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BayPIGgies REMINDER: April 14, 7:30pm (FIRST meeting at IronPort)
by Aahz April 12, 2005

April 12, 2005

NOTE: we are no longer meeting at Stanford; the April meeting is at IronPort in San Bruno The next meeting of BayPIGgies will be Thurs, April 14 at 7:30pm. Guido van Rossum (and any other BayPIGgies who wish to contribute) will review the activities at PyCon 2005. BayPIGgies meetings alternate between IronPort (San Bruno, California) and Google (Mountain View, California). For more information and directions, see http://www.baypiggies.net/ Before the meeting, we may meet at 6pm for dinner. Discussion of dinner plans is handled on the BayPIGgies mailing list. Advance notice: The May 12 meeting agenda has not been set. Please send e-mail to baypiggies(a)baypiggies.net if you want to suggest an agenda (or volunteer to give a presentation). -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR

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Chicago Python Users Group, April 14
by Ian Bicking April 12, 2005

April 12, 2005

The Chicago Python User Group, ChiPy, will have its next meeting on Thursday, April 14th, starting at 7pm. For more information on ChiPy see http://chipy.org Michael Tobis, who is organizing this meeting, needs to give the building a list of names. If you think it's possible you will come, send email to tobis(a)mailbag.com so he can put you on the list, and bring an ID. Presentation ------------ Topic: Subversion and Making Apples from Applesauce The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. Brian Fitzpatrick will tell us about how to use Subversion, the Python bindings, and about cvs2svn, which he was one of the leads on-- Fitz says that 'cvs2svn is the most difficult piece of code I've ever written--I'm going to write a paper for CodeCon next year about it called "Making Apples from Applesauce." ' There will also be time to chat, and many opportunities to ask questions. We encourage people at all levels to attend. Location -------- This month we will be meeting again at the historic Monadnock Building in Downtown Chicago, at 53 W Jackson St. (in the loop at Jackson & Dearborn). It is convenient to all CTA lines. Parking lots are available nearby, but expect to pay about $9. About ChiPy ----------- ChiPy meets once a month, on the second Thursday of the month. If you can't come this month, please join our mailing list: http://lonelylion.com/mailman/listinfo/chipy

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[ANN] Release 0.30 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink April 11, 2005

April 11, 2005

Hi all, Unfortunately, a serious bug was present in the previous release of Task Coach. An unfortunate combination of a missing test case and a typo. Release 0.30 fixes that bug: - More than one task due today would crash Task Coach (1180641). What is Task Coach? Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and is developed using Python and wxPython. You can download Task Coach from: http://taskcoach.niessink.com https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach/ A binary installer is available for Windows XP, in addition to the source distribution. Thanks, Frank

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 11)
by Simon Brunning April 11, 2005

April 11, 2005

QOTW: "I think my code is clearer, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm violently opposed to your code. I save violent opposition for really important matters like which text editor you use." - Roy Smith "You need to recursively subdivide the cake until you have a piece small enough to fit in your input buffer. Then the atomicity of the cake-ingestion operation will become apparent." - Scott David Daniels Various Python Meetup groups are meeting this week: http://python.meetup.com/ wxPython 2.5.5.1 is out... http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7… ... for those that don't hate it. http://fraca7.free.fr/blog/index.php?2005/04/04/10-a-word-about-guis A couple of nice cookbook recipes - check your docstring coverage, and let Python tell you what you meant to type. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/355731 http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/409000 Exceptions are't just for errors in Python. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9… The martellibot's working for Google! http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c… Backup your del.icio.usly linked pages to Gmail. http://llimllib.f2o.org/blog/serve/entry/delbackup How to tell whether a wave function corresponds to bosons or fermions. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e… No, I'm none the wiser, either. Still, some interesting algorithms in there. Rolling your own __deepcopy__. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4… IronPython is getting good coverage these days. http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160403713 ======================================================================== Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Notice especially the master FAQ http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the marvelous daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new) World-Wide Web articles related to Python. http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL are utterly different in their technologies and generally in their results. For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index much of the universe of Pybloggers. http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog http://www.planetpython.org/ http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce Brett Cannon continues the marvelous tradition established by Andrew Kuchling and Michael Hudson of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week. http://www.python.org/dev/summary/ The Python Package Index catalogues packages. http://www.python.org/pypi/ The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references to all sorts of Python resources. http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ The Python Business Forum "further[s] the interests of companies that base their business on ... Python." http://www.python-in-business.org Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're subject with a vision of what the language makes practical. http://www.pythonology.com/success The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. http://www.python.org/psf/ Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation. http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches. http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch Cetus collects Python hyperlinks. http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and interesting recipes. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are http://www.python.org/channews.rdf http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi http://python.de/backend.php For more, see http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a SourceForge reincarnation. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0042.html The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com. editor(a)pythonjournal.com and editor(a)pythonjournal.cognizor.com welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work. del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary. It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence. http://del.icio.us/tag/python *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.com Archive probing tricks of the trade: http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100 http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.pyth… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topics/pythonurl/ (requires subscription) http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=python-url+group:comp.lang.python*&s… http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lan… Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. E-mail to <Python-URL(a)phaseit.net> should get through. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning (approximately), ask <claird(a)phaseit.net> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.

