ANN: xlrd 0.6.1 final is now available

2007-06-11 Thread John Machin
The final release of version 0.6.1 of xlrd is now available from http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm and from the Cheeseshop (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xlrd). What is xlrd? It's a small (download approx 0.1 Mb) pure-Python library for extracting information from Microsoft Excel (tm)

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 11)

2007-06-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: "That's the Martellibot for you. Never use a word where a paragraph with explanatory footnotes will do. Sigh. I miss him on c.l.py." - Simon Brunning "Conclusion: advice to 'try Python for yourself' is apt in a way the original questioner might not realize." - Cameron Laird A

[ANN] Release 0.64.1 of Task Coach

2007-06-11 Thread Frank Niessink
Hi, I'm pleased to announce release 0.64.1 of Task Coach. This is a bug fix release that should fix the following bugs: * Task Coach would complain about an error when closing the application. This was due to a missing package in the Windows executable distribution. * On Linux, Task Coach was not

multitask 0.2.0: Cooperative multitasking and asynchronous I/O using generators

2007-06-11 Thread Christopher Stawarz
multitask allows Python programs to use generators (a.k.a. coroutines) to perform cooperative multitasking and asynchronous I/O. Applications written using multitask consist of a set of cooperating tasks that yield to a shared task manager whenever they perform a (potentially) blocking operation, s

ANN: papyros 0.1

2007-06-11 Thread George Sakkis
I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of Papyros, a lightweight platform-independent package for parallel processing. Papyros provides a master-slave model: clients can submit jobs to a master object which is monitored by one or more slave objects that do the real work. Two main implemen

ANN: Next pyCologne meeting, Wed June 13, 2007, 6:30 pm

2007-06-11 Thread Christopher Arndt
Dear Pythonistas, the next monthly meeting of pyCologne, the Python User Group Köln, takes place on: Date: Wednesday June 13, 2007 Time: 6:30 Uhr pm c.t. Venue: Hörsall 301 (3. Etage), Institut für Informatik, Universität Köln, Pohligstr. 1, 50969 Köln, Germany !!! ATTENTION: NEW VENUE