Leo 4.4a2 withdrawn
Leo 4.4a2 has been withdrawn due to problems that can cause Leo to lose what you have recently typed. Leo 4.4a3 will be released in about a week. Edward Edward K. Ream email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
ANN: PyJudy 1.0
Over the last three weeks of on-and-off work I've developed and have just released PyJudy 1.0, a wrapper to the Judy sparse dynamic array library. It is available for download at http://dalkescientific.com/Python/PyJudy.html Judy, from http://judy.sourceforge.net/ , is ... a C library that provides a state-of-the-art core technology that implements a sparse dynamic array. Judy arrays are declared simply with a null pointer. A Judy array consumes memory only when it is populated, yet can grow to take advantage of all available memory if desired. Judy's key benefits are scalability, high performance, and memory efficiency. A Judy array is extensible and can scale up to a very large number of elements, bounded only by machine memory. Since Judy is designed as an unbounded array, the size of a Judy array is not pre-allocated but grows and shrinks dynamically with the array population. Continuing from the PyJudy page at http://dalkescientific.com/Python/PyJudy.html PyJudy arrays are similar to Python dictionaries and sets. The primary difference is that PyJudy keys are sorted; by unsigned value if an integer, byte ordering if a string and object id if a Python object. In addition to wrapping the underlying Judy functions, PyJudy implements a subset of the Python dictionary interface for the JudyL and JudySL API and a subset of the set interface for the Judy1 API, along with some extensions for iterating a subrange of the sorted keys, values and items. In my performance tests I found that overall JudyL arrays were a bit slower than Python dictionaries. Part of that might be my inexperience with the details of writing Python extensions. Part might be that JudyL arrays are sorted. I found that the Judy1 arrays were faster than the set class in Python 2.4. It'll be interesting to see how Raymond's new set implementation affects that. I did not do any memory comparisons. PyJudy is distributed under the MIT license because that has few upper-case letters than the BSD one. Andrew Dalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
ANN: Speedometer 2.1 - bandwidth and download monitor
Announcing Speedometer 2.1 -- Speedometer home page: http://excess.org/speedometer/ Download: http://excess.org/speedometer/speedometer.py New in this release: - New simultaneous display of multiple graphs with options for stacking graphs vertically or horizontally - New labels to differentiate each graph - Removed 0-32 B/s from display to make more room for higher speeds - Fixed a wait_creation bug About Speedometer = Speedometer is a console bandwidth and file download progress monitor with a logarithmic bandwidth display and a simple command-line interface. Speedometer requires Python 2.1 or later and Urwid 0.8.9 or later for full-console bar graph display. Urwid may be downloaded from: http://excess.org/urwid/ Speedometer is released under the GNU LGPL. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
ANN: atomixlib 0.3.0
atomixlib 0.3.0 Available at : http://www.defuze.org/oss/atomixlib/ What's new? * It breaks the compatibility with previous version. Mainly you do not need to pass the current atom element being constructed to the Atomix methods. Instead the Atomix class keeps an handle to that element internally. * It adds a lot more documentation via docstrings and an epydoc version of the API. * It fixes some issues with XHTML content * It is more flexible for creating the atom document (feed or entry based). * It improves performances of atomixlib since 0.2.0 Get atomixlib http://www.defuze.org/oss/atomixlib/download/atomixlib-0.3.0.tgz What's atomixlib? A Python module to facilitate Atom 1.0 documents generation. License BSD Credits I would like to thank Uche Ogbuji for discussing atomixlib so much and giving me some very neat ideas. Enjoy! - Sylvain Hellegouarch sh defuze.org This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 6)
QOTW: "- don't use SAX unless your document is huge - don't use DOM unless someone is putting a gun to your head" - Istvan Albert "I wouldn't fret too much about a sharp remark from Fredrik Lundh. They're pretty much all that way. ;) It looks like you already did the right thing - read past the insults, and gleaned the useful information that he included in between. It takes a little training to get used to him, but if you can look past the nasty bite, he's really a valuable resource." - Steven Bethard Alex Martelli and Bengt Richter rely on the galilean property and set function to compute whether a list is duplicate-free: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4b1da706b9f9e622/ You needn't just pine for syntax from other languages missing in Python, such as Perl's "start..end"; if you're Peter Otten, you can add it to Python: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/506412e06dfea965/ Python as podcast! You might have *thought* you knew about the language, but it's a big Python world. http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html Similarly, yes, Python can do what strtok() does in C, although it's expressed more readably: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5e71a1da4f5934dc/ Larry Bates demonstrates how simple use of ConfigParser can be: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/321ec0512ed8c926/ With the new-style object model, type() is a stylish indirection: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f0fbfae9a69580a3/ Enthusiastic Alex accuses Van Roy and Hariri of having written the 21st century SICP, and more. Much more. With references. Yet he (and Magnus Lycka and others) remain faithful: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/77c2035ee4150c11/ Python's a great general-purpose language. It can address storage devices directly: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/browse_thread/thread/28eb92576280d3f0/ it can operate at high level, and 'most everything in between. Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Notice especially the master FAQ http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the marvelous daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new) World-Wide Web articles related to Python. http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL are utterly different in their technologies and generally in their results. For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index much of the universe of Pybloggers. http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog http://www.planetpython.org/ http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett Cannon of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week. http://www.python.org/dev/summary/ The Python Package Index catalogues packages. http://www.python.org/pypi/ The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references to all sorts of Python resources. http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're subject with a vision of what the language makes practical. http://www.pythonology.com/success The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. http://www.python.org/psf/ Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation. http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches. http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch Cetus collects Python hyperlinks. http
ANN: Karrigell-2.2 beta released
A new beta version of release 2.2 is available on sourceforge (http://karrigell.sourceforge.net). It fixes the bugs that have been mentioned : - management of global scripts - incorrect options in the default configuration file - bug in mod_py, it didn't manage the line separator on Unix / Linux Thanks to all who have reported bugs. I plan to release the final 2.2 version within 2 weeks Regards, Pierre -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
