Mailman 3 July 2006 - Python-announce-list

Shed Skin Optimizing Python-to-C++ Compiler 0.0.10
by Mark Dufour 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi all, I have just released version 0.0.10 of Shed Skin, an optimizing Python-to-C++ compiler. It allows for translation of pure (unmodified), implicitly statically typed Python programs into optimized C++, and hence, highly optimized machine language. Many non-trivial benchmarks (ray tracer, chess player, othello player, sat solver, 3 sudoku solvers..) run typically 2-40 times faster than when using Psyco, 12 times on average, and 2-220 times than when using CPython, 45 times on average. Besides many bug fixes, this release adds many error messages for unsupported features, so it should be much easier to try out the compiler and work around problems. Please download this new release from http://mark.dufour.googlepages.com and let me know about any problems/successes. Thanks, Mark Dufour. -- if vars: self.output('; '.join([self.type(var)+' '+name for (name,var) in vars.items()])+';')

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Wing IDE 2.1.1 released
by Wingware Announce 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

We're happy to announce the release of Wing IDE version 2.1.1, an advanced development environment for the Python programming language. This is a bugfix release, fixing several editor, subprocess, and startup bugs. The release can be downloaded from: http://wingware.com/downloads A complete list of changes is available here: http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/2.1.1/CHANGELOG.txt Wing IDE provides powerful debugging, editing, code intelligence, and search capabilities that reduce development and debugging time, cut down on coding errors, and make it easier to understand and navigate Python code. Highlights of 2.1.x releases include: * Visual Studio, VI/Vim, and Brief key bindings * Subversion and Perforce support (+) * Redesigned and improved search tools * Named bookmarks (+) * Breakpoint manager (+) and call stack as list (+) These are available in Wing IDE Pro only This release is available for Windows (2000+), Linux, and Mac OS X (10.3+ with X11 installed) and can be compiled from sources on *BSD, Solaris, and other Posix operating systems. For more information see: Product Info: http://wingware.com/products Sales: http://wingware.com/store/purchase Sincerely, The Wingware Team

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Skeletonz: The pythonic CMS system
by 4mir Salihefendic 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi everyone I am very glad to announce a pythonic content management system (CMS) called Skeletonz. Say goodbye to tedius backend administration and say hello to insite dynamic editing of your site! The system is a CMS refreshment - - it represents a whole new way of editing! Say goodbye to bloatness also. Skeletonz is dynamic, very fast and dead simple to use. The system has been in development for around 9 months. Current version is 1.0 beta. Its alrady used on production websites. The features: * Administration is insite - this is done by Ajax and DOM hackery. * Simple and intuitive edit syntax. * Full blown plugin system. Currently there are around 14 plugins that can do a lot of useful things. * Simple admin section where you can add users, groups, alter permissions or create/restore backups. * Super perfomance. Around 600 req. pr. sec. can be served by Skeletonz internal Python webserver. Depends on the hardware of course. * Simple template system that's based on Cheetah. * Super clean Python code that follows the MVC pattern. Browse it here http://orangoo.com/skeletonz_dev/browser and see for yourself. * Plus a lot more... Some sites that use Skeletonz: * http://orangoo.com/labs/ * http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/ * http://birc.au.dk/ * http://www.chloecello.net/ The system is open-source and released under the GPL. Skeletonz is copyrighted by Bioinformatics Research Center, University of Aarhus. Check out the Skeletonz site for more information: http://orangoo.com/skeletonz/ For a demo, check out: http://orangoo.com/skeletonz_demo/ I hope you give Skeletonz a chance. Kind regards 4mir Salihefendic (http://amix.dk/ - amix(a)amix.dk)

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ANN: pywinauto 3.6 released
by Mark Mc Mahon 31 Jul '06

