Mailman 3 September 2005 - Python-announce-list

PyDev 0.9.8.2 released
by Fabio Zadrozny 16 Feb '06

16 Feb '06

Hi All, PyDev - Python IDE (Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse) version 0.9.8.2 has been released. Check the homepage (http://pydev.sourceforge.net/) for more details. Details for Release: 0.9.8.2 Major highlights: ------------------------ * Content assistants reviewed (and better documented on the homepage -- I really reccomend checking it) * Timeout parsing options added (this is available in the builder preferences page) * Auto-dedent added Others that are new and noteworthy: ----------------------------------------------------- * .pyc is removed when the corresponding .py file is removed. * Debugger has been changed so that it becomes faster (still not as fast as I would like, but still... faster) -- looking for people with expertise on this to help me, as I'm kind of lost on which should be the 'recommended' way to speed it more. * Some escaped quotes problems fixed when formatting code * Navigation with Ctrl+Shift+ (up or down) has been slightly improved, so that it goes to the start or the end of the file when no other class or method declaration is found * Other bug-fixes (as ususal) Cheers, Fabio -- Fabio Zadrozny ------------------------------------------------------ Software Developer ESSS - Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software www.esss.com.br PyDev - Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse pydev.sf.net pydev.blogspot.com

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[ANNOUNCE] gmpy 1.0 alpha released
by Alex Martelli 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

See http://gmpy.sourceforge.net/ for details. What is it: a wrapper for the GMP library, to provide multi-precision arithmetic for Python. Multi-precision floats, and unbounded-precision rationals, are not present in stock Python; multi-precision integers ('long') are, but gmpy's version of multi-precision integers is faster for some operations (NOT all -- used to be, but Python 2.3 did serious enhancements to some operations on longs) and provides lots of nifty pre-packaged additional functions. Minor changes and bug-fixes since the latest 0.9 pre-alpha; support for Python 2.3. The Windows binary release is now for Python 2.3 _only_ (if you're stuck with Python 2.2 on Windows, you can keep using gmpy 0.9 pre-alpha and not really suffer from that). Known bug on Windows: the scan0 and scan1 functions appear broken (perhaps related to the lack of a GMP 4.0 library for Windows -- haven't found one around yet). Alex

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SciPy Core (replacement for Numeric Python) first beta release
by Travis Oliphant 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Background: Numeric is an add-on Python module that has seen widespread adoption. It enables Python to be used as a Scientific Computing Environment similar to MATLAB or IDL. Numeric was originally written nearly 10 years ago, and while still performing admirably, needed much updating to take advantage of the new features in Python and to remove old warts. SciPy Core 0.4.1 (beta) SciPy Core is a new system which builds on the code-base of Numeric, but implements features (such as advanced index-selection, and user-settable error modes). There are over 25 major new feature enhancements. The LICENSE is still a BSD style License---the same as old Numeric. More information can be found at the web-site: http://numeric.scipy.org The primary developer of scipy core (besides the original creators of Numeric upon which it is based) is Travis Oliphant (oliphant(a)ee.byu.edu), but his work received ideas and support from a wide cast of community members including: Pearu Peterson, Robert Kern, Perry Greenfield, Eric Jones, John Hunter, Fernando Perez, Konrad Hinsen, and Paul Dubois. These individuals should not be held responsible for any bugs remaining in the code. <P><A HREF="http://numeric.scipy.org">SciPy Core 0.4.1 (beta)</A> - Replacement for Numeric Python. (30-Sep-05)

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pyExcelerator 0.6.1a is now available
by Roman V. Kiseliov 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

I'm pleased to announce that pyExcelerator 0.6.1a is now available for download. ------------------------------------------------------- What can you do with pyExcelerator: Generating Excel 97+ files with Python 2.4+ (need decorators), importing Excel 95+ files, support for UNICODE in Excel files, using variety of formatting features and printing options, formulas, dates, numbers support, Excel files and OLE2 compound files dumper. No need in Windows/COM, pure Python code. --------------------------------------------------------- 0.6.1a (29.09.2005) --------- * fixed: exception when reading OLE2 files with incorrect MSAT (sector ids points to nonexistense sectors). For example see file p-0508-0000507647-3280-5298.xls in ./museum ---------------------------------------------------------- DOWNLOAD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/ http://www.kiseliov.ru/downloads.html ---------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE-PLEASE: If you downloaded pyExcelerator's copy, please send me any postcard: Roman V. Kiseliov 305001 Russia Kursk Libknecht St., 4 www.kurskline.ru +7(0712)56-09-83 ----------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Roman V. Kiseliov roman(a)kiseliov.ru

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RELEASED Python 2.4.2 (final)
by Anthony Baxter 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.4.2 (final). Python 2.4.2 is a bug-fix release. See the release notes at the website (also available as Misc/NEWS in the source distribution) for details of the more than 60 bugs squished in this release. For more information on Python 2.4.2, including download links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.4.2 Highlights of this new release include: - Bug fixes. According to the release notes, more than 60 have been fixed, including bugs that prevented Python from working properly on 64 bit HP/UX and AIX systems. Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.4) are available from the Python 2.4 page, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html Enjoy the new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter anthony(a)python.org Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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FarPy GUIE v0.1
by dberlin＠gmail.com 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

