Mailman 3 August 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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[ANN] PyLucid CMS v0.7.0 released
by Jens Diemer 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

about PyLucid ------------------------------------------------------------------ PyLucid is a lightweight, OpenSource ( GPL 2.x or newer ) content management system ( CMS ) written in Python WSGI. Nearly all output can be customized. No shell account is needed. You only need a standard webserver with Python (at least v2.2.1) CGI and MySQL ( mySQLdb ) to run PyLucid. You can use PyLucid as a Framework for you small Web-Application. Because you can make you own Plugins! Look at: http://www.pylucid.org/index.py/DeveloperInfo/ PyLucid use the WSGI Standard, so you can run it as CGI, fastCGI, SCGI, AJP and others... major changes ------------------------------------------------------------------ * WSGI compatibly (using Colubrid - but not optimized)! * new template engine jinja in place of simpleTAL * new CSS and JS handling * new internal page editing * new: "List of all available Tags" when you edit a CMS page * new: PluginDownloader (a Plugin to make you own written Plugins downloadable for other Users) (available since v0.7RC2) * File oganisation changed * new /_install - Section (look at InstallAccess): o new 'low level Admin' Tools - example: 'rename all used tabelnames' o new 'info / tests' - many SQL-Server information * shortcut for every page. So the URLs are cleaner * No poormanmodrewrite! I think the URLs are good enough. minor changes ------------------------------------------------------------------ * internal Links works now with the new shortcuts! * You can make short Links to deep pages. Example: http://www.pylucid.org/index.py/Doku/Markup/TinyTextileExample/ -> http://www.pylucid.org/index.py/TinyTextileExample/ * DB dump improved (a little, but not really enough) * "list of new sides" improved (See how edit the pages) Links ------------------------------------------------------------------ Homepage..: http://www.pylucid.org sf.net....: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pylucid/ Install instructions: http://www.pylucid.org/index.py/InstallPyLucid/ -- Mfg. Jens Diemer ---- CMS in pure Python CGI: http://www.pylucid.org

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Today (August 31) last day for early bird registration - Leipzig Python Workshop
by Mike Müller 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Today, August 31, is the definitely last day for early bird registration for the Leipzig Python workshop. There won't be any further extensions. Therefore, today is the last chance to take advantage of the reduced rate. Heute (31. August) letzter Tag für Frühbucherrabatt - Leipziger Python-Workshop === Workshop "Python im deutschsprachigen Raum" === Der definitiv letzte Termin für den Frühbucherrabatt ist heute (31.08.2006). Eine nochmalige Verlängerung wird es nicht geben. Deshalb ist heute die letzte Chance den günstigeren Teilnahmebeitrag in Anspruch zu nehmen. === Workshop-Details === 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. === Wichtige Termine === 31.08.2006 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/programm.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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ANN: sauvage 0.3.2, an SVG to OpenGL library
by Stéphane Conversy 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hi, I released version 0.3.2 of sauvage, a library that helps creating, manipulating and rendering SVG scenes with OpenGL. More info here: http://www.tls.cena.fr/~conversy/research/sauvage/index.html s.

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[ANN] Release 0.60 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce release 0.60 of Task Coach. New in this release: Bugs fixed: * Closing a task file did not reset the 'lastfile' setting. * Selecting Japanese translation would cause error upon next restart. * Task Coach wouldn't quit when the setting 'Minimize window when closing' was set. * Deleting an effort record would throw an exception. Website change: * Added MD5 digests to download page. (See http://taskcoach.niessink.com -> download) What is Task Coach? Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and is developed using Python and wxPython. You can download Task Coach from: http://taskcoach.niessink.com https://sourceforge.net/projects/taskcoach/ A binary installer is available for Windows XP and a disk image is available for Mac OSX, in addition to the source distribution. Note that Task Coach is alpha software, meaning that it is wise to back up your task file regularly, and especially when upgrading to a new release. Cheers, Frank

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 30)
by Jack Diederich 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

