From bwarsaw@python.org (Barry Warsaw)  Sun Feb  6 17:32:04 2000
From: bwarsaw@python.org (Barry Warsaw) (Barry Warsaw)
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 00 17:32:04 GMT
Subject: JPython 1.1 final
Message-ID: <mt2.0-20695-949858324@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Greetings from the Python conference!

I'm pleased to announce the release of JPython 1.1 final, the 100%
Pure Java implementation of the Python language.

Below is a summary of recent changes.  See

    http://www.jpython.org/NEWS

for more details on what's changed.  For more information on JPython
in general and for links to the downloads, please see

    http://www.jpython.org/

Enjoy,
-Barry

<P><A HREF="http://www.jpython.org">JPython 1.1 final</A> - a 100%
Pure Java implementation of the Python language.  (26-Jan-2000)

-------------------- snip snip --------------------
26-Jan-2000 JPython 1.1 final released

  - Only one small CPython compatibility patch to os.mkdir() and
    os.makedirs() -- optional `mode' argument, which is ignored.

21-Jan-2000 JPython 1.1 release candidate 1 released

  New JPython features and bug fixes
    - Race conditions when creating multiple PythonInterpreter objects
      in an embedded multithreaded Java application have been fixed.
    - Recursive print of a module's namespace no longer overflows the
      JVM stack.
    - Fixed backslashing of quotes inside triple quoted strings (Finn
      Bock).
    - Fixes to read(int) method on file objects, which used to return
      the empty string before EOF was seen.
    - Class-based exceptions are used in frozen (jpythonc) modules.
    - Duplicate argument names in a function definition raise the
      appropriate SyntaxError.
    - os.path.getsize() has been added.
    - mutability of tuples under some situations has been fixed.
    - dictionary insertion order affecting dictionary equality has
      been fixed (Finn Bock).
    - Using the --package option with jpythonc has been fixed.

  Improved CPython 1.5.2 compatibility
    - optional sizehint argument implemented for readlines() method on
      file objects.
    - Better compatibility in %g formatting of floats.
    - sys.stdout.softspace is now writeable.
    - re.VERBOSE/re.X flags are implemented.
    - traceback object's reprs are CPython conformant.
    - In module os, os.error is equivalent to the builtin OSError.
      Also, listdir(), mkdir(), makedirs(), remove(), rename(), and
      rmdir() raise OSError directly.
    - os.stat() raises an OSError if the file is missing.

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From mike@digicool.com  Sun Feb  6 17:32:56 2000
From: mike@digicool.com (Mike Pelletier)
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 00 17:32:56 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 2 Feb 2000
Message-ID: <mt2.0-20695-949858376@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

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.

    Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the
    chronicler exclusively.

    Suggestions for ZWN items are happily accepted.  Please mail them
    to <mike@digicool.com>, put 'ZWN' somewhere in the subject and
    remember to include URLs.


Announcements

  * ActiveState has announced it will be offering industrial-strength
    commercial Python support.  ActiveState is renowned for their
    Perl support and development tools.  The press release, linked
    below, includes comments from Paul Everitt.

    http://www.activestate.com/press/releases/python.htm

  * Frank Wilson, editor-in-chief at O'Reilly, presently has quite a
    lot of commentary on the IPC8, Python, Zope and Digital Creations
    in his "Frankly Speaking" column.

    http://www.oreilly.com/frank/

  * O'Reilly recently launched their new portal, O'Reilly Network.
    The prestigious first feature is an interview with Paul Everitt,
    which explores some of the hidden gotchas and bonuses of opening
    up your software.  The interview is available as text and three
    flavours of audio: High bandwidth RealAudio, low bandwidth
    RealAudio, and MP3.  Nice!

    http://www.oreillynet.com/
    http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/01/25/interview/index.html

  * You can now follow ZopeStudio (aka the Zope-Mozilla Initiative) as
    it evolves by tracking the new ZopeMozilla CVS.  For more
    information, see:

    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2000-January/000102.html

  * The Zope Portal Toolkit (PTK) is now a Real Live Product, and is
    also avalialable to be tracked by CVS.  See the post in the
    zope-ptk@zope.org list.

    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-February/000111.html

  * Chris McDonough <chrism@digicool.com> reported ZDNet UK's analysis
    of open source application servers Zope and Midgard.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/Links/zdnetuk-appserver

  * Trey Seaver <tseaver@palladion.com> announced the commencement of
    the Zope Guru of the Week "contest".  Trey even made the
    application handling the ZGotW downloadable.

    http://zope.palladion.com/demos/ZGotW

  * "jwashin" submitted a "ZClasses Survey/quiz product".  It is still
    undergoing development, and contributions are welcome.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jwashin/Survey

  * Geeknews.org published an interesting interview with Rick
    Collette, head developer for SPIRO Linux.  In it, Rick explains
    the reasoning behind including Zope as a distribution component.

    http://www.geeknews.org/features/interviews/spirolinuxinterview.html

  * Linux Weekly News offered the following link to ZopeNewbies'
    coverage of the IPC8 and it's Zope Track.  Photos!

    http://weblogs.userland.com/zopeNewbies/


New Releases

  * Zope 2.1.3 has been released. This update contains fixes for a
    race condition that could cause Zope to hang on very high-traffic
    sites, two database packing bugs, and a bug that caused Zope to
    sometimes hang instead of shutting down when the shutdown function
    was accessed over a very fast network.

