Mailman 3 January 2008 - Python-announce-list

RELEASE: figleaf 0.6.1
by Titus Brown 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

ANNOUNCING figleaf v0.6.1. figleaf is a code coverage package for Python. It supports simple and configurable recording of code coverage, as well as more complex 'section'-based recording. It's designed for programmers who want to integrate code coverage with their tests across a large code base in a dynamic way. This is the second package release of figleaf. Note that figleaf *requires* setuptools to be installed, although it should be usable without it. You can install figleaf with easy_install, or download this release at http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/figleaf-0.6.1.tar.gz Documentation is included in the .tar.gz, and you can read the latest docs online at http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/figleaf/doc/ figleaf is available under the MIT license. It is Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008 C. Titus Brown. I would especially like to thank Andrew Dalke for his contributions to this release. --titus --- Important changes: - introduced moderately thorough unit & functional testing so that I don't release another crappy version. - added regression tests. - updated to work mostly properly with Python 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5. - added a 'annotate all of these files, and no other' option to figleaf2html. - fixed a variety of small-to-medium bugs and annoyances. - figleaf_sections plugin for nose moved into this package from pinocchio.

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Tutorials at PyCon 2008 (US)
by Greg Lindstrom 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hello Everyone- I'd like to announce the tutorials sessions for PyCon 2008 (US). As you may know, this year PyCon is being held in Chicago, Illinois March 14-16 with the Thursday before (the 13th) being "Tutorial Thursday". We are expecting nearly 600 Python enthusiasts to meet up for the conference and have 29 tutorial sessions scheduled on Thursday in three sessions; morning, afternoon, and evening. There is an extra fee to attend a tutorial, but the sessions are 3 hours long (with a break) and are taught by some of the smartest cookies in the Python community. Pop on over to http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/ for more information Here's a list of the sessions currently offered (we may cancel a session if there are fewer than 10 people registered, but that doesn't happen very often). In particular, note that there are 4 different introduction to Python tutorials aimed at different audiences. *Morning Session* (9:00am-12:20pm) - Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/EggsRush/>(Jeff Rush) - Python 101 for Programmers<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/Python101Holden/>(Steve Holden) - Introduction to SQLAlchemy<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/SQLAlechemyIEllis/>(Jonathan Ellis and and Michael Baye) - Python plotting with matplotlib and pylab<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/MatLabHunter/>(John Hunter) - SWIG Master Class <http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/SwigBeazley/>(David Beazley) - Secrets of the Framework Creators<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/FrameworksHsu/>(Feihong Hsu) - Introduction to NumPy<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/NumPyJones/>(Travis Oliphant and Eric Jones) - Making Small Software for Small People, Sugar/OLPC Coding by Example<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/SugarFletcher/>(Mike C. Fletcher) - Hands-on Python for the Absolute Beginner I<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/Python101AHarrington/>(Dr. Andrew Harrington) *Afternoon Session* (1:20pm-4:40pm) - Python 101 <http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/Python101Williams/>(Stuart Williams) - Getting Started with Pylons/TurboGears2 & WSGI: Modern Python Web Development <http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/TurboGearsI/> (Mark Ramm and Ben Bangert) - Advanced SQLAlchemy<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/SQLAlechemyIIEllis/>(Jonathan Ellis and and Michael Baye) - Django Tutorial <http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/DjangoMoss>(Jacob Kaplan-Moss) - wxPython I: Intro to GUI Programming with wxPython and MVC<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/wxPythonIGoodger/>(David Goodger) - Faster Python Programs through Optimization and Extensions I<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/PerformatnceIMuller/>(Mike Müller) - Tools for Scientific Computing in Python<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/SciComputing/>(Travis Oliphant and Eric Jones) - Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/Generators/>(David Beazley) - Basic Python for Java Programmers<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/Python101Martelli/>(Alex Martelli and Anna Ravenscroft) - Hands-on Python for the Absolute Beginner II<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/Python101AHarrington/>(Dr. Andrew Harrington) *Evening Session* (6:10pm-9:30pm) - Python 102 <http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/Python102Williams/>(Stuart Williams) - Mastering Pylons and TurboGears 2: Moving Beyond the Basics.<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/TurboGearsII/>(Mark Ramm, Ben Bangert) - Practical Applications of Agile (Web) Testing Tools<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/AgileWebTesing/>(C. Titus Brown and Grig Gheorghiu) - Django Code Lab <http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/DjangoLab/>(Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty and James Bennett) - wxPython II: Advanced GUI Programming with wxPython and MVC<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/wxPythonIIGoodger/>(David Goodger) - Faster Python Programs through Optimization and Extensions II<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/PerformatnceIIMuller/>(Mike Müller) - Automating Windows Applications with win32com<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/AutomatingWindows/>(Roy H. Han) - Internet Programming with Python<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/InternetProgamming/>(Wesley J. Chun) - Tail Wags Fangs: What Python Developers Should Know About Plone<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/Plone/>(Rob Lineberger) - Pygame: Modern game development<http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/PyGame/>(Noah Kantrowitz and Marc Destefano)

