From amk1@erols.com  Tue Jan  4 03:03:50 2000
From: amk1@erols.com (A.M. Kuchling)
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 00 03:03:50 GMT
Subject: IPC8 key-signing party
Message-ID: <mt2.0-28962-946955030@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

To help strengthen a public-key web of trust among Python developers,
I'd like to hold a key-signing session at IPC8, open to any attendee
with a GPG or PGP key.  

If you'd like to participate, please e-mail me your public key, and
let me know that this is for the IPC8 session.  You can extract your
key in a form suitable for e-mailing with these commands:

GnuPG:	gpg --armor --export <your key ID or e-mail address>
PGP:	pgp --kxa <your key ID or e-mail address>

For more detailed instructions, and an explanation of the key-signing
procedure we'll follow,please refer to this URL:
http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/key-signing.html

<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/key-signing.html">A
GPG/PGP key-signing session</A> is being planned for IPC8.  (25-Dec-99)

== 
A.M. Kuchling			http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/
We must avoid duplication of effort, because that is being done by others.
    -- Arthur Mitchell

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From s.schwarzer@ndh.net  Tue Jan  4 03:07:56 2000
From: s.schwarzer@ndh.net (Stefan Schwarzer)
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 00 03:07:56 GMT
Subject: makepage-0.1beta.py
Message-ID: <mt2.0-29451-946955276@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I would like to announce makepage.py 0.1 beta.

makepage takes a "description file" and a file with HTML format information
and generates HTML files. The description file contains the logical layout
(title, sections, subsections) and the text of the document. Additionally,
makepage generates a list of hyperlinks to the sections at the top of the
page. By supplying an own format file the default formatting
(see <http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/python/html_format.py>)
can be changed easily.

An example is at
http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/python/makepage.html
This is the makepage documentation page generated with makepage
itself and only the default format file.

The package can be downloaded from
http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/download/makepage-0.1b.zip

Please send comments, suggestions, bug reports to
Stefan Schwarzer <s.schwarzer@ndh.net> .

Stefan


<P><A HREF="http://www.ndh.net/home/sschwarzer/download/makepage-0.1b.zip">makepage
0.1 beta (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ZIP FILE)</A> - generate a HTML file from a       
logical layout and a general HTML format file.  (27-Dec-99)

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From bwarsaw@python.org (Barry Warsaw)  Tue Jan  4 03:08:09 2000
From: bwarsaw@python.org (Barry Warsaw) (Barry Warsaw)
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 00 03:08:09 GMT
Subject: IPC8 Developers Day
Message-ID: <mt2.0-29451-946955289@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The schedule for Developers' Day at IPC8 has been posted to

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

I will hopefully be getting position papers from folks soon after the
new year, so please check back if you want to get a head start on the
topics.

There will be a little bit of time in the morning session for SIG
updates, so if you're a SIG champion, please email me if you'd like to
give a progress report.  Depending on how many people sign up for the
morning session, we may have time for other announcements or updates
as well.  Again, let me know if you'd like to reserve a slot (on the
order of 5 - 10 minutes).

-Barry

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From gmcm@hypernet.com  Tue Jan  4 03:08:48 2000
From: gmcm@hypernet.com (Gordon McMillan)
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 00 03:08:48 GMT
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 28)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-29451-946955328@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The holiday week brought Pythondom three nice new shiny packages:

    Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer announces that Version 3.10 of
    PySol is here (128 solitaire card games in one!):
         http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html

    Kevin Dahlhausen announces pyhints - a script that scans
    Python source and builds a hint script for VIM (prompts
    you with function signatures):
         http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563701938

    Paul Sheer announces KOALA 0.9.0, a database / GUI forms
    package for postgres and Gnome (uses Python 1.5.1):
         http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=565059802

    Bernard Herzog uncovers the reason why maintaining two
    Python installations on Linux is difficult:
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563559697

    Ng Pheng Siong provides a nice overview what must be done
    to use urllib with differnt sorts of firewalls:
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563817592

    In the Windows / COM world, we got two nice overviews:

    Eugene Goodrich provides hints for those doing ASP coding:
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=564839534
    John Nielsen (via Mark Hammond) offers help to those stuck
    with administering Exchange on NT (or using Python/COM with
    ADSI):
         http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=563607231

    Andrew M. Kuchling updates his "Python warts" page to reflect
    the most recent rounds of discussion on Python's shortcomings:
        http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/warts.html


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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.  Mention "Python-URL!".


-- The Python-URL! Team--

Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and
sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.
== 

Cameron Laird <claird@NeoSoft.com>
Business:  http://www.Phaseit.net
Personal:  http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html

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From Oliphant.Travis@mayo.edu  Tue Jan  4 03:09:28 2000
From: Oliphant.Travis@mayo.edu (Travis Oliphant)
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 00 03:09:28 GMT
Subject: New Cephes module with arraymap method
Message-ID: <mt2.0-29451-946955368@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I'm announcing the availability of Version 1.2 of the Cephes module at 
http://oliphant.netpedia.net

Cephes module provides many special functions of physics to the Numerical
Python user as ufuncs which are generalized functions that automatically
map over array arguments and follow useful broadcasting rules.  

I would like to see more special functions added to the library even if
they are written in Python.

Towards that end, version 1.2 contains a new python wrapper module called
SpecialFuncs.py that can include Python-only special functions.  

In addition, I have added a method to cephesmodule called arraymap that
acts like the map function but performs the broadcasting rules of ufuncs
and returns Numerical Python arrays as output.  

I have also included a class that allows wrapping a Python function that
takes scalar inputs and returns scalar outputs and returns a ufunc-like
function which automatically maps over array input arguments following the
ufunc broadcasting rules to return appropriately-sized outputs.

So, if you can't figure out how to "vectorize" your function.  You can
wrap it in this class and get mapping behavior automatically.  The
looping is all written in C and so is reasonably fast.

Comments and contributions are welcome.

Travis Oliphant
Oliphant.Travis@altavista.net


<P><A HREF="http://oliphant.netpedia.net/">SpecialFuncs 1.2</A> - an
extension module also known as cephes which provides many special
functions of physics to the Numerical Python user.  (28-Dec-99)

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From mike@digicool.com  Tue Jan  4 03:10:04 2000
From: mike@digicool.com (Mike Pelletier)
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 00 03:10:04 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 29 Dec 1999
Message-ID: <mt2.0-29451-946955404@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

G'day, 
 
    Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting 
    events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the 
    Zope.org site.  It is published each Wednesday evening. 
 
    Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the 
    chronicler exclusively. 
 
 
Announcements 
 
  * Amos Lattier <amos@digicool.com> put out a call for FastCGI 
    problems.  Amos is revisiting FastCGI support, so the more you 
    complain the better it will be. 
 
    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/016202.html 
 
  * Paul Everitt <paul@digicool.com> has alerted everyone to the 
    latest issue of Linux Magazine, which contains an article "Gold 
    Rush: Venture Capitalists Discover Linux".  The article talks 
    about Digital Creations and Hadar Pedhazur at length. 
 
    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/016197.html 
 
 
Updates 
 
  * "htrd" posted an update to his NTUserFolder product.  It 
    authenticates Zope users from NT user accounts.  It only runs on 
    Windows NT.  The latest release is 1.3. 
 
    http://yyy.zope.org/Members/htrd/NTUserFolder 
 
  * "phd" has updated mod_pcgi2 several times this week.  mod_pcgi2 
    moves PGCI's calling code into Apache's process to eliminate the 
    so-called "fork tax".  This makes requests more responsive.  The 
    latest version is 0.1.2. 
 
    http://yyy.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2 
 
 
Zope.org items 
 
  * "z113" contributed a How-To on adding your own DTML tags to the 
    language. 
 
    http://yyy.zope.org/Members/z113/1 
 
 
Notable Discussions 
 
  * Art Hampton <arth@pacsg.css.mot.com> started a discussion 
    presently underway about the relative merits of mod_pcgi2, vanilla 
    PCGI and FastCGI. 
 
    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/016198.html 
 
  * Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> has made and released 
    some modifications to ZCatalog.  He's soliciting comments in 
    zope-dev. 
 
    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002780.htm; 
 
 
== 
Mike Pelletier.

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From irmen@nospam-bigfoot.com  Tue Jan  4 03:11:17 2000
From: irmen@nospam-bigfoot.com (Irmen de Jong)
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 00 03:11:17 GMT
Subject: Pyro 0.8
Message-ID: <mt2.0-29574-946955477@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

PYRO - Python Remote Objects - version 0.8

by Irmen de Jong - irmen@bigfoot.com


WHAT IS PYRO?

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.

However, Pyro 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.

- Full source code in Python


The most important changes since the previous version are:

- Separate system and user logs.
- Cleaner exception handling.
- Major documentation update: a whole new chapter with a practical guide
  about how to develop Pyro programs has been added.
- Various small changes such as Win32 GUID support, localhost optimization,
  delegate pattern for object implementation, new argument parser.


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
0.8</A> - Distributed Object system for Python.  (30-Dec-99)

== 
Irmen de Jong - irmen@bigfoot.com

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From steriana@gvsu.edu  Tue Jan  4 03:11:31 2000
From: steriana@gvsu.edu (Andrew Sterian)
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 00 03:11:31 GMT
Subject: EVBU 0.1 -- 68HC11 microcontroller simulator
Message-ID: <mt2.0-29574-946955491@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

EVBU 0.1 is a simulator for the Motorola 68HC11 microcontroller. It is
written in pure Python and is free software released under the GPL.

The software can be downloaded from:

   <http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana/Python>

<P><A HREF="http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana/Python">EVBU 0.1</A>
- a freeware simulator for the 68HC11 microcontroller.  (30-Dec-99)

Andrew Sterian                 | <mailto:steriana@gvsu.edu>
Assistant Professor            | <http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana>
Padnos School of Engineering   | (616) 771-6756
Grand Valley State University

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From guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US  Tue Jan  4 03:11:51 2000
From: guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (Guido van Rossum)
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 00 03:11:51 GMT
Subject: Python Conference -- Early Bird Registration ends Jan 5!
Message-ID: <mt2.0-29574-946955511@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

This is the last warning.  The conference is getting booked full,
don't wait till the last moment!

If you haven't registered and paid by January 5, you will paying full
price...  So, be smart and register NOW.  Also don't forget to book
your hotel room by January 3 to qualify for the conference rate!

Some highlights from the conference program:

- 8 tutorials on topics ranging from JPython to Fnorb;
- a keynote by Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond;
- another by Randy Pausch, father of the Alice Virtual Reality project;
- a separate track for Zope developers and users;
- live demonstrations of important Python applications;
- refereed papers, and short talks on current topics;
- a developers' day where the feature set of Python 2.0 is worked out.

