Mailman 3 August 2007 - Python-announce-list

ANN: CherryPy 3.0.2
by Christian Wyglendowski 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

CherryPy 3.0.2 was released last week. It incorporates a few bug fixes that were discovered since 3.0.1. The release can be downloaded at the following URL and is also available on PyPI: http://cherrypy.org/wiki/CherryPyDownload See the list of changes here: http://cherrypy.org/log/branches/cherrypy-3.0.x?action=stop_on_copy&rev=168… Thanks to everyone who submitted the tickets detailing these issues and for those who contributed code to fix the problems. Christian Wyglendowski CherryPy Team

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Compyler 0.1
by Grant Olson 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Compyler is a pre-alpha x86 native code compiler. So far it can generate primitive .pyds but not standalone executables. It can run some simple test cases including pystones (although there is a memory leak there). And no, I don't expect it'll ever be much faster than Cpython <wink>. I was primarily interested in being able to distribute low-footprint standalone executables written in python and code obfustication. The basic approach taken by compyler is to transliterate python bytecode into x86 assembly, instead of trying to generate assembly from the syntax tree. This is basically abandonware. I haven't touched this in six months, but did do a lot of up front work. I basically wanted to release it before my hardrive blows up in case anyone was looking for prior art. The code also contains a version of pyasm that has some more patches and features than the official distribution if you're one of pyasm's 3 users. More info can be found at: http://members.verizon.net/~olsongt/compyler/index.html -Grant

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Leo 4.4.4 beta 1 released
by Edward K Ream 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Leo 4.4.4 beta 1 is available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html The highlights of Leo 4.4.4: ---------------------------- - A threading_colorizer plugin replaces the __jEdit_colorizer__ plugin. This plugin features much better performance. - Support for @auto nodes. Such nodes allow people to collaborate using Leo without inserting Leo sentinels in the files Leo generates. Links: ------ Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 CVS: http://leo.tigris.org/source/browse/leo/ Quotes: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/testimonials.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward K. Ream email: edreamleo(a)yahoo.com Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html --------------------------------------------------------------------

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ANN: pydf 5
by garabik-news-2005-05＠kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

This is pydf, version 5. pydf is a command line application that displays the amount of used and available space on your filesystems, just like df, but in colours. The output format is customizable. Pydf was written and works on Linux, but should work also on other modern UNIX systems (including MacOSX). URL: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/pydf/ License: public domain Changes since the last version: - add a configurable option to stretch the output, if the screen is wider than the output width - fill the bar with configurable character, not just space -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, August 14, 2007, 08:00pm
by Mike Müller 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, August 14 at 08:00pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ). Our topic will be the preparation of the workshop (http://www.python-academy.de/workshop/index.html). Food and soft drinks are provided. Please send a short confirmation mail to info(a)python-academy.de, so we can prepare appropriately. Everybody who uses Python, plans to do so or is interested in learning more about the language is encouraged to participate. While the meeting language will be mainly German, we will provide English translation if needed. Current information about the meetings are at http://www.python-academy.com/user-group . Mike == Leipzig Python User Group === Wir treffen uns am Dienstag, 14.08.2007 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). Wir werden uns mit der Vorbereitung des Workshops (http://www.python-academy.de/workshop/index.html) beschäftigen. Für das leibliche Wohl wird gesorgt. Eine Anmeldung unter info(a)python-academy.de wäre nett, damit wir genug Essen besorgen können. Willkommen ist jeder, der Interesse an Python hat, die Sprache bereits nutzt oder nutzen möchte. Aktuelle Informationen zu den Treffen sind unter http://www.python-academy.de/User-Group zu finden. Viele Grüße Mike

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ANN: PyMTP 0.0.2 released!
by nick 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Hello, After several weeks of putting a lot of sweat and tears into this release, I proudly announce the release of PyMTP 0.0.2. This release includes some neat stuff, including: * New track sending function * New playlist functions * New folder functions * Callbacks added to get_*metadata() functions ...and many other smaller changes. Here's where to grab your own copy: http://nick125.com/smedia/pymtp/pymtp-0.0.2.tar.bz2 The documentation is no longer included with the distribution, but, it's easely generated using epydoc. If you have any comments, feel free to send me an email. Thanks for your attention :-) Nick nick(a)nick125.com

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[ANN] Storm 0.10
by Christopher Armstrong 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

