Mailman 3 May 2006 - Python-announce-list

ANN: pywinauto 0.3.5 released - Moved to Metaclass control wrapping
by Mark Mc Mahon May 26, 2006

May 26, 2006

Hi, 0.3.5 release of pywinauto is now available. pywinauto is a set of open-source (LGPL) modules for using Python as a GUI automation 'driver' for Windows NT based Operating Systems (NT/W2K/XP). SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto Download from SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157379 Here is the list of changes from 0.3.4: 0.3.5 Moved to Metaclass control wrapping ------------------------------------------------------------------ 24-May-2006 * Moved to a metaclass implementation of control finding. This removes some cyclic importing that had to be worked around and other then metaclass magic makes the code a bit simpler. * Some of the sample files would not run - so I updated them so they would (Thanks to Stefaan Himpe for pointing this out) * Disabled saving application data (it was still being saved in Application.RecordMatch() even if the rest of the application data code is disabled. This was causing what appeared to be a memory leak where pywinauto would keep grabbing more and more memory (especially for controls that contain a lot of information). Thanks to Frank Martinez for leading me to this). * Added ListViewWrapper.GetItemRect() to enable retrieving the rectangle for a particular item in the listview. * Removed references to _ctrl() method within pywinauto as it was raising a DeprecationWarning internally even if the user was not using it. If you want to follow this project then please sign up to the mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pywinauto-users Thanks Mark -------------------------------------------- Mark Mc Mahon Manchester, NH 03110, USA <P><A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto">pywinauto 0.3.5</A> Simple Windows GUI automation with Python. (26-May-06)

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A reminder for submission of talks for EuroPython agility track
by Aiste Kesminaite May 26, 2006

May 26, 2006

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone dealing with agility! This is a reminder for submission of talks for EuroPython, and in particular the "agility" track. You still have time to register your proposal for the 3-5th July conference. The proposals' registration ends on 31st of May. Early bird registration for participants closes today, btw. The full call and submission links are at: http://www.europython.org/sections/tracks_and_talks/call-for-proposals We currently envision our track to consist of two or three sessions, which we'll sketch out at the end of this mail. We'd like to discuss/plan with the actual talkers before the conference how we do the sessions. If you have tools, management experiences or theories related to agile practises, please don't hesitate to draft an abstract, it'll be fun and interesting to get together at EuroPython 2006! Please feel free to contact us as track chairs personally in case of questions, Aiste Kesminaite, aiste at pov.lt Bea During, bea at changemaker.nu Holger Krekel, hpk at merlinux.de - --- Agility Track Session descriptions --- Management and Methods - -------------------------- * experience reports from managing distributed groups * commercially dealing with open source communities * practising agile methodologies and practices (XP, Scrum, TDD etc) with respect to programmers,non-programmers, customers or government bodies. The focus should be on "project reality" situations that do not match with the original planning or methods. By this we mean understanding how you "tailored" agile methods/practices to fit your project, understanding the problems and drivers behind this step and the results achieved. Reports from managing a company or a particular project (with respect to the bullet points above) are welcome given that they are not used for advertising but aim at an effective exchange of experiences. Tools - ----------------- * general and domain specific test support tools * tools and technical approaches for organising communication and collaborative work in agile settings * tools supporting agile practises in general This session will present tools which support agility in programming, collaboration and organising communication. A special focus should be on how the tools are used in real life and how they were adapted to deal with it. - -- Aiste Kesminaite Managing director, Programmers of Vilnius Phone: +370 6563 6462 Email: aiste(a)pov.lt Web: www.pov.lt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEduiyfK7m+cZVdY0RArrDAJ0Rh/WpgV13tV2Lhq4SJiXWlCJtNACfRqu7 s/hxzFunPw3pIS/R4sHxhGo= =Kiy6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Quill 0.1-alpha1 released!
by t.koutsovassilis＠gmail.com May 25, 2006

