  (06-Aug-99)

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From jcw@equi4.com  Mon Aug  9 22:43:15 1999
From: jcw@equi4.com (Jean-Claude Wippler)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 99 21:43:15 GMT
Subject: MkWrap - another MetaKit database extension
Message-ID: <mt2.0-7542-934234994@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

MetaKit is an embedded database engine, which can be used from Python
(sort of), Tcl (solid), and C++ (the native interface: rock solid).

MkWrap is a new "thin" interface from Python, which stays closer to the
core MetaKit API than the previous "Mk4py" interface.  It exposes far
more of the core funtionality, including selection, sorting, projection,
join, groupby, set operations, fast sequential searching, and regexp-
based matching on any string field.

As with the first Mk4py release, this is a proof-of-concept release,
intended to explore the effectiveness of such an interface in Python.

Caveat:  MetaKit doesn't support SQL, nor is it compliant with Python's
DBI - it lives in the twilight zone between flat files, OO databases,
relational systems, and tree-structured storage.

Keywords which *do* apply to MetaKit are: portable, high-performance,
low footprint, embeddable, transaction-based, dynamic schemas, multi-
language, load-on-demand, unconventional.

For details on this first alpha release of MkWrap, see:
        http://www.equi4.com/metakit/mk4py/mkwrap.txt
It contains pre-built extensions for Windows and Linux, a small sample,
rudimentary documentation, and the C++ sources of the Python interface.

MkWrap was initially created by Gordon McMillan - I merely sprinkled 
a few extra ideas and bugs onto it to make life more interesting :)

The MetaKit home page is here:
        http://www.equi4.com/metakit/

The Mk4py version of the Python interface is unaltered:
        http://www.equi4.com/metakit/mk4py/

Some background info on MetaKit can be found on my personal pages:
        http://www.equi4.com/jcw/

Comments, suggestions, problem reports always welcome (but see below).

-- Jean-Claude

P.S. This is a "deadline-crush" announcement - I'll be back August 18.

<P><A HREF="http://www.equi4.com/metakit/mk4py/mkwrap.txt">MkWrap</A> - 
Python interface to the MetaKit (commercial) embedded
database.  (08-Aug-99)

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From michael.stroeder@inka.de  Mon Aug  9 22:46:47 1999
From: michael.stroeder@inka.de (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 99 21:46:47 GMT
Subject: ldap-client-cgi.py 0.4.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-7542-934235206@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

HI!

I want to announce a new version of ldap-client-cgi.py, a
WWW-LDAP-Gateway written in Python (you might have guessed it).

It's available for free (GPL) from

  http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/ldap-client-cgi/

I would like to encourage people to give feedback about the usability
of this program. And I would like to know about public LDAP servers with
good directory trees which allow public testing of LDAP clients.
(memberdir.netscape.com, ldap.infospace.com and directory.verisign.com
all suck!)

Ciao, Michael.

A lot of work was done since 0.3.1:
- bind without input of full bind-dn
  (anon search seeks for complete DN first)
- working tree traversal
- almost every parameter configurable for each LDAP host separately
- vCard's for easy download of addresses in address books
  of NS Comm. and MS IE.
- LDIF output of search results for bulk downloading of addresses
  (no binary attributes up to now)
- improvements to the user interface
- clean login behaviour
- minor HTML improvements

<P><A HREF="http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/ldap-client-cgi/"
>ldap-client-cgi.py 0.4.1</A> - LDAP web client; many
improvements since last version.  (09-Aug-99)

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From beazley@cs.uchicago.edu  Mon Aug  9 22:48:27 1999
From: beazley@cs.uchicago.edu (David Beazley)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 99 21:48:27 GMT
Subject: 8th International Python Conference (Revised Dates)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-7542-934235307@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

*** CALL FOR PAPERS - REVISED DATES ***

                Eighth International Python Conference
                   January 2000 - Washington, D.C.
                         (Dates are tentative)

The 8th International Python Conference is a forum for Python users,
software developers, and researchers to present current work, discuss
future plans for the language, and to learn about interesting uses of
Python.  The conference includes a day of tutorials, two days of
papers, a work in progress session, demonstrations, a poster session,
and a Developers' Day.   

The conference is tentatively scheduled for Late January, but the
dates have not yet been confirmed.  Please check www.python.org for
conference updates.

Important Dates
---------------

   Sep. 30 : Deadline for papers and tutorials.
   Oct. 22 : Notification of acceptance for papers
   Nov. 19 : Deadline for final versions of full papers

Papers
------

We invite authors to submit papers describing new and useful
applications and tools that utilize Python.  We have a special
interest in papers that address practical programming problems as well
as experience papers that provide lessons for Python programmers.  In
constrast to last year's conference, we are trying to focus the
conference more on applications and less on Python internals.  Thus,
we particularly encourage the submission of papers that describe the
use of Python in large, mission critical, or unusual applications.

Specific paper topics include, but are not limited to:

    - Large applications and systems written in Python or which
      use Python as a glue language.

    - Internet applications, including Web content and administration,
      network programming, distributed objects, and Zope-related
      applications.

    - Scientific, engineering, and numeric applications.

    - Integration with other languages and systems, including Java, 
      CORBA, COM, embedded systems, etc.

    - Python on Windows, including Active Scripting, NT system
      administration.  

    - Extension modules and new developments for the core language.

    - Programming patterns and OO design strategies.

    - Practical programming advice and tools to aid in program
      construction and debugging.

    - GUI programming.

    - Database and ODBC applications.

    - Use of Python in education.

Papers that describe applications should balance the need to appeal to
Python programmers at-large against the need for application-specific
details.  Authors should focus on presenting issues and techniques
that have wider relevance to the audience, but should also provide
enough explanatory material to make application-specific issues
understandable to a wider audience.

Papers will be judged on the quality and quantity of technical
content, the presentation and writing, and their relevance to the
Python community.

What to Submit and How to Submit It
-----------------------------------
Paper submissions should be approximately 6 to 12 single-space,
8.5"x11" pages (about 3000-6000 words) including an abstract.  Papers
must be original works not previously published or submitted for
publication elsewhere.  The conference proceedings will be made
available online and in printed form.  Authors will need to provide
Postscript and HTML versions of their final papers.

Submissions can be made in any of the following formats: HTML (single
page with no external links), Postscript, or PDF.  Regardless of
format, be sure that it can be viewed and printed on a wide variety of
systems (avoid unusual fonts and browser-specific tags).

Specific submission instructions will be made available on
www.python.org.

Conference Organizers
---------------------
General chair:  Guido van Rossum, CNRI

Program committee:

David Arnold, University of Queensland
David Ascher, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
David Beazley, University of Chicago, Program Chair 
Paul Dubois, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jim Fulton, Digital Creations
Mark Hammond, Consultant
Konrad Hinsen, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jeremy Hylton, CNRI
Martin von Loewis, Humboldt University of Berlin
Fredrik Lundh, Pythonware
Mark Lutz, Consultant
Tim Peters, Dragon Systems
Greg Stein, Independent Developer
Greg Ward, CNRI
Aaron Watters, Consultant
Jody Winston, Columbia University

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From mhagger@blizzard.harvard.edu  Mon Aug  9 22:54:04 1999
From: mhagger@blizzard.harvard.edu (Michael Haggerty)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 99 21:54:04 GMT
Subject: Gnuplot.py version 1.2
Message-ID: <mt2.0-7542-934235644@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

This is to announce the release of version 1.2 of Gnuplot.py.

Gnuplot.py is a Python [1] module that allows you to create graphs
from within Python using the gnuplot [2] plotting package.  This
version mainly adds support for MS Windows and for sending data to
gnuplot as inline data and in binary format.

Gnuplot.py can be obtained from

    http://monsoon.harvard.edu/~mhagger/Gnuplot/Gnuplot.html

Prerequisites (see footnotes):
    the Python interpreter [1]
    the Python Numeric module [3]
    the gnuplot program [2]

Some ways this package can be used:

1. Interactive data processing: Use Python's excellent Numeric package
   to create and manipulate arrays of numbers, and use Gnuplot.py to
   visualize the results.
2. Web graphics: write CGI scripts in Python that use gnuplot to
   output plots in GIF format and return them to the client.
3. Glue for numerical applications (this is my favorite): wrap your
   C++/C/Fortran subroutines so that they are callable from Python,
   then you can perform numerical computations interactively from
   scripts or from the command line and use Gnuplot.py to plot the
   output on the fly.
4. Compute a series of datasets in Python and plot them one after the
   other using Gnuplot.py to produce a crude animation.

