From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Tue Sep 21 07:43:55 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: 21 Sep 1999 06:43:55 GMT
Subject: ANN: Python Announcements...
Message-ID: <7s79fb$nfg@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>

Dear fellow Pythoneers,

the articles queue for comp.lang.python.announce has been stalled since
August 22, 1999 - mostly due to a temporary lack of time on my part.
There is currently a backlog of about 80 messages.

You can help to speed up the moderation process significantly by adhering
to the posting guidelines that are posted bi-weekly to comp.lang.python and
comp.lang.python.announce. In particular, life would become a lot easier
for me if all submitted announcements already included the requested HTML
mark-up footer (which is used to give a one-sentence summary of each
announcement at the www.python.org home page).

You can always find the latest version of the comp.lang.python.announce
posting guidelines at the following URL:

  <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.lang.python/python-newsgroup-faq>.

Currently pending announcements will not be sent out all at once, but will
be distributed over the next few days, so as to avoid overloading the
inboxes of those people who have subscribed to comp.lang.python.announce via
the "python-announce-list" mailing list. If you want to convert your mailing
list subscription to digest format, or temporarily suspend your mailing list
subscription, you should do so now by visiting the list's Mailman web page
at <http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list>.

I appreciate your patience, and the offers for help that I have received.
Of course, I am truly delighted to see so many announcements being posted
to comp.lang.python.announce - and all the time we're getting closer to
having the 1000th posting to comp.lang.python.announce by Y2K... -:^)


    Happy hacking, --
    Markus Fleck (Moderator)


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From pam@digicool.com  Tue Sep 21 07:51:48 1999
From: pam@digicool.com (Pam Crosby)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 99 06:51:48 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 25 Aug 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-21586-937896708@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hello,

We had several discussions on the mailing list as to the gender of Zope.
It's an 'it'.  For a relatively quiet, vacation week, we had another
beta release, some HowTo's and two announcements. 

CNET mentioned Zope favorably in Dan Shafer article about Python. Also,
Linux Today mention the same article.
http://buzz.builder.com/cgi-bin/WebX?14@101.PwqganhkenJ^0@.ee7bc67/0
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9043.html

Zope 2.0.0b5 release now available.  History of fixes available on line
and in the installation documentation.
http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0b5

Paolo Bizzarri has made available version 0.1 of the SQLPackage online.
Documentation is included in the email.

http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008638.html

Alexander Staubo has announced Redirector 1.0.  Redirector is an
experimental folder product for redirecting object requests.
http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008755.html

The O'Reilly conference went exceedingly well.  A review of the tutorial
Paul Everitt delivered:

  http://legacydiscuss.userland.com/msgReader$9785

Andreas Kostyrka offered a HowTo to change a DTML method into a document
or the other way. 
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008791.html

A mailing list strictly for the purposes of discussing E-Commerce
solutions using Zope has been established.  It's called ZCommerce.
Anyone who is interested in subscribing can either go to
  http://lists.codeit.com/mailman/listinfo/zcommerce to subscribe, or
email zcommerce-request@codeit.com with 'subscribe' as the subject to be
added to the list.

Until next week, Amos will be back!

== 

Pamela Crosby

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

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From da@ski.org  Tue Sep 21 07:52:27 1999
From: da@ski.org (David Ascher)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 99 06:52:27 GMT
Subject: README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Aug 30)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-21586-937896747@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Highly biased highlights from the O'Reilly conference:

    Tom Christiansen joins Guido and a few other Pythonistas for beer
    and random trivia (does || or && bind tighter in C?). A jovial
    time was had by all, and nothing caught on fire.

    There were more folks looking for Python programmers than Python
    programmers looking for a job!  The future's so bright, we gotta
    wear shades.

    eGroups CTO Scott Hassan says that they pump 30 million emails a
    day with Python without breaking a sweat, and expect to scale up
    to 200-300 million personalized emails per day.  Big numbers for a
    'slow' language!

    When Adam Feuer was asked whether he was having fun, he replied:
    "I'm having a blast -- I've been using Python for six months, and
    I feel like I'm having an affair with the language!"

   http://www.linuxslides.com/
   http://www.vwtapes.com/cgi-local/vwcart.pl?page=/oreilly/99/python.html
   
Having the old fogies out of the way spurred activity on the
newsgroup:

    One old fogie remained: Fredrik Lundh "parses arbitrary python
    expressions" he doesn't trust
        http://x32.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=506369193 and Bernhard Herzog
    shows how to sneak in statements
        http://x29.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=506541895

    Arpad Kiss provides one minimal example of how COM can
    be useful by retrieving document properties into a Py-
    thon process
	http://x46.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=508285498

    David Niergarth "unmangles" a Win* "long name", but
    only with difficulty.  No better solutions appear
	http://x27.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=510820469

    Colin J Williams describes Hans Nowak's page of
    "snippets" as "clean and well-organized"
	http://www.hvision.nl/~ivnowa/snippets/

    Karl Putland retrieves a collection through COM
	http://x24.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=505637404

    Charles G Waldman carefully illuminates several alternative
    ways to shuffle cards
	http://x38.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=513914923
    Nihilist Tim Peters, once again misremembering which is the
    "dismal science", counters that "even the best possible al-
    gorithm ... is terrible"
	http://x37.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=514317775
    Other poetry from the same thread:  Mersenne Twister, tears-
    in-the-rain, Chi-squares, /dev/random

    People seem to argue a lot about nothing, specifically:
    The necessesity of pass statements in empty blocks, and whether
    returning None is a trap.  Some of the more useful posts:
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=516955938
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=518128657

    More usefully, some etymological truths are laid bare,
    specifically regarding nautical techniques thanks to Fredrik
    Henbjork the fisherman
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=515457138
    and Tim Peters and Kent Polk argue about who the real mathematical
    geniuses are
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=518132556

    In a blast from the past, what used to be Ted Nelson's Xanadu is
    bared to all, and some might be surprised to know what languages
    it's written in: 
        http://www.udanax.com/

=========================================================================
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:
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From Brian@digicool.com  Tue Sep 21 07:54:54 1999
From: Brian@digicool.com (Brian Lloyd)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 99 06:54:54 GMT
Subject: Zope 2.0.0 final released
Message-ID: <mt2.0-21586-937896894@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi all,

We are happy to announce that at long last Zope 2.0.0 final has
been released! Zope 2 is the result of a lot of hard work by both
Digital Creations and the Zope community - thanks to all of you who 
have contributed bug reports, patches, feedback and good ideas to 
the effort. We feel that Zope 2 represents a great leap forward, 
and we hope you'll agree that the time spent has been worth it.

Zope 2 includes:

  - A high performance, multithreaded publishing environment

  - ZODB 3, the next generation of the Zope Object Database

  - Z Classes, a new mechanism for building Zope applications

  - Built in searching and indexing support with ZCatalog

  - WebDAV level 1 support

  - FTP support

  - Support for XML-RPC clients.

  - ZServer, the integration of Zope and Medusa,

  - Builtin XML support and DOM interfaces

  - Many other sundry big significant items, such as:

    o Look and feel improvements,

    o Tighter security,

    o Simpler creation of Python products.


Zope 2.0 distributions are available on both the "official"
Zope.org website at: http://www.zope.org/ as well as on the 
new Zope.org beta site at http://www.zope.org:18200.


Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
Software Engineer  540.371.6909              
Digital Creations  http://www.digicool.com

<P><A HREF="http://www.zope.org/">Zope 2.0.0 final</A> - Zope is a free,
open source web application platform used for building high-performance,
dynamic web sites.  (01-Sep-99)

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From petrilli@digicool.com  Tue Sep 21 07:55:31 1999
From: petrilli@digicool.com (Christopher Petrilli)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 99 06:55:31 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 01 Sep 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-21586-937896931@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi there! 

Filling in for Amos as he tries to get the new Zope site readied for public
presentation!  It's still in beta...

Well, this has been the busiest week of all, or at least in a long long
time, for Zope development. Not only was beta 6 released, but the final
release of Zope 2 has finally been made!  In celebration, we're going to
continue working on documentation and resolving any outstanding issues!

Other items of interest this past week:

  * First! Zope 2.0 is finally released and out of BETA! :-)  Find all the
    gory details here:

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

  * Lots of new items (HOW-TOs, contributed software) on the new beta
    site. Take a look!

      http://www.zope.org:18200

  * It was revealed that the <dtml-sendmail> tag doesn't participate in
    the transaction machinery

      http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008968.html

  * Juergen Specht started an interesting thread on data validation and
    the difficulty in even figuring out what an e-mail address is.

      http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/008982.html

  * Zope gets some good press in the TechWeb publication, which Paul
    shares with us all.

      http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009011.html

  * Various people expressed the concerns with search sites crawling a
    dynamic site like Zope, but perhaps it's not an issue as is discussed in
    the thread.

      http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009058.html

  * It's discovered that you can't use tree tags with SQL queries the way
    you might expect, but there are some solutions.

      http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009089.html

  * Evan Simpson reveals his first attempt at embedded Python code objects
    in the Zope database.

      http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009107.html

  * John Udell provides some much welcome publicity on Zope as well:

      http://www.byte.com/column/threads/BYT19990824S0013

  * A new version of the ZOracleDA was released, providing full
    thread-safety under Zope2.

      http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009192.html

  * Beehive in Germany releases a product to help write products.  Is that
    a meta-product? ;-)

      http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-August/009225.html

Zigning off for now,
Chris
== 
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From da@ski.org  Tue Sep 21 07:56:28 1999
From: da@ski.org (David Ascher)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 99 06:56:28 GMT
Subject: README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Sep  7)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-21586-937896988@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

End of summer fruit from comp.lang.python and related trees:

    The next International Python Conference is scheduled, and the
    program committee eagerly awaits paper submissions:
      http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/
      http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html

    Andreas Jung self-deprecatingly misses the elegance of a simple
    program he wrote to beautify XML:
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=520249301

    While we're talking about XML, there are announcements from the
    FourThought folks of the backend tools they talked about in
    Monterey:
      http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001420.html
      http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001421.html
      http://www.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-September/001422.html

    Mark Hammond says that "it works fine", whether he's talking about
    MTS, the registry, audits, permissions, remote servers, etc.
    We're getting jaded!
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=521155191
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=520824493

    Mark also announces that his win32 extensions are now under CVS
    control: 
      http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/cvs.html

    In the "scary" category, Greg Ewing takes a sneaky way around
    an implementation trick and pretends it's the "design pattern"
    that Magnus Hetland asked for (and Magnus agrees!):
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=517466084
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=520858452

    Tim Peters regales us with more details about strings in Python
    than you cared to know about:
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=521587749

    Among lots of rambling dispatches on the topic of Turing
    completeness and other nonsense, Greg Ewing sets us straight on
    the future of Python:
      http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-September/017036.html

    In the field of useless algorithms people like to bicker about,
    the ugly truth emerges that version skew exists even for
    "authoritative" books:
       http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=519554469


PS: Your editor wants to know if you prefer deja.com URLs or
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      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:
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From Amos@digicool.com  Tue Sep 21 07:57:36 1999
From: Amos@digicool.com (Amos Latteier)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 99 06:57:36 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 8 Sep 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-21586-937897056@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi,

Now that Zope 2.0 final is out, it's time to start trying to understand
and put to use all the cool new stuff in Zope 2.

The new Zope.org website, while still in beta, is starting to become a
great source of information for Zope users. There are already 37 How-Tos
on the site, all searchable. The new site will soon replace the existing
Zope.org site.

* Chris Petrilli updated the Oracle and ODBC Database Adapters. 

  http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/DA/ZOracleDA
  http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/DA/ZODBCDA
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-September/000031.html
  
* Amos Latteier released Alpha 2 of XML Document
  
  http://www.zope.org:18200/Products/XMLDocument
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-September/000028.html
  
* Brian Lloyd posted an informative How-To on External Methods

  http://www.zope.org:18200/Documentation/How-To/ExternalMethods

* Work continues on the new Zope.org site. Mike Pelletier has been
hardening the cataloging and reviewing facilities and sprucing up the
existing ZClasses. Amos Latteier posted a proposal for Topic objects to
help with organizing and browsing content. Currently there are 537
Members of Zope.org!
  
  http://www.zope.org:18200
  http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/Amos/TopicProposal

* The 5th Berlin BBQ hosted by beehive happens Friday, September 17 at
16:00. Be there if you can make it to Berlin!

  http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/webman/berlinBBQ5

* The Portland Oregon Python Interest Group had it's first meeting on
9/6/1999. Amos Latteier gave a talk on Zope and XML. The slides are
on-line.

  http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/Amos/XMLSlides/PORPIGgies
  
* Evan Simpson released version 0.0.1 of his very cool Python Method
Product. This product promises to allow safe Python programming through
the web!

  http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/4am/pm0-0-1

* Andreas Kostyrka posted a fix for using Confera 1.3.1 with Zope 2.0
final.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009411.html

* Zope t-shirts were discussed. It turns out that some already exist,
and that the have a dangerous logo on the back.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009479.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009526.html

* Janko Hauser posted about CIS (Community Information System) a very
impressive looking Zope project.

 http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009641.html
 http://www.bionode.com/cis/

* If you haven't already seen it, check out the ZDP's awesome Zope Quick
Reference.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009899.html
  http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/ZQR/

See you next week.

-Amos

== 
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From da@ski.org  Tue Sep 21 08:04:16 1999
From: da@ski.org (David Ascher)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 99 07:04:16 GMT
Subject: README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Sep 13)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-21586-937897456@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

This week's dispatch from the world of spam, spam and spam 'n eggs:

    Frank Willison, O'Reilly's editor in chief, muses about the
    open source communities in his column, and wears a subversive
    t-shirt when he talks to TechNetCast:
      http://www.oreilly.com/frank/
      http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_program.html?program_id=38

    Mike Olson gives a one-page (well, one HTML page!) introduction to
    CORBA, ORBs, etc. in LinuxWorld:
      http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-09/lw-09-corba_1.htmlc

    Remco Gerlich reveals how to use Python's underappreciated
    line-completion tool automatically:
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=522511625

    Jeffrey Kunce gives some sample code to interface to Novell's
    Groupwise mailboxes:
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=522571735

    In a continuing heroic effort to answer as many questions as the
    bots, Robert Kern points out the best resources for folks wishing
    to learn how to program using Python:
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=523189453

    The regularly expressed problem of finding strings is match()'ed 
    by, naturally speaking, Tim Peters:
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=523934915

    Once again, Greg Ewing discreetly throws a grenade into the jello
    bowl.  This time, it's an implementation of a perennial favorite
    topic from the functional subspace, list comprehensions:
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=523672423

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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  http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21


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From guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US  Tue Sep 21 08:05:28 1999
From: guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (Guido van Rossum)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 99 07:05:28 GMT
Subject: Reminder: Python Conference papers due soon!
Message-ID: <mt2.0-21586-937897528@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The deadline for paper submissions for the next Python conference is
nearing!  Make sure that if you are considering submitting a paper,
the program chair sees your paper by SEPTEMBER 30.  Papers can be on
any Python, JPython or Zope related subject.  Papers will be reviewed
and the best papers will be selected for presentation.  You will hear
about selection by October 22.

For more information, see the official call for papers:
http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html

** We are planning a significant Zope presence at this conference! **

The conference will be held from January 24-27 in Alexandria, VA (just
across the Potomac from DC).  Make Python the first conference in the
new millennium you visit!  For more info, see the conference home
page: http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/

Send all email questions about papers to: ipc8papers@cs.uchicago.edu

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

(And sorry for the broad spamming.)

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From Amos@digicool.com  Tue Sep 21 08:05:14 1999
From: Amos@digicool.com (Amos Latteier)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 99 07:05:14 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 15 Sep 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-21586-937897514@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hello,

The new Zope.org community portal site went live this week.

  http://www.zope.org/

Currently there are over 600 Members. The new site is focused on
providing a framework for the Zope community to develop and share
on-line resources. The new Zope.org site is running Zope 2 and makes
heavy use of the Portal Toolkit, the Catalog and ZClasses.

  * Evan Simpson's Python Methods product which allows editing of Python
methods through the web got a lot of attention this week. Version 0.1.1
was announced and lots of discussion ensued on the Zope and Zope-dev
lists.

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

  * Dan York posted a note about having a Zope "Birds of a Feather"
session at the Atlanta Linux Showcase.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/009984.html
  
  * Andrew Kuchling asked about forming a Zope calendar SIG, and some
interesting ideas were posted.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010016.html
  
  * Paul Everitt posted about a Bruce Perens interview in Upside that
mentions Zope.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010071.html
  http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=37d5a4590
  
  * Chris McDonough announced a smbUserFolder product to allow Zope to
authenticate users based on their Windows NT domain credentials.
  
  http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/smbUserFolder
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010116.html
  
  * Lots of discussion on various types of caching came up this week.
Here are some highlights.