Our motto, due to Bruce Eckel, is: "Life's better without braces."

Come and join us at the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn (across the
bridge from Georgetown), January 24-27 in 2000.  Make the Python
conference the first conference you attend in the new millennium!

The early bird registration deadline is January 5.  More info:

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

The program is now complete with the titles of all presentations.
There is still space in the demo session and in the short talks
session.

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

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From bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw)  Thu Jan  6 21:50:37 2000
From: bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw) (Barry A. Warsaw)
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 00 21:50:37 GMT
Subject: IPC8 Hotel Group Rate Extension
Message-ID: <mt2.0-751-947195437@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

For those of you who are coming to the 8th International Python
Conference and are planning to stay at the hotel, but have /not/ yet
made your room reservations, please note that the hotel has extended
the Python group rate of $129/night (plus tax) until close of business
(US East Coast time) on January 6th, 2000.  After this date, the least
expensive room the hotel will offer is $179/night (plus tax).

For more information on the conference see

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

Hotel information is available at

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

See you there!
-Barry

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From bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw)  Thu Jan  6 21:50:59 2000
From: bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw) (Barry A. Warsaw)
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 00 21:50:59 GMT
Subject: Schedule changes for IPC8
Message-ID: <mt2.0-751-947195459@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

There have been a few minor scheduling changes for the Tuesday and
Wednesday sessions of IPC8.  Please see the web site

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

for details.
-Barry

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From mike@digicool.com  Thu Jan  6 21:52:10 2000
From: mike@digicool.com (Mike Pelletier)
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 00 21:52:10 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 5 Jan 2000
Message-ID: <mt2.0-751-947195530@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

G'day,

    Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting
    events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the
    Zope.org site.  It is published each Wednesday evening.

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


Announcements

  * A security hole has been found and patched.  The problem, found
    thanks to Kevin Littlejohn's efforts, affects those sites which
    make their Zope management interface available to untrusted users.
    All Zope users are encouraged to read the announcement and update
    their Zope installation.  Patches are available for both 2.x and
    1.x.

    This patch forced two new Zope releases, 2.1.2 and 1.10.4.

    http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.2/Zope_212_release


New Products

  * Jephte CLAIN has released a new NT Domain authenticator:
    jcNTUserFolder.  Jephte's Product differs from "htrd"'s in that
    roles are given through the web and impersonation is not used.

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


Updates

  * "Drew" updated the Photo Product.  Photo resizes images to the
    user's preferred size.  The present version is 0.1.0.

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

  * "vladap" updated the mysqlUserFolder Product.  This update fixes a
    folder creation bug.  mysqlUserFolder allows you to authenticate
    users with data stored in a mysql database.  It also allows you to
    store arbitrary per-user data, and it supports HTTP and
    cookie-based authentication schemes.  The present version is
    0.3.2.

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

  * Jephte CLAIN has also released two patches, one to the MIME tag,
    and one to the import/export system.

    The MIME patch adds *_expr versions of the type, disposition,
    encode and name attributes of the MIME tag.  These allow you to
    evaluate an expression for the value of the attribute rather than
    specifying a literal value.  The patch also adds the attributes
    filename and filename_expr to the tag.  These attributes supply
    hints that the client will use to determine the file's name.

    The import/export patch allows you to import objects through the
    web instead of having to place files on the filesystem.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/jephte/MIMETag
    http://www.zope.org/Members/jephte/WebImport

  * "phd" released an update to the mod_pcgi2 package.  This update
    adds a PCGI_ROOT command for virtual hosting.  mod_pcgi2 is an
    Apache module which moves the PCGI client into Apache's address
    space, preventing the need to start a new process to avoid the
    "fork tax".  The present version is 0.2.0.

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


Zope.org items

  * "Gregor" had some quibbles with a couple aspects of Zope's user
    interface.  He wrote and submitted a How-To describing how to
    prevent the "Powered by Zope" link from opening in a frame, and
    how to make the Zope document editing TEXTAREA soft-wrap.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/Gregor/misc_nitpicks


Notable Discussions

  * Olivier Deckmyn <olivier.deckmyn@mail.dotcom.fr> has just started
    what stands to be an interesting thread for those wishing to take
    the first step developing Zope applications.  Olivier has a set of
    classes which implement the logic of the application he wishes to
    produce.  He is looking for advice on how to move from a set of
    standalone objects to a Zope application.

    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/016251.html

  * To ring in the new year, Wei Tao <taow@bd748.pku.edu.cn> started a
    Zope wishlist thread.  Got a wish, rant or suggestion?  Chime in.

    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-January/016318.html

  * A thread significant to Product developers: Martijn Faassen
    <m.faassen@vet.uu.nl> desires to develop a set of Product
    standards.  He points out that there are some rather arcane things
    that one has to do to produce a well-behaved Zope Product, but
    that many people do not know what they are and even those who do
    know do not always know _why_ ("voodoo programming").  Martijn
    makes a number of suggestions to rectify this problem.  Chris
    McDonough graciously offers to contribute some effort to the cause.

    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2000-January/002823.html
    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2000-January/002824.html
    

== 
Mike Pelletier.

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From ap096@po.cwru.edu  Wed Jan 12 06:50:28 2000
From: ap096@po.cwru.edu (Kevin Dahlhausen)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 06:50:28 GMT
Subject: pyhints - Python function signatures in VIM
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947659828@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Pyhints scans one or more Python source files and produces a VIM 'hint' script.
 When sourced, this script displays the function signature in the status line
after you type the function name. This idea is from Dr. Cambell's flist program 
(http://users.erols.com/astronaut/vim/) , which does the same for C/C++.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/4673/python.html#pyhints

<P><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/4673/python.html#pyhints">pyhints
for VIM</A> - scans one or more Python source files and produces a 'hint'
script describing function signatures; for the VIM editor.  (21-Dec-99)  

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From markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at  Wed Jan 12 06:52:03 2000
From: markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at (Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 06:52:03 GMT
Subject: PySol 3.10 - a solitaire game collection
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947659922@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

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                    PySol - a Solitaire Game Collection
                              Version 3.10

              http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html

              Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
                   <markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at>


What is PySol ?
===============

PySol is an exciting collection of 128 solitaire card games.

Among the supported games are classics like Aces Up, Baker's Game,
Canfield, FreeCell, Forty Thieves, Golf, Klondike, Monte Carlo,
Osmosis, Pyramid, Scorpion, Spider, Yukon, and many more...

PySol may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

PySol aims to be Commercial Quality Freeware.


Why yet another solitaire game ?
================================

Here are some highlights of PySol:

  - currently supports 128 (!) distinct solitaire variants
  - based upon an extensible solitaire engine
  - very nice look and feel including multiple cardsets
    and background table tiles
  - unlimited undo & redo
  - load & save games
  - player statistics and log files
  - hint system
  - demo games
  - support for user written plug-ins - add your own solitaire variants
  - integrated HTML help browser
  - lots of documentation
  - fully portable across Unix/X11, Windows 95/98/NT and MacOS
  - written in 100% pure Python
  - just run it - no need to compile anything
  - freely available
  - distributed under the GNU GPL with full source code


Yeah, I know. But what's new ?
==============================

  * Implemented 17 new games.

  * Added sound support including samples and background MP3/MOD music.
    Sound is implemented by a rather generic server (a C program) using
    the SDL library for low-level mixing and playing.

  * Wrote some really fancy tree dialogs - Python programmers will
    definitely love these :-)

  * Added 19 great cardsets to pysol-cardsets. Many thanks to T. Kirk.


Cool. Where can I get it ?
==========================

Point your browser to http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html
The PySol Gallery is awaiting your visit as well.


What do I need to start playing ?
=================================

PySol requires Python 1.5.2 and Tcl/Tk 8.0.5. Both packages are
freely available for Unix, Windows 95/98/NT and Macintosh.

BTW, there is no need to compile anything since the whole program is just
a Python script. Just run it, and that's all.


Contributions
=============

I'm looking for people who want to contibute new games, provide
additional graphics, scan cardset packs, improve the docs, etc.
Please see the README in the distribution about details.


License terms
=============

PySol is Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer

PySol is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
See the file COPYING.


Have fun,
Markus

http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html



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<P><A HREF="http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html">PySol
3.10</A> - new version of Python Solitaire Games (using Tkinter); now
supports 128 (!) distinct solitaire card game variants.  (22-Dec-99)

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From Paul Sheer <psheer@obsidian.co.za>  Wed Jan 12 06:54:18 2000
From: Paul Sheer <psheer@obsidian.co.za> (Paul Sheer)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 06:54:18 GMT
Subject: KOALA 0.9.0 released: A database `microsoft access'-4GL-like backen
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947660058@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

SOFTWARE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT
=============================

KOALA - Version 0.9.0
---------------------

Availability:
-------------

ftp://ftp.obsidian.co.za/pub/koala/


What is this package:
=====================

This is an object-database / GUI / database-backend /
data-widget / Microsoft-Access thingie for postgres.

It allows you to create any type of incredibly complicated
interlinked set of database tables without typing a single line of
code. It supports every kind of postgres type corresponding
to every type of gnome/gtk widget.

You all do it from within a GUI. And the GUI form layouts are also
stored within the database in their own table.

Koala gives a form and dialog backend to any postgres
database.

Koala is written in Python with gnome-python (thanks James) for the
interface.

Koala is distributed under the GNU General Public License.


----------------------------------
Paul Sheer <psheer@obsidian.co.za>


README.koala>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Koala's user reference:
Theory and practical for creating GUI tables.
=============================================


This documentation is by no means a comprehensive description of
what is going on. It is to be read in combination with running
the demos. Between the two, is all of what you may need to know
to create tables and dialogs from within the GUI.

`Koalii' is the plural of `koala'.

A dialog is a form with lots of widgets inside it that usually need
filling in.

What is a koala: A koala is a widget in a dialog that corresponds
to a column in a database table. It is hence a DATA WIDGET
(term used in some circles). The dialog itself corresponds to the
whole table. A particular instance of the dialog corresponds to a
particular row of the table. A koala is also an python object that
knows how to create that widget as well as format that data for
the particular column in SQL.

Koalii usually hold strings, integers, dates etc - like a persons
name or his shoe size. A `compound' koala is a koala that holds
only an integer where the integer is a reference to a row id of
another table. For instance, a dialog of personal details may
contain a string koala that holds the persons preferred brand of
cologne. It would be better to rather have a table of all brands of
cologne and then just store the particular row id of the brand
instead of storing a string of the full name of the brand (This
allows all brands to be accounted for and makes it impossible to
input a non-existing, but similar sounding brand name into the
widget). The table of all known colognes would have its own
koalii: such as a string containing the name, another for
manufacturer etc. These strings are called sub-koalii of the
integer koala for this cologne. In postgres (the SQL server), row
id's are actually called oid's (Object ID's) and are unique across
the entire database.

