Mailman 3 October 2008 - Python-announce-list

Regular Toronto Python User's Group (PyGTA) meeting on Tuesday the 21st
by Mike C. Fletcher Oct. 15, 2008

Oct. 15, 2008

PyGTA will be meeting at Linux Caffe, on the corner of Grace and Harbord streets in downtown Toronto, one block South of Christie station. We'll meet at 7pm to discuss things Pythonic. I don't yet have a speaker or topic for the evening, so if you'd like to propose a topic, drop me a line. http://www.pygta.org/ Have fun all, Mike -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC - ODBC Database Interface for Python 3.0.2
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg Oct. 15, 2008

Oct. 15, 2008

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING eGenix.com mxODBC - ODBC Database Interface for Python Version 3.0.2 mxODBC is our commercially supported Python extension providing ODBC database connectivity to Python applications on Windows and Unix platforms This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-3.0.2-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION mxODBC provides an easy-to-use, high-performance, reliable and robust Python interface to ODBC compatible databases such as MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle Database, IBM DB2 and Informix , Sybase ASE and Sybase Anywhere, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SAP MaxDB and many more. The "eGenix mxODBC - ODBC Database Interface for Python" product is a commercial extension to our open-source eGenix mx Base Distribution. * About Python: Python is an object-oriented Open Source programming language which runs on all modern platforms (http://www.python.org/). By integrating ease-of-use, clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid application design, Python establishes an ideal programming platform for todays IT challenges. * About eGenix: eGenix is a consulting and software product company focused on providing professional quality services and products to Python users and developers (http://www.egenix.com/). ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS mxODBC 3.0.2 is a patch-level release and includes the following updates: * Python 2.6 support mxODBC 3.0.2 is now available for Python 2.6, compiled with the same MS VS 2008 edition used by the Python developers to build Python 2.6 binaries for enhanced compatibility. * Enhanced support for using TEXT and VARCHAR columns with binary data ODBC drivers which need the Python type binding, like e.g. the FreeTDS ODBC driver, will now be able to pass binary data to text columns in most cases. * Updated work-arounds for various ODBC drivers eGenix always aims to make using mxODBC as easy and robust as possible. For this reason, we regularly add or update work-arounds for problems found in recent ODBC driver versions. This release includes updated or new work-arounds for the MySQL ODBC driver, the Informix ODBC driver and the SQL Server 2005 ODBC driver. * Enhanced Python datetime module support mxODBC 3.0 already supports the datetime module found in Python 2.4 and later. With this release, we have additionally added support for the datetime module found in Python 2.3. For the full set of changes please check the mxODBC change log: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/changelog.html ________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS The download archives and instructions for installing the package can be found at: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/ In order to use the eGenix mxODBC package you will first need to install the eGenix mx Base package: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/ ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING You are encouraged to upgrade to this latest mxODBC release, especially if you are using MS SQL Server or Informix as database server. Customers who have purchased mxODBC 3.0 licenses can download and install this patch-level release on top of their existing installations. The licenses will continue to work with version 3.0.2. Users of mxODBC 2.0 will have to purchase new licenses from our online shop in order to upgrade to mxODBC 3.0.2. You can request 30-day evaluation licenses by visiting our web-site at http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/#Evaluation or writing to sales(a)egenix.com, stating your name (or the name of the company) and the number of eval licenses that you need. _______________________________________________________________________ SUPPORT Commercial support for this product is available from eGenix.com. Please see http://www.egenix.com/services/support/ for details about our support offerings. Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 15 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611

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ANN: eGenix mx Base Distribution 3.1.1 for Python 2.6
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg Oct. 15, 2008

