From stevech1097 at yahoo.com.au  Thu Sep  1 02:15:58 2005
From: stevech1097 at yahoo.com.au (Steve Chaplin)
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:15:58 +0800
Subject: ANN: pycairo release 1.0.0 now available
Message-ID: <1125533758.2336.12.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Pycairo is a set of Python bindings for the multi-platform 2D graphics
library cairo.
	http://cairographics.org
	http://cairographics.org/pycairo
	
A new pycairo release 1.0.0 is now available from:
	
	http://cairographics.org/releases/pycairo-1.0.0.tar.gz
	http://cairographics.org/releases/pycairo-1.0.0.tar.gz.md5
	e08bfeeed97414bec4e060dd5c16a396  pycairo-1.0.0.tar.gz
	
Overview of changes from pycairo 0.9.0 to pycairo 1.0.0
=======================================================
General changes:
Pycairo has been updated to work with cairo 1.0.0.

New cairo functions supported:
    cairo.cairo_version()
    cairo.cairo_version_string()
    PSSurface.set_dpi()

Patterns are now implemented in a class hierarchy, the new constructors
are:
    cairo.SolidPattern (r, g, b, a=1.0)
    cairo.SurfacePattern (surface)
    cairo.LinearGradient (x0, y0, x1, y1)
    cairo.RadialGradient (cx0, cy0, radius0, cx1, cy1, radius1)

Updated functions:
    Surface.write_to_png() now accepts a file object as well as a     
    filename

Updated examples:
    The gtk examples now work with pygtk >= 2.7.0 without requiring the
    cairo.gtk module

Bug Fixes
    fix "initializer element is not constant" compiler warnings


Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com 

From nnorwitz at gmail.com  Thu Sep  1 07:08:05 2005
From: nnorwitz at gmail.com (Neal Norwitz)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:08:05 -0700
Subject: PyChecker lives, version 0.8.15 released
Message-ID: <ee2a432c05083122081c934e30@mail.gmail.com>

Special thanks to Ken Pronovici.  He did a lot of work for this
release and helped ensure it occurred.

Version 0.8.15 of PyChecker is available.  It's been over a year since
the last release.  Wow, time really does fly.  Since it's been so long
I'm sure I screwed something up, treat it delicately.  It may have bugs
and erase your hard drive.  If that happens, look on the bright side, 
you won't have any more bugs. :-)

        PyChecker is a tool for finding bugs in Python source code.
        It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less
        dynamic languages, like C and C++.  It is similar to lint.

Comments, criticisms, new ideas, and other feedback is welcome.

Since I expect there may be a bit more bugs than normal, I will try to
put out another release in a few weeks.  Please file bug reports
including problems with installation, false positives, &c on Source Forge.
You are welcome to use the mailling list to discuss anything pychecker 
related, including ideas for new checks.

Changes from 0.8.14 to 0.8.15:

  * Fix spurious warning about catching string exceptions
  * Don't barf if there is # -*- encoding: ... -*- lines and unicode strings
  * setup.py was rewritten to honor --root, --home, etc options
  * Fix internal error on processing nested scopes
  * Fix constant tuples in Python 2.4
  * Don't warn about implicit/explicit returns in Python 2.4, we can't tell
  * Fix crash when __slots__ was an instance w/o __len__
  * Fix bug that declared {}.pop to only take one argument, it takes 1 or 2
  * Fix spurious warning when using tuples for exceptions
  * Fix spurious warning <stack> / <stack> 
  * Fix spurious warnings for sets module about __cmp__, __hash__
  * Changed abstract check to require raising NotImplementedError
    rather than raising any error
  * Fix spurious warnings in Python 2.4 for Using is (not) None warnings
  * Fix spurious warnings for some instances of No class attribute found
  * Fix spurious warnings for implicit returns when using nested functions

PyChecker is available on Source Forge:
    Web page:           http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/
    Project page:       http://sourceforge.net/projects/pychecker/
    Mailing List:       pychecker-list at lists.sourceforge.net

Neal
--
pychecker-list at lists.sourceforge.net

From vladimir.sukhoy at gmail.com  Thu Sep  1 07:24:38 2005
From: vladimir.sukhoy at gmail.com (Vladimir Sukhoy)
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:24:38 -0500
Subject: Python Asynchronous I/O library (pyasynchio) [currently win-only]
Message-ID: <370966e205083122241b73fb91@mail.gmail.com>

This Python library is created to support asynchronous I/O
(Input/Output) operations. Unlike most platform-independent asynch I/O
libraries, pyasynchio is simple. You do not have to know much about
programming and anything about AIO in particular to use pyasynchio.
Unlike, for example, famous asyncore library, pyasynchio does not
require you to use some object-oriented approaches, implement certain
interfaces or do anything similar. However you should understand what
file or socket is, because currently pyasynchio provides I/O only for
files and sockets.

See 
http://pyasynchio.berlios.de/pyasynchio-about.htm 
for more details.

-- 
Sincerely,
Vladimir Sukhoy

From jdahlin at async.com.br  Thu Sep  1 17:20:47 2005
From: jdahlin at async.com.br (Johan Dahlin)
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:20:47 -0300
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Kiwi 1.9.1
Message-ID: <43171C4F.2000800@async.com.br>


Kiwi is a PyGTK framework for building graphical applications loosely
based on MVC Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Allen Holub's Visual proxy
[1]. Think of Kiwi as a high-level, object-oriented layer built on
PyGTK.

Its design is based on real-world experience using PyGTK to develop
large desktop applications, which use many concepts common to most
graphical applications: multiple windows and dialogs, forms, data
persistence, lists and high-level classes that support domain objects
directly.

Features
========

* An MVC-derived framework of classes:
   * Views, which represent the graphical display
   * Controllers, which handles user interaction with the widgets in a View.
   * Delegates, combines a View and a Controller.
   * Models, which are special mixins for your domain objects
   * Proxies, special types of Delegate designed to implement forms

* Validation: Kiwi supports validation on different levels:
   data type validation and verification on the Model/Proxy level,
   View validation and hooks for displaying state user interface, and
   Widget (Gtk/PyGTK) level support to provide user feedback of failed and
   mandatory validation status.

* A List widget, which provides a higher level abstraction of GtkTreeView
   and all its classes (GtkTreeModel, GtkTreeViewColumn, GtkCellRenderer).
   with hooks to easily integrate into the Kiwi Framework.

* Gazpacho integration for most (non-deprecated) interactive widgets with
   attributes for handling validation and proxy attributes.

* PyGTK utilities, to make it easier to add signals and properties to
   your objects.

* i18n translation utilities, to help you translate PyGTK applications,
   currently depends on gettext and intltool.

Kiwi is based on the real-world experience of using PyGTK to develop fairly
large applications, which uses many concepts common to most graphical
applications: multiple windows and dialogs, forms, data persistence, lists
and high-level classes that support domain objects directly.

Requirements
============

Python 2.3 or higher             http://www.python.org/
PyGTK 2.6.0 or higher            http://www.pygtk.org/
gazpacho 0.6.1 (svn recommenced) http://gazpacho.sicem.biz/

Documentation
=============
The current documentation, (eg howto, api reference) are currently
not updated to 1.9.x, they're still using the old API, so keep this in mind
when you're looking for information.
However, most ideas (Proxy, Views, Delegates) still apply to 1.9.x, it's
just that the API has changed a little bit, so the current, somewhat
outdated documentation is still useful.

Included in the tarball are also a number of examples, which serves as a
good starting point. Keep in mind that most of them require gazpacho to be
installed.


Thanks
======
Christian Robottom Reis: Original author and design
Lorenzo Gil Sanchez: PyGTK 2.x port
Gustavo Rahal: Validation and Widget support, Wizard.

Also thanks to the following people which has contributed minor features
or bug reports:
Henrique Romano, Daniel Saran R. da Cunha, Evandro Vale Miquelito,
Gustavo Carneiro, Sidnei da Silva

Resources
=========

homepage     http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/
download     http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/download/
repository   http://svn.async.com.br/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/kiwi/
report a bug http://bugs.async.com.br/enter_bug.cgi?product=Kiwi
open bugs    http://tinyurl.com/cyrms
mail. list   http://www.async.com.br/mailman/listinfo/kiwi/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller
[2] http://tinyurl.com/2ccch

-- 
Johan Dahlin <jdahlin at async.com.br>
Async Open Source



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From newsgroups at jensdiemer.de  Thu Sep  1 20:35:40 2005
From: newsgroups at jensdiemer.de (jens)
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:35:40 +0200
Subject: [ANN] PyLucid v0.3.3 released (CMS in pure Python CGI)
Message-ID: <431749c9$1_2@news.isis.de>


Changes in v0.3.3:

NEW: PyLucid automatically switch poormans_modrewrite on/off dependent 
on user agent. Better for search engines.
Note: There are changes in config.py!

Bugfixes:
1274352  	index.py check_request(): HTTP_SERVER -> HTTP_HOST
1274329 	wrong br-Tag in SourceCode.py
1274053 	No internal pages editing possible
1274017 	Modul SourceCode spaces between lines
1274014 	RSS-Modul Traceback Error
1274012 	RSS-Modul font size topic
1273980 	SourceCode.py too much spaces...
1273954 	HTML-Bug in RSS.py
1273863 	error in "edit page" -> "abort"
1273854 	can't "edit internal page" :(


What?

PyLucid is a lightweight, OpenSource ( GPL ) content management system (
CMS ) written in pure Python CGI. Nearly all output can be customized.
No shell account is needed. To run PyLucid you need a standard Webserver
with Python (at least v2.2.1) CGI and MySQL ( mySQLdb ).


Information under: http://www.pylucid.org/

Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pylucid/


Jens Diemer

From tim at zope.com  Fri Sep  2 00:09:28 2005
From: tim at zope.com (Tim Peters)
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:09:28 -0400
Subject: ZODB 3.5 final released
Message-ID: <20050901220929.42D0F3B8016@smtp.zope.com>

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.5 final.  This corresponds to
the ZODB that will ship in Zope 3.1.  You can download a source tarball or
Windows installer from:

    http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.5

Note that there are two Windows installers, for Python 2.3 (2.3.5 is
recommended) and Python 2.4 (2.4.1 is recommended).

ZODB 3.5 is very close to ZODB 3.4.1 in features.  Subtransactions are
deprecated in 3.5 (in favor of savepoints), and 3.5 adds a simple
multi-database feature (a way to group multiple databases into a collection,
such that a connection to any database in the collection can be used to
obtain connections to the other databases in the collection).  See the NEWS
file for details:

    http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.5/NEWS.html

It's traditional to give a long list of ZODB releases and their
corresponding Zope releases at this point.  To save time, henceforth I'm
going to point to ZODB's "current status" page instead:

    http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/CurrentStatus


From garabik-news-2005-05 at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk  Fri Sep  2 14:02:58 2005
From: garabik-news-2005-05 at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk (garabik-news-2005-05@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:02:58 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: ANN: unicode 0.4.8
Message-ID: <df9f1i$27p0$1@ns.felk.cvut.cz>

 
unicode is a simple python command line utility that displays
properties for a given unicode character, or searches
unicode database for a given name.
 
It was written with Linux in mind, but should work almost everywhere
(including MS Windows and MacOSX), UTF-8 console is recommended.

Changes since previous versions:

* catch an exception if locale.nl_langinfo is not present (thanks to
  Michael Weir). As a result, it works with ActiveState Python on MS
  Windows
* default to no colour if the system in MS Windows
* put back accidentally disabled left-to-right mark - as a
  result, tabular display of arabic, hebrew and other RTL scripts
  is much better (the bug manifested itself only on powerful i18n 
  terminals, such as mlterm)
                          
Author:
Radovan Garab?k 

URL:
http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/unicode/

License:
GPL

-- 
 -----------------------------------------------------------
| Radovan Garab?k http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/ |
| __..--^^^--..__    garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk     |
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From johan at gnome.org  Fri Sep  2 16:47:34 2005
From: johan at gnome.org (Johan Dahlin)
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:47:34 -0300
Subject: ANNOUNCE: PyGTK 2.8.0
Message-ID: <43186606.7060204@gnome.org>

  I am pleased to announce version 2.8.0 of the Python bindings for GTK.

The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors
as soon as its synced correctly:

     http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.8/pygtk-2.8.0.tar.gz

Major changes:

    Improved GObject/Python Integration
    Properties as Object Attributes
    Container iteration interface
    GIOChannel, GSource wrappers
    Cairo support

   For a complete list, see the wiki page:

     http://live.gnome.org/PyGTK/WhatsNew28

Thanks to (this release would not have been possible without you!):

   Christopher Aillon, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro, Steve Chaplin
   John Ehresman, Tim Evans, I?aki Garc?a Etxebarria, John Finlay
   Cedric Gustin, James Henstridge, Edward Hervey, Stepan Kasal
   Christian Kirbach, Tuure Laurinolli, Mark McLoughlin
   Yevgen Muntyan, Benjamin Otte, Christian Persch, Manish Singh
   Gian Mario Tagliaretti, Andy Wingo, Fernando San Martin Woerner

What's new since 2.7.4:
     - GObject metaclass bugfix (John Ehresman)
     - Double free fix in type_register (Gustavo)
     - Make it buildable srcdir != buildir (Johan)
     - Improve GdkRectangle conversion (Tim Evans, Gustavo)
     - Use automake 1.8 (Johan)

Blurb:

GTK is a toolkit for developing graphical applications that run on POSIX
systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS X (provided that the X server
for MacOS X has been installed).  It provides a comprehensive set of GUI
widgets, can display Unicode bidi text.  It links into the Gnome
Accessibility Framework through the ATK library.

PyGTK provides a convenient wrapper for the GTK+ library for use in
Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as
managing memory and type casting.  When combined with PyORBit and
gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications.

Like the GTK+ library itself PyGTK is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is
suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications.  It
is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose
scripts up to large full features applications.

PyGTK requires GTK+ >= 2.8.0 and Python >= 2.3 to build.

Bug reports, as always, should go to Bugzilla; check out
http://pygtk.org/developer.html and http://pygtk.org/feedback.html for
links
to posting and querying bug reports for PyGTK.

-- 
Johan Dahlin
johan at gnome.org

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From phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk  Sun Sep  4 15:42:42 2005
From: phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk (Phil Thompson)
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:42:42 +0100
Subject: ANN: SIP v4.3 Released
Message-ID: <200509041442.42147.phil@riverbankcomputing.co.uk>

Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of SIP v4.3 available 
from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/.

SIP is a tool for generating Python modules that wrap C or C++ libraries.  It 
is similar to SWIG.  It is used to generate PyQt and PyKDE.  Full 
documentation is available at 
http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/docs/sip/sipref.html.

SIP is licensed under the Python License and runs on Windows, UNIX, Linux and 
MacOS/X.  SIP requires Python v2.3 or later (SIP v3.x is available to support 
earlier versions of Python).

This release includes the following changes:

- Python's cyclic garbage collector is fully supported
- support for mapping between Python and C++ exceptions
- support for __pos__ and __abs__
- the support for accessing C structure members has been greatly improved
- C structures can have constructors and destructors defined so that they can
  be made to behave more Pythonically.

Other features of SIP include:

- support for Python new-style classes
- generated modules are quick to import, even for large libraries
- support for Qt's signal/slot mechanism
- thread support
- the ability to re-implement C++ abstract and virtual methods in Python
- the ability to define Python classes that derive from abstract C++ classes
- the ability to spread a class hierarchy across multiple Python modules
- support for C++ namespaces
- support for C++ exceptions
- support for C++ operators
- an extensible build system written in Python that supports over 50
  platform/compiler combinations.

From phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk  Sun Sep  4 15:59:10 2005
From: phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk (Phil Thompson)
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:59:10 +0100
Subject: ANN: PyQt v3.15 Released
Message-ID: <200509041459.10879.phil@riverbankcomputing.co.uk>

Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of PyQt v3.14 available
from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/.

Changes since the last release include:

- improved integration between Qt's ActiveQt framework and Python's win32com
  modules
- support for QScintilla v1.6
- support for Python's cyclic garbage collector.