    http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.3/

  * "ngps" announced the availability of a very exciting product,
    "M2Crypto", which allows ZServer (and so Zope) to speak SSL
    natively.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/ngps/m2crypto_news

  * RainDog submitted version 0.0.1 of TTImage.  TTImage renders
    arbitrary text to images on-the-fly.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/RainDog/TTImage

  * "haqa" has contributed "Favourite Links", a ZClass-based product
    which presumably manages a collection of links.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa/ZLinks


Updates and Patches

  * "kslee" contributed Zope patch which allows you to select from a
    list of default contents when creating a DTML Method/Document.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/kslee/DTML_Repository_Patch

  * "faassen" released version 0.2 of ZFormulator.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/ZFormulator/

  * "phd" announced that mod_pcgi2 has reached version 1.0.0.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2

  * "jephte" updated jcNTUserFolder to version 0.0.2.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jephte/jcNTUserFolder

  * "kslee" spent some time hacking on ZCatalog's splitter.py and the
    result was Voodoo Kludge Splitter.  The splitter is what
    determines word breaks for full text searches.  The Voodoo Kludge
    Splitter allows full text searches of non-ASCII content, such as
    Korean, Japanese and Chinese.  There are caveats to be aware of.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/kslee/VoodooKludgeSplitter/

  * Evan Simpson <evan@4-am.com> has brought his SiteAccess product up
    to version 1.0.0.  This is the first stable release.  SiteAccess
    allows you to use virtual hosting to make non-root Zope objects
    appear to be the root of your website.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess

  * "htrd" contributed a Zope hack which "provides support for wide
    character strings in ZPublisher, property pages, and property
    sheets."

    http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/wstring

  * "jules" contributed a HowTo which describes the creation of
    "Smarter" forms.  The idea is to prevent the user from ever having
    to go "Back" by representing forms with prior inputs already
    filled in.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jules/smarterforms_html/smarterforms_html

  * Another HowTo from "jules", this one describes auto-starting Zope
    on boot on a SuSE 6.3 system.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jules/SuSE-6.3_html


Zope.org items

  * Chris Petrilli <petrilli@digicool.com> has made all the slides
    from the tutorials he offered at the Zope Track of IPC8 available
    online.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/petrilli/Presentations/

  * "kusako" contributed a Tip which explains how to catalog a group
    of properties as though they were one.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/kusako/AdvancedCataloging

  * Miklos Nemeth <nemeth@iqsoft.hu> submitted "How-To: Using Emacs
    with Zope on RedHat 6.1".  It appears to walk the user through
    using Emacs as a Zope development environment.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/nemeth/usingEmacsWithZope

  * "rbickers" wrote an excellent HowTo on Running Zope on BeOS.  The
    HowTo includes links to a suitable Zope binary.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/rbickers/Zope_on_BeOS

  * Continuing a thread, Jeffrey Shell <jeffrey@digicool.com> wrote a
    similar HowTo for MacOS X.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jshell/buildingZopeOnMacOSXServer

  * "jephte" submitted a HowTo describing how to make Zope work in
    remote user mode (this is, making the webserver deal with
    Authentication) in conjunction with IIS.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jephte/HOWTO/IIS_and_Zope_in_REMOTE_USER_mode

  * Chris Pertilli <petrilli@digicool.com> has started a Z SQL Method
    FAQ.  He is accepting additional questions and answers.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/petrilli/ZSQLFAQ

  * Chris McDonough <chrism@digicool.com> wrote an EXTENSIVE HowTo
    describing the process of installing Zope and upgrading an
    existing Zope installation, complete with screenshots.  If you are
    having difficulty getting Zope off the ground, this looks like the
    place to start.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/zopeinstall/ZOPE-INSTALL-HOWTO

  * Miklos Nemeth <nemeth@iqsoft.hu> also contributed a HowTo about
    using the SQL Sessions product.  SQL Sessions allows you to store
    arbitrary per-visitor state in an SQL database.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/nemeth/usingSQLSession

  * John Udell <udell@monad.net> wrote "How-To: A <dtml-calendar>
    example", which demonstrates managing per-date data with the
    <dtml-calendar> tag presenting the interface.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/judell/CalendarTagExample

  * "anthony" submitted "How-To: Choosing to store data in SQL vs
    ZODB".  In it, he supplies a number of questions you can ask
    yourself to determine whether to keep application data in the Zope
    database or an external one.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/sql_vs_ZODB

  * Miklos Nemeth <nemeth@iqsoft.hu> has written another HowTo
    targeted at RedHat 6.1 users: "Zope and Apache on RedHat 6.1".

    http://www.zope.org/Members/nemeth/howtos/zopeandapacherh61

  * Another Chris McDonough <chrism@digicool.com> HowTo: "Using the
    Zope Debug Log to Track Down Hangs".  This HowTo includes a log
    file analyser.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/DEBUG-LOG

  * Jim Fulton has made three of his IPC8 presentations available.
    They are "Introduction to the Zope Object Database", "Acquisition
    Algebra", and "Zope Architecture".

