From da@ski.org Tue Nov 2 19:43:11 1999 From: da@ski.org (David Ascher) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 99 19:43:11 GMT Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 2) Message-ID: Today is election day in the United States. Here are the winners from a much simpler yet equally non-scientific selection process: The Python Consortium is started! Hewlett-Packard and LLNL provides the marquee status and the big bucks, Digital Creations the wildly successful application, Interet quietly chips in, along with Foretec Seminars, the first organization that had a check in hand! http://www.python.org/consortium/ Michel Pelletier (of Digital Creations) and Dan York (of LinuxCare) announce that they are writing a Zope book for O'Reilly and Associates: http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZopeBook/index_html/index_html Jan Walter announces some scripts for Blender, a computer graphics rendering tool, with very nice pictures to boot: http://www.q-bus.de/Blender/ David S. Harrison puts forth code which formats number for human consumption: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp&=542270123 Scot Hacker explains how good scripting BeOS is http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991026S0001 Tim Peters sort of sorts out some of the sort issues sorted out between 1.5.1 and 1.5.2: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp&=AN=541957314 The same Tim accounts for a surprising 'feature' involving testing the object identity of immutable objects which puzzled Pearu Peterson and yours truly: http://www.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1999-November/003106.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, ask to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird@NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From da@ski.org Tue Nov 2 19:50:42 1999 From: da@ski.org (David Ascher) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 99 19:50:42 GMT Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 2) [REPOST] Message-ID: [Note: this re-post of this week's "Python-URL!" corrects the URLs for the deja.com references.] Today is election day in the United States. Here are the winners from a much simpler yet equally non-scientific selection process: The Python Consortium is started! Hewlett-Packard and LLNL provides the marquee status and the big bucks, Digital Creations the wildly successful application, Interet quietly chips in, along with Foretec Seminars, the first organization that had a check in hand! http://www.python.org/consortium/ Michel Pelletier (of Digital Creations) and Dan York (of LinuxCare) announce that they are writing a Zope book for O'Reilly and Associates: http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZopeBook/index_html/index_html Jan Walter announces some scripts for Blender, a computer graphics rendering tool, with very nice pictures to boot: http://www.q-bus.de/Blender/ David S. Harrison puts forth code which formats number for human consumption: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=542270123 Scot Hacker explains how good scripting BeOS is http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991026S0001 Tim Peters sort of sorts out some of the sort issues sorted out between 1.5.1 and 1.5.2: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=541957314 The same Tim accounts for a surprising 'feature' involving testing the object identity of immutable objects which puzzled Pearu Peterson and yours truly: http://www.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1999-November/003106.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, ask to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird@NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From guido@cnri.reston.va.us Thu Nov 4 23:18:26 1999 From: guido@cnri.reston.va.us (Guido van Rossum) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 99 23:18:26 GMT Subject: Python Conference Hotel Change Message-ID: The Foretec conference staff has this message about the upcoming Python conference: Due to construction delays, the Hilton Alexandria Old Town will not be completed in time for the Eighth International Python Conference. However, we are pleased to announce that we have secured an equally desirable facility for the conference. The new facility is the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. The Key Bridge Marriott is conveniently located on the Virginia side of the Key Bridge in the Rosslyn business district with easy access to restaurants, shops, and the Rosslyn metro stop. It overlooks the Potomac River, and is a 15 minute walk across the bridge to historic Georgetown in Washington, DC. (I should add that Georgetown is, if possible, an even better location than old town Alexandria for the typical Python conference evening activities. --Guido :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From Amos@digicool.com Thu Nov 4 23:18:58 1999 From: Amos@digicool.com (Amos Latteier) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 99 23:18:58 GMT Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 3 Nov 1999 Message-ID: Hi, It was a normal week for Zope: many software announcements, community expansion, and many other exciting developments. Here are some hilights. It's official now, there will be a Zope book from O'Reilly. It won't be out for a while. When it is released it will probably be available under an open content license. Performance improved on the Zope.org web site thanks to new hardware and improved cache settings. Many folks who have submitted Zope bug reports will be happy to see lots of fixes appearing in CVS. These fixes mark early preparations for a Zope 2.1 release. * The performance of the www.zope.org web site was improved this week due to smarter HTTP and ZODB cache settings and better hardware. There were a few short down times but it looks like smooth sailing form here on out. Hooray! http://www.zope.org/ * Mike Pelletier announced that he and Dan York of LinuxCare will be writing a Zope book for O'Reilly. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013229.html * A perennial discussion on the Zope list is porting Zope to Java. Using Servlets with Zope would be great and JPython makes this relatively easy, right? Wrong. Philip Eby gives a good description of why we're not likely to see JZope for a long time. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013353.html * Edd Dumbill announced SiteSummary 1.1 a Zope product for managing RSS data. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013100.html * OgilvyInteractive is looking for a Chinese speaking Zope programmer. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013175.html * Stephan Richter announced ZPickle 0.0.1 a Zope Product to provide pickling services. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013266.html * Oleg Broytmann announced a Russian Zope mailing list. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012885.html * Jeff Rush announced that he has updated his Zope RPMs. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012967.html * Marc Gehling announced a German Zope Yahoo club. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/012908.html * Ethan Fremen announced a Zope and CSS How-To. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/013032.html * Luciano Ramalho announced that Brazil On-line has launched a Zope-based real time news service. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-October/013031.html * Petru Paler announced ClickTracker a Zope Product to track user activity. http://www.zope.org/Members/ppetru/ClickTracker * Tom Deprez posted summarized Zope Documentation Project happening in his "ZDP Weekly NEWS" post to the zdp list. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-October/001003.html * Amos Latteier made this slides for his talk "Extending Zope in Python" available. http://www.zope.org/Members/Amos/PORPIGSlides * Mike Pelletier released ZDiscussions 0.1.0 This is a Zope Product for threaded discussions. http://www.zope.org/Members/MikeP/ZDiscussions See you next week. -Amos == Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From Amos@digicool.com Thu Nov 4 23:19:52 1999 From: Amos@digicool.com (Amos Latteier) Date: Thu, 04 Nov 99 23:19:52 GMT Subject: O'Reilly to publish Zope book Message-ID: Digital Creations is pleased to announce that O'Reilly and Associates will be publishing a book on Zope, the open source web application server. Michel Pelletier of Digital Creations and Dan York of LinuxCare will author the book. The book will be released under a yet to be determined open content license. Here is an announcement from one of the authors: http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013229.html -Amos == Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at Fri Nov 5 21:54:39 1999 From: markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at (Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 99 21:54:39 GMT Subject: PySol 3.00 - a solitaire game collection Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- PySol - a Solitaire Game Collection Version 3.00 http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer What is PySol ? =============== PySol is an exciting collection of 111 solitaire card games. Among the supported games are classics like Aces Up, Baker's Game, Canfield, FreeCell, Forty Thieves, Golf, Klondike, Pyramid, Scorpion, Spider, Yukon, and many more... Why yet another solitaire game ? ================================ Here are some highlights of PySol: - currently supports 111 (!) distinct solitaire variants - based upon an extensible solitaire engine - very nice look and feel including multiple cardsets and background table tiles - unlimited undo & redo - load & save games - player statistics and log files - hint system - demo games - support for user written plug-ins - add your own solitaire variants - integrated HTML help browser - lots of documentation - fully portable across Unix/X11, Windows 95/98/NT and MacOS - written in 100% pure Python - just run it - no need to compile anything - freely available - distributed under the GNU GPL with full source code Yeah, I know. But what's new ? ============================== * Bought a new solitaire book and implemented about 65 new games :-) * FreeCell game numbers are now compatible to the FreeCell FAQ * Improved statistics and log views Cool. Where can I get it ? ========================== Point your browser to http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html The PySol Gallery is awaiting your visit as well. What do I need to start playing ? ================================= PySol requires Python 1.5.2 and Tcl/Tk 8.0.5. Both packages are freely available for Unix, Windows 95/98/NT and Macintosh. BTW, there is no need to compile anything since the whole program is just a Python script. Just run it, and that's all. Contributions ============= I'm looking for people who want to contibute new games, provide additional graphics, scan cardset packs, improve the docs, etc. Please see the README in the distribution about details. Any legal issues ? ================== PySol is Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer PySol is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file COPYING. 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PySol 3.00 - new version of Python Solitaire Games (using Tkinter); now supports 111 (!) distinct solitaire variants. (05-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From fdrake@acm.org Fri Nov 5 22:01:26 1999 From: fdrake@acm.org (Fred L. Drake, Jr.) