Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 15)

2004-12-17 Thread Cameron Laird
QOTW: "[Python demands more thought in optimization, because i]n other languages, by the time you get the bloody thing working it's time to ship, and you don't have to bother worrying about making it optimal." -- Simon Brunning "One of the best features of c.l.py is how questions phrased in the m

Dejavu 1.2.6, a Python ORM

2004-12-17 Thread Robert Brewer
The Dejavu Object-Relational Mapper (version 1.2.6) is now available and in the public domain. Get it at svn://casadeamor.com/dejavu/trunk. Dejavu is an Object-Relational Mapper for Python applications. It is designed to provide the "Model" third of an MVC application. Dejavu avoids making decisio

ANN: Urwid 0.8.5 with Tutorial

2004-12-17 Thread Ian Ward
Announcing urwid 0.8.5 -- Urwid home page: http://excess.org/urwid/ Tarball: http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.8.5.tar.gz Tutorial: http://excess.org/urwid/tutorial.html New in this release: - New tutorial covering basic operation of: curses_display.Screen, Canv

[ANN] [Hack] Import binary extensions from zipfiles, windows only

2004-12-17 Thread Thomas Heller
Warning: experimental code! Overview zipextimporter.py contains the ZipExtImporter class which allows to load Python binary extension modules contained in a zip.archive, without unpacking them to the file system. Call the zipextimporter.install() function to install the import hook, add

ANN: HarvestMan 1.4 final

2004-12-17 Thread abpillai
HarvestMan is a WWW crawler and offline browser program written in pure Python. After 4 months of bug-fixing and performance testing, the latest version of HarvestMan, 1.4 (final) is available for the Python and open source community. This version fixes many critical bugs in the program and adds

Reminder: PyCon proposal deadline now two weeks away

2004-12-17 Thread A.M. Kuchling
Remember to send in your proposals for PyCon 2005; the deadline for submissions is December 31st, only two weeks away. Read the call for proposals for more details: http://www.python.org/pycon/2005/cfp.html Proposal submission site: http://submit.pycon.org PyCon will also feature

Release of PyGreSQL version 3.6

2004-12-17 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Announce: Release of PyGreSQL version 3.6 = PyGreSQL v3.6 has been released. It is available at: ftp://ftp.druid.net/pub/distrib/PyGreSQL-3.6.tgz. If you are running NetBSD, look in the packages directory under databases. There is also a package in the Free