I'm pleased to announce the 0.10 release of Storm, the Python object-relational mapper. Web site: http://storm.canonical.com/ Downloads: https://launchpad.net/storm/+download Cheeseshop: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/storm/0.10 Thanks go to Gustavo Niemeyer, Johan Dahlin, Elliot Murphy, Bjørn Stabell, Duncan McGreggor, Thomas Herve, Michel Pelletier, Jamu Kakar, and everyone else who has had a part in this release (in case I missed anybody). This release has various feature enhancements and bug fixes. Detailed changes follow. Improvements ------------ - Improvements were made to the tutorial. - There is now a setup.py script for installing Storm. - Count and ClassAlias is now available through the storm.locals module. - A new hook, __storm_pre_flush__, can be implemented on objects in a Store. It is called before an object is flushed to the database. - Storm can now use the built-in sqlite support in Python 2.5 and above. - There is now a storm.properties.Decimal, which allows you to store Decimal (as opposed to binary) floating point values. - storm.zope was added, which offers a simple integration mechanism with the Zope transaction machinery. - Complex expressions other than simple Columns can now be passed to the aggregation methods of ResultSet (avg,max,min,sum). - Backend implementors can now override preset_primary_key on their Database object to come up with primary key values before an Insert. - A large amount of API documentation was added. Bug fixes --------- - SQL reserved words are now properly escaped in SQL statements. - GROUP BY and ORDER BY statements are now ordered correctly. - Running the tests with trial now works. - All backends are now initialized such that their transactions are truly SERIALIZABLE. Psycopg2 and Pysqlite2 both did not previously have serializable transactions by default, but this has been fixed. - A bug in ResultSet.cached which could occasionally cause inconsistencies in ResultSet.set was fixed. API Changes ----------- Most changes are backwards compatible. There were some incompatible changes which may affect alternative database backends. - Chars was renamed to RawStr. Chars still exists, but is deprecated. All raw 8-bit data in your database should be represented with RawStr. - compiler handlers have had their arguments reordered. - The Compile.__call__ method now returns only the Statement. - Compile.fork was renamed to Compile.create_child. - Many methods which previously had underscores were renamed to get rid of the underscores to reflect their status as things which can be safely touched in subclasses. Documentation was added clarifying their intended use. -- Christopher Armstrong International Man of Twistery http://radix.twistedmatrix.com/ http://twistedmatrix.com/ http://canonical.com/

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ceODBC 1.1
by Anthony Tuininga 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

What is ceODBC? ceODBC is a Python extension module that enables access to databases using the ODBC API and conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a few additions. I have tested this on Windows against SQL Server, Access, dBASE and Oracle. On Linux I have tested this against PostgreSQL. Where do I get it? http://ceodbc.sourceforge.net What's new? 1) Added support for determining the columns, column privileges, foreign keys, primary keys, procedures, procedure columns, tables and table privileges available in the catalog as requested by Dmitry Selitsky. 2) Added support for getting/setting the autocommit flag for connections. 3) Added support for getting/setting the cursor name which is useful for performing positioned updates and deletes (as in delete from X where current of cursorname). 4) Explicitly set end of rows when SQL_NO_DATA is returned from SQLFetch() as some drivers do not properly set the number of rows fetched. Anthony

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ANN: PyQwt3D-0.1.6
by Gerard Vermeulen 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

What is PyQwt3D ( http://pyqwt3d.sourceforge.net) ? - it is a set of Python bindings for the QwtPlot3D C++ class library which extends the Qt framework with widgets for 3D data visualization. PyQwt3D inherits the snappy feel from QwtPlot3D. The examples at http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net/pyqwt3d-examples.html show how easy it is to make a 3D plot and how to save a 3D plot to an image or an (E)PS/PDF/PGF/SVG file. - it requires and extends PyQt, a set of Python bindings for Qt. - it supports the use of PyQt, Qt, QwtPlot3D, and NumPy or SciPy in a GUI Python application or in an interactive Python session. - it runs on POSIX, Mac OS X and Windows platforms (practically any platform supported by Qt and Python). - it is licensed under the GPL with an exception to allow dynamic linking with non-free releases of Qt and PyQt. The home page of PyQwt3D is http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net. PyQwt3D-0.1.6 is a bug fix release: - Improved text display on screen and in pixmaps with Qt-4 and X (requires the use of the patched QwtPlot3D-0.2.7 library included in PyQwt3D). PyQwt3D-0.1.6 supports: 1. Python-2.5, or -2.4. 2. PyQt-4.3, -4.2, -4.1, or -3.17. 3. SIP-4.7, -4.6, or -4.5. 4. Qt-4.3, -4.2, Qt-3.3, or -3.2. 5. QwtPlot3D-0.2.7. Enjoy -- Gerard Vermeulen

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ANN: PyQwt3D-0.1.5 released
by Gerard Vermeulen 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

What is PyQwt3D ( http://pyqwt3d.sourceforge.net) ? - it is a set of Python bindings for the QwtPlot3D C++ class library which extends the Qt framework with widgets for 3D data visualization. PyQwt3D inherits the snappy feel from QwtPlot3D. The examples at http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net/pyqwt3d-examples.html show how easy it is to make a 3D plot and how to save a 3D plot to an image or an (E)PS/PDF/PGF/SVG file. - it requires and extends PyQt, a set of Python bindings for Qt. - it supports the use of PyQt, Qt, QwtPlot3D, and NumPy or SciPy in a GUI Python application or in an interactive Python session. - it runs on POSIX, Mac OS X and Windows platforms (practically any platform supported by Qt and Python). The home page of PyQwt3D is http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net. New features and bugfixes in PyQwt3D-0.1.5: - Added support for QwtPlot3D-0.2.7 - Added support for SIP-4.7, PyQt-4.3 and PyQt-3.17.3. - Added support for SVG and PGF vector output. - Added Qwt3D.save() to facilitate saving plots to a file. - Added Qwt3D.plot() to facilitate function plotting with nicely scaled axes. - Fixed the type of the result of IO.outputHandler(format). - Fixed saving to pixmap formats in qt4examples/Grab.py. PyQwt3D-0.1.5 supports: 1. Python-2.5, or -2.4. 2. PyQt-4.3, -4.2, -4.1, or -3.17. 3. SIP-4.7, -4.6, or -4.5. 4. Qt-4.3, -4.2, Qt-3.3, or -3.2. 5. QwtPlot3D-0.2.7. Enjoy -- Gerard Vermeulen

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