May 25, 2006

It took us quite longer than we expected but here it is. Quill is a visual Web interface designer based on QuiX, Porcupine's integrated XML User-Interface Language. We believe this is a major leap for the web interface design process, as it has become almost identical to this of a common desktop application. This is an alpha release and as such there are a lot of missing features, but generally you can get things done a lot faster and easier than before. This release supports almost every QuiX widget, giving you full control over it, exhibiting all of its editable properties. Have you ever thought that you could have a QuiX window with a menu bar and a tool bar deployed in less than 3 minutes? Watch this screencast to see how this is achieved with Quill and Porcupine: http://www.innoscript.org/screencasts/demo1.swf.html Quill runs on Linux and Windows and it is provided as freeware. Tassos Koutsovassilis http://www.innoscript.org

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[ANNOUNCE] Thirty-second release of PythonCAD now available
by Art Haas May 25, 2006

May 25, 2006

Hi. I'm pleased to announce the thirty-second development release of PythonCAD, a CAD package for open-source software users. As the name implies, PythonCAD is written entirely in Python. The goal of this project is to create a fully scriptable drafting program that will match and eventually exceed features found in commercial CAD software. PythonCAD is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). PythonCAD requires Python 2.2 or newer. The interface is GTK 2.0 based, and uses the PyGTK module for interfacing to GTK. The design of PythonCAD is built around the idea of separating the interface from the back end as much as possible. By doing this, it is hoped that both GNOME and KDE interfaces can be added to PythonCAD through usage of the appropriate Python module. Addition of other PythonCAD interfaces will depend on the availability of a Python module for that particular interface and developer interest and action. The thirty-second release fixes a configuration problem where the newly added autosplitting feature would not be activated properly or could disable autosplitting in a Layer. A small bug in the reworked splitting code was also fixed, as well as a few other small errors. A mailing list for the development and use of PythonCAD is available. Visit the following page for information about subscribing and viewing the mailing list archive: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad Visit the PythonCAD web site for more information about what PythonCAD does and aims to be: http://www.pythoncad.org/ Come and join me in developing PythonCAD into a world class drafting program! Art Haas -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822

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ANN: 4 New ShowMeDo.com Videos (PyDev+Extensions, pyWinAuto, Nosey)
by Ian Ozsvald May 25, 2006

May 25, 2006

Summary: At http://ShowMeDo.com we have 4 new Python videos: Fabio Zadrozny Introduces PyDev and PyDev Extensions: http://showmedo.com/videoListPage?listKey=PyDevEclipseList and Jeff Winkler introduces PyWinAuto and the nosey test tool: http://showmedo.com/videoListPage?listKey=MiscellaneousPythonList making a total of 32 ShowMeDo videos, mostly about Python, all free. Detail: Fabio introduces the PyDev development environment which transforms the Eclipse framework into a powerful Python IDE. Fabio's PyDev Extensions further extend the capabilities of PyDev. Jeff demonstrates the PyWinAuto Win32 automation tool, showing how to interact with NotePad by altering the font settings and automatically entering text. Jeff also shows the Nose testing framework and his Nosey extension which automatically runs Nose tests. We have are 21 requests for new ShowMeDos: http://showmedo.com/requests Please feel free to vote for the videos you would like to see. Some of the requests include introductions to matplotlib, wxGlade, Python bug hunting and py2exe. Please get in touch if we are missing a topic that ought to be included and we will do our best to have new ShowMeDos made! If you are interested in sharing your knowledge and experience with the Python community, please get in touch and we will help you to make your own ShowMeDos. I for one would love to see a 'Python Bug Hunting' video. We are keen to encourage feedback within the site, to help people share their hard-won knowledge. To that end we have added a forum: http://forums.showmedo.com and we are developing a commentary system for each video page that will look very similar to comments on blogs. About ShowMeDo.com: Free videos (we call them ShowMeDos) showing you how to do things. The videos are made by us and our users, for everyone. The founders, Ian Ozsvald, Kyran Dale ---- ian at ShowMeDo.com http://ShowMeDo.com (http://Blog.ShowMeDo.com)

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Pydev 1.0.8 released
by Fabio Zadrozny May 24, 2006

