Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 20)

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Otten
QOTW: "Anything with 'Python' in its name can't market Python well." - Iain Bicking "Who really cares whether NASA uses Python? One thing I learned from having to sit through too many software marketing presentations is that organizations like NASA are to software what the Library of Congress is

Bug Day on Friday, 31st of March

2006-03-20 Thread Georg Brandl
Hello, it's time for the 7th Python Bug Day. The aim of the bug day is to close as many bugs, patches and feature requests as possible, this time with a special focus on new features that can still go into the upcoming 2.5 alpha release. When? ^ The bug day will take place on Friday, March 3

py2exe 0.6.5 released

2006-03-20 Thread Jimmy Retzlaff
py2exe 0.6.5 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

Pywin32 - 2.08

2006-03-20 Thread M�ta-MCI
Hi! Mark Hammond must be a little timid. Then, I copy and past his message: --- Hi all, I have just released build 208 of the pywin32 extensions. Change log and release notes: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=403008 Download via

Zenoss Project (Network/Systems Management)

2006-03-20 Thread Bill Karpovich
We are pleased to announce the Zenoss project. Zenoss is Python/Zope-based, network/systems monitoring application that has been in development since 2002. The goal of Zenoss is to "Simplify Systems Management" with a Python, open source alternative to the big commercial management suites (e.g. I

Release: PySyck 0.61.1

2006-03-20 Thread Kirill Simonov
A new version of PySyck is available at: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PySyck PySyck is a Python binding to the Syck YAML parser and emitter. Changes from 0.55.1 to 0.61.1: * setup.py build: check the presence of syck.h and print a helpful message if it is not found. * Release GIL when calling syc