So we may have an oid referring to a person. The person has a
row containing a lot of strings and integers describing them.
One these integers is an oid, and is a reference to a row in
another table of cologne brands. The cologne brand row will
contain strings, integers etc describing it, and possibly some
oid's linked to other tables of manufacturers, ingredients... and
so on. In fact, the manufacturer may contain a list of employees
which link all the way back to the persons table: in this way, the
database can circular.

A compound koala can hence be displayed in two ways: as a form
with all its sub-koala represented as widgets (checkboxes,
entry widgets etc.); or, when it itself is a sub-koala, as
a widget inside the form of its parent-koala.

The form has to be laid out neatly so that many sub-koala can be
represented. This is actually quite tricky when you are dealing
with a table of fifty fields. To do this neatly we group
associated koala, displaying each group on a separate page of a
gtk notebook. So for example, a `person' koala would have one
page for his identity (first name, last name, title), and
another page for his address (street, city, country, zip) and so
on.

In the code, these are called `pages', and there might be only one
of them if there are only three or four fields.

The form of each page is described by a formatting language, so
that a form of a checkbox with an entry widget above it may look
like this:
	( %Cf / %Exf )f

The details of these forms are as per the gtk_dialog_cauldron.3
man page, or the gnome sgml documentation of the
gtk_dialog_cauldron() C function. There is one change however:
You may mostly use %X instead of an actual format specifier,
because the code will test the type of the koala being passed to
that format specifier and then substitute the %X for an
appropriate widget type. An exception is the checkbox (%C) and
radiobutton (%R) widgets. There is no way to tell them apart
because the are both `boolean' koalii. Instead of %X you should
explicitly specify %R or %C as the case may be.

The complete list of user widgets is as follows:

koala_string

    This is the most basic type. It is a Gnome entry widget (%Eg) in
    the form and a `text' postgres type.

koala_int

    A number entry widget, and an `int' postgres type. This has
    a calculator button to bring up a calculator even if it is
    totally inapplicable to the purpose of the data. The
    calculator also doesn't work, because it fails to add a grab
    or something - Gnome bug.

koala_float

    Same but for a `float' postgres type.

koala_floatrange

    Spin button widget and `float' type.

koala_intrange

    Spin button widget and `int' type.

koala_text

    Editor widget and `text' type.

koala_largetext

    Same but with scrollbars.

koala_bool

    Checkbox or radio button as explained, and a `bool' type.

koala_date

    Gnome date edit widget and a `date' type.

koala_datetime

    Gnome date edit widget with 24 hours and a `date' type.

koala_time

    Three spin buttons with 0-23, 0-59 and 0-59, time sql type.

koala_minutes

    Two spin buttons with 0-23 and 0-59, time sql type.

koala_money

    Gtk entry widget with format of 999999.99 and `float' type.
    Note: One of the libpg (postgres library) or _pg (python
    postgres module) libraries has a bug that causes a segfault
    when using the `money' sql type. Hence the money koala now
    uses the float type in tables.

koala_null

    If you read the gtk_dialog_cauldron.3 man page, you will see
    that some tokens in the format string require an argument
    merely for display purposes (such as a title to a frame).
    You can use the null koala for this, which does not
    represent a column in the table.

koala_password

    An entry widget. This is NOT a password entry of the
    tradition type where asterisks replace characters. It is for
    storing passwords so that they can only be read by trusted
    users. The widget has a check button to the right that, when
    depressed, decrypts the text and then encrypts it again
    when raised. The encryption is done with triple-DES. This
    koala might be used, for instance, in a service IT business
    that has a database of customers machines that they
    administer. Each machine has a root password which you
    can safely store using this koala, only the encrypted text is
    transfered to the database. The key used to do the
    encryption is a hash of a password entered with the
    do_passwd() dialog. A few characters of the intermediate
    hash can be passed as the second argument to verify that
    the typed password is correct.

koala_mutable

    This is the compound entity explained above. The widget is a
    Gnome entry widget that contains text that refers to the
    first sub-koala on the first page (i.e. the first column in
    the table). For instance a cologne koala would have the
    brand name as the first sub-koala, so the brand name would
    appear in an entry widget in the parent dialog. Next to the
    entry widget are two buttons, [?] and [^]. The first brings
    up a list box of possible values that may appear in the
    entry widget - it does a search through the table. The
    second displays the full dialog of the koala - the notebook
    with all its pages.

    Two extra pages appear in the notebook besides the ones
    containing sub-koala widgets. The are the `Edit' and
    `Access' pages. The Access page allows the user `postgres'
    to restrict or allow access to the particular koala in
    various ways.

koala_auto

    This is just like the mutable koala, but the dialog is
    automatically created from a pre-existing table. This can be
    used in intermediate stages where you quickly want to create
    some kind of access to a table, where it doesn't have to
    look pretty. Type is `oid' like mutable.

koala_mutablearray

    This widget is gtk clist - i.e. a table with column headings
    for each field. The table has `Add', `New', `Edit' and
    `Delete' buttons. The `Edit' button brings up a dialog just
    like the mutable koala, from where pages can be added and
    edited. New entities that are created within the form editor
    will appear as new columns in the table. The sql type is
    `text'. This is the one koala that uses more than one row.
    The table itself has an extra column `_key'. All `_key' with
    the same value belong together.

koala_mutablestring

    Above we said that compound koala's have an oid value that
    indexed a row. Mutablestring is a mutable koalii that has a
    string as the index instead of an oid of the row. The string
    represents the first koala on the first page - which must be
    of sql type `text' - and would be the first column of the
    table. Note that there is not yet protection of duplicate
    entries. The user should make sure that two rows do not have
    the same index.

koala_mutableint

    This is the same as mutablestring, but with an integer as an
    index.



Note on editing pages:
----------------------

When you edit a page from within the GUI, it will not appear
immediately in the notebook. You have to first test the page by
clicking the `Test' button and then `Cancel' the dialog and then
`Cancel' the parent dialog. Only then are the previous form
layouts cleared from memory.

The method append_mutable_page appends koala that do not appear
in the page table. If koala already exist, no action is taken,
even if the column types or form layout differs. This means that
once you have created a page with append_mutable_page you can
only alter it from within the GUI. Alternatively you can do a

    DELETE FROM table_pagearray WHERE _key = 'my_table';

Which will clear out the form and reference to any koalii. Stale
(unlinked) koalii from this page will remain in
table_entityarray, but these may be ignored.


Note on date style:
-------------------

Postgress outputs dates as 4/28/1984 or 28/4/1984 depending on
the locale. I force my date to european style (28/4/1984) by
using,

    postmaster -o -e ...

in my init script (see postmaster(1) and postgres(1)). If you
use non-european style, set,

    european_date_style = 0

in object_bases.py. This has nothing to do with the way that the
date will display in the widget, which is has to do with Gnome
and not with me.

Be absolutely sure about what date style postgres is outputting,
by actually creating a table with dates in it and doing a SELECT
on them. Koala cannot autodetect this and will read the date
incorrectly.


Note on quotation marks:
------------------------

At the moment, the python code replaces all ' with ` before
committing any string value to a table.


How to jump in and create a database:
-------------------------------------

There are two ways: one is to just run extended_bases.py as the main
program (i.e. 


              su postgres
              python extended_bases.py


) and then begin creating tables with the `New' button. Follow this
example as a tutorial. Here we create a table of motor vehicles.

    0. Postgres should be set up so that a user `postgres' can access
	a database called postgres and create and delete tables.
	See the postgres documentation about installing and
	configuring postgres.

    1. run
	su postgres
	python extended_bases.py

    2. Click on `New'

    3. Enter `table_vehicles'

    4. A notepad will appear with two pages: `Edit' and `Access'
	Raise the `Edit' page and click on `New'.

    5. Enter `Identity' on the Title page, `100' in the `Order'
	field on the `Form' page. Now enter your form in the text
	area:
	    ( (Registration Number:) %Xxf )f /
	    ( (Make:) %Xxf )f /
	    ( (Model:) %Xxf )f /
	    ( (Year:) %Xxf )f
	It would be wise to read the full gtk_dialog_cauldron(3)
	man page. Note that newlines are completely ignored.

    6. Now raise the `Koalii' page and read the message their.

    7. Click on `Ok'

    8. Click on `Edit' and go back to the `Koalii' page.

    9. Click on `New' in the `Koalii' page.

    10. A Koalii dialog will appear, enter:
	`Registration Number' in the `Title' field,
	`10' in the `Order' field,
	`string' in the `Type' field,
	`ident_registration' in the `Table column' field,
	and leave the rest blank.

    11. Now repeat steps 9 and 10 for each of make, model and
	year. In each case, the `Table column' MUST be different
	and the `Title' field must be something descriptive.
	The `Order' field should indicate the order that the
	koalii appear in the form, preferably with large gaps
	in case you need to add new ones later, eg 20 for make,
	30 for model, and 40 for year.

    12. In the `Koalii' page of the `Pages' dialog, check
	A: that you have four entries
	B: that each entry has a different Column field
	C: that each entry has a properly descriptive Title field
	D: that each entry has a type of `string'
	E: that the order of the entries matches the order within
	    the form

    13. Hit `Ok' to go back to the `Edit' page of the `table_car'
	dialog.

    14. You will notice that under `Enabled' is an `f'. Click on
	`Test' to test the page and then `Close' the test dialog.
	If there was something wrong with the form string, an
	appropriate error message may be printed (see
	README.patch_first). You may also get error
	messages that are very cryptic. Don't scratch your
	head trying to understand them, just double check all
	your koalii and your form string and try to make the
	page simpler.

    15. `Cancel' the `table_car' dialog.

    16. You will now notice a new button on the main menu:
	`table_car'. click on this button.

    17. You can continue to add other pages to the notebook.
	Though do not ever delete pages and then reuse column
	names. Postgres lacks the `DROP COLUMN' feature (its
	also dangerous to use in this case) so stale columns
	will hang around. You can drop them by recreating
	the table, but this must be done with psql on the
	command line.



Other way to create a table:
----------------------------

The other way to create a table is to program it in python.
Here is a python script that does the same:

#!/usr/bin/python

from extended_bases import *

class koala_car (koala_mutable):
    def widget_create (self, *args):
	self.append_mutable_page ("Identity",
		"( (Registration Number:) %Xxf )f /"
		"( (Make:) %Xxf )f /"
		"( (Model:) %Xxf )f /"
		"( (Year:) %Xxf )f",
		(("string", "ident_registration", "Registration Number", ""),
		 ("string", "ident_make", "Make", ""),
		 ("string", "ident_model", "Model", ""),
		 ("string", "ident_year", "Year", "")))
	return koala_mutable.widget_create (self)

def do_table (heading, table):
    a = koala_mutable ("", heading, "", db, table)
    a.widget_create ()
    s = search_dialog ("Search: " + heading)
    if s:
	a.list (heading, s[0])

db = initialise_bases ("postgres", "localhost", 5432)
init_mutable_table (koala_car, db, "table_car")
do_table ("Cars", "table_car")

---------

Above, the last arguments were always left blank (i.e. "").
These are the default values for the field. In the above cases
there is no entry that is more likely than any other, so we
left them blank.

