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inspecting PmwContribD (12.02.06) — PmwContribD is worth a look though it has appearently stopped to develop since 2001. more
Tkinter resource wiki (10.02.06) — I discovered the Tkinter resource wiki. Started table1 as a copy of aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52266 and table2 as a copy of tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/SortableTable. ↑tkinter.unpythonic.net
started to play with Pmw (10.02.06) — Installed Pmw (by unpacking it into s:\py-site-packages). S:\py-site-packages\Pmw\Pmw_1_2\demos\All.py ran out of the box. Also installed PmwContribD where I'm interested in the Table widget which however seems «not ready for prime time».
Replace HyperText with pyWeb? (22.01.06) — Here is another Python module that works like HyperText and XIST using classes to represent HTML tags. ↑www.freenet.org.nz/python/pyweb/docs/
Replace Hypertext with XIST? (20.01.06) — Andy Dustman wrote in a comment to an ASPN recipe: «HyperText does have it's root's in HTMLGen. It's not based on HTMLGen, but it does borrow a few ideas. Another more modern package which is similar, but has much more support for XML in general is XIST»
Discovered HyperText (18.11.05) — Is there something better than HTMLgen? Yes. Andy Dustman's HyperText. cherrypy3.py uses it and I think I'll stick to this rather than to venerable HTMLgen. more
Extracting text content from a PDF file (25.07.05) — I read Cameron Laird's personal notes on PDF conversion utilities and a review «pdf2text and Related Products» (Cameron Laird, March 2003).
YAML (25.07.05) — YAML may be the right format to write demo data populators... ]url http://pyyaml.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi pyyaml] is a pure Python implementation.
About PdfSearch (25.07.05) more
python-dateutil 1.0 (22.07.05) — Gustavo Niemeyer announced version 1.0 of python-dateutil, an extention to the datetime module. more
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (22.07.05) — OASIS approves DITA as standard on June 1st, 2005. (What is DITA?).
Alternativen zu wxPython? (13.07.05) — Gibt es noch keine Alternative zu wxPython? more
What about ZODB? (01.07.05) — Kevin Dangoor compares ZODB and pysqlite/SQLObject is is blog entry ZODB vs. pysqlite with SQLObject more
Getting started with Lupy (05.04.05) — I installed Lupy and read the Getting Started article. The examples work. Lupy will be interesting for Keeper.
WordNet (04.04.05) — PyWordNet is a Python interface to the WordNet database of word meanings and lexical relationships. WordNet is an online lexical reference system for meanings of English words. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.