Features added in version 1.2:

  +  Support for MS Windows, using the `pgnuplot.exe' program.
     Thanks go especially to Craig Schardt for help with this.
  +  Support for sending data to gnuplot as `inline data' (i.e.,
     "plot '-'").  This method should be faster than the older method,
     temporary files (which are also still supported).
  +  Support for using binary files to send grid data to gnuplot.
     This saves a lot of time and usually saves space compared with
     text files.  However, gnuplot only supports binary data for grid
     data used by the splot command.
  +  Allows PlotItem options to be modified after the PlotItem is
     constructed.
  +  Simplified the PlotItem inheritance hierarchy.
  +  Added several configuration options to aid porting (see top of
     Gnuplot.py).
  +  Separated function-based interface into a separate file
     (Gnuplot_plot.py).
  +  Added a test module, Gnuplot_test.py, which tests most of the
     features of Gnuplot.py.
  +  A README file, lots of documentation changes, etc.

Features already present in older versions:

  +  Two and three-dimensional plots.
  +  Plot data from memory, from a file, or from an expression.
  +  Support for multiple simultaneous gnuplot sessions.
  +  Can pass arbitrary commands to the gnuplot program.
  +  Object oriented, extensible design with several built-in types
     of plot items.
  +  Portable and easy to install (nothing to compile except on
     Windows).

Footnotes:
----------
[1] Python <http://www.python.org> is an excellent object-oriented
    scripting/rapid development language that is also especially good
    at gluing programs together.
[2] gnuplot <ftp://ftp.gnuplot.vt.edu/pub/gnuplot/> is a free,
    popular, very portable plotting program with a command-line
    interface.  It can make 2-d and 3-d plots and can output to myriad
    printers.
[3] The Numeric Python extension
    <ftp://ftp-icf.llnl.gov/pub/python/README.html> is a Python module
    that adds fast and convenient array manipulations to the Python
    language.

Yours,
Michael

== 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@blizzard.harvard.edu

<P><A HREF="http://monsoon.harvard.edu/~mhagger/Gnuplot/Gnuplot.html"> 
Gnuplot.py 1.2</A> - interface to the gnuplot plotting program, now
with support for MS Windows; needs NumPy.  (08-Aug-99)

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From bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw)  Mon Aug  9 23:04:16 1999
From: bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw) (Barry A. Warsaw)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 99 22:04:16 GMT
Subject: Wash. D.C. Area: DCPIGgies (REPOST)
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Notice to all Washington DC area Python users:

We are pleased to be resurrecting the DC area Python interest group
meetings, now called DCPIGgies.  We will be having our first meeting
at CNRI in Reston, Virginia on Tuesday August 31, 1999 from 7:30pm to
9:30pm.  The aim is to keep this meeting pretty technical.

To that goal, we're going to have two exciting presentations.  For the
first hour, the Digital Creations guys will be giving a talk on Zope
2.0's unique object model (acquisition, run-time classes,
transactional objects, etc.) including how Python programmers might
use this in their own non-Zope projects.

In the second hour, Andrew Kuchling will be talking about something
XML-ish, probably processing the Open Directory Project's
(www.dmoz.org) RDF dumps.

There will be question and answer periods after each talk, and we may
have an "open phones" going later than 9:30 if there's interest and if
Guido or I am still awake. :)

Pizza, salad, and soda will be provided.  We are asking for a
voluntary $5 donation at the door to cover the costs of food.  Please
RSVP by email to bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us.  Let me know how many plan 
to attend and whether you will be eating pizza.

Directions to CNRI can be found on the Web:

    http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/directions.html

See you then!
-Barry

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From peter.stoehr@weihenstephan.org  Mon Aug  9 23:02:28 1999
From: peter.stoehr@weihenstephan.org (Dr. Peter Stoehr)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 99 22:02:28 GMT
Subject: PyKhep - a program to control and monitor a Khepera Robot
Message-ID: <mt2.0-7542-934236148@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi everyone,

PyKhep is a Python-tcl/tk-Pmw based open source software package developed
by the author, currently supporting Unix host systems. It makes it possible
to monitor and to control a Khepera robot. PyKhep uses the communication
protocol defined in the Khepera Users Manual to transmit and receive data to
and from a host computer. PyKheo also includes features for logging sensor
data and it allows a user to control the robot working in running--mode 1, 2
and 3.  In addition, s28--files can be sent to the robot using PyKhep.

PyKhep can be downloaded from my web page 
        http://www.peter-stoehr.de


CU
    Peter
== 
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		I'm the terror that flaps through the night

<P><A HREF="http://www.peter-stoehr.de/">PyKhep</A> - monitor and control
a Khepera research/teaching robot.  (09-Aug-99)

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From dubois1@llnl.gov  Mon Aug  9 23:05:55 1999
From: dubois1@llnl.gov (Paul F. Dubois)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 99 22:05:55 GMT
Subject: Pyfort - Python/Fortran connection tool
Message-ID: <mt2.0-7542-934236355@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Pyfort is a tool for connecting Python to Fortran. Using a syntax similar to
Fortran 95's interface blocks, Pyfort produces a Python module that can be
linked together with the Fortran routines to enable them to be called from
Fortran.

The document is http://xfiles.llnl.gov/pyfort.pdf; it is in Acrobat format.

Pyfort can be downloaded at ftp://ftp-icf.llnl.gov/pub/python/pyfort.tgz. It
is 100% Pure Python; no compilation is required; however, you will need both
C and Fortran compilers for your application.

Pyfort has been released for unlimited redistribution; please see the file
Legal.htm in the distribution.

Paul F. Dubois
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
dubois1@llnl.gov

Questions to support@pcmdi.llnl.gov.


<P><A HREF="http://xfiles.llnl.gov/python.htm">Pyfort 1.0</A> - a tool for
connecting Python to Fortran.  (09-Aug-99)

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From james@daa.com.au  Mon Aug  9 23:07:54 1999
From: james@daa.com.au (James Henstridge)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 99 22:07:54 GMT
Subject: pygtk-0.6.2 and gnome-python-1.0.4 (finally :)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-7542-934236474@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I have finally got round to releasing pygtk and gnome-python.  You
probably already know what is new, but if not, here are the major points:
  - fixed threading support (thanks to Matt Wilson and Paul Fisher).
  - A pygtk.h header file to make it easier to write wrappers for other
    add on widgets.
  - Wrappers for GtkGLArea and libglade.  To actually make use of the
    GtkGLArea widget, you will need an OpenGL binding for python, such as
    PyOpenGL.  There are some examples of its use in examples/gl (there is
    a port of the Mesa gears example in that directory, among others).
  - NumPy support in GdkImlib.  You can create an image object from a
    MxNx3 numpy array, and get numpy array representing the data in an
    image object, which you can manipulate.  This code is based on stuff
    sent in by Travis Oliphant.
  - Support for gdkrgb, so you can draw rgb and greyscale data to a
    drawable.  I have also added a numpy array variant called draw_array.
    It accepts unsigned byte arrays of the following forms:
      + MxN or MxNx1: treated as greyscale data.
      + MxNx3 or MxNx4: treated as RGB data.
    The numpy wrapper will also work with some non contiguous arrays, such
    as arr[a:b, c:d, :] (sliced along first two axes).
  - methods for the GdkWindow object for setting and reading properties.
    Also, GdkWindows now have an xid attribute which can be used to get
    the X window ID of the window.
  - You can now pass extra parameters to idle and timeout functions, like
    you can for signal handlers.  There is a gtk_signal_connect variant in
    pygtk that is similar to gtk_signal_connect_object as well now.

Gnome-python mainly contains bug fixes rather than new features.

You can get the new release at
  ftp://ftp.daa.com.au/pub/james/python/
  ftp://ftp.python.org/pub.contrib/Graphics/       (should be there soon)
  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/latest/       (gnome-python only)
  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/      (pygtk only -- not uploaded yet)

Remember to report any bugs you find.

James.

