Mailman 3 July 2006 - Python-announce-list

itools 0.13.8 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" July 17, 2006

July 17, 2006

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: HTTP - New package "itools.http", split from "itools.web". Web - Load requests and send responses in non-blocking mode. - Use "poll" instead of "select" to detect changes in sockets. CMS - Style fixes for the HTML editor, by Hervé Cauwelier [#138]. - Split account and password forms in two subtabs, by Hervé Cauwelier [#344] - New handler for video files, to view them inline. Resources --------- Download http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.13.8.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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ANN: wxPython 2.6.3.3
by Robin Dunn July 16, 2006

July 16, 2006

Announcing ---------- The 2.6.3.3 release of wxPython is now available for download at http://wxpython.org/download.php. This is a mostly bug fix release and also includes builds for Python 2.5 on Mac and also Windows. A summary of other changes is 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 2.6.3.3 ------------------ wx.lib.pubsub updates from Oliver Schoenborn: - fixed the hash problem with non-hashable objects - now supports listeners that use \*args as an argument (listener(\*args) was not passing the validity test) - corrected some mistakes in documentation - added some clarifications (hopefully useful for first time users) - changed the way singleton is implemented since old way prevented pydoc etc from extracting docs for Publisher DocView and ActiveGrid IDE updates from Morgan Hua: New Features: In Tab-View mode, Ctrl-number will take the user to the numbered tab view. Modified files now show an '*' astrisk in the view title. Debugger framework can now support PHP debugging. Not important for python development, but at least that means the debugger framework is more generalized. wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.TextEditMixin: Fixed the double END_LABEL_EDIT event problem in TextEditMixin by checking if the editor was already hidden before continuing with the CloseEditor method. Also added code to OpenEditor to send the BEGIN_LABEL_EDIT event and to not allow the opening of the editor to continue if the event handler doesn't allow it. Undeprecated wx.GetNumberFromUser and added wx.NumberEntryDialog. Made necessaary changes for building wxPython for Python 2.5. There may still be some issues related to the new Py_ssize_t type and 64-bit machines, but at least all compile errors and warnings related to it have been resolved. -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

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Publishing ODBC database content as PDF
by vasudevram July 15, 2006

July 15, 2006

Publishing ODBC database content as PDF: I blogged about how it can be done here: http://jugad.livejournal.com/2006/07/07/ and here: http://jugad.livejournal.com/2006/07/08/ by using my PDF conversion toolkit, xtopdf. xtopdf is available at http://www.dancingbison.com/services.html . Feedback welcome, please use my "Profile and contact page" which you can access here: http://www.dancingbison.com/about.html Vasudev Ram http://www.dancingbison.com

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[ANN] XPN 0.5.7 released
by Nemesis July 15, 2006

July 15, 2006

XPN (X Python Newsreader) is a multi-platform newsreader with Unicode support. It is written with Python+GTK. It has features like scoring/actions, X-Face and Face decoding, muting of quoted text, newsrc import/export, find article and search in the body, spoiler char/rot13, random taglines and configurable attribution lines. You can find it on: http://xpn.altervista.org/index-en.html or http://sf.net/projects/xpn Changes in this release: * fixed a bug that caused XPN not to open empty articles * fixed a bug that occurs with newer GTK releases that caused XPN not to show bold face fonts in Groups Pane and Threads Pane * added a key-combo that lets you scroll up the article * fixed an issue with orderings save. * reorganized and changed the appearance of the Config Window * changed the appearance of the Score Window * changed the way article headers and X-Face are shown in the Article Pane * added a groups context menu * added some new voices in the threads context menu XPN is translated in Italian French and German, if you'd like to translate it in your language and you are familiar with gettext and po-files editing please contact me (xpn(a)altervista.org). -- Life would be so very easy if we only had the source code. |\ | |HomePage : http://nem01.altervista.org | \|emesis |XPN (my nr): http://xpn.altervista.org

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ANN: Urwid 0.9.5 - Console UI Library
by Ian Ward July 15, 2006

