Trying WengoPhone (13.02.07) — I installed WengoPhone, but cannot yet announce any
successful use. Also I have now on every startup this message box asking
«The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match
the name of the site. Do you want to proceed?» How can I get rid of
this?
more- Warum GPL und nicht BSD? (03.11.06) — Endlich mal ein Artikel, der anschaulich erklärt, weshalb ich Lino unbedingt unter der GPL und nicht z.B. unter der BSD-Lizenz veröffentliche. more
- Moved to Reportlab 2.0 (21.10.06) — I upgraded the ReportLab Toolkit on my machine to 2.0. The only code change was to to remove the .encode() calls in PdfTextPrinter.write() since ReportLab now supports Unicode. more
- Using OpenOffice from Python (04.10.06) — Python programmers discussing about OpenOffice UNO bridge. ↑groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c7bee85c6af82777/
- markup.py 1.5 - a lightweight HTML/XML generator (07.09.06) — markup is another potential concurrent for gendoc.html. But I continue with my gendoc because markup cannot be used to create PDF documents. ↑groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5049614dea04334f/
- "fixedpoint" is called "decimal" (25.05.06) — I discovered the decimal which probably is the successor of fixedpoint. But it requires Python 2.4.
- Using Thunderbird to edit and send generated e-mails (11.05.06) — I would like to have Lino or TIM generate complex e-mails into a text file and then invoke the user's e-mail client to load this file into its editor where the user can edit it and finally click the «Send» button. more
- why i should use the logging module (09.05.06) more
- cryptography with Python (09.05.06) — M2Crypto is the most complete Python wrapper for OpenSSL.
- No resources available (25.04.06) — Sad but true: my problem report 64723 at openoffice.org has been closed with the polite remark «Thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, we have no ressource available to fix or improve the HTML component, so that we only can fix crashes and huge regressions. Thank you for your comprehension.»
- How to read Excel's .xls files (22.03.06) — John Machin announces version 0.5.2 of xlrd, a library to extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files. He also provides a good comparison of his xlrd versus pyExcelerator. ↑groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/af8f5484123101ae
- a clever solution (22.03.06) — Wow, I'm proud: Frederik Lundh called one of my postings to comp.lang.python a «clever solution». more
- Extracting text from PDF files (13.03.06) — It would be nice to have a tool like ExtractText for direct use from a Python process. ExtractText is a part of the Multivalent Document Tools and thus probably written in Java.
- Tkinter basics (21.02.06) — Michael Lange wrote a good introduction to Tk() and Toplevel() in a thread about Tkinter on the tutor@python.org mailing list: more