31 Jul '06

Hi, 0.3.6 release of pywinauto is now available. pywinauto is an open-source (LGPL) package 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 0.3.5: 0.3.6 Scrolling and Treview Item Clicking added ------------------------------------------------------------------ 28-July-2006 * Added parameter to ``_treeview_item.Rectangle()`` to have an option to get the Text rectangle of the item. And defaulted to this. * Added ``_treeview_item.Click()`` method to make it easy to click on tree view items. * Fixed a bug in ``TreeView.GetItem()`` that was expanding items when it shouldn't. * Added ``HwndWrapper.Scroll()`` method to allow scrolling. This is a very minimal implementation - and if the scrollbars are implemented as separate controls (rather then a property of a control - this will probably not work for you!). It works for Notepad and Paint - that is all I have tried so far. * Added a call to ``HwndWrapper.SetFocus()`` in ``_perform_click_input()`` so that calls to ``HwndWrapper.ClickInput()`` will make sure to click on the correct window. Thanks Mark -------------------------------------------- Mark Mc Mahon Manchester, NH 03110, USA <P><A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto">pywinauto 0.3.6</A> Simple Windows GUI automation with Python. (28-Jul-06)

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ANN: 4 New ShowMeDo.com Videos (Wing IDE, RUR-PLE (2), PataPata)
by Ian Ozsvald 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

Summary: At http://ShowMeDo.com we have 4 new ShowMeDo videos and an aggregated set of the existing TurboGears videos: An introduction to Wingware's Wing IDE Professional (with a second video to come): http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=pythonOzsvaldWingIDEIntro André Roberge introduces the RUR-PLE programming environment and recursion in two videos: http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=RUR-PLE Francois Schnell demonstrates the PataPata constructivist learning environment: http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=patapata_tkinter1_fSchnell&fromSeries… Kevin Dangoor and Ronald Jaramillo talk about various parts of the TurboGears web mega-framework in this aggregation of pre-existing videos: http://showmedo.com/videos/TurboGears Detail: We have 50 ShowMeDos, mostly for Python programming. Many of our 33 requests are also for Python tools and techniques - come and vote for your favourite. The votes show which topics are favoured by the Python community - if you would like to share your knowledge then get in touch and we will help you to make your own ShowMeDo videos (they are easy to make!). Video Comments: Each video page allows commentary - just like comments on blog entries. If you like what you see then feel free to leave a comment for the author - positive feedback is such a great motivator. The founders, Ian Ozsvald, Kyran Dale -- ian(a)showmedo.com http://www.showmedo.com

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New release of Diet Python (Beta 0.2)
by eternalsquire＠comcast.net 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

What's new in this release? ---------------------------------------- Release 0.2 has a reworked Python module interface to the _alpymodule. I believe it to be much more 'pythonic'. There's a lot less code to write just in order to make a simple example work. See the examples! I've dropped in the Allegro library from the OpenLayer project. That one seems to be a lot more reliable. I'm using sources from the Python 2.5 beta 2 PSF release. I've also rewritten some of the Allegro examples just to show that the reworked interface works. I also fixed a serious bug in the Python startup... the cutdown python.exe can now be executed via the PATH. I also added back the _randommodule, and exposed the Random object at startup. Diet Python is now starting to look like a lightweight, hardcore, bare metal gaming Python. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Diet Python is a flavor of Python with allegro, multiarray, umath, calldll, npstruct and curses builtin, all else nonessential to language ripped out. Total size < 3MB, 1% of PSF Python. Diet Python helps keep clients thin :) You'll find it in http://sourceforge.net/projects/dietpython Cheers, The Eternal Squire

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ANN: SciPy 0.5.0 released
by Ed Schofield 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

=========================== SciPy 0.5.0 Scientific tools for Python =========================== I'm pleased to announce the release of SciPy 0.5.0. The main change in this version is support for NumPy 1.0b1. There are also bug fixes and minor enhancements to several modules, including ndimage, optimize, sparse, stats, and weave. 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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itools 0.14.0 (alias Bolívar) released
by "J. David Ibáñez" 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