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jim/Info/IPC8/ZODB3News
    http://www.zope.org/Members/jim/Info/IPC8/AqAlgNews
    http://www.zope.org/Members/jim/Info/IPC8/ZopeArchNews


== 
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From paul.magwene@yale.edu  Sun Feb  6 17:33:16 2000
From: paul.magwene@yale.edu (Paul M)
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 00 17:33:16 GMT
Subject: pxDislin - release 0.3
Message-ID: <mt2.0-20695-949858396@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

DESCRIPTION:
-----------
    pxDislin is an object-oriented wrapper around the DISLIN plotting
library.  DISLIN is a powerful and flexible multiplatform (Win32,
Unix, Linux, etc.) library designed for displaying scientific data.
DISLIN's author, Helmut Michels, has made available a DISLIN plotting
extension for the Python programming language (see
http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin/ for more details).

    pxDislin provides a set of classes which represent various aspects
of DISLIN plots, as well as providing some easy to use classes for
creating commonly used plot formats (e.g. scatter plots, histograms,
3-D surface plots).  A major goal in designing the library was to
facilitate interactive data exploration and plot creation.

    Documentation and a demo program are included.  The library has
been tested on WinNT and FreeBSD, but I anticipate that it should work
on any platform which can make use of Python, NumPy, and the DISLIN
python extensions.

    Feedback, comments, and critique are gladly accepted (email:
paul.magwene@yale.edu).


VERSION:
-------
    This is release 0.3 of pxDislin.

WHAT'S NEW?
-----------
-- Almost complete coverage of useful plot functions in the DISLIN
library.
-- Support for legends.
-- New attribute setting mechanisms to improve functionality in
interactive seesions.


URL:
----
    You can find pxDislin at:
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pmm34/pxdislin.html



Paul Magwene
paul.magwene@yale.edu

<P><A HREF="http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pmm34/pxdislin.html">pxDislin
0.3</A> - a set of object-oriented classes which work with the DISLIN
python extension.  (03-Feb-2000)

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From effbot@telia.com  Sun Feb  6 17:33:26 2000
From: effbot@telia.com (Fredrik Lundh)
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 00 17:33:26 GMT
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb  3)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-20695-949858406@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The eff-bot finally makes it back from the Python conference, after
an involuntary detour to Oslo.  Here's this weeks' Python-Alert, worth
well over $9.52 per week:

First, a couple of reminders:

    Don't forget Software Carpentry's design competition:
        http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/contest-rules.html

    Don't forget the www.python.org design competition:
        http://www.python.org/Redesign.html

    And don't forget the O'Reilly Python Conference: deadline
    extended to at least Feb 15:
        http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/call.html

The eighth Python conference (SPAM8) was a huge success.  Almost everyone
was there, except Tim Peters.  He might be real, though -- at least two
usually reliable sources told me they'd met him in real life.

    Here're interesting links:
        http://www.oreilly.com/frank/index.html (frank willison)
        http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/diary (andrew kuchling)
        http://freeweb.pdq.net/robinf1/spam8pix/ (robin friedrich's photo album)
        http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ (conference site)
        http://www.reiters.com/ (official conference bookstore)
        http://www.cravindogs.com/about.html (python powered, sort of)

In other news:
    ActiveState (www.activestate.com) joins the Python Consortium,
    and announces great plans for Python.  David Ascher has more
    info on this:
        http://www.egroups.com/group/python-list/77941.html
        http://www.activestate.com/press/releases/python.htm

    Secret Labs AB (www.pythonware.com) joins the Python Consortium,
    and also receives first round of venture funding from the East
    Sweden Foundation of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer.

People keep releasing cool software:
    Christian Tismer's übercool stackless python:
        http://www.tismer.com/research/stackless/

    Barry Warsaw announces JPython 1.1 final:
        http://www.jpython.org/NEWS

    Andreas Jung releases PMW (Poor Man's Zope):
        http://www.suxers.de/pmz.htm

More books arrive:
    Python and Tkinter Programming (by John Grayson)
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=575925861
        http://www.manning.com/grayson/

    Python Programming for Win32 (Andy Robinson & Mark Hammond)
        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32
    (both books mention my name, so they can't be that bad ;-)

    Btw, judging from what people told the eff-bot at SPAM8, at
    least four more books are in the works.  And if you want to
    write your own Python book, Greg Wilson has some great ideas
    for you:
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=579589266


    Finally, the Scheme folks reveal the truth about Python and
    Pythoneers, but completely fails to start another flame war.
    Read more in this thread:
        http://www.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=580480307


========================================================================

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

      The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources
          http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

      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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  http://www.egroups.com/list/python-url-leads/

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From bwarsaw@python.org (Barry Warsaw)  Sun Feb  6 17:33:38 2000
From: bwarsaw@python.org (Barry Warsaw) (Barry Warsaw)
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 00 17:33:38 GMT
Subject: Python CVS available via the Web
Message-ID: <mt2.0-20695-949858418@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The very latest CVS snapshot of the Python source code is has been
available by anonymous CVS for a while now.  See

    http://www.python.org/download/cvs.html

for details.

Just van Rossum reminds me that I forgot to announce that I've also
installed Greg Stein's excellent ViewCVS tool so you can get Web
access to the CVS repository for Python (and JPython, Mailman,
Distutils, XML-SIG, and CC Mode).  Visit

    http://cvs.python.org/

to take a look.  It won't be very fast though; it's running on a
pretty old machine.

Enjoy,
-Barry

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From ruebe@aachen.heimat.de  Sat Feb 19 23:54:34 2000
From: ruebe@aachen.heimat.de (Christian Scholz)
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:54:34 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Announcement of GROUP.lounge 0.3b
Message-ID: <20000219235434.CFB3C610DB@aachen.heimat.de>

Announcement of GROUP.lounge 0.3b
---------------------------------

Written in 1999-2000 by Christian "Mr Topf" Scholz


What is GROUP.lounge?
---------------------

GROUP.lounge is a tool for collaborations over the world wide web.

