Mailman 3 November 2007 - Python-announce-list

The Python Papers Monograph Series (TPPM): Call for Proposals
by Maurice LING 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

We apologize for cross-posting and multiple copies of the same email. The editorial committee of The Python Papers (ISSN 1834-3147) calls for proposals for The Python Papers Monograph Series. Potential authors should contact the editors at editor(a)pythonpapers.org at an early stage of preparation. We await your indications of interests. Regards Maurice Ling Associate Editor, The Python Papers What is The Python Papers Monograph Series? =========================================== The Python Papers Monograph Series (ISSN under application) is a sub-publication of The Python Papers (ISSN 1834-3147). This monograph series provides a refereed format for publication of monograph-length reports including dissertations, conference proceedings, case studies, advanced-level lectures, and similar material of theoretical or empirical importance. It does so quickly, informally and at a high level, where the Python programming language is an integral aspect. In some cases, the timeliness of a manuscript is more important than its form, which may be unfinished or unpolished. Hence, it is possible that proofs may be outlined with an intention to publish elsewhere at a later date. Refereeing is done by members of the The Python Papers' editorial board and other authorities in the topic concerned and may be acknowledged in name in the published form. Scientific quality is the over-riding criterion for refereeing. Suggestions for publication, in the form of outlines and representative samples, are invited by the editorial board for assessment. Potential authors should contact the editors at editor(a)pythonpapers.org. Publication in this monograph series is intended as a service to the Python users and scientific community at large. Work in this series is licensed under the Creative Commons 2.5 license subject to Attribution, Non-Commercial and Share-Alike conditions. The full legal code may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/byncsa/2.1/au/. Once published and copyrighted, they can be documented and discussed in the scientific literature. =========================================

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CodeInvestigator version 0.6.0 released.
by martien friedeman 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

CodeInvestigator version 0.6.0 was released on November 8. This version adds support for input() and raw_input() functions. The main changes: * The 'Details' button on the file selection screen gives access to statistics, stdin and stdout for the running program. Control Z and control D keys in stdin are honored. * Keyword values are now recorded just like variable values. * Bug fixes. An expression that evaluates to a function call was not handled correctly. CodeInvestigator is a tracing tool for Python programs. Running a program trough CodeInvestigator creates a recording. Program flow, function calls, variable values and conditions are all stored for every line the program executes. The recording is then viewed with an interface consisting of the code. The code can be clicked: A clicked variable displays its value, a clicked loop displays its iterations. You read code, and have at your disposal all the run time details of that code. A computerized desk check tool and another way to learn about your program. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=183942

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Febrl 0.4 released
by Peter Christen 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Canberra, 11 November 2007 The ANU Data Mining Group is pleased to announce the release of Febrl 0.4, a Python based open source prototype data standardisation, record linkage and deduplication system. Febrl 0.4 includes a comprehensive graphical user interface (GUI) based on PyGTK. This will facilitate record linkage for users that have no experience in the Python programming language. Febrl 0.4 contains many new field comparison functions, several new indexing (blocking) techniques and novel classification approaches. All Febrl modules have been re-designed, improved, and updated to take advantage of new features made available in Python version 2.5. Febrl is available under a free, open source license, which we hope will encourage others to contribute to its further development and support. Contact details, background information and research papers and presentations are all available from the project Web site at: http://datamining.anu.edu.au/linkage.html while the Febrl 0.4 code and documentation can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/febrl For the Febrl team, Peter Christen -- =============================================== Dr Peter Christen Senior Lecturer / Graduate Advisor Department of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building (108), North Road The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 5690 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Christen CRICOS Provider #00120C

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TkinterTreectrl v. 0.8 released
by klappnase 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hello, there is an updated version of the Tkinter wrapper of the tktreectrl widget available at : http://klappnase.bubble.org/TkinterTreectrl/index.html The treectrl widget allows to create fancy things like sortable multi column listboxes and hierarchical tree views. An impressive set of screenshots of things you can do with treectrl can be found at the treectrl project page : http://tktreectrl.sourceforge.net . The TkinterTreectrl package makes this functionality available for Python/Tkinter. Best regards Michael

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Only one week left for PyCon proposals!
by David Goodger 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

