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ANN: eric3 3.6.1 released
by Detlev Offenbach Jan. 29, 2005

Jan. 29, 2005

Hi, this is to let all of you know, that eric3 3.6.1 has just been released. It fixes a few nasty bugs, which were reported since the last release. It is available via http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html Eric3 is an Integrated Development Environment for Python. For details please see the above mentioned URL. Regards, Detlev -- Detlev Offenbach detlev(a)die-offenbachs.de

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 28)
by Cameron Laird Jan. 28, 2005

Jan. 28, 2005

QOTW: "It might be nice if it was widely understood (in IT) that Python was a language any competent programmer could pick up in an afternoon, such that Java, C, and Perl shops would not be concerned about the need for their staff to learn a new language." -- Eric Pederson "What's kind of surprising is that it has turned out to be easier to rewire the entire world for high-bandwidth Internet than it is to make a good replication architecture so you can work disconnected!" -- Joel http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/09/spolsky/index4.html It's the Early Bird deadline for PyCon 2005! http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5… A wide-ranging thread on "security" yields, among other high points, a recommendation to read *Security Engineering* and examples of real security issues Python has: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a… Can Python operate on a Windows "desktop"? Sure, in a variety of ways. Thanks to Dennis Benzinger, Jimmy Retzlaff, Vincent Wehren, and others for their catalogue: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f… The martellibot illustrates why Python's introspection--and __subclasses__, in particular--make correct "sandboxing" so challenging for us: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d… After a rest of a couple months, it's time again to urge consideration of IPython as your working shell: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3… 4XSLT is thread-safe, but individual processor instances are not. 4Suite exploits processor-per-thread: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c… Thread inheritance with win32com requires Co*nitialize() management: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3… Gerald and the timbot speak sense on the platform-specificity that is memory management. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2… Do NOT let your inheritance schemes complexify. One palliative tactic is to remember (lazy) "containerization" as an alternative to subclassing. And learn about decorators. And descriptors, for that matter: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7… Do people still FTP? Well, Python people *can* ...: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3… ======================================================================== 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. 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 Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson 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/ The Python Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies that base their business on ... Python." http://www.python-in-business.org 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(a)pythonjournal.com and editor(a)pythonjournal.cognizor.com welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work. deli.cio.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.pyth… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lan… Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. E-mail to <Python-URL(a)phaseit.net> should get through. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning (approximately), ask <claird(a)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.

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ANNOUNCE: SpamBayes release 1.0.3
by Tony Meyer Jan. 28, 2005

Jan. 28, 2005

The SpamBayes team is pleased to announce release 1.0.3 of SpamBayes. As is now usual, this is both a release of the source code and of an installation program for all Microsoft Windows users. This is a bug-fix (brown paper bag) release that fixes two problems with the 1.0.2 release. One effects all users that do not have a copy of the Microsoft msvcr71.dll file on their system, preventing installation/use, and the other is a minor display bug in the sb_server web interface. Yesterday's 1.0.2 release is no longer available (apologies to those that tried to install it). We strongly recommend that those with 1.0.2 or any sb_server/sb_imapfilter users with 1.0.1 upgrade. Details about the bugs that have been fixed in this release can be found at https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=300483 You can get the release via the 'Download' page at http://spambayes.org/download.html Enjoy the new release and your spam-free mailbox :-) As always, thanks to everyone involved in this release. Tony. (on behalf of the SpamBayes team) --- What is SpamBayes? --- The SpamBayes project is working on developing a Bayesian (of sorts) anti-spam filter (in Python), initially based on the work of Paul Graham, but since modified with ideas from Robinson, Peters, et al. The project includes a number of different applications, all using the same core code, ranging from a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, to a POP3 proxy, to various command-line tools. The Windows installation program will install either the Outlook add-in (for Microsoft Outlook users), or the SpamBayes server program (for all other POP3 mail client users, including Microsoft Outlook Express). All Windows users (including existing users of the Outlook add-in) are encouraged to use the installation program. If you wish to use the source-code version, you will also need to install Python - see README.txt in the source tree for more information.