It enables a group of people to effectively work over the internet on
documents. It enables you to share documents, notes, etc. with people
all over the world.


Features of GROUP.lounge
------------------------

 - enables a group of people on the internet to work together
 - stores notes (normal text) and documents (any data) organized in folders.
 - keeps history on who changed when some object.
 - gives users the ability to invite other people to share a folder.
 - Is easily customizable in layout/design through html templates
 - WebDAV support to work with it e.g. via WebFolders
 - object oriented design for easy implementation of new object types


Version
-------

The recent version is 0.3b


New in 0.3b
-----------

- fixed commit function
- fixed problem with homedir link in path when editing members
- MOVE will now be stored in the event subscriptions
- little stylesheet enhancements


URL
---
You can find it at http://www.grouplounge.net/

Christian Scholz
cs@grouplounge.net

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From mike@digicool.com  Wed Feb 23 23:25:36 2000
From: mike@digicool.com (Mike Pelletier)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:25:36 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Zope Weekly News
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002231824520.5888-100000@geekbox.metamike.net>

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.

    Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the
    chronicler exclusively.


Announcements

  * Neuberger & Hughes have announced the release of version 1.0 of
    their WorldPilot software.  It has been whispered in shady
    corners of conferences that WorldPilot could well be Zope's first
    Killer App.  WorldPilot is an integrated, through-the-web PIM and
    IMAP mail client, with collaborative capabilities.

    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2000-February/000117.html


New Products

  * Software Product: "Simple Directory of URLs", submitted by "Roug"

    This handy product manages sets of links to external resources.
    It can perform click-through counting, and allows untrusted users
    to submit link suggestions (which are subject to review).

    http://www.zope.org/Members/Roug/SimpleURLs

  * Software Product: "An Extensible, Base Banner System", submitted
    by "Bill"

    "Bill" wrote, "BannerSystem is the beginning of a full-fledged
    banner add management system.  Currently, it is functional, and
    includes a sample implementation that can be used."

    http://www.zope.org/Members/Bill/Products/BannerSystem

  * Software Product: "JSplitter", submitted by "brianh"

    This is a replacement for ZCatalog's word-splitter.  This product
    enables full-text searching of Japanese with ZCatalog.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/brianh/JSplitter

  * Software Product: "A simple site mapping object", submitted by
    "haqa"

    This ZClass product provides three forms of navigation widgets:
    "Top Level" (horizontal), "Full Context" (vertical) and a full
    Site Map.  It requires "lalo"'s Renderable ZClass product.  (See
    links)

    http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa/ZSiteMap
    http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/Renderable-ZClass

  * Software Product: "A simple photo album product", submitted by
    "haqa"

    A simple ZClass product which provides a means of organising and
    browsing collections of images.  They can be browsed as thumbnails
    in user-configured batch sizes.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/haqa/ZPhotoAlbum


Updates

  * Software Product: "MySQL user folder", submitted by "vladap"

    Version 0.4.0 has been released.  This release adds a layer of
    indirection to the DTML interface files the user folder uses to
    allow for multilingualism.  Also, anonymous authentication now
    works.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/vladap/mysqlUserFolder

  * Software Product: "An Interface for MySQL", submitted by
    "adustman"

    This Products description states, "MySQLdb is a Python interface
    to MySQL-3.22.  It is designed to be fully thread-safe and will
    not block other threads."  A patch is included which will update
    ZMySQLDA to use this interface, rather than it's older,
    non-thread-safe version.

    The latest release is 0.1.2.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/adustman/MySQLdb


Zope.org items

  * How-To: "Using Zope on a third-party web host", submitted by
    "gldnspud"

    This How-To explains how to set up Zope to run on a Unix server
    where you do not have administrative rights, such as on an ISP's
    server.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/gldnspud/zope3rdparty

  * How-To: "Use Direct Traversal of SQL Methods", submitted by Chris
    McDonough

    'Direct Traversal' is a trick which allows you to create URLs
    which pass arguments to SQL Methods _without_ a query string on
    the end of the URL.  This allows more aesthetically pleasing,
    "Mom-friendly" URLs.

    The audience for this How-To appears to be Zope newbies and
    intermediates with some SQL experience.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/direct_traversal

--
Mike Pelletier.



From david_schere@yahoo.com  Thu Feb 24 03:50:57 2000
From: david_schere@yahoo.com (David Schere)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:50:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: RMP
Message-ID: <20000224035057.13003.qmail@web1505.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello all,

  I hope that this is the right mailing list to
announce new software. I have just created a network
toolkit for sending variable length connectionless
network messages reliably. It is called RMP and is
completely written in Python. 

Here is the URL:
http://starship.python.net/crew/dschere/rmp

I hope some of you will find it a usefull 
architecture. 

