Mailman 3 March 2007 - Python-announce-list

cx_Oracle 4.3
by Anthony Tuininga March 8, 2007

March 8, 2007

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 preliminary support for fetching Oracle objects (SQL types) as requested by Kristof Beyls (who kindly provided an initial patch). Additional work needs to be done to support binding and updating objects but the basic structure is now in place. 2) Added connection.maxBytesPerCharacter which indicates the maximum number of bytes each character can use; use this value to also determine the size of local buffers in order to handle discrepancies between the client character set and the server character set. Thanks to Andreas Mock for providing the initial patch and working with me to resolve this issue. 3) Added support for querying native floats in Oracle 10g as requested by Danny Boxhoorn. 4) Add support for temporary LOB variables created via PL/SQL instead of only directly by cx_Oracle; thanks to Henning von Bargen for discovering this problem. 5) Added support for specifying variable types using the builtin types int, float, str and datetime.date which allows for finer control of what type of Python object is returned from cursor.callfunc() for example. 6) Added support for passing booleans to callproc() and callfunc() as requested by Anana Aiyer. 7) Fixed support for 64-bit environments in Python 2.5. 8) Thanks to Filip Ballegeer and a number of his co-workers, an intermittent crash was tracked down; specifically, if a connection is closed, then the call to OCIStmtRelease() will free memory twice. Preventing the call when the connection is closed solves the problem. Anthony Tuininga

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cx_Logging 1.3
by Anthony Tuininga March 7, 2007

March 7, 2007

(Oops. I sent the first message without changing the subject so I got the wrong version). What is cx_Logging? cx_Logging is a Python extension module which operates in a fashion similar to the logging module that ships with Python 2.3 and higher. It also has a C interface which allows applications to perform logging independently of Python. Where do I get it? http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining What's new? 1) Fixed support for importing in Python 2.5 on Windows. The module now uses the .pyd extension instead of the .dll extension since support for importing modules with the .dll extension was removed in Python 2.5. 2) Added support for 64-bit Python installations, particularly in Python 2.5. Anthony Tuininga

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MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment 1.1
by bvdp＠xplornet.com March 7, 2007

March 7, 2007

Version 1.1 of MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - is now available for downloading. Included in this release: Addition of ARIA tracks for auto-generated melodies, Fixed solo/harmony volumes, Chord fixes, New commands: NEWSET, DOCVAR, GROOVECLEAR, -0 sync command line switch, Many library additions/enhancements, Minor bug fixes. MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details please visit: http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bob(a)mellowood.ca

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ANN: pinder 0.5.0
by Lawrence Oluyede March 7, 2007

March 7, 2007

Pinder is a straightforward API to interface with Campfire <http:// www.campfirenow.com>, the web chat application from 37Signals. Pinder allows you to create rooms, delete them, speak from a remote client and more. For example: >>> room = campfire.find_room_by_name('Jonz Room') >>> print room.users() set([u'Alice']) or >>> print campfire.users() set([u'Alice', u'Bob']) which gets the list of the users talking in each room of the subdomain. >>> room.speak("Foobar") will send the message to the chat room so you can speak too. There's more like creating and deleting rooms, toggling guest access, locking the room etc. See the usage documentation <http://dev.oluyede.org/pinder/doc.html> and the API documentation <http://dev.oluyede.org/pinder/api/> for details. You can install the latest release with: $ easy_install pinder or download from here: http://dev.oluyede.org/download/pinder/ This is the first public release.

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ANN: pyftpdlib 0.1.1
by billiejoex March 7, 2007

March 7, 2007

Changed in version 0.1.1 ================== * port selection on PASV command has been randomized (this to prevent a remote user to know how many data connections are in progress on the server). * fixed bug in demo/unix_ftpd.py script. * ftpd automatically re-use address if current system is unix. * license changed into a MIT style one. About ===== pyftpdlib is an high-level FTP server library based on asyncore/ asychat frameworks. pyftpdlib is actually the most complete RFC959 FTP server implementation available for Python programming language. Requirements ========== Python 2.2 or higher Bug reports / Contacts ================ billiejoex -_[AT]_- gmail (dot) com

