Mailman 3 September 2007 - Python-announce-list

Pydev 1.3.9 Released
by Fabio Zadrozny 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi All, Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.3.9 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: detects bad indentation (wrong number of indent chars). * Code-analysis: Class may be marked with '@DynamicAttrs' so that the code-analysis doesn't give undefined variable errors. See http://www.fabioz.com/pydev/manual_adv_code_analysis.html#Passing_info_to_c… more details. * Mark-Occurrences: Fix: a class that had a call would not be recognized sometimes. * Rename Refactoring: Fix: when different heuristics yielded the same result the text could become garbled. Release Highlights in Pydev: ---------------------------------------------- * Fixed problem when configuring jython * Patch from paulj: debbugger working with jython 2.2rc2 * Patch from Oskar Heck: debbugger can change globals * Added action to delete all .pyc / $py.class files * Added actions to add/remove the pydev configuration from a project (previously, the only way to add a nature was to open a python file within a project). * Ctrl+Shift+O: When used with a selection will consider lines ending with \ (without selection organizes imports) * Auto-add "import" string will not be added when adding a space in the case: from xxximport (just after from xxx) * Templates created with tabs (or spaces indent) are now converted to the indent being used in the editor * Hide non-pydev projects filter working * Don't show assignments/imports after if __name__ == '__main__': in outline * Code-completion: after a completion is requested, pressing '.' will apply that completion (and if it has parameters, they'll not be added). * Code-completion: when a code-completion is applied with Ctrl pressed (toggle mode), parameters are not added. * Assign to local variable/attribute handles constants correctly. * psyco changed for Null object for debug (so, no changes are required to the code if psyco is used while debugging). * Code-folding annotations won't change places. * Pydev package explorer will correctly show outline for files if the project root is set as a source folder. * Pydev package explorer: folders under the pythonpath have a package icon. * Unittest runner: handles multiple selection. 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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ANNOUNCE: Gaphor 0.12.2
by Arjan Molenaar 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi all, There were a few problems with installation of Gaphor from .tar.gz by easy_install. Those issues are fixed in the most recent Gaphor release: Gaphor 0.12.2 Now Gaphor should install on Python 2.5 as well (for 2.4 an Egg is used). Gaphor 0.12.0 ------------- - undo/redo fixes - allow to create packages in model tree - improved messages on communication diagrams - improved text align algorithms - tagged values can be reordered and removed (like class attributes and operations) - text entry used to on-diagram editing is much nicer, now Homepage: http://gaphor.devjavu.com Downloads: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/gaphor Installation instructions can be found at: http://gaphor.devjavu.com/wiki/Download Give it a try! Regards, Arjan

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alsaseq 0.1
by Patricio Paez 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi all, The first version of alsaseq, bindings to the ALSA sequencer has been released. alsaseq is a Python module that allows to interact with ALSA sequencer clients. It can create an ALSA client, connect to other clients, send and receive ALSA events immediately or at a scheduled time using a sequencer queue. It provides a subset of the ALSA sequencer capabilities in a simplified model. It is implemented in C language and licensed under the Gnu GPL license version 2 or later. Home http://pp.com.mx/python/alsaseq Download http://pp.com.mx/python/alsaseq/alsaseq-0.1.tar.gz Regards, Patricio Páez <pp(a)pp.com.mx> <P><A HREF="http://pp.com.mx/python/alsaseq">alsaseq 0.1</A> - bindings to the ALSA sequencer. (09-Sep-07)

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[ANN] Release 0.65.0 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