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ANN: next pyCologne meeting, Wed Jan 9, 2008, 6:30 pm
by Christopher Arndt 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Dear Pythonistas, the next monthly meeting of pyCologne, the Python User Group Köln, takes place on: Date: Wednesday Jan 9, 2008 Time: 6:30 Uhr pm CET c.t. Venue: Room 0.14 , ground floor, computing centre (RRZK-B) Universität Köln, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 Köln Agenda: * Talk about MoinMoin (Reimar Bauer) * Talk about the Publisher/Subscriber-Pattern (Observer-Pattern) (Christopher Arndt) * Discussion about how to proceed concerning the now established pyCologne logo Around 8:30 pm we will head to a nearby establishment and have some drinks, food and a friendly chat. Further information about pyCologne, including directions, photographs and minutes of past meetings etc., can be found on our page in the German Python wiki: http://wiki.python.de/pyCologne CU, Christopher Arndt

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Introducing cmd2
by Catherine 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

cmd2 is an extension to the Standard Library's cmd module. It can be used as a drop-in replacement for cmd, providing new functionality for command-prompt applications without requiring rewriting. * Searchable command history * Load commands from file, save to file, edit commands in file * Multi-line commands * Case-insensitive commands * Special-character shortcut commands (beyond cmd's "@" and "!") * Settable environment parameters * Parsing commands with flags Resources --------- PyPI page http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cmd2/0.1 Usage sample http://catherine.devlin.googlepages.com/cmd2.html Background notes http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/2008/01/introducing-cmd2.html - Catherine Devlin

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[ANNOUNCE] GNUmed 0.2.8.1 released
by Sebastian Hilbert 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

I am pleased to announce GNUmed 0.2.8.1. GNUmed is a comprehensive scalable software solution for electronic medical practices with an emphasis on privacy protection, secure patient centric record sharing, decision support, and ease of use. It is intended to become a sophisticated decision support system that will elevate the quality of medical care that can be delivered. Release focus: Major bugfix release Changes: FIX: crash on setting Windows SetFocus() on dialogs in gm_show_*() FIX: crash on passing identity to cDTO_Person.import_extra_data() FIX: failure on PG server version checking on MacOSX (bootstrapper) FIX: crash on MacOSX after clicking OK in Snellen config dialog FIX: crash on missing slave personality IMPROVE: do not crash on not being able to write to the config file IMPROVE: touch user config file so it exists when needed Information available at http://wiki.gnumed.de packages are available for Debian and OpenSUSE Ubuntu ,Windows and Mac packages will follow soon -- Sebastian Hilbert Leipzig / Germany [www.gnumed.de] -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, January 8, 2008, 08:00pm
by Mike Müller 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, January 8 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.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, 08.01.2008 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). 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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ikaaro 0.20.1 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