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 99 22:01:26 GMT Subject: IPC8 - Call For Demos and Posters Message-ID: [Moderator's note: "IPC8" is the "8th Internatinal Python Conference", organized by the "Python Software Activity" (PSA), taking place 24-27 January 2000 in Alexandria, VA, USA.] IPC8 Call For Demos and Posters Important Dates * Nov. 30 : Deadline for demos and posters. * Dec. 15 : Notification of acceptance for demos and posters. Demonstrations and Posters We invite researchers and developers to present their work in demonstrations or posters. Works in progress and results which don't warrant a full paper may be presented this way, as well as demonstrations of interesting applications. Demos and posters will be selected based on the broad applicability of new technologies and novelty of new approaches. Tables and power will be provided. Computers will not be provided; if you intend to do a demonstration, bring your own with all the software you need. There may be a slow Internet connection (at most a shared ISDN line); please let us know if Internet access is important to your demonstration. What is a poster? When presenting a poster, you typically bring one or more posters that can be tacked up to a wall. The posters should provide a concise summary of your work, and diagrams or other graphics are strongly encouraged. You then stand next to your poster and discuss your work with other conference attendees (who will undoubtedly ask why you're standing there). If you're feeling confident, you can provide handouts that explain your research or project in more detail, or tell where to find more information. Bring plenty of copies. So, what's a demo? A demo is a poster, but you use your computer to actually show people what you did. You can have a slide presentation or let people play with your applications. If you want to give a demonstration, be sure to bring your computer! What to Submit and How to Submit It To request space for a demonstration or poster, send an email to Fred Drake (fdrake@acm.org) describing your demonstration or poster. If you have special space or power requirements, please be sure to include the appropriate information. If you require Internet connectivity, be sure to tell us about that as well! For more information Questions regarding demo and poster submissions should be addressed to Fred Drake (fdrake@acm.org). -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From Brian@digicool.com Fri Nov 5 22:03:41 1999 From: Brian@digicool.com (Brian Lloyd) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 99 22:03:41 GMT Subject: Zope 2.1.0 beta 1 released Message-ID: Hi all. Zope 2.1.0 beta 1 has been released. This release includes many bug fixes, performance and reliability improvements and a number of new features such as the beginnings of internationalization support and relevance ranking for ZCatalog. You can get 2.1.0 beta 1 from: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0b1/ I expect the beta period for this release to be pretty short - in about a week or so we expect to do either a b2 (if necessary) or a 2.1.0 final. Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

Zope 2.1.0 beta 1 - a free, open source web application platform used for building high-performance, dynamic web sites; this beta release adds bug fixes and some new features such as the beginnings of internationalization support and relevance ranking for ZCatalog. (05-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From Oliphant.Travis@mayo.edu Fri Nov 5 22:10:05 1999 From: Oliphant.Travis@mayo.edu (Travis Oliphant) Date: Fri, 05 Nov 99 22:10:05 GMT Subject: New general purpose "sparse matrix" package - v0.1 Message-ID: I've finally released Version 0.1 of a general purpose Sparse matrix package. It is available at http://oliphant.netpedia.net/packages/SparsePy.tgz RPMS for Linux may be available soon. The package requires a FORTRAN compiler, a C compiler, and a copy of the BLAS for your system. Currently the makefiles only work for a UNIX system using gcc and g77, they can be modified to work for any compiler. Features: * Initialization of Sparse Matrices using diagonal or coordinate convention. * Matrix-vector multiplies * Matrix-Matrix add, subtract, multiply, conjugate, transpose * Direct inversion of Sparse Linear Systems. The first three features are due Yousef Saad's SPARSEKIT2 package while the last feature is due to SuperLU by Demmel, Gilbert, and Li. The implementation is a Python class which has methods that call on wrapped versions of these libraries. There are other Sparse Matrix implementations available but this one is trying to be general purpose. Any suggestions and improvements are appreciated. Travis Oliphant Oliphant.Travis@altavista.net

SparsePy 0.1 - first release of a general-purpose sparse matrix calculation package for Python; requires FORTRAN to compile. (05-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw) Sat Nov 6 17:12:54 1999 From: bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw) (Barry A. Warsaw) Date: Sat, 06 Nov 99 17:12:54 GMT Subject: Mailman 1.1 - The GNU Mailing List Manager Message-ID: I have just uploaded Mailman version 1.1 to www.list.org, and this will hopefully soon be mirrored to ftp.gnu.org. This release is precipitated by the removal of all GIFs from the distribution. There have also been some performance improvements, although lots more can still be done. ;) See the NEWS file excerpt below for details of changes. Sadly, the internationalization effort has not yet been integrated (mostly due to time constraints of the core maintainers). Mailman, the GNU mailing list manager, is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives each mailing list a web page, and allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc. over the web. Even the list manager can administer his or her list entirely from the web. Mailman also integrates most things people want to do with mailing lists, including archiving, mail-to-news gateways, and so on. Mailman is writtein primarily in Python, with a little bit of C for security. See http://www.list.org or http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html for details and downloading. -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- - All GIFs removed. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html for the reason why. - Improvements to the Pipermail archiver which make things faster. Primary change is that the .txt files are not gzip'd on every posted message. Instead, use the new cron script `nightly_gzip' to gzip the .txt file in batches (this means that the .txt file will lag behind the on-line archives a little). - From the C drivers programs, Python is invoked with the -S option. This tells Python to avoid importing the site module, which can improve start up time of the Python process considerably. Note that the command line script invocation has not been changed. - New configuration variables PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER and PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER which can contain a shell command string for os.popen(). This can be used to invoke an external archiver instead of the bundled Pipermail archiver. See Defaults.py for details. - new script `bin/find_member' which can be used to search for a member by regular expression. - More child processes are reaped, which should eliminate most occurances of zombie processes. - A few small miscellaneous bug fixes (including PR#99, PR#107) and improvements to the file locking algorithms. -------------------- snip snip --------------------

Mailman 1.1 - The GNU Mailing List Manager, implemented primarily in Python; changes: no more GIFs (due to LZW patent issues), improvements to bundled Pipermail archiver, miscellaneous bug fixes. (06-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From henk_p@my-deja.com Tue Nov 9 21:26:31 1999 From: henk_p@my-deja.com (henk_p@my-deja.com) Date: Tue, 09 Nov 99 21:26:31 GMT Subject: PSI-0.02 - Persistent Multithreaded CGI for Apache Message-ID: Hi, This the second release of PSI, or the Python Script Interface, A second attempt by me at persistent cgi scripting in python. With PSI, cgi-scripts are run by a shared python interpreter living outside of the webserver process. Like PCGI, a small 'wrapper' program is used to connect any CGI capable webserver to the shared interpreter. PSI is multithreaded, every CGI request runs in a seperate thread. PSI provides as much of the Stanard CGI environment (sys.stdin, sys.stdout, os.environ) as possible. And by doing so should be compatible with existing CGI scripts written in python. You can download PSI0.02 at: http://huizen.dds.nl/~d50/psi0.02.tgz suggestions and or questions about PSI?, mailto: csg6031@wing.rug.nl

PSI 0.02 (click to download as .tar.gz file) - Python Script Interface; an Apache module for long-running Python CGI scripts, similar to FastCGI. (09-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From hinsen@cnrs-orleans.fr Tue Nov 9 21:31:58 1999 From: hinsen@cnrs-orleans.fr (Konrad Hinsen) Date: Tue, 09 Nov 99 21:31:58 GMT Subject: Molecular Modelling Toolkit 2.0 Message-ID: Announcement: Version 2 of the Molecular Modeling Toolkit ========================================================= The Molecular Modelling Toolkit (MMTK) is an Open Source library for molecular simulation applications, written in Python with some C extension modules. In addition to providing ready-to-use implementations of standard algorithms, MMTK serves as a code basis that can be easily extended and modified to deal with standard and non-standard problems in molecular simulations. Version 2 contains many new features and enhancements compared to the previous version 1.2 The most important ones are - Ewald summation - new algorithm for nonbonded list generation (faster and uses less memory) - thermostat, barostat, and distance constraints (SHAKE) for MD - support for nucleotide chains (DNA, RNA) - deformation force field for normal mode calculations on big proteins - much extended manual Note that version 2 is not compatible with earlier releases, because it makes use of the package structure introduced with Python 1.5. All import statements must therefore be modified. For compatibility reasons, MMTK 1.2 will remain available in parallel with MMTK 2.0. For more information and for downloading, see the MMTK Web site at http://starship.python.net/crew/hinsen/MMTK/ or http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/MMTK/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsen@cnrs-orleans.fr Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.55.69 Rue Charles Sadron | Fax: +33-2.38.63.15.17 45071 Orleans Cedex 2 | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/ France | Nederlands/Francais -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

MMTK 2.0 - the Molecular Modelling Toolkit, an Open Source library for molecular simulation applications, written in Python with some C extension modules. (09-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From gmcm@hypernet.com Tue Nov 9 21:32:08 1999 From: gmcm@hypernet.com (Gordon McMillan) Date: Tue, 09 Nov 99 21:32:08 GMT Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 9) Message-ID: This week on comp.lang.python we find: Evan Simpson's one page description of the anatomy of Zope: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=544506548 Paul Duffin's speculation about how "stubbed" Tcl might be used by Tkinter: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=545858112 The __str__ vs __repr__ thread rages on. Guido explains the rationale: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=544209311 Tim clarifies the problem: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=544718491 Bernhard Herzog makes an interesting proposal: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=544360351 while others split on whether "eval(repr(obj)) == obj" is a valuable property or a wart. Jean-Claude Wippler announces a stable beta of his Python wrappers for MetaKit (a cross-platform embedded database with intriguing properties): http://www.equi4.com/metakit/python.html Registration for IPC8 is now online: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/registration.html and prompts some discussion of travel arrangements. Two new Python books get rave reviews: David Beazley's Python Essential Reference and Fredrik Lundh's ebook: (the eff-bot guide to) The Standard Python Library (although technical / platform problems create some controversy for the eff-bot!). http://www.python.org/psa/bookstore/ Greg Ewing compares Python and Ruby and makes some interesting observations: on extension writing interface: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=543792249 on the object model: http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=544255921 Python scores points on rec.humor.funny: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/99/Nov/perl.