Hi, I'm pleased to announce release 0.65.0 of Task Coach. This release adds the ability to record notes, improves the flexibility of the different views, and fixes several bugs. Bugs fixed: * Made subject column resizable. * Enable export of data containing non-ASCII characters to CSV. * Don't activate another viewer when another application is minimized (Windows only). * Outlook 2003 email messages added as attachment couldn't be opened from Task Coach. * German translation had wrong menu accelerators. * Apply undo/redo/cut/copy/paste actions to text if a text control is visible and has focus (Mac OSX only) * Added a copy of the ElementTree package to the Task Coach source code, so the source code distribution of Task Coach works with Python 2.4, without needing to install ElementTree. Features added: * Notes. Notes have a subject and an optional description. Notes can be hierarchical, i.e. notes may contain subnotes. Notes can be sorted and searched (filtered), printed, and exported. This feature can be turned on or off via the preferences dialog. * Categories can be searched (filtered) using the search control on the toolbar. * Category sorting can be changed: ascending or descending, case sensitive or case insensitive. * Categories can have a description. * Each viewer/tab has its own settings for sort order and visible columns. Viewers can be renamed. This makes it possible to e.g. create a 'Todo today'. * The search control on the toolbar can (optionally) include subitems in the search result. This makes it easy to show one task and its subtasks in a task viewer or show effort for one task and its subtasks in an effort viewer. * Added a setting to start Task Coach iconized either always, never, or only when Task Coach was iconized when last quitted. * Added a setting to turn off spell checking (Mac OSX only). * Added (incomplete) translations in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Latvian and Polish. See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html for more information about translations and on how you can help. 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, 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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ANN: Load binary application into a BasiCard from Python
by hg 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

Hi, Based on the already released SCF, the code is there: http://snakecard.com/Source/Applications/SCF/Load_BC.zip. hg

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ANNOUNCE: Gaphor 0.12.0 and Gaphas 0.3.3
by Arjan Molenaar 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hi all, A new version of Gaphor, the UML modelling tool, has been released. - undo/redo fixes - allow to create packages in model tree - improved messages on communication diagrams - improved text align algorithms - tagged values can be reordered and removed (like class attributes and operations) - text entry used to on-diagram editing is much nicer, now In addition some minor fixes have been done on Gaphor's diagram canvas component: Gaphas, most notably better scrollbar behaviour. Homepage: http://gaphor.devjavu.com Downloads: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/gaphor http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/gaphas Installation instructions can be found at: http://gaphor.devjavu.com/wiki/Download Give it a try! Regards, Arjan

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itools 0.16.8 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '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.tmx itools.cms itools.ical itools.uri itools.csv itools.odf itools.vfs itools.datatypes itools.pdf itools.web itools.gettext itools.rest itools.workflow itools.handlers itools.rss itools.xhtml itools.html itools.schemas itools.xliff itools.http itools.stl itools.xml Virtual hosting support has been added to the itools.web and itools.cms packages. From a practical point of view, it is still strongly advised to deploy Apache or another Web Server in front of an itools Web or CMS instance; but the rewritten rule has been vastly simplified, so the cost of maintaining a production environment is sensibly lower. It also makes things easier in a development or testing environment. Further work has been done to improve the itools experience in the Windows platform. Specifically the behaviour of the "icms-start.py" and "icms-stop.py" scripts is now the same as of in a Unix-like system. The Issue Tracker (CMS) has been extended with new features, specially the possibility to change several bugs at once. The forms to insert images and links (HTML editor) are more intutive now. And the French translation has been updated. Several bugs have been fixed, most notably the HTML parser now correctly interprets elements like <li> that are missing their optional end tag. Other packages with minor fixes are itools.vfs and itools.xml. Credits: - Hervé Cauwelier updated the French translation; - Nicolas Deram worked on itools.cms; - J. David Ibáñez implemented virtual hosting and fixed bugs; - Henry Obein worked on itools.cms; - Sylvain Taverne worked on Windows and the tracker; Resources --------- Download http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.16.8.tar.gz 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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ANN: DocIndexer 0.9.0.0 released
by Stuart Rackham 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

DocIndexer is a document indexer toolkit that uses the PyLucene search engine for indexing and searching document files. DocIndexer includes command-line utilities, Python index and search classes plus a Win32 COM server that can be used to integrate indexing and searching into application software. The current version has parser support for Microsoft Word, HTML, PDF and plain text documents. 0.9 is the long overdue rewrite of 0.7 -- the Lupy search library has been replaced with PyLucene plus there are lots of new features along with significant performance increases. License ------- MIT URLs ---- Homepage: http://www.methods.co.nz/docindexer/ SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/docindexer/ Runtime Requisites ------------------ Win32: None (compiled binary distribution). Linux: Python 2.5, PyLucene 2. Cheers, Stuart --- Stuart Rackham