== 
Email: james@daa.com.au
WWW:   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/

-- 

<P><A HREF="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/">pygtk-0.6.2 and
gnome-python-1.0.4</A> - bindings for the GTK+ widget set and GNOME
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From robin@alldunn.com  Mon Aug  9 23:13:05 1999
From: robin@alldunn.com (Robin Dunn)
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 99 22:13:05 GMT
Subject: wxPython 2.1b2
Message-ID: <mt2.0-7542-934236785@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

wxPython 2.1b2

wxPython is an extension module for Python that wraps the wxWindows cross
platform GUI library, and is quickly becoming a very popular alternative to
Tkinter and PythonWin. This extension module attempts to mirror the class
hierarchy of wxWindows as closely as possible and is very versatile. It can
be used to create standalone GUI applications, or can be used in in
situations where Python is embedded in a wxWindows C++ application as an
internal scripting or macro language. Currently supported GUIs are Win32 and
GTK/X-Windows.

Changes in this version:

Added the missing wxWindow.GetUpdateRegion() method.

Made a new change in SWIG that provides a fix for global shadow objects that
get an exception in their __del__ when their extension module has already
been deleted. It was only a 1 line change in .../SWIG/Modules/pycpp.cxx at
about line 496 if you want to do it by hand.

It is now possible to run through MainLoop more than once in any one
process.  The cleanup that used to happen as MainLoop completed (and
prevented it from running again) has been delayed until the wxc module
is being unloaded by Python.

I fixed a bunch of stuff in the C++ version of wxGrid so it wouldn't
make wxPython look bad.

wxWindow.PopupMenu() now takes a wxPoint instead of  x,y.  Added
wxWindow.PopupMenuXY to be consistent with some other methods.

Added wxGrid.SetEditInPlace and wxGrid.GetEditInPlace.

You can now provide your own app.MainLoop method.  See
wxPython/demo/demoMainLoop.py for an example and some explaination.

Got the in-place-edit for the wxTreeCtrl fixed and added some demo
code to show how to use it.

Put the wxIcon constructor back in for GTK as it now has one that
matches MSW's.

Added wxGrid.GetCells

Added wxSystemSettings static methods as functions with names like
wxSystemSettings_GetSystemColour.

Removed wxPyMenu since using menu callbacks have been depreciated in
wxWindows.  Use wxMenu and events instead.

Added alternate wxBitmap constructor (for MSW only) as
      wxBitmapFromData(data, type, width, height, depth = 1)

Added a helper function named wxPyTypeCast that can convert shadow
objects of one type into shadow objects of another type.  (Like doing
a down-cast.)  See the implementation in wx.py for some docs.

Fixed wxImage GetData and SetData to properly use String objects for
data transfer.

Added access methods to wxGridEvent.

New Makefile/Setup files supporting multiple dynamic extension modules
for unix systems.

Fixes for the wxGLCanvas demo to work around a strange bug in gtk.

SWIG support routines now compiled separately instead of being bundled
in wx.cpp.

== 
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
robin@AllDunn.com
http://AllDunn.com/robin/
http://AllDunn.com/wxPython/  Check it out!

[Moderator's note: cf. related wxWindows/GTK 2.1 beta announcement below.]

>  wxWindows/GTK 2.1 beta 8
>  Robert Roebling - August 07th 1999, 04:12 EST
>
>  wxWindows/Gtk is the GTK+ port of the C++ cross-platform wxWindows GUI
>  library, offering classes for all common GUI controls as well as a
>  comprehensive set of helper classes for most common application tasks,
>  ranging from networking to Unicode.
>
>  Changes: First synchronized release of the 2.1 series for Windows and
>  GTK. Many improvements all over, addition of wxHTML code running on
>  GTK, Win32 and Mac, new polished documentation, updated wxPython,
>  rewrite of stream and networking classes. Removed many
>  incompatibilities between existing ports. Additionally, wxMac is nearly
>  finished, and the OS/2, BeOS and MGL ports are starting to develop.
>
>      Download:ftp://ftp.freiburg.linux.de/pub/linux/wxxt/source/
>      Homepage:http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt/
>
>                  Author: Robert Roebling
>                 License: BSD type
>                Category: Development/Libraries
>
>  Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://alldunn.com/wxPython/">wxPython 2.1b2</A> - interface
to the wxWindows v2.1 free cross-platform GUI library.  (09-Aug-99)

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From gmcm@hypernet.com  Wed Aug 11 02:21:31 1999
From: gmcm@hypernet.com (Gordon McMillan)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 99 01:21:31 GMT
Subject: SCXX - Lightweight C++ interface classes
Message-ID: <mt2.0-13176-934334491@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

SCXX is a very lightweight set of C++ classes that wrap the most 
commonly used Python objects.

It is inspired by Paul Dubois's CXX (part of the LLNL download), but 
does not use templates or STL, (it does use exceptions) and only 
covers a subset of CXX's capabilities. (And this is why I wrote SCXX 
- templates / STL don't work or bloat on many compilers; and I wanted 
something very lightweight.)

Like CXX, the primary advantage is that you can write C++ code that 
looks a whole lot like Python. Reference counts are taken care of; 
wrapping an existing object forces a typecheck; you can use square 
brackets to access sequences and dicts, just like you'd expect...

SCXX uses the highest possible level of the Python / C API at all 
times. While this is slow (refcounting has not been optimized), it is 
very small, and most of it will be inlined on most compilers.

SCXX lives on my starship pages
(starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/scxx.html). It is used by the new
MetaKit wrap that Jean-Claude just announced. (The backlink to
MkWrap is broken, I'll fix this when my ISP's DNS servers come
back).

SCXX has been tested on Windows (MSVC 5) and Linux (egcs) by me, and
on MSVC 6 and newer releases of egcs by Jean-Claude.

[RH 5.2's distribution of egcs (egcs2.90.29 - egcs-1.0.3) is broken 
when it comes to exceptions (catch doesn't). This is fixable by 
downloading the sources and rebuilding.]

The license is "do as thou wilt", but please maintain the copyright 
notices; and no warranty, of course.

- Gordon

<P><A HREF="starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/scxx.html">SCXX beta 1</A> - 
lightweight C++ wrapper for dealing with PyObjects; for writing C++
that looks more like Python than the C API.  (08-Aug-99)

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From adamf@pobox.com  Wed Aug 11 02:24:39 1999
From: adamf@pobox.com (Adam Feuer)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 99 01:24:39 GMT
Subject: adzapper 0.1.23
Message-ID: <mt2.0-13176-934334679@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

adzapper 0.1.23  (Initial Release)

adzapper is a filtering proxy that blocks ads from being downloaded and
displayed by your web browser. Instead of ad banners, you see blank
spaces: adzapper transforms the ads into transparent gifs. 

adzapper is written with performance and flexibility in mind-- it's
small and fast, and its filter rules are in site-specific files
("zaplets") that are easy to make and easy to share. adzapper also comes
with many premade zaplets.

adzapper is written in Python, and includes code from Zope's ZServer, so
it is released under the Zope Public License.

adzapper can be downloaded from the adzapper homepage at:

   http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/

or directly from:

   http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/adzapper-0.1.23.tgz 

cheers
adam
== 
Adam Feuer
adamf@pobox.com

<P><A HREF="http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/">adzapper 0.1.23</A> -
filtering web proxy that blocks ads from being downloaded.  (10-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Wed Aug 11 02:27:33 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 99 01:27:33 GMT
Subject: [fm] Pyrite 0.7.7
Message-ID: <mt2.0-13176-934334853@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  Pyrite 0.7.7
  Rob Tillotson - August 09th 1999, 00:04 EST

  Pyrite is a comprehensive set of modules which allow access to Palm
  Computing platform devices and their data via Python. It includes APIs
  for transparent database access, records as Python objects, conduits,
  and plug-ins for extensability. Pyrite was formerly known as
  "PalmPython".

  Changes: Fixed bugs in the database class and made debugging conduits
  easier.

      Download: http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/dist/pyrite-0.7.7.tar.gz
      Homepage: http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/pyrite/
     Changelog: http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/pyrite/history.html

                  Author: Rob Tillotson
                 License: LGPL
                Category: Development/Python Modules
              Depends on: pilot-link, Python 1.5

  Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/pyrite/">Pyrite 0.7.7</A> -
access 3COM/Palm Computing devices with Python; formerly called
PalmPython.  (09-Aug-99)

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From kernr@mail.ncifcrf.gov  Wed Aug 11 03:45:15 1999
From: kernr@mail.ncifcrf.gov (Robert Kern)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 99 02:45:15 GMT
Subject: Compiling Python Extensions on Win32 w/GCC 2.95
Message-ID: <mt2.0-13871-934339515@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

With the recent release of GCC 2.95, I have updated my instructions
for compiling Python extensions on Windows 95/98 and NT systems using
free tools.  My previous instructions explained the setup for using
EGCS 1.1.2, an "experimental" version of GCC.  Since EGCS merged into
GCC to make GCC 2.95, the instructions could be updated to use this
newest compiler.