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, ask to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird@NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From grove@infotek.no Thu Nov 11 01:16:47 1999 From: grove@infotek.no (Geir Ove Grønmo) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 99 01:16:47 GMT Subject: GPS - Groves and Property Sets for Python 0.10 Message-ID: Hi, I'm pleased to announce the first release of GPS - Groves and Property Sets for Python. Suggestions and bug reports should be sent to: grove@infotek.no Geir O. Grønmo -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: GPS - Groves and Property Sets for Python Version: 0.10 Released: November 10th 1999 Author: Geir O. Grønmo, grove@infotek.no License: GPL Homepage: http://www.infotek.no/~grove/software/gps/index.html - -- >>> What is GPS? GPS is an implementation of the groves and property set concepts defined in the HyTime and DSSSL standards. GPS is written in Python, and should work* on any platform to which Python have been ported - including the Java Platform. There are two implementations in the current distribution, one in-memory implemention and one that supports ZODB - the Zope Object Database. Both groves, property sets and grove plans can be made persistent by the ZODB implementation. - -- >>> Features o Loading of property sets from documents conforming to the Property Set DTD, or any derived DTD [requires architectural processing]. o Grove plans. Default grove plans is automatically created by wrapping a GrovePlan object around a property set. Inclusion and omitting of modules, classes and properties are fully supported. o Two grove node implementations, both generic classes for representing grove nodes. o ZODB - Zope Object Database versions of all grove, property set and grove plan classes. o Module for building XML groves from SAX event streams. This module also contains a class for emitting SAX events by walking XML groves. o Sample Property Sets - -- >>> Requirements - Python 1.5.2 or newer [3] - An SGML/XML parser with a SAX driver - SAX for Python [4] - xmlarch 0.25, optional unless architectural processing is needed [5] - -- >>> References [1] http://www.jpython.org/ [2] http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/SC34/ [3] http://www.python.org/ [4] http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~larsga/download/python/xml/saxlib.html [5] http://www.infotek.no/~grove/software/xmlarch/index.html [6] http://www.infotek.no/~grove/software/gps/licence.html * The ZODB implementation won't work in a Java environment, since the ZODB contains code written in C. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

GPS 0.10 - Groves and Property Sets for Python; an implementation of the groves and property set concepts defined in the HyTime and DSSSL standards. (10-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From Amos@digicool.com Thu Nov 11 01:20:29 1999 From: Amos@digicool.com (Amos Latteier) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 99 01:20:29 GMT Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 10 Nov 1999 Message-ID: Hi, Zope 2.1 beta one was released this week. There will probably be a relatively short beta period before Zope 2.1 final comes out. Zope 2.1 focuses on boosting reliability and performance. In other news, Zope community members continue to crank out code, documentation, publicity, and all manner of excitement. * Zope 2.1.0 beta 1 was released. This release includes many bug fixes, performance and reliability improvements and a number of new features such as the beginnings of internationalization support and relevance ranking for ZCatalog. http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0b1/ http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-November/000064.html * Paul Everitt announced that there will be a Zope track at the upcoming Python conference in January. There are still two slots open if you're interesting in giving a Zope presentation. http://www.zope.org/Members/paul/ZopeTrack http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013631.html * Simon Michael announced ZWiki 0.2, a Wiki-style on-line collaborative tool. http://www.zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki http://163.182.196.200/zwiki * Pavlos Christoforou released ZpdfDocument-0-0-1, a Zope product to create PDF output from structured text and HTML. Very cool! http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/ZpdfDocument http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013385.html * Edd Dumbill announced SiteSummary 1.2.1, which allows you to manage RSS channels within Zope. http://www.zope.org/Members/edmundd/SiteSummary * Zope guru Martijn Pieters posted a summary of his Zope talk at NLUUG, the Dutch UNIX Users Group. Interesting stuff. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013514.html * Evan Simpson enhanced his awesome Python Method product which allows you manage Python methods though the web. http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/PythonMethod http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013537.html * Paul Everitt posted an interesting summary of what it would take to get GNOME talking to Zope. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013580.html * Itamar Shtull-Trauring announced ZCache Product v0.1 which allows caching of Zope method calls. This looks like a very interesting start at addressing caching issues in Zope. http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/ZCache http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013603.html * Linux.com is now running a Zope banner ad created by Michael Bernstein. Linux.com hosts banner ads for a number of Linux community projects. http://www.linux.com/banner_view.phtml http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/013837.html * Alexandre Ratti posted an extensive How-To on creating and using HTML selection lists in Zope. http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/SelectionLists * Doug Hellmann released Chameleon 0.1.0, a Zope product which allows content to be themed. http://www.zope.org/Members/hellmann/Chameleon * Jon Udell mentioned Zope again on Byte.com, this time in a column on Linux and ODBC. http://www.byte.com/column/BYT19991104S0001 See you next week. -Amos == Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From grove@infotek.no Sat Nov 13 21:51:10 1999 From: grove@infotek.no (Geir Ove Grønmo) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 99 21:51:10 GMT Subject: GPS - Groves and Property Sets for Python 0.20 Message-ID: Hello, I'm pleased to announce the second release of GPS - Groves and Property Sets for Python. There has been a lot of changes in this release. The most important being the support for grove managers and managed grove nodes, and a grove walker module. See the changes.txt file in the distribution for a complete list of changes. Suggestions and bug reports should be sent to: grove@infotek.no Geir O. Grønmo -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: GPS - Groves and Property Sets for Python Version: 0.20 Released: November 12th 1999 Author: Geir O. Grønmo, grove@infotek.no License: GPL Homepage: http://www.infotek.no/~grove/software/gps/index.html - -- >>> What is GPS? GPS is an implementation of the groves and property set concepts defined in the HyTime and DSSSL standards. GPS is written in Python, and should work* on any platform to which Python have been ported - including the Java Platform. There are two implementations in the current distribution, one in-memory implemention and one that supports ZODB - the Zope Object Database. Both groves, property sets and grove plans can be made persistent by the ZODB implementation. - -- >>> Features o Loading of property sets from documents conforming to the Property Set DTD, or any derived DTD [requires architectural processing]. o Grove plans. Default grove plans is automatically created by wrapping a GrovePlan object around a property set. Inclusion and omitting of modules, classes and properties are fully supported. o Self-managed and managed grove node implementations, both generic classes for representing grove nodes. o Grove managers that manages a repository of managed grove nodes. o ZODB - Zope Object Database versions of all grove, grove manager, property set and grove plan classes, plus some ZODB utilities. o Module for building XML groves from SAX event streams. This module also contains a class for emitting SAX events by walking XML groves. o Grove walkers, allows for selective processing of groves. o Sample Property Sets - -- >>> Requirements - Python 1.5.2 or newer [3] - An SGML/XML parser with a SAX driver - SAX 1.0 for Python [4] - xmlarch 0.25, optional unless architectural processing is needed [5] - -- >>> References [1] http://www.jpython.org/ [2] http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/SC34/ [3] http://www.python.org/ [4] http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~larsga/download/python/xml/saxlib.html [5] http://www.infotek.no/~grove/software/xmlarch/index.html [6] http://www.infotek.no/~grove/software/gps/licence.html * The ZODB implementation won't work in a Java environment, since ZODB contains code written in C. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

GPS 0.20 - Groves and Property Sets for Python; an implementation of the groves and property set concepts defined in the HyTime and DSSSL standards. (12-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From dieter@handshake.de Sun Nov 14 18:07:10 1999 From: dieter@handshake.de (Dieter Maurer) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 99 18:07:10 GMT Subject: TreeWidget 0.01 Message-ID: TreeWidget 0.01 displays (dynamically changable) tree structures as interactive hierarchical content tables. (i.e. the display is similar to the left part of the MS Windows Explorer and other hierarchical tree browsers.) TreeWidget is based on Greg McFarlane's excellent Python MegaWidget Framework (URL:http://www.dscpl.com.au/pmw/). It is similar to the TreeExplorer in Doug Hellmann's PmwContribD package (URL:http://members.home.net/doughellmann/PmwContribD/index.html), but supports dynamic modification of the displayed tree. More information and download at: URL:http://www.handshake.de/~dieter/pyprojects/treewidget.html - Dieter

TreeWidget 0.01 - displays PMW-based hierarchical content trees; similar to TreeExplorer from the PmwContribD package. (14-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From jafo@tummy.com Fri Nov 26 11:51:35 1999 From: jafo@tummy.com (Sean Reifschneider) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 99 11:51:35 GMT Subject: sockserv -- SMTP/NNTP/POP-like server module Message-ID: The sockserv Python module allows one to easily create SMTP/NNTP/POP-like command/response socket servers very easily. Take the following example: import sockserv, os, string class uptimed(sockserv.sockserv): helpinfo_QUIT = ( '200- QUIT', 'Terminate the connection.' ) def do_QUIT(self, client, cmd, args): client.send('Bye now!', nl = 1) return(1) helpinfo_UPTIME = ( '200- UPTIME', 'Display hosts uptime information.' ) def do_UPTIME(self, client, cmd, args): uptime = string.strip(os.popen('uptime', 'r').readlines()[0]) client.send(str(uptime), nl = 1) s = uptimed(5000) s.mainloop() The standard socket library module is a fairly slim layer on top of standard Unix sockets. As you can see, this is a much higher-level abstraction. It's been in use internally for around a year now, and has been used as the base for numerous internal projects including SMTP servers and proxies, POP and other similar protocols. For more information see http://www.tummy.com/sockserv/ Sean == Why would I want to be a Doctor, when I could be a MASTER? Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous URL: HP-UX/Linux/FreeBSD/BSDOS scanning software.