PyQt is a comprehensive set of Qt bindings for the Python programming language 
and supports the same platforms as Qt.  Like Qt, PyQt is available under the 
GPL (for UNIX, Linux and MacOS/X), a commercial license (for Windows, UNIX, 
Linux and MacOS/X) and a free educational license (for Windows).

PyQt is implemented as a set of 9 extension modules containing 300 classes and 
over 5,750 functions and methods.

PyQt also includes bindings to QScintilla, the port to Qt of the Scintilla 
editor component.

PyQt can be used either as a rapid prototyping tool, or as an alternative to 
C++ for developing large Qt applications.

PyQt includes the pyuic utility which generates Python code to implement user 
interfaces created with Qt Designer in the same way that the uic utility 
generates C++ code.

Third party tools are also available - such as eric3, a comprehensive IDE 
(including an editor, debugger, class browser, integration with Qt Designer, 
re-factoring tools, unit testing tools and integration with source code 
control systems).  eric3 is written entirely using PyQt and is available from 
http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html.

From guido at infrae.com  Mon Sep  5 12:35:58 2005
From: guido at infrae.com (Guido Wesdorp)
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:35:58 +0200
Subject: Templess - another XML templating system for Python
Message-ID: <431C1F8E.9040407@infrae.com>

Hello!

I've just released Templess 0.1.

Templess is an XML templating library for Python, that is very compact
and simple, fast, and has a strict seperation of logic and design. It
is different from other templating languages because instead of 'asking'
for data from the template, you 'tell' the template what content there
is to render, and the template just provides placeholders. Instead of
calling into your code from the template, all data for the template is
prepared in the code before it is handed over to the templating engine
to render. This  makes Templess very suitable for programmers, since
everything is done from the Python code layer rather than using some
domain-specific language from the XML.

Version 0.1 is feature complete, and can be downloaded from:

http://debris.demon.nl/templess_package

Project pages (Trac) can be found here:

http://debris.demon.nl:8080/cgi-bin/templess.cgi

Templess is released under terms of a BSD-style license. It depends on
the very cool 'lxml' package for XML parsing and generation
(http://codespeak.net/lxml) and the even cooler py.test package from
'the py lib' (http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/).

Cheers,

Guido Wesdorp


From python-url at phaseit.net  Mon Sep  5 16:06:00 2005
From: python-url at phaseit.net (Diez B. Roggisch)
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:06:00 +0000
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep  5)
Message-ID: <E1ECHbk-0004tI-H0@lairds.us>

QOTW:  "You can lead an idiot to idioms, but you can't make him
think ;-)" -- Steve Holden 

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson (used by Tim Churches, and also found in
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html)


    PyPy has come a long way - and made great progress with release 0.7:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/5f12849e4c28fc6c 

    Processing large XML files can be tedious, especially when using DOM.
    Jog shows ways to do so, and ElementTree is as usual amongst the best,
    both api- and performance-wise:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b1b259c448a867e9

    Date processing is often way more difficult than one thinks - in
    languages that don't have a rich date api like python,  that is:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/9d125ca55b83b17a

    Not exactly new, these new-style classes. But you can always find nifty
    details you didn't know about:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/3fa6468b47d5334c/8118bfd6cf266c13#8118bfd6cf266c13

    Congratulations to SpamBayes contributors on the announcement that
    *Personal Computer World* awarded that project its "Editors' Choice"
    award, besting competitors including products from Symantec, McAfee,
    and so on:
        http://pcw.co.uk

    There is always room for new syntax proposals, like a "isa" keyword to
    sugar isinstance - and while it's unlikely to become part of the
    language, discussing it produces nice insights:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/36b504905a36155d

    Often requested, but never realized: a yield to yield them all.
    Apparently this won't change soon, but yield itself is going to become
    an expression: 
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/d66f346c98b8eac6

    Using struct to marshal C-structures is easy - dealing with pointers
    in them, too:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/13eb61975154a25d


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

    Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional
    center of Pythonia
        http://www.python.org
    Notice especially the master FAQ
        http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

    PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the
    marvelous daily python url
         http://www.pythonware.com/daily  
    Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
    World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
         http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html 
    While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
    are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
    their results.

    For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
    absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
    much of the universe of Pybloggers.
	http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog
        http://www.planetpython.org/
        http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html

    comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software.  Be
    sure to scan this newsgroup weekly.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

    Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
    tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
    Cannon of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing
    list once every other week.
	http://www.python.org/dev/summary/

    The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
        http://www.python.org/pypi/

    The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references
    to all sorts of Python resources.
        http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

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

    Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line
    match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're
    subject with a vision of what the language makes practical.
        http://www.pythonology.com/success

    The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python
    Consortium as an independent nexus of activity.  It has official
    responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. 
        http://www.python.org/psf/
    Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.
        http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

    Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches.
        http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch
       
    Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
    interesting recipes.
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

    Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are
	http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
	http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
	http://python.de/backend.php
    For more, see
	http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
    The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
    SourceForge reincarnation.
        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
        http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
     
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    editor at pythonjournal.com and editor at pythonjournal.cognizor.com
    welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
    of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

    del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/python

    *Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
        http://www.pyzine.com

    Archive probing tricks of the trade:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

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or
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From ludal at logilab.fr  Mon Sep  5 17:00:30 2005
From: ludal at logilab.fr (Ludovic Aubry)
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:00:30 +0200
Subject: ANN: PyPy Sprint in Paris October 10th to 16th
Message-ID: <1125932431.6101.10.camel@octans.logilab.fr>

Here is the official sprint announcement
You can also find it here :
http://codespeak.net/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/paris-2005-sprint.html


PyPy Sprint in Paris 10th - 16th October 2005 
==========================================================

The next PyPy sprint will take place in Paris at Logilab's office
in France from the 10th to the 16th of October 2005 
(both days fully included). 

To learn more about the new PyPy Python implementation look here: 

    http://codespeak.net/pypy 


Goals and topics of the sprint 
------------------------------

Now that pypy-0.7.0_ has been released, it is time for refactoring and
planning
of the next features.

For these reasons the currently scheduled  main topics of this 
sprint will be: 

 - threading and GC
 - refactoring and translation features
 - discussing/experimenting towards JIT_ and `continuation-passing`_
   style translation 

Moreover, we are open to work in other areas that participants are
interested in.  Please raise topics on the mailinglist_. 

Location & Accomodation  
------------------------ 

The sprint will be held in Logilab's offices in Paris. The exact address
is::

  10 rue Louis Vicat
  75015 Paris

We'll provide WLAN connection and there is a small kitchen to make tea
and coffee.  `See here`_ for a map of the area nearby.

There are two metro lines and three bus lines that stop close to
Logilab's:

 - Metro line 12 : stop "Porte de Versailles"
 - Metro line 13 : stop "Malakoff plateau de Vanves"
 - Bus 89 or 58 : stop "Carrefour Albert Legris"
 - Bus PC1 : stop "Porte de la Plaine"

Those are more or less within 5 minutes walk.

There is a huge number of hotels_ in Paris, all of which are
unfortunately rather expensive. Here is another site for `hotels en
France`_.

It should be no problem to reach the sprint venue from anywhere in
Paris using public transportation. However it would be better to find
accomodation in the southern districts (14th, 15th) or in the nearby
towns (Malakoff, Vanves) not far from Paris. Another good choice is to
find an hotel near one of the metro line above. (avoid long bus trips
as it takes more time.)

Looking at the map here: hotels_, the area you should look at is
between (3) and (6), (5) is still ok.

As an alternative you could also try to group (4 or 5 people) and try
to rent a furnished appartment for the week. Almost all announces from
French websites come from `Lodgis agency`_. They are rather expensive
but most of the time it can be cheaper than hotels. For the more
adventurous you can look on the french site pap_ which lists rental
ads. (select appartements, d??partement=75, arrondissements=15,14,13)

For transportation we strongly recommend the public transportation
(metro and buses).  There are weekly tickets (monday to sunday) from
15.70 euros (Zone 1-2). You need a picture (ID format) and ask for a
*Carte Orange*.

Don't get the tourist's cards which are more expensive and valid only
for 5 days.  Also note that zone 1-2 won't pay for your ticket from
the airport and is valid only (mostly) inside Paris. If you arrive by
plane this will be most probably at Roissy airport and from there you
can take the RER line B to Paris for about 8 euros.

.. _`See here`: http://www.logilab.com/contact
.. _hotels: http://www.hotel-paris.net/index-hotels-English.htm
.. _`hotels en France`: http://www.0800paris-hotels.com/
.. _pap: http://www.pap.fr/immobilier/offres/offre-location-vacances.asp
.. _`Lodgis agency`: http://www.lodgis.com/ 

Exact times 
-----------

The PyPy sprint is held Monday 10th October - Sunday 16th October
2005.  Hours will be from 09:00 until 20:00. It's a good idea to
arrive a day before the sprint starts and leave a day later.  
In the middle of the sprint there usually is a break day 
and it's usually ok to take half-days off if you feel like it. 

Network, Food
------------- 

There are plenty of restaurants and sandwich places around and a big
supermarket
for those who would rather make their own food.

You will probably need a wireless network card to access the network but
we can
provide ethernet cables for those who don't have one.


Registration etc. 
----------------- 

Please subscribe to the `PyPy sprint mailing list`_, introduce
yourself and post a note that you want to come.  

Feel free to ask any questions there!  There also is a separate  
`Paris people`_ page tracking who is already thought
to come.  If you have commit rights on codespeak then
you can modify yourself a checkout of 


http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/paris-2005-people.txt 

.. _`Paris people`:
http://codespeak.net/pypy/index.cgi?extradoc/sprintinfo/paris-people.html 
.. _`mailinglist`: 
.. _`PyPy sprint mailing list`:
http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-sprint
.. _`pypy-0.7.0`:
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/release-0.7.0.html
.. _JIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation
.. _`continuation-passing`:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_passing_style


From theller at python.net  Mon Sep  5 21:55:41 2005
From: theller at python.net (Thomas Heller)
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:55:41 +0200
Subject: py2exe 0.6.1 released
Message-ID: <1x43uw5e.fsf@python.net>


py2exe 0.6.1 released
=====================

py2exe is a Python distutils extension which converts python scripts
into executable windows programs, able to run without requiring a
python installation.  Console and Windows (GUI) applications, windows
NT services, exe and dll COM servers are supported.

Changes in this release:

    * py2exe can now bundle binary extensions and dlls into the
      library-archive or the executable itself.  This allows to
      finally build real single-file executables.

      The bundled dlls and pyds are loaded at runtime by some special
      code that emulates the Windows LoadLibrary function - they are
      never unpacked to the file system.

      This part of the code is distributed under the MPL 1.1, so this
      license is now pulled in by py2exe.
      
    * By default py2exe now includes the codecs module and the
      encodings package.
      
    * Several other fixes.

Homepage:

    <http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe>

Download from the usual location:

    <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15583>

Enjoy,

Thomas


From t.koutsovassilis at gmail.com  Mon Sep  5 23:05:02 2005
From: t.koutsovassilis at gmail.com (t.koutsovassilis@gmail.com)
Date: 5 Sep 2005 14:05:02 -0700
Subject: ANN: FileTrack v0.1-beta1 released
Message-ID: <1125954302.570220.29750@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

FileTrack is the first application based on Porcupine Web application
server and QuiX. It is a web enabled communication log, keeping track
of all your inbound and outbound documents.
It supports multiple logs, auto-archiving of older entries and
generates simple reports based on multiple criteria. One or more log
entries, contacts or documents can be grouped together into an issue,
for easier monitoring.

See http://www.innoscript.org/content/view/31/2/


From johan at gnome.org  Tue Sep  6 15:13:51 2005
From: johan at gnome.org (Johan Dahlin)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:13:51 -0300
Subject: ANNOUNCE: PyGTK 2.6.3
Message-ID: <431D960F.1040403@gnome.org>

I am pleased to announce version 2.6.3 of the Python bindings for GTK.

The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors
as soon as its synced correctly:

     http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.6/pygtk-2.6.3.tar.gz

Changes since 2.6.2:
	- gtk.TreeView.map_extended_row refcount fix (Tim Evans, Gustavo)
         - win32 build fix (Cedric Gustin)
         - Allow fundamental types to be registered (Edward Hervey)

Blurb:

GTK is a toolkit for developing graphical applications that run on POSIX
systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS X (provided that the X server
for MacOS X has been installed).  It provides a comprehensive set of GUI
widgets, can display Unicode bidi text.  It links into the Gnome
Accessibility Framework through the ATK library.

PyGTK provides a convenient wrapper for the GTK+ library for use in
Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as
managing memory and type casting.  When combined with PyORBit and
gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications.

Like the GTK+ library itself PyGTK is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is
suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications.  It
is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose
scripts up to large full features applications.

PyGTK requires GTK+ >= 2.6 and Python >= 2.3 to build.

Bug reports, as always, should go to Bugzilla; check out
http://pygtk.org/developer.html and http://pygtk.org/feedback.html for
links
to posting and querying bug reports for PyGTK.

-- 
Johan Dahlin
johan at gnome.org



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From aahz at pythoncraft.com  Wed Sep  7 15:54:37 2005
From: aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz)
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 06:54:37 -0700
Subject: BayPIGgies: DATE CHANGE September 15, 7:30pm (Google)
Message-ID: <20050907135437.GA29300@panix.com>

DATE CHANGE:

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs, September 15 at 7:30pm at
Google.  We still don't have a room at Google; Paul Marxhausen has
accepted the task of pinging people, but we may need to switch to
Ironport if we don't get a room by Tuesday.

Agenda has not been finalized -- we've got several topics and are
juggling them.  Stay tuned!

BayPIGgies meetings alternate between IronPort (San Bruno, California)
and Google (Mountain View, California).  For more information and
directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/


Before the meeting, we plan to meet at 6pm for dinner.  Discussion of
dinner plans is handled on the BayPIGgies mailing list.  

Advance notice: The October 13 meeting agenda has been set.  Please
send e-mail to baypiggies at baypiggies.net if you want to suggest an agenda
(or volunteer to give a presentation).  We've got some options on the
plate for November but haven't settled anything yet.
-- 
Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

The way to build large Python applications is to componentize and
loosely-couple the hell out of everything.

From fabioz at esss.com.br  Tue Sep  6 19:14:43 2005
From: fabioz at esss.com.br (Fabio Zadrozny)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:14:43 -0300
Subject: ANN: PyDev 0.9.8.1 released
In-Reply-To: <431341E3.6020103@esss.com.br>
References: <42A720BD.5050701@esss.com.br> <42C175A5.5000206@esss.com.br>
	<42E6412A.4020905@esss.com.br> <430632E3.9050403@esss.com.br>
	<431341E3.6020103@esss.com.br>
Message-ID: <431DCE83.1010702@esss.com.br>

Hi All,

PyDev - Python IDE (Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse) version 
0.9.8.1 has been released.

Check the homepage (http://pydev.sourceforge.net/) for more details.

Details for Release: 0.9.8.1

Major highlights:
-------------------

    * Java 1.4 support reintroduced.
    * Styles added for syntax highlighting (bold and italic), 
contributed by Gerhard Kalab.


Others that are new and noteworthy:
-------------------------------------

    * zombie process after exiting eclipse should not happen anymore
    * paths with '.' are accepted for the pythonpath (unless they start 
with a '.', because it may not accept relative paths).
    * relative imports are added to code-completion
    * local imports are taken into consideration when doing code completion
    * debugger has 'change support', so, changed variables in a scope 
appear red


Cheers,

Fabio

-- 
Fabio Zadrozny
------------------------------------------------------
Software Developer

ESSS - Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software
www.esss.com.br

PyDev - Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse
pydev.sf.net
pydev.blogspot.com



From csad7 at t-online.de  Tue Sep  6 22:32:42 2005
From: csad7 at t-online.de (Christof)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:32:42 +0200
Subject: ANN: retest 0.4
Message-ID: <431DFCEA.5000504@t-online.de>

what is it
----------
A simple Server which enables tests of Python regular expressions (re 
module) in a webbrowser. Uses SimpleHTTPServer and AJAX.

