Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 8)

2006-05-08 Thread Peter Otten
QOTW: "If you can find a workable solution not involving metaclasses and decorators, don't use them" - Michele Simionato "Newest Beautiful Soup beta solves everyone's problems that I know of." - Leonard Richardson Jeff Croft gives a good introduction to the Django web framework. Don't le

Zope 3.3.0 beta 1 released!

2006-05-08 Thread Stephan Richter
The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce Zope 3.3.0 beta 1. 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. Cleanup of the Zope 3 packages has continued to ensure a flexible and scalable pl

ANN: iTorrent alpha-2

2006-05-08 Thread Michael Hobbs
Announcing the second alpha release of iTorrent. iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes. It transforms BitTorrent podcasts so that you can update them just like any other podcast in iTunes. Details can be found at http://www.itorrent.cc. iTorrent is written in Python an

ZPUG Wed. May 10: pygame and Twisted+PyObjC+Flickr!

2006-05-08 Thread Gary Poster
Please join us this Wednesday, May 10, 7:30-9:00 PM, for the next meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). Come for Pygame, Twisted, PyObjectiveC (i.e. Python for Macs), and food! Zac Bir will present on using Twisted with PyObjC to make a Flickr photo browser

ANN: DBUtils 0.9.1 has been released

2006-05-08 Thread Christoph Zwerschke
DBUtils 0.9.1 has been released. DBUtils is a suite of tools providing solid, persistent and pooled connections to a database that can be used in all kinds of multi-threaded environments such as Webware for Python or other web application servers. The suite supports DB-API 2 compliant database

released: RPyC 2.55

2006-05-08 Thread sebulba
Remote Python Call (RPyC) - transparent and symmetrical python RPC and distributed computing library download and info: http://rpyc.wikispaces.com full changelog: http://rpyc.wikispaces.com/changelog release notes: http://rpyc.wikispaces.com/release+notes major changes: * added isinstance and iss

PyYAML-3.01: Initial Release

2006-05-08 Thread Kirill Simonov
PyYAML: YAML parser and emitter for Python == YAML is a data serialization format designed for human readability and interaction with scripting languages. PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for Python. PyYAML features a complete YAML 1.1 parser, Unicode s

ANN: progressbar 2.2 - Text mode progressbar for console applications

2006-05-08 Thread Nilton Volpato
Text progressbar library for python. http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/progressbar This library provides a text mode progressbar. This is tipically used to display the progress of a long running operation, providing a visual clue that processing is underway. The ProgressBar class manages the p