Mailman 3 October 2007 - Python-announce-list

September PSF Board meeting minutes available
by David Goodger Oct. 15, 2007

Oct. 15, 2007

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Python Software Foundation, September 10, 2007: http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2007-09-10/ -- David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>

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PyCon 2008: Call for Talk & Tutorial Proposals
by David Goodger Oct. 15, 2007

Oct. 15, 2007

Proposals for PyCon 2008 talks & tutorials are now being accepted. The deadline for proposals is November 16. PyCon 2008 will be held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from March 13-20. http://us.pycon.org/2008/ Tutorial Day: Half-Day Tutorials ================================ Do you enjoy teaching classes or tutorials? Are you good at it? PyCon is looking for proposals for tutorials. The PyCon Tutorial Day will be March 13, 2008 (Thursday). There will be morning and afternoon tutorial sessions (3 hours each, plus a 30-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. Full details and instructions here: http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/proposals/ Conference Days: Scheduled Talks ================================ Want to share your experience and expertise? PyCon is looking for proposals to fill the formal presentation tracks. The PyCon Conference Days will be March 14-16, 2008 (Friday-Sunday). 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. We're especially interested in short 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? Full details and instructions here: http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/proposals/ Development Sprints =================== Four days of development sprints will follow the conference days, March 17-20 (Monday-Thursday). Start thinking about sprints you'd like to lead or join. We'll have an announcement about these soon! http://us.pycon.org/2008/sprints/ Lightning Talks & Open Space ============================ 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 sessions of Lightning Talks (five minute mini-talks, scheduled at the conference). http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/lightning There will also be several Open Space rooms for informal and spur-of-the-moment presentations. Open Space slots are allocated during PyCon on a first-come first-served basis. These slots can be used for presentations, round table discussions, hands-on tutorials, follow-up discussions after scheduled talks, or anything else you wish to present. http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/openspace/ Help Out! ========= PyCon 2008 planning is in full swing, but we can still use more help, *your* help! http://us.pycon.org/2008/helping/

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ANN: Pygments 0.9 "Herbstzeitlose" released
by Georg Brandl Oct. 14, 2007

Oct. 14, 2007

I've just uploaded the Pygments 0.9 packages to CheeseShop. Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python. Download it from <http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Pygments>, or look at the demonstration at <http://pygments.org/demo>. Highlights in this release are: - Lexers added: * Erlang * ActionScript * Literate Haskell * Common Lisp * Various assembly languages * Gettext catalogs * Squid configuration * Debian control files * MySQL-style SQL * MOOCode - Lexers improved: * Greatly improved the Haskell and OCaml lexers. * Improved the Bash lexer's handling of nested constructs. * The C# and Java lexers exhibited abysmal performance with some input code; this should now be fixed. * The IRC logs lexer is now able to colorize weechat logs too. * The Lua lexer now recognizes multi-line comments. * Fixed bugs in the D and MiniD lexer. - The encoding handling of the command line mode (pygmentize) was enhanced. You shouldn't get UnicodeErrors from it anymore if you don't give an encoding option. - Added a ``-P`` option to the command line mode which can be used to give options whose values contain commas or equals signs. - Added 256-color terminal formatter. - Added an experimental SVG formatter. - Added the ``lineanchors`` option to the HTML formatter, thanks to Ian Charnas for the idea. - Gave the line numbers table a CSS class in the HTML formatter. - Added a Vim 7-like style. I want to express my gratitude to all contributors who helped to build this impressive feature list for 0.9. Thanks! Cheers, Georg

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ANNOUNCE: pygtkmvc-1.2.0 has been released
by Roberto Cavada Oct. 14, 2007