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ANNOUNCE: SiGeFi v0.3.1
by Batista, Facundo April 11, 2005

April 11, 2005

We're proud to announce the 0.3.1 version of SiGeFi, which you can find at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sigefi What is SiGeFi? --------------- SiGeFi is a Financial Management System, with focus in the needs of the administration of the money in each personal life and house. Always keeping the easy usage and concepts, SiGeFi has features of a complex Management system: - Complies with Double Entry Accounting - Has a Budget-based Money Distribution system - Allow to make Loans between accounts (with associated financial costs) And of course, it's completely written in Python (didn't decided the GUI yet). What is in this version? ------------------------ GUI: - Main window, with the full menu structure. - Opening of a database and accounts' tree loading. Internal changes: - Specified the start-up procedure. - Implemented consistency controls in the Persistence layer. - Bugfixing (mainly with exchange rates constraints). Created a "demo" application that shows how to work with the core by hand, useful as documentation, and allows to create datasets for GUI testing. See roadmap.txt to find out the milestone for each version, and TODO.txt for more detail. Be aware that most of the documentation is not translated yet, it's only in Spanish. What can I expect for the next version? --------------------------------------- More work in the GUI: - Finish the main windows, the interaction core of the program. - Add shortcuts. - Integrate a toolbar. How can I help? --------------- In a thousand ways, there's a lot of things to do: documentation, fixing code, translations, set up the web page, etc... If you want to participate, send us a mail to the list (sigefi-list(a)lists.sourceforge.net) or directly to us. Thank you. . Facundo Bitácora De Vuelo: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog PyAr - Python Argentina: http://pyar.decode.com.ar/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADVERTENCIA. La información contenida en este mensaje y cualquier archivo anexo al mismo, son para uso exclusivo del destinatario y pueden contener información confidencial o propietaria, cuya divulgación es sancionada por la ley. Si Ud. No es uno de los destinatarios consignados o la persona responsable de hacer llegar este mensaje a los destinatarios consignados, no está autorizado a divulgar, copiar, distribuir o retener información (o parte de ella) contenida en este mensaje. Por favor notifíquenos respondiendo al remitente, borre el mensaje original y borre las copias (impresas o grabadas en cualquier medio magnético) que pueda haber realizado del mismo. Todas las opiniones contenidas en este mail son propias del autor del mensaje y no necesariamente coinciden con las de Telefónica Comunicaciones Personales S.A. o alguna empresa asociada. Los mensajes electrónicos pueden ser alterados, motivo por el cual Telefónica Comunicaciones Personales S.A. no aceptará ninguna obligación cualquiera sea el resultante de este mensaje. Muchas Gracias.

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PyAr - Python Argentina 8th Meeting, this Thursday
by Batista, Facundo April 11, 2005

April 11, 2005

The Argentine Python User Group, PyAr, will have its eighth meeting this Thursday, January 10th at 7:00pm. Agenda ------ Despite our agenda tends to be rather open, this time we would like to cover these topics: - Conclusions of PyAr in PyCon 2005. - See what we'll do with the t-shirts, and how we'll export them. - Analyze a future meeting point. Where ----- We're meeting at Hip Hop Bar, Hipólito Yirigoyen 640, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, starting at 19hs. We will be in the back room, so please ask the barman for us. About PyAr ---------- For more information on PyAr see http://pyar.decode.com.ar (in Spanish), or join our mailing list (Also in Spanish. For instructions see http://pyar.decode.com.ar/Members/ltorre/listademail) We meet on the second Thursday of every month. . Facundo

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ReleaseForge 0.7 - An alternative to the SourceForge File Release System
by stuff＠mailzilla.net April 10, 2005

April 10, 2005

ReleaseForge 0.7 is now available for download at: http://releaseforge.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------- About ReleaseForge 0.7: This new version adds the ability for users to submit project news to SourceForge. This feature is available from the newly created Actions menu on the main window. ------------------------------------------------------- About ReleaseForge: ReleaseForge is a GUI application designed for project administrators and release engineers of projects that are hosted at SourceForge. It is intended to make it easier and faster to create a new release and edit existing releases rather than using the SourceForge Web interface. ReleaseForge streamlines the release effort by prompting you for information regarding your new release (version info, change log, release notes, files to include, etc). It then seamlessly negotiates with the SourceForge Web server, creating your release, posting your release notes/change log, uploading your files to the SourceForge FTP server, selecting the files for inclusion in your release on the SourceForge Web server, updating the file attributes of each of the files and then, if appropriate, notifying monitoring users of the new release. ------------------------------------------------------- http://releaseforge.sourceforge.net

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[ANN] Release 0.29 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink April 10, 2005