To provide some background, GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) is a GPL'ed,
well, compiler collection that includes front ends for C, C++,
Fortran77 (with some optional Fortran90 constructs, IIRC),
Objective-C, and (now) a few, experimental Chill and Java front ends.
More information on GCC 2.95 is available at 
<URL: http://egcs.cygnus.com>.

It is possible now to compile programs for the i386-mingw32 target, a
native target for Win32 systems.  Such programs use a Microsoft DLL as
its C runtime library (CRTDLL.dll by default, MSVCRT.dll as an
option).  Unlike the i586-cygwin32 target 
<URL: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin>, the i386-mingw32 target
does not require the program to link with the Cygwin DLL.
Consequently, there are *no* licence restrictions imposed on the
resulting program (not by the compiler at any rate; linking against
third-party code might restrict use).  Information on the Win32 port
of GCC, and the port itself, are at 
<URL: http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/gcc.html>.

Paul Sokolovsky originally patched the Python headers to allow the
then-EGCS to compile Python extension modules for the i386-mingw32
target.  I now maintain a web page containing instructions on setting
up the compiler, headers, and the other related paraphenalia required.

My page is 
<URL: http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/mingw32/Notes.html>.

<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/mingw32/Notes.html">Compiling
Python Extensions on Win32 with GCC 2.95</A> - Instructions for
compiling Python extensions on Win32 OS's with free tools.  (11-Aug-99)

Robert Kern           |
----------------------|"In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high
This space            | Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
intentionally         |           - Richard Harter
left blank.           |

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From gherman@my-deja.com  Wed Aug 11 19:22:15 1999
From: gherman@my-deja.com (Dinu C. Gherman)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 99 18:22:15 GMT
Subject: "Das Python Tutorium" - Public Review Release
Message-ID: <mt2.0-16843-934395734@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Announcement:

"Das Python Tutorium" - Public Review Release


The "Python Tutorial 1.5.2" written by Guido van Rossum is
available now in a German translation (modulo the Python
sample code). Various formats can be downloaded from the
following site:

   http://starship.python.net/crew/gherman/propaganda/tut-de/

The current version is a much fine-tuned one, but still
labeled a pre-release because it is only now available for
"the public". Therefore, if you understand German, please
have a look and report some of the remaining errors, par-
ticularly semantic ones. If you want to help with the cor-
rection, please use the LaTeX source code and send me an
improved version by email (to gherman@europe.nospam.mail.com
- remove the nospam from the domain name), preferrably as
a GZIP- or ZIP-compressed file. I'm planning to collect
these and make a final release by the end of September or
October 1999.

The translation itself is a nice proof of the Pareto law,
basically meaning that 80 % of the job can be done in 20 %
of the time, leaving you with 80 % of your time to get the
remaining 20 % done... But at least it gave me a good reason
to finally read the whole tutorial. You should do the same
if you haven't already done so, even if it has clearly some
way to go to become an ideal tutorial, whatever that might
mean.

Along this road I installed a nice free Windoze TeX system
on my laptop, called MiKTeX (see http://www.miktex.de)
- for those who care.

I'm very indebted to Janko Hauser who did most if not all
of the actual typesetting work and to many others, who pro-
vided constructive feedback.

Dinu C. Gherman

1999-08-11


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From msteed@altiris.com  Wed Aug 11 19:31:13 1999
From: msteed@altiris.com (Mike Steed)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 99 18:31:13 GMT
Subject: gdchart-py-0.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-16843-934396273@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi all,

   I found Bruce Verderaime's GDChart library to be just what I needed for a
recent project.  I wrote a Python interface which I am making available.

   See what GDChart can do: http://www.fred.net/brv/chart/
   Python module:
http://members.xoom.com/msteed/software/gdchart-py-0.1.tar.gz

   The Python module includes GDChart (which includes Tom Boutell's gd
library).  I have built and tested the module on Win32 and Linux (x86).
Feedback, etc., is welcome.

Mike Steed

<P><A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/msteed/software/">gdchart-py-0.1</A> -
Python interface to the GDChart library, for creating bitmapped
charts and graphs.  (11-Aug-99)

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From gherman@my-deja.com  Wed Aug 11 19:36:42 1999
From: gherman@my-deja.com (Dinu C. Gherman)
Date: 11 Aug 1999 18:36:42 GMT
Subject: "Das Python Tutorium" (German) - Public Review Release
Message-ID: <7osfrq$s4u@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>

Announcement:

"Das Python Tutorium" - Public Review Release


The "Python Tutorial 1.5.2" written by Guido van Rossum is
available now in a German translation (modulo the Python
sample code). Various formats can be downloaded from the
following site:

   http://starship.python.net/crew/gherman/propaganda/tut-de/

The current version is a much fine-tuned one, but still
labeled a pre-release because it is only now available for
"the public". Therefore, if you understand German, please
have a look and report some of the remaining errors, par-
ticularly semantic ones. If you want to help with the cor-
rection, please use the LaTeX source code and send me an
improved version by email (to gherman@europe.nospam.mail.com
- remove the nospam from the domain name), preferrably as
a GZIP- or ZIP-compressed file. I'm planning to collect
these and make a final release by the end of September or
October 1999.

The translation itself is a nice proof of the Pareto law,
basically meaning that 80 % of the job can be done in 20 %
of the time, leaving you with 80 % of your time to get the
remaining 20 % done... But at least it gave me a good reason
to finally read the whole tutorial. You should do the same
if you haven't already done so, even if it has clearly some
way to go to become an ideal tutorial, whatever that might
mean.

Along this road I installed a nice free Windoze TeX system
on my laptop, called MiKTeX (see http://www.miktex.de)
- for those who care.

I'm very indebted to Janko Hauser who did most if not all
of the actual typesetting work and to many others, who pro-
vided constructive feedback.

Dinu C. Gherman

1999-08-11


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Python Tutorium</A> - German-language version of the Python 1.5.2
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From Amos@digicool.com  Thu Aug 12 17:58:25 1999
From: Amos@digicool.com (Amos Latteier)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 99 16:58:25 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 11 Aug 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-20503-934477105@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi,

It's a busy time for Zope development. This week Zope 2 beta releases 2,
3, and 4 came out in quick succession. Zope 2 is in a feature freeze and
all development effort is focused on finding and fixing bugs.
 
 * Zope 2.0 beta 4 was released. This release fixes quite a few bugs.

  http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b4

 * Martijn Pieters posted a good tip on how to perform access control
based on user domains.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007769.html

 * People love to discuss DTML syntax. Most people like the new syntax,
though some folks would like to see minor changes. It was revealed that
the syntax will probably not change, but that there may be another fully
xml-compliant syntax in the future.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007812.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007931.html

  * Jonathan Corbet mentioned that a new Linux-oriented Zope-powered
site has appeared.

  http://www.openclassroom.org
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007817.html  

  * Amos Latteier explained how to manually control the Zope ORB's
object traversal process.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007825.html

  * Steve Spicklemire announced a beta 2 release of his Zieve Zope
product.

  http://www.zope.org/Download/Contrib/Zieve.tgz
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007876.html

  * Kevin Dangoor announced KM|net News Product. This package provides a
fairly advanced a news system including syndication and voting.

  http://www.kendermedia.com/kmnn.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007955.html


-Amos

== 
Amos Latteier         mailto:amos@digicool.com
Digital Creations     http://www.digicool.com

<P><A HREF="http://www.zope.org/">Zope 2.0 beta 4</A> - Zope is a free,
open source web application platform used for building high-performance,
dynamic web sites.  (11-Aug-99)

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From jonathan.gilligan@vanderbilt.edu  Sat Aug 14 02:36:33 1999
From: jonathan.gilligan@vanderbilt.edu (Jonathan Gilligan)
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 99 01:36:33 GMT
Subject: Open Source/Open Science conference announcement
Message-ID: <mt2.0-25207-934594593@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I ran across the following conference announcement and thought, given the
amount of scientific programming within the Python community, that this
would be of some interest here. The following announcement appears at
http://openscience.bnl.gov. The conference, "Open Source/Open Science 99"
will be held October 2, 1999 at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long
Island, NY. The site also mentions plans for an MBONE broadcast for those
who cannot travel to Brookhaven.