QOTW: "The best working hypothesis is that upgrading will break things." - Grant Edwards "Should I take this to mean: "Don't go near TNEF because your underwear will become carnivorous and consume your genitalia?" - Hendrik van Rooyen Which is better, Turbogears or Rails? Flame on. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/0837e5… PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc() is a C-level call because it is impossible to use safely. We're all adults here but we're not all wizards. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/121933… A style question on an if-else clause gets a dozen different answers http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/0bc45b… Testing stdout output is easy with doctest (unittest integration too!) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a5a5f7… Ray asks what version of python people use in production and gets a variety of answers. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ac6562… Releases of Note NumPy 1.0b4, 4th beta release of the Numeric and Numarray package http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/af8547… Wing IDE 2.1.2 Powerful python aware IDE. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_thread/thre… Upcoming Community Events Plone Conference 2006, October 25-27 (Seattle, Washington) http://plone.org/events/conferences/seattle-2006 Open Source Developers Conference Dec 5-8 (Melbourne, Australia) http://www.osdc.com.au/ ======================================================================== Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Notice especially the master FAQ http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the marvelous daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new) World-Wide Web articles related to Python. http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL are utterly different in their technologies and generally in their results. For far, FAR more Python reading than any one mind should absorb, much of it quite interesting, several pages index much of the universe of Pybloggers. http://lowlife.jp/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/PythonProgrammersWeblog http://www.planetpython.org/ http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html Steve Bethard, Tim Lesher, and Tony Meyer continue the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson and Brett Cannon of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week. http://www.python.org/dev/summary/ The Python Package Index catalogues packages. http://www.python.org/pypi/ The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references to all sorts of Python resources. http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're subject with a vision of what the language makes practical. http://www.pythonology.com/python/success The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. http://www.python.org/psf/ Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation. http://www.python.org/psf/donate.html Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches. http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python hyperlinks retains a few gems. http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and interesting recipes. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available are http://www.python.org/channews.rdf http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi http://python.de/backend.php For more, see http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a SourceForge reincarnation. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/ The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com. editor(a)pythonjournal.com and editor(a)pythonjournal.cognizor.com welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work. del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary. It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence. http://del.icio.us/tag/python *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.com Archive probing tricks of the trade: http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100 http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.pyth… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topic/python/ (requires subscription) http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=python-url+group:comp.lang.python*&s… http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lan… There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments for and against are occasionally entertained. Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. E-mail to <Python-URL(a)phaseit.net> should get through. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning (approximately), ask <claird(a)phaseit.net> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". Write to the same address to unsubscribe. -- The Python-URL! Team-- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project.

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Call For Tutorials: PyCon 2007
by A.M. Kuchling 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

PyCon 2007 Call for Tutorials ----------------------------- Enjoy teaching classes or tutorials? PyCon 2007 is looking for proposals for a pre-conference tutorials day. PyCon 2007 will be held February 23-25 in Addison, Texas (near Dallas). Tutorials will be held on February 22 at the same location. Tutorial sessions will be a half day (3 hours, with a 15-minute break); presenters may request two sessions in order to make up a full day. Tutorials may be on any topic, but obviously should be instructional in nature. Providing take-home materials for attendees is encouraged, and tutorial presenters will receive $50 per student registered for their session (with a minimum payment of $500, and a maximum of $1500). Extra consideration will be given to presenters with prior experience teaching classes or giving conference tutorials. Please provide one reference or evidence of such prior experience (sessions taught at OSCON, EuroPython, local user groups, etc.). PyCon attendees will register for tutorials at extra cost. We reserve the right to cancel tutorials with low attendance; presenters will not be paid for cancelled tutorials. Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline: November 15, 2006 * Acceptance deadline: November 22, 2006 * Cancellation date: January 20, 2007 (for inadequate attendance) Submission Format ================= Proposals should be 250 to 1000 words long (i.e., one to four pages in manuscript format), containing the following information: * Author name(s) * Contact Information * Summary of proposed presentation * Presentation outline * Intended audience (non-programmers, beginning programmers, advanced users, CPython developers, etc.) * (Recommended) At least one previous presentation/teaching engagement reference. E-mail your proposal to <pycon(a)python.org>. ASCII format is preferred, with HTML as a secondary alternative. If you have any questions about submission, please send mail to the conference organizers at pycon(a)python.org.