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ANN: twill 0.9b1 released
by Titus Brown March 6, 2007

March 6, 2007

ANNOUNCING twill v0.9b1. twill is a simple language for browsing the Web. It's designed for automated testing of Web sites, but it can be used to interact with Web sites in a variety of ways. In particular, twill supports form submission, cookies, redirects, and HTTP authentication. This release of twill is officially "Pretty Dang Stable". A twill script to use the "I'm feeling lucky" button on Google looks like this: setlocal query "twill Python" go http://www.google.com/ fv 1 q $query submit btnI # use the "I'm feeling lucky" button show (Note that using this script abuses Google's Terms of Service. So don't.) You can install the latest release of twill with easy_install, easy_install twill or download this release at http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-0.9b1.tar.gz Documentation is included in the .tar.gz and is also online at http://twill.idyll.org/ Miscellaneous details: twill is implemented in Python and uses pyparsing and mechanize. In addition to the existing simple command language, twill can easily be extended with Python. twill also provides a fairly simple and well-documented wrapper around mechanize. twill does not understand JavaScript, I'm sorry to say. --- Significant changes with 0.9b1 * Switched to MIT license. * twill tests now work under Windows and cygwin (switch to subprocess). Fixed a variety of Windows-specific bugs in the process ;). * Complete integration with latest mechanize, including global form access. * Added Seo Sanghyeon's patch to enable form element TAB completion on 'formvalue' command. * twill-sh now gathers scripts from subdirectories. * Added paste.lint test into wsgi_intercept test code. * Cleared up confusing test output when test server didn't run. * Started using the BeautifulSoup code included with mechanize. * Added TWILL_TEST_PORT for running tests on something other than port 8080. * Added Andy Chamber's patch to the formfill extension module. * Fixed DNS tests to be reliant on name records I control. * Removed ClientCookie dependencies. * Defended my PhD. * Added newline '\n' processing in arguments.

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ANN pyftpdlib 0.1 released
by billie March 5, 2007

March 5, 2007

Hi all, I'm proud to announce the first beta release of pyftpdlib available at the following urls: home: http://billiejoex.altervista.org/pyftpdlib.html google code: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/ About ===== pyftpdlib is an high-level FTP server library based on asyncore/ asychat frameworks. pyftpdlib is actually the most complete RFC959 FTP server implementation available for Python programming language. Requirements ========== Python 2.2 or higher Bug reports / Contacts ================ billiejoex -_[AT]_- gmail (dot) com

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Pythomnic 4.0 - platform for building reliable network services in Python
by dmitry＠targeted.org March 5, 2007

March 5, 2007

Pythomnic is a platform for building non-stop middleware around a set of network services. It allows changing source code and configuration on the fly without interrupting the live service. Pythomnic modules can be invisibly migrated from one server to another for redundancy or load balancing. Such middleware can take as much business logic as necessary, from being a simple adapter to an integration platform. New in version 4.0: * Support for SOAP * Support for Oracle * Support for reliable communications channel between services with message passing semantics * Persistent module storage has been made much more reliable by using BerkeleyDB write-ahead logs + More documentation Improved in version 4.0: * Improved support for JMS * Improved shutdown process http://www.pythomnic.org/

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announcing: "testing-in-python" mailing list
by Titus Brown March 3, 2007

March 3, 2007

Folks, catalyzed by the great fun we had at PyCon '07, Grig Gheorghiu and I have created the "testing-in-python" (or "TIP") mailing list. This list will hopefully serve as a forum for discussing Python testing tools, testing approaches useful in Python, Web resources for same, and whatever else people would like to talk about. ("Proposed: The Death Star would not have had a single point of failure had it been written in Python and tested with the Death Star Testing Protocol Tool. Discuss.") Grig has a blog post about the list here: http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2007/02/testing-in-python-mailing-list.html You can sign up for the [mailman] list here: http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python Subscribers can post to the list at 'tip(a)lists.idyll.org'. List archives are available here: http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/ cheers, --titus

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Elixir 0.2.0 released!
by Gaetan de Menten March 2, 2007

