ANN: PyQt v4.0 Released - Python Bindings for Qt v4

2006-06-12 Thread Phil Thompson
Riverbank Computing is pleased to announce the release of PyQt v4.0 available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/. The main change from v4.0beta1 is the inclusion of comprehensive HTML documentation based on the Qt documentation. PyQt is a comprehensive set of Qt bindings for the Pyt

ANN: Metavolv.py finds improved parameter values for YOUR program.

2006-06-12 Thread I. Myself
Metavolv.py is a computer program that searches for a better set of parameters for some other program, which we call the target program. The target program determines what "better" means, and it writes a merit value to the screen. The parameters appear in a configuration file for the target progra

RERP 0.8.0, an alternative robots.txt parser

2006-06-12 Thread Philip Semanchuk
RERP (Robot Exclusion Rules Parser) is an alternative to Python's standard robotparser module. I was motivated to write this because the Python's robotparser doesn't gracefully handle non-ASCII which occurs in about .1% of robots.txt files. This module (RERP) handles non-ASCII and also adds a f

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 12)

2006-06-12 Thread Cameron Laird
QOTW: "Check out BeautifulSoup -- you will never write HTMLParser-based screen scrapers again. :)" - Jonathan Ellis "You clearly need something instead of XML." - Paul McGuire http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/09e943c8dbf1e8c5? Johann C. Rocholl donates a PNG manager i