sockserv - allows one to easily create SMTP/NNTP/POP-like command/response socket servers very easily. (23-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From pyca@ms.inka.de Fri Nov 26 11:53:22 1999 From: pyca@ms.inka.de (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 99 11:53:22 GMT Subject: pyCA-0.6.2 - tools for setting up a certificate authority Message-ID: HI! I would like to announce a new beta release of my package pyCA, a set of scripts and CGI-BIN programs written in Python for setting up and running a certificate authority using OpenSSL. See http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/pyca/ for more details. Ciao, Michael.

pyca-0.6.2 - scripts and CGI-BIN programs for setting up and running a certificate authority using OpenSSL. (24-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From tony@lsl.co.uk Fri Nov 26 11:54:02 1999 From: tony@lsl.co.uk (Tony J Ibbs (Tibs)) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 99 11:54:02 GMT Subject: Metalanguage (v0.3) for mxTextTools Message-ID: This is to announce v0.3 (tiepin) of my metalanguage translator for mxTextTools. Marc-André Lemburg provides mxTextTools, a package of fast text manipulation tools for use with Python. The tagging engine within that package takes as input a set of tuples, the Tag Table, which tells it what to do. Although simple in format, these tuples aren't particularly readable, and indeed Marc-André himself says: "I admit, these tables don't look very elegant. In fact I would much rather write them in some meta language that gets compiled into these tables instead of handcoding them. But I've never had time to do much research into this, so unless someone volunteers, it will stay like this for some time." This version of the metalanguage translator implements enough notation to allow its own tag tables to be written in the metalanguage. Although it doesn't yet support various things (notably, strings with escaped quotation marks, function calls, and embedded tables with T/F conditions) it already provides enough power for most of my own needs, and should hopefully be useful to other people. Significant advantages of using the metalanguage are: * it avoids the problem of counting (and recounting) offsets between tuples * it avoids the pitfall of forgetting a comma between two tuples (which on my Windows machine at home is enough to crash Python) * it enforces indentation for meaning in the same way that Python itself does * it provides an "if" construct * obviously, I believe it to be more readable than the bare tuple notation Licensing: I like the Python Powered license at http://starship.python.net/~just/pythonpowered/ so please apply that with suitable amendments. Although Marc-André is aware of this work, it is in no way his fault (apart from the quote above and some helpful comments, for which thanks), so don't blame him... Note that mxTextTools v1.1.1 or later is required to use the translator. The metalanguage description and translator is available at http://www.tibsnjoan.demon.co.uk/mxtext/Metalang.html mxTextTools itself is available at http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/mxTextTools.html

Metalanguage v0.3 for mxTextTools - a little language (and its translator) to make it easier to write mxTextTools tag tables. (24-Nov-99) == Tony J Ibbs (Tibs) tony@lsl.co.uk http://www.tibsnjoan.demon.co.uk/ Feet first with 5 wheels... My views! Mine! Mine! (Unless Laser-Scan ask nicely to borrow them.) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From sabren@manifestation.com Fri Nov 26 12:02:19 1999 From: sabren@manifestation.com (sabren@manifestation.com) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 99 12:02:19 GMT Subject: o2x Message-ID: Hey everyone, This is my contribution to pythondom.. :) XML can get ugly. There's a lot of editors for it that let you manage its tree-like structure, but I much prefer the simple outline-mode interface provided by emacs. So, I wrote o2x to convert outline-mode files to XML. (works as a module or standalone program) http://www.sabren.com/code/python/ Thanks, -Michal Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

o2x - convert Emacs ''outline mode'' files to XML. (25-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From mike@digicool.com Fri Nov 26 12:02:58 1999 From: mike@digicool.com (Mike Pelletier) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 99 12:02:58 GMT Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 24 Nov 1999 Message-ID: G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the Zope.org site. It is published each Wednesday evening. New Products and Announcements * "jwashin" released ZRTChat, an entirely ZClass real-time chat object. No java or javascript! http://www.zope.org/Members/jwashin/ZRTChat * The new Sybase Database Adapter has been released. It has been completely rewritten. http://www.zope.org/Products/DA/SybaseDA * "tseaver" submitted an internationalisation ZClass. It contains a set of translations of a document and serves the correct language to the user. http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/ZI18N * "Zen" has released GenericUserFolder, which seems to allow you to mix and match authentication methods to suit your needs. GenericUserFolder is very much beta, and not to be used on production