Hello,
it's time for the 7th Python Bug Day, just before 2.5 alpha 1 is released.
The aim of the bug day is to close as many bugs, patches and feature requests
as possible, this time with a focus on small feature additions that can still go
into the upcoming 2.5 alpha release.
When?
^^^^^
The bug day will take place on Friday, March 31st, running from approximately
1PM to 8PM GMT (9AM to 4PM Eastern time). You don't need to be around all day;
feel free to stop by for a few hours and contribute.
Where and How?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
To join, stop by the IRC channel #python-dev on irc.freenode.net, where
efforts will be discussed and coordinated. We'll collaboratively go through
the Python bug database at SourceForge and fix things as they come up.
IMPORTANT: *No* prior knowledge of the Python source is necessary to
participate! You'll get all assistance the developers can offer for starting
up with helping, this is in fact a good opportunity to learn the basics.
Bug day participation helps the developers and makes Python 2.5 a better
release by reducing the backlog of bugs and patches. Plus, it's fun!
More information
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For instructions and more information, see the Wiki page at
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonBugDay
Cheers,
Georg
Announcing
----------
The 2.6.3.0 release of wxPython is now available for download at
http://wxpython.org/download.php. There have been many enhancements
and fixes implemented in this version, many of which are listed
below and 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++.
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 GTK2, and Mac OS X 10.2+, in most
cases the native widgets are used on each platform.
Changes in 2.6.3.0
------------------
Change the wx.ListCtrl InsertStringItem wrapper to use the form that
takes an imageIndex, and set the default to -1. This ensures that on
wxMSW that if there is an image list but they don't specify an image,
the native control doesn't use one anyway.
wxMSW: wx.ListCtrl in report mode is now able to support images in
other columns besides the first one. Simply pass an image index to
SetStringItem. For virtual list controls you can specify the image to
use on the extra columns by overriding OnGetItemColumnImage in your
derived class. It is passed the item number and the column number as
parameters, and the default version simply calls OnGetItemImage for
column zero, or returns -1 for other columns.
Switched to using SWIG 1.3.27 for generating the wrapper code. There
are some small changes needed to SWIG to work around some bugs that
wxPython exposes, and to be able to generate code that matches that
which wxPython is using. If you are building wxPython yourself and
need to modify any of the *.i files or to add your own, then you will
want to be sure to use a matching SWIG. See wxPython/SWIG/README.txt
in the source tarball for details.
wx.Image.Copy now also copies the alpha channel.
wxMSW: Fixed problem in wx.TextCtrl where using SetValue and
wx.TE_RICH2 would cause the control to be shown if it was hidden.
wxMSW: Numpad special keys are now distinguished from normal keys in
key events.
wxMSW: Multiline notebook tab label change now resizes the control
correctly if an extra row is removed or added.
wxMSW: On XP fall back to unthemed wxNotebook if specified orientation
not available in the themed version.
Added wx.Toolbar.GetToolsCount.
Added wx.GridSizer.CalcRowsCols.
Added wx.OutputStream.LastWrite.
wxGTK: EVT_SET_CURSOR is now sent.
wxGTK: Fix RequestMore for idle events.
wxGTK: Implement user dashes for PS and GNOME printing.
wxGTK: Correct update region code. Don't always invalidate the whole
window upon resize. Reenable support for thewx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE
flag. Also disable refreshing custom controls when focusing in and out.
wx.lib.pubsub: Publisher is now able to parse a dotted notation string
into a topic tuple. For example: subscribing to "timer.clock.seconds"
is the same as subscribing to ("timer", "clock", "seconds").
Applied patch #1441370: lib.plot - allow passing in wx.Colour()
Added wx.CommandEvent.GetClientData.
Updated wxStyledTextCtrl to use version 1.67 of Scintilla.
NOTE: The STC_LEX_ASP and STC_LEX_PHP lexers have been deprecated,
you should use STC_LEX_HTML instead.
wxSTC: Implemented fix for SF Bug #1436503. Delay the start of the
DnD operation in case the user just intended to click, not drag.
Updated the analogclock.py module to the new analogclock package from
E. A. Tacao.
Added the wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.CheckListCtrlMixin class from Bruce
Who, which makes it easy to put checkboxes on list control items.
Applied a patch from Christian Kristukat to wx.lib.plot that adds
scrollbars when the plot is zoomed in, and also the ability to grab a
zoomed plot and move it around with a mouse drag.
XRCed updated to allow wxMenuBar to be created inside a wxFrame.
--
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!
PyWeather contains weather related modules implemented in Python.
Anything weather related is fair game for PyWeather. Currently
PyWeather is limited to unit conversion, console reading, and data
publication. But, future work can be added to PyWeather in any area.
