Greetings, program!

I'm happy to announce version 0.8 of Aspen, a Python webserver.
This version introduces "simplates," which bring Python and web
templating as close as possible without actually mixing them.

You'll find a 3-minute intro video plus docs and downloads here:

http://www.zetadev.com/software/aspen/

Thanks!

chad

It is a pleasure to announce this first public release of ExcelMailer.

ExcelMailer is a small os-independent command line business tool for
emailing personalized messages with attachments. Data and options are
specified via an Excel file and the message content via plain text or
HTML file templates. For each data row in the Excel file ExcelMailer
prepares and sends, when explicitly requested, a personalized MIME
email message and its attachments if any.

Highlights:

- The text message may be in plain text or in HTML or in both i.e. in
HTML with an alternative plain text version.
- May define any number of data columns (only to is required) that are
then all accessible...

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I'm happy to announce the setuptools_bzr 1.0 plugin (for Python's
setuptools). This allows setuptools to find your Python package files
kept under the Bazaar revision control system. This should be
compatible with Bazaar 1.0.

Please note: this package used to be called setuptoolsbzr, but it was
renamed to be more compatible with an emerging standard for other
revision control system plugins for setuptools. The project home page
was not renamed and the old PyPI package name was deleted.

The plugin is available on the Python Package Index (a.k.a.
Cheeseshop), here:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=setuptools_bzr&version=1.0&:action=display

To use the plugin, just modify your setup() function in setup.py like
so:

itools is a Python library, it groups a number of packages into a single
meta-package for easier development and deployment:

itools.catalog itools.i18n itools.uri
itools.csv itools.ical itools.vfs
itools.datatypes itools.odf itools.web
itools.gettext itools.pdf itools.workflow
itools.git itools.rest itools.xliff
itools.handlers itools.rss itools.xml
itools.html itools.stl
itools.http itools.tmx

The most visible change in this major release is that "itools.cms" has
been moved out of itools and is now distributed as a separate package,
named "ikaaro".

Also in the code reorganization category: "itools.xhtml" has been merged
into "itools.html". And the "itools.schemas" package has been removed,
since we do the same thing in a different way.

QOTW: "XML. Almost as good as plain text for grepping." - Joe Mason

"Where there's IP, there's a way." - Kyler Laird, on network programming

Linked lists, deques, and iteration over a mutating container:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1017de91323.../

Containers should compare themselves using only their
contained objects's available comparison operators:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/65bb28d2adf.../

The distinction between methods and callable attributes:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7943ab9f938.../

Discussing alternative loop constructs:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f45f2b1dc4b.../

Analyzing slow code for loading data, and trying to
improve it, with general tips on optmization:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4e5c8d57050.../

Unexpected floating point rounding errors:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/37e780f3ba6.../

Improving the Python core (JIT compilation and others), and how
the development process works (a long thread started last week)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7a4d66af89e.../