sites. http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/GenericUserFolder Updates * "anthony" released an update of his SQL Session product. SQL Session provides SQL database-based session objects, keyed to browser cookies. Unlike the previous update, this one does not break existing SQL Session objects. http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/software/SQLSession * "rossl" has updated the LDAPAdapter product, which allows you to authenticate web users with an LDAP server. http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter_0.7 * Itmar Shtull-Trauring has released v0.3 of ZCache. http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/ZCache Zope.org items * "AlexR" posted a How-To about using ZCatalog's keyword index facility. A keyword index is something halfway between a text index and a field index-- it is a list of values which are treated atomically. http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/KeywordIndexes * Brian Lloyd has submitted a patch for Apache which allows you to use WebDAV with Zope through Apache. Normally Apache intercepts the HTTP OPTIONS request. With this patch, the request gets passed to Zope so it can offer WebDAV services. http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/Misc/mod_cgi_webdav_patch.html * "Earthtone" wrote a mini-review of the Zope coverage in a new book, "The Quick Python Book". http://www.zope.org/Members/Earthtone/news-zope_chapter Notable Discussions * Sachin Shah wrote in to suggest that the Properties management view should include each of the property's type. Martijn Faassen agreed and suggested including the ability to change property types. Evan Simpson pulled a property-type-changer out of a hat! Oleg Broytmann suggests cut/copy/paste support. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014379.html * "Chas" asked for advice selecting an OS for his Zope server. He will be using it with an Oracle server on another machine, and so the operating system must be supported by Oracle. Suggestions so far: Linux and Sun Sparc and FreeBSD with Linux emulation. No one has verified whether FreeBSD, Chas's preference, would actually work. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014366.html * "Milt" wants to move a Zope server from a Windows machine to a Linux one. He solicited advice for accomplishing this. Solution: copy var/Data.fs from one machine to the other. It is platform-independent. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014359.html * Ross Boylan gives us a heads-up on a bug in Zope Products. It seems that a failure in Product registration (ie, in the Product's __init__.py file) can cause Zope to misreport an old error, leading to the occasional headache. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014340.html * Alexander Limi is understandably concerned about sending cleartext passwords over the Internet when authenticating Zope users and managers. Christopher Petrilli offers some solutions. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014339.html * Jason Jone kicked off a brisk discussion of FastCGI and Zope. The verdict: to get full functionality, you have to use a snapshot (prerelease) of version 2.2.3 of mod_fastcgi. Using prerelease code made some people uncomfortable. This will change when 2.2.3-final is released. http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-November/014254.html See also, doc/WEBSERVER.txt of the Zope CVS == Mike Pelletier. -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From michael.stroeder@inka.de Fri Nov 26 12:04:36 1999 From: michael.stroeder@inka.de (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 99 12:04:36 GMT Subject: proxy_auth_ldap-0.1.3.py: LDAP auth module for Squid Message-ID: HI! I would like to announce proxy_auth_ldap-0.1.3.py, a new release of a small and primitive script for doing external user authentication with a Squid cache proxy against a LDAP server. You can grab it from: http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/proxy_auth_ldap/ Changes: Tolerant (re-)connecting if LDAP host is/went down. Ciao, Michael.

proxy_auth_ldap 0.1.3 - a small script for doing external user authentication with a Squid cache proxy against an LDAP server. (25-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------ From uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com Sat Nov 27 17:21:46 1999 From: uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com (uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 99 17:21:46 GMT Subject: New 4Suite mailing list Message-ID: [Moderator's note: 4Suite, by FourThought LLC, is a suite of Python-based open-source software related to XML processing: 4DOM, 4XSL, 4XPath, and, yet unpublished, 4ODS and 4XLink.] There is now a mailing list for 4Suite (http://FourThought.com/4Suite). To subscribe or for list archives, please visit http://lists.fourthought.com/mailman/listinfo/4suite == Uche Ogbuji FourThought LLC, IT Consultants uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com (970)481-0805 Software engineering, project management, Intranets and Extranets http://FourThought.com http://OpenTechnology.org

4Suite mailing list - a new mailing list for FourThought's 4Suite open-source tools for XML processing (4DOM, 4XSL, 4XPath etc.). (26-Nov-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------