http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9284 <pre>This month at PyGTA we have a special treat, 3 PyCon Presenters will do a dress rehearsal of their PyCon 2010 presentations just before they head down to Atlanta. All three talks are targeting general audiences, so feel free to bring along your new Pythonista friends. We have 3 PyCon previews scheduled: * What We've Learned From Building Basie — Greg Wilson * Think Globally, Hack Locally - Teaching Python in Your Community — Leigh Honeywell * Debating 'til Dawn: Topics to keep you up all night — Mike Fletcher We will give each presenter 20 minutes and then as much question/answer and feedback time as they want. At PyCon they'll only get 30 minutes total, but we want to give them as much feedback as possible so they can polish their presentation for the larger audience. We'll start the presentations at 7:30PM (sharp) at Linux Caffe on the 16th. If you bring a laptop, there will be an immediate feedback channel available. PyGTA: http://www.pygta.org Linux Caffe: http://www.pygta.</pre> Mike C. Fletcher 2010-02-09T21:19:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9283 <pre>QOTW: "You see? That's what I like about the Python community: people even apologise for apologising :)" - Tim Golden http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/858d1c31d0c2adff The third alpha version of Python 2.7 is ready for testing: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/6f49dacfe8759508/ How to enumerate all possible strings matching a given regular expression: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/1b78346c6661ac4f/ Which language features do you like most? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/599b3c9772421ece/ Implementing a two-dimensional array in a simple way seems to actually be more efficient than other, more sophisticated alternatives: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/55e595d6dc4ca3f4/ The new GIL (to be implemented in Python 3.2) will provide less overhead, especially in multicore CPUs: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/586</pre> Gabriel Genellina 2010-02-09T15:03:02 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9282 <pre>I'm proud to release version 1.4.12 of Roundup which fixes a number bugs. This release includes fixes for some potential security holes. Please see the upgrading documentation for details of what you might need to do in your tracker. If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. This release includes: - Support IMAP CRAM-MD5, thanks Jochen Maes - Proper handling of 'Create' permissions in both mail gateway (earlier commit r4405 by Richard), web interface, and xmlrpc. This used to check 'Edit' permission previously. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.devel/5133 Add regression tests for proper handling of 'Create' and 'Edit' permissions. - Fix handling of non-ascii in realname in the nosy mailer, this used to mangle the email address making it unusable when replying. Thanks to intevation for funding the fix. - Fix documentation on user required to run the tests, fixes </pre> Richard Jones 2010-02-09T02:00:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9281 <pre> py.test is a mature, advanced automated testing tool working with Python2, Python3 and Jython versions on all major operating systems. It has a simple plugin architecture and can run many existing common Python test suites without modification. It offers some unique features not found in other testing tools. See http://pytest.org for more info. py.test 1.2.1 brings bug fixes and some new options and abilities triggered by user feedback: * --funcargs [testpath] will show available builtin- and project funcargs. * display a short and concise traceback if funcarg lookup fails. * early-load "conftest.py" files in non-dot first-level sub directories. * --tb=line will print a single line for each failing test (issue67) * py.cleanup has a number of new options, cleanups up setup.py related files * fix issue78: always call python-level teardown functions even if the according setup failed. For more detailed information see http://codespeak.net/py/dist/announce/release-1.2.1.html or the CHANGELOG be</pre> holger krekel 2010-02-08T16:39:49 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9280 <pre>Hello, The next meeting of pyCologne will take place Wednesday, February, 10th starting about 6.30 pm - 6.45 pm at Room 0.14, Benutzerrechenzentrum (RRZK-B) University of Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 Köln, Germany Agenda: -editmoin (Reimar Bauer) -Using MoinMoin-Templates (Reimar Bauer) At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant. Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at: http://www.pycologne.de (Sorry, this page is in German only) Best Wishes Thomas </pre> Thomas Lenarz 2010-02-07T22:06:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9279 <pre>=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, February 9 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ). Stefan Schwarzer will rehearse his presentation for the Chemnitzer Linux Tage titled "Robustere Python-Programme" (More Robust Python Programs). Furthermore, we will prepare for our booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage. Food and soft drinks are provided. Please send a short confirmation mail to info&lt; at &gt;python-academy.de, so we can prepare appropriately. Everybody who uses Python, plans to do so or is interested in learning more about the language is encouraged to participate. While the meeting language will be mainly German, we will provide English translation if needed. Current information about the meetings are at http://www.python-academy.com/user-group . Mike == Leipzig Python User Group === Wir treffen uns am Dienstag, 09.02.2010 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-a</pre> Mike Müller 2010-02-07T21:43:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9278 <pre>PyBindGen is a Python module that is geared to generating C/C++ code that binds a C/C++ library for Python. It does so without extensive use of either C++ templates or C pre-processor macros. It has modular handling of C/C++ types, and can be easily extended with Python plugins. The generated code is almost as clean as what a human programmer would write. It can be downloaded from: http://code.google.com/p/pybindgen/ Bug reports should be filed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ &lt;https://bugs.launchpad.net/pybindgen&gt; pybindgen &lt;https://bugs.launchpad.net/pybindgen&gt; &lt;https://bugs.launchpad.net/pybindgen&gt;Documentation: http://packages.python.org/PyBindGen/ NEWS: === pybindgen 0.14 === - Multiple inheritance support - Virtual methods can now be overridden with Method instead of _Method - Add annotation support for instance attributes - Benchmarks (vs Boost.Python, SWIG, and SIP) - New types supported: int16_t&amp; and std::string* parameter types - Non-vi</pre> Gustavo Carneiro 2010-02-07T18:40:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9277 <pre> execnet is a small and stable pure-python library for working with local or remote clusters of Python interpreters, with ease. It supports seamless instantiation of and interaction with remote interpreters through the 'ssh' command line tool. It supports Python 2.4-3.1, Jython-2.5.1 and pypy-c. The 1.0.5 release is a minor backward compatible release with these changes: - more care during receiver-thread finalization during interp-shutdown, should get rid of annoying and meaningless exceptions - fix glitch in ssh-fileserver example - experimentally add "setup.py test" support - will run py.test More info here: http://codespeak.net/execnet cheers, holger </pre> holger krekel 2010-02-07T16:44:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9276 <pre>On behalf of the Python development team, I'm cheerful to announce the third alpha release of Python 2.7. Python 2.7 is scheduled (by Guido and Python-dev) to be the last major version in the 2.x series. Though more major releases have not been absolutely ruled out, it's likely that the 2.7 release will an extended period of maintenance for the 2.x series. 2.7 includes many features that were first released in Python 3.1. The faster io module, the new nested with statement syntax, improved float repr, set literals, dictionary views, and the memoryview object have been backported from 3.1. Other features include an ordered dictionary implementation, unittests improvements, a new sysconfig module, and support for ttk Tile in Tkinter. For a more extensive list of changes in 2.7, see http://doc.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html or Misc/NEWS in the Python distribution. To download Python 2.7 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/ Please note that this is a development release, intended as</pre> Benjamin Peterson 2010-02-06T17:56:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9275 <pre>PyGUI 2.2 is available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ Highlights of this version: - TextEditor component with tabs, scrolling and word wrap - Classes for laying out components in rows, colums and grids - Printing support What is PyGUI? -------------- PyGUI is a cross-platform GUI toolkit designed to be lightweight and have a highly Pythonic API. </pre> Greg Ewing 2010-02-06T08:08:09 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9274 <pre>Hi all, Version 0.14 of mpmath is now available on the website: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/ It can also be downloaded from the Python Package Index: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mpmath/0.14 Mpmath is a pure-Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic that implements an extensive set of mathematical functions. It can be used as a standalone library or via SymPy ( http://code.google.com/p/sympy/), and is also available as a standard component of Sage (http://sagemath.org/). For a list of new