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Barry Warsaw | 6 Feb 2000 18:32
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JPython 1.1 final

Greetings from the Python conference!

I'm pleased to announce the release of JPython 1.1 final, the 100%
Pure Java implementation of the Python language.

Below is a summary of recent changes.  See

    http://www.jpython.org/NEWS

for more details on what's changed.  For more information on JPython
in general and for links to the downloads, please see

    http://www.jpython.org/

Enjoy,
-Barry

<P><A HREF="http://www.jpython.org">JPython 1.1 final</A> - a 100%
Pure Java implementation of the Python language.  (26-Jan-2000)

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26-Jan-2000 JPython 1.1 final released

  - Only one small CPython compatibility patch to os.mkdir() and
    os.makedirs() -- optional `mode' argument, which is ignored.

21-Jan-2000 JPython 1.1 release candidate 1 released

  New JPython features and bug fixes
    - Race conditions when creating multiple PythonInterpreter objects
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Mike Pelletier | 6 Feb 2000 18:32

Zope Weekly News - Wed, 2 Feb 2000

G'day,

    Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting
    events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the
    Zope.org site.  It is published each Wednesday evening.

    Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the
    chronicler exclusively.

    Suggestions for ZWN items are happily accepted.  Please mail them
    to <mike <at> digicool.com>, put 'ZWN' somewhere in the subject and
    remember to include URLs.

Announcements

  * ActiveState has announced it will be offering industrial-strength
    commercial Python support.  ActiveState is renowned for their
    Perl support and development tools.  The press release, linked
    below, includes comments from Paul Everitt.

    http://www.activestate.com/press/releases/python.htm

  * Frank Wilson, editor-in-chief at O'Reilly, presently has quite a
    lot of commentary on the IPC8, Python, Zope and Digital Creations
    in his "Frankly Speaking" column.

    http://www.oreilly.com/frank/

  * O'Reilly recently launched their new portal, O'Reilly Network.
    The prestigious first feature is an interview with Paul Everitt,
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Paul M | 6 Feb 2000 18:33
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pxDislin - release 0.3

DESCRIPTION:
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    pxDislin is an object-oriented wrapper around the DISLIN plotting
library.  DISLIN is a powerful and flexible multiplatform (Win32,
Unix, Linux, etc.) library designed for displaying scientific data.
DISLIN's author, Helmut Michels, has made available a DISLIN plotting
extension for the Python programming language (see
http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin/ for more details).

    pxDislin provides a set of classes which represent various aspects
of DISLIN plots, as well as providing some easy to use classes for
creating commonly used plot formats (e.g. scatter plots, histograms,
3-D surface plots).  A major goal in designing the library was to
facilitate interactive data exploration and plot creation.

    Documentation and a demo program are included.  The library has
been tested on WinNT and FreeBSD, but I anticipate that it should work
on any platform which can make use of Python, NumPy, and the DISLIN
python extensions.

    Feedback, comments, and critique are gladly accepted (email:
paul.magwene <at> yale.edu).

VERSION:
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    This is release 0.3 of pxDislin.

WHAT'S NEW?
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-- Almost complete coverage of useful plot functions in the DISLIN
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Fredrik Lundh | 6 Feb 2000 18:33
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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 3)

The eff-bot finally makes it back from the Python conference, after
an involuntary detour to Oslo.  Here's this weeks' Python-Alert, worth
well over $9.52 per week:

First, a couple of reminders:

    Don't forget Software Carpentry's design competition:
        http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/contest-rules.html

    Don't forget the www.python.org design competition:
        http://www.python.org/Redesign.html

    And don't forget the O'Reilly Python Conference: deadline
    extended to at least Feb 15:
        http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/call.html

The eighth Python conference (SPAM8) was a huge success.  Almost everyone
was there, except Tim Peters.  He might be real, though -- at least two
usually reliable sources told me they'd met him in real life.

    Here're interesting links:
        http://www.oreilly.com/frank/index.html (frank willison)
        http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/diary (andrew kuchling)
        http://freeweb.pdq.net/robinf1/spam8pix/ (robin friedrich's photo album)
        http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ (conference site)
        http://www.reiters.com/ (official conference bookstore)
        http://www.cravindogs.com/about.html (python powered, sort of)

In other news:
    ActiveState (www.activestate.com) joins the Python Consortium,
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Barry Warsaw | 6 Feb 2000 18:33
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Python CVS available via the Web

The very latest CVS snapshot of the Python source code is has been
available by anonymous CVS for a while now.  See

    http://www.python.org/download/cvs.html

for details.

