Subject: [Announce] Gnosis Utils 1.0.6 This release contains a number of enhancements, especially to the gnosis.magic subpackage. * Added tools for working with metaclass to gnosis.magic (see the file 'metaclass.txt' for some discussion). * Some improvements to gnosis.xml.validity, in part to play nicer with metaclass techniques. * Added module gnosis.magic.multimethods (see the file 'charming_python_b12.txt' for some discussion). * Added several articles to gnosis.doc * Fixed some old bugs in gnosis.xml.indexer, the utility/ module should now work with recent versions of Python, PyXML, and Gnosis Utilities. * The module gnosis.trigramlib is available to help work with statistic models of trigram counts, i.e. to filter spam. This module is alpha-quality, and is probably not as useful as the SpamBayes project. (see the file 'filtering-spam.txt for some discussion). It may be obtained at: http://gnosis.cx/download/Gnosis_Utils-1.0.6.tar.gz The current release is always available as: http://gnosis.cx/download/Gnosis_Utils-current.tar.gz Try it out, have fun, send feedback! David Mertz (mertz@gnosis.cx) Frank McIngvale (frankm@hiwaay.net) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BACKGROUND: Gnosis Utilities contains a number of Python libraries, most (but not all) related to working with XML. These include: gnosis.indexer (Full-text indexing/searching) gnosis.xml.pickle (XML pickling of Python objects) gnosis.xml.objectify (Any XML to "native" Python objects) gnosis.xml.validity (Enforce validity constraints) gnosis.xml.indexer (XPATH indexing of XML documents) [...].convert.txt2html (Convert ASCII source files to HTML) gnosis.util.dtd2sql (DTD -> SQL 'CREATE TABLE' statements) gnosis.util.sql2dtd (SQL query -> DTD for query results) gnosis.util.xml2sql (XML -> SQL 'INSERT INTO' statements) gnosis.util.combinators (Combinatorial higher-order functions) gnosis.util.introspect (Introspect Python objects) gnosis.magic (Multimethods, metaclasses, etc) ...and so much more! :-)