GUIE (GUI Editor) provides a simple WYSIWYG GUI editor for wxPython. The program was made in C# and saves the GUI that was created to a XML format I called GUIML. This GUIML is a pretty standrad representation of the GUI created with the program. Next, GUIE takes these GUIML files and translates it to wxPython Python code. You may ask yourself why I took the extra step? Why didn't I go straight from C# controls to wxPython code? Why is GUIML neccessary? Well, it isn't. It is there simply for people (or maybe I) to take the GUIML and convert it to other languages. This, by affect can convert this tool from a Python GUI editor, to "any programming language with a GUI module" GUI editor. Changes: Fix: cast exception when editing form properties Fix: exception raised when GUI form too small Added: settings window functionality Added: controls: Progress Bar, Picture Box, Track Bar (Slider) Added: keyboard functionality (arrow movement and delete key) Fix: selection made when resizing GUI form Fix: control moved down when resized beyond its limit Changed: default foreground color to black Fix: Combo Box offset when moving Added: exit confirmation system Added: multi-selection system, enables moving and deleting (also removing/adding single control using the control key)

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ZODB 3.5.1 final released
by Tim Peters 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.5.1 final. This corresponds to the ZODB that will ship in Zope 3.1.0 final. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.5 Note that there are two Windows installers, for Python 2.3 (2.3.5 is recommended) and Python 2.4 (2.4.1 is recommended). ZODB 3.5.1 contains (just) a few bugfixes relative to 3.5.0, involving Zope 3's zeoctl and mkzeoinst scripts, and the ZopeUndo.Prefix class. See the NEWS file for details: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.5/NEWS.html The current status of all active ZODB lines can be seen here: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/CurrentStatus

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 26)
by Diez B. Roggisch 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

QOTW: "This is Open Source. If you want an initiative, start one." -- Rheinold Birkenfeld "I've found jython incredibly helpful in learning java." -- pythonUser_07 The fourth annual "Free Software and Open Source Symposium" hosted by Canada's largest college includes a talk on "Python Power -- Learning, Teaching and Doing with the World's Easiest Programming Language": http://cs.senecac.on.ca/soss/2005/agenda.php http://cs.senecac.on.ca/soss/2005/presentations/george.php The first PyWeek Game Programming Challenge is finished - and it seems it was a great success. See this thread for the results: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/e33c3ee2550b90d3 py2exe has been a tremendous help for lots of application developers - but its maintainer is getting tired maintaining it. Any volunteers? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/397dbc71441a8890 pythonXX.dll gets larger and larger - read on how you can reduce it in size if you absolutely must in the age of gigabyte-equipped mp3-players: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a20f937a67047406 Laszlo Zolt Nagy learns that self-reordering lists aren't the solution for least-recently-used caches - and is given some pointers where to find implementations of these: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/5431d51de8d3c9a1 Mercurial is a Python-based "distributed SCM" . http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi This is to all of the home-brewn frankenstein-style DNA-sequence manglers: use Python, but don't use immutable strings when a list is all you need to fine-tune your next creation: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/78b7f9df4f36b2db sys.argv nicely provides command-line arguments - most of the time. But when it comes to passing internationalized strings on windows, one has to use the win32-API: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/22bcdd802… ======================================================================== 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 Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett Cannon 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/ 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… There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments for and against are occasionally entertained. 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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Vancouver Python and Zope: Next Meeting Oct 2nd
by Andy McKay 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

The Vancouver Python and Zope user groups next meeting is on Oct 4th, at the usual place, ActiveState at 7. Mishtu Banerjee will be giving a talked entitled "Desperately Seeking Abstraction" "I built an SQL query generator (as part of a larger project) based on the underlying abstraction of representing data models as "networks". It's a nice illustration of abstracting a particular analysis pattern (in this case, we're abstracting the pattern of multi-table inner joins, which is one of the most common ad-hoc query types)" For more information see our website: http://www.vanpyz.org Mailing list: http://www.agmweb.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/list -- Andy McKay Enfold Systems, LLC http://www.enfoldsystems.com

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[ANN] PyODB version 0.5 released
by Neil Moses 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

I would like to announce version 0.5 of PyODB a Python unixODBC API binding. This release contains improvements to the mapping between the SQL and Python datatypes and a re-write of the data retrieval code. Also some changes to the reference counting. PyODB is a Python module and provides a simplified set of bindings to unixODBC (http://www.unixodbc.org) allowing fast and easy development of open database applications. The module supports multiple data source connections with the following connection methods; execute(), fetch(), disconnect(), begin(), commit() and rollback(). The software has been developed on a Linux environment using Python 2.x and SWIG (http://www.swig.org). The module has been tested on Linux and Solaris platforms using databases MySQL, Informix and PostgreSQL but in theory should work on any platform supporting unixODBC and an ODBC database driver. To download the release visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyodb Regards, Neil Moses

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