July 15, 2006

Announcing Urwid 0.9.5 ---------------------- Urwid home page: http://excess.org/urwid/ Tarball: http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.9.5.tar.gz About this release: =================== This release adds support for the alternate character set with DEC special and line drawing characters. Urwid will now display these characters properly in almost all terminals and encodings. This change also opens the door to future support for ISO-2022 encodings with switching character sets. A new example program was added to demonstrate Urwid's graphics widgets, two new widget types were introduced, existing widgets were improved and bugs were fixed. New in this release: ==================== - Some Unicode characters are now converted to use the G1 alternate character set with DEC special and line drawing characters. These Unicode characters should now "just work" in almost all terminals and encodings. When Urwid is run with the UTF-8 encoding the characters are left as UTF-8 and not converted. The characters converted are: \u00A3 (£), \u00B0 (°), \u00B1 (±), \u00B7 (·), \u03C0 (π), \u2260 (≠), \u2264 (≤), \u2265 (≥), \u23ba (⎺), \u23bb (⎻), \u23bc (⎼), \u23bd (⎽), \u2500 (─), \u2502 (│), \u250c (┌), \u2510 (┐), \u2514 (└), \u2518 (┘), \u251c (├), \u2524 (┤), \u252c (┬), \u2534 (┴), \u253c (┼), \u2592 (▒), \u25c6 (◆) - New SolidFill class for filling an area with a single character. - New LineBox class for wrapping widgets in a box made of line- drawing characters. May be used as a box widget or a flow widget. - New example program graph.py demonstrates use of BarGraph, LineBox, ProgressBar and SolidFill. - Pile class may now be used as a box widget and contain a mix of box and flow widgets. - Columns class may now contain a mix of box and flow widgets. The box widgets will take their height from the maximum height of the flow widgets. - Improved the smoothness of resizing with raw_display module. The module will now try to stop updating the screen when a resize event occurs during the update. - The Edit and IntEdit classes now use their set_edit_text(..) and set_edit_pos(..) functions when handling keypresses, so those functions may be overridden to catch text modification. - The set_state(..) functions in the CheckBox and RadioButton classes now have a do_callback parameter that determines if the callback function registered will be called. - Fixed a newly introduced incompatibility with python < 2.3. - Fixed a missing symbol in curses_display when python is linked against libcurses. - Fixed mouse handling bugs in the Frame and Overlay classes. - Fixed a Padding bug when the left or right has no padding. 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: SciPy 2006 Schedule/Early Registration Reminder
by Travis N. Vaught July 14, 2006

July 14, 2006

Greetings, The SciPy 2006 Conference (http://www.scipy.org/SciPy2006) is August 17-18 this year. The deadline for early registration is *today*, July 14, 2006. The registration price will increase from $100 to $150 after today. You can register online at https://www.enthought.com/scipy06 . We invite everyone attending the conference to also attend the Coding Sprints on Monday-Tuesday , August 14-15 and also the Tutorials Wednesday, August 16. There is no additional charge for these sessions. A *tentative* schedule of talks has now been posted. http://www.scipy.org/SciPy2006/Schedule We look forward to seeing you at CalTech in August! Best, Travis

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ANN: Python Enthought Edition Version 1.0.0.beta4 Released
by Bryce Hendrix July 13, 2006

July 13, 2006

Enthought is pleased to announce the release of Python Enthought Edition Version 1.0.0.beta4 (http://code.enthought.com/enthon/) -- a python distribution for Windows. 1.0.0.beta4 Release Notes: -------------------- There are two known issues: * No documentation is included due to problems with the chm. Instead, all documentation for this beta is available on the web at http://code.enthought.com/enthon/docs. The official 1.0.0 will include a chm containing all of our docs again. * IPython may cause problems when starting the first time if a previous version of IPython was ran. If you see "WARNING: could not import user config", either follow the directions which follow the warning. Unless something terrible is discovered between now and the next release, we intend on releasing 1.0.0 on July 25th. This release includes version 1.0.9 of the Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) Package and bug fixes-- you can look at the release notes for this ETS version here: http://svn.enthought.com/downloads/enthought/changelog-release.1.0.9.html About Python Enthought Edition: ------------------------------- Python 2.4.3, Enthought Edition is a kitchen-sink-included Python distribution for Windows including the following packages out of the box: Numpy SciPy IPython Enthought Tool Suite wxPython PIL mingw f2py MayaVi Scientific Python VTK and many more... More information is available about all Open Source code written and released by Enthought, Inc. at http://code.enthought.com

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Deadline for abstracts in two days - Python-Workshop September 8, 2006 in Leipzig, Germany
by Mike Müller July 13, 2006