This is a Content Management System built on Python & itools, among other features ikaaro provides: - content and document management (index&search, metadata, etc.) - multilingual user interfaces and content - high level modules: wiki, forum, tracker, etc. Most important in this release are a couple of enhancements. There is the beginnings of a system to keep track of references from one object to another (like internal hyper-links between web pages). This system will help to keep referential integrity, and to have the possibility to track orphan objects, or to know the back-links to a web page (for instance). (Given the nature of this change existing instances must rebuild the catalog with the "icms-update-catalog.py" script.) With the new "forms.generate_form" function we have the beginnings of a system to automatically generate web forms from an schema (useful for prototyping for example). Many bugs have been fixed too (specially in the bug tracker), including #209, #210, #217, #219, #221 and #223. Resources --------- Download http://download.ikaaro.org/ikaaro/ikaaro-0.20.1.tar.gz Home http://www.ikaaro.org/ikaaro 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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itools 0.20.2 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

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.csv itools.ical itools.vfs itools.datatypes itools.odf itools.web itools.gettext itools.pdf itools.workflow itools.git itools.rest itools.xliff itools.handlers itools.rss itools.xml itools.html itools.stl itools.http itools.tmx This release brings a couple API enhancements. The "context.check_form_input" method from itools.web has been improved. Before it just tested whether the input data was valid or not; now, if everything is fine, it returns the deserialized values. The "Catalog.get_unique_values" method has been added to the programming interface of the Index&Search engine. It returns all the values stored in the catalog for a given field. Resources --------- Download http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.20.2.tar.gz http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.20.2.win32-py2.5.exe http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.20.2.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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[pygtk] ANNOUNCE: PyGTK 2.12.1
by Johan Dahlin 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

I am pleased to announce version 2.12.1 of the Python bindings for GTK; This release includes various bug fixes, plugged memory leaks and a few new features. Most prominently if built against python trunk it will no longer wakeup when it is not necessary since we can avoid the timeout thanks to a newly added API in Python. Thanks Guido! The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.12/ What's new since 2.12.0? - Add support for PySignal_SetWakeUp thread which avoids unnecessary polling in the main loop for threaded programs (Johan, #481569) - Fix TreeView coordinate wrappers (Jeremey Katz, #479012) - Allow None in tooltip methods (Gian) - Mention how to build documentation (Björn Lindqvist, #479379) - Plug a leak in GtkContainer.forall (Mark Doffman, #480306) - Add null-ok for accelerator function (Yevgen Muntyan) - Install gtk-extrafuncs.defs (Matthew Barnes, #380020) - Fix x86-64 crash (Dan Winship, #500508) - Plug gtk.Widget.render_icon leak (Gustavo, #502871) - Fix hypertext demo (Richard Hult) - Correct wrong command line (Sebastien Bacher) - Distribute .m4 files (Ed Catmur) - Release the GIL in pixbuf constructors (Jakub Stachowski, #415611) - Add a new pango extent example (Adam Olsen, Behdad Esfahbod, #400810) - Fix leak in gdk.Pixbuf.flip() (Guillaume Cottenceau) - Accept None in CellRenderer.get_cell_area() (Paul Pogonyshev, #358091) - Fix typo in clipboard.set_with_data (Julien Moutinho) Blurb: GTK is a toolkit for developing graphical applications that run on systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It provides a comprehensive set of GUI widgets, can display Unicode bidi text. It links into the Gnome Accessibility Framework through the ATK library. PyGTK provides a convenient wrapper for the GTK+ library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GTK+ library itself PyGTK is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full features applications. This is a stable release and requires either GTK+ 2.8.x, 2.10.x or >= 2.12.0. Bug reports, as always, should go to Bugzilla; check out http://pygtk.org/developer.html and http://pygtk.org/feedback.html for links to posting and querying bug reports for PyGTK. Johan Dahlin

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[pygtk] ANNOUNCE: PyGObject 2.14.1
by Johan Dahlin 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

I am pleased to announce version 2.14.1 of the Python bindings for GObject. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.14/ What's new since PyGObject 2.14.0: - Avoid unnecessary wakeups once per second when using Python trunk (Johan Dahlin, #481569) - Add an uninstalled.pc (Damien Carbery, #486876) Blurb: GObject is a object system library used by GTK+ and GStreamer. PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject+ library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyGTK, PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GObject library itself PyGObject is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full featured applications. PyGObject requires GObject >= 2.8.0 and Python >= 2.3.5 to build. -- Johan Dahlin jdahlin(a)async.com.br

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