Just van Rossum reminds me that I forgot to announce that I've also
installed Greg Stein's excellent ViewCVS tool so you can get Web
access to the CVS repository for Python (and JPython, Mailman,
Distutils, XML-SIG, and CC Mode).  Visit

    http://cvs.python.org/

to take a look.  It won't be very fast though; it's running on a
pretty old machine.

Enjoy,
-Barry

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Christian Scholz | 20 Feb 2000 00:54
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Announcement of GROUP.lounge 0.3b

Announcement of GROUP.lounge 0.3b
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Written in 1999-2000 by Christian "Mr Topf" Scholz

What is GROUP.lounge?
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GROUP.lounge is a tool for collaborations over the world wide web.

It enables a group of people to effectively work over the internet on
documents. It enables you to share documents, notes, etc. with people
all over the world.

Features of GROUP.lounge
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 - enables a group of people on the internet to work together
 - stores notes (normal text) and documents (any data) organized in folders.
 - keeps history on who changed when some object.
 - gives users the ability to invite other people to share a folder.
 - Is easily customizable in layout/design through html templates
 - WebDAV support to work with it e.g. via WebFolders
 - object oriented design for easy implementation of new object types

Version
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The recent version is 0.3b
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Mike Pelletier | 24 Feb 2000 00:25

Zope Weekly News

G'day,

    Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting
    events which have occurred on the various Zope mailing lists and the
    Zope.org site.  It is published each Wednesday evening.

    Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the
    chronicler exclusively.

Announcements

  * Neuberger & Hughes have announced the release of version 1.0 of
    their WorldPilot software.  It has been whispered in shady
    corners of conferences that WorldPilot could well be Zope's first
    Killer App.  WorldPilot is an integrated, through-the-web PIM and
    IMAP mail client, with collaborative capabilities.

    http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2000-February/000117.html

New Products

  * Software Product: "Simple Directory of URLs", submitted by "Roug"

    This handy product manages sets of links to external resources.
    It can perform click-through counting, and allows untrusted users
    to submit link suggestions (which are subject to review).

    http://www.zope.org/Members/Roug/SimpleURLs

  * Software Product: "An Extensible, Base Banner System", submitted
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David Schere | 24 Feb 2000 04:50
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RMP

Hello all,

  I hope that this is the right mailing list to
announce new software. I have just created a network
toolkit for sending variable length connectionless
network messages reliably. It is called RMP and is
completely written in Python. 

Here is the URL:
http://starship.python.net/crew/dschere/rmp

I hope some of you will find it a usefull 
architecture. 

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Fredrik Lundh | 25 Feb 2000 09:35
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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Feb 7)

Major New Internet Portal Python Powered!
        http://www.filibuster.org

    On the edu-sig, David Scherer reminds us what CP4E (and Python)
    is all about
        http://www.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2000-February/000098.html

    New guidelines for patch contributions
        http://www.python.org/patches/

    Python's CVS repository can be accessed via the web
        http://cvs.python.org/

    The edu-sig deals with everything related to using Python in
    education (except, perhaps, whether Python should remain case
    sensitive or not).  Great discussions, thus far
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=580836413
        http://www.python.org/sigs/edu-sig/ 

    The import-sig will design a new architecture for the import
    facilities in Python (to better support embedding, archives,
    installers, etc)
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=581571482
        http://www.python.org/sigs/import-sig/

    New Python consortium members that we forgot to mention in
    last week's URL
        ASTi: http://www.asti.com
        BeOpen: http://www.beopen.com
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Jeremy Hylton | 25 Feb 2000 09:36
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Compiler SIG

You are invited to join the Compiler SIG:
http://www.python.org/sigs/compiler-sig/

The Web pages about the SIG still need a lot of work, but they provide
some indication of the SIG's purpose:

    This SIG provides a forum for discussing compilation and program
    analysis issues. Unlike most SIGs, it does not have a specific
    mandate or deliverable. There are several independent projects to
    develop compilers, type checkers, and related tools.

Ka-Ping Yee took notes on the Dev Day session on compilers.  It
provides more background about the SIG:

    http://www.python.org/sigs/compiler-sig/dev-day-notes.txt

I am putting together a list of Python compiler and program analysis
projects.  If you are responsible for such a project, I'd appreciate
it if you could send me a URL and a brief description.  I'll post the
final list on the compiler-sig Web page.

Jeremy

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