PIDDLE/SPING??

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:56:49 GMT, Richard West <rwest at opti.cgi.net> wrote:
>
>I was looking into PIDDLE today and it seems the only web address I
>could find is a little out dated:
>
>http://piddle.sourceforge.net/
>
>Under the status section it reads, "with the 1.0 stable release coming
>soon (4th quarter 2000 is the current best guess)".  And the link to
>the PIDDLE mailing list doesn't appear to work any longer.

The list is still live, but egroups has been absorbed by yahoo.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pythonpiddle

>Is this a dead project?  Are there any alternative competing projects?

For document generation, I think more people are using reportlab
now. (inlcuding me). But reportlab doesn't have nearly as much
flexibility with kinds of output.

>Does anyone know if this will work bug free under Python 2.1 or 2.2,
>and the latest version of PIL?  Or do I just not have the latest web
>address?

I can't say if it's "bug free", but it works with 2.1.1.  PDF, PS, and
SVG tests run fine here. I don't have PIL installed a.t.m. so I can't
verify that, but it should be fine.

--PW