gmane.comp.python.announce

Enthought Python Distribution

Travis Vaught — 2008-07-02T14:36:53

Greetings, We're pleased to announce the beta release of the Enthought Python Distribution for *Mac OS X*. http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php This release should safely install alongside other existing Python installations on your Mac. With the Mac OS X platform support, EPD now provides a consistent scientific application tool set across three major platforms (Windows, RedHat Linux (32 and 64 bit) and OS X). This is a _beta_ release, so install at your own risk. Please provide any feedback to info< at >enthought.com. See the included EPD Readme.txt for instructions and known issues. About EPD --------- The Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) is a "kitchen-sink-included" distribution of the Python™ Programming Language, including over 60 additional tools and libraries. The EPD bundle includes the following major packages: Python Core Python NumPy Multidimensional arrays and fast numerics for Python SciPy Scientific Library for Python Enthought Tool Suite (E

[ANN] Release 0.70.1 of Task Coach

Frank Niessink — 2008-06-29T18:46:50

Hi, I'm happy to announce release 0.70.1 of Task Coach. This release optionally brings back the tabbed user interface that was removed in the previous release and fixes a few bugs. Bugs fixed: * The search control in the toolbar did not maintain state correctly for different viewers. Task Coach viewers now each have their own toolbar with search control. * Marking tasks completed or changing their priority would change the selection. * On Max OS X, put preferences menu item in the TaskCoach menu instead of the Edit menu to conform with Mac OS X standards. * Focus issues: On Mac OS X, text couldn't be edited while the timer was running. On Windows, notifications from other programs overlapping with the main window would take away focus from dialogs. * Prevent crash under Windows XP when dropping e-mail from Thunderbird if the APPDATA environment variable is not defined. * ImportError: No module named thirdparty.ElementTree. This exception would happen when using a source distribution of Task Coach or a pac

[ANN] Update on Python-based Second Life client library (pyogp)

Lawson English — 2008-06-28T20:59:20

Pyogp is the Python-based library being developed by Linden Lab, makers of Second Life, and the programming community of the users of Second Life under the auspices of the SL Architecture Working Group, in order to test and implement open protocols designed to allow anyone to create their own virtual world servers and clients compatible enough with Second Life so that avatars can travel to and from SL and other virtual worlds, keeping identity and inventory intact. https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Pyogp irc://irc.freenode.net/#pyogp Pyogp is starting to take shape. We've got several developers from Linden Lab contributing code as part of their job, as well as increasing participation from the SL community. We've standardized on using ZCA as the component architecture and are fleshing out the framework to handle the new inter-operability protocols as well as legacy protocols to allow pyogp clients to be used with the current Second Life and OpenSim servers as well as future virtual world arch

OSCON discount code

Aahz — 2008-06-28T19:10:11

If you're going to OSCON and haven't yet registered, you may use the following code to receive a 15% discount: os08pgm OSCON will be in Portland, Oregon 7/21-25. For more info: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon

ANN: RPyC 3.00 RC1

sebulba — 2008-06-28T16:45:42

RPyC, the transparent RPC library for python, has reached 3.00 RC1. homepage: http://rpyc.wikispaces.com download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155578 final released expected within 3-4 weeks. -tomer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

ANN: ConfigObj 4.5.3 Released

Fuzzyman — 2008-06-28T16:58:22

A new version of ConfigObj is now available, version 4.5.3. This version is a minor bugfix release. It fixes a relatively obscure bug, where an exception could be raised when validating a config file with 'copy=True' and '__many__' sections. * Home Page: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html * Download: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/downman.py?file=configobj-4.5.3.zip ConfigObj is a Python module for the simple reading and writing of config files. It has many features, whilst remaining easy to use. With the assistance of validate it can validate a config file against a specification, and convert members to the expected type. Eggs for Python 2.4 & 2.5 are available from Python Package Index. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