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ANN: IPython 0.6.10 is out.
by Fernando Perez Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 27, 2005

Hi all, I'm glad to announce the release of IPython 0.6.10. IPython's homepage is at: http://ipython.scipy.org and downloads are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist I've provided RPMs (for Python 2.3, built under Fedora Core 3), plus source downloads (.tar.gz). We now also have a native win32 installer. Debian, Fink and BSD packages for this version should be coming soon, as the respective maintainers (many thanks to Jack Moffit, Andrea Riciputi and Dryice Liu) have the time to follow their packaging procedures. Many thanks to Enthought for their continued hosting support for IPython, and to all the users who contributed ideas, fixes and reports. WHAT is IPython? ---------------- 1. An interactive shell superior to Python's default. IPython has many features for object introspection, system shell access, and its own special command system for adding functionality when working interactively. 2. An embeddable, ready to use interpreter for your own programs. IPython can be started with a single call from inside another program, providing access to the current namespace. 3. A flexible framework which can be used as the base environment for other systems with Python as the underlying language. Release notes ------------- As always, the NEWS file can be found at http://ipython.scipy.org/NEWS, and the full ChangeLog at http://ipython.scipy.org/ChangeLog. * The major highlight of this release is vastly improved support for Windows users. Thanks to a lot of help from Viktor Ransmayr (installer work) and Gary Bishop (coloring problems), now Windows users finally should have an ipython with all the functionality available under Unix. There is now a true win32 executable installer: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.6.10.win32.exe This can be double-clicked and it will do a real windows installation, allowing later de-installation via the Control Panel. It will also warn if it detects that ctypes and/or readline are missing (needed for coloring/tab support). Full source syntax highlighting had always been broken under win32, and the bug turned out to be in ipython's formatting code. Thanks to Gary's debugging help, this problem is now fixed. You can test it by typing in ipython: import code code?? You should see properly highligted sources, as shown in this (new) screenshot: http://ipython.scipy.org/screenshots/snapshot6.png Under Win32, ipython will now honor (if it exists) the $HOME environment variable and it will put your .ipython/ directory there. This should be more consistent for Win32 users who have a unix-like setup. If $HOME is not defined, the previous behavior remains (HOMEDRIVE\HOMEPATH). I also fixed a crash for pylab users under win32 with multithreaded backends (GTK/WX). I would appreciate reports of any problems from Win32 users. * (X)Emacs users: I incorporated Alex Schmolck's recent fixes and improvements to ipython.el. Since the python-mode project still hasn't made a release with the changes which IPython needs, I've temporarily copied today's CVS snapshot (v 4.70) of python-mode.el here: http://ipython.scipy.org/tmp/python-mode.el Once they make an official release, I'll remove this. * Small cleanups and improvements to numutils, including new amin/amax and empty_like utility functions. The deprecated spike/spike_odd functions have been removed. * Fix issue 24 from the bug tracker: spurious attribute access on assignment (foo.x=1 would trigger a __getattr__ call on foo). * Fix reporting of compound names in verbose exception reporting mode. This had been broken since the beginning of ipython (the tokenization logic was a bit tricky). * Fix gtk deprecation warnings (A. Straw patch). * Fix crash when inspecting instances without an __init__ method (reported by N. Nemenc). * Fix quote stripping bug in shell access (P. Ramachandran report). * Other minor fixes and cleanups, both to code and documentation. Enjoy, and as usual please report any problems. Regards, Fernando.

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[ANN] Movable Python, linky and Techie Blog
by fuzzyman＠gmail.com Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 27, 2005