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010346.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010372.html
  
  * Andy Dustman announced MySQLdb-0.1.0 which includes a patch for
ZMySQLDA.

  http://starship.python.net/crew/adustman
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010393.html

  * Ross Lazarus announced a LDAPAdapter product.
  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010416.html
  http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter


See you next week.

-Amos

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

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From da@ski.org  Tue Sep 21 08:07:03 1999
From: da@ski.org (David Ascher)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 99 07:07:03 GMT
Subject: README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Sep 20)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-21586-937897623@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Almost lost in a sea of messages about programming in the dark ages,
we find some gems in this week's Python universe:

    g.j. andruk (a.k.a. Meow) releases a module to speed up reading
    from files, using some of Rich $alz's INN code.  Expect 2x-5x
    speedup on standard line-at-a-time usage.
      http://members.xoom.com/meowing/python/

    An interesting discussion on the topic of making translatable
    strings emerges.  Thread starts at:
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=525858204

    Christian Tismer makes a binary installer of the XML-SIG package
    for Windows users:
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=526763176
    
    BioPython.org is announced: an effort devoted to facilitating and
    promoting the use of Python in bioinformatics
      http://www.biopython.org   

    Damien Norton provides generic code to deal with the pesky problem
    of timeouts on sockets without using select():
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=526840052

    Paul Dubois announces version 2 of PyFort, a tool to interface
    Python and Fortran.
      http://xfiles.llnl.gov/python.htm

    Reminder: The Python Conference is accepting paper submissions
    until the end of the month (with special interest in Zope and
    finance expressed from various quarters):
      http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=525600398


=========================================================================
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:
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or
  http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.python%20Python-URL%21


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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Sep 23 06:08:25 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:08:25 GMT
Subject: [fm] qtime-collection 1.6.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938063305@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  qtime-collection 1.6.1
  Klaus Alexander Seistrup - August 22nd 1999, 17:37 EST

  qtime is a small and simple program that pronounces the time in
  English. This collection consists of qtime written in AWK, C, ICI,
  Icon, JavaScript, Lite/mSQL, PHP3, Pike, Python, REBOL, Rexx, Ruby,
  SLang and Spanner.

  Changes: This is the first public announcement.

      Download: http://www.magnetic-ink.dk/download/qtime.html
      Alternate
      Download: ftp://magnetic-ink.dk/pub/

                  Author: Klaus Alexander Seistrup
                 License: GPL
                Category: Development/Languages

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.magnetic-ink.dk/download/qtime.html">qtime-collection
1.6.1</A> - simple program telling the time, written in various programming
languages, including Python.  (22-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Sep 23 06:10:57 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:10:57 GMT
Subject: Article: Writing CGI Programs in Python
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938063457@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Developer Shed: Writing CGI Programs in Python
Aug 27, 1999, 00:10 UTC (0 Talkbacks)

   [ Thanks to Matt Maxwell for this link. ]
                                                 
   "Python is a powerful, free, open source,
   general purpose, interpreted programming
   language. Python runs on a wide variety of
   platforms including Linux..."             
                                             
   "Python is roughly comparable to Perl or  
   Java, though it has several significant
   strengths (and a few disadvantages) over  
   each. Python makes it very easy to write  
   clean, maintainable, and powerful programs
   for a variety of tasks with minimum       
   hassle."
                                             
   "... an old-time Perl hacker will usually 
   tell you that Perl really shines in       
   one-person 'quickie' jobs that will never
   have to be maintained by another human    
   being. The combination of Perl's          
   line-noise-like syntax and "There's More  
   Than One Way To Do It" philosophy often   
   results in an unmaintainable mess of a    
   program."                                 

   "... if you are starting a brand new web
   application, you should consider Python
   and its "There Should Be One Obvious Way
   To Do It" philosophy.

   "Python has a much cleaner syntax than
   most languages and object orientation is
   built right into the core."

   Complete story:
   http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Python/CGI/

   Related Stories: 
   - CNET Builder.com: The Most Elegant Scripting
     Language You'll Probably Never Use (Aug 22, 1999) 
     http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=9043
   - DevShed: Introduction to Zope (Aug 10, 1999) 
     http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=8549

All times are recorded in UTC.
Copyright (c)1999 by Linux Today (webmaster@linuxtoday.com)
Linux Today is a corporate member of Linux International.
Original URL: http://linuxtoday.com/cgi-bin/printstory.cgi?sn=9247

<P><A HREF="http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Python/CGI/">Writing CGI
Programs in Python</A> - article at devshed.com.  (27-Aug-99)

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From petrilli@digicool.com  Thu Sep 23 06:12:43 1999
From: petrilli@digicool.com (Christopher Petrilli)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:12:43 GMT
Subject: DCOracle v1.3.0 Released
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938063563@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

We are proud to announce the arrival of a new bouncy baby Oracle adapter for
the Python community.  This release fixes some outstanding bugs, as well as
adding one new feature: statement handles.

You can find it at:

    http://www.zope.org/Products/DCOracle

Changes are as follows:

Digital Creations Oracle Release Notes

  1.3.0

    This release adds support for statement handles using the
    db.prepare() syntax.

    Bugs fixed:

      - Various LONG/LONG RAW mishandlings in return machinery.

  1.2.1

    This is a bug fix release

    Bugs fixed:

      - When connecting to Oracle 8, connection strings
        with a server name were not  parsed correctly.

      - Connection errors were reported incorrectly.

  1.2.0

    This release adds Oracle large object (LOB) support when used with
    Oracle 8.

  1.1.0

    The organization os the release has changed substantially to
    reflect the gact that it is an open source release.

    Bug Fixes

      - Connection to Oracle 7 databases failed due to details in
        passing unused arguments to the database logon call.

      - dbi.dbiDate did not handle time time and some string inputs to
        it's constructor properly.

      - Stored procedure support was completely broken.

    Features

      - Added two new database utility methods:

         objects(system=0) -- Get names and types for user or system
objects.

  getSource(proc) -- Get the source for a named procedure or function.

      - When passing a single argument to a cursor (or database)
        execute method, the single argument need not be tuplated.

 For example::

          c.execute('select from friends where name=:p1', 'Guido')

        is equivalent to::

          c.execute('select from friends where name=:p1', ('Guido',))

      - Now use defered parse mode which reduces communication
        with the database server by defering certain communication.
        This may speed things up quite a bit.

  1.0

    This is the first release of the Digital Creations Oracle Package.

== 
| Christopher Petrilli        Python Powered        Digital Creations, Inc.
| petrilli@digicool.com                             http://www.digicool.com

<P><A HREF="http://www.zope.org/Products/DCOracle/">DCOracle 1.3.0</A> - a
DBI-compliant extension module for Oracle.  (27-Aug-99)

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From greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz  Thu Sep 23 06:15:07 1999
From: greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:15:07 GMT
Subject: Python Extended Call Syntax Enhancement
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938063707@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I have implemented the suggestion I made a while back
concerning an extended call syntax which would let you
write

  class Foo(Blarg):
    def __init__(self, a, b, c, *args, **kw):
      Blarg.__init__(self, *args, **kw)

You can get the patch from:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/extcall.html

<P><A HREF="http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/extcall.html">
Extended Call Syntax</A> - Greg Ewing's implementation of extended argument
passing syntax (for use e.g. in class constructors).  (29-Aug-99)

== 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, | The address below is not spam-
University of Canterbury,	   | protected, so as not to waste
Christchurch, New Zealand	   | the time of Guido van Rossum.
greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz

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From ivanlan@callware.com  Thu Sep 23 06:15:32 1999
From: ivanlan@callware.com (Ivan Van Laningham)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:15:32 GMT
Subject: Apache: new release 1.3.9 and nice change for Windows CGI debugging
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938063732@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi All--

I just received the email announcement for the release of Apache 1.3.9,
and noticed this little announcement in the blurb for changes:

> - Script errors on Windows are now copied to the server's error log
>   if the scripts fail; this is closer to the Unix behaviour.

That should help debugging a little.  The Apache team recommends that
you upgrade to 1.3.9.  I'll be doing it today sometime.

<remember-python-is-a-scripting-language>-ly y'rs,
Ivan;-)
----------------------------------------------
Ivan Van Laningham
Callware Technologies, Inc.
ivanlan@callware.com
ivanlan@home.com
http://www.pauahtun.org
See also: 
http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html
Army Signal Corps:  Cu Chi, Class of '70
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From sjoerd@oratrix.nl  Thu Sep 23 06:18:05 1999
From: sjoerd@oratrix.nl (Sjoerd Mullender)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:18:05 GMT
Subject: COMMERCIAL: GRiNS 1.0 (Multimedia authoring software in Python) available
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938063885@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

This is a commercial announcement.

Oratrix Development BV is proud to announce the release of version 1.0 
of the GRiNS Editor and Player for SMIL.

The GRiNS Editor for SMIL is a tool to create, edit, and preview
multimedia presentations for Web delivery.  The free GRiNS Player for
SMIL allows you to preview the presentations.  Presentations created
with GRiNS can be played with the Real Networks RealPlayer G2.

GRiNS uses the Synchronized Multimedia Interchange Language (SMIL --
see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil/) from the World Wide Web
Consortium.

GRiNS is completely written in Python (except for a few C extensions
to interface with system libraries).

As part of our work on GRiNS we have already donated various pieces of
software to the Python community, and we will continue to do so.

See our web page http://www.oratrix.com/ for more information
(<a href="http://www.oratrix.com/">Clickable link</a>).

Also, see our press release at
http://www.oratrix.com/Oratrix/press/grins-pr083099.txt

-- Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd.mullender@oratrix.com>
   Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@oratrix.com>

<P><A HREF="http://www.oratrix.com/">GRiNS 1.0</A> - commercial editor/player
for W3C SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Interchange Language), written in
Python.  (02-Sep-99)

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From MHammond@skippinet.com.au  Thu Sep 23 06:21:09 1999
From: MHammond@skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:21:09 GMT
Subject: CVS Access to source code for Python for Windows Extensions
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938064069@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

All source code for the Python for Windows extensions are now being managed
by CVS.  Anyone can use anonymous access to ensure they always have the
most recent sources available.  There is also a "checkins" mailing list
provided, so you can be informed of all CVS checkins made into this
repository as they happen (or daily if you use the digest mode!)

All the gory details can be found via
http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/cvs.html

Many thanks to the Python Pros (http://www.pythonpros.com) for assisting in
providing this service.

Mark.

<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/cvs.html">Windows
extensions CVS</A> - direct access to the latest source code of the
Python for Windows extensions via CVS.  (04-Sep-99)

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From zope-list@teleo.net  Thu Sep 23 06:24:03 1999
From: zope-list@teleo.net (Patrick Phalen)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:24:03 GMT
Subject: LORAX -- new Red Hat installation procedure written in Python
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938064243@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
Subject: LORAX: Red Hat Linux Beta Release
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>


For the brave...
    the reckless...
    the foolish...
    those with extra hard disks...
    those with too much free time...
    those who miss fixing their own bugs...
    people who want to hack device drivers...
    people who need to see exceptions...
    and people who think Linux has gotten too easy...


				LORAX

Red Hat, Inc. is looking for a few brave hackers to try, test, break,
and experiment on our latest beta release. Featuring Anaconda, a brand
new installation procedure written in Python and featuring both text
and GTK+-based interfaces for your installation pleasure.

<snip>

LORAX is only available for ix86 platforms, and only available via the
Internet. SPARC and Alpha versions will be available in the very near future
(read *after* Labor day!).  Get it now from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/lorax. 
There has been a mailing list to discuss this beta release setup as
lorax-list@redhat.com. To subscribe, send a message with the subject line of
"subscribe" to lorax-list-request@redhat.com, respond to the confirmation
request, sit back, relax and await barrage of messages which will help you
whittle away your formerly enjoyable evenings.

Cristian
== 
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Cristian Gafton     --     gafton@redhat.com      --     Red Hat, Inc.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  "How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and 
   Microsoft?"  --Al Gore on Y2K

<P><A HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/lorax/">LORAX</A> - beta test version of
new RedHat Linux/x86 installation procedure (written in Python).  (06-Sep-99)

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From tomas@neo.cz  Thu Sep 23 06:25:10 1999
From: tomas@neo.cz (Tomas Kouba)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:25:10 GMT
Subject: New Czech Python Web Site
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938064310@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

New web site in Czech about Python:

  http://www.python.cz

------------------------------
Tomas Kouba
mailto:tomas@neo.cz

<P><A HREF="http://www.python.cz">Czech Python Web Site</A> - new
web site in Czech about Python.  (07-Sep-99)

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From hnowak@cuci.nl  Thu Sep 23 06:28:06 1999
From: hnowak@cuci.nl (Hans Nowak)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:28:06 GMT
Subject: Python snippets site has moved!
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938064486@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Due to problems with my previous host (hvision.nl), which has proven 
to be more than a little unstable, I deciced to move my snippets 
site. The new URL is 

  http://tor.dhs.org/~zephyrfalcon/snippets/ 

Thanks to Blake Winton for offering me the account and the web space. 
(Lots of people suggested the Python Starship as the new snippet 
home, but I am not a PSA member. :-/ )

I will remove the HTML from the old address as soon as possible. By 
the way, I haven't been able to add any new snippets yet (counter is 
currently at 130). I do have a lot of them on my harddisk, 
unprocessed, some of which I hope to add soon. New snippets are 
always welcome, by the way. 

One more thing: The site still mentions hey_psst@usa.net as the email 
address to contact me about snippets, and while this address is still 
valid, I do not check it too often (due to my slow Internet 
connection; usa.net isn't that fast). You will get an answer more 
quickly if you contact me at zephyrfalcon@hvision.nl. I will get rid 
of the usa.net address in the near future.


--Hans Nowak (zephyrfalcon@hvision.nl)
Homepage: http://fly.to/zephyrfalcon
Python Snippets: http://tor.dhs.org/~zephyrfalcon/snippets/
The Purple Kookaburra Forum: http://www.delphi.com/kookaburra/

<P><A HREF="http://tor.dhs.org/~zephyrfalcon/snippets/">Python Snippets</A> -
collection of Python code snippets/idioms; new URL!  (07-Sep-99)

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From jussij@zeusedit.com  Thu Sep 23 06:30:40 1999
From: jussij@zeusedit.com (Jussi Jumppanen)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:30:40 GMT
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Zeus for Windows Programmer's Editor
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938064640@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Zeus for Windows Version 3.00 Now Released
------------------------------------------

The Zeus for Windows programmer's editor has been totally 
re-developed and the results of this full re-write are now
ready for use. The  Programmer's is designed to run on the
Windows 95, Windows 98 or NT platforms.

So what is new:
    
    1) New syntax highlighting engine should now support almost
          any language.

    2) Comes with pre-configured syntax highlighting for:

        C/C++, Java, Perl, HTML, Python, Pascal

       and is easily to almost any other language.

    3) New plugable scripting modules allows you to write Zeus
          macro scripts using the Python, LUA or Small C macro
          languages.

    4) New configuration model now makes it even easier for you
          to configure Zeus to do just what you want.

    5) Enhanced compiler, project and tool support.

    6) Improved keyboard mapping.

You can download the shareware version from:

  http://www.zeusedit.com/z300/download.htm

For some screen shots of Zeus in action goto:

  http://www.zeusedit.com/z300/look.htm

For more details visit the Zeus web page:

  http://www.zeusedit.com

Jussi Jumppanen
Author of: Zeus for Windows, Win32 (Brief, WordStar, Emacs) Text Editor
"The C/C++, Java, HTML, Pascal, Cobol, Fortran programmers text editor" 
http://www.zeusedit.com

<P><A HREF="http://www.zeusedit.com">Zeus for Windows Editor 3.00</A> -
commercial programmer's editor for Microsoft Windows; includes support
for editing Python programs.  (08-Sep-99)

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From efm@tummy.com  Thu Sep 23 06:33:26 1999
From: efm@tummy.com (Evelyn Mitchell)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:33:26 GMT
Subject: North Colorado UG meets Oct 19th, 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938064806@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

http://www.lwn.net/1999/0909/a/frpythoneers.html

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 02:16:33 -0600
From: Evelyn Mitchell <efm@tummy.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Python UG

To all:

Uche Ogbuji and I were talking at the Fort Collins Linux User's Group
tonight, and we thought that the time was ripe for forming a Python
Group in Northern Colorado.

Tell your friends, and bring good suggestions for a name.

