Mailman 3 May 2006 - Python-announce-list

Google's Summer of Code - Students coding on MoinMoin
by Alexander Schremmer May 3, 2006

May 3, 2006

Hi, as you might have seen, MoinMoin is one of the projects taking part in Google's Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/ ). If you are a student and want to work on MoinMoin for money, then you should apply in the next days (before 2006-05-08). You will surely enjoy the work with a nice group of people. See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/GoogleSoc2006 for details. You may want to submit your application early in order to get feedback via Google's submission system before the submission period ends. Feel free to contact me or "Thomas Waldmann <tw-public(a)gmx.de>" if you have any questions. Just as a sidenote, there are also at least the organisations BBC R&D ( Kamaelia) and Python Software Foundation (including Python, PyPy, ...) which offer work on Python software. Kind regards, Alexander

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Seeking students for the Summer of Code
by Neal Norwitz May 3, 2006

May 3, 2006

There is less than a week left before students must submit a final application. There are a bunch of ideas up on the wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/ The wiki has instructions for how to submit a proposal. There are many different areas including: core language features, libraries, and applications. This is a great opportunity to get real coding experience. Not to mention the chance to work with a nice and fun group of people. The earlier you submit an application, the more feedback you can get to improve it and increase your liklihood of getting accepted. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Cheers, n

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ANN: Urwid 0.9.4 - Console UI Library
by Ian Ward May 1, 2006

May 1, 2006

Announcing Urwid 0.9.4 ---------------------- Urwid home page: http://excess.org/urwid/ Tarball: http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.9.4.tar.gz About this release: =================== This release adds mouse event handling to the standard widgets and example programs. Also, the files used to generate the reference and tutorial documentation are now included in the tarball. New in this release: ==================== - Enabled mouse handling across the Urwid library. Added a new mouse_event(..) method to the Widget interface definition and to the following widgets: Edit, CheckBox, RadioButton, Button, GridFlow, Padding, Filler, Overlay, Frame, Pile, Columns, BoxAdapter and ListBox. Updated example programs browse.py, calc.py, dialog.py, edit.py and tour.py to support mouse input. - Released the files used to generate the reference and tutorial documentation: docgen_reference.py, docgen_tutorial.py and tmpl_tutorial.html. The "docgen" scripts write the documentation to stdout. docgen_tutorial.py requires the Templayer HTML templating library to run. - Improved Widget and List Walker interface documentation. - Fixed a bug in the handling of invalid UTF-8 data. All invalid characters are now replaced with '?' characters when displayed. About Urwid =========== Urwid is a console UI library for Python. It features fluid interface resizing, UTF-8 support, multiple text layouts, simple attribute markup, powerful scrolling list boxes and flexible interface design. Urwid is released under the GNU LGPL.

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[ANN] Movable Python 1.0.2
by Fuzzyman May 1, 2006

May 1, 2006

`Movable Python 1.0.2 <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/>`_ is now available. This release if for the Python 2.4 distribution of **Movable Python**, and is now available for `download <http://voidspace.tradebit.com/groups.php>`_. Features new to this release include : * Now built with Python 2.4.3. * Other updated modules include : - pywin32 build 208 - ctypes 0.9.9.6 - wxPython 2.6.3.2 - Firedrop 0.2.1 - ConfigObj 4.3.1 - Wax 0.3.33 * Scripts (and ``customize.py``) are now executed in a specific namespace, no more movpy cruft. * When entering interactive mode (``movpy -``), any *additional* command line arguments are passed to IPython. * ``imp.find_module`` has been fixed to work with modules contained in the zipfile. This fix doesn't write any temporary files, but ``imp.load_module`` has been patched to accept a ``StringIO`` instance. * Built in support for *matplotlib* interactive sessions. (``movpy - pylab``) * Verified that ``__future__`` statements are handled correctly. * New look documentation and website. To try the new `matplotlib <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/>`_ support, you'll need the `matplotlib files <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/matplotlib.zip>`_ in your ``lib/`` directory. You can then run the following at the command line : ``movpy.exe - -pylab`` This should drop you straight into a IPython session, with pylab enabled.

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