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From effbot@telia.com  Fri Feb 25 08:35:48 2000
From: effbot@telia.com (Fredrik Lundh)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 08:35:48 GMT
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb  7)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-24713-951467748@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Major New Internet Portal Python Powered!
        http://www.filibuster.org

    On the edu-sig, David Scherer reminds us what CP4E (and Python)
    is all about
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2000-February/000098.html

    New guidelines for patch contributions
        http://www.python.org/patches/

    Python's CVS repository can be accessed via the web
        http://cvs.python.org/

    The edu-sig deals with everything related to using Python in
    education (except, perhaps, whether Python should remain case
    sensitive or not).  Great discussions, thus far
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=580836413
        http://www.python.org/sigs/edu-sig/ 

    The import-sig will design a new architecture for the import
    facilities in Python (to better support embedding, archives,
    installers, etc)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=581571482
        http://www.python.org/sigs/import-sig/

    New Python consortium members that we forgot to mention in
    last week's URL
        ASTi: http://www.asti.com
        BeOpen: http://www.beopen.com

    Danny Yee reviews Dave Beazley's Python Essential Reference
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=582232970
        http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/book-reviews/h/Python_Reference.html

    How do I add subject lines to mails sent via smtplib?
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=582411857

    What's wrong with execfile and local variables?
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=581374636
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=581843072

    How do I best prepare a Python?
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=581198835

    A useful example of asynchronous socket work
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=581929417

    New releases of plotting software
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=581191243 (gdchart)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=582314930 (pxDislin)

    And to round off this week's URL, here's some Python poetry
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=581006163


========================================================================

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

      The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources
          http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

      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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From jeremy@cnri.reston.va.us  Fri Feb 25 08:36:00 2000
From: jeremy@cnri.reston.va.us (Jeremy Hylton)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 08:36:00 GMT
Subject: Compiler SIG
Message-ID: <mt2.0-24713-951467760@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

You are invited to join the Compiler SIG:
http://www.python.org/sigs/compiler-sig/

The Web pages about the SIG still need a lot of work, but they provide
some indication of the SIG's purpose:

    This SIG provides a forum for discussing compilation and program
    analysis issues. Unlike most SIGs, it does not have a specific
    mandate or deliverable. There are several independent projects to
    develop compilers, type checkers, and related tools.

Ka-Ping Yee took notes on the Dev Day session on compilers.  It
provides more background about the SIG:

    http://www.python.org/sigs/compiler-sig/dev-day-notes.txt

I am putting together a list of Python compiler and program analysis
projects.  If you are responsible for such a project, I'd appreciate
it if you could send me a URL and a brief description.  I'll post the
final list on the compiler-sig Web page.

Jeremy

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From mike@digicool.com  Fri Feb 25 08:36:20 2000
From: mike@digicool.com (Mike Pelletier)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 08:36:20 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 9 Feb 2000
Message-ID: <mt2.0-24713-951467780@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

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.

    Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the
    chronicler exclusively.

    Suggestions for ZWN items are happily accepted.  Please mail them
    to <mike@digicool.com>, put 'ZWN' somewhere in the subject and
    remember to include URLs.


Announcements

  * Zope 2.1.4 has been released.  The blame goes to Evan Simpson, who
    pointed out a problem which would allow people to construct links
    to a Zope server such that it would cause JScript (or other
    HTML-embeddable scripts) to be executed in the user's browser.
    This script would appear to come from the Zope server.  While this
    is not too terribly dangerous (your browser doesn't have any
    security holes, right?), all users are encouraged to upgrade.

    http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.4/Zope_214_release


New Releases

  * "brianh" has been given custodianship of the Ultraseek DA product.
    This is a Zope Database Adapter which provides an interface to
    Infoseek's Ultraseek Server search engine.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/brianh/UltraseekDA

  * "ngarcia" announced the first public release of the Wampum
    Generator, a CyberCash Connector for Zope.  This product gives
    application developers the ability to process Internet credit card
    transactions in Zope.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/ngarcia/WampumGenerator


Updates

  * Digital Creations has released an updated version of the Sybase
    Database Adapter.  It's hoped that this release fixes the memory
    leaks of the prior version.

    http://www.zope.org/Products/DA/SybaseDA/

  * "Drew" has updated the ZPhotoAlbum product.  This product presents
    pages of ZPhotos (images) scaled to the user-specified thumbnail
    size.  The present version is 0.4.3.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/Drew/Photo/

  * Jonothan Farr <jfarr@real.com> updated his LocalFS product.  This
    product allows Zope to serve files out of (shockingly enough) the
    local filesystem.  Additionally, it can serve from network shares
    if you are running Zope on a Windows machine.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/LocalFS


Zope.org items

  * Chris McDonough <chrism@digicool.com> has crafted a gentle and
    easily digested introduction to Zope he's called, "Gain Zope
    Enlightenment By Grokking Object Orientation".  If you are _not_ a
    computer scientist, geek or Python programmer, this seems to be
    the place for you to start.  He does a wonderful job of answering
    a very difficult question, "What is Zope?"  At the end, the
    complete novice should have a decent understanding of how Zope
    works, what an object is and what it means to publish one, and how
    these objects work.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/gainenlightenment

  * "muesli" created a HowTo which explains the 'domains' security
    feature of user objects.  This allows you to restrict access to
    specific hosts, domains, or IP addresses.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/muesli/AuthByAddress

  * "jec" posted a HowTo which explains automating the starting and
    stopping (at startup and shutdown) of a Zope server on a Red Hat
    system.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jec/startstop_howto_html

  * "vernier" has written a HowTo on creating custom Zope Debian packages.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/vernier/debian

  * "lalo" wrote a HowTo which describes how to use cron to trigger
    events on a Zope server.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/cron

  * Jens Vagelpohl <jens@digicool.com> has distilled the essence of
    his experience creating the Zope Demo CD which was distributed at
    IPC8 and created a HowTo so you can create one, too.  These CDs
    work on both Windows and Linux systems.  On a Windows system, the
    Zope server can start right off the CD, and a web browser can
    automatically be launched to view the server's content.  All this
    without writing a single byte to the user's hard drive.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jens/docs/zope_on_cdrom

  * Chris Petrilli <pertilli@digicool.com> posted a proposal titled "A
    Confidence Mechanism in User Role Management".  The idea is to
    make Zope Authentication more flexible than all-or-nothing.  There
    is a discussion about this proposal in the Zope-PTK mailing list.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/petrilli/ConfidenceMetric
    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-ptk/2000-February/000169.html


Corrections

  * Last week, the editor-in-chief of O'Reilly was mistakenly called
    "Frank Wilson".  His name is in fact Frank Willison.