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Version 1.0 of mod_wsgi is now available.
by Graham Dumpleton 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Version 1.0 of mod_wsgi is now available. The software and documentation are both available from: http://www.modwsgi.org The mod_wsgi package consists of an Apache web server module designed and implemented specifically for hosting Python based web applications that support the WSGI interface specification. Examples of major Python web frameworks and applications which are known to work in conjunction with mod_wsgi include CherryPy, Django, MoinMoin, Pylons, Trac and TurboGears. Individual WSGI applications can be delegated to be run in 'embedded' mode, in the style of mod_python, or 'daemon' mode, in a style somewhat similar to that of mod_fastcgi. Embedded mode would generally be used where dedicated servers are available. This mode would allow the scalability and process management features of Apache to be fully utilised to achieve maximum performance for your application. Daemon mode would instead be used where applications need to be separated from each other and potentially run as distinct users. The module can be compiled for and used with either Apache 1.3, 2.0 or 2.2, although daemon mode is only available on Apache 2.0 or 2.2 when using UNIX. Either the single threaded 'prefork' or multithreaded 'worker' Apache MPMs can be safely used on UNIX. The module is written in C code directly against the internal Apache and Python application programming interfaces. As such, for hosting WSGI applications in conjunction with Apache it has a lower memory overhead and performs better than existing WSGI adapters for mod_python or alternative FASTCGI/SCGI/CGI based solutions. If you have any questions about mod_wsgi or wish to provide feedback, use the Google group for mod_wsgi found at: http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi Enjoy Graham Dumpleton

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ANN: cssutils 0.9.3a1
by Christof Hoeke 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