itools is a Python library, it groups a number of packages into a single meta-package for easier development and deployment: itools.catalog itools.http itools.uri itools.cms itools.i18n itools.vfs itools.csv itools.ical itools.web itools.datatypes itools.rss itools.workflow itools.gettext itools.schemas itools.xhtml itools.handlers itools.stl itools.xliff itools.html itools.tmx itools.xml We have choosen to name this release Bolívar, it is our little homage to Simón Bolívar "El Libertador" [1] in the 223th anniversary of his birthday (July 24, 1783). This release, itools 0.14.0, brings important API and performance improvements accross several sub-packages. The most notably change is the new "itools.vfs" package (where "vfs" stands for Virtual File System). It replaces the "itools.resources" package. While functionally equivalent, "itools.vfs" offers a much more intuitive and rich API. Our index and search engine, the "itools.catalog" package, sports a more compact file format. And performance for indexing, unindexing and searching has been improved by about a 2x factor. The API and performance of other packages has been greatly improved, specially for "itools.handlers" and "itools.web". Also, the user interface of "itools.cms" has been simplified, most important the access control screens. Last, we have raised the bar a little, since itools 0.14.0 the minimum required version of Python is 2.5. See the UPGRADE.txt file for more details. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvar Resources --------- Download http://www.ikaaro.org/download/itools/itools-0.14.0.tar.gz Home http://www.ikaaro.org/itools Mailing list http://mail.ikaaro.org/mailman/listinfo/itools Bug Tracker http://bugs.ikaaro.org/ -- J. David Ibáñez Itaapy <http://www.itaapy.com> Tel +33 (0)1 42 23 67 45 9 rue Darwin, 75018 Paris Fax +33 (0)1 53 28 27 88

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Flagpoll 0.2.1 released
by Daniel E. Shipton 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I am pleased to announce the 0.2.1 release of Flagpoll available at https://realityforge.vrsource.org/view/FlagPoll/WebHome You can download a tarball or RPM from: https://realityforge.vrsource.org/view/FlagPoll/FlagpollDownloads What is Flagpoll? ----------------------------------------------- Flagpoll is a tool for developers to use meta-data files for storing information on what is needed to compile their software. Think of it as the rpm of software development. It enables developers total control over which packages, versions, architectures, etc. that they want to use meta-data from. Flagpoll is a multi-platform tool written in Python. It is free software and licensed under the GPL version 2. Changelog for 0.2.1 ----------------------------------------------- * Generic commandline filtering and metadata retrieval https://realityforge.vrsource.org/pipermail/flagpoll-devel/2006-July/000013… Features ----------------------------------------------- * Completely eliminates need for *-config scripts * Backwards compatible with pkg-config .pc files * Not tied to any software...completely independent * Smart version lookup o Able to get newest version of a package and all of its dependencies that work together. o Able to specify a release series of a package and gather all of its dependencies that work together. * Designed for parallel software installs(multiple versions and architectures) If your interested in finding more information about Flagpoll check out: https://realityforge.vrsource.org/view/FlagPoll/WebHome -Daniel

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itools 0.13.9 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

itools is a Python library, it groups a number of packages into a single meta-package for easier development and deployment: itools.catalog itools.http itools.tmx itools.cms itools.i18n itools.uri itools.csv itools.ical itools.web itools.datatypes itools.resources itools.workflow itools.gettext itools.rss itools.xhtml itools.handlers itools.schemas itools.xliff itools.html itools.stl itools.xml Changes: URI - Fix the mailto scheme, return always a Mailto object, by Hervé Cauwelier [#421]. CSV - Fix deleting rows, by Hervé Cauwelier [#423]. - Fix index initialization, by Hervé Cauwelier [#339]. Web - More robust code to load requests. - Change a little the error log format, add the date. CMS - Now views can have a URI query, by Hervé Cauwelier [#308]. - Update access control declarations, by Hervé Cauwelier [#446]. Resources --------- Download http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.13.9.tar.gz Home http://www.ikaaro.org/itools Mailing list http://mail.ikaaro.org/mailman/listinfo/itools Bug Tracker http://bugs.ikaaro.org -- J. David Ibáñez Itaapy <http://www.itaapy.com> Tel +33 (0)1 42 23 67 45 9 rue Darwin, 75018 Paris Fax +33 (0)1 53 28 27 88

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