== 
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From: jeremy@cnri.reston.va.us (Jeremy Hylton)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 08:37:17 GMT
Subject: Wash. D.C. Area: DCPIGgies, Mar. 13
Message-ID: <mt2.0-24761-951467837@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Notice to all Washington DC area Python users:

We will be having our first DCPIGgies (DC Python Interest Group)
meeting of the year on Monday March 13, 2000 from 7:30pm to 9:00pm at
CNRI in Reston, Va.

Speaker: Scott Cotton

	    Static Type and Interface Checking for Python
	       General Review and Fundamental Decisions

			       Abstract
			      ----------
This presentation reviews various possible ways of adding static type
checking to python.  The problem poses two questions: 

    1) What sort of static type checking system would be most
    appropriate for python?  
    2) By what means may static type checking be made optional?  
    
A decision tree for each question is presented based on a combination
of type theory, an understanding of python, and properties that have
become apparent in the development of a sample type checking system.
Finally, we discuss some overall approaches that would maximize the
benefits and/or minimize the drawbacks of adding optional static type
checking to python.

Scott will be speaking from 8:00 to 9:00pm.  We will have food and
introductions starting at 7:30pm.  We may also have some time after
the talk for Q&A with Guido and Barry on Python and JPython.

Pizza, salad, and soda will be provided courtesy of Foretec Seminars.
Please RSVP by email to jeremy@cnri.reston.va.us.  I need to know how
many people will attend and how many will be eating pizza.

Directions to CNRI can be found on the Web:

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

Mailing list: There is a mailing list for people interested in
DCPIGgies meetings; see http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/dcpiggies.
This is a low volume list for announcing meetings, arranging to share
rides, and other thrilling PIGgy topics.

See you there!
Jeremy

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From guido@python.org  Fri Feb 25 08:37:35 2000
From: guido@python.org (Guido van Rossum)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 08:37:35 GMT
Subject: IDLE 0.5 released
Message-ID: <mt2.0-24761-951467855@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

After a delay of nearly half a year, I've finally released IDLE 0.5.
I'll quote from the README after listing the URL:

     http://www.python.org/idle/

(Dear edu-sig members, please don't fill the edu-sig mailing list with
detailed feedback on IDLE -- please use the newsgroup or the Python
Bugs List.  Discussion of requirements for adaptation of IDLE in
education are welcome; please first check the TODO list
(http://www.python.org/idle/idle-0.5/TODO.txt) to see if I've already
thought of your request.)

FEATURES

IDLE has the following features:

- coded in 100% pure Python, using the Tkinter GUI toolkit (i.e. Tcl/Tk)

- cross-platform: works on Windows and Unix (on the Mac, there are
currently problems with Tcl/Tk)

- multi-window text editor with multiple undo, Python colorizing
and many other features, e.g. smart indent and call tips

- Python shell window (a.k.a. interactive interpreter)

- debugger (not complete, but you can set breakpoints, view  and step)

USAGE

[...]

IDLE requires Python 1.5.2, so it is currently only usable with a
Python 1.5.2 distribution.  (An older version of IDLE is distributed
with Python 1.5.2; you can drop this version on top of it.)

COPYRIGHT

IDLE is covered by the standard Python copyright notice
(http://www.python.org/doc/Copyright.html).

FEEDBACK

For feedback, please use the Python Bugs List
(http://www.python.org/search/search_bugs.html).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

<P><A HREF="http://www.python.org/idle/">IDLE 0.5</A> - the Integrated
DeveLopment Environment for Python in Python.  (15-Feb-2000)

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From effbot@telia.com  Fri Feb 25 08:37:46 2000
From: effbot@telia.com (Fredrik Lundh)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 08:37:46 GMT
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 15)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-24761-951467866@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Correction: Forget what the eff-bot said in last week's URL.
Consortium member Advanced Simulation Technology, Inc
(ASTi) has its website at:
    http://www.asti-usa.com/

    A new SIG has been established: all kinds of Python compilers
    and Python analysis tools will be discussed on the compiler-sig:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=583755581
        http://www.python.org/sigs/compiler-sig/


    More SPAM8 conference coverage:

    Jeff Shelton (of zopeNewbies fame) covers the zope track in more
    detail:
        http://weblogs.userland.com/zopeNewbies/2000/01/25 (tuesday)
        http://weblogs.userland.com/zopeNewbies/2000/01/26 (wednesday)
        http://weblogs.userland.com/zopeNewbies/2000/01/27 (thursday)

    Ka-Ping Yee took notes during the compiler session on developer's
    day:
        http://www.python.org/sigs/compiler-sig/dev-day-notes.txt

    Talking about conferences, Paul Everitt notices that it's now
    6 years since SPAM1:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=585046812

    Quite a noisefest on comp.lang.python this week; if you're
    interested in why Python really needs a new syntax, check out
    the newsgroup archives.  If not, read on.

