Mailman 3 September 2006 - Python-announce-list

Python at Seneca's 5th Annual FSOSS Symposium
by George Belotsky Sept. 27, 2006

Sept. 27, 2006

Seneca College (a diverse educational institution with over 100,000 students) is holding their 5th annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium. http://cs.senecac.on.ca/fsoss/2006/index.html There will be lots of very interesting talks and workshops. http://cs.senecac.on.ca/fsoss/2006/agenda.html http://cs.senecac.on.ca/fsoss/2006/workshop.html I will be giving the workshop on Python. http://cs.senecac.on.ca/fsoss/2006/workshop.html#python Seneca is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://cs.senecac.on.ca/fsoss/2006/location.html

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 27)
by Cameron Laird Sept. 27, 2006

Sept. 27, 2006

QOTW: "It's not out of the kindness of our hearts that we help. Heck, I don't know what it is. Probably I just like reading my own drivel on the internet and occasionally helping others is a good excuse." - Neil Cerutti "Well, if you're only watching mtv, it's easy to think that there's obviously not much demand fr country singers, blues musicians, British hard rock bands, or melodic death metal acts." - Fredrik Lundh std{in,out,err} are easier than people realize: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1295fe… Skip, Amaury, and Bruno illustrate that, yes, there *is* a purpose to for's else: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/bc1d80… Thanks to Connelly Barnes for the autoimp module: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2478cc… ======================================================================== 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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cx_Oracle 4.2.1
by Anthony Tuininga Sept. 26, 2006

Sept. 26, 2006

What is cx_Oracle? cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a few exceptions. Where do I get it? http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining What's new? 1) Added additional type (NCLOB) to handle CLOBs that use the national character set as requested by Chris Dunscombe. 2) Added support for returning cursors from functions as requested by Daniel Steinmann. 3) Added support for getting/setting the "get" mode on session pools as requested by Anand Aiyer. 4) Added support for binding subclassed cursors. 5) Fixed binding of decimal objects with absolute values less than 0.1.

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IMDbPY 2.7
by alberanid＠libero.it Sept. 26, 2006

Sept. 26, 2006

IMDbPY 2.7 is available (tgz, deb, rpm, exe) from: http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/ IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about both movies and people. With this release some major bugs were fixed, especially in the "http" and "mobile" data access systems; searches which return a lot of results are handled gracefully. Platform-independent and written in pure Python (and few C lines), it can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole database. IMDbPY package can be very easily used by programmers and developers to provide access to the IMDb's data to their programs. Some simple example scripts are included in the package; other IMDbPY-based programs are available from the home page. -- Davide Alberani <alberanid(a)libero.it> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://erlug.linux.it/~da/

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Pydev 1.2.4 Released
by Fabio Zadrozny Sept. 26, 2006

Sept. 26, 2006

Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.2.4 have been released Details on Pydev Extensions: http://www.fabioz.com/pydev Details on Pydev: http://pydev.sf.net Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com Release Highlights in Pydev Extensions: ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Code analysis: analysis on imported modules do no longer give you errors on * classes that have __getattribute__ or __getattr__ overriden * assigns that are initially None * assigns to a function call and not a class definition * Completions for parameters in a context-insensitive way, looking for all the methods/attributes declared in classes available to the project (after 3 chars) Release Highlights in Pydev: ---------------------------------------------- * Completions for parameters based on the tokens that were defined for it in a given context * Removed the default PyLint options, because its command-line interface changed (that was crashing PyLint in newer versions) * Changed the grammar so that 'yield' is correctly parsed as an expression * Giving better error message when external file is opened without any interpreter selected * Icons for the builtins gotten on large libraries (such as wx -- it was optimized not to do that before) * Adding jars relative to the project now works correctly * Patched (Kovan): The debugger is now able to get the variables in a context when handling negative payloads 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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London Python Meetup, Wednesday the 4th of October
by Simon Brunning Sept. 26, 2006

Sept. 26, 2006

I'm organising another London Python meetup at The Stage Door, Waterloo, London SE1 8QA (see <http://tinyurl.com/ko27s>) for Wednesday the 4th of October, anytime after work. Hope to see you there! -- Cheers, Simon B, simon(a)brunningonline.net

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Michigan Python Users Group October meeting (Tues 10/3)
by Kevin Dangoor Sept. 26, 2006

Sept. 26, 2006

The Michigan Python Users Group will be meeting at Arbor Networks on Tuesday 10/3 at 7PM. http://michipug.org We've got a great meeting lined up. We moved the meeting because Titus Brown, the author of the Twill testing tool, will be in town and has agreed to talk testing with us. Jason Pellerin, the author of the Nose testing tool, may also be present, so this is an excellent chance for people to talk about automated testing with folks in the know. Bruce Webber will be talking about wxPython, which is always a hot topic. Our downtown Ann Arbor location worked out well for heading out afterwards. Come join us! Kevin -- Kevin Dangoor TurboGears / Zesty News email: kid(a)blazingthings.com company: http://www.BlazingThings.com blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com

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[ANN] pylint 0.12.1
by Sylvain Thénault Sept. 26, 2006