You need: Python, a modern webbrowser like Firefox, IE (from 5.5), 
Safari or Opera (from 8) which handles XMLHttpRequests.


license
-------
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.


download
--------
current version: retest-0.4.zip - 050906, from http://cthedot.de/retest/

Tested with Python 2.4.1, Firefox 1.06, Internet Explorer 6 and Opera 
8.02 on Windows XP only. Seems to work best with Firefox and Opera, any 
feedback (success or failure ;) is welcome.


usage
-----
Start the server with >python reserver.py and open 
http://localhost:8087/ in your webbrowser. You might want to adjust the 
PORT used in reserver.py.

The usage of the application itself should be self explanatory, take a 
look in the Python documentation for the re module.


any comment will be appreciated, thanks
christof hoeke



<P><A HREF="http://cthedot.de/retest/">retest 0.4</A> - test Python 
regular expressions in a webbrowser (06-Sep-05)



From smulloni at smullyan.org  Wed Sep  7 05:39:25 2005
From: smulloni at smullyan.org (Jacob Smullyan)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:39:25 -0500
Subject: ANN: PyDO-2.0b2 Released
Message-ID: <slrndhso7d.rqs.smulloni@bracknell.smullyan.org>

I'm pleased to announce the release of PyDO-2.0b2.

What's New
----------

* the project() method now takes the keyword argument "mutable", which 
  overrides the mutability of the base class.
* new, more declarativeshortcuts for defining associations between 
  tables: ForeignKey, OneToMany, and ManyToMany.
* several bugfixes, with corresponding tests.
  
What it is
----------

PyDO is Drew Csillag's ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) database access
library for Python that facilitates writing a Python database access
layer.  PyDO attempts to be simple, flexible, extensible, and
unconstraining. 

PyDO 2 is a rewrite of the 1.x series distributed with SkunkWeb.
It has several enhancements:

   * PyDO can now be used in multi-threaded or twisted-style
     asynchronous sitations, with or without a customizable connection
     pool.

   * PyDO objects are now dict subclasses, but also support attribute
     access to fields.

   * Projections -- subsets of the field list of a super-class -- are
     now supported by the PyDO.project() method.

   * Table attributes are now declared in a more concise way.

   * PyDO2 supports runtime table introspection.

   * Overall, the API has been tightened and the code restructured.

PyDO 2 requires Python 2.4 or later.  It currently supports
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sqlite, MSSQL, and Oracle, and support for other
databases is planned.

PyDO is dual GPL/BSD licensed.

The source tarball is available at SkunkWeb's berlios site:

   https://developer.berlios.de/projects/skunkweb/

or, more directly:

   http://download.berlios.de/skunkweb/PyDO-2.0b2.tar.gz

Questions pertaining to PyDO can be addressed to the SkunkWeb mailing
list at sourceforge:

   http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skunkweb-list

Cheers,

js




-- 
Jacob Smullyan

From darcy at PyGreSQL.org  Wed Sep  7 14:07:56 2005
From: darcy at PyGreSQL.org (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:07:56 -0400
Subject: PyGreSQL 3.7 released
Message-ID: <20050907080756.7a9df2bf.darcy@PyGreSQL.org>


Announce: Release of PyGreSQL version 3.7
===========================================

PyGreSQL v3.7 has been released.
It is available at: ftp://ftp.druid.net/pub/distrib/PyGreSQL-3.7.tgz.
If you are running NetBSD, look in the packages directory under
databases. There is also a package in the FreeBSD ports
collection.              

>From March 1 2001 the PyGreSQL development has moved into the PostgreSQL
development tree.  Starting with the 3.3 release it has been moved back
to a separate project.

PostgreSQL is a database system derived from Postgres4.2. It conforms
to (most of) ANSI SQL and offers many interesting capabilities (C
dynamic linking for functions or type definition, etc.). This package
is copyright by the Regents of the University of California, and is
freely distributable.

Python is an interpreted programming language. It is object oriented,
simple to use (light syntax, simple and straightforward statements), and
has many extensions for building GUIs, interfacing with WWW, etc.  An
intelligent web  browser (HotJava like) is currently under development
(November 1995), and this should open programmers many doors. Python is
copyrighted by Stichting S Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, and is freely distributable.

PyGreSQL is a python module that interfaces to a PostgreSQL database. It
embeds the PostgreSQL query library to allow easy use of the powerful
PostgreSQL features from a Python script.

PyGreSQL 2.0 was developed and tested on a NetBSD 1.3_BETA system.  It
is based on the PyGres95 code written by Pascal Andre,
andre at chimay.via.ecp.fr.  I changed the version to 2.0 and updated the
code for Python 1.5 and PostgreSQL 6.2.1.  While I was at it I upgraded
the code to use full ANSI style prototypes and changed the order of
arguments to connect.  Later versions are fixes and enhancements to
that. The latest version of PyGreSQL works with Python 1.5.2 and
PostgreSQL 7.0.x

Important changes from PyGreSQL 3.6.2 to PyGreSQL 3.7
  - Fixes to quoting function.
  - Use Python datetime if mxDatetime is not available.
  - Add checks for valid database connection to methods.
  - Improved namespace support, handle search_path correctly.
  - Removed old dust and unnessesary imports, added docstrings.
  - Internal sql statements as one-liners, smoothed out ugly code.
  - Major improvements in classic pg module.

Important changes from PyGreSQL 3.5 to PyGreSQL 3.6.2
  - Further fixes to namespace handling

Important changes from PyGreSQL 3.5 to PyGreSQL 3.6.1
  - Fix namespace handling

Important changes from PyGreSQL 3.5 to PyGreSQL 3.6
  - Better DB-API 2.0 compliance
  - Exception hierarchy moved into C module and made available to both
APIs
  - Fix error in update method that caused false exceptions
  - Moved to standard exception hierarchy in classic API
  - Added new method to get transaction state
  - Use proper Python constants where appropriate
  - Use Python versions of strtol, etc.  Allows WIN32 build
  - Bug fixes and cleanups

Important changes from PyGreSQL 3.4 to PyGreSQL 3.5
  - Add interval to list of data types
  - fix up method wrapping especially close()
  - retry pkeys once if table missing in case it was just added
  - wrap query method separately to handle debug better
  - use isinstance instead of type
  - fix free/PQfreemem issue - finally

Important changes from PyGreSQL 3.3 to PyGreSQL 3.4
  - Moved back out of PostgreSQL tree
  - Allow for larger integer returns
  - Return proper strings for true and false
  - Cleanup convenience method creation
  - Enhance debugging method
  - Add reopen method
  - Allow programs to preload field names for speedup
  - Move OID handling so that it returns long instead of int
  - Miscellaneous cleanups and formatting

Important changes from PyGreSQL 3.2 to PyGreSQL 3.3
  - Added NUMERICOID to list of returned types.  This fixes a bug when
    returning aggregates in the latest version of PostgreSQL.

Important changes from PyGreSQL 3.1 to PyGreSQL 3.2
  Note that there are very few changes to PostgreSQL between 3.1 and
  3.2.  The main reason for the release is the move into the PostgreSQL
  development tree.  Even the WIN32 changes are pretty minor.
  - Add WIN32 support (gerhard at bigfoot.de)
  - Fix some DB-API quoting problems (niall.smart at ebeon.com)
  - Moved development into PostgreSQL development tree.

Important changes from PyGreSQL 3.0 to PyGreSQL 3.1
  - Fix some quoting functions.  In particular handle NULLs better.
  - Use a method to add primary key information rather than direct
    manipulation of the class structures.
  - Break decimal out in _quote (in pg.py) and treat it as float.
  - Treat timestamp like date for quoting purposes.
  - Remove a redundant SELECT from the get method speeding it, and
insert since it calls get, up a little.
  - Add test for BOOL type in typecast method to pgdbTypeCache class.
    (tv at beamnet.de)
  - Fix pgdb.py to send port as integer to lower level function
    (dildog at l0pht.com)
  - Change pg.py to speed up some operations
  - Allow updates on tables with no primary keys.

Important changes from PyGreSQL 2.4 to PyGreSQL 3.0:
  - Remove strlen() call from pglarge_write() and get size from object.
    (Richard at Bouska.cz)
  - Add a little more error checking to the quote function in the
wrapper
  - Add extra checking in _quote function
  - Wrap query in pg.py for debugging
  - Add DB-API 2.0 support to pgmodule.c (andre at via.ecp.fr)
  - Add DB-API 2.0 wrapper pgdb.py (andre at via.ecp.fr)
  - Correct keyword clash (temp) in tutorial
  - Clean up layout of tutorial
  - Return NULL values as None (rlawrence at lastfoot.com) (WARNING: This
    will cause backwards compatibility issues.)
  - Change None to NULL in insert and update
  - Change hash-bang lines to use /usr/bin/env
  - Clearing date should be blank (NULL) not TODAY
  - Quote backslashes in strings in _quote (brian at CSUA.Berkeley.EDU)
  - Expanded and clarified build instructions
(tbryan at starship.python.net)
  - Make code thread safe (Jerome.Alet at unice.fr)
  - Add README.distutils (mwa at gate.net & jeremy at cnri.reston.va.us)
  - Many fixes and increased DB-API compliance by chifungfan at yahoo.com,
    tony at printra.net, jeremy at alum.mit.edu and others to get the final
    version ready to release.

Important changes from PyGreSQL 2.3 to PyGreSQL 2.4:
  - Insert returns None if the user doesn't have select permissions
    on the table.  It can (and does) happen that one has insert but
    not select permissions on a table.
  - Added ntuples() method to query object (brit at druid.net)
  - Corrected a bug related to getresult() and the money type
  - Corrected a bug related to negative money amounts
  - Allow update based on primary key if munged oid not available and
    table has a primary key
  - Add many __doc__ strings. (andre at via.ecp.fr)
  - Get method works with views if key specified

Important changes from PyGreSQL 2.2 to PyGreSQL 2.3:
  - connect.host returns "localhost" when connected to Unix socket
    (torppa at tuhnu.cutery.fi)
  - Use PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords in connect()
(torppa at tuhnu.cutery.fi)
  - fixes and cleanups (torppa at tuhnu.cutery.fi)
  - Fixed memory leak in dictresult() (terekhov at emc.com)
  - Deprecated pgext.py - functionality now in pg.py
  - More cleanups to the tutorial
  - Added fileno() method - terekhov at emc.com (Mikhail Terekhov)
  - added money type to quoting function
  - Compiles cleanly with more warnings turned on
  - Returns PostgreSQL error message on error
  - Init accepts keywords (Jarkko Torppa)
  - Convenience functions can be overridden (Jarkko Torppa)
  - added close() method

Important changes from PyGreSQL 2.1 to PyGreSQL 2.2:
  - Added user and password support thanks to Ng Pheng Siong
<ngps at post1.com>
  - Insert queries return the inserted oid
  - Add new pg wrapper (C module renamed to _pg)
  - Wrapped database connection in a class.
  - Cleaned up some of the tutorial.  (More work needed.)
  - Added version and __version__.  Thanks to thilo at eevolute.com for
    the suggestion.

Important changes from PyGreSQL 2.0 to PyGreSQL 2.1:
  - return fields as proper Python objects for field type
  - Cleaned up pgext.py
  - Added dictresult method

Important changes from Pygres95 1.0b to PyGreSQL 2.0:
  - Updated code for PostgreSQL 6.2.1 and Python 1.5.
  - Reformatted code and converted to ANSI .
  - Changed name to PyGreSQL (from PyGres95.)
  - Changed order of arguments to connect function.
  - Created new type pgqueryobject and moved certain methods to it.
  - Added a print function for pgqueryobject
  - Various code changes - mostly stylistic.

For more information about each package, please have a look to their
web pages:
  - Python :     http://www.python.org/
  - PostgreSQL : http://www.PostgreSQL.org/
  - PyGreSQL :   http://www.PyGreSQL.org/


D'Arcy J.M. Cain
darcy at PyGreSQL.org




-- 
D'Arcy J.M. Cain
PyGreSQL Development Group
http://www.PyGreSQL.org

From theller at python.net  Wed Sep  7 17:55:28 2005
From: theller at python.net (Thomas Heller)
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:55:28 +0200
Subject: py2exe 0.6.2 released
Message-ID: <hdcwrhxr.fsf@python.net>

This is a bugfix release for py2exe 0.6.1.

py2exe 0.6.2 released
=====================

py2exe is a Python distutils extension which converts python scripts
into executable windows programs, able to run without requiring a
python installation.  Console and Windows (GUI) applications, windows
NT services, exe and dll COM servers are supported.

Changes in 0.6.2:

    * Several important bugfixes:

      - bundled extensions in packages did not work correctly, this
        made the wxPython single-file sample fail with newer wxPython
        versions.

      - occasionally dlls/pyds were loaded twice, with very strange
        effects.

      - the source distribution was not complete.

      - it is now possible to build a debug version of py2exe.

Changes in 0.6.1:

    * py2exe can now bundle binary extensions and dlls into the
      library-archive or the executable itself.  This allows to
      finally build real single-file executables.

      The bundled dlls and pyds are loaded at runtime by some special
      code that emulates the Windows LoadLibrary function - they are
      never unpacked to the file system.

      This part of the code is distributed under the MPL 1.1, so this
      license is now pulled in by py2exe.
      
    * By default py2exe now includes the codecs module and the
      encodings package.
      
    * Several other fixes.

Homepage:

    <http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe>

Download from the usual location:

    <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15583>

Enjoy,

Thomas


From python at openlight.com  Thu Sep  8 02:08:02 2005
From: python at openlight.com (George Belotsky)
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:08:02 -0400
Subject: Flightdeck-UI -- the Online Version
Message-ID: <20050908000802.GA16043@localhost>


The Flightdeck-UI project now has a web-based version, Flightdeck-UI
Online.  See "http://www.openlight.com" for a live demo.

What is Flightdeck-UI
---------------------

The goal of the Flightdeck-UI project is to apply ideas from aircraft
instrumentation design to general purpose user interfaces.

The new web service has a plug-in architecture, and can simultaneously
monitor multiple data sources (including hosts on the Internet as well
as embedded devices) at different sampling rates.  Also, virtually any
Unix command that you enter from the shell can be automatically
executed by Flightdeck-UI Online, and the results displayed by the
system's virtual instruments.

Although the web service requires a Flash front end (developed using
only the MTASC open source ActionScript compiler; see
http://www.mtasc.org/) Flightdeck-UI Online is still primarily written
in Python.

The author welcomes any ideas and suggestions: please email them directly
to "python at openlight.com"

Best Wishes,


George Belotsky.





From fuzzyman at gmail.com  Thu Sep  8 17:14:24 2005
From: fuzzyman at gmail.com (Fuzzyman)
Date: 8 Sep 2005 08:14:24 -0700
Subject: ANN: ConfigObj 4.0.0 Beta 4
Message-ID: <1126192464.573300.211870@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Hello Pythoneers,

ConfigObj 4.0.0 has a beta 4 release. This fixes a couple of moderately
serious bugs - so it's worth switching to.

http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/ConfigObj
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/downman.py?file=configobj-4.0.0b4.zip
http://sf.net/projects/configobj

What's New ?
============

(Since Beta 2 the last announced version)

    2005/09/07
    ----------

    Fixed bug in initialising ConfigObj from a ConfigObj.

    Changed the mailing list address.

    2005/09/03
    ----------

    Fixed bug in ``Section__delitem__`` oops.

    2005/08/28
    ----------

    Interpolation is switched off before writing out files.

    Fixed bug in handling ``StringIO`` instances. (Thanks to report
from
    "Gustavo Niemeyer" <gustavo at niemeyer.net>)

    Moved the doctests from the ``__init__`` method to a separate
function.
    (For the sake of IDE calltips).

    Beta 3

    2005/08/26
    ----------

    String values unchanged by validation *aren't* reset. This
preserves
    interpolation in string values.


What is ConfigObj ?
===================

ConfigObj is a simple but powerful config file reader and writer: an
ini file round tripper. Its main feature is that it is very easy to
use, with a straightforward programmer's interface and a simple syntax
for config files. It has lots of other features though :

    * Nested sections (subsections), to any level
    * List values
    * Multiple line values
    * String interpolation (substitution)
    * Integrated with a powerful validation system

              o including automatic type checking/conversion
              o allowing default values
              o repeated sections

    * All comments in the file are preserved
    * The order of keys/sections is preserved
    * No external dependencies

ConfigObj is available under the very liberal BSD License.