I have no connection with the conference, so don't ask me questions. I am
merely passing the announcement along in hopes that this newsgroup will find
it interesting.

Open Source/Open Science is a unique conference in which, for the first
time, scientists, who rely heavily on the Internet and many open source
projects to advance their research, are brought together with some of the
leading figures in the Open Source community. In this environment, the
conference plans to achieve the following goals.

Give scientists a chance to learn about new Open Source projects which could
potentially benefit their research.

Show the Open Source community the science applications to which Open Source
software has been applied in an effort to stimulate more Open Source
development.

Stimulate Open Source scientific projects amongst scientists, which
specificly address the data analysis needs of researchers.

Brookhaven National Laboratory, and its scientists, would like to invite any
and all people who are interested in science, software, the Internet or who
want to get a glimpse of the evolutionary methods of science and technology,
to attend.

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From bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw)  Sat Aug 14 02:36:59 1999
From: bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw) (Barry A. Warsaw)
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 99 01:36:59 GMT
Subject: python-mode.el 3.105
Message-ID: <mt2.0-25207-934594619@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I've made a new version of python-mode.el available at
<http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode/>.  This is version 3.105 and 
is what you currently get from the CVS snapshot.  Version 3.90 was the 
last one released at this URL, and 3.97 was the version release with
Python 1.5.2 final.

python-mode.el is a GNU Emacs major mode for editing and executing
Python programs.  It is compatible with both Emacs and XEmacs.

List of changes:

- Improvements to the way the JPython or CPython shell is
  selected. There is a new variable py-default-interpreter which
  determines the default shell to use for py-shell (C-c !). The shell
  is now determined the first time py-shell is invoked or a Python
  buffer is visited.

- py-shell now also takes an optional argument; when given it will
  prompt for additional switch to pass into the shell process (only on
  initial start up).

- py-toggle-shells now takes the symbols cpython and jpython as
  arguments, making it more usefully called from python-mode-hook.

- New command py-narrow-to-defun (C-x n d) which mimics the standard
  narrow-to-defun but understands Python classes and methods. With
  C-u, narrows to the most enclosing class.

- Removed special bindings for C-j to py-newline-and-indent. This
  makes Emacs diehards happier, but may break for people who
  explicitly bind or C-j to newline globally.

- The usual assortment of bugs fixes, and some performance improvements
  (for FSF Emacs). 

Enjoy,
-Barry

<P><A HREF="http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode/">python-mode.el
3.105</A> - a mode for GNU Emacs and XEmacs for editing and executing
Python programs.  (13-Aug-99)

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From sz@zmail.ru  Thu Aug 19 03:27:31 1999
From: sz@zmail.ru (sz@zmail.ru)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:27:31 GMT
Subject: Python's Russian Pages
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935029651@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Starting Python's Russian Pages for providing information about Python
and activity in russian language.

See http://chat.ru/~pythonrus

Zaur Shibzoukhov
sz@zmail.ru

<P><A HREF="http://chat.ru/~pythonrus/">Python's Russian Pages</A> - a
new web site in Russian about Python.  (17-Aug-99)

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From da@ski.org  Thu Aug 19 03:25:51 1999
From: da@ski.org (David Ascher)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:25:51 GMT
Subject: README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Aug 16)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935029551@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Python-URL is back!  

Here are the latest news from the Python world.

>From the hacks & ports category:

 * Will Ware dove into the Python core to allow microthreads (threads
   of operation which work in a single system thread).  This is
   similar in spirit to some of work done by Christian Tismer for his
   "Stackless Python", and there are rumors that the former will be
   adapted to the latter.

	http://world.std.com/~wware/uthread.html
	http://www.pns.cc/stackless/stackless.htm    
	http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=507505476

 * Python is routinely ported to embedded systems.  A Finnish group is
   making their port public, and soliciting feedback on this work:

	http://www.abo.fi/~iporres/python/

 * Greg Ewing puts forth a patch to add lexical scoping to Python.
   
        http://x36.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=510811241
        http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/lexscope.html

 * Max Skaller apparently has a new implementation of Python in the
   works with speed in mind:

        http://x42.deja.com/[ST_rn=md]/viewthread.xp?thitnum=3&mhitnum=0&toffset=0&CONTEXT=934822861.1754792007&frpage=threadmsg_md.xp&back=comp.lang.python&new=0&rok=1

>From the gotta-have-a-usenet-discussion-every-now-and-then-discussion:

 * for + else = ???

        http://www.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=505752853

 * YAPPW (Yet Another Perl Python War) starts at:

        http://x42.deja.com/[ST_rn=md]/threadmsg_md.xp?thitnum=1&mhitnum=1&CONTEXT=934822861.1754792007

        http://x42.deja.com/[ST_rn=md]/viewthread.xp?thitnum=0&mhitnum=0&toffset=0&CONTEXT=934822861.1754792007&frpage=threadmsg_md.xp&back=comp.lang.python&new=0&rok=1

 * A new keyword is almost proposed, from of all people Tom Christiansen:

	 http://x42.deja.com/[ST_rn=md]/viewthread.xp?thitnum=24&mhitnum=0&toffset=0&CONTEXT=934822861.1754792007&frpage=threadmsg_md.xp&back=comp.lang.python&new=0&rok=1

>From the power tools department:

 * The latest SWIG release has support for Python keyword arguments
   and better shadow class support:

       http://www.egroups.com/group/swig/1181.html?

 * Python Imaging Library (PIL) version 1.0 is out:

       http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

 * Too many news in the Zope front to go into in detail, but foremost
   is a new site layout and several Zope 2.0 beta releases:

       http://www.zope.org/

 * Numeric Python release 12 beta now uses ExtensionClasses:

       ftp://ftp-icf.llnl.gov/pub/python/LLNLDistribution12beta.tgz

 * Paul Dubois' PyFort is a tool for interfacing NumPy to Fortran:

       http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=510814523

 * SCXX is a lightweight take on Paul Dubois's CXX by Gordon McMillan
   which promises to require less of your C++ compiler:

       http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=510361661

>From the events and public relations department:

 * Local Python users groups are sprouting, and they seem to be called
   PIGgies!.  The San Francisco Bay Area has one, as does the
   Washington DC area.  Where will the next one crop up?

       http://www.baypiggies.org/
       http://www.python.org/Events.html#dcpiggies

 * Bruce Eckel, a C++ and Java trainer and book author, has picked up
   the Python bug, and is planning what sounds like a neat Python
   workshop -- learn Python in five days in mountains by writing
   something useful.

	http://www.eckelobjects.com/PythonProjectWorkshop/index.html

 * The O'Reilly conference is soon upon us:

	http://conferences.oreilly.com/python/   

 * The next International Python Conference has a revised call for
   papers with new dates:

	http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html


=========================================================================
Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

      Python.org's Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia
          http://www.python.org

      Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
          mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/

      Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity
          http://www.python.org/consortium

      Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction
          http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py

      Python Journal is at work on its second issue
          http://www.pythonjournal.com

      Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
      what AI can generate
          http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python

    Archive probing trick of the trade:
        http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=threaded&showsort=date&maxhits=100&groups=comp.lang.python


Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html
or
  http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21


Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
  http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/

To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning
(once we resume), ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe.


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From info@pythonware.com  Thu Aug 19 03:28:00 1999
From: info@pythonware.com (PythonWare)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:28:00 GMT
Subject: PythonWare Sound Toolkit (PST) release 0.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935029680@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The folks who gave you the Python Imaging Library (PIL) now
introduces yet another useful library:

The PythonWare Sound Toolkit (PST) reads sound files in a
variety of formats, and plays them on different hardware plat-
forms (currently Windows and Sun only).