Minor news first : 'linky' a local link checker is available. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/programs.shtml#linky linky will check your website for dead links (within the website) as well as comparing it to the website on your filesystem, to check for case errors that might not be picked up if you test your website on windows. It can also report files that don't appear to be linked to - for finding redundant images etc. linky uses BeautifulSoup to do the hard work. The Voidspace Techie Blog has moved. My (mainly python related blog) now lives at : http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/index.shtml It is created using firedrop - the excellent blog tool by Hans Nowak MOVABLE PYTHON http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy http://sourceforge.net/projects/movpy Version 0.4.5 is now available, hurrah. There are now prebuilt distributions for Python 2.2, 2.3, *and* 2.4. This is a bugifx/update release. The distributions it produces are very *similar* to version 0.4.4 distributions, but there are a couple of issues resolved. See http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/changelog.html for details. *Most* of the changes relate to the PyDistFrreeze.py in the 'source' package. This is the code that creates the frozen distributions. There have been several simplifications and improvements. Again, see the CHANGELOG for details. Version 0.5.0 Bruno Thoorens has provided me with the code for the GUI for PyDistFreeze.py When I have integrated it with PyDistFreeze.py it will form the 0.5.0 release. This should be in the next couple of weeks time permitting. The GUI is *excellent* :-) Movable Python is a Python runtime that can run scripts without the need for Python to be installed. With the inclusion of wxPython and SPE editor it is a portable (movable) development environment. Also useful for testing scripts with several different python versions. The source version will build frozen environments (using py2exe - so Windoze only currently), this can include whichever extension modules/packages you choose. Regards, Michael Foord http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

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[ANN] favs2web - favorites publisher
by Lowell Kirsh Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 27, 2005

Favs2web is a program which will take your IE favorites or your Mozilla/Firefox bookmarks and make a pretty javascript-enabled web page out of them. It's useful for people who want to have access to their bookmarks when they are not at their computer. You can check out a sample output at: www.cs.ubc.ca/~lkirsh/my-bookmarks.html and you can check out the program at: www.cs.ubc.ca/~lkirsh/favs2web.html All questions and comments are welcome.

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OSCON Call For Proposals Now Open
by Kevin Altis Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 27, 2005

The Call for Proposals has just opened for the 7th Annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/ OSCON is headed back to friendly, economical Portland, Oregon during the week of August 1-5, 2005. If you've ever wanted to join the OSCON speaker firmament, now's your chance to submit a proposal (or two) by February 13, 2005. Complete details are available on the OSCON web site, but we're particularly interested in exploring how software development is moving to another level, and how developers and businesses are adjusting to new business models and architectures. We're looking for sessions, tutorials, and workshops proposals that appeal to developers, systems and network administrators, and their managers in the following areas: - All aspects of building applications, services, and systems that use the new capabilities of the open source platform - Burning issues for Java, Mozilla, web apps, and beyond - The commoditization of software: who and/or what can show us the money? - Network-enabled collaboration - Software customizability, including software as a service - Law, licensing, politics, and how best to navigate other troubled waters Specific topics and tracks at OSCON 2005 include: Linux and other open source operating systems, Java, PHP, Python, Perl, Databases (including MySQL and PostgreSQL), Apache, XML, Applications, Ruby, and Security. Attendees have a wide range of experience, so be sure to target a particular level of experience: beginner, intermediate, advanced. Talks and tutorials should be technical; strictly no marketing presentations. Session presentations are 45 or 90 minutes long, and tutorials are either a half-day (3 hours) or a full day (6 hours). Feel free to spread the word about the Call for Proposals to your friends, family, colleagues, and compatriots. We want everyone to submit, from American women hacking artificial life into the Linux kernel to Belgian men building a better mousetrap from PHP and recycled military hardware. We mean everyone! Even if you don't want to participate as a speaker, send us your suggestions--topics you'd like to see covered, groups we should bring into the OSCON fold, extra-curricular activities we should organize--to oscon-idea(a)oreilly.com . This year, we're moving to the wide open spaces of the Oregon Convention Center. We've arranged for the nearby Doubletree Hotel to be our headquarters hotel--it's a short, free Max light rail ride (or a lovely walk) from the Convention Center. Registration opens in April 2005; hotel information will be available shortly. Deadline to submit a proposal is Midnight (PST), February 13. For all the conference details, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/ Press coverage, blogs, photos, and news from the 2004 O'Reilly Open Source Convention can be found at: http://www.oreillynet.com/oscon2004/ Would your company like to make a big impression on the open source community? If so, consider exhibiting or becoming a sponsor. Contact Andrew Calvo at (707) 827-7176, or andrewc(a)oreilly.com for more info. See you Portland next summer, The O'Reilly OSCON Team ka