It addresses *most* of the limitations of ConfigParser as discussed at
: http://wiki.python.org/moin/ConfigParserShootout

Anything Else ?
===============

ConfigObj stores nested sections which map names to members
(effectively dictionaries) with values as lists *or* single items. In
association with the validate module it can transparently translate
values back into booleans, floats, integers, and of course strings.

This makes it ideal for *certain* types of human readable (and
writable) data persistence.

There is a discussion of this (with accompanying code) at :
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/configobj_for_data_persistence.shtml


From fuzzyman at gmail.com  Thu Sep  8 17:24:50 2005
From: fuzzyman at gmail.com (Fuzzyman)
Date: 8 Sep 2005 08:24:50 -0700
Subject: ANN: pythonutils 0.2.1
Message-ID: <1126193090.613127.4480@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

Hello Python Folk,

pythonutils 0.2.1 is now available.

This is a *major* update since 0.1.0

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#pythonutils
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/downman.py?file=pythonutils-0.2.1.win32.zip
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/downman.py?file=pythonutils-0.2.1.zip

What is pythonutils ?
=====================

The Voidspace Pythonutils package is a simple way of installing the
Voidspace collection of modules. Several of the Voidspace Projects
depend on these modules. They are also useful in their own right of
course. They are primarily general utility modules that simplify common
programming tasks in Python.


The modules included are all fully documented. They are :

ConfigObj - simple config file handling
validate - validation and type conversion system
listquote - string to list conversion
StandOut - simple logging and output control object
pathutils - for working with paths and files
cgiutils - cgi helpers
urlpath - functions for handling URLs
odict - Ordered Dictionary Class

Note: These modules have changed quite significantly since 0.1.0. Only
install if you're sure this won't break your applications :-)


What Has Changed Since 0.1.0 ?
==============================

The *major* change is that *all* these modules now have their own
online documentation (and almost all of them have been refactored).
There are links to them all via :

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/pythonutils.html#documentation

2005/09/04 - Version 0.2.1
--------------------------

Version 0.2.1

Updated to ConfigObj 4.0.0 beta 4

This contains bugfixes to ConfigObj.

2005/08/31 - Version 0.2.0
--------------------------

Refactored and redocumented.

**Major** update to ConfigObj and validate.

Removed caseless, and added odict and urlpath.

* ConfigObj   4.0.0 beta 3
* listquote   1.4.0
* validate    0.2.0
* StandOut    2.1.0
* pathutils   0.2.1
* cgiutils    0.3.2
* odict       0.1.0
* urlpath     0.1.0


From quentel.pierre at wanadoo.fr  Sat Sep 10 10:28:34 2005
From: quentel.pierre at wanadoo.fr (Pierre Quentel)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:28:34 +0200
Subject: ANN: Karrigell-2.1.9 released
Message-ID: <43229937$0$17209$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr>

Hello Python folks,

A new version of Karrigell (http://karrigell.sourceforge.net) has been 
released

It's a Pythonic web framework, with an almost flat learning curve :

- all you need to know is Python and HTML

- as in Python, the simple tasks are very easy to program (the Hello 
world script is simply "print 'Hello world'"), and for the more 
difficult ones (session management, authentication, localization...), 
the syntax remains simple and intuitive

- you can start developing with the built-in web server and the gadfly 
database included in the package, without any manual configuration

- many demos are provided, including a wiki server, "kwiki" (a wiki 
using FCKEditor to edit pages), a forum, a calendar and many more

Developers will find it very flexible, with a variety of coding styles, 
from pure Python scripts to the PHP-like "Python Inside HTML". You can 
also use "Karrigell services", Python scripts where the functions are 
mapped to URLS

First designed as a lightweight solution, targetting simple, small-scale 
applications running on home PCs for instance, it has evolved into a 
more scalable product, adapted to more complex applications. It is now 
supported on shared web hosting by python-hosting.com, running behind Apache

It's been around for nearly 3 years now, and is still evolving 
regularly. This new version adds many new features, a better 
documentation, and fixes a couple of bugs

Regards,
Pierre

From levub137 at wi.rr.com  Sat Sep 10 21:14:21 2005
From: levub137 at wi.rr.com (Raymond L. Buvel)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:14:21 -0500
Subject: [ANN] rpncalc-2.1  RPN Calculator for Python
Message-ID: <4323308D.8020509@wi.rr.com>

The rpncalc package adds an interactive Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)
interpreter to Python.  This interpreter allows the use of Python as
an RPN calculator.  You can easily switch between the RPN interpreter
and the standard Python interpreter.

Home page:  http://calcrpnpy.sourceforge.net/

Changes in 2.1

Upgraded the polynomial root finder so that it handles ill-conditioned
polynomials better.

From levub137 at wi.rr.com  Sat Sep 10 21:14:26 2005
From: levub137 at wi.rr.com (Raymond L. Buvel)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:14:26 -0500
Subject: [ANN] ratfun-2.1  Polynomials and Rational Functions
Message-ID: <43233092.9020001@wi.rr.com>

The ratfun module provides classes for defining polynomial and rational
function (ratio of two polynomials) objects. These objects can be used
in arithmetic expressions and evaluated at a particular point.

Home page:  http://calcrpnpy.sourceforge.net/ratfun.html

Note: If you are using rpncalc-1.2 or later, this module is already
included.  This release is for folks who don't want rpncalc.

Changes in 2.1

Upgraded the polynomial root finder so that it handles ill-conditioned
polynomials better.

From titus at caltech.edu  Sun Sep 11 08:05:12 2005
From: titus at caltech.edu (C. Titus Brown)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:05:12 -0700
Subject: ANNOUNCE: twill 0.7.2
Message-ID: <4323C918.8080901@caltech.edu>

ANNOUNCING twill v0.7.2.

twill is a simple Web scripting language built on top of Python and
John J. Lee's 'mechanize'.  It's designed for automated testing of Web
sites, but it should prove useful for anybody who needs to interact
with Web sites (especially those using logins and cookies) on the
command line or via a script.

twill is a reimplementation of Cory Dodt's PBP.

A twill script looks like this:

   # go to the /. login page
   go http://slashdot.org/login.pl

   # fill in the form
   fv 1 unickname test
   fv 1 upasswd test
   submit

   # ok, there's no such account ;). show error HTML.
   show

---

This is the third public release of twill, version 0.7.2.

(Tagline: "no obvious bugs")

I'm still looking for general feedback on usability, as well as
suggestions on additional use cases.

Download directly here:

     http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-0.7.2.tar.gz

Documentation is online at

     http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/twill.html

---

Miscellaneous details:

twill is implemented in Python and uses pyparsing and mechanize.  In
addition to the existing simple command language, twill can easily be
extended with Python.  twill also provides a fairly simple and
well-documented wrapper around mechanize.

twill scripts can be recorded with maxq, although scripts may require
some hand tweaking at the moment.  See the twill documentation for
more information.

twill does not understand JavaScript, I'm sorry to say.

---

Notable bug fixes and features:

  * save_html and HTTP debugging commands;

  * fixed extend_with bugs;

  * updated pyparsing to 1.3.2;

  * first PyPi release;

From csad7 at t-online.de  Sun Sep 11 18:24:03 2005
From: csad7 at t-online.de (Christof)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:24:03 +0200
Subject: ANN: retest 0.5
Message-ID: <43245A23.3090302@t-online.de>

what is it
----------
A simple Server which enables tests of Python regular expressions (re 
module) in a webbrowser. Uses SimpleHTTPServer and AJAX.

You need: Python, a modern webbrowser like Firefox, IE (from 5.5), 
Safari or Opera (from 8) which handles XMLHttpRequest.


changes
-------
* added re.match and re.search, both show groups and named groups if any 
found
* added accesskeys for all functionalities


license
-------
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.


download
--------
current version: retest-0.5.zip - 050911, from http://cthedot.de/retest/

Tested with Python 2.4.1, Firefox 1.06, Internet Explorer 6 and Opera 
8.02 on Windows XP only. Seems to work best with Firefox and Opera, any 
feedback (success or failure ;) is welcome.


usage
-----
Start the server with >python reserver.py and open 
http://localhost:8087/ in your webbrowser. You

might want to adjust the PORT used in reserver.py.

The usage of the application itself should be self explanatory, take a 
look in the Python

documentation for the re module.


any comment will be appreciated, thanks
christof hoeke



<P><A HREF="http://cthedot.de/retest/">retest 0.5</A> - test Python 
regular expressions in a

webbrowser (11-Sep-05)



From gary at modernsongs.com  Mon Sep 12 02:44:22 2005
From: gary at modernsongs.com (Gary Poster)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:44:22 -0400
Subject: Sept 14 Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG: Packaging with zpkg, review of Python
	Cookbook 2nd ed
Message-ID: <4324CF66.4090500@modernsongs.com>

Please join us September 14, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the fourth meeting of  
the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG").

This meeting has three features of note.

- Fred Drake, Zope Corp Senior Software Engineer, Python core  
developer, and Python documentation maintainer and editor will  present 
a discussion of zpkg, the Zope Packaging Tools (http:// 
www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/zpkgtools/).

- Gary Poster, Zope Corp Senior Software Engineer, will present a brief 
review of the second edition of the O'Reilly Python Cookbook  
(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook2/).

- We will serve delicious fruit, cheese, and soft drinks.

We've had a nice group for all the meetings.  Please come and bring  
friends! An RSVP would be appreciated if you are coming, but is not 
necessary.

More information http://www.zope.org/Members/poster/fxbgzpug_announce_4 
and below.

Upcoming meetings are already tentatively planned for presenters 
(although we can still use more, particularly lightning talks): see
http://www.zope.org/Members/poster/fxbgzpug_announce_5 and
http://www.zope.org/Members/poster/fxbgzpug_announce_6

Hope to see you there!

Gary

General ZPUG information
------------------------------------
When: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00.

Where: Zope Corporation offices. 513 Prince Edward Street;  
Fredericksburg, VA 22408 (tinyurl for map is http://tinyurl.com/duoab).

Parking: Zope Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince Edward Street.

Topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the  
constraints of having to do with Python.

Contact: Gary Poster (gary at zope.com)

From ptmcg at austin.rr.com  Tue Sep 13 06:56:13 2005
From: ptmcg at austin.rr.com (Paul McGuire)
Date: 12 Sep 2005 21:56:13 -0700
Subject: ANN: pyparsing-1.3.3 released
Message-ID: <1126587373.873744.313680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

Pyparsing 1.3.3 contains mostly bugfixes and minor enhancements over
previous releases, including some improvement in Unicode support.  Here
are the change notes:

Version 1.3.3 - September 12, 2005
----------------------------------
- Improved support for Unicode strings that would be returned using
  srange.  Added greetingInKorean.py example, for a Korean version of
  "Hello, World!" using Unicode. (Thanks, June Kim!)

- Added 'hexnums' string constant (nums+"ABCDEFabcdef") for defining
  hexadecimal value expressions.

- NOTE: ===THIS CHANGE MAY BREAK EXISTING CODE===
  Modified tag and results definitions returned by makeHTMLTags(),
  to better support the looseness of HTML parsing.  Tags to be
  parsed are now caseless, and keys generated for tag attributes are
  now converted to lower case.

  Formerly, makeXMLTags("XYZ") would return a tag with results
  name of "startXYZ", this has been changed to "startXyz".  If this
  tag is matched against '<XYZ Abc="1" DEF="2" ghi="3">', the
  matched keys formerly would be "Abc", "DEF", and "ghi"; keys are
  now converted to lower case, giving keys of "abc", "def", and
  "ghi".  These changes were made to try to address the lax
  case sensitivity agreement between start and end tags in many
  HTML pages.

  No changes were made to makeXMLTags(), which assumes more rigorous
  parsing rules.

  Also, cleaned up case-sensitivity bugs in closing tags, and
  switched to using Keyword instead of Literal class for tags.
  (Thanks, Steve Young, for getting me to look at these in more
  detail!)

- Added two helper parse actions, upcaseTokens and downcaseTokens,
  which will convert matched text to all uppercase or lowercase,
  respectively.

- Deprecated Upcase class, to be replaced by upcaseTokens parse
  action.

- Converted messages sent to stderr to use warnings module, such as
  when constructing a Literal with an empty string, one should use
  the Empty() class or the empty helper instead.

- Added ' ' (space) as an escapable character within a quoted
  string.

- Added helper expressions for common comment types, in addition
  to the existing cStyleComment (/*...*/) and htmlStyleComment
  (<!-- ... -->)
  . dblSlashComment = // ... (to end of line)
  . cppStyleComment = cStyleComment or dblSlashComment
  . javaStyleComment = cppStyleComment
  . pythonStyleComment = # ... (to end of line)



Download pyparsing at http://pyparsing.sourceforge.net.

-- Paul


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

Pyparsing is a pure-Python class library for quickly developing
recursive-descent parsers.  Parser grammars are assembled directly in
the calling Python code, using classes such as Literal, Word,
OneOrMore, Optional, etc., combined with operators '+', '|', and '^'
for And, MatchFirst, and Or.  No separate code-generation or external
files are required.  Pyparsing can be used in many cases in place of
regular expressions, with shorter learning curve and greater
readability and maintainability.  Pyparsing comes with a number of
parsing examples, including:
- "Hello, World!" (English and Korean)
- chemical formulas
- configuration file parser
- web page URL extractor
- 5-function arithmetic expression parser
- subset of CORBA IDL
- chess portable game notation
- simple SQL parser
- Mozilla calendar file parser
- EBNF parser/compiler


From prabhu_r at users.sf.net  Tue Sep 13 13:49:26 2005
From: prabhu_r at users.sf.net (prabhu_r@users.sf.net)
Date: Tue, 13 September 2005 13:49:26 IST
Subject: ANN: MayaVi-1.5 released
Message-ID: <E1EF60k-0000w8-F8@monster.linux.in>

Hi,

This is to announce the availability of the MayaVi Data Visualizer
version 1.5.

MayaVi is a free, easy to use, scientific data visualizer.  It is
written in Python, uses the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) for the
graphics and provides a GUI written using Tkinter.  MayaVi is
distributed under a BSD license.  It is also cross platform and should
run on any platform where both Python and VTK are available (this
includes Linux, Windows and Mac OSX).  Also bundled with MayaVi is a
VTK pipeline browser written in Python and a utility module that makes
using VTK easier from the Python interpreter.  For more information,
sources, binaries, screenshots, installation instructions,
documentation etc. visit the MayaVi home page at:

Home page:     http://mayavi.sourceforge.net
SourceForge:   http://sourceforge.net/projects/mayavi
Download:

 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27020&release_id=356146


New in this release
-------------------

    * Added new LUT editor contributed by Gerald Knizia and Arnd
      Baecker.  The LUT editor allows one to edit the colors in RGB or
      HSV mode.  The editor can also be used standalone.

    * Added support to easily add user defined sources (works just
      like the user defined modules and filters).  Contributed by Ross
      Harder.

    * Support for VolumeProMapper contributed by Daniel James White
      and Heikki Uuksulainen.

    * Added a Vorticity filter (contributed by Gareth Clay) that
      computes the vorticity of input vector data.

    * Updated MayaVi and vtkPipeline to work with VTK-CVS and VTK-5.x.
      Support for VTK versions < 4.0 has been removed.  MayaVi and the
      pipeline browser will continue to work with VTK-4.x.

    * Added a utility vtk_doc.py script that allows one to search the
      VTK class docs using a GUI.

    * Fixed severe bug in opening data files belonging to a
      time-series under Windows.

    * Fixed various other bugs (details in full changelog).


Acknowledgements
----------------

 Many thanks to SourceForge for their continued support in hosting
 MayaVi.  Thanks also to various the users who provided feature
 improvements, patches, bug reports, support and suggestions.


Have fun!
prabhu


From aahz at pythoncraft.com  Tue Sep 13 15:38:27 2005
From: aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:38:27 -0700
Subject: BayPIGgies: DATE CHANGE September 15, 7:30pm (Google)
Message-ID: <20050913133827.GA26586@panix.com>

The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs, September 15 at 7:30pm at
Google, Bldg 40, room Temp Tech Talk.  You need to go to the lobby of
Bldg 43 first to get a badge.

