Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 23)

2005-01-25 Thread Josiah Carlson
QOTW: "XML with elementtree is what makes me never have [to] think about XML again." -- Istvan Albert "'Plays well with others' was a strong motivator for Python's design, and that often means playing by others' rules." -- Tim Peters Type mutability, and why some types are immutable. T

Microsoft to Provide PyCon Opening Keynote

2005-01-25 Thread Steve Holden
Dear Python Colleague: The PyCon Program Committee is happy to announce that the opening keynote speech, at 9:30 am on Wednesday March 23 will be: Python on the .NET Platform, by Jim Hugunin, Microsoft Corporation Jim Hugunin is well-known in the Python world for his pioneering work on

ANN: cElementTree 0.9.8 (january 23, 2005)

2005-01-25 Thread Fredrik Lundh
effbot.org proudly presents release 0.9.8 of the cElementTree library, a fast and very efficient implementation of the ElementTree API, for Python 2.1 and later. On typical documents, it's 15-20 times faster than the Python version of ElementTree, and uses 2-5 times less memory. This release inclu

[ANN] PyComicsViewer 0.9.4

2005-01-25 Thread ionutz
PyComicsViewer-0.9.4 has been released. What is PyComicsViewer? === Is a comics viewer written in python, PyGTK and PIL. I made it as I didn't fully like any of the existing viewers and I wanted something that works the same (nice) way on both Linux and Windows. Because of th

ANN: MoinMoin 1.3.2 (advanced wiki engine) released

2005-01-25 Thread Alexander Schremmer
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ANN: eric3 3.6.0 released

2005-01-25 Thread Detlev Offenbach
Hi, this is to let you know about a new release of eric3, the Python IDE. It has a bunch of new functions. The most prominent ones are listed below. - added some dialog wrappers that make eric3 use KDE dialogs, if KDE and PyKDE are installed - added a previewer for UI files - added a previewer fo

ANN: Leo 4.3-a1 released

2005-01-25 Thread Edward K. Ream
Leo 4.3 alpha 1 is now available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ Leo 4.3 is the culmination of more than four months of work. In spite of its alpha status, I recommend Leo 4.3a1 over any 4.2 release. The defining features of Leo 4.3: - 1. Leo now stores op

Logix 0.4 Released

2005-01-25 Thread tom
Logix version 0.4 has been released. http://logix.livelogix.com Logix is a multi-language programming system for Python. >From the website: Logix is more than a programming language. It is multi-language programming system. With Logix, each part of your program can be developed in a language th

python-dev Summary for 2004-12-01 through 2004-12-15

2005-01-25 Thread Brett C.
This is a summary of traffic on the `python-dev mailing list`_ from December 01, 2004 through December 15, 2004. It is intended to inform the wider Python community of on-going developments on the list. To comment on anything mentioned here, just post to `comp.lang.python`_ (or email python-l

Leo 4.2.1 final released

2005-01-25 Thread Edward K. Ream
Leo 4.2.1 Final is now available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ Version 4.2.1 corrects problems associated with Python 2.4: - Leo's Pretty Print command was broken by the new use of '@' in Python 2.4. - Leo's installer was broken by the new installer used in Python 2.4. This will likely

cx_Oracle 4.1

2005-01-25 Thread Anthony Tuininga
What is cx_Oracle? cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a few exceptions. Where do I get it? http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining What's new? 1) Added support for Python 2.4. In Python 2.4, the datet