The first, very rough, release is available from:

    http://www.pythonware.com/

PST 0.1 is shipped under a Python-style license, and can be used
without fee also in commercial projects.  For more info, see:

   http://www.pythonware.com/products/pst/

enjoy,
the PST development team

<P><A HREF="http://www.pythonware.com/">PythonWare Sound Toolkit
(PST) 0.1</A> - a simple sound library for Python.  (17-Aug-99)

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From gandalf@server.python.net  Thu Aug 19 03:29:38 1999
From: gandalf@server.python.net (Vladimir Ulogov)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:29:38 GMT
Subject: "puppy" list manager
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935029778@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

This is a "tiny" (puppy) maillist manager.
If the mailman too complicated to you and another list
managers makes you frustrated, try this.
http://starship.python.net/crew/gandalf/puppy.tar.gz
Vladimir

<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/gandalf/">puppy</A> - 
a tiny, simple mailinglist manager, written in Python.  (17-Aug-99)

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From efm@tummy.com  Thu Aug 19 03:33:01 1999
From: efm@tummy.com (Evelyn Mitchell)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:33:01 GMT
Subject: PyPAM Python Bindings for PAM
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935029981@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

This is the initial release of PyPAM, Python bindings for PAM (Pluggable
Authentication Modules). It requires Python 1.5.2. 

PAM allows you to specify the authentication mechanism for a program
using interchangeable modules bound at run-time. PyPAM lets you write
Python progams using PAM.

Homepage: http://www.pangalactic.org/PyPAM/
Download: ftp://ftp.pangalactic.org/pub/tummy/PyPAM/

Author: Rob Riggs, tummy.com, ltd. <rob@pangalactic.org>

== 
http://www.tummy.com/ Consulting and Software for Linux and Unix
XVScan - Scanning software for Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, FreeBSD and BSD/OS

<P><A HREF="http://www.pangalactic.org/PyPAM/">PyPam</A> - Python interface
to Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) for Linux.  (17-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Aug 19 03:35:43 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:35:43 GMT
Subject: [fm] IcePref 0.10
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935030143@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  IcePref
  Dave Mortensen - March 28th 1999, 19:57 EST

  IcePref is a graphical configuration utility for IceWM. Specifically,
  it handles the options used by icewm 0.9.45, although it should be
  usable with most recent versions. It is written in python and uses the
  Gtk toolkit via the PyGTK bindings. It is currently capable of
  configuring all of the settings contained in the 'preferences' file.
  More features are forthcoming.

       Download: http://members.xoom.com/SaintChoj/icepref-0.10.tar.gz
       Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/SaintChoj/icepref.html

          Stable Version: 0.8
              Development
                 Version: 0.10
                  Author: Dave Mortensen
                 License: GPL
                Category: X11/Administration
             Appindex ID: 922669057

<P><A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/SaintChoj/icepref.html">IcePref
0.10</A> - graphical configuration utility for the IceWM 0.9.45 window
manager for X11; needs PyGTK.  (14-Aug-99)

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From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:38:08 GMT
Subject: [fm] adzapper 0.1.26
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935030288@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  adzapper
  Adam Feuer - August 09th 1999, 02:34 EST

  adzapper is a filtering proxy that blocks ads from being downloaded and
  displayed by your web browser. Instead of ad banners, you see blank
  spaces: adzapper transforms the ads into transparent gifs. adzapper is
  written with performance and flexibility in mind-- it's small and fast,
  and its filter rules are in site-specific files ("zaplets") that are
  easy to make and easy to share. adzapper also comes with many premade
  zaplets.

     Download: http://www.halcyon.com/adamf/adzapper/adzapper-0.1.26.tgz
     Homepage: http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/
    Changelog: http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/CHANGELOG.txt

          Stable Version: 0.1.26
                  Author: Adam Feuer
                 License: OpenSource
                Category: Daemons/Proxy
              Depends on: Python
             Appindex ID: 934180466

<P><A HREF="http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/">adzapper 0.1.26</A> -
filtering web proxy that blocks ads from being downloaded.  (15-Aug-99)

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From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:39:56 GMT
Subject: [fm] Alfajor 1.4
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935030396@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  Alfajor
  andrew - July 10th 1999, 16:30 EST

  Alfajor is an http cookie filter, written in Python with an optional
  GUI. It acts as an http proxy (you must configure your browser to use
  it) and can either contact sites directly or work with a second proxy
  (eg. a cache). The program allows cookies to be sent from your browser
  to any address which matches a list of regular expressions. The GUI
  allows the filter to be turned on and off, sites to be added or removed
  as they are accessed, and the list of regular expressions to be edited.
  From version 1.3 it is also possible to block all data from named sites
  - by chaining together two instances of the program it is possible to
  control cookies and block advertising.

 Download: http://www.andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk/jara/alfajor/alfajor.tgz
 Homepage: http://www.andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk/jara/alfajor/index.html

          Stable Version: 1.4
                  Author: Andrew Cooke
                 License: GPL
                Category: Web/Applications
              Depends on: Python
             Appindex ID: 931638643

Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk/jara/alfajor/index.html">Alfajor
1.4</A> - configurable HTTP cookie filter written in Python.  (15-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Aug 19 03:43:31 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:43:31 GMT
Subject: [fm] Palm-Mail 0.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935030611@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  Palm-Mail 0.1
  Lalo Martins - August 15th 1999, 00:40 EST

  Palm-mail is a small unambitious utility to convert messages from an
  Unix-style mailbox file (and other formats in future versions, such as
  MH, Maildir, and MMDF) to the Mail application in PalmOS devices (and
  the other way around in future versions). It was written as a quick
  hack to read mail on the road, as all PalmOS Mail interfaces I found
  can only interface to POP/SMTP and not local files.

  Changes: Initial release.

     Download: http://www.linuxcenter.com.br/lalo/palmmail-0.1.5.tar.gz
     Homepage: http://www.linuxcenter.com.br/lalo/eng.html

                  Author: Lalo Martins
                 License: GPL
                Category: Console/eMail
              Depends on: Pyrite

Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.linuxcenter.com.br/lalo/eng.html">Palm-Mail 0.1</A> -
interface to the Mail application in PalmOS PDAs; needs
<A HREF="http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/pyrite">Pyrite</A>.  (15-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Aug 19 03:49:46 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:49:46 GMT
Subject: [fm] pypvm 0.8.2
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935030986@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  pypvm 0.8.2
  W. Michael Petullo - August 16th 1999, 18:46 EST

  Pypvm is a Python module which allows interaction with the Parallel
  Virtual Machine (PVM) package. PVM allows a collection of computers
  connected by a network to serve as a single parallel computer. Pypvm is
  intended to be an educational and prototyping tool. To use Pypvm,
  import the pypvm module.

      Download: http://www.flyn.org/src/pypvm-0.8.2.tar.gz
      Alternate
      Download: ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/contrib/System/
      Red Hat
      Packages: http://www.flyn.org/rpms/pypvm-0.8.2-1.i386.rpm
      Homepage: http://www.flyn.org/
     Changelog: http://flyn.org/ChangeLog/ChangeLog.pypvm

                  Author: W. Michael Petullo
                 License: GPL
                Category: Development/Python Modules
              Depends on: PVM

Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.flyn.org/">pypvm 0.8.2</A> - a Python interface
to the C libraries of PVM (the Parallel Virtual Machine)
for distributed computations.  (16-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Aug 19 03:52:55 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:52:55 GMT
Subject: [fm] Gaby 1.9.8
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935031175@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  Gaby 1.9.8
  Frederic Peters - August 16th 1999, 00:17 EST

  Gaby is a small personal databases manager using GTK+ and Gnome (if
  available) for its GUI. It was designed to provide straight-forward
  access to databases a 'normal' user would like (addresses, books, ...)
  while keeping the ability to easily create databases for other needs.
  On a technical side it was designed with extensibility in mind and
  relies a lot on plug-ins.

  Changes: No major changes but _lots_ of improvements and bug fixes
  notably in the Python interpreter that can now do useful things. There
  are also new German, Norwegian and Swedish translations.

     Download: http://gaby.netpedia.net/archives/gaby-1.9.8.tar.gz
     Alternate 
     Download: http://www.multimania.com/~fpeters/gaby/gaby-1.9.8.tar.gz
     Homepage: http://gaby.netpedia.net
    Changelog: http://gaby.netpedia.net/ChangeLog.html

                  Author: Frederic Peters
                 License: GPL
                Category: X11/Utilities

Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://gaby.netpedia.net">Gaby 1.9.8</A> -
a small graphical personal database manager using GTK+/GNOME
for its GUI and featuring an embedded Python interpreter.  (16-Aug-99)

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From ray@unival.com  Thu Aug 19 03:56:56 1999
From: ray@unival.com (ray@unival.com)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:56:56 GMT
Subject: Portland Oregon user group meeting (PORPIGgies?) - Sept 7, 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935031416@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The first meeting of the Portland, Oregon area Python interest group
(PORPIGgies?) will be held Tuesday September 7, 1999 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
in the Benjamin Franklin Building, downtown Portland.