July 13, 2006

=== Reminder=== The deadline for submitting abstracts for the workshop on September 8 in Leipzig is July 15. It is only two days away!! If you would like to give a presentation, please send your abstract to mmueller(a)python-academy.de. The workshop topics are listed at http://www.python-academy.de/workshop/themen.html While the workshop language will be German, English presentations are accepted. So, if you work in Germany, Austria or Swiss but don't think your German is good enough for a presentation, you are welcome to speak in English. === Erinnerung == Der letzte Termin für die Einreichung einer Kurzfassung für den Workshop am 8. September in Leipzig ist der 15.07.2006. Es sind also nur noch zwei Tage!! Wer einen Vortrag halten möchte, die Kurzfassung bitte an mmueller(a)python-academy.de senden. Die Themen des Workshops sind unter http://www.python-academy.de/workshop/themen.html zu finden. === Workshop "Python im deutschsprachigen Raum" === Am 8. September 2006 findet in Leipzig der Workshop "Python im deutschsprachigen Raum" statt. Der Workshop ist als Ergänzung zu den internationalen und europäischen Python-Zusammenkünften gedacht. Die Themenpalette der Vorträge ist sehr weit gefasst und soll alles einschließen, was mit Python im deutschsprachigen Raum zu tun hat. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung der Ziele des Workshops, der Workshop-Themen sowie Details zu Organisation und Anmeldung sind unter http://www.python-academy.de/workshop nachzulesen. Vorträge können bis zum 15. Juli angemeldet werden. Dazu bitte eine Kurzfassung an mmuel...(a)python-academy.de senden. Zu jedem Vortrag kann ein Artikel eingereicht werden, der in einem Proceedings-Band Ende des Jahres erscheinen wird. === Wichtige Termine === 15.07.2005 Vortragsanmeldung mit Kurzfassung 31.07.2006 Einladung und vollständiges Programm 15.08.2006 Letzter Termin für Frühbucherrabatt 08.09.2006 Workshop 15.09.2006 Letzter Termin für die Einreichung der publikationsfähigen Beiträge Dezember 2006 Veröffentlichung des Tagungsbandes === Bitte weitersagen === Der Workshop soll auch Leute ansprechen, die bisher nicht mit Python arbeiten. Wer mithelfen möchte den Workshop bekannt zu machen, kann einen Link auf http://www.python-academy.de/workshop setzen. Auch außerhalb des Internets kann der Workshop durch den Flyer http://www.python-academy.de/download/workshop_call_for_papers.pdf bekannt gemacht werden. Einfach doppelseitig ausdrucken oder kopieren und ein paar Exemplare am Schwarzen Brett von Universitäten, Firmen, Organisationen usw. aushängen. Wir freuen uns auf eine rege Teilnahme, Mike Müller Stefan Schwarzer

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Chicago Python User Group: Thurs. July 13, 2006 7pm.
by bray＠sent.com July 12, 2006

July 12, 2006

This will be our best meeting yet. When ---- Thurs. July 13, 2006. 7pm. Location -------- Performics, downtown Chicago 180 N LaSalle St, Suite 1100, Please RSVP <http://www.chipy.org/RSVP> ** There will probably be a pre-meeting at a nearby cafe for early arrivals. Check the mailing list for more. Topics ------ * CrunchyFrog and SpinyNorman (DocTests in educational Python) * shlex * Perl 6 compared to Python About ChiPy ----------- ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs. Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago. Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info. ChiPy website: <http://chipy.org> ChiPy Mailing List: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago> Python website: <http://python.org> ---- Forward this on.

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Fredericksburg, VA ZPUG July 12: Jim Fulton's buildout package, Python + Fortran, roundtable
by Gary Poster July 12, 2006

July 12, 2006

(Apologies for the especially late notice; for some reason these announcements did not go out when I sent them Monday to python- announce-list and zope-announce) Please join us Wed., July 12, 7:30-9:00 PM, for another meeting of the Fredericksburg, VA Zope and Python User Group ("ZPUG"). We will have a presentation, a lightning talk, a roundtable, and some good snacks. - Jim Fulton will present the talk he gave last week at EuroPython on zc.buildout. The zc.buildout project provides support for creating applications, especially Python applications. It provides tools for assembling applications from multiple parts, Python or otherwise. See http://svn.zope.org/zc.buildout/trunk/. - John Kimball will present a lightning talk of Fortran in Python. - We will have a roundtable discussion of Python and Zope topics. Gary ---------------------------------------- General ZPUG information When: second Wednesday of every month, 7:30-9:00. Where: Zope Corporation offices. 513 Prince Edward Street; Fredericksburg, VA 22408 (tinyurl for map is http://tinyurl.com/duoab). Parking: Zope Corporation parking lot; entrance on Prince Edward Street. Topics: As desired (and offered) by participants, within the constraints of having to do with Python or Zope. Mailing list: fredericksburg-zpug(a)zope.org Contact: Gary Poster (gary(a)zope.com)

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