Oct. 14, 2007

Version 1.2.0 of pygtkmvc has been released. Project homepage: <http://pygtkmvc.sourceforge.net> Download: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygtkmvc/> ============== About pygtkmvc ============== pygtkmvc is a fully Python-based implementation of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Observer patterns for the PyGTK2 toolkit. MVC is a pattern that can be successfully used to design and develop well structured GUI applications. The MVC pattern basically helps in separating semantics and data of the application, from their representation. The Observer pattern helps to weaken dependencies among parts that should be separated, but need to be connected each other. pygtkmvc provides a powerful and still simple infrastructure to help designing and implement GUI applications based on the MVC and Observer patterns. Features The framework has been designed to be: * Essential and small, it does only what it was designed for. * Not an external dependency for your application: it fits in 80KB and can be released along with it. * Easy to understand and to use; fully documented. * Portable: straightly runs under many platforms. =================== About release 1.2.0 =================== This is a major release that brings some important new features and a few bug fixes. * New features: - Added adapters, new entities that largely simplify and reduce costs and development efforts. Adapters handles autonomous coordination between properties into models and widgets into views. Roughly speaking, an adapter keeps aligned some part of the model and a widget in a transparent and still customizable way. - Added script gtkmvc-progen that aids developers in generating gtkmvc-based projects from scratch. gtkmvc-progen can be run in both batch and GUI modalities. For example: $> gtkmvc-progen name=myproj author="Wil Shakespeare" gui=no ... generates project "myproj" in batch mode. See the user manual for a full list of available options. * Other changes - Spurious value changes in observable properties are no longer notified by default. A new optional parameter of class Observer allows for a backward-compatible semantics. - Widgets search into Views has been optimized. - Bug fixes and optimizations. o Undefined handlers for custom widgets are correctly managed. Thanks to Allan Douglas <zalguod at users.sourceforge.net> for providing a working patch. o Fixed a subtle bug in the observer pattern implementation. o A few other minor fixes and optimizations. -- Roberto Cavada <roboogle AT gmail.com> <P><A HREF="http://pygtkmvc.sourceforge.net">pygtkmvc 1.2.0</A> - Pygtk MVC is a thin, multiplatform framework that helps to design and develop GUI applications based on the PyGTK toolkit. (14-Oct-07)

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[ANN] Karrigell 2.3.6 (ADMIN : PLEASE IGNORE PREVIOUS MESSAGE WITH SAME TITLE)
by Pierre Quentel Oct. 14, 2007

Oct. 14, 2007

Hi, Karrigell is a flexible Python web framework, with a clear and intuitive syntax. It is independant from any database, ORM or templating engine, and lets the programmer choose between a variety of coding styles Besides fixing some bugs, version 2.3.6 introduces the built-in function Login() and improves the documentation for using Karrigell on shared web hosting Home page : http://karrigell.sourceforge.net Tutorial : http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Karrigell_Tutorial Google group : http://groups.google.com/group/karrigell?lnk=li Regards, Pierre

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Announcement: Project to get some CPython C extensions running under IronPython
by Giles Thomas Oct. 12, 2007

Oct. 12, 2007

The great thing about CPython is that it comes with the batteries included. The problem with IronPython is that some of these batteries just don't fit - in particular, most of the the C extensions don't work. We'd like to help fix at least some of this problem, to help people who use IronPython to use their CPython scripts without having to port everything over to .NET. Solving the general problem - plugging an arbitrary C extension into IronPython - is a huge project, and we're not even sure we could work out *how much work it is* without a lot of investigation. What we intend to do is to solve a specific problem, to integrate just one extension, and to use that project as a testbed to examine the possibilities for getting other extensions working - and perhaps, in the long term, solving the general problem. We think that any solution like this will be valuable not just to us, but to the Python community as a whole. And so, we want to make it Open Source. Right now, we'd really like to hear from people about the following: * Who wants to get involved? We're really keen on working with other people on this. * Which module should we go for? NumPy looks like a good start, as it gives us a start on getting SciPy working. But perhaps there are better choices. * Should this be a new project, or should we be talking to other people about getting it into other projects? * Which license? If we're to work on it with a view to building it into Resolver One, then it will need to be commercial-software-friendly. Apart from that - we have no view. * What is the best architecture? We're thinking of this as being a bit of C# managed code to interface with the C extension, and a thin Python wrapper on top. The module's existing C extension and Python code would "sandwich" this layer. Let us know if this is a silly idea :-) * Is there anything else we should be thinking about to get this started? Any thoughts much appreciated! Regards, Giles -- Giles Thomas MD & CTO, Resolver Systems Ltd. giles.thomas(a)resolversystems.com +44 (0) 20 7253 6372 We're hiring! http://www.resolversystems.com/jobs/ 17a Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5RD, UK VAT No.: GB 893 5643 79 Registered in England and Wales as company number 5467329. Registered address: 843 Finchley Road, London NW11 8NA, UK

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ANN: Chandler 0.7.1
by Heikki Toivonen Oct. 11, 2007