The inaugural speaker will be Amos Latteier of Digital Creations speaking
on "Zope and XML".  He'll discuss the  Zope application server and it's web
object system from the perspective of XML.
  * DOM interface to standard Zope objects.
  * Using XSL as an object query language.
  * The XML Document Zope product, and how it exposes XML data to Zope.
  * Cataloging XML data.
  * Where XML and Zope are going.
The discussion will cover some basics about Zope's object system, but will
focus on its integration with XML. Even if you don't know Zope, if you have
some idea of what XML is, you should be OK.

The initial goals of the group are to meet the first Tuesday of each month,
and have a fairly technically oriented meeting. The meeting format will
consist of one or two technical presentations each followed by Q&A.
Socialization will be encouraged after the presentations at a local pub.
Admission is free.

The entrance to the Benjamin Franklin Building is located on the corner of
SW 1st Ave and SW Columbia Street in Portland. The building entrance is
monitored by a security guard so it is very important that you RSVP so you
can be listed at the security desk.  I'll be in the lobby to greet visitors
before 7:00, after that the guard will check the entrance every 5 to 10
minutes.  So, please try to be here before 7:00  The address of the
building is 1 SW Columbia Ave, Portland, OR 97258

Street parking is free after 6:00pm, or there is a parking structure at SW
1st and Jefferson.

Please RSVP by email to Ray@unival.com

Ray Price

<P><B>PORPIGgies - Portland, Oregon Python Interest Group Meeting</B> -
Tuesday September 7, 1999, 7:00pm to 9:00pm, in the Benjamin Franklin
Building, downtown Portland.  (17-Aug-99)

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From pam@digicool.com  Thu Aug 19 03:58:26 1999
From: pam@digicool.com (Pam Crosby)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 02:58:26 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 18 Aug 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935031506@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hello,

A major thread this week has been documentation.  Below are two entries
about the current process for addressing Zope documentation needs.  The ZDP
community continues to volunteer their efforts and talents to make Zope the
best it can be.  Digital Creations will be announcing their efforts in the
documentation area, SOON.

* Brian Lloyd's Zope article at Devshed has continued to generate
  an interesting discussion about Zope.

  http://www.devshed.com 

* Paul Everitt posted a note concerning a poll pitting AOLserver, Zope, 
  Enhydra, and others.  

  http://www.LinuxDev.Net/
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008088.html

The mailing lists have been quite active, the documentation discussion
has spawn efforts from several directions. 

* Bradford Hull experienced extreme frustration with the available
  Zope documentation that started a lively discussion. Many community
  members added their frustrations to the lists and possible solutions. 

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008268.html

* Stephan Richter is gathering goal requirements for the Zope
  Documentation Project. 

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-August/000607.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-August/000576.html
 
* Brian Lloyd answered an query about "pluggable brains" that added
  some light to the possibilities of such "brains".

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/007743.html

* A.M. Kuchling released an alpha version of the product that lets you
  browse through RDF dumps from the Open Directory Project. 

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008215.html

* Alexander Staubo published a Guest Counter product whose class
  instances can count the number of "guests" to a web site.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008244.html

* Phil Harris announced ZMySQLDA for Win32.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008166.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008165.html
 
* Paul Everitt shared his results with running Zope from a CD-ROM.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008105.html

Until next week...
_______________________________________________
Pamela Crosby

Technical Writer                           mailto:pam@digicool.com
Digital Creations                           http://www.digicool.com

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Aug 19 04:00:07 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 03:00:07 GMT
Subject: [fm] FXPy 0.99.63
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935031607@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  FXPy 0.99.63
  Lyle Johnson - August 17th 1999, 20:16 EST

  FXPy is a Python extension module which provides an interface to the
  FOX cross-platform GUI library. With a few minor exceptions, FXPy
  provides a complete interface to FOX. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for
  developing graphical user interfaces easily and effectively, and it
  runs natively under both Unix/X and Microsoft Windows. Some of the
  significant features of FOX include a rich set of widgets, powerful but
  easy-to-use layout managers, extensive support for 3-D modeling using
  OpenGL or Mesa, drag-and-drop (using the XDND protocol) and a registry
  for persistent application settings.

  Changes: Primary changes since version 0.99.55 are new support for
  keyword arguments and updates for compatibility with fox-0.99.63. Other
  changes include improvements in the example scripts and better support
  for virtual function overloads for some classes.

      Download: ftp://ftp.cfdrc.com/pub/FOX/FXPy-0.99.63.tar.gz
      Homepage: http://www.airnet.net/ljohnson/FXPy/
     Changelog: http://www.airnet.net/ljohnson/FXPy/index.html#Changes

                  Author: Lyle Johnson
                 License: LGPL
                Category: Development/Python Modules
              Depends on: Python, FOX (and optionally PyOpenGL)

Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.airnet.net/ljohnson/FXPy/">FXPy 0.99.63</A> - Python
interface to the FOX free cross-platform C++ graphical user interface library
for Unix/X11 and Microsoft Windows.  (17-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Aug 19 04:03:41 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 03:03:41 GMT
Subject: [fm] mrDBC 0.9 beta 1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935031821@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  mrDBC 0.9 beta 1
  Christian Scholz - August 18th 1999, 17:42 EST

  mrDBC is a set of python classes which make it easy to work with mySQL
  databases. The classes handle a main table with an additional table
  containing optional attributes. This makes it easy to add a new
  attribute without changing the table structure. MrDBC can also track
  create/modification information, can cache objects, can lock objects
  and more.

      Download: ftp://aachen.heimat.de/mrtopf/mrdbc/mrDBC-0.9beta1.tgz
      Homepage: http://heimat.de/mrtopf/mrdbc/

                  Author: Christian Scholz
                 License: LGPL
                Category: Development/Python Modules
              Depends on: Python, mySQL

Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://heimat.de/mrtopf/mrdbc/">mrDBC 0.9 beta 1</A> -
high-level interface to mySQL databases.  (18-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Aug 19 04:06:13 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 03:06:13 GMT
Subject: [fm] Pybliographer 0.6
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935031973@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  Pybliographer 0.6
  Fred - August 18th 1999, 17:51 EST

  Pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases. It
  currently supports BibTeX (read/write), Ovid and Refer (read only)
  files, but could be extended to other formats. It can be used for
  searching, editing, reformatting, etc, through its nice graphical
  interface for GNOME. Due to its nature, it can be extended to many uses
  (generating HTML pages according to bibliographic searches, etc).

  Changes: In addition to the usual bugfixes, there are two major changes:
  The graphical interface has a nice hierarchical search mechanism. It is
  now possible to edit the entries from the UI.

 Download: http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer/pybliographer-0.6.tar.gz
 Homepage: http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer.html

                  Author: Frederic Gobry
                 License: GPL
                Category: GNOME/Misc
              Depends on: python glib recode gnome

Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer.html">Pybliographer
0.6</A> - a framework for managing bibliographic databases; the graphical
user interface now supports hierarchical searching and editing of
entries.  (18-Aug-99)

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From joe@aol.com  Thu Aug 19 04:23:38 1999
From: joe@aol.com (Christian 'KT' Scholz)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 99 03:23:38 GMT
Subject: htmlPARSER 0.9 beta 1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-11137-935033018@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi!

htmlPARSER is a python class which simplifies the creation of HTML
parsers in Python by providing some often needed basic funcionality like
template definitions, defining blocks of html text, inclusion of files,
etc.

The homepage of htmlPARSER is available at

    http://heimat.de/mrtopf/htmlparser/

and version 0.9 beta 1 can be downloaded at

    ftp://aachen.heimat.de/mrtopf/htmlparser/htmlPARSER-0.9beta1.tgz

It is published under the GNU Library Public License.

The author of this package is Christian Scholz and can be reached via
email under ruebe@aachen.heimat.de, a homepage is available at
http://heimat.de/mrtopf/

regards,
    Christian

[freshmeat.net]

  htmlPARSER 0.9 beta 1
  Christian Scholz - August 15th 1999, 00:43 EST

  htmlPARSER is a set of python classes which help you in creating HTML
  parser with user editable templates. These templates can contain two
  types of elements: Normal HTML code This will be passed directly onto
  stdout (and thus to the browser), and special HTML tags which you
  define. These will call the specific functions in your parser which
  then take any action you want (e.g. perform database queries, calculate
  something, etc).