Ben Bangert will do "SQLObject & FormEncode, A Practical Introduction"
 - Using SQLObject to integrity check legacy databases
 - FormEncodes use for validation and data coercion
 - Easy web front-ends to databases
 - Fully abstracted database access for easy portability

BayPIGgies meetings alternate between IronPort (San Bruno, California)
and Google (Mountain View, California).  For more information and
directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/


Before the meeting, we sometimes meet at 6pm for dinner.  Discussion of
dinner plans is handled on the BayPIGgies mailing list.  

Advance notice: The meeting agenda for October 13 and December 8 has been
set.  We've got some options on the plate for November but haven't
settled anything yet.  Please send e-mail to baypiggies at baypiggies.net if
you want to suggest an agenda (or volunteer to give a presentation).
-- 
Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

The way to build large Python applications is to componentize and
loosely-couple the hell out of everything.

From fuzzyman at gmail.com  Tue Sep 13 17:43:45 2005
From: fuzzyman at gmail.com (Fuzzyman)
Date: 13 Sep 2005 08:43:45 -0700
Subject: Pythonutils 0.2.2 , ConfigObj 4.0.0 Beta 5, odict 0.1.1
Message-ID: <1126626225.655946.200960@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

The response to pythonutils__ was very good. Especially the odict__
module (ordered dictionary) - it's had over one hundred and fifty
downloads already. Thanks to some useful user feedback, Nicola Larosa
has updated and improved it.

More embarassingly we've done a bugfix release of ConfigObj__ - now up
to beta 5. This fixes another couple of bugs - we aim to get out of
beta someday......

All this is my way of saying that *odict 0.1.2*, *pythonutils 0.2.2*,
and *ConfigObj beta 5*, are all available from the `Voidspace
Modules`__ page.

__ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/pythonutils.html
__ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html
__ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html
__ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml

(The pythonutils update contains odict 0.1.1 *and* ConfigObj Beta 5)

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/


From python-url at phaseit.net  Tue Sep 13 20:16:14 2005
From: python-url at phaseit.net (Diez B. Roggisch)
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:16:14 +0000
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 13)
Message-ID: <E1EFFKI-0000ne-D7@lairds.us>

QOTW:  "In my view, the doctrinaire', indeed religious, adherence to OO
purity has harmed our discipline considerably. Python was a nice breath
of fresh air when I discovered it exactly because it does not have this
slavish committment to an exclusively OO model." -- Tim Daneliuk

"[W]hen you add an item to the canvas, it's part of the canvas until you
remove it.  if performance drops, it's usually because you keep adding
new items without removing the old ones." -- Fredrik Lundh


    An interesting CS puzzle that even provokes the interest of 
    legendary bots:
       http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/892850b258423549

    If you ever wanted to know how to fake network connection troubles
    without pulling the ethernet cable or dumping your access point in
    the bathtub - here you go:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/4c74934e88809a3a

    There's a new compiler for python in town - you static typed languages
    better watch out - we're getting closer!
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/130e711203d12acb

    Django gets lots of attention lately - but is it on par with
    ruby-on-rails already? Find out for yourself:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e827f741c2e25f30/

    Lots of movement on the "easy-packaging and installing"-front.
    py2exe and PyInstaller have new versions out:
       http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/29bb876093c78e64
       http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/698dcaf909ce3bac

    Reluctant to share your little secrets? Here is how to utilize python
    for encryption:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/da511dc9cb4921c 
  
    Ever felt the need for nice new wheels? Stefano Masini provokes a
    discussion on why so many people seem to keep reinventing them with
    python:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/e652d2f771a49857

    Shaving of milliseconds on loops in python is an uncommon need - but
    if it arises in, for example, a game loop, here are tips on how to do so:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/8c988e2b5991a4a1


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

    Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional
    center of Pythonia
        http://www.python.org
    Notice especially the master FAQ
        http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

    PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the
    marvelous daily python url
         http://www.pythonware.com/daily  
    Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
    World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
         http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html 
    While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
    are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
    their results.

    For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
    absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
    much of the universe of Pybloggers.
	http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog
        http://www.planetpython.org/
        http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html

    comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software.  Be
    sure to scan this newsgroup weekly.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

    Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
    tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
    Cannon of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing
    list once every other week.
	http://www.python.org/dev/summary/

    The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
        http://www.python.org/pypi/

    The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references
    to all sorts of Python resources.
        http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

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

    Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line
    match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're
    subject with a vision of what the language makes practical.
        http://www.pythonology.com/success

    The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python
    Consortium as an independent nexus of activity.  It has official
    responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. 
        http://www.python.org/psf/
    Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.
        http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

    Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches.
        http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch
       
    Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
    interesting recipes.
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

    Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are
	http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
	http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
	http://python.de/backend.php
    For more, see
	http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
    The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
    SourceForge reincarnation.
        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
        http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
     
    The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
    editor at pythonjournal.com and editor at pythonjournal.cognizor.com
    welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
    of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

    del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/python

    *Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
        http://www.pyzine.com

    Archive probing tricks of the trade:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ (requires subscription)
  http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=python-url+group:comp.lang.python*&start=0&scoring=d&
  http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant)
or
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python
There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet.  Arguments
for and against are occasionally entertained.


Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
E-mail to <Python-URL at phaseit.net> should get through.

To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning
(approximately), ask <claird at phaseit.net> 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.

From agreen at cirrustech.com.au  Wed Sep 14 07:19:30 2005
From: agreen at cirrustech.com.au (Alan Green)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:19:30 +1000
Subject: Sydney Python Meeting - Thursday 15 September
Message-ID: <4327B2E2.70903@cirrustech.com.au>

Our Sydney Python meeting will be Thursday 15 September (tomorrow night) 
at the James Squire Hotel. Dylan Jay will be presenting "Plone for 
Python Programmers", in which he introduces Zope and Archetypes 
(http://plone.org/documentation/archetypes).

Date:  Thursday September 15
Time:  6:30-7:00pmish onwards
Place: James Squires Brewhouse
        2 The Promenade,
        King St Wharf
        Sydney
Fee:   $0.00

All welcome,

Alan.

From faltet at carabos.com  Wed Sep 14 18:11:26 2005
From: faltet at carabos.com (Francesc Altet)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:11:26 +0200
Subject: ANN: PyTables 1.1.1 released
Message-ID: <200509141811.26339.faltet@carabos.com>

==========================
 Announcing PyTables 1.1.1
==========================

This is a maintenance release of PyTables. In it, several optimizations
and bug fixes have been made. As some of the fixed bugs were quite
important, it's strongly recommended for users to upgrade.

Go to the PyTables web site for downloading the beast:
http://pytables.sourceforge.net/

or keep reading for more info about the improvements and bugs fixed.


Changes more in depth
=====================

Improvements:

- Optimized the opening of files with a large number of objects. Now,
  files with table objects open a 50% faster, and files with arrays open
  more than twice as fast (up to 2000 objects/s on a Pentium
  4 at 2GHz). Hence, a file with a combination of both kinds of objects
  opens between a 50% and 100% faster than in 1.1.

- Optimized the creation of ``NestedRecArray`` objects using
  ``NumArray`` objects as columns, so that filling a table with the
  ``Table.append()`` method achieves a performance similar to PyTables
  pre-1.1 releases.

Bug fixes:

- ``Table.readCoordinates()`` now converts the coords parameter into ``Int64``
  indices automatically.

- Fixed a bug that prevented appending to tables (though
  ``Table.append()``) using a list of ``NumArray`` objects.

- ``Int32`` attributes are handled correctly in 64-bit platforms now.

- Correction for accepting lists of numarrays as input for
  ``NestedRecArrays``.

- Fixed a problem when creating rank 1 multi-dimensional string columns
  in ``Table`` objects. Closes SF bug #1269023.

- Avoid errors when unpickling objects stored in attributes.  See the
  section ``AttributeSet`` in the reference chapter of the User's
  Manual for more information. Closes SF bug #1254636.

- Assignment for ``*Array`` slices has been improved in order to solve
  some issues with shapes. Closes SF bug #1288792.

- The indexation properties were lost in case the table was closed
  before an index was created. Now, these properties are saved even in
  this case.

Known bugs:

- Classes inheriting from ``IsDescription`` subclasses do not inherit
  columns defined in the super-class. See SF bug #1207732 for more info.

- Time datatypes are non-portable between big-endian and little-endian
  architectures. This is ultimately a consequence of a HDF5
  limitation. See SF bug #1234709 for more info.

Backward-incompatible changes:

- None (that we are aware of).


Important note for MacOSX users
===============================

UCL compressor works badly on MacOSX platforms. Recent investigation
seems to point to a bug in the development tools in MacOSX (Panther).
Until the problem is isolated and eventually solved, UCL support will
not be compiled by default on MacOSX platforms, even if the installer
finds it in the system. However, if you still want to get UCL support
on MacOSX, you can use the ``--force-ucl`` flag in ``setup.py``.


Important note for Python 2.4 and Windows users
===============================================

If you are willing to use PyTables with Python 2.4 in Windows
platforms, you will need to get the HDF5 library compiled for MSVC
7.1, aka .NET 2003.  It can be found at:
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/bin/windows/5-164-win-net.ZIP

Users of Python 2.3 on Windows will have to download the version of
HDF5 compiled with MSVC 6.0 available in:
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/bin/windows/5-164-win.ZIP


What it is
==========

**PyTables** is a package for managing hierarchical datasets and
designed to efficiently cope with extremely large amounts of data
(with support for full 64-bit file addressing).  It features an
object-oriented interface that, combined with C extensions for the
performance-critical parts of the code, makes it a very easy-to-use
tool for high performance data storage and retrieval.

PyTables runs on top of the HDF5 library and numarray (Numeric is also
supported) package for achieving maximum throughput and convenient use.

Besides, PyTables I/O for table objects is buffered, implemented in C
and carefully tuned so that you can reach much better performance with
PyTables than with your own home-grown wrappings to the HDF5
library. PyTables sports indexing capabilities as well, allowing doing
selections in tables exceeding one billion of rows in just seconds.


Platforms
=========

This version has been extensively checked on quite a few platforms,
like Linux on Intel32 (Pentium), Win on Intel32 (Pentium), Linux on
Intel64 (Itanium2), FreeBSD on AMD64 (Opteron), Linux on PowerPC and
MacOSX on PowerPC. For other platforms, chances are that the code can
be easily compiled and run without further issues. Please, contact us
in case you are experiencing problems.


Resources
=========

Go to the PyTables web site for more details:

http://pytables.sourceforge.net/

About the HDF5 library:

http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/

About numarray:

http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/numarray

To know more about the company behind the PyTables development, see:

http://www.carabos.com/


Acknowledgments
===============

Thanks to various the users who provided feature improvements,
patches, bug reports, support and suggestions. See THANKS file in
distribution package for a (incomplete) list of contributors. Many
thanks also to SourceForge who have helped to make and distribute this
package! And last but not least, a big thank you to THG
(http://www.hdfgroup.org/) for sponsoring many of the new features
recently introduced in PyTables.


Share your experience
=====================

Let us know of any bugs, suggestions, gripes, kudos, etc. you may
have.


----

  **Enjoy data!**

  -- The PyTables Team



From amk at amk.ca  Thu Sep 15 02:36:49 2005
From: amk at amk.ca (A.M. Kuchling)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:36:49 -0400
Subject: CFP: PyCon 2006
Message-ID: <20050915003649.GB26470@rogue.amk.ca>

PyCon 2006 Call for Proposals
--------------------------------------------

Want to share your expertise? PyCon 2006 is looking for proposals to
fill the formal presentation tracks.  PyCon 2006 will be held
February 24-26 2006 in Addison, Texas (near Dallas).

Previous PyCons have had a broad range of presentations, from reports
on academic and commercial projects to tutorials and case studies, and
we hope to continue that tradition this year.  As long as the
presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python
community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program.

For 2006, we're especially interested in tutorial presentations
that will teach conference-goers something new and useful.  Can you
show attendees how to: use a module?  explore a Python language
feature?  package an application?  


Important Dates
======================

 * Submission deadline: October 31, 2005 
 * Acceptance deadline: November 15, 2005 
 * Electronic copy deadline: February 15, 2006


PyCon Topics
=======================

Suitable topics for PyCon presentations include, but are not limited
to:

 * Core Python
 * Other implementations: Jython, IronPython, PyPy, and Stackless
 * Python libraries and extensions
 * Databases
 * Documentation
 * GUI Programming
 * Game Programming
 * Network Programming
 * Open Source Python projects
 * Packaging Issues
 * Programming Tools
 * Project Best Practices
 * Embedding and Extending
 * Science and Math
 * Web-based Systems


Submission Format
================================

Proposals should be 250 to 1000 words long (i.e., one to four pages in
manuscript format), containing the following information:

 * Author name(s)
 * Contact Information
 * Requested timeslot (30 minutes, 45 minutes, or either)
 * Summary of proposed presentation
 * Presentation outline
 * Intended audience (non-programmers, beginning programmers, advanced users, 
   CPython developers, etc.)

ASCII format is preferred (plain or reST), with HTML as a secondary
alternative. If you have any queries about submission, or if you would
like to discuss the possibility of submitting in a different format or
style, please send mail to the conference organizers at
pycon at python.org.

Session lengths include time for audience questions.  You should
budget at least five minutes for questions; for example, a 30-minute
talk will be 25 minutes of presentation and 5 minutes of questions.  

The preferred length for talks is 30 minutes.  You can request a
45-minute slot, but proposals requiring 45 minutes will be reviewed
more stringently and tutorial talks will be preferred for these longer
slots.


Submission Mechanics
===============================

Use the PyCon Online Proposal Submission <http://submit.pycon.org> to
send us your proposals and ideas. If your proposal is accepted, you
have the option of including a companion paper along with your
presentation. The paper will get published on the PyCon web site.

Presentations and papers may be in text (plain or reST), HTML, or PDF;
HTML or text are preferred.

We suggest, but do not require, that authors place their papers under
a Creative Commons license. Please visit the CC 'Choose a License'
page to select a license that meets your requirements. 

A Wiki page has suggestions and advice for speakers:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2006/SpeakerNotes


Other Presentations
===========================

If you don't want to make a formal presentation, you can still bring
your new project or idea to PyCon.

There will be several Lightning Talk sessions for talks no longer than
five minutes.

There will be a significant amount of Open Space for informal and
spur-of-the-moment presentations.  Open Space consists of
thirty-minute blocks that are allocated during PyCon. These blocks can
be used for presentations, round table discussions, hands-on
tutorials, or anything else. Typically, people propose ideas for the
sessions which are then voted on by attendees.


From jepler at unpythonic.net  Thu Sep 15 15:22:30 2005
From: jepler at unpythonic.net (jepler@unpythonic.net)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:22:30 -0500
Subject: pybwidget release 0.1.2
Message-ID: <20050915132226.GA2861@unpythonic.net>

pybwidget is a Python wrapper around the 'bwidget' family of widgets for
Tkinter.  It includes these classes:
    Entry Label Button ArrowButton ProgressBar ScrollView Separator
    MainFrame LabelFrame TitleFrame PanelFrame ScrolledWindow
    ScrollableFrame PanedWindow ButtonBox PagesManager NoteBook Dialog
    StatusBar LabelEntry ComboBox SpinBox Tree ListBox MessageDialog
    ProgressDialog PasswordDialog SelectFont SelectColor 

I know it's been a long time, but I've finally gotten around to making a
new release of pybwidget, called 0.1.2_1.7.0.

It has all the fixes I could find that have been mentioned in the
tkinter-discuss mailing list archives.  Compared to 0.1.1, here's a
summary of changes:
    * add ROOT as a module-level constant, as requested
    * bindtabs, bind_image, bind_text all handle the 'func' parameter
      properly
    * several instances of 'self.tl' corrected to 'self.tk'
    * the 'nodes' function of the Tree widget now passes all arguments
      to Tk
    * The xbm-format images are installed by setup.py
    * how to run setup.py is mentioned in README.html

This release is available at
    http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/bwidget

Please report your experiences, good or bad, on the Tkinter mailing list
    tkinter-discuss at python.org 

Jeff Epler
jepler at unpythonic.net
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From greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz  Fri Sep 16 04:34:46 2005
From: greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:34:46 +1200
Subject: ANN: Pyrex 0.9.3.1
Message-ID: <3oupa6F7spshU1@individual.net>

Giovanni Bajo has put together a Pyrex release incorporating
patches to address the Python 2.4 distutils compatibility
problem and the GCC 4 lvalue cast problem.