Oct. 11, 2007

The Chandler Project is pleased to announce the 0.7.1 release of Chandler Desktop! Chandler Desktop is an open source, standards-based personal information manager (PIM) built around small group collaboration and a core set of information management workflows modeled on Inbox usage patterns and David Allen's GTD methodology. Download link, information on mailinglists, and how to get the sources are available from the homepage: http://chandlerproject.org/ The 0.7.1 release is the first in a series of quick, time-based releases since Chandler Preview 0.7.0.1 intended to respond to the feedback we received from 0.7.0.1 and continue to receive from these quick releases. 0.7.1 fixes over 30 bugs, including: Bug #8981 Bug in Twisted IMAP Capabilities Parsing Bug #9454 (Partial fix) Memory leaks in SSL code Bug #9920 AttributeError: 'pem' while syncing with https://hub.chandlerproject.org Bug #10308 Test sharing settings when there is an SSL error times out on first try Bug #10309 Canceling account creation still leaves password filled in Bug #10514 Changing triage status on newly created task crashes Chandler Bug #10543 Attribute Error dropping .eml into Chandler (AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'itsItem') Bug #10702 changing back from "all day" event (recurring) puts event at midnight Bug #10726 (Partial fix) --undo command line arg change Bug #10728 Send button doesn't change to update on adding an email address to the To field Bug #10788 Old DONE Message item popping back into NOW section Bug #10790 Unstamping taskness from an occurrence while another Chandler makes a change to same occurrence results in server error Bug #10794 Update root certificates Bug #10815 Subscribe error when no rrules or rrdates Bug #10817 invalid index in wxListBox::SetString on deleting the outgoing mail account in debug Bug #10821 iCal (private) import from Google calendar locks up in the same place each try. Bug #10824 Don't prepopulate reload dialog with a non-existent file, it's annoying Bug #10828 Work with Mac OSX 10.4 IMAP Server Bug #10829 Allow self-signed certificates (but show warning dialog) Bug #10853 Search doesn't find matching notes Bug #10855 Traceback when publishing to Oracle Server Bug #10881 Orphans should have their icalUID deleted Bug #10882 Export of chex should dump masters before occurrences Bug #10913 AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'status' when resubmitting an HTTP request Bug #10941 SSL certificate errors should not be hijacked by the generic sharing error dialog Thanks for your interest in Chandler Desktop!

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ANN: Pyrex 0.9.6.2
by Greg Ewing Oct. 10, 2007

Oct. 10, 2007

Pyrex 0.9.6.2 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ Another couple of minor fixes. What is Pyrex? -------------- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix operations on Python and C data, with all Python reference counting and error checking handled automatically.

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ANN: magnitude 0.9.1
by juan＠juanreyero.com Oct. 10, 2007

Oct. 10, 2007

I am happy to announce the first release of magnitude, a library for computing with physical quantities. It is released under the Apache v. 2 license. A physical quantity is a number with a unit, like 10 km/h. Units can be any of the SI units, plus a bunch of non-SI, bits, dollars, and any combination of them. They can include the standard SI prefixes. Magnitude can operate with physical quantities, parse their units, and print them. You don't have to worry about unit consistency or conversions; everything is handled transparently. By default output is done in basic SI units, but you can specify any output unit, as long as it can be reduced to the basic units of the phisical quantity. Home page: http://juanreyero.com/magnitude/ Juan Reyero (juan +at+ juanreyero.com) <P><A HREF="http://juanreyero.com/magnitude/">magnitude 0.9.1</A> - library for computing with physical units. (10-Oct-07)

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Python Ireland Talks Reminder - Wed 10th October 2007
by Vicky Lee Oct. 10, 2007

Oct. 10, 2007

Hi All, Just a quick reminder. Give me a call, if you are lost. I'll be there early this evening. Wed 10th October 2007 Talks: 19:00 - 21:00 (+pub) Room 3074 in the Arts block ( Map : http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/arts_block.html ) See http://wiki.python.ie/moin.cgi/PythonMeetup/October2007 for more details. My mobile: 086 1502003 Cheers, /// Vicky PS: Apolagies for all the confusion, will get someone to properly proof-read my outgoing mails, or Mick will send them out next time, *hint hint. On 10/8/07, Tim Kersten <irlkersten(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Nice one. See you there :-) > > > On 10/8/07, Sean O'Donnell <sean(a)odonnell.nu> wrote: > > > > yip, talks are definately on on Wednesday. > > > > Sean > > > > Tim Kersten wrote: > > > Hi *, > > > > > > Just wanted to ask if there are talks this Wednesday as stated in the > wiki: > > > http://wiki.python.ie/moin.cgi/PythonMeetup/October2007 > ? > > > From somewhere I had the idea that the talks in Trinity were going to be > in > > > November and we were just meeting up in the Schoolhouse this month. I > assume > > > that I wrong and there will be talks in TCD this Wednesday. Please > correct > > > me if I'm wrong :-) > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Ireland" group. > > To post to this group, send email to pythonireland(a)googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > pythonireland-unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en > > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > > > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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