May 24, 2006

Hi All, Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.0.8 have been released Check http://www.fabioz.com/pydev for details on Pydev Extensions and http://pydev.sf.net for details on Pydev This is a 'single-bugfix' release because of a major bug that could cause Pydev to hang when making a new line under certain condations. What is PyDev? --------------------------- PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python and Jython development -- making Eclipse a first class Python IDE -- It comes with many goodies such as code completion, syntax highlighting, syntax analysis, refactor, debug and many others. Cheers, -- Fabio Zadrozny ------------------------------------------------------ Software Developer ESSS - Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software http://www.esss.com.br Pydev Extensions http://www.fabioz.com/pydev Pydev - Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse http://pydev.sf.net http://pydev.blogspot.com

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ANN: SciPy 0.4.9 released
by Ed Schofield May 24, 2006

May 24, 2006

=========================== SciPy 0.4.9 Scientific tools for Python =========================== I'm pleased to announce the release of SciPy 0.4.9. This version adds support for NumPy version 0.9.8. It also has enhancements to sparse matrices, including a new linear solver module with UMFPACK support, and new support for fitting conditional maximum entropy models. This release also fixes bugs in ndimage, sparse, stats, weave, and other packages. It is available for download from http://www.scipy.org/Download as a source tarball for Linux/Solaris/OS X/BSD/Windows (64-bit and 32-bit) and as an executable installer for Win32. More information on SciPy is available at http://www.scipy.org/ =========================== SciPy is an Open Source library of scientific tools for Python. It contains a variety of high-level science and engineering modules, including modules for statistics, optimization, integration, linear algebra, Fourier transforms, signal and image processing, genetic algorithms, ODE solvers, special functions, and more.

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ANN: PyX 0.9 released
by wobsta May 24, 2006

May 24, 2006

We're pleased to announce the release of PyX 0.9. This release features a new set of deformers for path manipulations like smoothing, shifting, etc. A new set of extensively documented examples describing various aspects of PyX in a cookbook-like fashion have been written. Type 1 font-stripping is now handled by a newly written Python module. Many other improvements and bug fixes are included in this release. What is PyX? PyX is a Python package for the creation of PostScript and PDF files. It combines an abstraction of the PostScript drawing model with a TeX/LaTeX interface. Complex tasks like 2d and 3d plots in publication-ready quality are built out of these primitives. For further information please visit http://pyx.sourceforge.net/ Jörg, Michael, and André

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ANN: Pentago AI Player Testbench 0.3.5
by Johan Lindberg May 23, 2006

May 23, 2006

Pentago is an easy to learn, fun, abstract strategy board game. See http://www.pentago.se for more information. I bought the board game just before Christmas 2005 and soon decided to write my own AI player. The Pentago AI Player Testbench includes a game implementation and a couple of test players (slump, adam, bertil, caesar and david). There are a couple of different ways to use the testbench. It (pentago.py) can run in singleplayer mode (sets up a game between a player and every other registered AI player), tournament mode (sets up games between all registered AI players) or in versus mode (sets up games between two AI players) There's also a pygame script (interactive.py) included which is rather crude and should be considered a quick hack but which hopefully conveys the general idea of how the game is played. It's easy to write your own AI player. Write a player script with one class (must be called "Player" and should have pentago.Player as it's base class). The player object must implement at least two methods: placeMarker() and rotateSquare(). placeMarker should return two integer values x and y which are in range(6) and are used to position your player's marker. rotateSquare should return a square index (in range(4)) and a direction (in [-1, 1]). The square index indicates which square should be rotated and a direction value of -1 indicates counter clockwise rotation and 1 indicates clockwise. When you're done, place the file in the players directory and test it with, for example: [python] pentago.py --mode singleplayer --player <yourplayersfilename> A zip with the source can be found at http://www.pulp.se/johan/pentago/pentago-0.3.5.zip BR Johan Lindberg johan(a)pulp.se

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Announcing WERD (1.0), the Phonetic Transliterator to Indic scripts
by Atul May 23, 2006

May 23, 2006

WERD is a phonetic transliterator that helps users write english text but read the same in the chosen Devanagari (Indic) font. WERD is expected to make it easy for Indians wanting to communicate over chat or email in their native language. Checkout http://werd.sourceforge.net/ WERD is written in Python and Tkinter, is open source software released under GPL, and is hosted by SourceForge (www.sourceforge.net) Thanks and Regards, -- Atul

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