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Call For Proposals: PyCon 2007
by A.M. Kuchling 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

PyCon 2007 Call for Proposals ----------------------------- Want to share your expertise? PyCon 2007 is looking for proposals to fill the formal presentation tracks. PyCon 2007 will take place February 23-25 2007 in Addison, Texas, Previous PyCon conferences have had a broad range of presentations, ranging from reports on academic and commercial projects to tutorials and case studies. We hope to continue that tradition this year. As long as the presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program. For 2007, we're especially interested in tutorial presentations that will teach conference-goers something new and useful. Can you show attendees how to: use a module? explore a Python language feature? package an application? Important Dates =============== * Submission deadline: October 31, 2006 * Acceptance deadline: November 15, 2006 * Electronic copy deadline: February 15, 2007 PyCon Topics ============ Suitable topics for PyCon presentations include, but are not limited to: * Core Python * Other implementations: IronPython, Jython, PyPy, and Stackless. * Python libraries and extensions * Databases * Documentation * Embedding and Extending Python * Game Programming * GUI Programming * Network Programming * Open Source Python projects * Packaging Issues * Programming Tools * Project Best Practices * Science and Math * Web Programming (Django, Zope, TurboGears, WSGI, ...) Talk Format =========== The preferred length for talks is 30 minutes. You can request a 45-minute slot, but proposals requiring 45 minutes will be reviewed more stringently and tutorial talks will be preferred for these longer slots. Session lengths include time for audience questions. You should budget at least five minutes for questions; for example, a 30-minute talk will be 25 minutes of presentation and 5 minutes of questions. Submission Mechanics ==================== Use the PyCon Online Proposal Submission (http://us.pycon.org/apps07/proposals) to send us your proposals and ideas. Proposal submission will begin on September 15th. If your proposal is accepted, you have the option of including a companion paper along with your presentation. The paper will be published on the PyCon web site. Presentations and papers may be in text (plain or reST), HTML, or PDF; HTML or text are preferred. We suggest, but do not require, that authors place their papers under a Creative Commons license. Please visit the CC 'Choose a License' page (http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses) to select a license that meets your requirements. The HelpForSpeakers wiki page (http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/HelpForSpeakers) has suggestions and advice for speakers. Other Presentations =================== If you don't want to make a formal presentation, you can still bring your new project or idea to PyCon. There will be several Lightning Talk sessions for talks no longer than five minutes. There will also be Open Space for informal and spur-of-the-moment presentations. Open Space consists of thirty-minute blocks that are allocated during PyCon on a first-come first-served basis. These blocks can be used for presentations, round table discussions, hands-on tutorials, or anything else you wish to present.

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ANN: Templayer 1.3 - HTML templating library
by Ian Ward 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Announcing Templayer 1.3 ------------------------ Templayer home page: http://excess.org/templayer/ Tarball: http://excess.org/templayer/templayer-1.3.tar.gz About this release: =================== This release includes new documentation and a new auto-reload feature useful for mod_python and web frameworks. Also, the internal template representation was changed to improve performance and consistency, and the HTML generated with HTML Markup is now more standards-compliant. New in this release: ==================== - Added reference documentation and a new tutorial. - Added an auto_reload parameter to Template.__init__ to make the Template.start_file function check and reload a template if it has been modified. This is useful for mod_python and web frameworks with long-lived processes. - Changed the internal representation of the templates to improve performance for large templates and to solve an issue with slots being filled with text that appears to contain another slot that is being filled at the same time. The new implementation no longer allows "%" and "{" characers in slot and layer names. - The Template.missing_slot function is now passed a list of missing slots for a layer. This should improve performance when ignoring a large number of missing slots. - The HTML markup has been adjusted to make its use of <br> and <p> tags more standards-compliant. - HtmlTemplate has been renamed to HTMLTemplate and MarkupException has been renamed to MarkupError. The old names are still provided for backwards compatibility. About Templayer =============== Templayer was created to offer an alternative to the more common ways of generating dynamic HTML: embedding code within the HTML or embedding HTML within code. Instead of mixing HTML and Python, two rich and extremely expressive languages, Templayer adds a small amount of syntax to each and keeps the two separate and coherent. Templayer is released under the GNU LGPL.

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Wing IDE 2.1.2 released
by Wingware Announce 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Hi, We're happy to announce version 2.1.2 of Wing IDE, an advanced development environment for the Python programming language. This is a bugfix release that improves support for Python 2.5 (2.5c1 is required) and fixes a number of bugs. The release can be downloaded from: http://wingware.com/downloads A detailed list of changes is available here: http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/2.1.2/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 Wing IDE 2.1: * Professional quality code editor * Visual Studio, VI/Vim, Emacs, and Brief key bindings * Auto-completion, call tips, and source browser * Graphical debugger for Python, Zope, and Plone * Subversion, CVS, and Perforce integration * Powerful search interface * User-extensible with Python scripts * Templates (code snippets), bookmarks, folding, macros, and more Some features are available in Wing IDE Pro only -- for details see http://wingware.com/wingide/features 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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