Mailman 3 January 2006 - Python-announce-list

PyDev 0.9.8.2 released
by Fabio Zadrozny Feb. 16, 2006

Feb. 16, 2006

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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ANN: pynakotheka v1.0.1
by Iñigo Serna Jan. 31, 2006

Jan. 31, 2006

Hello out there, I'm really pleased to announce the second public release of Pynakotheka. Pynakotheka is a simple GPL-licensed python script which generates static HTML photo albums to be added to web sites or to be burnt in CDs. It includes some templates and it's easy to create more. It depends on python, CheetahTemplate, EXIF and PIL. Read more and download it from: http://inigo.katxi.org/devel/pynakotheka or http://www.terra.es/personal7/inigoserna/pynakotheka Changes from v1.0 to v1.0.1 =========================== * distutils support. Now you can install pynakotheka * added a man page * fixed some typos in templates Of course, all comments, suggestions etc. are welcome. Best regards, -- Iñigo Serna <inigoserna(a)terra.es> Katxijasotzaileak

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Reminder: reserve PyCon hotel rooms today
by A.M. Kuchling Jan. 31, 2006

Jan. 31, 2006

Last reminder: reserve your PyCon hotel rooms today! Go to http://us.pycon.org/Addison/Hotels for a link to the reservation page. After today, you can still try to book rooms at the conference rate. The hotel, however, doesn't guarantee that rooms will be available at that rate, and you may end up having to stay somewhere else, or pay the hotel's full price. --amk

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 30)
by Magnus Lycka Jan. 30, 2006

Jan. 30, 2006

QOTW: "[The state pattern] can be very confusing for newbies and peoples having no experience with *dynamic* languages, and I guess control-freaks and static-typing-addicts would runaway screaming. But I like it anyway !-)" - bruno desthuilliers "[D]ubious Python hacks that should never be used in production code are fun, which is what c.l.p. is all about!" - Michael Hoffman After four years, the Roundup Issue Tracker version 1.0 is released. Congratulations! http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ The Myghty web and templating framework also reaches version 1.0. "Myghty is a Python Server Page templating and web framework designed for large-scale, high availability websites and applications. Its conceptual design and template syntax is derived from HTML::Mason, the widely used mod_perl web application platform." http://www.myghty.org/ The latest ActivePython release adds support for Mac OS X/x86, Windows/x64 and Linux/x86_64. http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/ PyWeek, The Python Game Programming Challenge, returns. http://www.pyweek.org/ How to have both a GUI event loop and a listener socket in the same program... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/13c10335c… As Bruno said, some will probably run away screaming, but you can actually change the class of an instance. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/cb581d345… Sometimes there are several ways of doing very simple things, such as picking out an item from a set with only one element. Some ways are faster than others... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/d0b74bdd2… Last week people used Python for sudoku. Now it's poker! http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/1a9bac6ae… Is it time for unicode in Python operators and names yet? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/5f4cb622f… Python continues to be a good "choice for beginners." http://www.ariel.com.au/a/teaching-programming.html How do we know if there is any input for us in sys.stdin? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/6fd2168cd… ======================================================================== 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/topic/python/ (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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ANN: CherryPy-2.2.0beta released
by remi＠cherrypy.org Jan. 30, 2006

Jan. 30, 2006

Hi everyone, I am please to announce the first beta release of CP-2.2.0 We've started to collect changes on this page: http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/WhatsNewIn22 (there's many more items to come). Included in this release are: - Support for multiple applications within one CherryPy process - Lots of bug fixes and improvements (including a more stable session handling) - Switch to lowercase API (instead of camelCase). (old API is still supported but deprecated) Remi.

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Philadelphia Python Users Group Meeting Tuesday 31st
by Andrew Gwozdziewycz Jan. 30, 2006

Jan. 30, 2006

David Keeney (http://pitchersduel.iuplog.com) will be giving a talk about SPyRE at Drexel University in Philadelphia on Tuesday January 31st. From his blog: "The date and time: January 31, 2006 7:00 PM I expect the talk to run an hour to 90 minutes, depending on how much fun it turns out to be. The place: """ We have Hill Seminar Room (Lebow 240) at Drexel on Tuesday evening 31 Jan. This is in the Lebow Engineering building at the corner of 31st and Market (where the freight railroad overpass is). Roughly, go into the building, go to the second floor, and try to get as close as you can to the corner of 31st and Market. """ The topic: SPyRE is a Simple Pythonic Rendering Engine for OpenGL 3d graphics. I will be discussing primarily OpenGL/PyOpenGL, with some discussion and examples using SPyRE, and talking about those aspects of PyGame which are useful with OpenGL graphical programs. I hope to keep it informative to people with little or no experience in PyGame or PyOpenGL. Hopefully, we will spend a little time as well discussing various plans and prospects for Philadelphia's PUG. This is only the second meeting, so lots of things are undecided with respect to group goals and purpose." --- Andrew Gwozdziewycz apgwoz(a)gmail.com http://ihadagreatview.org http://plasticandroid.org