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

Thanks to Giovanni for filling a gap until I can get back
to working on Pyrex again.


What is Pyrex?
--------------

Pyrex is a new language for writing Python extension modules.
It lets you freely mix operations on Python and C data, with
all Python reference counting and error checking handled
automatically.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg

From antont at kyperjokki.fi  Fri Sep 16 13:57:42 2005
From: antont at kyperjokki.fi (antont@kyperjokki.fi)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:57:42 +0200
Subject: curvepulator 0.1 for Blender Python published
Message-ID: <200509161357.42644.antont@kyperjokki.fi>

The initial release of 'curvepulator' (working name), a tool for creating 
animatable 3d curves in Blender Python, is demonstrated at and available via  
http://orange.blender.org/blog/generating-shapes-with-animatable-curves

It is made to be used in this specific film production, but hopefully also 
usable for other things too. Although it is Blender specific, it is still all 
Python. Suggestions and comments would be very welcome. In the future, we 
might even see procedural modelling helper libraries etc. that work in 
different environments. So I hope there is interest for this in the wider 
Python community.

~Toni

From t.koutsovassilis at gmail.com  Fri Sep 16 17:38:31 2005
From: t.koutsovassilis at gmail.com (t.koutsovassilis@gmail.com)
Date: 16 Sep 2005 08:38:31 -0700
Subject: ANN: QuiX Sampler v0.1 released
Message-ID: <1126885111.625905.79860@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

QuiX Sampler is a simple Porcupine application that demostrates all the
available web widgets implemented, grouped by relevance. It is an
excelent introduction to QuiX fundamentals. This release include many
widget variations and a couple of simple event handlers.

For more, see http://www.innoscript.org/content/view/33/2/

Resources
=========
What is Porcupine?
http://www.innoscript.org/content/view/30/42/

Porcupine online demo:
http://www.innoscript.org/content/view/21/43/

Developer resources:
http://www.innoscript.org/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,33/func,selectcat/cat,3/


From stephan.richter at tufts.edu  Fri Sep 16 18:29:01 2005
From: stephan.richter at tufts.edu (Stephan Richter)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:29:01 -0400
Subject: Zope 3.1.0 RC 3 released!
Message-ID: <200509161229.01741.stephan.richter@tufts.edu>

The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce Zope 3.1.0 candidate 3.

Zope 3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based
on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2.

It is in our opinion that Zope 3.1 is more than ready for production use,
which is why we decided to drop the 'X' for experimental from the name. We
will also continue to work on making the transition between Zope 2 and Zope 3
as smooth as possible. As a first step, Zope 2.8 includes Zope 3 features in
the form of Five.

Now that we have a release that we would like to declare stable next week, we
are looking for translators, who translate Zope 3 into their favorite
language! We are utilizing the Rosetta system from Ubuntu for managing those
translations. If you are not familiar with Rosetta, please send us a mail to
zope3-dev at zope.org and we get you set up.


Downloads

  http://zope.org/Products/Zope3/

  Installation instructions for both Windows and Un*x/Linux are now available
  in the top level 'README.txt' file of the distribution. The binary installer
  is recommended for Windows.

  Zope 3.1 requires Python 2.3.5 or 2.4.1 to run. You must also have zlib
  installed on your system.

Changes Since 3.1.0c2

  - Fixed several bugs that were considered critical.

    * Ported Stuart Bishop's work in ``pytz`` and ``zope.i18n`` to address
      broken and misleading timezone code (i.e., one issue was broken and
      another was misleading).

    * Fixed apidoc to handle extended paths, so that zope packages could
      be installed in software instances without apidoc losing knowledge
      of the core zope code.

    * Added custom ``executemany()`` method for cursors created through
      GadflyAdapter. See http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope3-dev/445 for
      discussion.

  - Updated ZODB to 3.5.1b2.


Most Important Changes Since 3.0

  - New Pluggable Authentication Utility (PAU), which is similar in
    philosophy to the Zope 2 PAS. The following features are available in
    the in the basic PAU facility:

    + Credentials Plugins: Basic HTTP Auth, Session

    + Authenticator Plugins: Principal Folder, Group Folder

    For a detailed description of the pluggable authentication utility,
    see 'zope/app/authentication/README.txt'.

  - Major simplifications to the component architecture:

    + Removal of the concept of a service. All outstanding services were
      converted to utilities: Error Reporting, FSSync, Authentication.

    + Site Managers are global and local now; adapters and utilties are
      directly registered with the site manager. Now global and local
      component registration and lookup behaves very similar.

    + Local registrations can now only have two states: active and
      inactive. This simplified the code so much, that 'zope.app.utility',
      'zope.app.registration' and 'zope.app.site' were all merged into
      'zope.app.component'.

    + Implemented menus as utilities. The API also supports sub-menus now.

    + Implemented views as adapters. Skins and layers are now simply
      interfaces that the request provides.

  - Added an integer-id facility for assigning integer identifiers
    to objects.

  - Added basic catalog and index frameworks.

  - Added "sources", which are like vocabularies except that they
    support very large collections of values that must be
    searched, rather than browsed.

  - Created a new granting UI that allows advanced searching of
    principal sources.

  - Implemented a generic user preferences systsem that was designed to be
    easily used in TALES expressions and via Python code. Preferences can be
    edited via 'http://localhost:8080/++preferences++/'. A demo of the
    preferences can be found at::

      http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/trunk/src/zope/app/demo/skinpref/

  - ZCML now supports conditional directives using the 'zcml:condition'
    attribute. The condition is of the form "verb argument". Two verbs, 'have
    feature' and 'installed module' are currently implemented. Features can be
    declared via the 'meta:provides' directive.

  - Improved API doctool: Code Browser now shows interfaces, text files and
    ZCML files; the new Book Module compiles all available doctext files into
    an organized book; the new Type Module lets you browser all interface
    types and discover interfaces that provide types; views are shown in the
    interface details screen; views and adapters are categorized into
    specific, extended and generic; user preferences allow you to customize
    certain views; 3rd party modules can now be added to the Code Browser.

  - Improved I18n-based number and datetime formatting by integrating 'pytz'
    for timezone support, implementing all missing format characters, and
    reinterpreting the ICU documentation to correctly parse patterns.

  - Added '++debug++' traversal adapter that allows you to turn on
    debugging flags in 'request.debug'. Currently the following flags
    are defined: source, tal, errors.

  - Improved logout support.

  - Added the HTTP request recorder, which lets you inspect raw HTTP requests
    and responses.  It can be used to create functional doctests without
    requiring third-party tools such as TCPWatch.

  - Developed a generic 'browser:form' directive. It is pretty much the
    same as the 'browser:editform' directive, except that the data is
    not stored on some context or adapted context but sent as a dictionary
    to special method (by default).

  For a complete list of changes see the 'CHANGES.txt' file.


Resources

  - "Zope 3 Development Web Site":http://dev.zope.org/Zope3

  - "Zope 3 Dev Mailing List":http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-dev

  - "Zope 3 Users Mailing 
List":http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users

  - IRC Channel: #zope3-dev at irc.freenode.net


Acknowledgments

  Thanks goes to everyone that contributed.

Enjoy!

The Zope 3 Development Team

From newsgroups at jensdiemer.de  Fri Sep 16 21:06:36 2005
From: newsgroups at jensdiemer.de (jens)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:06:36 +0200
Subject: ANN: PyLucid release v0.4 
Message-ID: <432b1784_1@news.isis.de>


Info
----
PyLucid is a lightweight, OpenSource ( GPL ) content management system 
(CMS) written in pure Python CGI. Nearly all output can be customized. 
No shell account is needed. To run PyLucid you need a standard Webserver 
with Python (at least v2.2.1) CGI and MySQL ( mySQLdb ).

more info: http://www.pylucid.org


History v0.4
------------

EN

     * complete new Module-Manager and Page-Parser
     * Change in all Modules to handle special characters like "/"
     * Admin-Front-Menu and Admin-Sub-Menu are editable internal pages
     * install_PyLucid can partially re-initialisation DB tables
     * DBdump is now MySQLdump. There are improvement in MySQLdump. Now
	you can partially dump tables. Now you can setup the path to
	mysqldump, thus it works with windows.
     * SiteMap: There are more CSS-statements to format.
     * NEW: Dir 'PyLucid_plugins', i moved RSS.py and SourceCode.py in
	this dir. Here are space for external increments.
     * NEW: delete CMS pages possible.

DE

     * Neugeschriebener Module-Manager und Page-Parser
     * ?nderungen in allen Modulen damit Seitennamen auch sonderzeichen
	wie "/" erhalten k?nnen
     * Admin-Front-Menu und Admin-Sub-Menu sind jetzt ver?nderbare
	interne Seiten
     * install_PyLucid kann nun Tabellen (einzeln ausw?hlbar)
	zur?cksetzten (Wichtig beim Update, wenn sich z.B. internal
	Pages ge?ndert haben)
     * DBdump hei?t nun MySQLdump. Man kann nun einzeln bestimmen welche
	Tabellen gesichert werden sollen. Au?erdem kann man den Pfad
	angeben, somit klappt es auch unter Windows.
     * SiteMap: Es werden jetzt mehrere CSS-Angaben gesetzt damit man
	gezielt Eintr?ge hervorheben kann.
     * NEU: Verzeichnis 'PyLucid_plugins', darin hab ich RSS.py und
	SourceCode.py verschoben. Hier haben externe Erweiterungen
	Platz.
     * NEU: l?schen von CMS Seiten nun m?glich.



update instructions:
http://pylucid.org/index.py?p=/Doku/update+instructions

-- 
Mfg.

Jens Diemer


----
http://www.python-forum.de http://www.pythonwiki.de

From detlev at die-offenbachs.de  Sat Sep 17 16:46:27 2005
From: detlev at die-offenbachs.de (Detlev Offenbach)
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:46:27 +0200
Subject: ANN: eric3 3.7.2 released
Message-ID: <dgha83$b8h$5@online.de>

Hi,

this is to let you know about the release of eric3 3.7.2. This is a
bugfix release, which is compatible with PyQt 3.15. It is available at

http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html

What is it?
-----------
Eric3 is a Python and Ruby IDE written in Python and PyQt. It comes with
all batteries included. Please see the above URL for more info.

Regards,
Detlev
-- 
Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de

From dangoor at gmail.com  Sat Sep 17 19:36:16 2005
From: dangoor at gmail.com (Kevin Dangoor)
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:36:16 -0400
Subject: ANN: TurboGears 0.5 front-to-back web framework
Message-ID: <3f085ecd05091710363231bdb8@mail.gmail.com>

TurboGears (http://www.turbogears.org) brings together four major
pieces to create an easy to install, easy to use web megaframework. It
covers everything from front end (MochiKit JavaScript for the browser,
Kid for templates in Python) to the controllers (CherryPy) to the back
end (SQLObject).

The TurboGears project is focused on providing documentation and
integration with these tools without losing touch with the communities
that already exist around those tools.

TurboGears is easy to use for a wide range of web applications.

To get a quick idea of what TurboGears is like, take a look at the 20
Minute Wiki tutorial and screencast. The total screencast with brief
intro and conclusion did take a little over 23 minutes, but it's close
to 20 minutes :)

20 Minute Wiki: http://www.turbogears.org/docs/wiki20/index.html

TurboGears site: http://www.turbogears.org/

A big thanks to Remi Delon, Ian Bicking, Bob Ippolito, Ryan Tomayko,
Phillip Eby and the many other contributors who have provided all of
these great tools.

-- 
Kevin Dangoor
Author of the Zesty News RSS newsreader

email: kid at blazingthings.com
company: http://www.BlazingThings.com
blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com

From mj at zopatista.com  Sat Sep 17 22:28:33 2005
From: mj at zopatista.com (Martijn Pieters)
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:28:33 +0200
Subject: ANN: formatflowed 1.0.0 released
Message-ID: <432C7C71.3020404@zopatista.com>

The formatflowed.py python library provides en- and decoding 
functionality for `RFC 2646`_ and `RFC 3676`_ text, also called 
format=flowed text. The development of this library was generously 
sponsored by `Logicalware`_.

Version 1.0.0 is available from the project homepage at:

   http://www.zopatista.com/projects/formatflowed


Changes since 0.9.0
-------------------

Only metadata was changed, and a simple README.txt was added.


.. _RFC 2646: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2646.html
.. _RFC 3676: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3676.html
.. _Logicalware: http://www.logicalware.com/

-- 
Martijn Pieters
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From frank at niessink.com  Sun Sep 18 16:41:56 2005
From: frank at niessink.com (Frank Niessink)
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:41:56 +0200
Subject: [ANN] Release 0.47 of Task Coach
Message-ID: <432D7CB4.1050007@niessink.com>

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce release 0.47 of Task Coach. New in this release:

Bugs fixed:

* 'View'->'All tasks' now also resets any search criterium entered
   by the user in the search bar.
* When opening a task with a (long) description, the cursor will be
   positioned on the first line of the text, instead of on the last
   line.
* When viewing tasks due before a certain date in the tree view,
   tasks with subtasks due before that date will be visible.

Features added:

* Added Hungarian translation thanks to Majsa Norbert
* The task tree view now also shows columns with task details,
   similar to the task list view
* Sorting on task subject can now also be case insensitive. See the
   menu item 'View' -> 'Sort' -> 'Sort case sensitive'.
* Recent files are remembered and can be opened from the File menu.
   The maximum number of recent files shown can be set in the
   Preferences dialog. Set the maximum to zero to disable this
   feature.
* The last modification time of tasks can be viewed.



What is Task Coach?

Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical
tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and is
developed using Python and wxPython. You can download Task Coach from:

http://taskcoach.niessink.com
https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach/

A binary installer is available for Windows XP, in addition to the
source distribution.

Note that Task Coach is alpha software, meaning that it is wise to back
up your task file regularly, and especially when upgrading to a new release.

Cheers, Frank


From martijn at metacase.com  Mon Sep 19 15:53:21 2005
From: martijn at metacase.com (Martijn Iseger)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:53:21 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Free seminar on domain-specific modeling
Message-ID: <7c6fcb4c372a8c78b51c6cc2a49@news.kolumbus.fi>

Domain-specific modeling makes software development 5-10 times faster than 
approaches based on UML or MDA. 
It accelerates development and reduces complexity by automatically generating 
full code from higher-abstraction design models.
Learn from speakers Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Jack Greenfield, Steven Kelly and 
Krzysztof Czarnecki about DSM and how to implement it.

Time: 	Friday, October 21, 2005. 8:00am - 12:00noon. Right after OOPSLA.
Place: 	Town & Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego.

More info and registration: http://www.metacase.com/DSMseminar 



From python-url at phaseit.net  Mon Sep 19 20:22:37 2005
From: python-url at phaseit.net (Diez B. Roggisch)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:22:37 +0000
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 19)
Message-ID: <E1EHQHl-0008Fr-14@lairds.us>

QOTW:  "Python makes data-driven programming easy :-)" -- Kent

"Python rewards abstraction." -- Alex Martelli

    
    As unicode becomes more and more prevalent, the issue of regular
    expressions matching unicode character sets occurs more often. A
    current thread has advice:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a4b7d3e24a514afd
    
    Todd Steury learns about large float representations in python - and
    that applying some algebra sometimes yields better results than the
    naive approach:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/7f5afb4976277ddc
    
    pyparsing, the de-facto-standard for parser generation in python, is
    available at version 1.3.3: 
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/msg/ff39b02ac712ac79
    
    A new PyRex version addressing bugs ships:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/msg/b30bd0575b6bd080
    
    Metaclasses are so complicated as to make some of their artifacts
    appear buggy - but luckily they aren't ...
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a1190851125ce7b5
    
    .NET 3.0 features provoke a discussion on python's nested-tuple
    function arguments:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/ee80ba95b76d76b

    Stackless receives popular publicity for its gaming ability:
        http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/05/09/17/182207.shtml?tid=156&tid=10
    Note how dramatically memory-management perspectives can differ:
        http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=162565&cid=13587741
    
    Sudoku puzzles are fun to solve -- both "in real", and by writing
    software solvers. Python-based solvers on different levels of
    complexity can be seen here:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/f7cb534119b877b9
    
    Accessing COM-components from python is usually done with
    win32com -- but in certain corner cases, comtypes serves you better
    (or at all):
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/e4075543c2d30200
    
    Creating histograms is a common problem -- another problem is which one
    is the preferred way to do so:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/60d405c5282ad36a/faa050cc5d76f6f0?q=dictionary&rnum=2#faa050cc5d76f6f0
    

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

    Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional
    center of Pythonia
        http://www.python.org
    Notice especially the master FAQ
        http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

    PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the
    marvelous daily python url
         http://www.pythonware.com/daily  
    Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
    World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
         http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html 
    While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
    are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
    their results.