Now that the form has been created, goto the `Access' page and add
some groups so that others besides the postgres login can use
the table. You must first create users and groups as explained in
README.groups. You need only create one group.

Then edit the `Identity' page again and goto `Access'. Here again
you must add a group to the list.

That concludes a trivial database. To create a complex database
with links requires very little more effort...

Here we are going to add an owner to the car. First we need to
create a `table_person' table. (There may already be one as
an example).

Add a new page to your car notepad like this:
    Title:	Owner
    Form:	( (Owner:) %Xxf )f / ( (Date of purchase:) %Xxf )
    Entities:

Title		Order	Type		Column		Table
---------------	-------	---------------	---------------	------------
Owner		10	mutable		owner_owner	table_person
Date Purchased	20	date		owner_date


The entry widget next to `Owner' will have two buttons to select
from a list of people and to add a new person to the list,
respectively. You should beware of adding duplicate entries
because these are perfectly allowable with a mutable koala, but
may create confusion in the database. If there would never be a
duplicate entry for the table you have created, then you can use
mutablestring instead of mutable which indexes the table by the
first column and does not allow duplicate entries. For
table_person, the first column contains only the last name of
the person. Since there can be many people with the same last
name, mutable is used instead of mutablestring.

Note that the mutable koala does not automatically insert a
default value for a new instance of the dialog. Mutablestring
does insert such a value if defined.

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<P><A HREF="ftp://ftp.obsidian.co.za/pub/koala/">KOALA 0.9.0</A> - 
a database/GUI forms package for PostgreSQL and
Gnome (uses Python 1.5.1).  (26-Dec-99)

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From pyca@ms.inka.de  Wed Jan 12 06:56:29 2000
From: pyca@ms.inka.de (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 06:56:29 GMT
Subject: pyCA-0.6.3 - tools for setting up a certificate authority
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947660189@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 X.509 certificate authority using OpenSSL.

See

  http://www.pyca.de/

for more details.

Note: This will be the last feature release in the 0.6.x series. Only
bug fixes will be added in this branch. The upcoming release 0.7.0 and
above will be incompatible to 0.6.x installations.

Plans for 0.7.0
- based on M2Crypto (a Python module for accessing the OpenSSL libs)
- database support for storing cert and user data
- replacement for "openssl ca" command
- localization support for different character sets
This may take a while...

Ciao, Michael.

Changes since 0.6.2:
- Many small bugfixes and small enhancements

<P><A HREF="http://www.pyca.de/">pyca-0.6.3</A> - scripts
and CGI-BIN programs for setting up and running a certificate
authority using OpenSSL.  (27-Dec-99)

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From slinkp@angelfire.com  Wed Jan 12 06:58:39 2000
From: slinkp@angelfire.com (Paul Winkler)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 06:58:39 GMT
Subject: pysco: a python module for composers
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947660319@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Pysco is a Python module for generating scores for Csound, a software
synthesis language.  Pysco replaces Pscore, my old Perl csound-score-
generating module. Pysco does everything Pscore did and more.  It has
recently reached a stage of development at which it might actually be
musically useful. The current version is 0.0.2

Eventually I hope to abstract the data to the point that pysco can
usefully generate other types of musical output (such as midi files
or streams).

The current idea of pysco is that you import it into a python script and
then compose / program music in your script. There is a little sample piece
("song1.py") included with the source, but it's not very interesting (yet).

More information and downloading:
http://www.ulster.net/~abigoo/pw_linux/code.html#pysco

== 
................    paul winkler    ..................
slinkP arts:   music, sound, illustration, design, etc.
A member of ARMS    ----->    http://www.reacharms.com
or http://www.mp3.com/arms or http://www.amp3.net/arms
personal page   ---->    http://www.ulster.net/~abigoo

<P><A HREF="http://www.ulster.net/~abigoo/pw_linux/code.html#pysco">
pysco</A> - a Python module for generating scores for Csound, a
software synthesis language; for music composers.  (29-Dec-99)

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From aurag@geocities.com  Wed Jan 12 07:00:04 2000
From: aurag@geocities.com (Hassan Aurag)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:00:04 GMT
Subject: GMatH
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947660404@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi,

I am here to announce GmatH, a gnome interface to Numerical Python!

For more information and eye-candy, please go to

http://gmath.sourceforge.net

Thanks

H. Aurag

<P><A HREF="http://gmath.sourceforge.net">GMatH</A> - a
GNOME user interface for Numerical Python.  (01-Jan-2000)

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From ruebe@aachen.heimat.de  Wed Jan 12 07:01:56 2000
From: ruebe@aachen.heimat.de (Christian Scholz)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:01:56 GMT
Subject: python davserver 0.5
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947660516@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi

Release 0.5 of my davserver for python is ready for download.

Now MOVE and COPY also work. Moreover some internal stuff has changed
to make it more flexible. And of course bugs also have been fixed.

python davserver is supposed to act as generic server which can easily
be used by different applications. All one has to do is to write an
interfaces class which acts as a link between the application and
the actual WebDAV server.

You can download it at:

	ftp://comlounge.net/webdav/davserver-0.5.tar.gz

The homepage is available at:

	http://comlounge.net/webdav/

best wished for 2000 (still 2:20 h to go here..)

-- Christian

_______________________________________________
dav-announce maillist  -  dav-announce@lyra.org
http://dav.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/dav-announce

<P><A HREF="http://comlounge.net/webdav/">python davserver
0.5</A> - an extensible <A HREF="http://www.webdav.org/">WebDAV</A>
(RFC 2518) server class for Python; for adding WebDAV functionality
to a variety of applications.  (01-Jan-2000)

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From djc@itga.com.au  Wed Jan 12 07:03:30 2000
From: djc@itga.com.au (Dave Cole)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:03:30 GMT
Subject: Sybase module - release 0.4
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947660610@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

This is the "first" release of my Sybase module for Python

Sybase is a module which provides a Python interface to the Sybase
relational database system (surprise). The Sybase package supports
almost all of the Python Database API, version 2.0 with extensions.

The Sybase package is designed to work with Python versions 1.5.2 and
later and Sybase versions 11.0.3 and later. It is based on the Sybase
Client Library (ct_* API), and the Bulk-Library Client (blk_* API)
interfaces.

The module contains the following items: 

      Module interface 
      Connection objects 
      Cursor objects 
      Bulkcopy objects 

The homepage http://www.itga.com.au/~djc/sybase.html contains a
description of the deviations from the Database API specification.

The module can also be downloaded from
        ftp://ftp.itga.com.au/pub/python/Sybase-0.4.tar.gz

- Dave

<P><A HREF="http://www.itga.com.au/~djc/sybase.html">Sybase module
0.4</A> - a Python interface to the Sybase relational database
system, mostly compatible with the Python Database
API, v2.0.  (04-Jan-2000)

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From uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com  Wed Jan 12 07:04:40 2000
From: uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com (Uche Ogbuji)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:04:40 GMT
Subject: 4DOM 0.9.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947660680@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

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

                             4DOM 0.9.1
                      -----------------------
                An XML/HTML Python library using the
                  Document Object Model interface

4DOM is a Python library for XML and HTML processing and manipulation
using the W3C's Document Object Model for interface.  4DOM implements
DOM Core level 2, HTML level 2 and Level 2 Document Traversal.

4DOM should work on all platforms supported by Python.  If you have
any problems with a particular platform, please e-mail the authors.

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

0.9.1 News
----------

This is a bug-fix release.

0.9.0 Changes
-------------

- Major re-write to match the general consensus DOM binding for
  Python.  Code formerly in the form "node.getChildNodes()"
  is now to be used in the form "node._get_childNodes()" or
  simply "node.childNodes".  Similarly "text.setData("spam")"
  becomes "text._set_data("spam")" or text.data = "spam"

- Update to full Level 2 support in core and HTML, including
  namespace-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.


== 
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

<P><A HREF="http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4DOM">4DOM 0.9.1</A> -
CORBA-aware implementation of the W3C Document Object Model (DOM),
supports Fnorb, ILU and "ORB-less" operation.  (04-Jan-2000)

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From uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com  Wed Jan 12 07:05:25 2000
From: uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com (Uche Ogbuji)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:05:25 GMT
Subject: 4XPath and 4XSLT 0.8.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947660725@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

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

                      4XSLT and 4XPath 0.8.1
                      ----------------------
                      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.  4XPath implements the W3C XPath
language
for indicating and selecting XML document components.

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

4XPath implements the full 4XPath recommendation except for the 'lang'
core function.

Currently, 4XSLT supports a sub-set of the XSLT recommendation including
the following:

Full expression support and attribute-value template expansion
xsl:include                     xsl:import
xsl:template                    xsl:apply-imports
xsl:apply-templates             xsl:copy
xsl:call-template               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:param
xsl:comment                     xsl:with-param
xsl:strip-space                 xsl:key
xsl:preserve-space              xsl:copy-of
xsl:sort                        xsl:namespace-alias
xsl:output

and, of course, xsl:stylesheet, xsl:transform, literal elements and text

Using the xml output method, 4XSLT produces the result tree by throwing
events from the emerging SAX 2 standard to a handler, so it can be
easily
modified to supply results to any SAX 2 consumer.  For the 'html' and
'text' output methods special SAX consumers produce HTML DOM nodes and
plain text respectively.


News
----

Changes in 0.8.1
----------------

 - 4XSLT implements xsl:xsl:sort and xsl:namespace-alias
 - 4XSLT now implements template priorities
 - 4XPath now has a clear DOM-query interface
 - many big-fixes and more extensive testing

Changes in 0.8.0
----------------

 - 4XSLT implements xsl:output

 - Fixes to namespace handling

 - support lteral element as entire style-sheet

 - update to latest 4DOM interface

 - many big-fixes and more extensive testing

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

Please see

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

Or you can download 4XSLT from

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

4XPath and 4XSLT are distributed under a license similar to that of
Python.


== 
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

<P><A HREF="http://FourThought.com/4Suite/4XSLT">4XSLT 0.8.1</A> -
XML transformation processor based on the W3C specification for
the XSLT transform language.  (04-Jan-2000)

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From michael.stroeder@inka.de  Wed Jan 12 07:07:09 2000
From: michael.stroeder@inka.de (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:07:09 GMT
Subject: web2ldap.py 0.6.4: WWW gateway for accessing LDAP servers
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947660829@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

HI!

