BayPIGgies: December 9, 7:30pm

2004-12-06 Thread Aahz
The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs, Dec 9 at 7:30pm. Stephen McInerney and Terry Carroll lead a discussion on how to make your employer open-source-friendly: - how to get your work published - how to package your work for distribution - how to negotiate open-source clauses in a contra

ANN: PyEnchant 0.9.0

2004-12-06 Thread Ryan Kelly
Hi All, I've just released my work on producing Python bindings for the Enchant spellchecker wrapper library. Enchant (http://www.abisource.com/enchant/) is the spellchecking package behind the AbiWord word processor, is being considered for inclusion in the KDE office suite, and is proposed as

ANN: PyTables 0.9.1 is out

2004-12-06 Thread Francesc Altet
Announcing PyTables 0.9.1 - This release is mainly a maintenance version. In it, some bugs has been fixed and a few improvements has been made. One important thing is that chunk sizes in EArrays has been re-tuned to get much better performance and compression rations. Besid

ANN: ElementTree 1.2.2 (december 5, 2004)

2004-12-06 Thread Fredrik Lundh
The Element type is a simple but flexible container object, designed to store hierarchical data structures, such as simplified XML infosets, in memory. The ElementTree package provides a Python implementation of this type, plus code to serialize element trees to and from XML files. ElementTree 1.2

Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.4-1

2004-12-06 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.4-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following is the only notable change since the previous release: o upgrade to Python 2.4 Old News: === Python is an interpreted, interactive, obje

ANN: Naja 1.1.3 is now available

2004-12-06 Thread webmaster
Naja is a download manager and a website grabber written in Python/wxPython.You can add some plugins (newsreader, FTP client,WebDAV client) and take control of your downloads from your office. Naja supports proxy(HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SOCKS v4a, SOCKS v5), and use some authentication methods. The d

Ptyon 2.3.5 probably coming in January; get your bugs/patches reported!

2004-12-06 Thread Brett C.
Anthony Baxter, our ever-diligent release manager, mentioned this past week that Python 2.3.5 will most likely come to fruition some time in January (this is not guaranteed date). This means that in order to have enough time to proper evaluate new patches and bugs they must be reported **now**!

Announce: Zope Technical Solutions Training January 24th - 27th

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Lloyd
Zope Technical Solutions Session The next session will be held January 24th - 27th at our headquarters in Fredericksburg, VA. This three day course will familiarize students with Zope software from introductory through advanced topics. We will demonstrate the flexi

ANN: eGenix mxODBC Python Database Interface Version 2.0.7

2004-12-06 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
ANNOUNCING eGenix.com mxODBC Database Interface Version 2.0.7 Full Source Python extension providing ODBC database connectivity to Python applications on Windows and Unix platform

ANN: eGenix mx Experimental Package 0.9.0 (mxNumber, mxTidy, mxURL, etc.)

2004-12-06 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
ANNOUNCING eGenix.com mx Experimental Extension Package Version 0.9.0 Experimental Python extensions providing important and useful services for Python programm

ANN: eGenix mx Base Package 2.0.6 (mxDateTime, mxTextTools, etc.)

2004-12-06 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
ANNOUNCING eGenix.com mx Base Extension Package Version 2.0.6 Open Source Python extensions providing important and useful services for Python programmers. __