First Meeting will be October 19th at Healthy Habits Restaurant,
4760 Baseline Road, Boulder CO (map at
http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypMap.py?Pyt=Typ&YY=20335&city=Boulder&state=CO&country=US&zip=80301&stx=healthy%20habits&stp=a&ad=2500&ycat=&l=2&tuid=8445199&tq=8&btype=default
303-494-9177

>From the North take Foothills Parkway to Baseline, right (west) on
Baseline. Healthy Habits is at the first? light on the South West corner.

>From the South or East, take 36 to Boulder, turn off on Foothills
Parkway, north to Baseline, left (west) on Baseline. Healthy Habits
is at the first? light on the South West corner.

----- Forwarded message from Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com> -----

Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 22:04:22 -0600
From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
Organization: FourThought LLC
X-Accept-Language: en
To: Evelyn Mitchell <efm@tummy.com>
Subject: Re: Python UG

Evelyn Mitchell wrote:

> Well, the biggest barrier to forming a Python Users Group is
> finding a good place to meet. Healthy Habits on Baseline in
> Boulder has a great meeting room that is private, and a huge
> selection of food. They don't charge extra for the room.
>
> When do you want to have the first meeting? We should give about
> a month's notice, and the 3rd week of the month is best for
> us (no LUGs that week).

What say October 19th?  Should be enough notice, and it's the 3rd week.
I'm wondering what to call it.  A few ideas:

PURe (Python Users of the Rockies)
Front Range Pythoneers (FRaP?)
PUNC (Python Users of Northern Colorado)
Or just the Northern Colorado Python Association, no acro necessary.

I'll also think of a few ideas for first meeting topics/features to
hopefully attract a decent inaugural crowd.

== 
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

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<P><B>Northern Colorado Python Users Group.</B> The first meeting will be
on October 19th at Healthy Habits Restaurant, 4760 Baseline Road,
Boulder CO.  (08-Sep-99)

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From dubois1@llnl.gov  Thu Sep 23 06:34:22 1999
From: dubois1@llnl.gov (Paul F. Dubois)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:34:22 GMT
Subject: Pyfort Version 2 now available
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938064862@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Version 2 of Pyfort, a tool that lets you extend Python with Fortran, is now
available. See http://xfiles.llnl.gov/python.htm.

To use Pyfort, you construct an input file in a Fortran-90 like syntax. This
input file contains interfaces for the functions in Fortran that are to be
called. Pyfort then constructs a C-language extension module that contains
the "glue" to turn Python calls into the calls to your Fortran.

Example:
     Fortran:
          function sum (n, x)   ! return sum of elements of x
          integer n
          real x(n)
          real sum
          ....implementation...
          end function sum

    Pyfort input:
         module modsum
               function sum (n, x) ! return sum of elements of x
               integer n = size(x)
               real x(n)
               real sum
               end function sum
         end module modsum

    Calling sum in Python:
         from modsum import sum
         x = [1., 2., 3.]    # or a Numeric array
         print sum(x)
         print sum.__doc__  #prints "return sum of elements of x"

pyfort -c compiler modsum.pyf produces modsummodule.c and modsum.txt; the
former is used to construct the Python extension and the latter documents
the Python calling sequence. If no comment is given, the doc string is the
calling sequence.

Users can declare output quantities by using the intent attribute:
         real, intent(out):: y(n)
Such an argument becomes an output of the function. If there are multiple
return values, a tuple is returned.

Intent "temporary" requests that an array be constructed and passed to the
Fortran as a work array.

Persons wanting a "raw" interface that is exactly like the Fortran routine
and which does as little as possible can achieve this by declaring any array
arguments or scalar outputs as intent(inout).

New for version 2:

      Module attributes NONE, TRANSPOSE (default), MIRROR control behavior
      of multiple dimension intent(in) and intent(output) arrays.

      NONE -- pass argument as is; return array has transposed strides
      to "look right" in Python.
      TRANSPOSE -- transpose the data area on input; return array has
      transposed strides. A returned array subsequently used in another call
      as input will not in fact ever be transposed.
      MIRROR -- the Fortran has been written with all the dimensions
      reversed; check shapes backward and create output arrays with a
      backward shape. No data movement ever required.

      Method set_pyfort_option available to set the default option.

      Each generated wrapper can take an optional extra argument of one of
      these three attributes to override the default.

      Scalar input arguments can be given an initial value as an expression
      involving constants, the Fortran 90 size operator, other scalar input
      arguments that were not given an initial value, and scalar input
      arguments that occur earlier in the argument list. See argument "n"
      above, for example. The size operator can be size(a) or size(a,
      dimensionnumber) (Fortran style, 1-based).

       Example: subroutine doit (n, m, x, k, y, z)
                         integer n = size(x, 1), m = size(x, 2) , k = n * m
                         real x(n, m)
                         real, intent(out):: y(k)
                         complex, intent(temporary):: z(n, m)

Python call: y = doit(x)

The purpose of this facility is to enable the construction of "nice"
interfaces without needing an additional Python layer in many cases.

Pyfort has been tested under Linux using the Portland Group (-c pgf77) and
g77 (-c g77) compilers, under Solaris (choose -c solaris) and SGI (-c
solaris works). Potential users should note that both a Fortran and C
compiler are needed. Pyfort has not yet been heavily used and bugs are
possible.

Documentation is in the file pyfort.pdf that comes with the package.

Pyfort has been released for free redistribution. See Legal.htm.
Questions to support@pcmdi.llnl.gov

Paul F. Dubois
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

<P><A HREF="http://xfiles.llnl.gov/python.htm">Pyfort 2</A> - Python/FORTRAN
connection tool.  (10-Sep-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Sep 23 06:35:54 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:35:54 GMT
Subject: Loci Project - for distributing bioinformatics programs and databases
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938064954@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

http://theopenlab.uml.edu/loci/

The Open Lab Presents...
The Loci Project

Introduction

Loci is an extremely modular and extensible system of clients and
servers for distributing bioinformatics programs and databases. We are
first of all concentrating on making GUI wrappers for command-line
programs and databases that run on UNIX-type systems, of which a
countless number exist. We are using the highly object-oriented
scripting language Python as the base language.

Despite the fact that we are using platform-independent tools such as
XML and Python, we are not concerned with making a
platform-independent application. This may bother people who have
traditionally developed on Windows systems, but we see an enormous
void that needs to be filled: There is no highly graphical,
comprehensive suite of bioinformatics tools native to UNIX. And there
certainly isn't one that is free. Programs like DNAStar and MacVector
are very nice commercial applications, but they are only for Windows
and Macs. We say, let's take advantage of the power of UNIX, the
status it has in Universities where so many command-line driven
bioinformatics tools are written, and let's provide something that
doesn't exist anywhere else.

Below is an early production screenshot from June 19, 1999.
Loci/locuses are represented by boxes connected with lines, forming a
"work flow diagram". Double-clicking on a box will show or hide the
actual GUI of each locus. A popup menu (from a right mouse button
click) can be seen over one of the loci (bottom right). A windowlet
(from a left mouse button double-click) can be seen below another (top
right). Everything can be dragged and dropped, and loci can be merged
to form higher level loci.

                                [Image]

Features

   * A system of servers and clients.
   * Communicates with other systems across an intra/Internet.
   * Allows for bioinformatics collaboratories across an
     intra/Internet.
   * Gives command-line programs and databases a consistent look and
     feel.
   * Has built-in support for sequence and structure analyses of
     macromolecules.
   * Provides native support for phylogenetics and systematics.
   * Includes a library of basic analysis tools.
   * Produces 2D vector-drawn schematics.
   * Treats biological data as scientific illustrations.
   * Provides drawing tools and a materials library for figure
     construction.
   * Tracks the system's work path with a flow chart.
   * Automatically logs activity to an electronic notebook.
   * Seamlessly integrates utilities for building applications and
     extending the system.
   * Free software!

As far as graphics are concerned, the idea is to define vector
graphics so that custom made schematics can be generated by the
plug-in, and the plug-in developer can choose some high-level
representations...sort of like graphical widgets.


How is Loci developed?

This project is under heavy development, and we are in need of
assistance.  If you are interested in contributing to Loci, please
visit the Development page for more information.

We are also collaborating with other free-software, bioinformatics
projects: AMMP and tacg(and EMBOSS more or less).  It is our desire
that all projects compatible with the GNU LGPL license will become at
least interoperable and hopefully combined.

Modified on 21-Jun-99.
Copyright (c) 1999 by The Open Lab.

<P><A HREF="http://theopenlab.uml.edu/loci/">The Loci Project</A> - 
a modular and extensible system of clients and servers for distributing
bioinformatics programs and databases; written in Python.  (10-Sep-99)

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From Jeffrey Chang <jchang@smi.stanford.edu>  Thu Sep 23 06:38:26 1999
From: Jeffrey Chang <jchang@smi.stanford.edu> (Jeffrey Chang)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:38:26 GMT
Subject: Biopython.org (Call for Participation)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938065106@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The Biopython Project (http://www.biopython.org/) is a new open
collaborative effort to develop freely available Python libraries and
applications that address the needs of current and future work in
bioinformatics, including sequence analysis, structural biology, pathways,
expression data, etc.  When available, the source code will be released
as open source (http://www.biopython.org/License.shtml) under terms
similar to Python.

This is a Call for Participation for interested people to join the
project.  We are hoping to attract people from a diverse set of
backgrounds to help with code development, site maintenance, scientific
discussion, etc.  This project is open to everyone.  If you're interested,
please visit the web page, join the biopython mailing list, and let us
know what you think!

Jeffrey Chang <jchang@smi.stanford.edu>
Andrew Dalke <dalke@bioreason.com>

<P><A HREF="http://www.biopython.org/">Biopython.org</A> - a collaborative
effort to develop freely available Python libraries and applications for
use in bioinformatics (like Bioperl.org).  (10-Sep-99)

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From greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz  Thu Sep 23 06:42:01 1999
From: greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:42:01 GMT
Subject: List Comprehensions Enhancement
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938065321@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I have implemented some of the list comprehension syntax
ideas that were discussed a while ago.

Some examples:

nums = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
strs = ["Apple", "Banana", "Coconut"]

print [3 * x for x in nums]
print [x for x in nums if x > 2]
print [(i, s) for i in nums for s in strs]
print [(i, s) for i in nums for s in [f for f in strs if "n" in f]]

For more details and a patch, see:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/listcomp/index.html

== 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	  
Christchurch, New Zealand	  
greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz

<P><A HREF="http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/listcomp/index.html">List
Comprehensions Patch</A> - Greg Ewing's implementation of enhanced list comprehensions
syntax for Python (using "for" and "in" keywords).  (11-Sep-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Sep 23 06:44:30 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:44:30 GMT
Subject: Review of O'Reilly's "Learning Python" Book at 32BitsOnline.com
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938065470@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

A Review of O'Reilly's "Learning Python" Book:

http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/199909/pythonedit&page=1

  "[...] In the end, I felt that the second section had given me more than I
  expected (and more than one usually gets from a textbook), because it put
  me in touch with the modern use of Python and prepared me to continue the
  endless learning process.

  [...] the book is excellent in my overall opinion. This book is
  well-structured, concise, and practical and all you need to learn
  that fantastic language, Python."

  Article Copyright (c) 1999 - Medullas Publishing Company.

<P><A HREF="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/199909/pythonedit&page=1">
Python Book Review</A> - a review of the O'Reilly ''Learning Python'' book
(at 32bitsonline.com).  (15-Sep-99)

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From tismer@appliedbiometrics.com  Thu Sep 23 06:48:31 1999
From: tismer@appliedbiometrics.com (Christian Tismer)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:48:31 GMT
Subject: XML-Sig Wise Installer for WIndows
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938065711@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi all,

I have packed together a Wise installer for the current
XML SIG CVS snapshot as of today.

-----------------------------------------------------
DOWNLOAD of the installer executable:

ftp://ftp.pns.cc/pub/xml/PythonXML.EXE

DOWNLOAD of the Wise source and helper scripts:
(these should go into xml/Wise for the CVS)

ftp://ftp.pns.cc/pub/xml/Wise.zip

-----------------------------------------------------

The installer takes the main XML directory and installs it
by default under \yourPythonDir\xml .

Additionally, it puts the 'demo' and 'doc' files into the
installation directory.

The available documentation seems to have some broken links,
but partially it works fine. The help files are accessible
from PythonWin's help menu.

As a note for CVS uploads: The xmlproc .gif uploads had additional
cr/lf chars which I removed. I thought it was a CVS setup error,
but they were in fact binary and wrong before the upload.

Please complain to XML-SIG about bugs left in the demo directory.

Complaints about the installer should go to me :-)

have fun with XML - chris

== 
Christian Tismer             :^)   <mailto:tismer@appliedbiometrics.com>
Applied Biometrics GmbH      :     Have a break! Take a ride on Python's
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 101   :    *Starship* http://starship.python.net
10553 Berlin                 :     PGP key -> http://wwwkeys.pgp.net
PGP Fingerprint       E182 71C7 1A9D 66E9 9D15  D3CC D4D7 93E2 1FAE F6DF
     we're tired of banana software - shipped green, ripens at home

<P><A HREF="ftp://ftp.pns.cc/pub/xml/">XML SIG CVS snapshot</A> - 
self-installing version of the Python XML SIG snapshot code
(for Windows).  (21-Sep-99)

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From robin@alldunn.com  Thu Sep 23 06:49:03 1999
From: robin@alldunn.com (Robin Dunn)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:49:03 GMT
Subject: PORPIG (Portland): Meeting October 4th, 1999, 7pm-9pm
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938065743@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Here is the announcment for the October meeting of the Portland ORegon area
Python Interest Group (PORPIG).

The meeting is from 7pm to 9pm and is held in the Benjamin Franklin
Building.  The entrance to the Benjamin Franklin Building is located on the
corner of SW 1st Ave and SW Columbia Street in Portland. The building
entrance is monitored by a security guard so it is very important that NON
GROUP MEMBERS RSVP so you can be listed at the security desk.

----- Original Message -----
From: <ray@unival.com>
To: <porpig@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 11:47 AM
Subject: [porpig] October Meeting

> The October 4th meeting subject is an "Introduction to and mini-tutorial
> of wxPython" presented by Robin Dunn. If you are not familiar with
> wxPython, please see Robin's web site for information:
> http://AllDunn.com/wxPython/
>
> Randall Burns has volunteered to provide drinks and snacks for this
> meeting.. thanks Randall !
>
> Rember, if you are not a porpig@egroups.com member you must RSVP
> (ray@unival.com) if you want to attend.
>
> Ray
> ray@unival.com

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From bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw)  Thu Sep 23 06:49:48 1999
From: bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw) (Barry A. Warsaw)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:49:48 GMT
Subject: JPython 1.1 beta 3
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938065788@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I'm pleased to announce the release of JPython 1.1 beta 3, the 100%
Pure Java implementation of the Python language.

Below is a summary of changes since beta 2.  Although I fixed a lot of
bugs, I didn't get to all that I'd hoped, especially concerning
jpythonc.  I'll be concentrating on that when I get back.  My plan is
to have one last beta release by the end of October, followed by 1.1
final by the end of the year.

Enjoy,
-Barry

  New JPython features and bug fixes

    - JPython can now optionally access non-public members of Java
      classes.  By setting the registry entry
      python.security.respectJavaAccessibility=false, JPython can
      access private, package-private, and protected fields, methods,
      and constructors.  By default, normal Java access rules are
      followed, i.e. only public members can be accessed.  This
      feature only works if running with Java 1.2.  Thanks to Tony
      Plate for his initial implementation.
    - A new framework for looking up the methods for builtin types has 
      been enabled.  This can speed up method calls by a factor of 2.
      The feature is currently experimental and has only been
      implemented for list objects, but will be implemented for other
      builtin objects for the next release.
    - Some workarounds for weird JIT bugs have been added, but this
      may not fix all problems related to running JPython under JVMs
      with JIT enabled.
    - A wrapper for a free md5 builtin module is included, although
      the md5 implementation is not.  See the comment in
      org/python/modules/MD5Module.java for details.
    - New semantics for registry key python.modules.builtin (and
      correspondingly the org/python/modules/Setup.java file).