NEW IN THIS RELEASE:
- Added wunderground publisher
Website:
http://oss.wxnet.org/pyweather
--
WeatherNet Observations for station: home
Temperature: 40.50F Pressure: 30.19in;
Dew Point: 25.16F (54%) Wind: 224 at 0 mph
Recorded: 23:59:58 03/27/06 (http://wsdl.wxnet.org/inquiry/binding.wsdl)
We will be holding our regular meeting at our regular time, on the
Fourth Tuesday of the Month from 7pm to 9pm at the (very cool) Linux
Caffe (located at the Corner of Grace and Harbord).
We're going with small topical discussions (and/or lightning talks) this
time around, with more socialising and mingling time to let you swap
stories and experiences. Likely topics:
* Upcoming 2.5 features (generator coroutines, ctypes, cElementTree)
* DebugHang module for Twisted
* FibraNet
Those who would like to do a short (impromptu or prepared) talk on a
topic, just drop me a note (or tell me at the meeting) and I'll try to
get things put together for you (at the very least we should have a
net-attached laptop with Linux and Python 2.4). For the presenters;
this is a good opportunity to work on your presentation skills in front
of a friendly and forgiving audience. For the audience; this is a good
opportunity to work on being a friendly and forgiving audience :) .
Map with instructions on reaching LinuxCaffe is available off the
official "next meeting" page in the Wiki:
http://web.engcorp.com/pygta/wiki/NextMeeting
Have fun all,
Mike
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________________________________________________
Mike C. Fletcher
Designer, VR Plumber, Coder
http://www.vrplumber.comhttp://blog.vrplumber.com
Tokyo PyPy Sprint: 23rd - 29th April 2006
============================================================
The next PyPy sprint is scheduled to take place 23rd- 29th April 2006
(Sunday-Saturday) in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. We will together with
FSIJ (Free Software Initiative of Japan) aim to promote Python and
PyPy. We therefor invite Japanese hackers knowledgeable in Python to
join our sprint! We'll give newcomer-friendly introductions. To learn
more about the new Python-in-Python implementation look here:
http://codespeak.net/pypy
For this sprint we are particularly interested in meeting and coding on
PyPy together
with interested Japanese Python hackers. Please register your interest
at pypy-sprint(a)codespeak.net
as soon as possible and we will help with any questions regarding
getting started, pointing
to relevant documentation etc.
The PyPy team is curious and interested in the experience of hacking
code for embedded devices
and would love to discuss and get feedback on optimisation efforts and
the current state of PyPy.
Goals and topics of the sprint
------------------------------
Possible suggestions for topics are:
- Work on gensqueak (our Squeak backend) or possibly other backends.
- Implementing Python 2.5 features in PyPy.
- Progress further on an 'rctypes' module aiming at letting us use a
ctypes
implementation of an extension module from the compiled pypy-c.
- Writing ctypes implementations of modules to be used by the above
tool.
- Experimenting and improving performance of our garbage collectors.
- Experiment with PyPy flexibility or other aspects of the
implementation.
- Possibly experiment with writing modules translatable for use both
in PyPy and CPython.
- Whatever participants want to do with PyPy or particular areas
of PyPy (please send suggestions to the mailing list before to
allow us to plan
and give feedback)
Location & Accomodation
------------------------
The sprint will be held at National Institute of AIST
(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,
http://www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html), Akihahabara (the technical gadget
district in Tokyo). Yutaka Niibe is our contact person there,
helping with arranging facilities. Niibe is the chairman of FSIJ and
they have
invited us to sprint in Tokyo and we are very grateful for the help and
interest
we have recieved so far.
The facilities we are sprinting in are located here:
http://www.gtrc.aist.go.jp/en/access/index.html#Akihabara
The actual address is:
Akihabara Dai Bldg , 1-18-13 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021 Japan
Phone: +81-3-5298-4729
Hotel areas - we are recommended to book hotels in Ueno and Asakusa (old
town),
from those areas there are only two metro stops to Akihabara. Please
note that
hotelrooms in Tokyo are often very small.
http://www.wh-rsv.com/english/akihabara/index.html (nearest
hotel to sprint location)
http://www.greenhotel.co.jp/ochanomizu_e.htmlhttp://www.ohgai.co.jp/index-e.html (Ueno)
http://www.toyoko-inn.com/e_hotel/00012/index.html (Asakusa)
http://www.hotelnewkanda.com/ (second nearest, but no english
page)
Here is a url for booking hotels with not too unreasonable rates (see map):
http://japan-hotelguide.com/hotels/Japan/Tokyo/index.htm
For more general tourist information about travelling to Japan and Tokyo
- please see:
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/http://www.japantravelinfo.com/ (really useful information regarding
airfares, hotels, currency, phones etc etc)
Comments on the weather: In end April it is ca 20 degrees Celsius.
Exact times
-----------
The public PyPy sprint is held Sunday 23rd - Saturday 29th April 2006.
Hours will be from 10:00 until people have had enough. It's a good idea
to arrive a day before the sprint starts and leave a day later.
Sometimes people
cannot stay for the whole sprint - you are welcome even if you can only stay
for a day or a few days.