I would like to announce a new version of web2ldap (formerly known as
ldap-client-cgi.py), a full-featured LDAPv2 client written in Python
designed to run as a CGI-BIN under the control of a WWW server.

It's available for free (GPL) from

  http://www.web2ldap.de/

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 0.6.2:
- Some minor enhancements of user interface
- Fixed a basedn-related bug in smart login search
- Added automatically start of CGIHTTPServer.py
  if web2ldap.py is invoked from command-line
  (only Unix up to now).

Changes since 0.5.8:   
- enhanced user interface

Changes since 0.5.6:

- some code cleaning / bug fixing
- enhanced direct handling of UTF-8 input/output more
  conform to HTML4 standard
- new feature: for each host a dictionary with DNs as keys
  can be created to define the default objectclass
  and attribute for forming DNs for subordinate entries   
  (see example in cgi-bin/web2ldapcnf.py under host
  ldap.ms.inka.de). This is handy in situations where  
  unexperienced users have to add entries without knowing
  how to form a new DN.

Changes since 0.5.3:

- some code cleaning / bug fixing in login procedure
- some small performance enhancements
- direct output of UTF-8 if browser sends UTF-8 in
  HTTP_ACCEPTED_CHARSET (e.g. like Netscape Communicator 4.5x does)
- fixed problems with being too case sensitive in modify
- some small improvements in user interface

<P><A HREF="http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/web2ldap/">web2ldap.py
0.6.4</A> - LDAP web client; several enhancements.  (06-Jan-2000)

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From akuchlin@mems-exchange.org  Wed Jan 12 07:15:40 2000
From: akuchlin@mems-exchange.org (Andrew M. Kuchling)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:15:40 GMT
Subject: Oedipus v0.05 released
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947661340@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Version 0.05 of the Oedipus package for maintaining a hierarchical
database of Web links has been released.  (This package was originally
called the ODP package, but the new name is more memorable.)

Oedipus is a Python package for creating and maintaining hierarchical
trees of Web links.  An XML format compatible with the Open Directory
Project (ODP) is supported; refer to www.dmoz.org for more information
about the ODP.  In theory, you can load the entire ODP's database and
make it available using Oedipus; in practice, I haven't yet verified
that the code scales up to that amount of data.  A prototype Zope
product is included in the package that allows browsing through an
Oedipus database.

Versions 0.03 and 0.04 were never announced anywhere, so the list of
changes from 0.02 is significant:

     * Scalability has been improved; while I still haven't processed
       the whole ODP dataset, I've done the 75Mb structure file, and an 
       unknown chunk of the content file.  It stopped when I got
       bored, not when the script crashed. :)

     * The code no longer require the XML-SIG's parser package;
       now it can use xmllib.py to parse input data.
 	
     * Rearranged the Database class to use Metakit to store the data.
       It should still be possible to implement different persistence
       methods, such as Zope's BTree object or GDBM, but I don't feel
       much of a need to do that.  Accordingly, the GDBM and ZODB 
       classes have been dropped.

     * Lots of other classes were rearranged, too.

     * The code can now be installed using the Distutils.

Oedipus can be downloaded from 
http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/python/oedipus/ .

== 
A.M. Kuchling			http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/
Two things I learned for sure during a particularly intense acid trip in my
own lost youth: (1) everything is a trivial special case of something else;
and, (2) death is a bunch of blue spheres.
    -- Tim Peters, 1 May 1998

<P><A HREF="http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/python/oedipus/">Oedipus
v0.05</A> - a Python package for creating and maintaining hierarchical 
trees of Web links; supports an XML format compatible with the
Open Directory Project (ODP); uses the Metakit database for
storage.  (06-Jan-2000)

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From neelk@alum.mit.edu  Wed Jan 12 07:17:13 2000
From: neelk@alum.mit.edu (Neel Krishnaswami)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:17:13 GMT
Subject: Multimethod.py -- multimethods in Python
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947661433@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I'd like to announce the existence of Multimethod.py, a package that
implements real (eg, CLOS/Cecil/Dylan) multimethods for Python. These
are nifty for oodles of reasons, but some of the more significant are:

  o They make the Visitor and Strategy patterns trivial to implement.
  
  o The whole "binary method/double dispatch" problem goes away, thus 
    promoting loose coupling and other software-engineering buzzwords.
  
  o They resolve the whole contravariance/covariance debate so totally
    it's hard to remember what the problem was.

You can find it on my webpage at:

  <URI:http://www.sff.net/people/neelk/open-source>

It should work out of the box on CPython 1.5.2, and Jpython if Jpython
has lists that support the insert() method. I don't know about Viper,
since Viper apparently has a rather different type system from vanilla
Python, but it should be easy to port, though.

The current version is quite rough, with lame algorithms used in a
couple of places and very substandard documentation. But it all works,
and is quite usable for experimentation and learning.

(Incidentally, is this the sort of thing that should go on the
types-sig?)


Neel

<P><A HREF="http://www.sff.net/people/neelk/open-source">Multimethod.py</A> - 
support for real (i.e. CLOS/Cecil/Dylan-style) multimethods for
Python.  (07-Jan-2000)

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From gp.ciceri@acm.org  Wed Jan 12 07:18:31 2000
From: gp.ciceri@acm.org (g.p.ciceri)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:18:31 GMT
Subject: pyFinancials-0.66: a collection of financial algorithms
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947661511@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hello all,

I've just upload on Starship a little
collection of financial algorithms.

In this release there is stuff for:

- Cash Flow (IRR)
- Basic Option Pricing
- Binomial Option Pricing
- Finite Difference
- Option Price MC Simulation
- Futures Algorithms
- Bonds Algorithms
- General Simulation
- Term Structure Algorithms
- Fixed Income Modelling    

You can find it at
http://starship.python.net/~zanzi/pyFinancials-0.66.tgz

It's released under GPL/LGPL.

Enjoy
/gp

== 
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet
with a success unexpected in common hours." (Thoreau, "Walden")

  Gian Paolo Ciceri        Via B.Diotti 45 - 20153 Milano MI ITALY
                           mobile :   ++39 347 4106213        
                           eMail  :   gp.ciceri@acm.org  
                           webSite:   http://www.tialabs.com

<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/~zanzi/">pyFinancials-0.66</A> - 
a little collection of financial algorithms.  (07-Jan-2000)

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From news@dorb.com  Wed Jan 12 07:20:39 2000
From: news@dorb.com (Darrell)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:20:39 GMT
Subject: XMLTreeCntrol 0.1
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947661639@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I mentioned my xmlP tree control as a code example and started getting lots
of hits. But it wasn't really in any shape for public consumption. I fixed a
couple of things and packaged all the required files into a zip.
http://www.dorb.com/darrell/xmlP/

Also a screen shot http://www.dorb.com/darrell/xmlP/scrn.jpg the numbers to
the right are the line number.

It will view anything with tags in it.
Things like this aren't handled: <![CDATA[         expr="age > 18" ]]>
That came from the Zope site, so I have some more work todo someday.

If you have wxPython it should work at least as good as it does for me.

== 
--Darrell

<P><A HREF="http://www.dorb.com/darrell/xmlP/">XMLTreeCntrol
0.1</A> - a simple graphical XML tree control for
wxWindows/wxPython.  (08-Jan-2000)

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From gmcm@hypernet.com  Wed Jan 12 07:21:55 2000
From: gmcm@hypernet.com (Gordon McMillan)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:21:55 GMT
Subject: Installer - Linux beta 01, Windows beta 3f
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947661715@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The new betas are available at: 
http://starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/distribute.html

The Windows beta is bug fixes:
  - run from CDROM works
  - some path problems fixed
  - some case-mismatch problems fixed

The Linux beta is the first release for this platform. It includes these 
capabilities:
 - turning a script into an isolated single-directory installation
 - building compressed Python code archives
 - building zip-like archives that can contain anything

(Actually, the latter two capabilites should work on any Unix platform).

Installations created this way are completely insulated from any Python 
installations on the target machine. There is no problem using shared 
extension modules; these will be detected and made part of the installation.

License: 
 Python style (do as thou wilt; maintain copyright notices).

Contact: gmcm@hypernet.com

<P><A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/distribute.html">Installer:
Linux beta 01, Windows beta 3f</A> - distribute Python apps, modules and
packages easily; available under Python-style license.  (08-Jan-2000)

- Gordon

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From ap096@po.cwru.edu  Wed Jan 12 07:23:24 2000
From: ap096@po.cwru.edu (Kevin Dahlhausen)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:23:24 GMT
Subject: Updated pyFLTK - FLTK Wrappers
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947661804@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

pyFLTK is a wrapper for the Fast-Light Toolkit - a cross platform GUI library.
The wrapper also includes a program to convert the FLTK GUI designer output  to
Python code.

The library is available at:  http://fltk.netpedia.net/


Bowser's now have preliminary  data support, flconvert (Fluid GUI
Builder to Python) is now a program and supports scoped identifiers.

Hello World with a Cancel Button looks like this:

from fltk import *
 import sys

 def theCancelButtonCallback(ptr):
         sys.exit(0)

 window = Fl_Window(100, 100, 200, 90, sys.argv[0])
 button = Fl_Button(9,20,180,50,"Hello World")
 button.callback(theCancelButtonCallback)
 window.end()
 window.show(len(sys.argv), sys.argv)
 Fl.run()


Recent Changes:
----------------------
1/11/00 KPD
	completed install-python option

1/8/00 KPD
	fixed test/boxtype.py, test/PyAppWithGUI
	added to INSTALL file
    
1/7/00 KPD
	added flconvert support for declarations and classes
	added ifdef Python sentries to browser changes
	added demo runner test/demos.py
	fixed browser data bug

1/6/00 KPD
	added data support to browser, still needs some work to handle
    arbritary script object types

1/4/00 KPD
	updated README
	reorganized notes
	added test/PyAppWithGUI
	changed fluid parser to allow scoped indentifiers

12/29/99 KPD
	fixed Python Menu callback bug - menus weren't using the new
		CallBackStruct
	fixed MS-Windows build
	fixed function return values in src/Fl_Wrapper
	in swig/py_timeout.i: MS VCC couldn't handle pointer initializaition, 
		had to change to assignment
	removed default paramter value from contrib/Check_Browser.cc
	removed test/arc.py because it can't work with the current 
		system - no way to subclass a widget in Python yet

11/19/99 KPD
	fixed Python Fl_Widget callbacks to make them work with data

<P><A HREF="http://fltk.netpedia.net/">pyFLTK 11-Jan-2000</A> -
Python wrapper for the FLTK lightweight, good looking, easy-to-use
C++ cross-platform (UNIX/Win32) GUI library.  (11-Jan-99)

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From sketch@online.de  Wed Jan 12 07:24:04 2000
From: sketch@online.de (Bernhard Herzog)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:24:04 GMT
Subject: Sketch 0.6.4 - A Vector Drawing Program
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27553-947661844@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Sketch 0.6.4 - 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.