  Improved CPython 1.5.2 compatibility

    - sys.modules['__builtin__'] and "import __builtin__" has been
      fixed.
    - Builtin methods and functions now have the standard __name__,
      __doc__, __self__, and __members__ attributes.
    - Dictionaries and lists now have a __methods__ attribute, and
      dir({}) or dir([]) return the list of members.
    - repr(8to16bitstring) now prints standard octal escapes for 8bit
      characters.  It still prints hex escapes for 16bit characters.
    - Added abspath() to os.path (i.e. javapath)
    - Code objects now have a co_flags attribute
    - Frame objects now have f_trace attribute, and dir(frame) works
    - None() now raises a TypeError
    - tuple(somelist) immutability patch
    - re match objects now have groupdict() method
    - Finn Bock patch for setting of a module's __name__ after reload

<P><A HREF="http://www.jpython.org">JPython 1.1 beta 3</A> - a 100%
Pure Java implementation of the Python language.  (22-Sep-99)

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From pam@digicool.com  Thu Sep 23 06:49:35 1999
From: pam@digicool.com (Pam Crosby)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:49:35 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 22 Sep 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938065775@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hello Everyone,

This week in Zope Community the Zope.org community portal site
experienced growing pains.  We had to take it down and release Zope
2.0.1 to correct a security problem.  'Tis now available on 
  http://www.zope.org/  new site
  http://www.zope.org:8080/ old site


Loren Stafford submitted a "Breadcrumbs How-to" to the new Zope
community site.
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010467.html
  http://www.zope.org/Members/lstaffor/Breadcrumbs

Brad Clements attended Microsoft Windows 2000 Developer Day 99 and
posted some ideas and concepts that could be applicable to Zope.
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010558.html

Jim Fulton announced changes checked into CVS that fixed our security
problem.  Zope 2.0.1 is the current release.
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010585.html

Duncan Booth passed on his method for Editing Zope documents with FTP
using Epsilon.  
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010601.html

Rik Hoekstra continued a discussion concerning wysiwyg front end for
Zope.  Several others added their thoughts to the discussion.
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-September/000747.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010624.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010625.html
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010611.html

Guido van Rossum reminded the list that papers are due September 30,
1999 for the next Python conference. The conference will be held in our
backyard in Alexandra, VA. 
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010616.html
  http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html
  http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01
   
Alexander Staubo passed on Middleware discussion on InfoWorld where Zope
was mentioned.
  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010795.html

Paul Everitt made several "Long Awaited Announcements" to the list.  The
first is ZEO Zope Enterprise Option is now available.
   http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010796.html

Second, commercial support is now available from Digital Creations.
Details of the support are listed on the http://www.digicool.com site.
   http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010799.html

Third, Zope training in Colorado Springs October 18-20 and the
possibility of a Zope track at the Python conference.
   http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010745.html

Finally, the last announcement Paul posted concerned Hadar Pedhazur's
co-authoring a bulletin for IDC.
   http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010800.html

Rob Page updated the list about Digital Creations documentation effort.
Numerous How-To's and guide upgrades are now available on the new Zope
community site.
   http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010730.html

Hugh Emberson has added a patch to allow "different operator comparison"
in SQL method.  His information concerning <dtml-sqltest> is available
at:
   http://www.zope.org/Members/hughe

Until next week...

Pamela Crosby

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

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From guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US  Thu Sep 23 06:50:04 1999
From: guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (Guido van Rossum)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:50:04 GMT
Subject: Standard Python documentation in book form!
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938065804@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I am pleased to announce that toExcel.com is selling nicely printed
and bound copies of the key Python 1.5.2 documentation: library
reference, language reference, and tutorial.

The books are printed on demand.  I have received review copies and
the print quality is very good.  Especially the library reference (496
pages) is well worth your money if you want hardcopy!

Royalties go to the PSA.

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

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Sep 23 06:51:52 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 99 05:51:52 GMT
Subject: [fm] zope 2.0.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-464-938065912@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Zope 2.0.1
  Drew - September 22nd 1999, 11:02 EST

  Zope is a free, Open Source web application platform used for building
  high-performance, dynamic web sites. It contains a powerful and simple
  scripting object model and high-performance, integrated object
  database.

  Changes: A security bug allowed users with local roles to gain
  privileges on acquired objects. Users of Zope 2.0.0 that use local
  roles should upgrade.

      Download: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/
        Red Hat
      Packages: http://www.zope.at/mze/
      Homepage: http://www.zope.org/
     Changelog: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.0.1/CHANGES.txt

                  Author:Digital Creations
                 License:OpenSource
                Category:Web/Development

<P><A HREF="http://www.zope.org/">Zope 2.0.1</A> - a free, open source web
application platform used for building high-performance, dynamic web
sites; security update for Zope 2.0.0.  (22-Sep-99)

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From jbauer@rubic.com  Fri Sep 24 01:53:49 1999
From: jbauer@rubic.com (Jeff Bauer)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 00:53:49 GMT
Subject: normalDate 0.7
Message-ID: <mt2.0-3886-938134428@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi folks.

I don't keep a list of people who use NormalDate, a simple
Python date class, but Dan Winkler reminded me today that
I neglected to put in __add__, __sub__ methods.  For anyone
using it, the latest version is available:

  http://starship.python.net/crew/jbauer/normalDate/

>From the docstring:

    NormalDate is a specialized class to handle dates without
    all the excess baggage (time zones, daylight savings, leap
    seconds, etc.) of other date structures.  The minimalist
    strategy greatly simplifies its implementation and use.

    Internally, NormalDate is stored as an integer with values
    in a discontinuous range of -99990101 to 99991231.  The
    integer value is used principally for storage and to simplify
    the user interface.  Internal calculations are performed by
    a scalar based on Jan 1, 1900.

For people who are serious about their date calculations, I'd
recommend Marc-Andre Lemburg's mxDateTime:

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

For people who aren't so serious about their date calculations,
check out:

  http://www.pauahtun.org

The Python distribution also includes a date class, which would
have saved me time, had I bothered to check.

  Demo/classes/Dates.py

---
Jeff Bauer
Rubicon Research

<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/jbauer/normalDate/">normalDate
0.7</A> - updated version of Jeff Bauer's ''NormalDate''
class for date calculations based on scalar integers.  (21-Aug-99)

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From philh@vision25.demon.co.uk  Fri Sep 24 01:58:56 1999
From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 00:58:56 GMT
Subject: Parrot-0.2.0 - GUI Building Tool
Message-ID: <mt2.0-3886-938134736@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

[Moderator's note: see below for 0.2.0 announcement]

It looks like version 0.0.1 of Parrot, my text-based GUI builder,
will be ready within a day or so. It doesn't actually do anything
useful yet; v0.0.1 is a technology demonstration version, which
is intended to verify that the basic design is more-or-less
sensible. Would anyone like to have a look at it, and possibly 
suggest some improvements? If so, tell me, and I'll put it on
my website.

Some information about Parrot follows:


An introduction to the Parrot GUI building tool.

Parrot is a text-based GUI builder, written by Philip Hunt. It is 
intended to be used by programmers writing GUI applications. To 
use Parrot, first you create a *.par file describing your 
application's GUI. Your file might look something like this:


-----------Cut here-------------------------------
window @MyWindow "My First Window" {
   menuBar {
      menu "File" { 
         menuItem @New "New" 
         menuItem @Exit "Exit"
      }
      menu "Help" { 
         menuItem @About "About..."
      }
   }
   colLayout {
      rowLayout {
         label "First row!"
         button @Button1 "Press me"
         button @Button2 "And me"
      }
      rowLayout {
         label "Which units:"
         radioButton @inchRB "inches"
         radioButton @feetRB "feet"
         radioButton @yardRB "yards"
         radioButton @mileRB "miles"
      }
   }
}
-----------Cut here-------------------------------


Then you invoke the Parrot executable: this causes Parrot to 
create a file containing source code which, when executed, will 
display your GUI window. 

What language is Parrot's output written in? That depends on 
which _backend_ you use.

Parrot is written in two parts: a frontend, which reads in a
*.par file, like the one shown above, storing it in an 
internal data format; and a backend, which converts the internal
format into code for output.

I intend that multiple backends will be written for Parrot; this
has two advantages:

   1. someone will be able to learn one GUI builder, Parrot, and 
      then use that tool for whatever programming language they 
      are using

   2. a GUI application created in Parrot can be translated into 
      several output formats, e.g. if there is a prototype in 
      one language and the real application in another; or if 
      one is porting to a different OS or GUI toolkit.

Currently, the only backend is a demonstration one that creates
a page of HTML.

Planned backends include:

* Python using the Tkinter GUI library

* the Glade XML format (Glade is a graphical GUI builder which is
  part of the GNOME project; a Glade XML file can be used to build
  GNOME applications).

* C++ using the Qt GUI library

Parrot will also be able to read the Glade XML format and use it
to write *.par files. This means that Parrot should be interoperable 
with Glade -- someone could use the two together to build a GUI.

Anyone wishing to contribute other backends will be welcome to do 
so; hopefully Parrot will eventually encompass all GUI APIs and
prgramming languages in common use. Note that if a GUI toolkit 
doesn't have a visual builder, and someone writes a Parrot backend
for that toolkit, then once the Glade XML->parrot translator has
been written,  


Parrot is written in Python. It is copyrighted by philip Hunt and
licenced under the GNU GPL. Parrot uses version 0.4 of John Aycock's 
parsing framework described in his paper _Compiling Little Languages 
in Python_. 



== 
Phil Hunt....philh@vision25.demon.co.uk


----------------

>From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Parrot-0.2.0
Date: 05 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT

I've just released Parrot-0.2.0 on my website.

Parrot is a text-based GUI builder. To use it, you edit a text file
which defines what your GUI application will look like, then you
invoke Parrot from the command line; Parrot's output is source code
which when run will display the GUI application.

Currently Parrot produces Python source code for the Tkinter GUI
toolkit; other backends are planned.

Parrot is currently pre-alpha software, so don't expect it to
be particularly useful yet (or even useful at all).

Parrot's homepage is:
   http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/prog/parrot.html

Parrot is licenced under the GNU GPL.

== 
Phil Hunt - - - - - - - - -  philh@vision25.demon.co.uk
 - Linux will be 8 years old on 17th September! See: -
http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/prog/linuxbirthday.html


<P><A HREF="http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/prog/parrot.html">Parrot
0.2.0</A> - prototype version of a new description-based multi-backend
GUI builder; currently supports Tkinter.  (05-Sep-99)

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From ngps@madcap.dyn.ml.org  Fri Sep 24 02:03:26 1999
From: ngps@madcap.dyn.ml.org (Ng Pheng Siong)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:03:26 GMT
Subject: The M2 Python Crypto Toolkit 0.02
Message-ID: <mt2.0-3886-938135006@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The M2 Python Crypto Toolkit 0.01 (see below for 0.02 announcement )
--------------------------------------------------------------------

The M2 Python Crypto Toolkit (M2Crypto) ==
        Python          www.python.org
+       OpenSSL         www.openssl.org
+       SWIG            www.swig.org

Python is an interpreted, dynamic-typing, object-oriented programming
language that is often compared to Perl, Scheme, Tcl or Java. SWIG -
Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator - provides glue to link C/C++
libraries with the above-mentioned languages.

M2Crypto presents a Python interface to OpenSSL, via SWIG.

M2 stands for "me, too!"*

This release includes the following: DH, RSA, DSA, RC4, MD5, SHA1,
RIPEMD160, and the EVP interfaces for message digests, HMACs, and
symmetric ciphers. It requires Python 1.5.2, OpenSSL 0.9.4, and,
optionally, SWIG 1.1p5 or later. It has been tested under FreeBSD
2.x, Redhat Linux 5.2, and WinNT4. It should run anywhere Python
and OpenSSL run.

M2Crypto is released under a license similar to Python's. See LICENSE
for details.


For now, M2Crypto is intended to be a prototyping tool; it is _not_
for writing production crypto software.

In particular, note the following caveats:

1. There will be memory leaks, because of pointer ownership contention
between Python and SWIG. (These would be due to my misprogramming.)

2. There is no memory locking/clearing for keys, passphrases, etc.

3. The PRNG has no interface for CS**; it is unlikely to be CS***.

4. AFAIK, Python and OpenSSL have not been subjected to the full attention
of the Bugtraq crowd. M2Crypto's handling of active hostile input is
probably suspect.

Of course, I hope to address these in future.

Meanwhile, have fun! Your feedback is welcome.


Ng Pheng Siong
ngps@post1.com


* Similar software are Marc-Andre Lemburg's mxCrypto, and two (?)
Python interfaces to the SSL portion of SSLeay/OpenSSL.

** Continuous seeding.

*** Cryptographically strong.

The M2 Python Crypto Toolkit 0.02
---------------------------------

I am pleased to announce the release of M2Crypto 0.02.
The package is available at http://www.post1.com/home/ngps

This release incorporates support for SSL, specifically,

	For building servers, blocking i/o:
		- An SSLServer modeled after SocketServer.
		- A ForkingSSLServer that seems to work well.
		- A ThreadingSSLServer that runs one thread at a time. (!) ;-)
		
	For building servers, nonblocking i/o:
		- An ssl_dispatcher modeled after asyncore.dispatcher.

	A HTTPS server based on Medusa.
	
	For client-side web programming:
		- httpslib
		- urllib2

Your feedback is appreciated.

Cheers.
== 
Ng Pheng Siong <ngps@post1.com>


21 Aug 1999

<P><A HREF="http://www.post1.com/home/ngps">M2 Python Crypto Toolkit
0.02</A> - OpenSSL wrapper and support for writing SSL-based
web servers and clients in Python.  (22-Aug-99)

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From dhellmann@zcentral.com  Fri Sep 24 02:04:41 1999
From: dhellmann@zcentral.com (Doug Hellmann)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:04:41 GMT
Subject: PmwContribD 1.11
Message-ID: <mt2.0-3886-938135081@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

This library consists of several Pmw-based Tkinter widgets including a
ProgressMeter, basic TreeNavigator and a GUI application framework for
creating simple GUI apps quickly.

See http://members.home.net/doughellmann/PmwContribD/index.html for more
details.

(Those of you who may have looked at PmwContribD in the past please
notice that the web site has changed.)

Doug


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<P><A HREF="http://members.home.net/doughellmann/PmwContribD/index.html">PmwContribD
1.11</A> - Pmw-based Tkinter widgets including a ProgressMeter, basic
TreeNavigator and a simple GUI application framework.  (23-Aug-99)

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From dhellmann@zcentral.com  Fri Sep 24 02:06:55 1999
From: dhellmann@zcentral.com (Doug Hellmann)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:06:55 GMT
Subject: pybox utility library
Message-ID: <mt2.0-3886-938135215@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

pybox

This library consists of lots of Python utility classes and scripts
including a base class for creating command line applications with
formatted help output and argument handling, a user preference file
management class, and a class for accessing the win32 registry with a
higher level of abstraction than the win32api module provides.

See http://members.home.net/doughellmann/pybox/index.html for more
details.

(Previous users of the pybox library please notice that the web site has
moved.)


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<P><A HREF="http://members.home.net/doughellmann/pybox/index.html">pybox
utility library</A> - Python utility classes and scripts; such as a base
class for creating command line applications with formatted help output
and argument handling, user preferences management, and a high-level
Win32 registry access class.  (23-Aug-99)

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From fredp@multimania.com.nospam  Fri Sep 24 02:14:36 1999
From: fredp@multimania.com.nospam (Fred Pacquier)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:14:36 GMT
Subject: HTMLized calendar module (html_cal.py)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-3886-938135676@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

FWIW:

For a small project I did at work I needed to create web pages with 
calendars that could be modified by a python script on a regular basis 
(like adding links to month names, days, week numbers...).

I thought I would find something similar ready-made on the net, but I 
didn't. So I took the standard library module calendar.py and turned into 
html_cal.py.

There is only one new method that creates a monthly calendar like 
prmonth(), except that:

- it prints week numbers
- it returns a string instead of printing to stdio
- month names, weekdays and week numbers are tagged with "pseudo-HTML", ie 
tags that will not display until some other script has changed them to 
actual <a href=""> or such.

It's probably not the purest python code in the world (mine, I mean :) as 
I'm quite new to this, but it does the job. If it may be of use to anyone, 
just mail me (beware the .nospam :). If it's already been done better, 
please enlighten me, too.

== 
YAFAP : http://www.multimania.com/fredp/

<P><A HREF="http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=517487300&fmt=text">html_cal.py</A> -
a modified version of the standard calendar.py library module, for creating
calendars in HTML; mail author Fred Pacquier for source code.  (26-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Fri Sep 24 02:20:36 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:20:36 GMT
Subject: [fm] Palm-Mail 0.4
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938136036@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Palm-Mail 0.4
  Lalo Martins - August 28th 1999, 21:52 EST

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

  0.3.5 Changes: Added support for PDA (or MailDB.pdb) to Unix-style mailboxes,   
  fixed two bugs and added some new command line options.