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pyvm 1.1
by stelios xanthakis Jan. 27, 2006

Jan. 27, 2006

WHAT IS IT ---------- pyvm is an experimental python virtual machine with a compiler written in python. pyvm is very incomplete and does not care about backwards compatibility so you shouldn't use it unless: - you are interested in vm hacking. - you want to build another big program based on a fork of pyvm. - you have a lot of free time and you are very bored. WHERE IS IT ----------- http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyvm/ WHAT'S NEW ---------- In this release pyvm has real lightweight threads (co-routines). That is that there are two OS threads, one running the main interpreter loop and another one polling for file descriptors. When there is a blocking system call, the main interpreter thread passes a request to the polling thread and removes the co-routines from the running list. With this setup, pyvm can run unlimited python threads with just two OS threads.

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Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.0 (!!!)
by Richard Jones Jan. 27, 2006

Jan. 27, 2006

I'm proud to release this, the 1.0 release of Roundup. Yes, finally after over 4 years and 8 major releases, the 1.0 release is here. Roundup 1.0 includes all the pre-1.0 goodness, and: - added full-text indexer using Xapian as the back end - Lithuanian translation by Aiste Kesminaite - Web User Interface language selection by form variable @language, browser cookie or HTTP header Accept-Language (sf patch 1360321) - initial values for configuration options may be passed on 'roundup-admin install' command line (based on sf patch 1237110) - favicon.ico image may be changed with server config option (sf patch 1355661) - Password objects initialized from plaintext remember plaintext value (sf rfe 1379447) - Roundup installation document includes configuration example for Exim Internet Mailer (sf bug 1393860) - enable registration confirmation by web only (sf bug 1381675) - allow preselection of values in templating menu()s (sf patch 1396085) - display the query name in the header (sf feature 1298535 / patch 1349387) - classhelp works with Link properties now (sf bug 1410290) - added setorderprop() and setlabelprop() to Class (sf features 1379534, 1379490) - CSV encoding support (sf bug 1240848) - fields rendered with StructuredText are hyperlinked by default - additional attributes for input element may be passed to the 'field' method of a property wrapper - added "copy_url" method to generate a URL for copying an item If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.3 or later for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: python demo.py Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Release Info (via download page): http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and five database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, metakit, mysql and postgresql).

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Roundup Issue Tracker release 0.8.6
by Richard Jones Jan. 27, 2006

Jan. 27, 2006

Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. This 0.8.6 release fixes some bugs: - french translation updated by Patrick Decat (sf patch 1397059) - tighten up Date parsing to not allow 'M/D/YY' (or 'D/M/YY) (sf bug 1290550) - handle "schema" being reserved word in MySQL 5+ (sf bug 1397569) - fixed documentation of filter() in the case of multiple values in a String search (sf bug 1373396) - fix comma-separated ID filter spec in web requests (sf bug 1396278) - fix Date: header generation to be LOCALE-agnostic (sf bug 1352624) - fix admin doc description of roundup-server config file - fix redirect after instant registration (sf bug 1381676) - fix permission checks in cgi interface (sf bug 1289557) - fix permission check on RetireAction (sf bug 1407342) - timezone now applied to date for pretty-format (sf bug 1406861) - fix mangling of "_" in mail Subject class name (sf bug 1413852) - catch bad classname in URL (related to sf bug 1240541) - clean up digested_file_types (sf bug 1268303) - fix permission checks in mailgw (sf bug 1263655) - fix encoding of subject in generated error message (sf bug 1414465) If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.3 or later for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: python demo.py Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Release Info (via download page): http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and five database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, metakit, mysql and postgresql).

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ANN: libgmail 0.0.7 - Gmail access via Python - Now with FTP Proxy!
by Zachary Chao Jan. 26, 2006

Jan. 26, 2006

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