    Neel Krishnaswami improves the signal-to-noise ratio by
    posting half-a-dozen "real problems with today's Python":
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=583770349

    Barry Warsaw tells prospective CPython hackers how to configure
    emacs' cc-mode:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=584320718

    Warren Postma ports Python to Phar Lap TNT:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=584219526

    Greg Ewing announces Plex 0.1, a flexible tokenizer tool:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=582911825
        http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Plex

    Jon Udell writes about Python from a Perl perspective.
        http://www.byte.com/feature/BYT20000201S0001

    Will Python 3000 (aka Py3K, formerly known as 2.0) break
    existing programs?
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=584428737

    Finally, Robert Wentworth notices that Python's now being
    talked about in the wonderful world of fashion:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=584887423


========================================================================

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

      The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources
          http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

      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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From guido@python.org  Fri Feb 25 08:37:53 2000
From: guido@python.org (Guido van Rossum)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 08:37:53 GMT
Subject: Python Conference Proceedings now on-line
Message-ID: <mt2.0-24761-951467873@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The proceedings for the 8th International Python Conference are now
on-line:

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

Enjoy.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

<p><a href="workshops/2000-01/proceedings.html">Proceedings</a> of the
8th International Python Conference are now on-line.  (15-Feb-2000)

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From mike@digicool.com  Fri Feb 25 08:38:12 2000
From: mike@digicool.com (Mike Pelletier)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 08:38:12 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 16 Feb 2000
Message-ID: <mt2.0-24761-951467892@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

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.

    Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the
    chronicler exclusively.


Announcements

  * Lalo Martins has begun writing a Zope tutorial in Brazilian
    Portuguese.  His announcement stated he was halfway through, and
    that it was already useful.

    http://zope.gf.com.br/ZopeIntro


New Products

  * Software Product: "Local Factory Objects", submitted by "lalo"

    This package appears to allow you to create Factory objects
    (objects which manage the creation of ZClass instances) in places
    other than a Software Product.  This is useful to prevent the
    'Add' list from becoming unwieldy by placing the Factories in the
    relevant portions of the site, rather than making them globally
    available.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/lalo/LocalFactory/LocalFactory-0.1.tar.gz


  * Software Product: "Persistent List and Dictionary", submitted by
    "AndrewWilcox"

    Like the PersistentMapping object, PersistentList and
    PersistentDict are classes that look like the basic Python types
    of the same names, but which are persistent and which alert the
    ZODB when their contents have changed.  PersistentDict differs
    from PersistentMapping in two respects-- It is not limited to
    strings as keys, and it does not hide keys that begin with an
    underscore.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/AndrewWilcox/PersistentListDict


  * Software Product: "ZDP Tools 0.1", submitted by "roeder"

    This is a distribution of the very tools that make the Zope
    Documentation Project work.  Follow the second link below to see
    the ZDP in action for an idea of what is possible with this
    toolkit.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/roeder
    http://zdp.zope.org:8080/ZDP


  * Software Product: "StructuredText Document", submitted by
    "tseaver"

    This is a very simple, ZClass based Product which provides a means
    of displaying structured text documents without creating a second
    DTML Method to wrap the structured text.  This is often very
    handy.

    Note that ZClasses cannot be used as a Folder's index_html.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/STX_Document


Updates

  * Software Product: "load_site.py with additional features",
    submitted by "itmar"

    This is a modification of the load_site utility that comes with
    Zope.  This utility sucks files and directories out of a local
    filesystem and creates corresponding Zope objects with their
    contents.  Itmar has made some useful changes: the DTML it
    generates is now in the new Zope 2 syntax; certain HTML metadata
    and display options may be placed in object properties; javascript
    can be stripped out of headers (for making Dreamweaver output more
    lightweight); can clean up output of certain Microsoft products so
    that quotes display properly on other platforms.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/itmar/load_site


  * Software Product: "ZWiki 0.4", submitted by "simon"

    ZWiki is a product which allows the creation of wiki webs in Zope.
    What is a wiki web?  Well, I'm not sure, but Peter Merel says that
    the typical wiki web is "insecure, indescriminate, user-hostile,
    slow, and full of difficult, nit-picking people."  And these are
    the GOOD points!  Seriously, a Wiki Web appears to be a dynamic
    web site which is built, torn down and rebuilt by anonymous users.

    0.4 adds a number of tweaks, tunings, and new default content.
    See the link for details.  "simon"'s news item does not include a
    link to the Product, so it's included below as a second link.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki/ZWiki_0.4_released
    http://www.zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki


Zope.org items

  * How-To: "Build a WAP site with Zope", submitted by "Duncan"

    This HowTo describes what you would need to do to allow Zope to
    serve WML pages to cell phones, PDAs, and other wireless devices
    via WAP.  It addresses issues such as setting the content type
    correctly, caching, serving bitmaps, and making the standard Zope
    html-include files both WML and HTML-friendly.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/Duncan/wap_howto


  * "Zope Docs", submitted by "AlexR"

    This is a pretty handy resource.  "AlexR" has compiled all the
    HowTo documents on Zope.org and made them available as a
    printer-friendly Adobe PDF file.  In addition, this page has links
    to a pair of printer-friendly lists of all the HowTo documents on
    Zope.org, one sorted by name, and one by date.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/AlexR/ZopeDocs


  * How-To: "add users in python", submitted by "element"

    In addition to describing the process for adding users to a Zope
    server from a Python Product, this brief How-To also describes
    adding the actual User Folder ('acl_users'), adding a local role,
    and assigning a role to a user.
    