  0.4 Changes: Implemented merging to existing mailboxes, and fixed a bug
  with MH/Maildir.

      Download: http://www.linuxcenter.com.br/lalo/palmmail-0.4.tar.gz
      Homepage: http://www.linuxcenter.com.br/lalo/eng.html
     Changelog: http://www.linuxcenter.com.br/lalo/palm-mail.NEWS

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

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.linuxcenter.com.br/lalo/eng.html">Palm-Mail 0.4</A> -
interface to the Mail application in PalmOS PDAs; needs
<A HREF="http://pyrite.linuxbox.com/pyrite">Pyrite</A>.  (28-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Fri Sep 24 02:23:01 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:23:01 GMT
Subject: [fm] mcl 0.52.00
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938136181@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

mcl 0.52.00
  Erwin - August 28th 1999, 22:04 EST

  mcl is a MUD client running in a Virtual Console under Linux or using
  standard TTY routines under any other UNIX. Embedded Perl or Python
  offer very high tweakability. Other features include huge scrollback, a
  stable input line with the MUD prompt, Perl regexps for actions and
  substitutions.

  Changes: Now supports Python as well as Perl for scripting, improved
  xterm key recognition, ZMUD-like speedwalks, better input line editing
  and various bug fixes.

      Download: http://www.andreasen.org/mcl/download.cgi?source
      Alternate
      Download: http://www.andreasen.org/mcl/download.cgi?binary
        Red Hat
      Packages: http://www.andreasen.org/mcl/download.cgi?rpm
      Homepage: http://www.andreasen.org/mcl/
     Changelog: http://www.andreasen.org/mcl/Changes

                  Author:Erwin S. Andreasen
                 License:GPL
                Category:Console/Games

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.andreasen.org/mcl/">mcl 0.52.00</A> - 
text-based MUD client for Linux/UNIX with support for Perl and
Python scripting.  (28-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Fri Sep 24 02:25:19 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:25:19 GMT
Subject: [fm] pagecast 1.1.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938136319@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Pagecast 1.1.1
  Preston Landers - August 28th 1999, 22:16 EST

  Pagecast submits lists of URL's to various search engines such as
  AltaVista, Infoseek, Excite, Google, etc to be indexed. It can run from
  the command-line or as a mail-robot (email a list of URL's to
  pagecast@yourmachine). It has a few advanced features such as the
  ability to rate a URL's keyword-to-title relevance and fix broken meta
  tags. Pagecast requires Python (with threading.)

  Changes: This is a maintenance release, probably the last before a
  major rewrite of many features for a 2.0 release. All underscores have
  been removed from Pagecast since some versions of Python have problems
  with underscores in config file variable names, added 3 new search
  engines, new documentation on how to add a search engine, and debugging
  command line option.

   Download: http://askpreston.com/projects/pagecast/pagecast-1.1.1.tar.gz
   Homepage: http://askpreston.com/projects/pagecast/index.html
  Changelog: http://askpreston.com/projects/pagecast/ChangeLog.txt

                  Author:Preston Landers
                 License:GPL
                Category:Web/Tools
              Depends on:Python

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://askpreston.com/projects/pagecast/index.html">Pagecast
1.1.1</A> - submit lists of URLs to search engine spiders.  (28-Aug-99)

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From adamf@pobox.com  Fri Sep 24 02:26:05 1999
From: adamf@pobox.com (Adam Feuer)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:26:05 GMT
Subject: adzapper-0.1.27
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938136365@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

adzapper 0.1.27

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

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

adzapper is written entirely in Python and is released under the Zope
Public License.

Homepage: http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/
Download: http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/adzapper-0.1.27.tgz

cheers
adam
== 
Adam Feuer
adamf at pobox.com

<P><A HREF="http://www.pobox.com/~adamf/adzapper/">adzapper 0.1.27</A> -
filtering web proxy that blocks ads from being downloaded.  (30-Aug-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Fri Sep 24 02:29:31 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:29:31 GMT
Subject: [fm] tabla 0.2
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938136571@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

TABLA 0.2
  asharma - August 31st 1999, 19:03 EST

  TABLA is a Python script that can build simple HTML tables. It is
  similar to some other cgi-based HTML table builders but has more
  functionality and presents a simpler, cleaner user interface. With the
  right Web server permissions, TABLA is ideal for allowing non-HTML
  experts to maintain complex data tables such as schedules or lab
  results or team statistics.

  Changes: First public release.

      Download: http://www.cwareco.com/downloads.html
      Homepage: http://www.cwareco.com/tabla.html

                  Author:R Adkins
                 License:GPL
                Category:Web/Tools
              Depends on:Python 1.5+

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.cwareco.com/tabla.html">TABLA 0.2</A> - 
Python script for building and (interactively) editing
HTML-based tables.  (31-Aug-99)

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From jumenzel9974@my-deja.com  Fri Sep 24 02:32:33 1999
From: jumenzel9974@my-deja.com (jumenzel9974@my-deja.com)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:32:33 GMT
Subject: PyVersant 0.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938136753@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Are there some Pythoneers out there, who have access to Versant (r)
OODBMS?

Than you might try PyVersant 0.1 on

http://starship.python.net/crew/jmenzel

PyVersant 0.1 is a Python-Module based on the C-Api of the Versant
OO-Database.

This is the first attempt going public, so there might be some
oopses left to be discovered. Have fun!

Cheers

Justinus


Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/jmenzel/">PyVersant 0.1</A> - 
interface to the C API of the Versant commercial OODBMS.  (01-Sep-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Fri Sep 24 02:39:43 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:39:43 GMT
Subject: [fm] corbascript 1.3.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938137183@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

[Moderator's note: CorbaScript, while being a different language,
is supposed to resemble Python. The licensing situation of the
implementation is not entirely clear, though, because while the
web site claims that CorbaScript is an open-source project,
for-fee redistribution nevertheless appears to be restricted.]

  CorbaScript 1.3.1
  Raphaël Marvie - September 01st 1999, 23:43 EST

  CorbaScript is an interpreted object-oriented scripting language
  dedicated to CORBA environments. Scripts (i.e. CorbaScript programs)
  can invoke any operation, get and set any attribute of any CORBA/IIOP
  object. Moreover, any OMG IDL interface can be implemented by scripts.
  CorbaScript provides a dynamic binding to OMG IDL descriptions: no OMG
  IDL stub or skeleton need to be generated. OMG IDL descriptions are
  extracted from the Interface Repository and are made directly available
  to scripts.

  Download: http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/Download/index.html
  Homepage: http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/CorbaScript/index.html

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/CorbaScript/index.html">
CorbaScript 1.3.1</A> - interpreted object-oriented scripting
language for CORBA environments; resembles Python.  (01-Sep-99)

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From pyca@ms.inka.de  Fri Sep 24 02:40:51 1999
From: pyca@ms.inka.de (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:40:51 GMT
Subject: pyCA-0.5.5 - tools for setting up a certificate authority
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938137251@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

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.

I would like to ask for feedback of people using this package. Any hints
for improving this package are appreciated. I do not have the
possibility to test this software under other Unix environments than
Linux, OpenLDAP and ApacheSSL.

Changes since 0.5.4:
* Many bugfixes
* Small enhancements in user interface of CGI-BINs

Ciao, Michael.

<P><A HREF="http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/pyca/">pyca-0.5.5</A> - scripts
and CGI-BIN programs for setting up and running a certificate authority
using OpenSSL.  (02-Sep-99) 

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From moshez@server.python.net  Fri Sep 24 02:42:34 1999
From: moshez@server.python.net (Moshe Zadka)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:42:34 GMT
Subject: A Simple Mail Reader
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938137354@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I've written a small mail reader for reading Unix mailboxes. It is command
line based, and uses "less" to view the messages. Currently it is usable
only if you want  simple no-fuss mail reader, or to play with the code.

It is available at http://starship.python.net/~moshez/cloom.tar.gz

Enjoy! Feedback and comments welcome!

<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/~moshez/">cloom</A> - a simple
command-line mail reader for reading UNIX mailboxes.  (03-Sep-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Fri Sep 24 02:44:25 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:44:25 GMT
Subject: [fm] pagecast 2.0 alpha 1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938137465@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Pagecast 2.0 alpha 1
  Preston Landers - September 03rd 1999, 16:41 EST

  Pagecast submits lists of URL's to various search engines such as
  AltaVista, Infoseek, Excite, Google, etc to be indexed. It can run from
  the command-line or as a mail-robot (email a list of URL's to
  pagecast@yourmachine). It has a few advanced features such as the
  ability to rate a URL's keyword-to-title relevance and fix broken meta
  tags. Pagecast requires Python (with threading.)

  Changes: This is a development release not intended for casual users.
  Anyone who is interested in previewing the features that will be
  availible in version 2.x should check this out, but beware; few server
  definitions are implemented, but it should be easy enough to roll your
  own. Changes in this alpha release include full proxy support, plug-in
  server architecture, and preliminary groups support.

   Download: http://askpreston.com/projects/pagecast/pagecast-1.1.1.tar.gz
   Homepage: http://askpreston.com/projects/pagecast/index.html
  Changelog: http://askpreston.com/projects/pagecast/ChangeLog.txt

                  Author:Preston Landers
                 License:GPL
                Category:Web/Tools
              Depends on:Python

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://askpreston.com/projects/pagecast/index.html">Pagecast
2.0 alpha 1</A> - submit lists of URLs to search engine spiders;
preview version for Pagecast 2.x release.  (03-Sep-99)

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From michael.stroeder@inka.de  Fri Sep 24 02:47:13 1999
From: michael.stroeder@inka.de (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:47:13 GMT
Subject: ldap-client-cgi.py 0.4.4: WWW gateway for accessing LDAP servers
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938137633@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

HI!

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

It's available for free (GPL) from

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

There's also a working demo there.

I would like to encourage people to give feedback about the usability
of this program.

Ciao, Michael.

Changes since 0.4.2
- some bug fixes
- more complete and slightly faster character conversion
Changes since 0.4.1
- security fix! (forgot METHOD-parameter in a <FORM>-tag)
- small fixes in user interface

<P><A HREF="http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/ldap-client-cgi/">ldap-client-cgi.py
0.4.4</A> - LDAP web client.  (04-Sep-99)

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From donn@oz.net  Fri Sep 24 02:52:26 1999
From: donn@oz.net (Donn Cave)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:52:26 GMT
Subject: BeOS native API modules, v0.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938137946@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

A system for the generation of dynamically loaded modules for the
C++ BeOS system API.  A few modules included (33), and example programs,
including a usable if miminal USENET news reader.

The BeOS C++ API uses virtual methods for system callbacks for things
like dispatch loops.  This model is preserved in the Python system,
by a feature of the C++ objects that allows them to be bound to a
Python class instance that can implement the virtual callback methods.
I believe the general idea for this comes from a paper by Jim Ahlstrom.

Each module implements only the function methods introduced by its
respective API class, and imports base class modules as needed.

It's work in progress:  http://www.oz.net/~donn/

	Donn Cave, donn@oz.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.oz.net/~donn/">BeOS native API modules 0.1</A> - 
Python interface to the BeOS C++ API; includes example programs
such as a minimal USENET news reader.  (06-Sep-99)

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From irmen@nospam-bigfoot.com  Fri Sep 24 02:52:44 1999
From: irmen@nospam-bigfoot.com (Irmen de Jong)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:52:44 GMT
Subject: PYRO 0.6 (Python Remote Objects)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938137964@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

ANNOUNCING PYRO 0.6

Python Remote Objects

by Irmen de Jong - irmen@bigfoot.com


WHAT IT IS:

Pyro is an acronym for PYthon Remote Objects. It is a basic Distributed
Object Technology system written entirely in Python, and for use in Python
only. With this, it closely resembles Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI).
It has less similarity to CORBA - which is a system- and language
independent Distributed Object Technology and has much more to offer than
Pyro or RMI. But Pyro is small, simple and free!

It has some interesting features:

- Naming Service which keeps record of the location of objects. The location
  of the NS can be discovered by use of a broadcast mechanism, if need be.

- Support for Python types only restricted by those that the standard
  'pickle' module handles (all builtin types, and user created classes).
  Objects as arguments are also supported when the code for those user
  defined classes is also available on the server side.

- Support for all Python argument types (variable argument lists and keyword
  arguments, *args and **keywords).

- Exceptions that occur in the remote object will actually be raised too on
  the client, just as if the error occured locally. Pyro's exception
  transportation mechanism makes this possible.

- Proxy compiler which automates the task of creating wrapper (proxy)
  classes.

- Dynamic Proxies if you don't like to have pregenerated proxies.


WHERE CAN I GET IT ?

>From my Python homepage: http://www.bigfoot.com/~irmen/python.html

It comes with a Python-style license, but is otherwise free for
commercial and non-commercial use.


REFERENCE:

<P><A HREF="http://www.bigfoot.com/~irmen/python.html">Pyro
0.6</A> - Distributed Objects system for Python.  (06-Sep-99)

== 
Irmen de Jong - irmen@bigfoot.com

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Fri Sep 24 02:55:22 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:55:22 GMT
Subject: [fm] pyqt 0.9
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938138122@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

PyQt 0.9
  Phil Thompson - September 06th 1999, 20:16 EST

  PyQt is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit.

  Changes: The Qt bindings have been separated from PyKDE to form PyQt,
  added support for disconnect and added 2 new classes.

     Download:http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/download.html
     Homepage:http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/
    Changelog:http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/PyQt/index.html

                  Author:Phil Thompson
                 License:GPL
                Category:KDE/Development
              Depends on:Qt

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/">PyQt
0.9</A> - Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit.  (06-Sep-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Fri Sep 24 02:53:50 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:53:50 GMT
Subject: [fm] python/tk empire interface 1.10
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938138030@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Python/Tk Empire Interface 1.10
  Bernhard Reiter - September 06th 1999, 20:00 EST

  The Python/Tk Empire Interface (PTkEI) enables you to connect to empire
  4.x.x (Wolfpack) servers. Empire is a real-time war game with long
  tradition. You can find out about Empire and currently running servers
  and other clients at its homepage. This client is an example for a
  truly portable cross-platform GUI, known to run on Unix, X11, Win32 and
  Mac. Additionally you do not give up any command line power as a
  player, but you have to to learn the empire commands to make use of
  this GUI client.

  Changes: Small bug fix.

      Download: ftp://empire.idlpaper.com/pub/empire/clients/
      Alternate
      Download: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~koconnor/ptkei/download/
      Homepage: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~koconnor/ptkei/

                  Author:Kevin O'Connor
                 License:GPL
                Category:X11/Games

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~koconnor/ptkei/">PTkEI 1.10</A> -
Python/Tk client for Empire game.  (06-Sep-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Fri Sep 24 02:56:38 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 01:56:38 GMT
Subject: [fm] pykde 0.9
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938138198@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

PyKDE 0.9
  Phil Thompson - September 06th 1999, 20:13 EST

  PyKDE is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for KDE 1.x (89
  classes). It requires PyQt.

  Changes: The Qt bindings have been split off into a separate PyQt
  package, the KDE classes have been split into a number of separate
  modules and 5 new KDE classes have been added.

    Download: http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/download.html
    Homepage: http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/
   Changelog: http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/PyKDE/index.html

                  Author:Phil Thompson
                 License:GPL
                Category:KDE/Development
              Depends on:Qt 1.42-1.44, KDE 1.1-1.1.1 libraries

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/">PyKDE
0.9</A> - Python bindings for the K Desktop Environment (KDE 1.x);
requires PyQt.  (06-Sep-99)

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From michels@linax1.mpae.gwdg.de  Fri Sep 24 03:02:09 1999
From: michels@linax1.mpae.gwdg.de (Helmut Michels)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 02:02:09 GMT
Subject: Data Plotting Library DISLIN 7.2
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938138529@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

DISLIN is a high-level and easy to use plotting library for
displaying data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-colour plots,
surfaces, contours and maps. Several output formats are supported
such as X11, VGA, PostScript, CGM, HPGL, TIFF, PNG and Prescribe.
The library contains about 400 plotting and parameter setting routines
and is available for several C, Fortran 77 and Fortran 90 compilers.
Some DISLIN distributions contain also plotting extensions for the
languages Perl, Python and Java.

Version 7.2 of DISLIN is now released with the following new features

       - PNG support as output format
       - Calendar axes
       - 3-D bar graphs / 3-D pie charts
       - Cursor routines
       - Quickplots

Precomplied DISLIN extensions for Python are available for Windows 95/98/NT,
Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Digital UNIX. They can be used freely.