Oct. 15, 2008

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING eGenix.com mx Base Distribution Version 3.1.1 for Python 2.6 Open Source Python extensions providing important and useful services for Python programmers. This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mx-Base-Distribution-3.1.1-for-Py… ________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT The eGenix.com mx Base Distribution for Python is a collection of professional quality software tools which enhance Python's usability in many important areas such as fast text searching, date/time processing and high speed data types. The tools have a proven record of being portable across many Unix and Windows platforms. You can write applications which use the tools on Windows and then run them on Unix platforms without change due to the consistent platform independent interfaces. Contents of the distribution: * mxDateTime - Date/Time Library for Python * mxTextTools - Fast Text Parsing and Processing Tools for Python * mxProxy - Object Access Control for Python * mxBeeBase - On-disk B+Tree Based Database Kit for Python * mxURL - Flexible URL Data-Type for Python * mxUID - Fast Universal Identifiers for Python * mxStack - Fast and Memory-Efficient Stack Type for Python * mxQueue - Fast and Memory-Efficient Queue Type for Python * mxTools - Fast Everyday Helpers for Python All available packages have proven their stability and usefulness in many mission critical applications and various commercial settings all around the world. * About Python: Python is an object-oriented Open Source programming language which runs on all modern platforms (http://www.python.org/). By integrating ease-of-use, clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid application design, Python establishes an ideal programming platform for todays IT challenges. * About eGenix: eGenix is a consulting and software product company focused on providing professional quality services and products to Python users and developers (http://www.egenix.com/). ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS The 3.1.1 release of the eGenix mx Base Distribution is the latest release of our open-source Python extensions. Now that Python 2.6 has been released by the Python Software Foundation, we have added pre-built binaries for all supported platforms, currently: Windows 32-bit, Linux 32-bit, Linux 64-bit, FreeBSD 32-bit, FreeBSD 64-bit. Whether you are using a pre-built package or the source distribution, installation is a simple "python setup.py install" command in all cases. The only difference is that the pre-built packages do not require a compiler to be installed. For a list of changes, please refer to the eGenix mx Base Distribution change log at http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/changelog.html and the change logs of the various included Python packages. ________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS The download archives and instructions for installing the packages can be found on the eGenix mx Base Distribution page: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/ ________________________________________________________________________ LICENSE The eGenix mx Base package is distributed under the eGenix.com Public License 1.1.0 which is a CNRI Python License style Open Source license. You can use the package in both commercial and non-commercial settings without fee or charge. The package comes with full source code ________________________________________________________________________ SUPPORT Commercial support for this product is available from eGenix.com. Please see http://www.egenix.com/services/support/ for details about our support offerings. Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 15 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611

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ANN: mpmath 0.10 released
by Fredrik Johansson Oct. 15, 2008

Oct. 15, 2008

Hi, Mpmath version 0.10 is now available from the website: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/ It can also be downloaded from the Python Package Index: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mpmath/0.10 Mpmath is a pure-Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic that implements an extensive set of mathematical functions. It can be used as a standalone library or via SymPy (http://code.google.com/p/sympy/). Additions in 0.10 include plotting support, matrices and linear algebra functions, new root-finding and quadrature algorithms, enhanced interval arithmetic, and some new special functions. Many speed improvements have been committed (a few functions are an order of magnitude faster than in 0.9), and as usual various bugs have been fixed. Importantly, this release fixes mpmath to work with Python 2.6. For a more complete changelog, see: http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/CHANGES Special thanks go to Vinzent Steinberg who contributed the new linear algebra and root-finding code, and to everybody else who made a contribution or provided feedback. Bug reports and other comments are welcome at the issue tracker at http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/list or the mpmath mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/mpmath Fredrik

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[ANN] Data Plotting Library DISLIN 9.4
by Helmut Michels Oct. 15, 2008

Oct. 15, 2008

Dear Python users, I am pleased to announce version 9.4 of the data plotting software DISLIN. DISLIN is a high-level and easy to use plotting library for displaying data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-colour plots, surfaces, contours and maps. Several output formats are supported such as X11, VGA, PostScript, PDF, CGM, WMF, HPGL, TIFF, GIF, PNG, BMP and SVG. The software is available for the most C, Fortran 77 and Fortran 90/95 compilers. Plotting extensions for the interpreting languages Perl, Python and Java are also supported. DISLIN distributions and manuals in PDF, PostScript and HTML format are available from the DISLIN home page http://www.dislin.de and via FTP from the server ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/grafik/dislin All DISLIN distributions are free for non-commercial use. Licenses for commercial use are available from the site http://www.dislin.de. ------------------- Helmut Michels Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research Phone: +49 5556 979-334 Max-Planck-Str. 2 Fax : +49 5556 979-240 D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau Mail : michels(a)mps.mpg.de

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firkin 0.02
by Florian Diesch Oct. 14, 2008

Oct. 14, 2008

I'm happy to announce release 0.02 of firkin <http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/firkin/> What is firkin? =============== firkin is a python module to convert between different measurement units. Status ====== firkin is alpha software. So far it seems to work for me but it may have severe bugs I didn't noticed yet. Use it at your own risk. Firkin is still under development and the API may change in the future. Requirements ============ firkin only needs the Python standard lib License ======= GPL Florian -- <http://www.florian-diesch.de/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature, please! ** -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 14)
by Gabriel Genellina Oct. 14, 2008