News:
-----

This is mainly a bug-fix release.

Summary of the Changes since 0.6.3:

    * Bug fixes, most notably for the EPS-related bug in Sketch's
      PostScript prolog.

    * Updated Spanish translations

    * More color icons

    * The mkfontdb.py script can also generate Fontmap files now

Please also note that Sketch has moved to a new location:

       http://sketch.sourceforge.net/



Homepage:
---------

http://sketch.sourceforge.net/


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://sketch.sourceforge.net/">Sketch 0.6.4</A> - a vector
drawing program for Unix written in Python.  (11-Jan-2000)

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From pauldubois@home.com  Wed Jan 12 07:29:46 2000
From: pauldubois@home.com (Paul F. Dubois)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 00 07:29:46 GMT
Subject: Pyfort-3.0
Message-ID: <mt2.0-28084-947662186@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Pyfort 3.0, the Python-Fortran connection tool, is available at
ftp://ftp-icf.llnl.gov/pub/python/Pyfort-3.0.tgz.
Documentation is included.

News:

Pyfort uses Distutils (www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig)  both to install
itself and to build and install extensions built with Pyfort.

There are many new features to control the behavior of the tool, including
provisions for optional automatic transposing, reversed-shape Fortran
arrays, and valued scalars.

A valued scalar is an integer argument to a Fortran routine that determines
all or part of the shape of another argument. This fact can now be declared
in the input. For example, if Fortran routine foo has arguments foo (n, x),
where x is a real array of length n, you have the option to declare this as:

subroutine foo (n, x)
    integer n = size(x)
    real x(n)
end

(size is the F90 intrinsic, and can take a second argument to indicate the
dimension if x has more than one)

Then the Python user would call foo as foo(x), and not need to specifiy the
redundant information that n is x's length.

Some persons do not want any of the features mentioned. They may rest
assured that declaring all arguments intent(inout) will result in what some
have called a "raw" interface.

REFERENCE:

<P><A HREF="http://dubois.simplenet.com/python">Pyfort 3.0</A> -
Fortran/Python Connection Tool.  (11-Jan-2000)

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From mike@digicool.com  Fri Jan 21 10:12:31 2000
From: mike@digicool.com (Mike Pelletier)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:12:31 GMT
Subject: Zope Weekly News - Wed, 12 Jan 2000
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27195-948449551@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

G'day,

    Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting
    events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the
    Zope.org site.  It is published each Wednesday evening.

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

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


Announcements

  * Hadar Pedhazur <hadar@opticality.com> announced on the Zope
    mailing list that Digital Creations and Zope will have a presence
    at the Linux WorldExpo in February.  This is thanks to Tucows.com
    graciously sharing their booth.

    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-January/016931.html

  * Andrew M. Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org> announced the
    release of version 0.05 of the Oedipus package.  Oedipus is a
    Python package for creating and maintaining hierarchical trees of
    Web links.  A prototype Zope product is included in the package
    that allows browsing through an Oedipus database.

    http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/python/oedipus/

  * "tseaver" noticed an updated review of Zope by Linux Planet and
    passed along the link.  This is the review that appeared about two
    weeks ago, with the same ultimate conclusions but with some
    reporting errors corrected and the "Response from Digital
    Creations."

    http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/1319/1/


New Products

  * "johanc" submitted "XMLRPC Client for Internet Explorer 5".  It
    has been released as a part of the Zope Internet Explorer project,
    which aims to build a rich interface to Zope around Internet
    Explorer 5.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/ZIE/xmlrpc_client


Updates

  * "rossl" updated the LDAPAdapter Product.  This product allows you
    to authenticate user against data stored on an LDAP server.  The
    current version is 0.95.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/LDAPAdapter


Zope.org items

  * "Bill" wrote a How-To, titled "Conditional SQL How-To available"
    which describes how to construct a ZSQLMethod with a dynamic query.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/Bill/Documentation/ConditionalSQL

  * "anthony" has composed a very good How-To, "Choosing to store data
    in SQL vs ZODB", which discusses the relative merits and drawbacks
    of using Zope's native database and using an external SQL database
    to store data.

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

  * "gwachob" has contributed a beginner level How-To about DTML
    scripting, "Making Folder Directory Listings".  In it, he
    describes the DTML needed to generate a dynamic list of certain
    kinds of objects in a folder.

    http://www.zope.org/Members/gwachob/directorylisting


Notable Discussions

  * Nico Grubert <nico@beehive.de> is looking for ideas for fairly
    substantial (20-40 pages) tutorials.  Suggestions so far: News
    site app with workflow, a shopping cart app, and methods for
    handling file uploads.

    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-January/016594.html

  * Steve Jibson <stevej@parlant.com> developed a large ZClass, and
    then needed to change the ZClass's base classes.  Not wanting to
    have to rebuild his ZClass from scratch, he asked the list for
    alternatives.  Several are offered.

    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-January/016627.html

== 
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From ajung@sz-sb.de  Fri Jan 21 10:15:40 2000
From: ajung@sz-sb.de (Andreas Jung)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:15:40 GMT
Subject: - PyRecode
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27365-948449740@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I am happy to announce the availability of PyRecode.

PyRecode is a wrapper around the functionality of
Recode. Recode is a tool (under GPL) for converting
text from one character set to another one. Recode
is very useful when you are working with texts
in different formats, languages and character sets.

The sources are available from 
      http://www.suxers.de/PyRecode.tgz

At the moment it has been only tested under Linux,
Python 1.5.2 and recode 3.5. More platforms will follow
soon.

Cheers,
Andreas Jung

<P><A HREF="http://www.suxers.de/PyRecode.tgz">PyRecode
(click to download .tar.gz file)</A> - wrapper around
the functionality of the <B>GNU Recode</B> character set
conversion tool.  (13-Jan-2000)

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From calvin@studcs.uni-sb.de  Fri Jan 21 10:16:34 2000
From: calvin@studcs.uni-sb.de (The Dude)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:16:34 GMT
Subject: pylice 0.4.3
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27365-948449794@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

With pylice you can check your HTML documents for broken links.
Pylice checks recursively and multithreaded.
Output can be HTML, colored or normal text.

Pylice is licensed under the GNU Public License.

URL: http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~calvin/software/
EMAIL: calvin@cs.uni-sb.de

<P><A HREF="http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~calvin/software/">pylice
0.4.3</A> - checks your HTML documents for broken links.  (14-Jan-2000)

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From gvwilson@nevex.com  Fri Jan 21 10:18:48 2000
From: gvwilson@nevex.com (Greg Wilson)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:18:48 GMT
Subject: Open Source Design Competition - Software Carpentry
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27365-948449928@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Los Alamos National Laboratory                     CodeSourcery, LLC

                          Software Carpentry
                  http://www.software-carpentry.com

                    Open Source Design Competition

                         $100,000 in Prizes!

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

The Software Carpentry project is pleased to announce its first Open
Source design competition, with prizes totaling $100,000.  Students
and professionals from any country, working individually or in teams,
are invited to submit design outlines for:

* a platform inspection tool to replace autoconf;

* a dependency management tool to replace make;

* an issue tracking system to replace gnats and Bugzilla; and

* a unit and regression testing harness with the functionality of
  XUnit, Expect, and DejaGnu.

The best four entries in each category will be awarded $2500, and
invited to submit full designs by June 1, 2000.  The best design in
each category will then receive an additional $7500, while runners-up
will each receive $2500.  Once winning designs have been announced,
$200,000 will be available through open bidding for implementation,
testing, and documentation.

Participants may submit separate entries in one or more categories by
March 31, 2000.  Entries must be in English, and no more than 5000
words long.  For more information, see the Software Carpentry web site
at http://www.software-carpentry.com.  All of the project's work will
be Open Source; all tools will be written in, or scriptable with,
Python, and will be required to run on both Linux and Microsoft
Windows NT.

The competition will be judged by a panel that includes the following
noted software developers, authors, and computational scientists:

    Stephen Adler       Brookhaven National Laboratory
    Frank Alexander     Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Donnie Barnes       Red Hat
    Chris DiBona        VA Linux
    Paul Dubois         Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Andrew Hunt         Pragmatic Programmers, LLC
    Stephen R. Lee      Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Josh MacDonald      University of California, Berkeley
    Brian Marick        Reliable Software Technologies
    Doug Mewhort        Queen's University
    Bruce Perens        co-founder of the Open Source Initiative
    Dave Thomas         Pragmatic Programmers, LLC
    Jon Udell           author of Practical Internet Groupware
    Guido van Rossum    inventor of Python
    Tom Van Vleck       TransIlluminant
    Phil Wadler         Bell Labs
    Scot Wingo          AuctionRover

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

The Software Carpentry project is sponsored by the Advanced Computing
Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National
Laboratory (http://www.acl.lanl.gov), and administered by
CodeSourcery, LLC (http://www.codesourcery.com).  The project's aim is
to encourage adoption of better software development practices by
making software tools easier to use, and by documenting design,
testing, and related activities.  For more information on the project,
or to let us know that you intend to submit a proposal, see
http://www.software-carpentry.com, or mail info@software-carpentry.com.

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From jloisel@excite.com  Fri Jan 21 10:22:06 2000
From: jloisel@excite.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me_Loisel?=)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:22:06 GMT
Subject: linkdl! 0.2 (module for linked lists)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27365-948450126@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hello all!

I am happy to announce the widely-anticipated v.0.2 release of linkdl!
(My brother and ex-girlfriend were *really* looking forward to it! :-)) 

linkdl stands for LinkedLists. linkdl is a module providing a
LinkedLists data types. That data type allows you to create, modify and view
lists which are to remain linked both vertically and horizontally.

Think of it as a rudimentary spreadsheet (without an UI, of course...). It
keeps rows and columns, and sorts along either the rows or the columns. (I
am actually quite happy with the sorting: if there are ties, linkdl looks to
the next row or column to resolve them, up to the last row or column...
Hmmm... Well, *I* think it's pretty cool. :-))

The following is the main __doc__ string. Please do tell me if you look at
the code. As this is my first mostly serious module, I would very much
appreciate any feedback.

linkdl seems to work quite well, but I have only done basic testing. You
should also be aware that it is not optimized and will probably only offer
mediocre performance under very heavy loads.

Cheers, and happy coding!