Sunday: Starting at 10:00. This day is focused on getting to know PyPy
enought to
start to participate. We will hold a PyPy tutorial and an architectural
overview.
Planning meeting for the work to be done during the week and grouping of
developers (pairs
or groups mixing new participants with core developers).
Dinner in the evening (Yutaka will arrange a place for us to go to).
Monday-Tuesday: Starting at 10:00 with status meetings. Possible regrouping
depending on the interest and progress of the various teams.
Wednesday: Breakday (coding is allowed although we recommend taking a
break).
Thursday-Saturday: Starting at 10:00 with status meetings. Possible
regrouping
depending on the interest and progress of the various teams. Ending on
Saturday with
a Closure session - summing of the work and planning work to be done
until the next sprint.
Network, Food, currency
------------------------
We will have access to WiFi at AIST - please make sure you have wlan
capabilities.
Electricity outlets: 100V (adapters needed for european standard).
Currency is Japanese yen. There are Citibank cash machines that
accepts cash withdrawals from the major cards such as VISA and Mastercard.
But it is a good idea to bring cash.
Also note that cell phones (european) are not very compatible with the
Japanese
network. There are possibilities for 3G phones to hire a phone and put
your simcard
in there. At the airport (both Kansai and Narita) there are information
and places
were this can be arranged (to a cost of course).
Food: well - japanese food is great (wether it is sushi, sashimi,
tempura, sukiyaki, teriyaki....
Eating out is not that much differently prized
than any large european town. There are of course restaurants serving
other food than japanese (chinese, korean, McDonalds ;-).
Please also note that vegetables and fruit is quite expensive in Japan.
For more information - see tourist url:s above.
Registration etc.pp.
--------------------
Please subscribe to the `PyPy sprint mailing list`_, introduce yourself
and post a note that you want to come. Feel free to ask any questions
there! There also is a separate `Tokyo people`_ page tracking who is
already thought to come. If you have commit rights on codespeak then
you can modify yourself a checkout of
http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/tokyo/people.txt
.. _`PyPy sprint mailing list`:
http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-sprint
.. _`Tokyo people`:
http://codespeak.net/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/tokyo/people.html
uuid is a python module to generate RFC 4122 compatible UUIDs
Somehow this module was missing in python, so I took over the
struggle with the C sources and all those quirky bits and bytes.
Most of them should now be in place to form one of these handy
128 bit identifiers.
The module is capable of producing time, random, sha1 and md5
based uuids.
For details see:
http://home.arcor.de/jurner/python/
A new version of PySyck is available at:
http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PySyck
PySyck is a Python binding to the Syck YAML parser and emitter.
Changes from 0.61.1 to 0.61.2:
* fix a leak in the parser (thanks to Jeff Johnson).
--
xi
It has finally happened, the release of `Firedrop 0.2.0
<http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/firedrop2/>`_.
The impatient can download the new release here :
`Firedrop 0.2.0 (1.3mb)
<http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/downman.py?file=firedrop2-0.2…>`_
.. note::
The first time you run version 0.2.0 it will convert your weblog
config file to the new format.
**Firedrop2** is the Python blog client with a host of features. These
include :
* RSS feed generation
* Categories
* Automatic archive generation
* A powerful set of plugins, including spell checker and emailer
* Entries can be made in text, HTML, ReST, textile, sextile or markdown
markup
* HTML templating system and macros for all sorts of tricks
* Built in FTP capability for uploading your blog to a server
* Because it's written in Python, it is easy to extend Firedrop or
create new plugins for it
This new release has been made possible by the hard work of `Stewart
Midwinter <http://www.midtoad.org>`_.
The changes and new features include :
* Firedrop will now start up by opening a default site.
* You can set the default site using the GUI.
* Main file name changed to ``firedrop.pyw``
* `ConfigObj <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html>`_ is
now used to edit all the config files.
* Full support for all style elements (e.g. underline, bold) in four
major markup formats: ReST, Sextile, Textile, Markdown (plus HTML).
* New entries are created in a separate dialog that takes care of the
markup.
* Links are available to websites for the markup styles.
* You can reset the app to a null site, and/or delete all entries.
* You can force a full build of your site, or just update your site.
* You can now create sites serving Article Collections or Items Lists
(e.g. FAQs)
in addition to Weblogs.
* Firedrop2 now runs on Mac OS X and Linux in addition to Windows.
* You can view logfile contents using the GUI.
* Documentation has been updated to reflect these changes.
There is a roadmap for future releases on the `Firedrop2 Trac Site
<http://firedrop2.python-hosting.com>`_.
Hi,
this is to let all of you know about the release of eric3 3.8.2. This
version fixes a compatibility bug with the latest PyQt release (PyQt
3.16).
Eric3 is a Python and Ruby IDE with batteries included. It is written
using PyQt and is available via
http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html
Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
detlev(a)die-offenbachs.de