Mailman 3 February 2007 - Python-announce-list

Regular Toronto Python User's Group (PyGTA) meeting this Tuesday
by Mike C. Fletcher 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

As usual we will be holding our PyGTA meeting at the cool and funky Linux Caffe, located at the corner of Grace and Harbord Streets in downtown Toronto. This month's talk will be presented by our own Clifford Ilkay of Dinamis Corporation on using the Django web framework. A framework that Guido himself has described as "Pythonic" and which has a reasonably large and devoted following in the Python web framework ecosystem. As usual we will begin gathering, picking up delicious drinks and socialising around 6:30 pm, with the formal part of the meeting starting at 7:00pm. We'll head out for beer, ice cream and what have you around 8:30 or 9:00. Maps and the like available on the wiki: http://web.engcorp.com/pygta/wiki/NextMeeting Have fun all, Mike -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

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ANN: EasyDialogs for Windows version 46691.0
by Jimmy Retzlaff 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

EasyDialogs for Windows is available at: http://www.averdevelopment.com/python/ EasyDialogs for Windows is a ctypes based emulation of the EasyDialogs module included in the Python distribution for Mac. It attempts to be as compatible as possible. Code using the Mac EasyDialogs module can often be run unchanged on Windows using this module. The module has been tested on Python 2.3 running on Windows NT, 98, XP, and 2003. EasyDialogs is written in pure Python using Thomas Heller's ctypes module to call Windows APIs directly. No Python GUI toolkit is used. This means that relatively small distributions can be made with py2exe (or its equivalents). A simple test of all the dialogs in EasyDialogs bundled up using py2exe results in a distribution that is about 1.25MB. Using py2exe in concert with NSIS as shown here allows the same test to run as a single file executable that is just under 500KB. Requires: Microsoft Windows, Python 2.3 or higher, and ctypes 0.6.3 or higher (ctypes is included with Python 2.5 and higher, so it is not a separate requirement there). License: MIT Change history: Version 46691.0 - Fixed a bug that caused warnings with newer version of ctypes (including the version included in Python 2.5) - The edit box in AskString now scrolls horizontally if the entered text does not otherwise fit - AskFileForOpen(multiple=True) will allow multiple files to be selected and a list of strings will be returned. If multiple is False (the default if not specified) then only a single file can be selected and a string is returned. This no longer seems to work on the Mac, but it's useful enough to add it to the Windows version anyway. This change is based on a patch contributed by Waldemar Osuch. - Made minor changes to bring inline with SVN revision 46691 for Mac Version 1.16.0 - Removed resource DLL, resources are now in a Python source file which simplifies distribution of apps with py2exe - Spelling corrections - File open/save dialogs did not display on Windows 98 - AskString edit boxes were too short on Windows 98 - Improved display of drop down lists on Windows 98 and NT - Made minor changes to bring inline with CVS version 1.16 for Mac Version 1.14.0 - Initial public release Jimmy

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Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.3.3
by Richard Jones 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

I'm proud to release version 1.3.3 of Roundup. Fixed in 1.3.3: - If-Modified-Since handling was broken - Updated documentation for customising hard-coded searches in page.html - Updated Windows installation docs (thanks Bo Berglund) - Handle rounding of seconds generating invalid date values - Handle 8-bit untranslateable messages from database properties - Fix scripts/roundup-reminder date calculation (sf bug 1649979) - Improved due_date and timelog customisation docs (sf bug 1625124) New Features in 1.3.0: - WSGI support via roundup.cgi.wsgi_handler If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.3 or later for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: roundup-demo Release info and download page: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and five database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, metakit, mysql and postgresql).

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ANN: java2python 0.1
by Troy Melhase 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

java2python - Java to Python Source Code Translator --------------------------------------------------- java2python 0.1 Released 14 February 2007 What is java2python? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ java2python is a simple but effective tool to translate Java source code into Python source code. It's not perfect, and does not aspire to be. Where can I get java2python? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ java2python is available for download from Google code: http://code.google.com/p/java2python/downloads/list Project page: http://code.google.com/p/java2python/ How do I use java2python? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Like this: $ j2py -i input_file.java -o output_file.py The command has many options, and supports customization via multiple configuration modules. What are the requirements? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ java2python requires Python 2.5 or newer. Previous versions may or may not work. java2python requires ANTLR and PyANTLR to translate code, but translated code does not require ANTLR. What else? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ java2python is installed with distutils. Refer to the Python distutils documentation for more information. The digest version is: $ tar xzf java2python-0.1.tar.gz $ cd java2python-0.1 $ python setup.py install java2python is licensed under the GNU General Public License 2.0. No license is assumed of (or applied to) translated source. I'm very interested in your experience with java2python. Please drop me an note with any feedback you have. Troy Melhase mailto:troy@gci.net

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ANN: Porcupine Web Application Server 0.0.9 released
by t.koutsovassilis＠gmail.com 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