Jérôme Loisel

http://linkdl.sourceforge.net/

(or, if your DNS has not caught it yet...)
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1460


[Moderator's note: the module source code originally included
here has been removed due to bandwidth considerations.]

<P><A HREF="http://linkdl.sourceforge.net">linkdl 0.2</A> - a
linked lists module for Python.  (15-Jan-2000)

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From pauldubois@home.com  Fri Jan 21 10:23:25 2000
From: pauldubois@home.com (Paul F. Dubois)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:23:25 GMT
Subject: Numerical Python now at SourceForge
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27365-948450205@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

We are in the process of moving Numerical to SourceForge, a service provided
by VA Linux for Open Source software projects.

Here are some of the things you can do:

1. Visit the Numerical Python web page, http://numpy.sourceforge.net. A link
on that page will direct you to the Numerical Python Project pages, where
you will find downloads, read about and report bugs, and browse the CVS
source tree.

2. Using CVS, you can check out a the latest source by using the following
instructions.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.numpy.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/numpy login
     When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.numpy.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/numpy co
Numerical

Later updates from within the module's directory do not need the -d
parameter.

Official releases are as shown on the project page. By using the latest
source via anonymous CVS, you are getting both the latest bug fixes and the
latest accidently-introduced bugs. Cavaet downloader.

3. Currently 3 people are enabled as developers: David Ascher, Travis
Oliphant, and myself. Once we are a little more setttled in we will be open
to adding developers.

4. Once you have the source tree you can make a compressed tar file for
moving to other machines by executing, in the Numerical directory,
    python setup.py dist
To avoid confusion, we suggest that you rename the file produced so that it
does not match the official release number. Or, you can change that number
in setup.py. This feature requires your Python have Distutils installed
(http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig).

Note: if you browse the CVS tree you will see a top-level directory "numpy"
but there are no files underneath. This was the result of an early error and
when we can figure out how to destroy it, we will. The module you want is
"Numerical". The SourceForge homepage (http://sourceforge.net) will lead you
to some CVS documentation if you are unfamilar with it.

Note: all other LLNLDistribution modules are still in
LLNLDistribution11.tgz, available via xfiles.llnl.gov. Over the next month
or two we will be moving these to new homes. The xfiles machine itself has
become somewhat unstable and the server often dies on weekends. Security
changes will require us to move everything anyway, so this is a good time
for some housekeeping. In the meantime, please be patient with us.

This change does not mean that LLNL has lessened its involvement with Python
or its commitment to supporting Numerical. The intent is just to move the
project forward by opening up the development process. Fortuitously,
SourceForge has sprung full-blown from the brow of Zeus -- or maybe it just
seems that way to me.

<P><A HREF="http://numpy.sourceforge.net">Numerical Python</A> -
Numerical facility for Python, now hosted at
SourceForge.  (16-Jan-2000)

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From sspitzer@sspitzer.org  Fri Jan 21 10:25:22 2000
From: sspitzer@sspitzer.org (sspitzer@sspitzer.org)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:25:22 GMT
Subject: yahootochannel.py 1.0
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27365-948450322@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

yahootochannel.py is a python cgi that turns yahoo webmail status (how
many new messages you have in your yahoo webmail acocunt) into a
netcenter channel.

three simple setps

1) add the level 1 .yahoo.com cookies to the cgi
2) host the cgi on a website
3) go to http://my.netscape.com/publish and create a my.netscape.com
channel

here's the script: http://www.sspitzer.org/netcenter/yahootochannel.py

-Seth
== 
http://www.sspitzer.org

<P><A HREF="http://www.sspitzer.org/netcenter/yahootochannel.py">yahootochannel.py
1.0 (click to download script)</A> - a Python CGI script that turns Yahoo webmail
status (how many new messages you have in your Yahoo webmail acocunt) into a
Netcenter channel.  (16-Jan-2000)

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From fredrik@pythonware.com  Fri Jan 21 10:31:13 2000
From: fredrik@pythonware.com (Fredrik Lundh)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:31:13 GMT
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 19)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27365-948450673@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Last chance to register on-line for the Eighth International
    Python Conference:
    http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/

    The Software Carpentry announces a Python-oriented open
    source design competition with $100,000 in prize money (!):
        http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=572973351
        http://www.software-carpentry.com

    The May 2000 issue of Linux Journal is going to be accompanied
    by a special edition Python Supplement! Sign up for your free
    copy at:
        http://www.linuxjournal.com/python

    On the newsgroup: Edward Welbourne proposes a unified
    namespace system:
        http://www.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=573542571
        http://www.chaos.org.uk/~eddy/dev/toy/python2.html

    Manuel Gutierrez Algaba has started a python web ring.
    Sign up your python pages here:
        http://www.ctv.es/USERS/irmina/pythonring.html

    Mark Adler announces an IDE in progress: VIPER (Visually
    Integrated Python EnviRonment)
        http://www.PinehillProducts.com

    Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer releases pysol 3.20 (now supports
    151 distinct solitaire games!):
        http://pysol.tsx.org

    Mark Lutz teams up with Perl folks to offer Python training
    for anyone. Next session in February:
        http://rmi.net/~lutz/boulder-classes.html

    Seen on the net: Andrew Kuchling looks at some of the recent
    Python books:
        http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/python/writing/books.html


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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.  Mention "Python-URL!".


-- The Python-URL! Team--

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sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.
== 

Cameron Laird <claird@NeoSoft.com>
Business:  http://www.Phaseit.net
Personal:  http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html

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From lutz@rmi.net  Fri Jan 21 10:31:24 2000
From: lutz@rmi.net (Mark Lutz)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:31:24 GMT
Subject: Python training in Boulder
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27365-948450684@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I'm pleased to announce an upcoming Python training session, to
be held in Boulder, Colorado, February 15-17.  This class is open
to individuals, and will be filled on a first-come first-served basis.
Come learn about an exciting object-oriented scripting language, and
enjoy the beautiful Rocky Mountain region during your stay.  More
information can be found at this page:

    http://rmi.net/~lutz/boulder-classes.html

I am the instructor for this class, but all administrative support
is being provided by Tom Christiansen's training organization.
A second session is tentatively set for May.

--Mark Lutz

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From tismer@tismer.com  Fri Jan 21 10:33:47 2000
From: tismer@tismer.com (Christian Tismer)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:33:47 GMT
Subject: Stackless Python 1.0 + Continuations 0.6
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27365-948450827@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

ANNOUNCING:

               Stackless Python 1.0
           A Python Implementation That
             Does Not Use The C Stack

               * plus the real toy *

              Continuation Module 0.6
        Continuations as First Class Objects

What is it?
A plugin-replacement for core Python.
It should run any program which runs under Python 1.5.2 .
But it does not need space on the C stack.

Why did I write it?
Stackless Python was never written before (afaik), since it
was said to be impossible without major rewrites of core Python.
I have proven the controverse: It is easy to write, just hard to think.
About 3 times harder was finally the continuation module.
The whole project took about 6 man months where 80 percent of
the time was thinking and trying. The rest was coding and to
become a reference counting champion :-)

Recent changes:
Version 1.0 has been optimized like hell and is now
3-5 percent faster than Standard Python.

Continuation module is in version 0.6, very stable,
and it allows to save a program's "future" at any
time, in a portable way. Continuations are callable
Python objects with a very small footprint.

Who needs it?
Since the continuations are done, this is no more
only useful for C programmers who want to try certain new
ideas. Everybody who is interested to develop his
own generators, coroutines and tiny threads is
invited to check it out.

Status of the final 1.0:
Pystone works correctly and is 5% faster than standard
Python. Version 0.3 was 10 percent slower.
Continuations work with PythonWin and Idle.

The overall result is now better than expected,
and I'm happy to call this *FINAL*
(until the next version of course:)

Downloadable files can be found at
http://www.tismer.com/research/stackless/

Some older documentation:
http://www.tismer.com/research/stackless/stackless.htm

Some better documentation can be found in my IPC8 paper:
http://www.tismer.com/research/stackless/spc_final.zip
or be read directly as HTML
http://www.tismer.com/research/stackless/spcpaper.htm

Source code and a VC++6.0 build for Windows (340K):
http://www.tismer.com/research/stackless/spc_win32.zip

cheers - 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="http://www.tismer.com/research/stackless/">Stackless
Python 1.0 + Continuations 0.6</A> - a version of Python 1.5.2 that
does not need space on the C stack, and first-class callable
continuation objects for Python.  (20-Jan-2000)

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From amk1@erols.com  Fri Jan 21 10:29:43 2000
From: amk1@erols.com (A.M. Kuchling)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:29:43 GMT
Subject: Cryptography modules now available worldwide
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27365-948450583@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The US government has recently made various relaxations to the export
control policies applied to encryption software, particularly when the
source code is available.  As a result, the Python cryptography
modules are now available world-wide, with no CGI script or other
foolery required to download them.  The URL is:
	ftp://starship.python.net/pub/crew/amk/crypto/

This is not a new release of the code, and the modules are still no
longer maintained.  Do *not* write new software that uses them,
because I was young and stupid when I wrote them, so their design is
poor in several ways.  Instead, now that I'm slightly older :), I
advise you to should use mxCrypto or M2Crypto instead.  This release
is mostly of historical interest; people outside the US working on
crypto code can now check their compatibility with my original
modules.

== 
A.M. Kuchling			http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/
I can see you've been doing the TARDIS up a bit. I don't like it.
    -- The second Doctor, in "The Three Doctors"

<P><A HREF="ftp://starship.python.net/pub/crew/amk/crypto/">Cryptography
modules now available worldwide</A> - re-release of (historical) crypto
modules; may now be downloaded world-wide due to relaxed US export
control policies; however, please use mxCrypto or M2Crypto for new
projects instead.  (17-Jan-2000)

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From markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at  Fri Jan 21 10:30:58 2000
From: markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at (Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:30:58 GMT
Subject: PySol 3.20 - a solitaire game collection
Message-ID: <mt2.0-27365-948450658@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

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                    PySol - a Solitaire Game Collection
                              Version 3.20

                          http://pysol.tsx.org

           Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000 Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
                   <markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at>


What is PySol ?
===============

PySol is an exciting collection of 151 solitaire card games.

Among the supported games are classics like Aces Up, Baker's Game,
Canfield, FreeCell, Forty Thieves, Golf, Klondike, Monte Carlo,
Osmosis, Pyramid, Scorpion, Spider, Yukon, and many more...

PySol may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

PySol aims to be Commercial Quality Freeware.