Sept. 26, 2006

Hi there ! I'm very pleased to announce the 0.12.1 release of PyLint. This release includes some bug fixes and have tests passing from python 2.3 to python 2.5 :). You may be surprised by the version number since we have been missing public annoucements recently, and the 0.12.0 version has not really been announced. To quote Alexandre, we got a bit sloppy in the public part of our release process, and the mails did not fly... Hopefuly we'll be better on this in a near future. Anyway there has been a lot of usability changes and a lot of bug fixes making pylint more stable (at least since the type inference has been introduced...) and nicer to configure and use, so please upgrade to this version, along with the latest logilab-common and logilab-astng version (this relelase of pylint actually depends on astng >= 0.16.1). I hope you'll enjoy this release and would like to thanks everybody who contribute to pylint/astng by sending feedback or even better patch on the mailing list :) Enjoy ! What's new ? ------------ :Changes in 0.12.1 * fixed python >= 2.4 format false positive with multiple lines statement * fixed some 2.5 issues * fixed generator expression scope bug (depends on astng 0.16.1) * stop requiring __revision__ :Changes in 0.12: * usability changes: - parseable, html and color options are now handled by a single output-format option - enable-<checkerid> and disable-all options are now handled by two (exclusive) enable-checker and disable-checker options taking a comma separated list of checker names as value - renamed debug-mode option to errors-only * started a reference user manual * new W0212 message for access to protected member from client code (close #14081) * new W0105 and W0106 messages extracted from W0104 (statement seems to have no effect) respectivly when the statement is actually string (that's sometimes used instead of comments for documentation) or an empty statement generated by a useless semicolumn * reclassified W0302 to C0302 * fix so that global messages are not anymore connected to the last analyzed module (close #10106) * fix some bugs related to local disabling of messages * fix cr/lf pb when generating the rc file on windows platforms What is pylint ? ---------------- Pylint is a python tool that checks if a module satisfy a coding standard. Pylint can be seen as another pychecker since nearly all tests you can do with pychecker can also be done with Pylint. But Pylint offers some more features, like checking line-code's length, checking if variable names are well-formed according to your coding standard, or checking if declared interfaces are truly implemented, and much more (see http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint/ for the complete check list). The big advantage with Pylint is that it is highly configurable, customizable, and you can easily write a small plugin to add a personal feature. The usage it quite simple : $ pylint mypackage.mymodule This command will output all the errors and warnings related to the tested code (here : mypackage.mymodule), will dump a little summary at the end, and will give a mark to the tested code. Pylint is free software distributed under the GNU Public Licence. Home page --------- http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint Download -------- ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/pylint Mailing list ------------ mailto://python-projects@logilab.org -- Sylvain Thénault LOGILAB, Paris (France) Formations Python, Zope, Plone, Debian: http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure: http://www.logilab.fr/services Python et calcul scientifique: http://www.logilab.fr/science

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[ANN] logilab-astng 0.16.1
by Sylvain Thénault Sept. 26, 2006

Sept. 26, 2006

Hi there ! I'm pleased to announce the 0.16.1 release of Logilab astng package. This release include some major bug fixes (pylint crashs, 2.5 compatibility) and have tests passing from python 2.3 to python 2.5 :). You're higly encouraged to upgrade if you're currently using the 0.16.0 release. What's new ? ------------ * python 2.5 support, patch provided by Marien Zwart * fix [Class|Module].block_range method (this fixes pylint's inline disabling of messages on classes/modules) * handle class.__bases__ and class.__mro__ (proper metaclass handling still needed though) * drop python2.2 support: remove code that was working around python2.2 * fixed generator expression scope bug * patch transformer to extract correct line information Home page --------- http://www.logilab.org/projects/astng Download -------- ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/astng Mailing list ------------ mailto://python-projects@lists.logilab.org LOGILAB provides services in the fields of XML techniques and advanced computing (implementation of intelligent agents, knowledge management, natural language processing, statistical analysis, data mining, etc.), and also trainings on Python, XML, UML, Object Oriented design, design patterns use and other cutting edge topics. To know more about Logilab, visit http://www.logilab.com/. Logilab is also a strong supporter of the Free Software movement, and an active member of the Python and Debian communities. Logilab's open source projects can be found on http://www.logilab.org/. -- Sylvain Thénault LOGILAB, Paris (France) Formations Python, Zope, Plone, Debian: http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure: http://www.logilab.fr/services Python et calcul scientifique: http://www.logilab.fr/science

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[ANN] logilab-common 0.19.2
by Sylvain Thénault Sept. 26, 2006

Sept. 26, 2006

Hi there ! I'm pleased to announce the 0.19.2 release of Logilab common package. This release include some bug fixes and have tests passing from python 2.3 to python 2.5 :). You may be surprised by the version number since we have been missing public annoucements recently. To quote Alexandre, we got a bit sloppy in the public part of our release process, and the mails did not fly... Hopefuly we'll be better on this in a near future. Take a look at the change log to get information about what's changed in the recent "discret" versions. What's new ? ------------ * testlib: - fixed a bug in find_test making it returns some bad test names - new assertIsInstance method on TestCase * optik_ext: make it works if mx.DateTime is not installed, in which case the date type option won't be available * test fixes What is common ? ------------------------ logilab-common is a collection of low-level Python packages and modules, designed to ease: * handling command line options and configuration files * writing interactive command line tools * manipulation files and character strings * interfacing to OmniORB * generating of SQL queries * running unit tests * manipulating tree structures * accessing RDBMS (currently postgreSQL, mysql and sqlite) * generating text and HTML reports * logging ... Home page --------- http://www.logilab.org/projects/common Download -------- ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/common Mailing list ------------ mailto://python-projects@lists.logilab.org LOGILAB provides services in the fields of XML techniques and advanced computing (implementation of intelligent agents, knowledge management, natural language processing, statistical analysis, data mining, etc.), and also trainings on Python, XML, UML, Object Oriented design, design patterns use and other cutting edge topics. To know more about Logilab, visit http://www.logilab.com/. Logilab is also a strong supporter of the Free Software movement, and an active member of the Python and Debian communities. Logilab's open source projects can be found on http://www.logilab.org/. -- Sylvain Thénault LOGILAB, Paris (France) Formations Python, Zope, Plone, Debian: http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure: http://www.logilab.fr/services Python et calcul scientifique: http://www.logilab.fr/science

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