pywebsite 0.1.21pre

For making websites with #python. CHANGES: sqlitepickle thread ident error with python 2.5.

About	pywebsite is for making websites with python. In very early stages of development. See COPYING for LGPL licence details.
Authors	Only one developer so far, maybe more if it becomes useful. Rene Dudfield <[e-mail]> is a lead developer and maintainer of pygame, and is also a London Website developer, and App developer looking for work.

pywebsite changelog

0.1.21pre (2010-03-13)

Bugs fixed

• sqlitepickle thread ident works across pythons 2.5,2.6, and 3.1 now.

0.1.20pre (2010-03-13)

• made sqlitepickle methods commit by default. Less suprising.

Bugs fixed

0.1.19pre (2010-03-10)

Bugs fixed

• Added basic update({}) method to sqlitepickle.

• disabled test that relied on timing. fails on different machines.

0.1.18pre (2010-01-11)

Bugs fixed

• imageops.resizing import correctly for python 3.

• testing a release with ‘upload -sign’

• added document checking to the testall make target.

0.1.17pre (2010-01-10)

Features added

• made imageops.resize use some aspect preserving options.

Bugs fixed

• added some docs to imageops

• sqlitepickle works with pypy now.

0.1.16pre (2010-01-05)

Features added

• started a pywebsite.imageops.resizing for routines useful for resizing.

Bugs fixed

• rest long_description was not working.

• added 2010 to copyright notices.

0.1.15pre (2010-01-04)

Features added

• resizing routines useful for images.

Bugs fixed

• 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

• signed_url (more) immune VS timing attacks.

0.1.13pre (2009-12-29)

Bugs fixed

• 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)

Bugs fixed

• 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)

Features added

• Added keys() and items() calls which return generators for sqlitepickle.

0.1.10pre (2009-12-24)

Bugs fixed

• changed the code layout to use subpackages.

• See sub-packages, for the reasoning and details on keeping everything for a module in a sub package.

0.1.9pre (2009-12-21)

Bugs fixed

• hash_url fixes for length extension attack, and value equivalence attacks.

0.1.8pre (2009-12-16)

Features added

• Added hash_url, a way to hash urls to validate they are approved urls.

Bugs fixed

• some imageops fixes.

0.1.7pre (2009-12-16)

Bugs fixed

• missed updating CHANGES.txt

0.1.6pre (2009-12-16)

Bugs fixed

• 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)

Bugs fixed

• 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)

Bugs fixed

• some small py3k fixes.

• validate more types for imageops

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

0.1.3pre (2009-12-16)

Features added

• started an image operations module imageops. Only resizing and caching so far.

• started TODO.txt

0.1.2pre (2009-12-09)

Bugs fixed

• updated doc strings in sqlitepickle.

• added trove classifiers to setup.

• started CHANGES.txt

Features added

• sqlite and pickle, sqlitepickle

TODO

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

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

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)

signing urls for authorisation, signed_url (DONE)