April 10, 2005

Hi all, I am pleased to announce release 0.29 of Task Coach. This release fixes two bugs and adds a couple of features: Bugs fixed: - New effort in the context menu did not work in release 0.28. - When selecting 'View' -> 'Completed tasks' in the task tree, only completed root tasks were hidden. Features changed/added: - What tab is active is now a persistent setting. This includes the tabs and choices in the mainwindow and the effort choices in the task editor. - Reordered 'View' -> 'Tasks due before end of' menu. - Added a separate 'Budget' tab in the task editor. - Taskbar icon now indicates whether task effort tracking is on. - Effort is sorted from most recent to least recent. - Changed task/subtask separator in the task list view from '|' to ' -> '. I'm also happy to announce that Task Coach received its first donation, from Brian Crounse. What is Task Coach? Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and is developed using Python and wxPython. You can download Task Coach from: http://taskcoach.niessink.com https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach/ A binary installer is available for Windows XP, in addition to the source distribution. Thanks, Frank

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ANN: Wavy Navy 1.00 (Pygame shoot 'em up)
by Sizer April 10, 2005

April 10, 2005

Wavy Navy 1.00 is now available at http://sizer99.com/wavy/ under BSD License. This is a Pygame shoot-em-up based on the 1983 Sirius Software game by Rodney McAuley. Created from scratch in about 3 weeks of my spare time using Python and Pygame as a test project for Pygame (which was easily up to the task). My art and sound skills are weak, so if you'd like to create better art and sound effects the game is nearly fully skinnable and I welcome contributions! I still enjoy playing the game, even after spending three weeks of my life making it, I hope you will enjoy it! sizer(a)san.rr.com <P><A HREF="http://sizer99.com/wavy/>Wavy Navy 1.00</A> - Pygame shoot 'em up. (09-Apr-05)

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ANNOUNCE: wxPython 2.5.5.1
by Robin Dunn April 9, 2005

April 9, 2005

Announcing ---------- I'm pleased to announce the 2.5.5.1 release of wxPython, now available for download at http://wxpython.org/download.php. This is mostly a bug-fix release, but there are a few new features as well. See the changes list below for details. 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++. wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program will usually run on multiple platforms without modifications. Currently supported platforms are 32-bit Microsoft Windows, most Linux or other Unix-like systems using GTK or GTK2, and Apple Macintosh OS X. Changes in 2.5.5.1 ------------------ wxMSW: Fixed bug #1022383, 'several ComboBoxes appear selected' wx.grid.Grid: Fixed bug #1163384. Moved the code that handles activating the cell editors to a EVT_CHAR event handler. This is done so the character inserted into the editor will be the "cooked" char value (including accented or composed keys) rather than the raw code provided by the EVT_KEY_DOWN event. Added orient parameter to wx.MDIParentFrame.Tile() wxMSW: wxTextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available. Added GetCount, GetCountRGB, and GetCountColour methods to wx.ImageHistogram. wxMSW: wx.Window.Refresh changed to explicitly refresh all children as well as the parent. Previously it was implicitly done because parents did not clip their children by default. Now that they always clip children then Refresh needed to be fixed to do a recursive refresh. This also fixes the Freeze/Thaw problems that some people had with 2.5.4.1. wx.SplitterWindow: Send EVT_SPLITTER_SASH_POS_CHANGED only once after end of dragging and not after each CHANGING event (modified patch #1076226) wx.glcanvas.GLCanvas: applied patch fixing problems with X server crash when using nVidia cards (patch 1155132) wx.lib.mixins.listctrl: Patches from Toni Brkic: * Bugfix for TextEditMixin when the view can't be scrolled * Enhancement for ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin, allowing it to manage the width of any column. wxMac: removal and reusing toolbar tools like the other platforms is now possible. wxMac: Correct radio tool selection after calling Realize a 2nd time. wxMSW: Applied patch #1166587, removes all flicker from wx.StaticBox Added wx.lib.foldpanelbar, Andrea Gavana's port of Jorgen Bodde's C++ wxFoldPanelBar classes to Python. wxGTK: Applied patch #1173802, reimplementation of GtkFileChooser wxFileDialog by Mart Raudsepp. Note that this new file dialog is only used on GTK2 >= 2.4. For earlier GTK2 versions and GTK1 then the older generic file dialog is used. wxMSW: fixes to static box borders calculations (finalizes patch #1166587) wx.Image: Use Python's buffer interface API for all image data and alpha Set/Get methods and the ImageFromData* constructors. They all still copy the buffer except for SetDataBuffer and SetAlphaBuffer, but this gives more flexibility on where the data can come from. Added MDI support to XRC Added wx.animate module and a demo. The wx.animate module provides a control that is able to display an animated GIF file. wx.lib.plot.py: Applied patch from Werner F. Bruhin that allows either vertical and/or horizontal gridlines. wxMSW: Extra space given for top border of wx.StaticBoxSizer so the upper line is not cliped when there is no label. wxMSW: Restored old behaviour of wx.StaticBox.SetBackgroundColour only affecting the label. wxMSW: Fixed missing EVT_RIGHT_DOWN and EVT_TREE_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK events in a wx.TreeCtrl. Added wx.GetTopLevelWindows() function which returns a copy of the list of top-level windows that currently exist in the application. Updated docview library modules and sample apps from the ActiveGrid folks. Added the ActiveGrid IDE as a sample application. -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

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