ANN: Leo 4.5 b1 released

Edward K Ream — 2008-06-28T14:41:14

Leo 4.5 beta 1 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html The highlights of Leo 4.5: -------------------------- - A major revision of Leo's node structures, compatible with so-called unified nodes. - A major revision of Leo's key-handling code. Most per-pane key bindings have been eliminated. - A major revision of Leo's outline drawing and focus handling code. Calls to c.beginUpdate and c.endUpdate simply request later redrawing in c.outerUpdate. - The beginning of usable vim-like bindings. More support is coming. - Many small improvements and bug fixes. Links: ------ Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Forum: http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 Bzr: http://code.launchpad.net/leo-editor/ Quotes: http://webpages.charter

SciPy Conference Updates

Travis Vaught — 2008-06-27T23:04:23

Greetings, The SciPy Conference is not too far away. I thought I'd summarize some recent news about the conference in case some of you missed it: - Accommodations (news!): We've negotiated a group rate with a nearby Marriott hotel, for those that would like to take advantage of it. The hotel has set up a web site for our event here: http://cwp.marriott.com/laxot/scipyworkshop/ - Student Sponsorship: As you may have seen, the Python Software Foundation has agreed to partner with Enthought to sponsor 10 students' travel, registration, and accommodation for the tutorials, conference and (most importantly) sprints. If you're in college or a graduate program, please check out the details here: http://conference.scipy.org/sponsoring - Abstracts Submission Deadline Extended: The review committee is extending the deadline to Monday, June 30th. Please see the Call for Papers for instructions on abstract submission here: http://conference.scipy.org/call_for_papers Please drop me an ema

Docutils 0.5 released

2008-06-26T07:10:09

Short list of changes * Python2.1 support was dropped, as are Netscape0.4 compromises in the HTML writer. * Enhanced citation support and literal-block parametrization for LaTeX2e writer. * The PEP writer supports new python.org website structure and pep2pyramid.py. * New OO API for directives. Hebrew (and possibly other language) mappings. Configuration files are now assumed and required to be UTF-8-encoded. Some templates and enhanced emacs support. download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/docutils/docutils-0.5.tar.gz?download Changelog: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/0.5/HISTORY.html

ANN: wxPython 2.8.8.0

Robin Dunn — 2008-06-25T19:20:20

Announcing ---------- The 2.8.8.0 release of wxPython is now available for download at http://wxpython.org/download.php. This release has had a number of further refinements and enhancements on the stable 2.8 source tree since the previous release. On Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) the Python 2.5 binaries of wxPython are able to be used with either Apple's system Python, or with the Python.org version. Source code is available, as well as binaries for Python 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5, for Windows and Mac, as well some packages for various Linux distributions. A summary of changes is listed below and also at http://wxpython.org/recentchanges.php. What is wxPython? ----------------- wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is implemented as a Python extension module that wraps the GUI components of the popular wxWidgets cross platform library, which is written in C++

pg/python release

2008-06-26T03:44:04

pg/python release ================= Date ``Sun Jun 22 15:57:42 MST 2008`` Summary ``Bug Fixes`` Changes ------- pg_proboscis-1.0.2: - Fix cursor-identifier based ``cursor`` creation. - Fix DB-API 2.0 connect() showstopper. (sigh) - Detect errno.ECONNRESET and properly mark the connection as 'LOST' (By not doing so, a superfluous exception would get thrown on close()) pg_pqueue-1.0.1: - Correct the signed-ness of tuple descriptor attributes. - Fix Describe(Portal) message handling. About ===== http://python.projects.postgresql.org/?utm_source=release&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pg_proboscis-1.0.2 pg/python is a project dedicated to improving the Python interfaces to PostgreSQL. pg/python is not a monolithic project. It isolates components to encourage targeted packaging and reusability without unwanted side- code. Projects -------- pg_proboscis The programmer's client providing both DB-API 2.0 and GreenTrunk interfaces. pg_teop The procedural language. ("PL/Py", In development

