pywebsite 0.1.15pre

For making websites with python. CHANGES: documentation fix for sub packages. signed_url improvements.

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pywebsite
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About
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pywebsite is for making websites with python

In *very* early stages of development.

See COPYING for LGPL licence details.



Author
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Rene Dudfield <[e-mail]>

Rene Dudfield is a lead developer and maintainer of `pygame <http://www.pygame.org>`_, and is also a `London Website developer, and App developer looking for work. <http://rene.f0o.com>`_

pywebsite changelog
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0.1.15pre (2010-01-04)

Features added
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* resizing routines useful for images.

Bugs fixed
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* signed_url extra layer of protection against timing attacks.
* signed_url now uses base64 url safe encoding to shorten hash.
* Imported __doc__ from all sub packages. So help(pywebsite.module) works.


0.1.14pre (2010-01-04)

Bugs fixed
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* signed_url (more) immune VS timing attacks.


0.1.13pre (2009-12-29)

Bugs fixed
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* MANIFEST handling is better.
* make clean now cleans up files better. No stray *.pyc files.
* make testall can now test with python 2.5 2.6 and 3.1.

0.1.12pre (2009-12-29)
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Bugs fixed
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* changed hash_url.hash_url to signed_url.sign
* made all tests work when run from within their sub package directory.



0.1.11pre (2009-12-28)
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Features added
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* Added keys() and items() calls which return generators for sqlitepickle.



0.1.10pre (2009-12-24)
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Bugs fixed
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* changed the code layout to use subpackages.
* See `sub-packages <http://renesd.blogspot.com/2009/12/structuring-modulespackages-and-cdb.html>`_, for the reasoning and details on keeping everything for a module in a sub package.



0.1.9pre (2009-12-21)
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Bugs fixed
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* hash_url fixes for length extension attack, and value equivalence attacks.


0.1.8pre (2009-12-16)
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Features added
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* Added `hash_url <http://renesd.blogspot.com/2009/12/hashing-urls-for-authorisation-and.html>`_, a way to hash urls to validate they are approved urls.


Bugs fixed
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* some imageops fixes.


0.1.7pre (2009-12-16)
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Bugs fixed
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* missed updating CHANGES.txt


0.1.6pre (2009-12-16)
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Bugs fixed
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* added docs/hacking_pywebsite.txt for notes on developing pywebsite.

* Can import pywebsite.tests;pywebsite.tests.main() to run the tests

* moved test runner code into pywebsite.tests from run_tests.py script.



0.1.5pre (2009-12-16)
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Bugs fixed
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* moved lib/ to pywebsite/ and test to pywebsite/tests

* restructuring and cleanup

* using distribute by default with bootstrap.py so buildout is working

* added extra stuff to `make clean` command


0.1.4pre (2009-12-16)
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Bugs fixed
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* some small py3k fixes.

* validate more types for imageops

* fixed up documentation for pypi, automated it a little.


0.1.3pre (2009-12-16)
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Features added
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* started an image operations module imageops.
Only resizing and caching so far.

* started TODO.txt





0.1.2pre (2009-12-09)
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Bugs fixed
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* updated doc strings in sqlitepickle.

* added trove classifiers to setup.

* started CHANGES.txt


Features added
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* sqlite and pickle, `sqlitepickle <http://renesd.blogspot.com/2009/12/pywebsitesqlitepickle-sqlite-vs-pickle.html>`_



TODO
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Here is a vague list of TODO items.


image operations
- exif meta data from images
- thumb nailing
- water marking
- rotation, scaling (rotozoom) (DONE)
- caching (DONE)
- imagemagick/graphicsmagick based backend.


pywebsite.locals
- ehtml, ecgi etc.

`pygame event loop integration <http://renesd.blogspot.com/2009/01/pygame-pywebsite-website-with-joystick.html>`_

testing
performance testing
monitoring of live systems

rate limiting
help to limit the rate requests can be made.

CSRF prevention help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery

backup

versioning

rss/feed generation

tags

comments

forum

sound operations
- id3 tag info etc
- stream sound

video operations
- upload flv
- playlists
- thumbnails of videos
- record from webcam
- screencast


upload local website to remote host
- as static files.
- upload database to hidden directory.


send rss link to friends
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news posting
- freshmeat news.
- PAD file generation

slide show

listing of articles

pywebsite.org website





basic key/value data store
- sqlite and pickle, `sqlitepickle (DONE) <http://renesd.blogspot.com/2009/12/pywebsitesqlitepickle-sqlite-vs-pickle.html>`_


signing urls for authorisation, `signed_url (DONE) <http://renesd.blogspot.com/2009/12/hashing-urls-for-authorisation-and.html>`_