March 2, 2007

We are pleased to announce that the second release of Elixir (http://elixir.ematia.de) is now available. We hope you'll enjoy it. Highlights for this release ------------------------------------- - Implemented singletable non-polymorphic inheritance - Added support to pass non-keyword arguments to tables. - Added support for deferred columns - Look at the calling stack frame to ensure that we apply statements to the proper class. We now attach the statement list to the class itself, rather than attaching it to a global list that is neither threadsafe, nor safe when doing nested class definition. - Fixed foreign key names on MySQL (and possibly other) databases by making sure the generated name is unique for the whole database, and not only for the table on which it applies. - Applied patch from Robin Munn to make the code python 2.3 compatible The full list of changes can be seen at: http://elixir.ematia.de/svn/elixir/tags/0.2.0/CHANGES What is Elixir? --------------------- Elixir is a declarative layer on top of SQLAlchemy. It is a fairly thin wrapper, which provides the ability to define model objects following the Active Record design pattern, and using a DSL syntax similar to that of the Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord system. Elixir does not intend to replace SQLAlchemy's core features, but instead focuses on providing a simpler syntax for defining model objects when you do not need the full expressiveness of SQLAlchemy's manual mapper definitions. Mailing list ---------------- sqlelixir(a)googlegroups.com -- Gaëtan de Menten http://openhex.org

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wxTayLayout 00.00.12 i
by daftspaniel＠gmail.com March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007

wxTayLayout 00.00.12 is now available for download! This brings the wxPython version of TayLayout very close to feature parity with the IronPython version. Just compound controls to go (e.g. File browser, colour picker). http://code.google.com/p/taylayout/downloads/list Thanks, Davy

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Pydev 1.2.8 Released
by Fabio Zadrozny March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007

Hi All, Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.2.8 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: when a compare statement is found out of a test scope, that's reported as a warning * Mark Occurrences: new option to choose whether strings and comments should be highlighted * Simple Completions: some keywords were removed from the default list (the 2-letter ones because they're barely worth it and those related to 'try', as there's already an assistant that creates 'try' blocks) * Rename refactoring / Mark Occurrences: matches in multi-line strings are now correct Release Highlights in Pydev: ---------------------------------------------- * Refactoring: integration of the PEPTIC refactoring engine * Package Explorer: many fixes (special thanks for Don Taylor for the bug reports) * Debugger: a number of small optimizations * Code-completion: works in emacs mode * Code-completion: added the possibility of auto-completing for all letter chars and '_' (so, it starts completing once you start writing) * Code-completion: code-completion for epydoc inside strings * Code-completion: assigns after global statement considered added to the global namespace * Code-completion: now works when a class is declared in a nested scope * Code-completion: if multiple assigns are found to some variable, the completion will be a merge of them * Code-completion: functions are analyzed for their return values for code-completion purposes * Code-completion: working on multi-line imports * Code-completion: can discover instance variables not declared in the class (in the scope where the class was instanced) * Auto-edit: adds 'self', 'cls' or no parameter based on the @clasmethod, @staticmethod declaration on previous line * Auto-edit: doesn't add 'self' if a method is declared in a method inner scope * Fix: BRM Refactoring: wrong column was being passed to the BRM refactoring engine * Code-folding: added for comments and strings * Fix: sometimes the 'create docstring' assistant was not recognizing method definitons 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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[ANN] pylint 0.13 / astng 0.17
by Sylvain Thénault March 1, 2007

March 1, 2007

Hi there! I'm very pleased to announce new releases of pylint (0.13) and its underlying library astng (0.17). The PyLint release contains a bunch of bugs fixes, some new checks and command line changes, and a new checker dedicated to Restricted Python checking. If this doesn't sound familiar to you, visit the PyPy_ project web site for more information. The astng release contains a lot of inference fixes and enhancement, so even if pylint should still works with the old version you're strongly encouraged to upgrade. .. _PyPy: http://codespeak.net/pypy/ 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/project/name/pylint http://www.logilab.org/project/name/logilab-astng Download -------- ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/pylint ftp://ftp.logilab.org/pub/astng Mailing list ------------ mailto://python-projects@logilab.org Enjoy ! -- 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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