ANN: Komodo IDE 4.4 & Komodo Edit 4.4 released

Trent Mick — 2008-06-24T17:33:13

Komodo IDE 4.4.0 and Komodo Edit 4.4.0 have been released. Installers for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are available here: http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_ide/ http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_edit/ Or, if you have Komodo 4.3 installed, auto-update should provide the update for you automatically sometime today. What's New in Komodo 4.4.0 ========================== * [Komodo IDE] A new "Sections List" filterable menu list has been added to the status bar. This supports all of Komodo's core "codeintel" languages plus it provides a file outline for C/C++, Java, CSS, XML/HTML files and more. * [Komodo IDE] A number of improvements to Source Code Control -- in particular a multi-file commit dialog and a "Change List" tab (next to the Toolbox) that tracks what files you are editing/adding/deleting from SCC while in Komodo to help you commit those files in logic change sets. * Column mode editing. Often requested, finally here. * Plus many many bug fixes and user interface

Sphinx 0.4 released

Georg Brandl — 2008-06-23T12:30:20

I'm pleased to announce the next minor version of Sphinx, the Python documentation generation tool. What is it? =========== Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of multiple reStructuredText source files). Its website is at . Important changes ================= (full list at http://sphinx.pocoo.org/changes.html) * The new config value `default_role` can be used to select the default role for all documents. * Sphinx now interprets field lists with fields like ``:param foo:`` in description units. * The new `staticmethod` directive can be used to mark methods as static methods. * The new TextBuilder creates plain-text output. * Autodoc Extension: - The autodoc extension now offers a much more flexible way to manipulate docstrings before including them into the output, via the new `autodoc-process-docstring` event. - The `autodoc` extension accepts sig

ANN: gmpy v1.03 is released

casevh — 2008-06-23T00:43:15

Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce that GMPY v1.03 has been released. It is available at: http://code.google.com/p/gmpy/ What is GMPY? ================== GMPY is a C-coded Python extension module that wraps the GMP library to provide to Python code fast multiprecision arithmetic (integer, rational, and float), random number generation, advanced number-theoretical functions, and more. What is new? ================== * Two significant bugs on 64-bit platforms have been fixed. * Improved support for building on Mac OSX. * Instructions for building on Windows are now included. * Binary installers are provided for Windows, including Python 2.6. * In addition, abinary installer using a version of GMP specifically optimized for Core2 processors is provided for Python 2.6. Enjoy, Case Van Horsen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

anntools 0.5.1 - Tools for function annotation

Ferenczi Viktor — 2008-06-23T05:00:24

I'm pleased to announce the first alpha version of anntools, a utility package for Python 3.0's new function annotation feature. It supports validation, type checking and conversion. It provides cooperation schemes to achieve future compatibility with another annotation based tools. The anntools package is also usable with Python 2.4 and 2.5, since all functionality is also supported through keyword arguments passed to decorators. Download, examples and documentation: http://code.google.com/p/anntools/ NOTE: It is currently alpha quality software, please do not use it for production use yet. You can add bug reports to the issue tracker. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

[ANN] Virtual Worlds Open Grid Protocol testing library in Python(pyogp)

Lawson English — 2008-06-20T21:00:24

A new open source project has been started by Linden Lab, makers of the Second Life™ virtual worlds, and the Second Life Architecture Working Group (AWG) to test LL's proposed virtual worlds Open Grid Protocol (OGP) that will allow any virtual world to support multi-world login, between-world teleport and other transportation mechanisms, as well as asset/property and currency sharing between worlds. https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=AWG_Test_Harness The code is released to all comers in Python under an Apache v2 agreement, although contributions require the signing of Linden Lab's developer contribution agreement (giving LL equal copyrights to the original contributer--a boilerplate LL corporate requirement that likely is redundant given the nature of Apache v2). svn: http://svn.secondlife.com/trac/linden/browser/projects/2008/pyogp. Second Life contribution agreement: http://secondlifegrid.net.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/SLVcontribution_agmt.pdf irc: irc://irc.freenode.net/#pyogp AW