Oct. 14, 2008

QOTW: "Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy." - Rob Pike http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/18/1153211&tid=189&tid=… Default mutable arguments revisited: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a103cc… Sometimes it would be nice to include pictures or diagrams in a docstring: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ca41b0… Working with the individual bits inside a byte: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/cbb224… Detecting the highest bit set in an integer: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9c01fd… The "best way" of summing up two or more attributes when iterating over a sequence or iterator: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d54a1d… The "cmp" argument to sort/sorted is gone in Python 3.0 because there are better alternatives: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/fc2bcc… Reversing a Template: given a string and a matching Template, return a dictionary mapping its fields to replacement values in the string. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/40346b… Attention to Python from the outside world: http://www.cio.com/article/446829/PHP_JavaScript_Ruby_Perl_Python_and_Tcl_T… http://www.cio.com/article/185350/You_Used_Python_to_Write_WHAT_ ======================================================================== Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Notice especially the master FAQ http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the marvelous daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily Just beginning with Python? This page is a great place to start: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiats": http://pythonpapers.org/ The Python Magazine is a technical monthly devoted to Python: http://pythonmagazine.com Readers have recommended the "Planet" sites: http://planetpython.org http://planet.python.org comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/topics Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html The Python Package Index catalogues packages. http://www.python.org/pypi/ The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references to all sorts of Python resources. http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/ Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're subject with a vision of what the language makes practical. http://www.pythonology.com/success The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. http://www.python.org/psf/ Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation. http://www.python.org/psf/donations/ The Summary of Python Tracker Issues is an automatically generated report summarizing new bugs, closed ones, and patch submissions. http://search.gmane.org/?author=status%40bugs.python.org&group=gmane.comp.p… Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python hyperlinks retains a few gems. http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and interesting recipes. http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/ Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation. Watch this space for links to them. Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available, see: http://www.python.org/channews.rdf For more, see: http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a SourceForge reincarnation. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/ del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary. It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence. http://del.icio.us/tag/python *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.com Dr.Dobb's Portal is another source of Python news and articles: http://www.ddj.com/TechSearch/searchResults.jhtml?queryText=python and Python articles regularly appear at IBM DeveloperWorks: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/search/searchResults.jsp?searchSite=dW&se… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://search.gmane.org/?query=python+URL+weekly+news+links&group=gmane.com… http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=Python-URL!+group%3Acomp.lang.pyth… http://lwn.net/Search/DoSearch?words=python-url&ctype3=yes&cat_25=yes There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments for and against are occasionally entertained. Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. E-mail to <Python-URL(a)phaseit.net> should get through. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning (approximately), ask <claird(a)phaseit.net> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". Write to the same address to unsubscribe. -- The Python-URL! Team-- Phaseit, Inc. (http://phaseit.net) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. Watch this space for upcoming news about posting archives.

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[ANN] Release of TaskCoach 0.71.1
by Jerome Laheurte Oct. 13, 2008

Oct. 13, 2008

Hi, I'm happy to announce release 0.71.1 of Task Coach. This release fixes some major regressions. Bugs fixed: - Older task files containing e-mail attachments could not be opened. - Newly created templates would not appear in the Task menu, only in the toolbar template button. - Installing from source wouldn't work on platforms where pysyncml is not supported. - The installers for Mac OS X and Windows for release 0.71.0 were missing some files, causing Task Coach not to be able to save. (SF#2162181) 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/Vista, Mac OS X, 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, the TaskCoach developpers

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Elisa Media Center 0.5.14 Release
by Olivier Tilloy Oct. 13, 2008