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ANNOUNCE: SpamBayes release 1.0.1
by Tony Meyer Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 27, 2005

The SpamBayes team is pleased to announce release 1.0.2 of SpamBayes. As is now usual, this is both a release of the source code and of an installation program for all Microsoft Windows users. This is a bug-fix release that fixes a number of minor issues with the 1.0.1 release, but includes no new functionality, and is entirely compatible with the 1.0 release. A 1.1a1 release, including many new features, will probably be released soon (probably within a few weeks). This release fixes a couple of bugs with the sb_server/sb_imapfilter web interface which are particularly annoying, so we strongly recommend all such users upgrade. This release also includes the first binary built with Python 2.4 - as a result, malformed email should no longer be a problem. Details about the bugs that have been fixed in this release can be found at https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=285346 You can get the release via the 'Download' page at http://spambayes.org/download.html Enjoy the new release and your spam-free mailbox :-) As always, thanks to everyone involved in this release, and, as always, the Python development team, particularly Barry, Anthony and the rest of the team responsible for email 3.0. Tony. (on behalf of the SpamBayes team) --- What is SpamBayes? --- The SpamBayes project is working on developing a Bayesian (of sorts) anti-spam filter (in Python), initially based on the work of Paul Graham, but since modified with ideas from Robinson, Peters, et al. The project includes a number of different applications, all using the same core code, ranging from a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, to a POP3 proxy, to various command-line tools. The Windows installation program will install either the Outlook add-in (for Microsoft Outlook users), or the SpamBayes server program (for all other POP3 mail client users, including Microsoft Outlook Express). All Windows users (including existing users of the Outlook add-in) are encouraged to use the installation program. If you wish to use the source-code version, you will also need to install Python - see README.txt in the source tree for more information.

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cx_Oracle packaging issue
by Anthony Tuininga Jan. 26, 2005

Jan. 26, 2005

I have received a number of e-mails about the fact that the Python 2.4 builds on Windows were missing the rather vital file cx_Oracle.pyd. :-) Tracking it down resulted in the discovery of a distutils bug in Python 2.4. I got around the problem (and logged a bug on SourceForge so it should get fixed properly later) and new files have been uploaded to SourceForge. As always, you can get at them directly from my web site: http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining My apologies for the packaging mishap. -- Anthony Tuininga anthony(a)computronix.com Computronix Distinctive Software. Real People. Suite 200, 10216 - 124 Street NW Edmonton, AB, Canada T5N 4A3 Phone: (780) 454-3700 Fax: (780) 454-3838 http://www.computronix.com

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[ANNOUNCE] Twenty-second release of PythonCAD now available
by Art Haas Jan. 26, 2005

Jan. 26, 2005

I'm pleased to announce the twenty-second development release of PythonCAD, a CAD package for open-source software users. As the name implies, PythonCAD is written entirely in Python. The goal of this project is to create a fully scriptable drafting program that will match and eventually exceed features found in commercial CAD software. PythonCAD is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). PythonCAD requires Python 2.2 or newer. The interface is GTK 2.0 based, and uses the PyGTK module for interfacing to GTK. The design of PythonCAD is built around the idea of separating the interface from the back end as much as possible. By doing this, it is hoped that both GNOME and KDE interfaces can be added to PythonCAD through usage of the appropriate Python module. Addition of other PythonCAD interfaces will depend on the availability of a Python module for that particular interface and developer interest and action. The twenty-second release contains primarily internal code enhancements in regards to the Python language. PythonCAD running under PyGTK releases after the 2.4.0 release will now utilize the gtk.ComboBox and the gtk.ColorButton widgets, while PythonCAD running under older releases will still utilize the same widgets as before. This change removes the DeprecatationWarning users with the newer PyGTK release would see. A problem where restoring a deleted TextBlock entity was fixed, and a variety of other fixes and improvements are also included in this release. A mailing list for the development and use of PythonCAD is available. Visit the following page for information about subscribing and viewing the mailing list archive: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad Visit the PythonCAD web site for more information about what PythonCAD does and aims to be: http://www.pythoncad.org/ Come and join me in developing PythonCAD into a world class drafting program! Art Haas -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822

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