The inno:script team announces the new release of Porcupine server. This release introduces remarkable new features on the server side including a configurable in-memory object cache and a new post- processing filter for easy output i18n. Due to the method decorators used, Porcupine is no longer compatible with Python 2.3. We also recommend sub-classing the new type of QuiX servlet (XULSimpleTemplateServlet) instead of the primitive XULServlet class. The new type takes advantage of the new Python "string.Template" module, resulting in simpler and more readable QuiX templates. By default, the object cache is configured for keeping up to 500 objects. You can change this setting by editing the main Porcupine configuration file. Also keep in mind that each post processing filter is now declared as a child node of its registration node. See the store registrations file "store.xml" as a usage guideline. On the browser side, QuiX adds minor improvements to better support Internet Explorer 7 but also includes many minor bug fixes. Last but not least, the rendering performance is greatly improved by minimizing the number of redraws required when drawing new interfaces from XML. As a side effect of this optimization, you might need an extra call to the "redraw" method of some of your dynamically added widgets in order to have them displayed correctly. Enjoy. Resources ========= What is Porcupine? http://www.innoscript.org/content/view/30/42/ Porcupine Downloads: http://www.innoscript.org/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,33/func,se… Porcupine online demo: http://www.innoscript.org/content/view/21/43/ Porcupine Wiki: http://wiki.innoscript.org

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ANN: Pygments 0.7 "Faschingskrapfn" released
by Georg Brandl 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

I'm very pleased to announce the third public release of Pygments, the generic Python syntax highlighter. Download it from <http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Pygments>, or look at the demonstration at <http://pygments.org/demo>. News ---- The new features since 0.6 include: * New lexers for * OCaml * Dylan * Java Server Pages * Windows batch files * Trac Wiki markup * Python tracebacks * ReStructuredText * sources.list * Mako templates * and the Befunge esoteric programming language (yay!) * Token stream filters, which can e.g. highlight certain names or code tags. * An HTML formatter that is easily subclassable. * An option to control the command prefix for the LaTeX formatter. * A MoinMoin parser plugin to easily get Pygments highlighting in Moin. * ... and many little changes and fixes that are listed in the detailed changelog. About ----- Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software such as forum systems, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code. Highlights are: * a wide range of common languages and markup formats is supported * special attention is paid to details increasing quality by a fair amount * support for new languages and formats are added easily * a number of output formats is available, presently HTML, LaTeX, RTF and ANSI sequences * it is usable as a command-line tool and as a library * ... and it highlights even Brainf*ck! The home page is at <http://pygments.org>. Read more in the FAQ list <http://pygments.org/faq> or look at the documentation <http://pygments.org/docs>. regards and happy Valentine's day, Georg

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py lib 0.9.0: py.test, distributed execution, microthreads ...
by holger krekel 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

py lib 0.9.0: py.test, distributed execution, greenlets and more ====================================================================== Welcome to the 0.9.0 py lib release - a library aiming to support agile and test-driven python development on various levels. Main API/Tool Features: * py.test: cross-project testing tool with many advanced features * py.execnet: ad-hoc code distribution to SSH, Socket and local sub processes * py.magic.greenlet: micro-threads on standard CPython ("stackless-light") * py.path: path abstractions over local and subversion files * rich documentation of py's exported API * tested against Linux, OSX and partly against Win32, python 2.3-2.5 All these features and their API have extensive documentation, generated with the new "apigen", which we intend to make accessible for other python projects as well. Download/Install: http://codespeak.net/py/0.9.0/download.html Documentation/API: http://codespeak.net/py/0.9.0/index.html Work on the py lib has been partially funded by the European Union IST programme and by http://merlinux.de within the PyPy project. best, have fun and let us know what you think! Holger Krekel, Maciej Fijalkowski, Guido Wesdorp, Carl Friedrich Bolz

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Wing IDE 2.1.4 Released
by Wingware Announce 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Hi, I'm happy to announce version 2.1.4 of Wing IDE, an integrated development environment for the Python programming language. This is a bug fix release that among other things fixes handling of UTF-8 byte order marks, improves auto-completion for PyQt 4, reports exceptions correctly in Python < 2.2, fixes some problems with Subversion 1.4, does better adaptive scrolling on OS X, and displays menus correctly in Hebrew locales. The release can be downloaded from: http://wingware.com/downloads A detailed list of all changes is available here: http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/2.1.4/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: https://wingware.com/store/purchase Sincerely, The Wingware Team

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Hamburg Python Meetup Group
by Helge Stahlmann 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

+++++ Hamburg Python Meetup Group +++++ I am pleased to announce a new Python Users Group for folks in and near Hamburg, Germany: The Hamburg Python Meetup Group. It is your chance to meet other local Python Programming Language enthusiasts! Our first meeting is scheduled for March, 8th 2007 at 7:00pm Meetings are on the second Thursday of each month. If you're interested in learning more, please visit our website at http://python.meetup.com/179/ Helge Additional links: RSS Newsfeed: feed://www.meetup.com/rss/g/python/179/new/ Group Calendar RSS: feed://python.meetup.com/179/calendar/rss/The+Hamburg+Python+Meetup+Group/ iCal: webcal://python.meetup.com/179/calendar/ical/The+Hamburg+Python+Meetup+Grou…

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TayLayout 00.00.16
by daftspaniel＠gmail.com 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

TayLayout 00.00.16 Layout and Controls helpers for rapid and dynamic IronPython WinForms GUIs. http://code.google.com/p/taylayout/ This is a small release of TayLayout with a few new handy classes. LDForm, LDPrompt and LDDialog provide a few more helpers and the main layout code has an important tweak.

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