ANN: WCK for Tkinter 1.1 beta 1 (october 15, 2005)

2005-10-17 Thread Fredrik Lundh
The Widget Construction Kit (WCK) is an extension API that allows you to implement custom widgets in pure Python. The WCK can be (and is being) used for everything from light-weight display widgets to full-blown editor frameworks. The Tkinter3000 implementation of the WCK supports all recent vers

ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 1.0.9

2005-10-17 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
ANNOUNCEMENT EGENIX.COM mxODBC Zope Database Adapter Version 1.0.9 Usable with Zope and the Plone CMS. Availab

NYLUG meeting: 10/26 The Python Object Model with Alex Martelli & Google (slight correction)

2005-10-17 Thread Ron Guerin
(date and time inadvertently omitted last time. sorry!) The New York Linux User's Group invites you to a special presentation by Alex Martelli of Google, on the Python Object Model. This presentation will be held at P.J. Clarke's Sidecar, rather than our usual location, and Google is picking up t

IMDbPY 2.2 released

2005-10-17 Thread Davide Alberani
IMDbPY 2.2 is available (tgz, deb, rpm, exe) from: http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/ IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about both movies and people. With this release it is possible to retrieve some new information, including "guest appear

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 17)

2005-10-17 Thread Cameron Laird
QOTW: "If you don't have the time to be paranoid, try taking the time to straighten out identity theft." -- K. G. Schneider "The best way to make classes on the fly is generally to call the metaclass with suitable parameters (just like, the best way to make instances of any type is generally to ca