    For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
    absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
    much of the universe of Pybloggers.
	http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog
        http://www.planetpython.org/
        http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html

    comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software.  Be
    sure to scan this newsgroup weekly.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

    Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
    tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
    Cannon of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing
    list once every other week.
	http://www.python.org/dev/summary/

    The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
        http://www.python.org/pypi/

    The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references
    to all sorts of Python resources.
        http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

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

    Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line
    match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're
    subject with a vision of what the language makes practical.
        http://www.pythonology.com/success

    The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python
    Consortium as an independent nexus of activity.  It has official
    responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. 
        http://www.python.org/psf/
    Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.
        http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

    Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches.
        http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch
       
    Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
    interesting recipes.
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

    Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are
	http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
	http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
	http://python.de/backend.php
    For more, see
	http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
    The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
    SourceForge reincarnation.
        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
        http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
     
    The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
    editor at pythonjournal.com and editor at pythonjournal.cognizor.com
    welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
    of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

    del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/python

    *Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
        http://www.pyzine.com

    Archive probing tricks of the trade:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ (requires subscription)
  http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=python-url+group:comp.lang.python*&start=0&scoring=d&
  http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant)
or
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python
There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet.  Arguments
for and against are occasionally entertained.


Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
E-mail to <Python-URL at phaseit.net> should get through.

To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning
(approximately), ask <claird at phaseit.net> 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.

From jcribbs at twmi.rr.com  Tue Sep 20 02:54:29 2005
From: jcribbs at twmi.rr.com (Jamey Cribbs)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:54:29 -0400
Subject: ANNOUNCE: KirbyBase 1.9
Message-ID: <432F5DC5.90404@twmi.rr.com>

KirbyBase is a simple, plain-text, database management system written in 
Python.  It can be used either embedded in a python script or in a 
client/server, multi-user mode.  You use python code to express your 
queries instead of having to use another language such as SQL.  
KirbyBase is disk-based, not memory-based.  Database changes are 
immediately written to disk.

You can find more information on KirbyBase at:
http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase.html

You can download KirbyBase for Python at:
http://www.netpromi.com/files/KirbyBase_Python_1.9.zip


I would like to thank David Edwards and Pierre Quentel for their 
contributions to this release.

Changes in Version 1.9:

        -Fixed a bug that can occur on very fast machines when sending data
         between the client and the server.  Thanks to David Edwards for
         this fix.

        -Added a method, setDefaultReturnType, that allows you to, set the
         default return type of results from the select method.  The default
         is still 'list', but you can set it to 'list', 'object', or 'dict'.
         Thanks to David Edwards for this suggested enhancement.
  
        -Added methods addFields and dropFields.  These allow you to add new
         columns to a table and remove existing columns from the table.
         Thanks to Pierre Quentel for the code for these two 
enhancements.    


Jamey Cribbs
jcribbs at twmi.rr.com



From jymengant at ifrance.com  Wed Sep 21 10:44:40 2005
From: jymengant at ifrance.com (Jean-Yves Mengant)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:44:40 +0200
Subject: ANN: JpyDbg V0.0.12
Message-ID: <2005921104440.059042@sefasjym>

JpyDbg is a Python/Jython IDE/Debugging environnement pluggin for
JEdit editor.(http://www.jedit.org)

Version 0.0.12 of JpyDbg has been released.

Check the Home page : http://jpydbg.sourceforge.net for details
??????????blog page : http://jpydbg.blogspot.com/

What's new in V0.012 :

+ BIG IMPROVEMENT : ?The variable Window is now a clean and lean Python Object ?memory
browser based on a Swing tree table : You can navigate recursivelly Local and global
Python instances and last but not least ?you can dynamically change the final node data instances ?
+ IMPROVEMENT: Jython environment configuration have been simplifed.
+ IMPROVEMENT : ?Clean isolation of Jython and Python configuration contexts
+ IMPROVEMENT : ?Check button for ?Jython / Python configuration correctness
+ IMPROVEMENT : ?PYTHON PATH management has been revisited and improved

Cheers
Jean-Yves



From anthony at python.org  Thu Sep 22 09:42:10 2005
From: anthony at python.org (Anthony Baxter)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:42:10 +1000
Subject: RELEASED Python 2.4.2, release candidate 1
Message-ID: <200509221742.12706.anthony@python.org>

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
happy to announce the release of Python 2.4.2 (release candidate 1).

Python 2.4.2 is a bug-fix release. See the release notes at the 
website (also available as Misc/NEWS in the source distribution) for 
details of the more than 60 bugs squished in this release.

Assuming no major problems crop up, a final release of Python 2.4.2 
will follow in about a week's time. 

For more information on Python 2.4.2, including download links for
various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see:

    http://www.python.org/2.4.2

Highlights of this new release include:

  - Bug fixes. According to the release notes, more than 60 have been
    fixed, including bugs that prevented Python from working properly
    on 64 bit HP/UX and AIX systems.

Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.4) are available     
from the Python 2.4 page, at                                            

    http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html

Enjoy the new release,
Anthony

Anthony Baxter
anthony at python.org
Python Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

From python at openlight.com  Thu Sep 22 15:58:26 2005
From: python at openlight.com (George Belotsky)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:58:26 -0400
Subject: Upcoming Python talk in Toronto
Message-ID: <20050922135826.GA5238@localhost>

Seneca College is Canada's largest, with over 100,000 students and
more than 260 programs.  On October 24, 2005, Seneca will be hosting
their 4th annual "Free Software and Open Source Symposium" in Toronto,
Ontario.  Here is a link to the agenda.

   http://cs.senecac.on.ca/soss/2005/agenda.php

I will be giving a Python talk at the symposium.  The talk is titled
"Python Power -- Learning, Teaching and Doing with the World's Easiest
Programming Language".  

The talk is based on 3 short programs, which gives the audience a
practical sense of the broad application range, ease of use, and power
of Python.  The following link leads to an overview of the presentation.

  http://cs.senecac.on.ca/soss/2005/presentations/george.php

Hope to see you all there :-)

George.

From johan at gnome.org  Thu Sep 22 16:28:00 2005
From: johan at gnome.org (Johan Dahlin)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:28:00 -0300
Subject: ANNOUNCE: nautilus-python 0.4.1
Message-ID: <4332BF70.1050800@gnome.org>

I am pleased to announce the first public release of nautilus-python.

The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/nautilus-python/0.4/nautilus-python-0.4.1.tar.gz

What's new since 0.4.1:

* Memory leaks plugged (Gustavo)
* Do not install examples (Gustavo)
* Improve documentation (Gustavo)
* Allow extensions to be loaded from $HOME (Gustavo)

I'd like to thank the following people, for helping me during the
development:
   Sidnei da Silva, Gustavo Carneiro, Thomas Vander Stichele,
   Sebastien Bacher and Ross Burton.

Sidnei da Silva is writing an integration tool for plone desktop:
   http://awkly.org/files/menu.png

Ross Burton is writing a dpkg interface.

Blurb:

Nautilus is the file manager used by the GNOME desktop environment.
Nautilus-python provides bindings for the extension API in nautilus.
With help of it you can write extensions that goes beyond the standard
shell script interface like context menuitems, additional list columns
and property pages.

nautilus-python requires nautilus >= 2.6.0, PyGTK >= 2.8.0, gnome-python
  2.12.0 and Python >= 2.3.5

Bug reports should be made in GNOMEs bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=nautilus-python

From michael at stroeder.com  Fri Sep 23 12:42:12 2005
From: michael at stroeder.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_Str=F6der?=)
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:42:12 +0200
Subject: ANN: python-ldap-2.0.10
Message-ID: <4333DC04.1010907@stroeder.com>

Find a new release of python-ldap:

  http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/

python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory
servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for
that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related
stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs and LDAPv3 schema).

----------------------------------------------------------------
Released 2.0.10 2005-09-23

Changes since 2.0.9:

Lib/
* Switched back to old implementation of
  ldap.schema.tokenizer.split_tokens() since the new one
  had a bug which deletes the spaces from DESC
* ldap.INSUFFICIENT_ACCESS is now ignored in
  ldap.ldapobject.LDAPObject.search_subschemasubentry_s()

From fuzzyman at gmail.com  Fri Sep 23 12:53:12 2005
From: fuzzyman at gmail.com (Fuzzyman)
Date: 23 Sep 2005 03:53:12 -0700
Subject: ANN: Voidspace Updates - Jalopy, logintools, textmacros, downman (etc)
Message-ID: <1127472792.023255.217140@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Hello All,

There have been various updates to the Voidspace modules :

Jalopy 0.6.0
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/cgi.shtml#jalopy

A collaborative website designer (CGI). It uses Kupu
(http://kupu.oscom.org ) the WYSIWYG HTML editor.

This update moves to Kupu 1.3 and the pythonutils 0.2.2 set of modules.


logintools 0.6.0
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/cgi.shtml#logintools

A CGI framework for user authentication and account management. Add
user login to your CGI applications with two lines of code !

This update moves to the pythonutils 0.2.2 set of modules. logintools
is now being used on another project and seeing some development work.


textmacros
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#macros

A textmacro system for adding features to docutils
(http://docutils.sourceforge.net ).

This update makes it *much* easier to use (it now behaves like the
``buildhtml.py`` script). Easily add Python source coloring, smilies,
and accronyms (and much more) to reStructured Text.


downman 0.4.1
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/cgi.shtml#downman

A CGI download manager. Present files for download and statistics
(basic) about download rates.

This update has a security fix and uses the pythonutils 0.2.2 set of
modules. Also other minor updates. It also needs the updated version of
cgiutils.


cgiutils 0.3.3
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml#utils

A helpful set of constants and functions when working with CGI scripts.

This update has two bugfixes.


copy2cgi 1.1.1
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml#copy2cgi

A small convenience script to copy files and directories to a target
location. Useful for copying files to a server directory for testing.


pycrypto 2.0.1
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#pycrypto

I've (finally) updated the prebuild windows binary of PyCrypto (Python
2.4) to the 2.0.1 version.

All the best,


Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/index.shtml


All the Voidspace modules and applications are available under the OSI
Approved Open Source BSD License -
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/license.shtml


From atul.nene at gmail.com  Fri Sep 23 04:34:45 2005
From: atul.nene at gmail.com (Atul)
Date: 22 Sep 2005 19:34:45 -0700
Subject: Announcing the Software Engineers Reporting Assistant (SERA 1.0)
Message-ID: <1127442885.578106.39480@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>

Hi,

I am a Python enthusiast. I want to announce a tool that I wrote in
Python.

The Software Engineers Reporting Assistant (SERA), is a program
that primarily helps system analysts, programmers, software engineers,
or
any contributor in the Information Technology Industry to create
a Status Report of his/her work quickly.

Do visit http://sera.sourceforge.net/

The design goals for SERA (v1.0) were
- simple,
- easy to use

I hope you too will find that I have met them.

Any and every feedback is welcome.

Regards,

Atul
www.atulnene.com


From m at keysolutions.ru  Fri Sep 23 02:16:02 2005
From: m at keysolutions.ru (Mikhail Kashkin)
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:16:02 +0400
Subject: Repository for python developers
Message-ID: <20050923001624.8A0AF8F9F2@zope.silence.ksolutions.ru>

Moscow, Russia, September 23th, 2005

We are happy to spread good news about `Key Solutions'
<http://keysolutions.ru/>`_ new initiative. We have created a new public
repository for python developers. The ulitimate goal of this project is to
unite companies and people under the umbrella of Russian-speaking-python
(Zope/Plone/Zope3/Twisted/etc) open source programmers community, so that we
could jointly push forward new programs and technologies in Russia.

The repository powered by `subversion <http://subversion.tigris.org/>`_.

**Links**:

- `Press release in russian <http://keysolutions.ru/News/subversion>`_

- `Subversion <https://svn.keysolutions.ru/community/>`_

About Key Solutions
--------------------

Key Solutions is an open source company with primary focus in development of
corporative CRM Internet/intranet systems and web-communities. The company
promotes and supports Zope, Plone, Asterisk platforms in Russia.

To learn more about Key Solutions visit `eng.keysolutions.ru
<http://eng.keysolutions.ru/>`_ and `keysolutions.ru
<http://keysolutions.ru/>`_

--
Mikhail Kashkin, 
Key Solutions (http://keysolutions.ru/) 
Director
Zope/Asterisk/Plone - Solutions/Consulting/Support
Plone ?? ??????? http://plone.org.ru/ 
Plone Foundation Member (http://plone.org/foundation/members/)


From frank at niessink.com  Sat Sep 24 17:30:16 2005
From: frank at niessink.com (Frank Niessink)
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:30:16 +0200
Subject: [ANN] Release 0.48 of Task Coach
Message-ID: <43357108.9090804@niessink.com>

Hi all,

Unfortunately, the previous release of Task Coach contained two nasty 
bugs. This release aims to fix those bugs:

Bugs fixed:

* Filtering tasks by status ('View' -> 'Tasks that are' -> '...') would
   cause an exception.
* Sorting by days left would cause an exception.


What is Task Coach?

Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical
tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and is
developed using Python and wxPython. You can download Task Coach from:

http://taskcoach.niessink.com
https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach/

A binary installer is available for Windows XP, in addition to the
source distribution.

Note that Task Coach is alpha software, meaning that it is wise to back
up your task file regularly, and especially when upgrading to a new release.

Cheers, Frank


From ndmoses at ntlworld.com  Sat Sep 24 12:57:34 2005
From: ndmoses at ntlworld.com (Neil Moses)
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 11:57:34 +0100
Subject: PyODB version 0.3 released
Message-ID: <4335311E.2060100@ntlworld.com>

I would like to announce version 0.5 of PyODB a Python unixODBC API binding.

This release contains improvements to the mapping between the SQL
and Python datatypes and a re-write of the data retrieval code.

PyODB is a Python module and provides a simplified set of bindings
to unixODBC (http://www.unixodbc.org) allowing fast and easy development
of open database applications.

The module supports multiple data source connections with the following
connection methods;  execute(), fetch(), disconnect(), begin(), commit()
and rollback().

The software has been developed on a Linux environment using Python 2.x
and SWIG (http://www.swig.org). The module has been tested on Linux and
Solaris platforms using databases MySQL, Informix and PostgreSQL but
in theory should work on any platform supporting unixODBC and an ODBC
database driver.

To download the release visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyodb

Regards,
Neil Moses

From x at jwp.name  Sun Sep 25 11:00:25 2005
From: x at jwp.name (James William Pye)
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:00:25 GMT
Subject: Proboscis 0.1 Release
Message-ID: <JGtZe.25685$UI.1034@okepread05>

This is the first release announcement for Proboscis[1], the PQueue
based Green Trunk implementation. It is a PostgreSQL driver/interface
for Python. Another one? Well, yes and no. Proboscis is not libpq
based, nor does it primarily produce a DB-API 2.0 interface(0.2 may
include a layer for DB-API 2.0 users).

The release news item can be found here[2].