what is it ---------- A CSS Cascading Style Sheets library for Python. Partly implements the DOM Level 2 Style Stylesheets and CSS interfaces. An implementation of the WD CSS Module: Namespaces which has no official DOM yet is included since v0.9.1. changes since 0.9.2b4 --------------------- for full details see the relevant README file http://cssutils.googlecode.com/svn/tags/TAG_0.9.3a1/README.txt Lots of thanks to Walter Dörwald who had quite an influence on this release (thinking, helping, coding). from the README: - FEATURE: Implemented css.CSSValue, css.CSSPrimitiveValue and css.CSSValueList. Not yet implemented are: - css.CSSPrimitiveValue.getCounterValue and css. Counter - css.CSSPrimitiveValue.getRGBColorValue and css.RGBColor - css.CSSPrimitiveValue.getRectValue and css.Rect + FEATURE: css.CSSValueList is iterable so may be used in a for loop + FEATURE: CSSValue has property ``cssValueTypeString`` which is the name of the relevant ``cssValueType``, e.g. "CSS_PRIMITIVE_TYPE". Mainly useful for debugging. + FEATURE: CSSPrimitiveValue has property ``primitiveTypeString`` which is the name of the relevant ``primitiveType``, e.g. "CSS_PX". Mainly useful for debugging. + CSSValue has an init Parameter ``_propertyname`` to set a context property for validation. If none is set the value is always invalid. **THIS MAY CHANGE!** - FEATURE (**experimental**): CSSStyleDeclaration is iterable now. The iterator returns *all* properties set in this style as objects with properties ``name``, ``cssValue`` and ``priority``. Calling CSSStyleDeclaration.item(index) on the other hand simply returns a property name and also only the normalized name (once). Example:: sheet = cssutils.parseString('a { color: red; c\olor: blue; left: 0 !important }') for rule in sheet.cssRules: style = rule.style for property in style: name = property.name cssValue = property.cssValue priority = property.priority print name, '=', cssValue.cssText, priority # prints: # color = red # c\olor = blue # left = 0 !important for i in range(0, style.length): name = style.item(i) cssValue = style.getPropertyCSSValue(name) priority = style.getPropertyPriority(name) print name, '=', cssValue.cssText , priority # prints: # color = blue # left = 0 !important - FEATURE (**experimental**): added ``CSSStyleSheet.replaceUrls(replacer)`` which may be used to adjust all "url()" values in a style sheet (currently in CSSStyleDeclaration and CSSImportRules). - FEATURE: added ``CSSStyleDeclaration.getCssText(separator=None)`` which returns serialized property cssText, each property separated by given ``separator`` which may e.g. be u'' to be able to use cssText directly in an HTML style attribute. ";" is always part of each property (except the last one) and can **not** be set with separator! - FEATURE: ``href`` and ``media`` arguments can now be passed to ``parse()`` and ``parseString()`` functions and methods. This sets the appropriate attributes on the generated stylesheet objects. - FEATURE: CSSMediaRule has an init parameter ``mediaText`` synchronous to CSSImportRule now - FEATURE: The ``MediaList`` constructor can now be passed a list of media types. - FEATURE: ``CSSRule`` and subclasses have a property ``typeString`` which is the name of the relevant ``type``, e.g. ``STYLE_RULE``. Mainly useful for debugging. - FEATURE: ``cssutils.serialize.Preferences`` has a new option ``lineSeparator`` that is used as linefeed character(s). May also be set to ``u''`` for ``CSSStyleDeclareation.cssText'`` to be directly usable in e.g. HTML style attributes + API CHANGE (internal): renamed serializers method ``do_stylesheet`` to ``do_CSSStyleSheet`` - BUGFIX (issue #9): Parsing of empty ``url()`` values has been fixed - BUGFIX: Handling of linenumbers in the serializer has been fixed. - BUGFIX (minor): removed debug output in CSSStyleDeclaration + CHANGE (experimental!): CSSStyleDeclaration.getPropertyCSSValue() for shorthand properties like e.g. ``background`` should return None. cssutils returns a CSSValueList in these cases now. Use with care as this may change later + CHANGE: CSSValue default cssText is now ``u""`` and not ``u"inherit"`` anymore + CHANGE: ``css.CSSStyleDeclaration.cssText`` indents its property not anymore. + CHANGE: ``cssutils.serialize.CSSSerializer`` has been refactored internally to support the lineSeparator option. + CHANGE: The Selector and SameNamePropertyList (which might be renamed as it is experimental) class are now available from cssutils.css too. + CHANGE: Tokenizer strips HTML comment tokens CDO and CDC from tokenlist now. + CHANGE: Added __repr__ and __str__ methods to most classes. __str__ reports e.g. ``<cssutils.css.CSSImportRule object href=None at 0xaaa870>``, __repr__ e.g. ``cssutils.css.CSSImportRule(href=None, mediaText=u'all')`` which is a valid contructor for the object in most cases (which might not be complete for all init parameter for all classes like in this case though). The following details are included: css - CSSStyleSheet shows the title and href - CSSCharsetRule shows the encoding - CSSCharsetRule shows the cssText (not in __str__ though) - CSSImportRule shows the href and the MediaList mediaText - CSSMediaRule shows the MediaList mediaText - CSSNameSpaceRule shows the prefix and uri - CSSPageRule shows the selectorText - CSSStyleRule shows the selectorText - CSSUnknownRule shows nothing special - CSSStyleDeclaration shows the number of properties set for __str__ but an empty CSSStyleDeclaration constructor for __repr__ as showing cssText might be way too much - SameNamePropertyList shows the name - CSSValue, CSSPrimitiveValue show the actual value for __repr__, some details for __str__ - CSSValueList shows an __repr__ which is **not** possible to ``eval()`` and some details for __str__ - _Property shows infos but should be used directly for now anyway! - Selector the selectorText stylesheets - MediaList shows the mediaText license ------- cssutils is published under the LGPL. download -------- for download options for cssutils 0.9.3a1 - 070905 see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ cssutils needs * Python 2.4 or higher (tested with Python 2.5 on Windows XP only) bug reports, comments, etc are very much appreciated, (please use http://code.google.com/p/cssutils/). thanks christof

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