DISLIN distributions and manuals in PDF, PostScript and HTML format are
available from the DISLIN Home Page

     http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin

and via FTP from the server

     ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/grafik/dislin

 -------------------
  Helmut Michels
  Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie  Phone: +49 5556 979-334
  Max-Planck-Str. 2                   Fax  : +49 5556 979-240
  D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau           Mail : michels@linmpi.mpg.de

<P><A HREF="http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin/">DISLIN 7.2</A> - 
high-level data plotting library, featuring support for
Java, Python and Perl.  (07-Sep-99)

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From mal@lemburg.com  Fri Sep 24 03:03:09 1999
From: mal@lemburg.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 02:03:09 GMT
Subject: mxTextTools Package - Version 1.1.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4148-938138589@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

ANNOUNCING:

                   mxTextTools Version 1.1.1

          A Python extension package providing fast text
                 scanning and processing tools


WHAT IT IS:

mxTextTools is an extension package for Python that provides 
* a fast text search type (using a modified Boyer-Moore algorithm)
* a finite state machine for marking and analysing text
  (the Tagging Engine)
* a set of specialized text processing functions
* a set of functions that work with character sets

Applications include parsing structured text, finding and extracting
text (either exact or using translation tables) and recombining
strings to form new text. Everything was implemented having high
performance in mind.

WHAT'S NEW ?

The 1.1.1 release fixes a two minor bugs. It is mainly a service
update to make mxTextTools work out of the box together with
Tony J. Ibbs meta language:

	http://www.tibsnjoan.demon.co.uk/mxtext/metalang.html

The history details are available at:

        http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxTextTools.html#History

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

WHERE CAN I GET IT ?

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

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

WHAT DOES IT COST ?

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

WHERE CAN I GET SUPPORT ?

I am offering commercial support for this package through
Python Professional Services Inc. (http://www.pythonpros.com).
Look on their support pages for details or contact me directly.

REFERENCE:

<P><A HREF="http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxTextTools.html">
mxTextTools 1.1.1</A> - fast text processing tools.  (09-Sep-99)

== 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
______________________________________________________________________
Y2000:                                                   113 days left
Business:                                      http://www.lemburg.com/
Python Pages:                           http://www.lemburg.com/python/

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From mok@imsb.au.dk  Fri Sep 24 03:16:37 1999
From: mok@imsb.au.dk (Morten Kjeldgaard)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 99 02:16:37 GMT
Subject: Python interface to RPM (Redhat Package Manager)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-4945-938139397@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

A simple and compact, yet useful interface to the RPM package manager
is available at http://imsb.au.dk/~mok/linux/doc/rpmfile.py

The file contains Python classes that gives us access to all the data 
stored in an RPM file or an RPM database entry.The instanced object 
can be treated like a dictionary, with rpm tags as keys.

Enjoy,
/Morten

---
Morten Kjeldgaard   <mok@imsb.au.dk>             | Phone : +45 89 42 50 26
Institute of Molecular and Structural Biology    | Fax   : +45 86 12 31 78
Aarhus University                                | Home  : +45 86 18 81 80
Gustav Wieds Vej 10 C, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark | icq   : 27224900

<P><A HREF="http://imsb.au.dk/~mok/linux/doc/rpmfile.py">RPM interface</A> -
Python dictionary-style interface to RPM (RedHat Package Manager) files
and databases.  (26-Aug-99)

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From mcfletch@vrtelecom.com  Sat Sep 25 02:54:39 1999
From: mcfletch@vrtelecom.com (Mike Fletcher)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 01:54:39 GMT
Subject: SimpleParse minor update
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938224479@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Since it seems the whole lot of us is publishing today, may as well go ahead
myself...

This is a very minor update to the SimpleParse engine (not enough for a
version change), adds the ability to pass arbitrary mxTextTools tuples as
pre-built productions.  Also includes more examples.  It has been waiting
for release for a few weeks now.

8<_________________________
SimpleParse A Parser Generator for mxTextTools -- version 1.0

A simple parser generation system based on Marc-André Lemburg's mxTextTools
tagging engine.

8<_________________________

Examples

The examples sub-package contains a number of examples, including:

findliterals.py
	Find all instances of double quoted strings in a file.

formatvrml.py
	Syntax color VRML 97 source code, with text-processing-focused VRML
        97 grammar.

vrml.def
	VRML 97 parser focused on sceneGraph building (ignores comments etc.)

pyebnf_test.py
	A parser for the EBNF grammar used to describe python's grammar. 
        Does not include a tokenizer, so it cannot yet parse python itself.

http://members.home.com/mcfletch/programming/simpleparse/simpleparse.html

Enjoy yourselves,
Mike
______________________________________
   M i k e   C .  F l e t c h e r

       mcfletch@vrtelecom.com

        Designer, Researcher

<P><A HREF="http://members.home.com/mcfletch/programming/simpleparse/simpleparse.html">SimpleParse 1.0</A> - 
a simple parser generation system based on Marc-Andre Lemburg's mxTextTools
tagging engine.  (09-Sep-99)

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From skip@mojam.com  Sat Sep 25 02:58:40 1999
From: skip@mojam.com (Skip Montanaro)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 01:58:40 GMT
Subject: Implemented warning about inconsistent usage of return statements
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938224720@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

As a result of the recent thread in c.l.py I was motivated to create a patch
for Python/compile.c that modifies the byte code compiler to warn about
inconsistent use of the return statement within a function.  It's not at all
clear yet where this belongs.  I implemented it in compile.c because I'm
familiar with the code and I knew most people would have it available.  I
think that's probably not the best place for it in the long run.  Still, I'm
making it available now so that people can play around with it.

The patch is available from my Python Bits page:

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

If you have any questions or discover any bugs, let me know.

Skip Montanaro | http://www.mojam.com/
skip@mojam.com | http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/
847-971-7098   | Python: Programming the way Guido indented...

<P><A HREF="http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/">Inconsistent return
warning patch</A> -  a patch that makes Python warn about inconsistent use
of the <CODE>return</CODE> statement within a function.  (10-Sep-99)

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From bizzaro@bc.edu  Sat Sep 25 03:02:47 1999
From: bizzaro@bc.edu (J.W. Bizzaro)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:02:47 GMT
Subject: Python/ORBit Bindings
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938224966@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

ANNOUNCING
                   PyORBit: Python/ORBit Bindings


PyORBit is a project to create Python bindings for ORBit, a fast, 
lightweight CORBA ORB used by the GNOME Desktop for application and 
component interaction (similar to Microsoft's COM). These bindings will be 
distributed under the GNU LGPL license.  

PyORBit will follow the proposed OMG Python bindings to insure compliance
and compatibility, but we will also consider non-standard, optional
extensions to improve performance and add features, if necessary.

Version 0.0.1 of PyORBit is already available thanks to Michael
Robinson's contribution of his Python/ORBit bindings. This initial 
implementation should be functional for simple interfaces (assuming it
compiles for you). However, this version is considered a developers-only
release, as the structure and layout of later PyORBit releases will likely
change to some degree. Regardless, bug reports and patches are welcome.

PyORBit is coordinated by Justin Bradford <justin@ukans.edu>.

Source and a developer's mailing list can be found at:

    http://theopenlab.uml.edu/pyorbit/

The PyORBit project is hosted by The Open Lab, a non-profit organization
established to promote research collaborations and free-software
development in the scientific field of bioinformatics.

    http://theopenlab.uml.edu/


Cheers.
Jeff

<P><A HREF="http://theopenlab.uml.edu/pyorbit/">PyORBit 0.0.1</A> - beginnings
of Python bindings for <A HREF="http://www.labs.redhat.com/orbit/">ORBit</A>
(the free, C-based, light-weight CORBA ORB used by the GNOME
project).  (10-Sep-99)

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From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:04:02 GMT
Subject: [fm] icepref 0.11
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938225042@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  IcePref 0.11
  Dave Mortensen - September 10th 1999, 18:22 EST

  IcePref is a graphical configuration utility for the fast,
  light-weight, and stable window manager know as IceWM. Specifically,
  IcePref handles the options used by icewm 0.9.48, although it should be
  usable with most recent versions. It is written in python and uses the
  Gtk toolkit via the PyGTK bindings. It is currently capable of
  configuring most (all?) of the settings contained in the 'preferences'
  file.

  Changes: This release cleans up a few minor niggles and adds a feature
  which had been requested. IcePref now looks for the system wide version
  of the preferences file and copies it to the user's .icewm directory if
  the user does not yet have such a file. Barring major changes in IceWM,
  it will be the last release before the 1.0beta.

      Download: http://members.xoom.com/SaintChoj/icepref-0.11.tar.gz
      Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/SaintChoj/icepref.html

                  Author:Dave Mortensen
                 License:GPL
                Category:X11/Administration

 copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/SaintChoj/icepref.html">IcePref
0.11</A> - graphical configuration utility for the IceWM 0.9.48 window
manager for X11; needs PyGTK.  (10-Sep-99)

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From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:06:00 GMT
Subject: [fm] dyndns 0.4
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938225160@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  DynDNS 0.4
  zog - September 12th 1999, 14:30 EST

  DynDNS is a dynamic DNS server, written in Python, with a built-in CGI
  frontend and log analyzer. It uses cookies, rather than passwords, for
  authentication, and has both command-line and GUI clients.

  Changes: Security problems fixed, socket server and some clients added,
  new option of using an NS record, database is now less confusing, IP
  addresses are now thoroughly checked, slightly improved theoretical
  performance, etc.

      Download: http://dyn.stech.net/code/
      Homepage: http://dyn.stech.net/

                  Author:Brian Shirk
                 License:GPL
                Category:Daemons/HTTP
              Depends on:Python

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://dyn.stech.net/">DynDNS 0.4</A> - 
dynamic DNS update daemon, written in Python, with a
built-in CGI frontend and log analyzer.  (12-Sep-99)

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From Doug@news.vex.net  Sat Sep 25 03:07:35 1999
From: Doug@news.vex.net (Lewis)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:07:35 GMT
Subject: Tk Slashdot Headline Viewer
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938225254@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Inspired by the Slashdot headline viewer demo in the wxPython
package, i decided to implement my own in Tkinter.

My implementation, while simpler, is much cuter. (-:

Should anyone care to try it out, you can snag it from....

http://www.vex.net/~x/python_stuff.html#slashdot

...

<P><A HREF="http://www.vex.net/~x/python_stuff.html#slashdot">Tk Slashdot
Headline Viewer</A> - Tk/Tkinter version of a reader for slashdot.org
headlines.  (12-Sep-99)

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From kernr@mail.ncifcrf.gov  Sat Sep 25 03:07:48 1999
From: kernr@mail.ncifcrf.gov (Robert Kern)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:07:48 GMT
Subject: PyFT 0.5 - Python Wrapper for FreeType
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938225268@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I haved used SWIG to wrap the FreeType library, a TrueType font
rendering engine.  It can be used to render text onto a 2-color bitmap
or anti-aliased text onto a 256-grayscale pixmap.  These readily
convert to PIL Images.

Information on FreeType is on their site http://www.freetype.org
Documentation on PyFT is available on
http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/PyFT.html

PyFT is located here:
http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/Projects.html

Robert Kern

<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/Projects.html">PyFT
0.5</A> - Wrappers for the FreeType library for rendering TrueType
fonts.  (13-Sep-99)

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

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From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:08:31 GMT
Subject: [fm] mrdbc 0.9beta2
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938225311@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  mrDBC 0.9beta2
  Christian Scholz - September 13th 1999, 18:19 EST

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

  Changes: Added support for link tables, which give you the chance to
  link to tables together, extended attribute handling and added some
  small features to the existing methods.

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

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

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://heimat.de/mrtopf/mrdbc/">mrDBC 0.9 beta 2</A> -
high-level interface to mySQL databases.  (13-Sep-99)

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From Mike.Olson@FourThought.com  Sat Sep 25 03:09:55 1999
From: Mike.Olson@FourThought.com (Mike Olson)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:09:55 GMT
Subject: 4XSLT 0.7.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938225395@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

FourThought LLC (http://FourThought.com) announces the release of

                             4XSLT 0.7.1
                      -----------------------
                      A python implementation
                    of the W3C's XSLT language


4XSLT is an XML transformation processor based on the W3C's
specification for the XSLT transform language.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt

Currently, 4XSLT supports a sub-set of the August 13th working draft of
XSLT including the following:

Full expression support and attribute-value template expansion
xsl:include   xsl:import
xsl:template   xsl:apply-imports
xsl:apply-templates  xsl:if
xsl:for-each   xsl:choose
xsl:element   xsl:when
xsl:attribute   xsl:otherwise
xsl:text   xsl:message
xsl:value-of   xsl:variable
xsl:processing-instruction xsl:key
xsl:preserve-space  xsl:copy-of
xsl:strip-space
and literal elements and text

4XSLT produces its result tree by throwing standard SAX events to a
document handler, so it can be easily modified to supply results to
any SAX consumer.


News
----

Changes in 0.7.1:

- Fixed Ext functions in the Xslt Context.
- Implemented the document extension function for absolute URIs
- Implemented the following instructions:
        o key
        o import
        o apply-imports
        o if
        o choose
        o when
        o otherwise
        o message
        o variable
        o processing-instruction
        o copy-of
        o preserve-space
        o strip-space
- Implemented modes for template rules
- Implemented the key() method.  Needs to be optimized
- Implemented the following Extension functions:
        o current
        o generate-id
        o system-property
        o extension-function-available

More info and Obtaining 4XSLT
-----------------------------

Please see

 http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XSLT

Or you can download 4XSLT from

 ftp://FourThought.com/pub/4Suite/4XSLT

4XSLT is distributed under a license similar to that of Python.


== 
Mike Olson
Mike.Olson@fourthought.com
Consulting Member, FourThought LLC
http://FourThought.com          http://OpenTechnology.org

<P><A HREF="http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XSLT">4XSLT 0.7.1</A> - 
XML transformation processor based on the W3C specification for
the XSLT transform language.  (14-Sep-99)

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From Mike.Olson@FourThought.com  Sat Sep 25 03:11:48 1999
From: Mike.Olson@FourThought.com (Mike Olson)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:11:48 GMT
Subject: 4DOM 0.8.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938225508@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

FourThought LLC (http://FourThought.com) announces the release of

                             4DOM 0.8.1
                      -----------------------
                  An implementation of the W3C's
                  Document Object Model in Python

4DOM is a close implementation of the DOM recommendation, including
DOM Core level 1, DOM HTML level 1, NodeIterator and TreeWalker from
DOM Level 2, and several utility and helper components.  4DOM can work
in a CORBA* enviroment, or in a purely local set-up.

4DOM is designed to allow developers rapidly design applications
that read, write or manipulate HTML and XML.

0.8.1 News
----------

The DOM Level 2 Core Interfaces have been implemented.
Bugs were fixed in Printer, Attr and elsewhere.
__repr__ has been added so that orbless users can get more useful
results from printing Node instances.

0.8.0 News
----------

There have been many changes to 4DOM since the last major release, 0.7.0.
There were two more releases, which were only bundled with 4XSL.  For a  
complete listing, please see

  ftp://FourThought.com/pub/4Suite/4DOM/ChangeLog

But some highlights:

* Support for non-CORBA usage
* Improved performance
* DOM Level 2 NodeFilters and NodeIterators
* Pythonic interface for NodeLists and NamedNodeMaps
* XML Namespace support (proprietary until W3C decides chooses between
  the proposed Level 2 interfaces)
* Several interface changes in Ext
* Re-organized module structure   
* Explicit garbage-collection method
* Better-tested Fnorb and Ilu support
* Many bug-fixes

More info and Obtaining 4DOM
----------------------------

Please see

 http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4DOM

Or you can download 4DOM from

 ftp://FourThought.com/pub/4Suite/4DOM

4DOM is distributed under a license similar to that of Python.


*For CORBA users, 4DOM directly supports ILU and Fnorb.

== 
Mike Olson
Mike.Olson@fourthought.com
Consulting Member, FourThought LLC
http://FourThought.com          http://OpenTechnology.org

<P><A HREF="http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4DOM">4DOM 0.8.1</A> -
CORBA-aware implementation of the W3C Document Object Model (DOM),
supports Fnorb, ILU and "ORB-less" operation.  (14-Sep-99)

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From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:13:47 GMT
Subject: [fm] pydf 0.6
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938225627@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

pydf 0.6
  R.G. - September 15th 1999, 18:38 EST

  pydf displays the amount of used and available space on your filesystems,
  just like df, but in colours. The output format is completely customizable.