This frontend features, in no particular order, the following:
 * Pure Python
 * Green Trunk interface
 * Thread safety
 * Windows support
 * Basic SSL support
 * COPY TO/FROM support
 * Protocol level prepared statements and cursors(Portals)
 * Demand based cursor activity
 * query and procedure methods (see Green Trunk documentation)
 * bytea transparency (hint: no need to escape when using parameters)
 * Wire Tap (asynchronous notifications)
 * Automatic client encoding/decoding

Pure Python? It must be slow, no? Well, first, there is an optional C
extension module to provide an optimization in one sensitive area, so it's
not necessarily pure Python. As 1.0 approaches, other sensitive areas may be
optimized as well.

So how slow or fast is it? The following are some simple trials:
(The server and the client are on the same machine)

Copying,

COPY FROM Summary,
 copied tuples: 50000
 copied bytes: 2882981
 duration: 2.186987
 average tuple size(bytes): 57.000000
 average KB per second: 1287.159045
 average tuples per second: 22862.505244

COPY TO Summary,
 copied tuples: 50000
 duration: 2.299819
 average KB per second: 1224.009372
 average tuples per second: 21740.841414

(Warning: Without the C extension module, COPY TO's TPS will be cut in half)

Querying,

INSERT Summary,
 inserted tuples: 1000
 total time: 1.903957
 average tuples per second: 525.221976

(Note: Mass INSERT will likely be ~2-3x faster in version 0.2)

SELECT Summary,
 looped: 51
 read tuples: 1000
 looptime: 0.323199
 time reading tuples: 0.322262
 loop overhead: 0.000937
 average tuples per second: 3103.064739

(Warning: Without the C extension module, SELECT will lose 1000TPS)

While it is unlikely that these speeds will be seen in practice, it does give
one an idea as to what this interface can do with simple data.

For the quickest way to get started, see the Frontend sections of the Quick
Start page[4]. For further help, sign-up and post questions to the mailing
list[5].

[1] http://python.projects.postgresql.org/project/fe.html
[2] http://pgfoundry.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=522
[3] http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000094&release_id=315
[4] http://python.projects.postgresql.org/quick.html
[5] http://lists.pgfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/python-general

From t.koutsovassilis at gmail.com  Mon Sep 26 00:13:09 2005
From: t.koutsovassilis at gmail.com (t.koutsovassilis@gmail.com)
Date: 25 Sep 2005 15:13:09 -0700
Subject: Porcupine Web Application Server 0.0.4 released
Message-ID: <1127686389.756361.172730@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

This release includes the latest QuiX build and also contains an
enhanced version of the "pakager" utility. Furthermore, the previous
versions required the data type's class name and the Porcupine object's
attribute name to be identical; this limitation no longer exists.
This release also takes care of those having installed the previous
release (0.0.3) and wish to upgrade in a straightforward manner.

Python, AJAX and XUL roaring under the same hood...

For more info, see http://www.innoscript.org/content/view/34/2/

Enjoy.

Resources
=========
What is Porcupine?
http://www.innoscript.org/content/view/30/42/

Porcupine online demo:
http://www.innoscript.org/content/view/21/43/

Developer resources:
http://www.innoscript.org/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,33/func,selectcat/cat,3/


From ndmoses at ntlworld.com  Mon Sep 26 14:37:56 2005
From: ndmoses at ntlworld.com (Neil Moses)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:37:56 +0100
Subject: [ANN] PyODB version 0.5 released
Message-ID: <4337EBA4.3050407@ntlworld.com>

I would like to announce version 0.5 of PyODB a Python unixODBC API binding.

This release contains improvements to the mapping between the SQL
and Python datatypes and a re-write of the data retrieval code.
Also some changes to the reference counting.

PyODB is a Python module and provides a simplified set of bindings
to unixODBC (http://www.unixodbc.org) allowing fast and easy development
of open database applications.

The module supports multiple data source connections with the following
connection methods;  execute(), fetch(), disconnect(), begin(), commit()
and rollback().

The software has been developed on a Linux environment using Python 2.x
and SWIG (http://www.swig.org). The module has been tested on Linux and
Solaris platforms using databases MySQL, Informix and PostgreSQL but
in theory should work on any platform supporting unixODBC and an ODBC
database driver.

To download the release visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyodb

Regards,
Neil Moses

From fabioz at esss.com.br  Mon Sep 26 19:21:35 2005
From: fabioz at esss.com.br (Fabio Zadrozny)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:21:35 -0300
Subject: PyDev 0.9.8.2 released
Message-ID: <43382E1F.3000600@esss.com.br>

Hi All,

PyDev - Python IDE (Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse) version 
0.9.8.2 has been released.

Check the homepage (http://pydev.sourceforge.net/) for more details.

Details for Release: 0.9.8.2

Major highlights:
------------------------

    * Content assistants reviewed (and better documented on the homepage 
-- I really reccomend checking it)
    * Timeout parsing options added (this is available in the builder 
preferences page)
    * Auto-dedent added

Others that are new and noteworthy:
-----------------------------------------------------

    * .pyc is removed when the corresponding .py file is removed.
    * Debugger has been changed so that it becomes faster (still not as 
fast as I would like, but still... faster) -- looking for people with 
expertise on this to help me, as I'm kind of lost on which should be the 
'recommended' way to speed it more.
    * Some escaped quotes problems fixed when formatting code
    * Navigation with Ctrl+Shift+ (up or down) has been slightly 
improved, so that it goes to the start or the end of the file when no 
other class or method declaration is found
    * Other bug-fixes (as ususal)

Cheers,

Fabio

-- 
Fabio Zadrozny
------------------------------------------------------
Software Developer

ESSS - Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software
www.esss.com.br

PyDev - Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse
pydev.sf.net
pydev.blogspot.com




From andy at enfoldsystems.com  Mon Sep 26 20:58:33 2005
From: andy at enfoldsystems.com (Andy McKay)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:58:33 -0700
Subject: Vancouver Python and Zope: Next Meeting Oct 2nd
Message-ID: <433844D9.3010203@enfoldsystems.com>

The Vancouver Python and Zope user groups next meeting is on Oct 4th, at 
the usual place, ActiveState at 7.

Mishtu Banerjee will be giving a talked entitled "Desperately Seeking 
Abstraction"

"I built an SQL query generator (as part of a larger project) based on 
the underlying abstraction of representing data models as "networks". 
It's a nice illustration of abstracting a particular analysis pattern 
(in this case, we're abstracting the pattern of multi-table inner joins, 
which is one of the most common ad-hoc query types)"

For more information see our website: http://www.vanpyz.org

Mailing list: http://www.agmweb.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/list
-- 
   Andy McKay
   Enfold Systems, LLC
   http://www.enfoldsystems.com

From python-url at phaseit.net  Mon Sep 26 21:12:31 2005
From: python-url at phaseit.net (Diez B. Roggisch)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:12:31 +0000
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 26)
Message-ID: <E1EJyOt-0004aj-Pb@lairds.us>

QOTW:  "This is Open Source. If you want an initiative, start
one." -- Rheinold Birkenfeld

"I've found jython incredibly helpful in learning java." -- pythonUser_07


    The fourth annual "Free Software and Open Source Symposium" hosted by
    Canada's largest college includes a talk on "Python Power -- Learning,
    Teaching and Doing with the World's Easiest Programming Language":
        http://cs.senecac.on.ca/soss/2005/agenda.php
	http://cs.senecac.on.ca/soss/2005/presentations/george.php

    The first PyWeek Game Programming Challenge is finished - and it seems
    it was a great success. See this thread for the results:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/e33c3ee2550b90d3
    
    py2exe has been a tremendous help for lots of application
    developers - but its maintainer is getting tired maintaining it.
    Any volunteers?
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/397dbc71441a8890
    
    pythonXX.dll gets larger and larger - read on how you can reduce it
    in size if you absolutely must in the age of gigabyte-equipped
    mp3-players:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a20f937a67047406

    Laszlo Zolt Nagy learns that self-reordering lists aren't the solution
    for least-recently-used caches - and is given some pointers where to
    find implementations of these:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/5431d51de8d3c9a1

    Mercurial is a Python-based "distributed SCM" .
        http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi              
    
    This is to all of the home-brewn frankenstein-style DNA-sequence
    manglers: use Python, but don't use immutable strings when a list
    is all you need to fine-tune your next creation:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/78b7f9df4f36b2db
    
    sys.argv nicely provides command-line arguments - most of the time.
    But when it comes to passing internationalized strings on windows,
    one has to use the win32-API:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/22bcdd80266c6b68/5ed8287c40c79e10?q=Python+argv+and+special+characters&rnum=1#5ed8287c40c79e10
    

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

    Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional
    center of Pythonia
        http://www.python.org
    Notice especially the master FAQ
        http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

    PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the
    marvelous daily python url
         http://www.pythonware.com/daily  
    Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new)
    World-Wide Web articles related to Python.
         http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html 
    While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL
    are utterly different in their technologies and generally in
    their results.

    For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should
    absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index
    much of the universe of Pybloggers.
	http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog
        http://www.planetpython.org/
        http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html

    comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software.  Be
    sure to scan this newsgroup weekly.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce

    Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous
    tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett
    Cannon of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing
    list once every other week.
	http://www.python.org/dev/summary/

    The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
        http://www.python.org/pypi/

    The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references
    to all sorts of Python resources.
        http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/   

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

    Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line
    match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're
    subject with a vision of what the language makes practical.
        http://www.pythonology.com/success

    The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python
    Consortium as an independent nexus of activity.  It has official
    responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. 
        http://www.python.org/psf/
    Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.
        http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html

    Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches.
        http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch
       
    Cetus collects Python hyperlinks.
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

    Python FAQTS
        http://python.faqts.com/

    The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
    interesting recipes.
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python

    Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are
	http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
	http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi
	http://python.de/backend.php
    For more, see
	http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
    The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
    SourceForge reincarnation.
        http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
        http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html
     
    The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com.
    editor at pythonjournal.com and editor at pythonjournal.cognizor.com
    welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding
    of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work.

    del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
    It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
        http://del.icio.us/tag/python

    *Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
        http://www.pyzine.com

    Archive probing tricks of the trade:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100
        http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ (requires subscription)
  http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=python-url+group:comp.lang.python*&start=0&scoring=d&
  http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant)
or
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python
There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet.  Arguments
for and against are occasionally entertained.


Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
E-mail to <Python-URL at phaseit.net> should get through.

To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning
(approximately), ask <claird at phaseit.net> 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.

From tim.one at comcast.net  Mon Sep 26 22:21:01 2005
From: tim.one at comcast.net (Tim Peters)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:21:01 -0400
Subject: ZODB 3.5.1 final released
Message-ID: <20050926202115.721AB1E4002@bag.python.org>

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.5.1 final.  This corresponds
to the ZODB that will ship in Zope 3.1.0 final.  You can download a source
tarball or Windows installer from:

    http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.5

Note that there are two Windows installers, for Python 2.3 (2.3.5 is
recommended) and Python 2.4 (2.4.1 is recommended).

ZODB 3.5.1 contains (just) a few bugfixes relative to 3.5.0, involving Zope
3's zeoctl and mkzeoinst scripts, and the ZopeUndo.Prefix class.  See the
NEWS file for details:

    http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.5/NEWS.html

The current status of all active ZODB lines can be seen here:

    http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/CurrentStatus



From dberlin at gmail.com  Tue Sep 27 20:51:50 2005
From: dberlin at gmail.com (dberlin@gmail.com)
Date: 27 Sep 2005 11:51:50 -0700
Subject: FarPy GUIE v0.1
Message-ID: <1127847109.971264.315830@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

GUIE (GUI Editor) provides a simple WYSIWYG GUI editor for wxPython.
The program was made in C# and saves the GUI that was created to a XML
format I called GUIML. This GUIML is a pretty standrad representation
of the GUI created with the program. Next, GUIE takes these GUIML files
and translates it to wxPython Python code. You may ask yourself why I
took the extra step? Why didn't I go straight from C# controls to
wxPython code? Why is GUIML neccessary? Well, it isn't. It is there
simply for people (or maybe I) to take the GUIML and convert it to
other languages. This, by affect can convert this tool from a Python
GUI editor, to "any programming language with a GUI module" GUI editor.

Changes:
    Fix: cast exception when editing form properties
    Fix: exception raised when GUI form too small
    Added: settings window functionality
    Added: controls: Progress Bar, Picture Box, Track Bar (Slider)
    Added: keyboard functionality (arrow movement and delete key)
    Fix: selection made when resizing GUI form
    Fix: control moved down when resized beyond its limit
    Changed: default foreground color to black
    Fix: Combo Box offset when moving
    Added: exit confirmation system
    Added: multi-selection system, enables moving and deleting (also
removing/adding single control using the control key)


From anthony at python.org  Wed Sep 28 14:44:15 2005
From: anthony at python.org (Anthony Baxter)
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:44:15 +1000
Subject: RELEASED Python 2.4.2 (final)
Message-ID: <200509282244.26130.anthony@python.org>

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
happy to announce the release of Python 2.4.2 (final).

Python 2.4.2 is a bug-fix release. See the release notes at the 
website (also available as Misc/NEWS in the source distribution) for 
details of the more than 60 bugs squished in this release.

For more information on Python 2.4.2, including download links for
various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see:

    http://www.python.org/2.4.2

Highlights of this new release include:

  - Bug fixes. According to the release notes, more than 60 have been
    fixed, including bugs that prevented Python from working properly 
    on 64 bit HP/UX and AIX systems.

Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.4) are available     
from the Python 2.4 page, at                                            

    http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html

Enjoy the new release,
Anthony

Anthony Baxter
anthony at python.org
Python Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)
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From oliphant at ee.byu.edu  Fri Sep 30 09:03:00 2005
From: oliphant at ee.byu.edu (Travis Oliphant)
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 01:03:00 -0600
Subject: SciPy Core (replacement for Numeric Python) first beta release
Message-ID: <433CE324.6030603@ee.byu.edu>

Background:

Numeric  is an add-on Python module that has seen widespread adoption.  
It enables Python to be used as a Scientific Computing Environment 
similar to MATLAB or IDL.  Numeric was originally written nearly 10 
years ago, and while still performing admirably, needed much updating to 
take advantage of the new features in Python and to remove old warts.

SciPy Core 0.4.1 (beta)

SciPy Core is a new system which builds on the code-base of Numeric, but 
implements features (such as advanced index-selection, and user-settable 
error modes).  There are over 25 major new feature enhancements.  The 
LICENSE is still a BSD style License---the same as old Numeric.  More 
information can be found at the web-site: http://numeric.scipy.org


The primary developer of scipy core (besides the original creators of 
Numeric upon which it is based) is Travis Oliphant 
(oliphant at ee.byu.edu), but his work received ideas and support from a 
wide cast of community members including:  Pearu Peterson, Robert Kern, 
Perry Greenfield, Eric Jones, John Hunter, Fernando Perez, Konrad 
Hinsen, and Paul Dubois.  These individuals should not be held 
responsible for any bugs remaining in the code.


<P><A HREF="http://numeric.scipy.org">SciPy Core 0.4.1 (beta)</A> - 
Replacement for Numeric Python. (30-Sep-05)

From unicorn at kurskline.ru  Fri Sep 30 09:01:50 2005
From: unicorn at kurskline.ru (Roman V. Kiseliov)
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:01:50 +0400
Subject: pyExcelerator 0.6.1a is now available
Message-ID: <433CE2DE.3050702@kurskline.ru>


I'm pleased to announce that pyExcelerator 0.6.1a is now available for
download.
-------------------------------------------------------
What can you do with pyExcelerator:

Generating Excel 97+ files with Python 2.4+ (need decorators),
importing Excel 95+ files,
support for UNICODE in Excel files,
using variety of formatting features and printing options,
formulas, dates, numbers support,
Excel files and OLE2 compound files dumper.
No need in Windows/COM,
pure Python code.

---------------------------------------------------------
0.6.1a (29.09.2005)
---------
  * fixed: exception when reading OLE2 files with incorrect MSAT
    (sector ids points to nonexistense sectors). For example see
    file p-0508-0000507647-3280-5298.xls in ./museum

----------------------------------------------------------
DOWNLOAD:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/
http://www.kiseliov.ru/downloads.html

----------------------------------------------------------
PLEASE-PLEASE:

If you downloaded pyExcelerator's copy, please send me any postcard:


Roman V. Kiseliov
305001
Russia
Kursk
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