    http://www.zope.org/Members/element/addingUsersInPython


  * How-to: "Generate URLs for Objects", submitted by "jim"

    This is a very thorough How-To on a common, but simple (once you
    know the trick) problem.  Astonishingly, Jim manages to stretch a
    one-line answer into a two-page document.  I don't want to spoil
    the surprise ending, but it is possible to ask an object for it's
    canonical URL, and this How-To explains how.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jim/ObjectURLs


== 
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mike@digicool.com

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From webmaster@python.org (Python.Org Webmaster)  Fri Feb 25 08:38:24 2000
From: webmaster@python.org (Python.Org Webmaster) (Python.Org Webmaster)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 08:38:24 GMT
Subject: Temporary mail problems to python.org
Message-ID: <mt2.0-24761-951467904@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Some of you may have experienced temporary problems sending mail to
the python.org domain.  As of about noon EST, Monday 21-Feb-2000,
these problems should have been resolved, and your queued up messages
should be getting delivered to email addresses @python.org.

In brief, we are in the process of moving most python.org services to
a faster machine.  Friday afternoon (in direct and willful violation
of Warsaw's Second Law[1]), we changed the MX record for python.org to
point to dinsdale.python.org.  Most email was already being handled by
this machine, but via a clunky forwarding scheme through the old
machine.  Unfortunately, due to a misconfiguration of CNRI's gateway,
traffic to the smtp port of dinsdale was being blocked.  This should
now be fixed, and queued mail should be flowing again; no mail should
have actually been lost.

If you experience any residual problems please let us know (you can
email me directly at my CNRI address, which was unaffected).

-Barry

[1] http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/software/laws.html

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From effbot@telia.com  Fri Feb 25 08:38:37 2000
From: effbot@telia.com (Fredrik Lundh)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 08:38:37 GMT
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 21)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-24761-951467917@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

new! you can now get your daily dose of URL stuff at:
    http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm
(thanks to the totally awesome "blogger" tool, from www.pyra.com )

    Last call for papers to the ORA conference:
        http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/call.html

    IPC8 proceedings now available:
        http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/proceedings.html

    ReportLab: Yet another Python-powered company:
        http://www.reportlab.com

    The PIDDLE graphics library has a new site:
        http://piddle.sourceforge.net

    In the news: Fast, Free Prototyping in Python (from Software
    Development Online):
        http://www.sdmagazine.com/features/2000/03/source.shtml

    IDLE 0.5 is released:
        http://www.python.org/idle

    Michael Ströder: web2ldap, a full-featured LDAPv2+ client
        http://www.web2ldap.de/

    Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer: PySol version 3.40 (now 163 games)
        http://pysol.tsx.org

    (btw, don't miss the Great PySol Poll):
        http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol-poll.shtml

    Michael Ray Steed: Python interface for the GDChart graphics
    library (release 0.3):
        http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/msteed/software/gdchart.html

    Georg Mischler: Scripting Autocad with Python
        http://starship.python.net/crew/schorsch/py_acad.html

    Ng Pheng Siong: classes for arbitrary-precision decimal numbers
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=586379745
        http://www.post1.com/home/ngps/fin/

    Denys Duchier: Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated
        http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/python/continuations.html

    Fredrik Lundh: where to start if you haven't programmed before
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=587527690

    Jeff Shelton on the Zopebox: what's wrong with Zope?
        http://weblogs.userland.com/zopeNewbies/2000/02/15

    Fredrik Lundh: how to evaluate code in the calling function's
    namespace:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=586687655

    Grant Edwards and Cameron Laird: why Tkinter uses libtcl, and
    what can be done about that:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=587321233

    James Henstridge: where to find Python-Fu scripting for GIMP:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=584471553

    Finally, we're proud to announce Eff-Bot's Daily Python-URL:
        http://hem.passagen.se/eff/url.htm


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      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

      The Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects Python resources
          http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

      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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From sparhawk@aon.at  Mon Feb 28 19:26:04 2000
From: sparhawk@aon.at (Gerhard Gruber)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:26:04 +0100
Subject: [ANC] Template.py
Message-ID: <3nilbsonmcud9sie0qkd5l55ciif2op3u3@4ax.com>

I've just submitted a module template.py to the source tree at
http://www.vex.net/parnassus/resource.py. This module was primarily written
for handling templates of HTML files in CGI scripts but can be used in any
kind of programm that needs to use pre-prepared textfiles with variable
content. Check out the description I entered for more details. 

You can download it at http://members.aon.at/sparhawk in the download section
and you can email me at sparhawk@aon.at if you have question concerning the
use or bug reports. I don't expect problems, though, because it is fairly easy
to use. :)

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From sparhawk@aon.at  Mon Feb 28 21:33:53 2000
From: sparhawk@aon.at (Gerhard Gruber)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:33:53 +0100
Subject: My previous posting
Message-ID: <saqlbs45uapn2afd1f0j3m3rk2nbldob4v@4ax.com>

I just posted an anouncement for a modul template I submitted. I checked =
the
posting now and noticed that the email was wrong. its sparhawk@aon.at and=
 not
sparhaw-@aon.at. I don't know how this happend, because I'm pretty sure =
that I
typed it right and I experienced the same problem with another post as =
well.
Strange.

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Bye,
   Gerhard
In Windows, the graphic driver is responsible for maintaining the mouse. =
:)))
Need a daily tv guide? Look at my homepage: =
http://members.aon.at/sparhawk