  0.2 Changes: Initial release.                      
  0.3 Changes: Restored original colour, added selection of file to get
      mount information from, workaround for (possible?) bug in RedHat 6.0
      python interpreter.
  0.4 Changes: Network filesystems with block size 0 recognized correctly and
      added a workaround for older python versions without os.statvfs
      function.
  0.5 Changes: Fixed typo messing up formatting of small sizes.
  0.6 Changes: Now displays size correctly for filesystem with FRSIZE !=
      BSIZE, documentation update.

  Download: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/pydf/
  Packages: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/pydf/

 Changelog: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/pydf/pydf_0.6_i386.changes

                   Author: Radovan Garabik
                  License: Public Domain
                 Category: Console/Utilities
               Depends on: python

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/pydf/">pydf 0.6</A> - 
displays the amount of used and available space on your Linux filesystems,
just like df, but in colours.  (15-Sep-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Sat Sep 25 03:17:57 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:17:57 GMT
Subject: [fm] pybliographer 0.9.2
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938225877@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  Pybliographer 0.9.2
  Fred - September 15th 1999, 08:18 EST

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

  0.8 Changes: Bugfixes and small improvements in the UI. 
  0.9.1 Changes: Restored HTTP/FTP protocol handling, added accelerator in
  Edition window (hit Escape to jump to the next field), and updated SGML
  DocBook generation. 
  0.7 Changes: Support for crossreferences and native edition in BibTeX,
  bugfixes, initial documentation. 
  0.9 Changes: Fixed a bug causing core dumps on some author entries,
  corrected @string entry syntax, possibility to sort also according to
  the entry key and additional configuration tests.
  0.9.2 Changes: This release fixes problems with the @comment fields, adds
  search capabilities on the keys and entry types, fixes a bug with the year
  fields, and adds a configuration option for people having threads problems
  (especially if the application locks up during searching or opening).

 Download: http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer/pybliographer-0.9.2.tar.gz
 Homepage: http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer.html

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

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer.html">Pybliographer
0.9.2</A> - a framework for managing bibliographic databases, such as BibTeX
files; now with improved SGML DocBook generation.  (15-Sep-99)

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From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:20:39 GMT
Subject: QIO - Quick I/O module for Python (for fast reading)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938226039@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

QIO

The QIO module borrows a few tricks from INN and adds some of its own to
make common Python file operations way lots more faster and stuff. It is
suitable for reading sockets and large text files; it doesn't support
writing.

Because of the read-ahead buffering, QIO will work best with sequential
access. For compatibility's sake it will handle slurping a whole file in one
read() and doing random access, but the optimizations can actually work
against you in those cases.

The readline*() methods include some enhancements over stock file objects:

   * You can specify a custom line terminator if '\n' isn't what you want.
   * Line terminators are optionally trimmed. (To find eof when trimming is
     enabled, you look for None instead of "")
   * A magic trim=2 argument makes quick work of "lines and dots" protocols
     like SMTP, NNTP and gopher, handling double-dots and CRLF shenanigans
     so you can use something like `message=s.readines()' to grab a mail
     message off the wire in one step

To show how the trim=2 thingy works, a modified version of Python's
nntplib.py is included.

Since this module is derived from a piece of INN, it carries the same
license (which is BSDish). See the package for details.

Where to get it:

Right here:

  http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/meowing/python/index.html

It's available in gzip'd tar form (21K) and as a ZIP file (19K).
Documentation is included.

<P><A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/meowing/python/index.html">QIO
module</A> - faster version of <CODE>readline()</CODE> file operation
(derived from INN news server code), with read-ahead buffering.  (16-Sep-99)

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From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:23:12 GMT
Subject: [fm] pyching 0.9.2
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938226192@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  pyChing 0.9.2
  kenoath - September 18th 1999, 05:40 EST

  pyChing is a program that allows you to 'consult' the I Ching. The I
  Ching is an ancient Chinese book of wisdom, which, apart from being
  read as a book, has also traditionally been consulted as an oracle.
  pyChing allows you to perform an I Ching 'reading' using the coin
  oracle, and then look up a brief interpretation from the I Ching.
  pyChing is completely written in Python, a cross platform, object
  oriented, programming language, using the Tkinter interface to the Tk
  GUI toolkit.

  0.9.1 Changes: First public release.
  0.9.2 Changes: Bugs in color selection code fixed. Other code,
        documentation and data tidy-ups.

      Download: http://www.essemgee.xnot.com/pyching/download.html
      Alternate
      Download: ftp://ftp.xnot.com/essemgee/pub/pyching/
      Homepage: http://www.essemgee.xnot.com/pyching/
     Changelog: http://www.essemgee.xnot.com/pyching/docs/CHANGES

                  Author:Stephen M. Gava
                 License:GPL
                Category:X11/Misc
              Depends on:Python, Tk

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.essemgee.xnot.com/pyching/">pyching 0.9.2</A> - 
Tkinter-based ''reader'' for the I Ching (an ancient Chinese book of
wisdom).  (18-Sep-99)

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From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:24:02 GMT
Subject: [fm] pypvm 0.8.5
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938226242@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  pypvm 0.8.5
  W. Michael Petullo - September 18th 1999, 20:24 EST

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

      Download: http://www.flyn.org/src/pypvm.tar.gz
      Packages: http://www.flyn.org/rpms/pypvm.i386.rpm
      Homepage: http://www.flyn.org/
     Changelog: http://flyn.org/ChangeLog/ChangeLog.pypvm

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

copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.flyn.org/">pypvm 0.8.5</A> - a Python interface
to the C libraries of PVM (the Parallel Virtual Machine)
for distributed computations.  (18-Sep-99)

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From C.Kotsokalis@ece.ntua.gr  Sat Sep 25 03:26:52 1999
From: C.Kotsokalis@ece.ntua.gr (Constantinos A. Kotsokalis)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:26:52 GMT
Subject: Cut The Cra* (CTC) v0.3.0 - Advertisment banner filter
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938226412@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Cut The Crap is a proxy-like server that will cut advertisement banners from
the web-pages you are reading. It is written in Python and uses Adam Feuer's
zaplets (zaplets + zaplet engine are included in the archive).

CTC's web page is:

  http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ckotso/CTC

and you can download the tar'd and gzip'd archive from

  http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ckotso/CTC/CTC-0.3.0.tar.gz

All feedback is welcome!
  Costas

== 
Constantinos A. Kotsokalis - C.Kotsokalis@ece.ntua.gr - NTUA - ECE Dept.
"Yes, I've heard of "decaf." What's your point?"

<P><A HREF="http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ckotso/CTC/">CTC 0.3.0</A> - 
a proxy-like server that will keep advertisement banners out of your
(web-browsing) sight.  (19-Sep-99)

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From sketch@online.de  Sat Sep 25 03:27:14 1999
From: sketch@online.de (Bernhard Herzog)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:27:14 GMT
Subject: Sketch 0.6.2 - A vector drawing program
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938226434@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Sketch 0.6.2 - A vector drawing program

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

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

Summary of the changes since version 0.6.1:

    * SVG import/export filters.
    * Improved AI import filter
    * Improved documentation
    * bug fixes

Homepage:
---------

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

Features:
---------

        o Drawing primitives:

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

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

        o Gradient fills

        o Special Effects and Features:

		o Use rectangles, ellipses and bezier objects as guides

                o Blend Groups: Automatically updated interpolations of
                  arbitrary objects

                o Text can be converted to bezier objects.

                o Text along Path

        o Exports Encapsulated PostScript, SVG and Adobe Illustrator files

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

        o Fully scriptable in Python

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

License:
--------

Sketch is released under GNU Library General Public License.

<P><A HREF="http://www.online.de/home/sketch">Sketch 0.6.2</A> - a
vector drawing program for Unix written in Python.  (19-Sep-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Sat Sep 25 03:31:45 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:31:45 GMT
Subject: GLADE/libglade: RAD GUI Building for GNOME/GTK+
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938226705@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

HTML version:
 http://developer.gnome.org/news/summary/1999_September7-September21.html

==============================================================
Lots of gushing about Glade
--------------------------------------------------------------

Glade + libglade = REALLY EXCELLENT RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TOOL!

Check these out if you haven't. Glade is a nice GUI builder, it has
lots of features and it's reasonably stable at version 0.5. Glade
saves files in XML format; at runtime, your application can load them
up using libglade.  Basically this at least halves the number of lines
of code involved for simple applications. It's very nice. We wrote a 
floppy formatter interface in 15 minutes just now.

New Glade announced:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-announce-list/1999-September/0025.shtml

New libglade announced:
 
  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-announce-list/1999-September/0029.shtml

Note that the James Henstridge, the libglade author, is also the
author of PyGNOME.  He has Python bindings for libglade too. So you
can combine Python with the GUI builder and create GNOME applications
very, very quickly.

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

FAQ: Frequently-Asked Questions at http://www.gnome.org/gnomefaq

<P><A HREF="http://glade.pn.org">GLADE/libglade</A> - a GUI builder for
GTK+ and GNOME that saves UI descriptions as XML files; also usable with
PyGNOME.  (21-Sep-99)

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From mhagger@blizzard.harvard.edu  Sat Sep 25 03:33:06 1999
From: mhagger@blizzard.harvard.edu (Michael Haggerty)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:33:06 GMT
Subject: Gnuplot.py v. 1.3
Message-ID: <mt2.0-8876-938226786@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

This is to announce the release of version 1.3 of Gnuplot.py.

Gnuplot.py is a Python [1] package that allows you to create graphs
from within Python using the gnuplot [2] plotting program.  This
version fixes plotting of function objects and moves to a package
structure.

Gnuplot.py can be obtained from

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

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


Some ways this package can be used:

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


Features added in version 1.3:

* Converted to python package format.  The main file is now called
  __init__.py, which can be loaded by typing 'import Gnuplot'.

* Passing GridData a callable function was basically broken because of
  the kludgey way of overloading the argument.  Instead of trying to
  fix it, I moved that functionality to a new type of PlotItem called
  'GridFunc'.


Features already present in older versions:

  +  Two and three-dimensional plots.
  +  Plot data from memory, from a file, or from an expression.
  +  Support for multiple simultaneous gnuplot sessions.
  +  Can pass arbitrary commands to the gnuplot program.
  +  Object oriented, extensible design with several built-in types
     of plot items.
  +  Portable and easy to install (nothing to compile except on
     Windows).
  +  Support for MS Windows, using the `pgnuplot.exe' program.
  +  Support for sending data to gnuplot as `inline' or `binary' data.
     These are optimizations that also remove the need for temporary
     files.  Temporary files are also still supported.


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

Yours,
Michael

== 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@blizzard.harvard.edu

<P><A HREF="http://monsoon.harvard.edu/~mhagger/Gnuplot/Gnuplot.html">Gnuplot.py
1.3</A> - interface to the gnuplot plotting program; needs NumPy.  (23-Sep-99)

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From nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca  Sat Sep 25 03:42:10 1999
From: nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca (Neil Schemenauer)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 99 02:42:10 GMT
Subject: Garbage Collection Patch for Python
Message-ID: <mt2.0-9756-938227330@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Garbage Collection for Python
   
This patch adds garbage collection to Python 1.5.2c1. Reference
counting is still used. The garbage collector only frees memory that
the reference counting does not (ie. reference cycles). This seems to
provide the best performance.

    http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~nascheme/python/gc.html

Currently the patch is only tested on Linux. It will probably work on
other Unix machines as well. On my Linux machine, the GC version of
Python passes all regession tests.

Sample usage:
    $ cd Python-1.5.2c1
    $ patch -p1 < ../gc-python-1.diff
    $ ./configure --with-gc

The patch assumes you have libgc.a installed somewhere so that linking
with -lgc works (/usr/local/lib should be okay). If you don't have the
library, download and install it before compiling.

If you are trying to fix a memory leaking Python program, Tim Peter's
Cyclops module may also be useful. It is available on the Python ftp
site.

Last updated Thu 23 Sep 1999 Neil Schemenauer 

<P><A HREF="http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~nascheme/python/gc.html">Garbage
Collection Patch</A> - a patch to add garbage collection to Python; for
Linux/UNIX.  (23-Sep-99)

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From geoff@elj.com  Sun Sep 26 09:33:48 1999
From: geoff@elj.com (geoff@elj.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 99 08:33:48 GMT
Subject: Prizes for open-source Eiffel software
Message-ID: <mt2.0-14257-938334828@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The Non-Profit International Consortium for Eiffel (NICE):

   http://www.eiffel-nice.org/

is organising the 3rd Annual Eiffel Struggle and made an initial
call for participation in June 1999:

      http://www.eiffel-nice.com/eiffel/struggle99/cfp/

First prize is $2,000 (two thousand) US, 2nd prize is 1000 Euros
(one thousand) with the 15 other prizes ranging from professional
compilers/libraries as well attendenace at one of the TOOLS
conferences (USA, Europe, Pacific) (including accomodation and
air travel). A number of book awards are also available.

The closing date for submissions is 15 October 1999 (~3 weeks to go).

The results from last years Eiffel Struggle '98 are here:

   http://www.elj.com/eiffel/struggle98/results/

There are plenty of getting started resources available from the call
for participation page. These include:

   http://www.elj.com/eiffel/getting-started/doc/
   http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/tools.htm

Good starting places for existing libraries include:

   http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/
   http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_eiffel_libraries.html
   http://SmallEiffel.loria.fr/general/repository.html

Obviously it would be nice to have some of the comprehensive Python
Libraries:

   http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/lib.html

adapted to Eiffel. Some starting library resources for Linux include:

  eGtk:      http://www.netlabs.net/~richieb/gtk_eiffel.html
             http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/bielak/gtk.htm
  eSockets:  http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/straszheim/esockets.htm
  EiffelFox: http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/Hiebert/efox.htm
  eXML:      http://www.eiffel-forum.org/archive/leitner/exml.htm


Geoff Eldridge / Secretary - Eiffel/NICE

email: geoff@eiffel-nice.org
Join NICE: http://www.eiffel-nice.org/#membership


Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.

<P><A HREF="http://www.eiffel-nice.com/eiffel/struggle99/cfp/">3rd Annual
Eiffel Struggle</A> - The Non-Profit ''International Consortium for Eiffel''
(NICE) calls for an open-source reimplementation of the Python libraries
for the Eiffel language.  (25-Sep-99)

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From nospam@nospam.please  Sun Sep 26 09:39:02 1999
From: nospam@nospam.please (Otfried Cheong)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 99 08:39:02 GMT
Subject: Psion Series 5mx/7: Yet another Python port
Message-ID: <mt2.0-14257-938335142@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I've made a port of Python 1.5.2 to the Epoc operating system (as on
the Psion Series 5mx, Series 7, NetBook, or Ericson MC218) available
at http://www.cs.ust.hk/Python.  This is a study in embedding Python
in EPOC applications, and therefore has a quite different user
interface from Duncan Booth's port.  It behaves like a standard EPOC
application, and you can run Python code by tapping it from the system
screen. 

Otfried Cheong

<P><A HREF="http://www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/otfried/Python/">Python for
EPOC32</A> - another port of Python for the EPOC32 operating system,
as used in Psion Series 5mx palmtops. (25-Sep-99)

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From michael.stroeder@inka.de  Thu Sep 30 07:38:02 1999
From: michael.stroeder@inka.de (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 06:38:02 GMT
Subject: ldap-client-cgi.py 0.5.0: WWW gateway for accessing LDAP servers
Message-ID: <mt2.0-30971-938673482@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

HI!

I would like to announce a new version of ldap-client-cgi.py, a
WWW-LDAP-Gateway written in Python.

It's available for free (GPL) from

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

There's also a working demo there.

I would like to encourage people to give feedback about the usability
of this program.

Ciao, Michael.