  Changes: Initial public release.

      Download: ftp://aachen.heimat.de/mrtopf/htmlparser/
      Homepage: http://heimat.de/mrtopf/htmlparser/

                  Author: Christian
                 License: LGPL
                Category: Development/Python Modules
              Depends on: Python

Freshmeat (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://heimat.de/mrtopf/htmlparser/">htmlPARSER 0.9 beta
1</A> - Python classes for easy creation of HTML parsers.  (15-Aug-99)

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From mal@lemburg.com  Fri Aug 20 01:01:30 1999
From: mal@lemburg.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 99 00:01:30 GMT
Subject: mxProxy Package - Version 0.2.0
Message-ID: <mt2.0-17898-935107289@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

ANNOUNCING:

                         mxProxy Version 0.2.0

           A Python extension package providing a configurable
              transparent proxy object implementation with
              fine grained access control, data hiding and
                  weak references for Python objects

WHAT IT IS:

mxProxy uses an extension type to wrap objects that you pass
to its contructor in essentially two different ways:

1. via a strong reference which works just like any other
   reference in Python or

2. using a weak reference which allows you to build circular
   reference models in your data without producing the other-
   wise difficult to handle memory leakage induced by this.

Furthermore, the implementation offers some very convenient
access and cleanup protocols which help you control access to
the object (even on very low levels such as type slots) and
provide automatic mechanisms for object cleanup prior to
normal garbage collection.

Wrapping is done in a transparent way, so that you normally
don't even have to recode programs to have them use the
proxy instead of the real object -- only the type possibly
changes.

mxProxy enables you to build secure environment without
having to use techniques like the standard library module
Bastion or restricted environments on a per-object basis.

Several different higher level interfaces for the generic type
are included in the package, such as InstanceProxy, caching
mix-ins, etc. 

WHAT'S NEW ?

The 0.2.0 release added a powerful weak reference mechanism
to the package and also fixed some minor bugs.

This release also includes a precompiled Windows DLL so that you can
use the package right away. Installing on that platform boils down
to a simple unzip in the \Python\Lib directory.

WHERE CAN I GET IT ?

The full documentation and instructions for downloading and installing
can be found at:

    http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxProxy.html

WHAT DOES IT COST ?

It comes with a Python-type license, but is free otherwise.

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/mxProxy.html">
mxProxy 0.2.0</A> - generic proxy object providing low-level
access control and weak references.  (19-Aug-99)

== 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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From webmaster@python.org  Sat Aug 21 03:11:25 1999
From: webmaster@python.org (webmaster@python.org)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 99 02:11:25 GMT
Subject: Updated Python conference information (IPC 8)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-29948-935201485@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

We finally have information about the 8th International Python
Conference up on the Web.  This included dates, hotel, and fees.
Please see

    http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/index.html

for more information.  Details about some of the other sessions
(demos, posters, developers' day) will be added soon.

IMPORTANT: Note that the deadline for paper and tutorial submissions
is just a little over a month away.  See the Call for Papers for
details.  The deadline is September 30.

-Barry

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From loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de  Sat Aug 21 03:20:54 1999
From: loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Martin von Loewis)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 99 02:20:54 GMT
Subject: Natter prerelease 1.0a1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-29948-935202054@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Natter is another implementation of the CORBA IDL mapping for Python.
It is similar to ILU and Fnorb: It allows a Python application to
implement and use CORBA interfaces.

Unlike Fnorb and ILU, Natter does not come with its own CORBA
implementation; instead, it is built on top of the C++ mapping. While
it should be mostly compatible with Fnorb and ILU on the source level,
Natter aims at providing the full functionality of CORBA 2.3 (provided
the underlying ORB implements all of CORBA 2.3).

As the most notable difference to support CORBA 2.3, interface
implementations in Natter are based on the Portable Object Adapter
(POA), which gives a standard way of associating object references
with servants.

Natter is work-in-progress; several of the standard CORBA features are
not there, yet. It has been tested with a single ORB only, this
release in itself is a test case for application portability with
CORBA :-) If you succeed (or fail) using it with another ORB, please
let me know.

This release is for evaluation purposes only; the final licensing
terms have not yet been defined.

For more information, see

  http://starship.python.net/crew/loewis/natter.html

Martin v. Löwis

<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/loewis/natter.html">Natter
1.0a1</A> - a Python CORBA 2.3 mapping based on C++; needs a separate
C++ ORB to work.  (20-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Sat Aug 21 05:34:15 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 99 04:34:15 GMT
Subject: [fm] DDD 3.1.6
Message-ID: <mt2.0-10669-935210055@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  DDD - Data Display Debugger
  scoop - January 29th 1998, 02:28 EST

  DDD is a common graphical user interface for command-line debuggers
  such as GDB, DBX, XDB, JDB, the Python debugger, or the Perl debugger.
  Besides ``classical'' front-end features such as viewing source texts,
  DDD provides a graphical data display, where data structures are
  displayed as graphs.

      Download: ftp://ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/softech/ddd/
     Alternate: ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/ddd/
         Mirror
          List: ftp://ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/softech/ddd/ANNOUNCE
      Homepage: http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/
     Changelog: http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/ftp/NEWS

          Stable Version: 3.1.6
                  Author: DDD Developers
                 License: GPL
                Category: Development/Debugging
             Appindex ID: 886058885

<P><A HREF="http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/">DDD 3.1.6</A> - 
graphical user interface for command-line debuggers; includes
support for the Python debugger.  (20-Aug-99)

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From claird@neosoft.com  Mon Aug 23 09:38:58 1999
From: claird@neosoft.com (Cameron Laird)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 99 08:38:58 GMT
Subject: README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Aug 23)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-25916-935397538@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Next week:  more working code, less territorial posturing.

    Quantitatively, the Pynews of the month was a conflict appar-
    ently about whether P-languages are in conflict.  timbot
    left no doubt about his ownership of the intellectual high
    ground with a 160-proof exposition of Perl and Python as
    comparably inferior to SNOBL.  Pathos, concision, the yacht
    race, public double dereferencing--the only thing it lacks
    is a gratuitous reference to Erlang
	http://x36.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=513662476

    The great Pythonist social event of the year is the Open
    Source Software Convention, now in progress.  Early reports
    have it "well-organized"; David Ascher's tutorial was
    successful.  Look next week for more detailed summaries
	http://conferences.oreilly.com/python/

    Logistics of the Eighth PyCon are largely set.  Presenta-
    tion proposals are still being accepted
        http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/index.html

    A builder.com columnist reinforces the current run on
    pugnacity with his characterization of Python as "The Most
    Elegant Scripting Language You'll Probably Never Use"
        http://buzz.builder.com/cgi-bin/WebX?14@101.PwqganhkenJ^0@.ee7bc67/0

    Christian Tismer shows what "dynamic module generation"
    can mean in the hands of a master
	http://x46.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=512188711

    In the process of giving the one-line answer to the FAQ
    about trapping users who click on the go-away-X, Guido
    and Fredrik Lundh discover themselves trapped in one of
    their time machine's loops, as they jumble inspiration,
    intention, implementation, and documentation
	http://x40.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=515152096

    Another high point of the language wars is Tom Christian-
    sen's mention of Nigel Chapman's book.  Although two
    years old and on a subject other than Python, it offers a
    lot from which we all can learn
	http://www.perl.com/language/critiques/ppc.html

    Prolific M.-A. Lemburg's mxProxy provides in its 0.2 re-
    lease not just fine-grained access control to objects,
    but also powerful weak reference methods
	http://x25.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=514893032


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Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:

      Python.org's Python Language Website is the center of Pythonia
          http://www.python.org

      Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
          mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/

      Python Consortium emerges as an independent nexus of activity
          http://www.python.org/consortium

      Python To-Do List anticipates some of Python's future direction
          http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py

      Python Journal is at work on its second issue
          http://www.pythonjournal.com

      Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
      what AI can generate
          http://www.links2go.com/search?search=python

    Archive probing trick of the trade:
        http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=&DBS=2&ST=PS&defaultOp=AND&LNG=ALL&format=threaded&showsort=date&maxhits=100&groups=comp.lang.python


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