There is only one week left for PyCon tutorial & scheduled talk proposals. If you've been thinking about making a proposal, now's the time! Tutorial details and instructions here: http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/proposals/ Scheduled talk details and instructions here: http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/proposals/ The deadline is Friday, November 16. Don't put it off any longer! PyCon 2008: http://us.pycon.org -- David Goodger PyCon 2008 Chair

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New Python User Group (Arkansas, USA)
by Greg Lindstrom 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

We are pleased to announce a Python User Group is forming in Arkansas (USA). The Python ARtists of ARkansas, or PyAR^2 is being created to promote the use of all things Python in the Natural State. While our initial intentions are to concentrate on education, we are open to all ideas. If you live in or near Arkansas, we invite you to join our mailing list at http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyar2 and look for meetings to start early next year. --greg

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[ANN] Release 0.66.2 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi, Release 0.66.2 of Task Coach is a quick bug fix release to address one critical bug introduced in the previous release: * Task Coach crashes when refreshing the tree viewer. 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://www.taskcoach.org In addition to the source distribution, packaged distributions are available for Windows XP/Vista, Mac OSX, and Linux (Debian and RPM format). 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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PyCon 2008 - Call for Tutorials
by Greg Lindstrom 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Still thinking of presenting a tutorial at PyCon 2008 in Chicago? "Tutorial Day" is March 13th offering 1/2 day classes on just about any topic Python. It's a great way to help others in the community learn more about Python and you get paid ($1000.00 cash money + conference registration; not a bad gig!). We have a number of proposals already but want more ideas. The more topics we can offer the better the conference will be for everyone. - Testing - "Intermediate" Python - Working with Databases - Documentation - Object Oriented Python - Web Development - Anything Else (just about) Anything is up for consideration. Pop on over to http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/proposals/ for more information or submit your idea to pycon-tutorials(a)python.org. Thanks! Greg Lindstrom Tutorial Coordinator, PyCon 2008 (Chicago)

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ANN: pyglet 1.0beta1
by Alex Holkner 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Greetings I am pleased to announce the first public beta of pyglet, a cross-platform windowing and multimedia package useful for developing games and other visually-rich applications. http://www.pyglet.org pyglet is written entirely in Python, with no external requirements needed to develop applications for Windows XP, Mac OS X or Linux. pyglet allows applications to open any number of top-level windows and draw into them using the OpenGL API. Multiple-monitor setups are well-supported. Applications using pyglet can also play sound and music samples in surround-sound, taking advantage of hardware acceleration where available. With the addition of a single DLL based on FFmpeg, applications can read compressed sound and video in many formats. pyglet is provided under the BSD open-source license, allowing you to use it for both commercial and other open-source projects with very little restriction. Cheers, Alex.

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itools 0.16.10 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

itools is a Python library, it groups a number of packages into a single meta-package for easier development and deployment: itools.catalog itools.i18n itools.uri itools.cms itools.ical itools.vfs itools.csv itools.odf itools.web itools.datatypes itools.pdf itools.workflow itools.gettext itools.rest itools.xhtml itools.git itools.rss itools.xliff itools.handlers itools.schemas itools.xml itools.html itools.stl itools.http itools.tmx The big news this release is that itools has been downgraded to Python 2.4; so now itools works with both Python 2.4 and 2.5. (Rationale: we need to use itools with Zope [1] from time to time, and Zope does not work with Python 2.5). For the first time we make binary releases for the Windows [2] platform. There are two Windows installers, one for Python 2.4 and the other for Python 2.5. We have a new package, "itools.git", which offers the beginning of a Python programming interface for GIT [3]. There is a new script that makes some simple statistics about Python source code: "isetup-quality.py". There is a little change to the API, the search interface for CSV and iCal handlers now behaves like the catalog. There have been also some minor fixes and user interface improvements to the CMS, including #107, #128, #131, #133, #134, #135, #136 and #142. [1] http://www.zope.org/ [2] http://www.microsoft.com/windows/default.mspx [3] http://git.or.cz/ Credits: Luis Belmar-Letelier Hervé Cauwelier Nicolas Deram J. David Ibáñez Henry Obein Sylvain Taverne David Versmisse Resources --------- Download http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.16.10.tar.gz http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.16.10.win32-py2.5.exe http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.16.10.win32-py2.4.exe 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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