Changes since 0.4.4
- complete re-design of add/modify
- client-side schema checking with appropriate input forms
  for required and allowed attributes
- automatically checking for missing parent DNs if add fails
  with "NO SUCH OBJECT" for reducing FAQ-traffic on
  OpenLDAP mailing lists ;-)
- support for setting hashed passwords ({crypt},{md5} and {sha})
- minor enhancements of user interface
- some small bug fixes

<P><A HREF="http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/ldap-client-cgi/">ldap-client-cgi.py
0.5.0</A> - LDAP web client, now with support for client-side schema
checking and hashed passwords.  (27-Sep-99)

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From da@ski.org  Thu Sep 30 07:38:35 1999
From: da@ski.org (David Ascher)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 06:38:35 GMT
Subject: README: Python-URL! - the weekly guide to Python resources (Sep 27)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-30971-938673515@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Python grows up in several ways this week:

    The standard Python documentation is available in book form by
    toExcel.com, and the royalties go to the PSA.  According to Guido
    they're nicely done.
      http://www.toexcel.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=1583483756
      http://www.toexcel.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=158348373X
      http://www.toexcel.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=1583483748

    Barry Warsaw releases JPython 1.1b3, which once again allows
    optional access to non-public Java class members.
      http://www.jpython.org/

    Comp.lang.python.announce is flooded by announcements of new
    software. 
      http://www.egroups.com/listsaver/python-announce-list/

    Greg Ewing implements the extended call syntax that Guido had
    agreed to consider for 1.6 (he wins the grammar-hacker award of
    the month!).
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=528523696

    In a thread on Donn Cave, master of fork & friends, points us to
    his tool to invoke shell commands on Unix and get the output.
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=529129001

    The IDLE part of the CVS tree is now mirrored nightly, for those
    who want IDLE but don't care for the rest of the Python CVS tree.
      http://starship.python.net/crew/da/idledists/

    Dr. Dobb's Journal's Python Resource CD-ROM is a nice collection
    of Python distributions, tools, software, documentation and articles
      http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?SP=10023&PN=1&V1=164146&xid=2823

    The Python-URL! and Tcl-URL! archives are back, thanks to Jean-Claude
    Wippler
      http://mini.net/cgi-bin/url/

    Reminder: The Python Conference is accepting paper submissions
    until the end of the month.
      http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/cfp.html
      http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=525600398


=========================================================================
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 <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe.


-- The Python-URL! Team--
== 

Cameron Laird           http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html
claird@NeoSoft.com      +1 281 996 8546 FAX

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From jasbahr@NOSPAM.origin.ea.com  Thu Sep 30 07:39:50 1999
From: jasbahr@NOSPAM.origin.ea.com (Jason Asbahr)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 06:39:50 GMT
Subject: More Positions Available for Python Game Programmers (fwd)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-30971-938673590@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Electronic Arts (and its subsidiary Origin Systems) is looking to hire
talented Python programmers who are interested in working on massively
multiplayer online games.  Top salaries, benefits, and relocation (to
Austin, Texas) are included.  Please contact Jeff Anderson of Origin 
Systems, Inc. at 512-434-6726.  Resumes by email are encouraged, 
please send them to: janderson@origin.ea.com


== 
Jason L. Asbahr
Origin Systems, Inc.
jasbahr(@)origin.ea.com
< Remove anti-spam text to reply. >

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From hschroeder@gmx.net  Thu Sep 30 07:49:03 1999
From: hschroeder@gmx.net (Henning Schroeder)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 06:49:03 GMT
Subject: GUI-builder for PyQt/PyKDE
Message-ID: <mt2.0-30971-938674143@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi there,

[...] I am working on a visual IDE based on the Qt and KDE bindings for
Python. Therefore I implemented a small component library which fits the
needs for visual development. I call the library ViPyl. It consists mainly
of some wrapper classes around Qt widgets and adds property support to them.
Unique and easy event handling is under development and currently not
available. So it is not ready for real development yet.

If you are interested int ViPyl and the GUI builder look at the following
page for some screenshots and for an alpha version to download:

  http://www.henning-schroeder.de/en/python/vipyl/


Suggestions are welcome!

  Henning

<P><A HREF="http://www.henning-schroeder.de/en/python/vipyl/">ViPyl (Visual
Python Library) 0.1</A> - beginnings of a visual GUI builder for
PyQT/PyKDE.  (25-Sep-99)

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From guido@cnri.reston.va.us  Thu Sep 30 07:50:29 1999
From: guido@cnri.reston.va.us (Guido van Rossum)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 06:50:29 GMT
Subject: More Python books coming...
Message-ID: <mt2.0-30971-938674229@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

-- forwarded message --
>From: Guido van Rossum <guido@cnri.reston.va.us>
>Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
>Subject: More Python books coming...
>Date: 27 Sep 1999 17:06:15 -0400
>Message-ID: <5lpuz483p4.fsf@eric.cnri.reston.va.us>

I did a search for Python on Amazon.com and found several new Python
books that are likely to hit the shelves soon.  Here's the list:

The Quick Python Book 
	Daryl Harms, Kenneth McDonald. Published by Manning
	Publications. Expected September 1999.

Python Essential Reference
	David Beazley. With a foreword by Guido van Rossum. Published
	by New Riders. Expected October 1999.

Programming with Python
	Tim Altom. Published by Prima Publishing. Expected October 20,
	1999.

Python and Tkinter Programming
	John E. Grayson. Published by Manning Publications. Expected
	November 1999.

Python Annotated Archives
	Martin Brown. Published by McGraw-Hill. Expected September 1999. 

Python Programming on Win 32
	Mark Hammond, Andy Robinson. Published by O'Reilly. Expected
	September 1999.

Sams Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours
	Ivan Van Laningham. Published by Sams. Expected November 1999.

We expect to have a bookstand at the Python conference in January
where you can buy these and other Python books.  I've also added this
to http://www.python.org/doc/Books.html.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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From jim@interet.com  Thu Sep 30 07:57:25 1999
From: jim@interet.com (James C. Ahlstrom)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 06:57:25 GMT
Subject: Linux Journal reviews "Learning Python"
Message-ID: <mt2.0-30971-938674645@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

There is a (favorable) review of "Learning Python" by
Mark Lutz and David Ascher in the currect (October)
Linux Journal page 114.  The reviewer is Phil Hughes.

Jim Ahlstrom

http://207.178.22.52/lj-issues/issue66/3541.html - Review
http://207.178.22.52/articles/conversations/005.html - GvR Interview

<P><A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com">Linux Journal Articles</A> -
a <A HREF="http://207.178.22.52/lj-issues/issue66/3541.html">review</A> of
the ''Learning Python'' book in the October issue (#66) of
<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com">Linux Journal</A> and an
<A HREF="http://207.178.22.52/articles/conversations/005.html">interview</A>
with Guido van Rossum about teaching Python to non-CS students.  (28-Sep-99)

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From Amos@digicool.com  Thu Sep 30 07:59:50 1999
From: Amos@digicool.com (Amos Latteier)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 06:59:50 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 29 Sep 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-30971-938674790@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi,

This week saw Zope firing on all cylinders. Performance enhancements
trickled into CVS, while Zopistas far and wide released cool new Zope
stuff.

  * After some Apache problems last week, Zope.org seems to be running
well. Zope.org now sports 50 user contributed How-Tos and 20 user
contributed Zope products. Go team!

  http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To
  http://www.zope.org/Products

 * beehive released 'beehive Calendar' another cool Zope product.
 
 http://www.zope.de/software/beeCal/index_eng_html
 http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/1999-September/000040.html
 
 * The prolific Evan Simpson released SiteAccess 0.0.1 and PythonMethod
0.1.2. The PythonMethod product allows editing Python methods through
the web, and the SiteAccess product allows virtual hosting support.
 
 http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess
 http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/PythonMethod
 http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001672.html
 
 * There was quite a bit of discussion on zope-dev about WYSIWYG tools
and Zope. Dylan Jay kicked off the conversation and many others chimed
in with opinions about how Zope should or could support WYSIWYG editing.
 
 http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001624.html
 
 * Another hot topic on zope-dev was source control and how to get
access to object versions from outside ZODB.
 
 http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010902.html
 
 * Jim Fulton proposed a SiteObject Zope product to allow virtual
hosting from one Zope process. Lots of folks expressed opinions. There
seem to be several Zope products in development along these lines
already, including Adam Feuer's VirtualHostFolder and Evan Simpson's
SiteAccess product.
 
 http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001603.html
 
 * Hugh Emberson's sqltest patch hit CVS. Here's yet another great
community contribution!
 
 http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010870.html
 
 * Paul Everitt announced that a Sybase level 3 database adapter is now
under development.
 
 http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/010914.html
 
 * Chris Baron pointed out that Zope was mentioned in Infoworld as
example of a Linux application server in Maggie Biggs's "Enterprise
Toolbox" column. 
 
 http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/biggs/990920mb.htm
 
 * The ZClasses Tutorial has been updated for Zope 2.0. This tutorial is
the first chapter in the forthcoming Zope Developer's Guide.
 
 http://www.zope.org:8080/Documentation/Reference/ZClasses
 
 * Pavlos Christoforou announced ZSupervisor V0.1a a utility to control
ZServer.
 
 http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-September/011156.html


Keep on Zopin'.

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

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From henk_p@my-deja.com  Thu Sep 30 07:43:05 1999
From: henk_p@my-deja.com (henk_p@my-deja.com)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 06:43:05 GMT
Subject: PSI - Python Script Interface
Message-ID: <mt2.0-30971-938673785@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

This is the announcement of the PSI (Python Script Interface) version
0.01.

The PSI is a FastCGI like interface between the Apache webserver and
long running python scripts.

The package consists of an Apache module (mod_psi) that handles client
CGI requests and a simple python based framework for publishing long
running CGI scripts.

The purpose of PSI is to be able to use python based CGI scripts without
the need to invoke the interpreter for every request, and to share some
global 'state' (db connections, sessions, etc) between each request.

This software is very very alpha. I am releasing this as a way to
generate some comment on the design/implementation.

PSI_0.01 can be downloaded from:

  http://huizen.dds.nl/~d50/psi_0.01.tar.gz

Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.

<P><A HREF="http://huizen.dds.nl/~d50/psi_0.01.tar.gz">PSI 0.0.1 (click to
download as .tar.gz file)</A> - Python Script Interface; an Apache module
for long-running Python CGI scripts, similar to FastCGI.  (28-Sep-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Sep 30 08:16:15 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 07:16:15 GMT
Subject: New PyKDE/PyQt Mailing List
Message-ID: <mt2.0-31336-938675775@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Thorsten Horstmann (horstman@informatik.uni-bonn.de.NO.SPAM) has created a
mailing list for the Python bindings to the Qt/KDE GUI libraries.

You can find further information and subscribe to the list at the
following web page:

  http://mats.gmd.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde

<P><A HREF="http://mats.gmd.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde">PyKDE/PyQt Mailing
List</A> - a new mailing list for the discussion of Phil Thompson's PyKDE/PyQt
<A HREF="http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software/">bindings</A>.  (28-Sep-99)

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From gward@cnri.reston.va.us  Thu Sep 30 08:07:29 1999
From: gward@cnri.reston.va.us (Greg Ward)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 07:07:29 GMT
Subject: Distutils 0.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-31273-938675249@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

                  Python Module Distribution Utilities
                              release 0.1
                           September 29, 1999


The Python Module Distribution Utilities, or Distutils for short, are a
collection of modules that aid in the development, distribution, and
installation of Python modules.  (It is intended that ultimately the
Distutils will grow up into a system for distributing and installing
whole Python applications, but for now their scope is limited to module
distributions.)

The Distutils will be a standard part of Python 1.6.  This release is
intended to provide a wider audience an early opportunity to try out the
system, improve its portability, shake out the bugs, make suggestions,
and so forth.  Do not expect perfection: if you're trying out this
release, it should be because you want to help debug and develop, not
because you need a stable, working system immediately.

You can download the Distutils from the Distutils SIG home page:

    http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/

Any feedback, comments, bug reports, success reports, etc. should be
reported to the Distutils SIG at

    distutils-sig@python.org

If you're not yet a member of this mailing list, you can join at

    http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig

Reports of minor bugs (patches are especially welcome!) can be sent
directly to me (Greg Ward) at gward@python.net.  Anything that expects a
longer response than "Thanks for the bug report/fix!" should be directed
to the SIG.

<P><A HREF="http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/">Distutils 0.1</A> -
early preview version of the Python Module Distribution Utilities, a
collection of modules that aid in the development, distribution, and
installation of Python modules; will become a standard part of
Python 1.6.  (29-Sep-99)

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From neilh@hare.net.au  Thu Sep 30 08:18:11 1999
From: neilh@hare.net.au (Neil Hodgson)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 07:18:11 GMT
Subject: Release of Scintilla 1.01 and SciTE 1.01
Message-ID: <mt2.0-31361-938675891@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Announce: Release of Scintilla 1.01 and SciTE 1.01

Scintilla is a free source code editing component for Win32 
and GTK+. SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. 

This is a minor release of Scintilla and SciTE containing 
contributed patches, minor features, performance improvements 
and bug fixes. There is a new domain, scintilla.org for this
project. Two mailing lists, one for announcements and one for
discussions are hosted by scintilla.org.

As Scintilla/SciTE versions often have no Python specific
changes, this will be the last announcement made to 
 comp.lang.python.announce. Future announcements will be made
on the scintilla-announce list and http://freshmeat.net/
Python specific development is still being done, but this
is mostly for the PythonWin environment which incorporates
Scintilla.

Web site: http://www.scintilla.org/

Scintilla and Tide come with complete C++ source code. 

The license for using Scintilla and Tide is similar to that 
of Python containing very few restrictions, and allowing 
use in any free project or commercial product. 

Neil Hodgson neilh@hare.net.au

<P><A HREF="http://www.scintilla.org/">Scintilla 1.01</A> -
a source code editing component for Win32 and GTK, and a
demonstration text editor (SciTE).  (29-Sep-99)

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From hschroeder@gmx.net  Thu Sep 30 10:05:33 1999
From: hschroeder@gmx.net (Henning Schroeder)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 09:05:33 GMT
Subject: Article on IBM developerWorks
Message-ID: <mt2.0-2687-938682333@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:38:28 +0200

Even IBM knows about Python :-) Check out
   http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/python101.html
on their "developerWorks Linux Library". 

  Henning

<P><A HREF="http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/python101.html">Article
on IBM developerWorks</A> - this on-line article compares Python with
Perl, Java, and Tcl.  (29-Sep-99)

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From james@daa.com.au  Thu Sep 30 10:11:14 1999
From: james@daa.com.au (James Henstridge)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 09:11:14 GMT
Subject: gnome-python-1.0.40 and pygtk-0.6.3 (fwd)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-2687-938682674@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I have just released gnome-python-1.0.40, the bindings that allow you to
write gnome programs with the python language.  This release is mainly a
bug fix release, but it does add a few features such as GnomeDruid support
and gnome support in the libglade module.

It is available from
  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-python/

The pygtk package (which is contained in gnome-python) will soon be
available from:
  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/

Please test this release and report any bugs you find either directly to
me, or through the GNOME bug tracker.

James.

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

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<P><A HREF="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/">pygtk-0.6.3 and
gnome-python-1.0.40</A> - bindings for the GTK+ widget set and the GNOME
libraries.  (30-Sep-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Sep 30 10:13:44 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 09:13:44 GMT
Subject: [fm] freeworld bbs 0.3.0
Message-ID: <mt2.0-2687-938682824@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  FreeWorld BBS 0.3.0
  Fire Water - September 25th 1999, 18:20 EST

  FreeWorld BBS is a BBS package for the Unix operating system. It
  currently is still in it's early stages and is not even close to being
  fully operational. The systems main goal is to create a BBS under Unix
  that is easy to use, with a DOS type interface, and highly
  configurable. It consists of a menu shell, forum system, server, and
  some sysop utilities.

  Changes: This release contains the begining of the message areas, the
  menu shell now has support to run python scripts and the setup program
  and libraries have also had many additions and fixes since 0.2.2

  Download: ftp://ftp.freeworldbbs.org/distb/src/freeworldbbs-0.3.0.tar.gz
  Homepage: http://www.freeworldbbs.org

                  Author:Darren Braun
                 License:GPL
                Category:Daemons/BBS

  copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.freeworldbbs.org">FreeWorld BBS 0.3.0</A> - 
the beginnings of a BBS package for the Unix operating system;
includes support for running Python scripts.  (25-Sep-99)

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From fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de  Thu Sep 30 10:18:38 1999
From: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de (Markus Fleck)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 09:18:38 GMT
Subject: [fm] pybliographer 0.9.4
Message-ID: <mt2.0-2687-938683118@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

  Pybliographer 0.9.4
  Fred - September 27th 1999, 15:22 EST

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

  0.9.3 Changes: Fixed a problem with portuguese accents, added support for
  lineage in author fields (type it as last name, lineage, first name),
  added embryo of bibliography generation, it is possible to define a
  bibliographic style (i.e. how an entry should appear in your document) and
  to use this style in several formats (LaTeX, HTML, text for the moment).
  There is only one style (alpha), provided more as an example as it is not
  complete.

  0.9.4 Changes: Fixed stupid bugs concerning strings in LaTeX and a problem
  with opening and formatting. One should never release just before
  leaving...

 Download: http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer/pybliographer-0.9.4.tar.gz
 Homepage: http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer.php3

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

  copyright (c) 1999 scoop@freshmeat.net

<P><A HREF="http://www.idiap.ch/~gobry/pybliographer.php3">Pybliographer
0.9.4</A> - a framework for managing bibliographic databases, such as BibTeX
files.  (27-Sep-99)

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