EuroSciPy - Early Registration ends June 20th

Mike Müller — 2008-06-19T21:09:35

Greetings, This is a friendly reminder that the Early Registration deadline for the EuroSciPy Conference is June 20th. Conference Date and Venue ------------------------- The EuroSciPy Conference will be held July 26-27, 2008 in Leipzig, Germany. http://scipy.org/EuroSciPy2008 Registration ------------ The direct link to the registration site is here: http://www.python-academy.com/euroscipy/index.html The registration fee is 100.00€ for early registrants and will increase to 150.00€ for late registration (after June 20). Program ------- The schedule of talks is available at: http://scipy.org/EuroSciPy2008#schedule Keynote ------- The keynote speaker this year will be Travis Oliphant, the primary author of the recent NumPy rewrite. Pre-Conference Courses ---------------------- If you like to extend your trip to Leipzig, you can attend pre-conference courses: 1.) 2-day course "Introductory to Python for Programmers" followed by a 2.) 3-day course "Python for Scientists and Engineers" http:

lockfile 0.3

2008-06-20T02:23:04

Lockfile 0.3 is now available from PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lockfile This version fixed a problem in the 2.4 adapter file and expands the documentation slightly. Functionally it is unchanged from 0.2. What is lockfile? The lockfile module exports a FileLock class that provides a simple API for locking files. Unlike the Windows msvcrt.locking function, the Unix fcntl.flock and fcntl.lockf functions and the deprecated posixfile module, the API is identical across both Unix (including Linux and Mac) and Windows platforms. The lock mechanism relies on the atomic nature of the link (on Unix) and mkdir (On Windows) system calls.

lxml 2.1 beta3 released

Stefan Behnel — 2008-06-20T08:20:10

Hi all, I'm proud to release lxml 2.1beta3 to PyPI. This is the first lxml release that builds and works on Python 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 (beta) and 3.0 (beta). http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/2.1beta3 Install with easy_install lxml==2.1beta3 What is lxml? """ In short: lxml is the most feature-rich and easy-to-use library for working with XML and HTML in the Python language. lxml is a Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It is unique in that it combines the speed and feature completeness of these libraries with the simplicity of a native Python API. """ Unusual for a beta release, the third beta contains more new features than bug fixes, which is largely (but not only) due to adaptations with respect to Python 3. The changelog follows below. I expect this to be the last beta release before 2.1 final. Feedback is very much appreciated, especially on the "experimental" features like the namespace cleanup function and on Python 2.6/3.0 support. Your f

CfP: 1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering(SLE 2008)

Dragan Gasevic — 2008-06-19T15:00:26

___________________________________________________________________ 2nd Call for Papers - SLE 2008 1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering http://planet-sl.org/sle2008/ Toulouse, France, September 29-30, 2008 ___________________________________________________________________ Co-located with 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2008) Conference proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS series. The 1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) is devoted to topics related to artificial languages in software engineering. SLE is an international research forum that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to expand the frontiers of software language engineering. Historically, SLE emerged from two established workshop series: LDTA, Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications, which has been a s

Pydev 1.3.18 Released

Fabio Zadrozny — 2008-06-19T16:11:06

Hi All, Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.3.18 have been released Details on Pydev Extensions: http://www.fabioz.com/pydev Details on Pydev: http://pydev.sf.net Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com Release Highlights in Pydev Extensions: ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Auto-import: Groups imports when possible. * Auto-import: Doesn't bring imports for completions already in the document even if a parse is not successful. * Organize Imports (ctrl+shift+O): Suggests imports to the undefined tokens in the editor. * Import quick-fix: Icons correspondent to the element being imported. Release Highlights in Pydev: ---------------------------------------------- * Executing external programs: Using Runtime.exec(String[] cmdargs) instead of a string with the generated command (fixes problems regarding having spaces in the installation). * Organize Imports (ctrl+shift+O): Imports can be grouped. * Cygwin: sys.executable in cygwin was not returning '.exe' in the en