Why yet another solitaire game ?
================================

Here are some highlights of PySol:

  - freely available
  - distributed under the GNU GPL with full source code
  - currently supports 151 (!) distinct solitaire variants
  - based upon an extensible solitaire engine
  - very nice look and feel including multiple cardsets
    and background table tiles
  - unlimited undo & redo
  - load & save games
  - player statistics and log files
  - hint system
  - demo games
  - support for user written plug-ins - add your own solitaire variants
  - integrated HTML help browser
  - lots of documentation
  - fully portable across Unix/X11, Windows 95/98/NT and MacOS
  - written in 100% pure Python
  - just run it - no need to compile anything


Nice. And what's new ?
=======================

  * Added 8 Hanafuda type games (Oonsoo, Pagoda, MatsuKiri, ...)
    Many thanks to T. Kirk.

  * Added 2 Poker type games (Poker Shuffle, Poker Square)

  * Added 13 other new games (Der Katzenschwanz, Perpetual Motion,
    Die Schlange, Three Shuffles and a Draw, Vegas Klondike, ...)

  * Background music now is supported under Win32 as well.

  * Added 2 cardsets to the PySol-Cardsets collection.


Cool. Where can I get it ?
==========================

Point your browser to http://pysol.tsx.org
The PySol Gallery is awaiting your visit as well.


What do I need to start playing ?
=================================

PySol requires Python 1.5.2 and Tcl/Tk 8.0.5. Both packages are
freely available for Unix, Windows 95/98/NT and Macintosh.

The Windows version ships as a completely self-contained setup file.

BTW, there is no need to compile anything since the whole program is just
a Python script. Just run it, and that's all.


License terms
=============

PySol is Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer

PySol is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
See the file COPYING.


Have fun,
Markus

http://pysol.tsx.org



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<P><A HREF="http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/pysol.html">PySol
3.20</A> - new version of Python Solitaire Games (using Tkinter); now
supports 151 (!) distinct solitaire card game variants.  (18-Jan-2000)

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From guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US  Tue Jan 25 20:05:45 2000
From: guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (Guido van Rossum)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 00 20:05:45 GMT
Subject: Python Conference weather
Message-ID: <mt2.0-2572-948830745@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

If you're traveling to the Python Conference, be advised that winter
has finally arrived in the Washington, DC area.  We're currently
experiencing *high* temperatures of 22 degrees F (-6 degrees C); with
the wind chill it will feel much colder.  So be sure to pack warm
clothes.

Yesterday, about 6 inches of snow fell, disrupting air travel; more is
expected on Sunday, so expect delays flying into DC.  Local
transportation should be fully operational, but may experience some
delays.

We've placed a weather advisory in the local section of the conference
website:

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

Over 250 people have registered for the conference.  See you all there!

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

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From mal@lemburg.com  Tue Jan 25 20:06:31 2000
From: mal@lemburg.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 00 20:06:31 GMT
Subject: platform.py - Version 0.7.0
Message-ID: <mt2.0-2572-948830791@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

ANNOUNCING:

                  platform.py - Version 0.7.0

        A Python module providing platform information APIs.


WHAT IT IS:

platform.py was intially developed for the mxCGIPython project
to automate the creation of file names including platform
specific data for users to be able to recognize and download
the appropriate Python interpreter binary for their (or their
ISPs) setup.

Since then the module has been extended and redesigned to
provide a generic interface for querying platform information
both in human readable form and for other application purposes
through platform dependent special APIs.

platform.py supports (at least) these setups: most Windows
setups, MacOS, various Linux distributions, various Unices,
OpenVMS, Java VM and DOS.


WHAT'S NEW ?

Version 0.7.0 is the first new version after the intial release
and update cycles last year.


WHERE CAN I GET IT ?

Documentation is provided through doc-strings and many
comments in the source code, which can be found via my
Python Pages:

        http://www.lemburg.com/~python/


WHAT DOES IT COST ?

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


WHERE CAN I GET SUPPORT ?

Commercial support for all my packages, tools and other
Python software will soon be available through my newly
founded software company. Keep an eye open on this list
for an announcement.


REFERENCE:

<P><A HREF="http://www.lemburg.com/~python/">platform.py
0.7.0</A> - generic platform information APIs.  (22-Jan-2000)

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

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From tismer@tismer.com  Tue Jan 25 20:08:14 2000
From: tismer@tismer.com (Christian Tismer)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 00 20:08:14 GMT
Subject: Stackless 1.01 Homepage
Message-ID: <mt2.0-2572-948830894@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

"Why should I care about this, isn't my Python fine"?

If you know what Generators, Coroutines and Continuations
are about and want to have them at your fingertips,
this is the real thing for you.

If not, how about speed?
About 5 percent faster, binary compatible as a drop-in
replacement for your python15.dll, unlimited recursion,
why not give it a try? Just click on the installer :-)

Stackless Python 1.01 with Continuations 0.6
can now be downloaded from a web page:

http://www.tismer.com/research/stackless/

Fact sheet, links to documentation, source and
binaries can be found there.

Source and binary distribution have been split.
The Windows binaries come with a Wise installer.

SLP has been successfully compiled on Solaris (Thanks to Jeff
Collins). It will be used on PalmIII, to solve the 4k stack problem.

Version 1.01 is a small clean-up for non-Windows platforms.

<P><A HREF="http://www.tismer.com/research/stackless/">Stackless
Python 1.01 + Continuations 0.6</A> - a version of Python 1.5.2 that
does not need space on the C stack, and first-class callable
continuation objects for Python.  (24-Jan-2000)

Christian Tismer
Mission Impossible 5oftware Team

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From claird@NeoSoft.com  Tue Jan 25 20:09:09 2000
From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 00 20:09:09 GMT
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 24)
Message-ID: <mt2.0-2572-948830948@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

The 8th International Python Conference begins with much-below-freezing
temperatures outside and an unprecedented growth of pre-registrants inside.
Expect a *very* productive week
        http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/

    Christian Tismer endows Python with continuations and co-rou-
    tines while trimming its stack and time weight.  It's even
    promised for a Palm
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=576789536

    John Grayson announces the appearance of the first book focused
    on Tkinter
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=575925861

    Michael P. Reilly taxonomizes four distinct approaches to
    dealing with a pty
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=574772821

    Aahz March provides an example of threading which is not only
    suitable for beginners but even useful for Web workers
	http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=570016307&fmt=text

    Edward Welbourne's excellent treatise on proper use of exceptions
	http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=575782124
    Note Fred L. Drake's stylistic follow-up (not yet URLized)

    Michael Hudson and Tim Peters preach better Python through
    self-discipline
	http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=576276046

    jim kraai summarizes .ini knowledge beyond ConfigParser
	http://x35.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=576839546

    Do your Python applications want to know operating system version
    information, which libc is in charge, how many processors are run-
    ning, and so on?  M.-A. Lemburg provides answers
	http://starship.python.net/crew/lemburg/platform.py

    Telling testimony to Python's virtues (note the last sentence)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=575774205        


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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.  Mention "Python-URL!".


-- The Python-URL! Team--

Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and
sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.
== 

Cameron Laird <claird@NeoSoft.com>
Business:  http://www.Phaseit.net
Personal:  http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html

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From Brian@digicool.com  Tue Jan 25 20:14:01 2000
From: Brian@digicool.com (Brian Lloyd)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 00 20:14:01 GMT
Subject: Zope 2.1.3 released
Message-ID: <mt2.0-2572-948831241@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Hi all, 

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


You can get the 2.1.3 release from Zope.org:

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


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

<P><A HREF="http://www.zope.org/">Zope 2.1.3</A> - a free, open
source web application platform used for building high-performance,
dynamic web sites; bug-fix update.  (24-Jan-2000)

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From michael.stroeder@inka.de  Tue Jan 25 20:14:52 2000
From: michael.stroeder@inka.de (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?=)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 00 20:14:52 GMT
Subject: web2ldap.py 0.6.6: WWW gateway for accessing LDAP servers
Message-ID: <mt2.0-2572-948831292@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

HI!

I would like to announce a new version of web2ldap, a full-featured
LDAPv2 client written in Python designed to run as a CGI-BIN under
the control of a WWW server.

It's available for free (GPL) from

  http://www.web2ldap.de/

There's a demo running on:

  http://sites.inka.de/ms/cgi-bin/web2ldap.py

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

Ciao, Michael.

Changes since 0.6.5:
- You might have guessed it: Bug hunting and code cleaning!
- Better support and example for CSS

Changes since 0.6.4:

- Implemented modrdn.
- Omnipresent button bar throughout the whole UI now
  (including error messages).
- Direct input of LDIF data possible during adding
  or modifying entries (e.g. for binary data).
- Display attributes of entry according to the schema categories
  (required, allowed, not matching).
- Minor bugfixing and code cleaning.

Finally you insert your blinky-winky HTML design:
- Display entries with HTML template files depending on objectClass.
- HTML clean-up to be hopefully SGML-conformant (and friendly to
  browsers).
- Configuration parameters for complete <BODY> tag.
- ID params in important HTML tags for using CSS.
- Configuration parameters for string placed in <HEAD></HEAD>
  section (suitable for placing <STYLE> tags).

<P><A HREF="http://www.web2ldap.de/">web2ldap 0.6.6</A> -
web-based LDAP client; several enhancements. (25-Jan-2000)

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From pearu@ioc.ee  Tue Jan 25 20:15:12 2000
From: pearu@ioc.ee (Pearu Peterson)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 00 20:15:12 GMT
Subject: f2py 1.116: The Fortran to Python Interface Generator
Message-ID: <mt2.0-2572-948831312@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

I am pleased to announce the first public release of f2py 1.116:

Writing Python C/API wrappers for Fortran routines can be a very
tedious task, especially if a Fortran routine takes more than 20
arguments but only few of them are relevant for the problems that they
solve.

The Fortran to Python Interface Generator, or FPIG for short, is a
command line tool (f2py) for generating Python C/API modules for
wrapping Fortran 77 routines, accessing common blocks from Python, and
calling Python functions from Fortran (call-backs).

The tool can be downloaded from

    http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/f2py2e/

where you can find also information about f2py features and its User's
Guide.

f2py is released under the LGPL license.

With regards,
     Pearu Peterson <pearu@ioc.ee>

<P><A HREF="http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/f2py2e/">f2py 1.116</A> - The
Fortran to Python Interface Generator.  (25-Jan-2000)

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From bwarsaw@python.org (Barry Warsaw)  Thu Jan 27 03:23:16 2000
From: bwarsaw@python.org (Barry Warsaw) (Barry Warsaw)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 00 03:23:16 GMT
Subject: JPython 1.1 final
Message-ID: <mt2.0-7325-948943396@news.informatik.uni-bonn.de>

Greetings from the Python conference!

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

Below is a summary of recent changes.  See

    http://www.jpython.org/NEWS

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

    http://www.jpython.org/

Enjoy,
-Barry

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

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

21-Jan-2000 JPython 1.1 release candidate 1 released

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

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

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

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