Oct. 13, 2008

Dear Elisa users, The Elisa team is happy to announce the release of Elisa Media Center 0.5.14, code-named "El Bosc Vertical". The focus during this release cycle has been put on Windows functionalities and bug fixing (a good dozen closed). Here are the main highlights: - Play files launching Elisa from the command line on Windows (this feature was implemented for Linux in 0.5.13), this will allow a better desktop integration by enabling Elisa as the default media player - A codec management application for Windows that integrates with Elisa, detects missing codecs and helps the user install them A complete list of the new features and bugs fixed by this release is available at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+milestone/0.5.14 Installers and sources can be downloaded from http://elisa.fluendo.com/download/ Bug reports and feature requests are welcome at https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug Have a nice evening, The Elisa team Elisa 0.5.14 "El Bosc Vertical" =============================== This is Elisa 0.5.14, fourteenth release of the 0.5 branch. New features since 0.5.13: - Play files launching Elisa from the command line on Windows (this feature was implemented for Linux in 0.5.13), this will allow a better desktop integration by enabling Elisa as the default media player - A codec management application for Windows that integrates with Elisa, detects missing codecs and helps the user install them Bugs fixed since 0.5.13: - 279870: Impossible to add folder - 244280: [win32] Disabling of screen saver while Elisa is running - 255035: [win32] Unable to Add <media> directories - 256079: Deleted files still indexed in the database - 257368: [linux] File breaks media scanner - 262414: [linux] media scanner fails to scan directories with question marks - 267728: Retrieve album art and artist pictures from Yes.fm - 276245: [win32] Installer UAC fixes - 279685: HBox._layout adds significant overhead at startup - 279691: [win32] Crash report system doesn't send the dump files - 279153: Disable rotation control for non-local & not in db Images - 280306: Group.clean() does not clean all its children - 264654: Update Elisa icon Download You can find source releases of Elisa on the download page: http://elisa.fluendo.com/download Elisa Homepage More details can be found on the project's website: http://elisa.fluendo.com Support and Bugs We use Launchpad for bug reports and feature requests: https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug Developers All code is in a Bazaar branch and can be checked out from there. It is hosted on Launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/elisa Contributors to this release: - Alessandro Decina - Benjamin Kampmann - David McLeod - Florian Boucault - Guido Amoruso - Guillaume Emont - Jesús Corrius - Lionel Martin - Olivier Tilloy - Philippe Normand

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ANN: managesieve 0.4
by Hartmut Goebel Oct. 13, 2008

Oct. 13, 2008

After four long years I am happy to announce a new release of python-managesieve. To ensure faster development the project has moved to a new home at <http://python-managesieve.origo.ethz.ch/>. managesieve 0.4 ================ A ManageSieve client library for remotely managing Sieve scripts, including an user application (the interactive 'sieveshell'). Sieve scripts allow users to filter incoming email on the mail server. The ManageSieve protocol allows managing Sieve scripts on a remote mail server. These servers are commonly sealed so users cannot log into them, yet users must be able to update their scripts on them. This is what for the "ManageSieve" protocol is. For more information about the ManageSieve protocol see `the ManageSieve Internet draft <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-martin-managesieve-07.txt>`_. This module allows accessing a Sieve-Server for managing Sieve scripts there. It is accompanied by a simple yet functional user application 'sieveshell'. Changes since 0.3 ----------------- :managesieve: - now works with Python 2.3 and later - added support for TLS (STARTTLS), special thanks to Gregory Boyce for fixing some corner cases here - added support for PLAIN authentication - use optparse if available instead of optik. - API change: login() no longer uses the LOGIN authentication mechanism, but has become a convenience function. It uses the best mechanism available for authenticating the user. - Several Bugfixes, see HISTORY for details. Thanks to Tomas 'Skitta' Lindroos, Lorenzo Boccaccia, Alain Spineux, darkness and Gregory Boyce for sending patches. :sieveshell: - added support for different authentication mechanisms - added option --start-tls - several other enhancements and bugfixes Availability ------------- 'managesieve' is available for download at http://python-managesieve.origo.ethz.ch/ Requirements ------------ managesieve requires Python >= 2.0 Not yet implemented ------------------- - sieve-names are only quoted dump (put into quotes, but no escapes yet). Copyright/License ----------------- Copyright (C) 2003,2008 by Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel(a)crazy-compilers.com> License: Python Software Foundation License http://www.opensource.org/licenses/PythonSoftFoundation.html License for 'sieveshell' and test suite: GPL http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php Credits ------- Based on Sieve.py from Ulrich Eck <ueck(a)net-labs.de> which is part of of 'ImapClient' (see http://www.zope.org/Members/jack-e/ImapClient), a Zope product. Some ideas taken from imaplib written by Piers Lauder <piers(a)cs.su.oz.au> et al. Thanks to Tomas 'Skitta' Lindroos, Lorenzo Boccaccia, Alain Spineux, darkness and Gregory Boyce for sending patches.

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