features, see the blog post and changelog: http://fredrik-j.blogspot.com/2010/02/mpmath-014-released.html http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.14/CHANGES For a brief summary, the new features in 0.14 include support for using a Cython-based backend soon to be added to Sage (giving a large speedup of mpmath in Sage); support for 3D plotting; fast low-precision functions (using Python's builtin float/complex types); an implementation of the Riemann-Siegel expansion for the Riemann zeta functi</pre> Fredrik Johansson 2010-02-05T20:04:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9273 <pre>We're proud to announce that we've just released version 1.8 of Resolver One. This version switches to IronPython 2.6, which gives us support for Python 2.6 syntax along with some serious performance improvements. Resolver One is a Windows-based spreadsheet that integrates Python deeply into its recalculation loop, making the models you build more reliable and more maintainable. In version 1.8, we've worked hard on improving performance above and beyond the gains we got from IronPython 2.6, and we've also added a number of new statistical functions, along with various minor bugfixes and smaller enhancements. You can read more about Resolver One here: &lt;http://www.resolversystems.com/products/resolver-one/&gt; We have a 31-day free trial version, so if you would like to take a look, you can download it from our website: &lt;http://www.resolversystems.com/download/&gt; If you want to use Resolver One in an Open Source project, we offer free licenses for that: &lt;http://www.resolversystems.com/opensource/&gt; </pre> Giles Thomas 2010-02-05T17:04:10 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9272 <pre>gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet to provide a high-level synchronous API on top of libevent event loop. Features include: - convenient API around greenlets - familiar synchronization primitives (Event, Queue) - cooperative socket and ssl modules - WSGI server on top of libevent-http - DNS requests done through libevent-dns - monkey patching utility to get pure Python modules, like urllib2, to cooperate Homepage: http://www.gevent.org Download page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gevent * changes in 0.12.0 * - The major new feature is a gevent.ssl module, that provides cooperative implementation of the standard ssl module. It does not require any additional extensions on Python ≥ 2.6. It also works on 2.4 and 2.5 if ssl package is installed. The old, PyOpenSSL-based implementation of SSL objects is still available, but the new version is the preferred way now. - The library now compiles and passes most of the relevant tests on Windows. It’s still has a few rough e</pre> Denis Bilenko 2010-02-05T07:48:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9271 <pre>What is cx_Oracle? cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a few exceptions. Where do I get it? http://cx-oracle.sourceforge.net What's new? 1) Added support for 64-bit Windows. 2) Added support for Python 3.1 and dropped support for Python 3.0. 3) Added support for keyword arguments in cursor.callproc() and cursor.callfunc(). 4) Added documentation for the UNICODE and FIXED_UNICODE variable types. 5) Added extra link arguments required for Mac OS X as suggested by Jason Woodward. 6) Added additional error codes to the list of error codes that raise OperationalError rather than DatabaseError. 7) Fixed calculation of display size for strings with national database character sets that are not the default AL16UTF16. 8) Moved the resetting of the setinputsizes flag before the binding takes place so that if an error takes place and a new statement is prepared subsequently, spurious errors will not occur. 9) </pre> Anthony Tuininga 2010-02-05T06:23:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9270 <pre>I'm happy to announce that ActivePython 2.6.4.10 is now available for download from: http://www.activestate.com/activepython/ This is a minor release with several updates and fixes. Changes in 2.6.4.10 ------------------- - PyPM is now included in 64-bit Windows and Linux builds - Include Distribute instead of setuptools - Include pip - Upgrade to Tcl/Tk 8.5.8 - [Windows] Upgrade to Pywin32 CVS (2009-11-10) - [Windows] Support for OpenSSL in 64-bit - [Windows] Include Tcl/Tk header files - [Windows] Fix broken IDLE on the 64-bit build See the release notes for full details: http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.6/relnotes.html#changes What is ActivePython? --------------------- ActivePython is ActiveState's binary distribution of Python. Builds for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux are made freely available. Builds for Solaris, HP-UX and AIX, and access to older versions are available with ActivePython Business Edition: http://www.activestate.com/business_edition/ ActivePython includes t</pre> Sridhar Ratnakumar 2010-02-05T05:01:27 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9269 <pre>Marave is a text editor in the style of Ommwriter or DarkRoom: a full- screen minimalistic interface (most of the time: no interface at all). It's multi-platform and based on PyQt, licensed under the GPL. More information and downloads at http://marave.googlecode.com </pre> ralsina 2010-02-05T01:28:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9268 <pre>QOTW: "I think, in the spirit of the topic, they should hold it at both places at the same time." - Brian Blais, on whether the Python Concurrency Workshop, v2.0, should be in Chicago or Denver (in January!) The fastest way to consume an iterable until exhaustion: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/c1ae3513a31eb63e/ When inheriting from a built-in class, it isn't obvious which of __new__ / __init__ should be overriden: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/a453c65be4e0f355/ When importing a module, Python may pick the wrong one due to name clashes -- is this avoidable? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/fe6430e7980e2a96/ Setting a default encoding for 'print' statements: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/2fb77c8989f63f9d/ Despite its name, the iglob function (in module glob) isn't completely lazy: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/d9a8617ec85</pre> Gabriel Genellina 2010-02-03T18:22:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9267 <pre>The Sauce Labs team, http://saucelabs.com/about/team, is hosting two free tutorial open space sessions at Pycon in Atlanta. In the short session, people bringing their laptops should be able to record a web session in their browser, convert the recorded activity to a Python script, modify the script to accept a number of inputs , and replay the script locally on their laptops. Once you've learned how to fully automate your own browser, submit the same script to the Sauce Labs cloud to run the tests in parallel across multiple browsers and operating systems, and view the results with instant video playback. The tutorials should be of interest to web developers wanting fast, cross-browser testing and it should be of general interest to anyone wanting to use Python to automate browser sessions. The tutorials are being led by Jason Huggins, the creator of Selenium (an open source web app testing tool http://seleniumhq.org/ ). Several familiar names from the Python community will also be on-hand: http://sauce</pre> Raymond Hettinger 2010-02-03T18:52:21 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9266 <pre>Just a quick note to let everyone know that there are still a few slots available for this PyCON'2010 tutorial in Chicago. Come find out why you might want to start using Python 3.1. </pre> David Beazley 2010-02-03T15:05:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9265 <pre>Leo 4.7 beta 3 February 2, 2009 Leo 4.7 beta 3 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&amp;package_id=29106 Leo 4.7 beta 3 fixes all known serious bugs in Leo. Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html The highlights of Leo 4.7: -------------------------- - Leo now uses the simplest possible internal data model. This is the so-called "one-node" world. - Leo supports Python 3.x. - Leo requires Python 2.6 or above. - Several important improvements in file handling. - Leo converts &lt; at &gt;file nodes to &lt; at &gt;thin nodes automatically. - &lt; at &gt;auto-rst now works much more reliably reliably. - Leo no longer &lt; at &gt;noref trees. Such trees are not reliable in cooperative environments. - A new Windows installer. - Many other features, including new command line options and new plugins. - Dozens of bug fixes. Edward K. Ream Links: ------ Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/e</pre> Edward K Ream 2010-02-02T16:48:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce/9264 <pre>I'm happy to announce the release of Cython 0.12.1. == About == Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python itself. Cython is based on the well-known Pyrex, but supports more cutting edge functionality and optimizations.Cython is an ideal language for wrapping external C libraries, and for fast C modules that speed up the execution of Python code. For more information, see http://cython.org. == Where to get it == http://cython.org http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cython == New Features == * Type inference improvements. There have been several bug fixes and improvements to the type inferencer. Notably, there is now a "safe" mode enabled by setting the infer_types directive to None. (The None here refers to the "default" mode, which will be the default in 0.13.) This safe mode limits inference to Python object types and C doubles, which should speed up execution without affecting any semantics such as integer overflow behavior like infer_types=True might. Th</pre> Robert Bradshaw 2010-02-02T10:53:09 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.python.announce