Mailman 3 February 2008 - Python-announce-list

ANN: next pyCologne meeting, Wed Feb 13, 2008, 6:30 pm
by Christopher Arndt 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

Dear Pythonistas, the next monthly meeting of pyCologne, the Python User Group Köln, takes place on: Date: Wednesday Feb 13, 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: * Bicycle Repairman - Your daily refactoring helper in Idle, Emacs and SciTE. Short introduction and usage examples (in German) (Rex Turnbull) * Key Signing Party (Organisation Christopher Arndt) 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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Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.4.2
by Richard Jones 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

I'm proud to release version 1.4.2 of Roundup. If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. New Features in 1.4.2: - New config option in mail section: ignore_alternatives allows to ignore alternatives besides the text/plain part used for the content of a message in multipart/alternative attachments. - Admin copy of error email from mailgw includes traceback (thanks Ulrik Mikaelsson) - Messages created through the web are now given an in-reply-to header when email out to nosy (thanks Martin v. Löwis) - Nosy messages now include more information about issues (all link properties with a "name" attribute) (thanks Martin v. Löwis) And things fixed: - Searching date range by supplying just a date as the filter spec - Handle no time.tzset under Windows (sf #1825643) - Fix race condition in file storage transaction commit (sf #1883580) - Make user utils JS work with firstname/lastname again (sf #1868323) - Fix ZRoundup to work with Zope 2.8.5 (sf #1806125) - Fix race condition for key properties in rdbms backends (sf #1876683) - Handle Reject in mailgw final set/create (sf #1826425) Roundup requires python 2.3 or later for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: roundup-demo Release info and download page: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql and postgresql).

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[ANN] Release 0.69.0 of Task Coach
by Frank Niessink 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Hi, I'm happy to announce release 0.69.0 of Task Coach. This release makes it possible to repeat tasks on either a daily or a weekly basis and to add notes to categories. It also contains a number of other changes and bug fixes. Bugs fixed: * The reminder dialog didn't close when opening the task from the reminder dialog. If the user had entered a snooze option in the reminder dialog, that snooze option would be overwritten when closing the task editor. * Don't allow filtering by both a parent and a child category at the same time. * Sorting by total categories in the task viewers didn't sort correctly. * Save didn't work for task files without a file name and without tasks, but with categories or notes. * Adding a task to a category or removing it from a category was not undoable. Features added: * Tasks can recur on a daily or weekly basis. This feature is not complete yet. Most obviously, recurring on a monthly basis is missing. Also, recurring tasks with recurring subtasks do not behave entirely correctly yet. * Notes can be assigned to categories. * Added Bulgarian translation, thanks to Rumen Belev. * Added Danish translation, thanks to different translators. * Added a number of rather incomplete translations (Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, and Turkish). See http://www.taskcoach.org/i18n.html for how you can help improve these translations. * When filtering by one or more categories, new tasks and notes are automatically added to those categories. Of course, you can still change the categories in the category tab of the edit dialog before pressing the OK button. * Whether descriptions of tasks, effort records, categories and notes are shown in a popup tooltip window is now a setting. * Added menu items for increasing, decreasing, maximizing, and minimizing task priority. * Clicking a column header in a task viewer now iterates through the following sort orders: 'ascending, after sorting by task status first', 'descending, after sorting by task status first', 'ascending, without sorting by task status first', 'descending, without sorting by task status first'. Features changed: * Previously, unset dates were displayed as 'None' in date columns. To be consistent with how other attributes are displayed in columns, Task Coach now simply displays nothing for unset dates in date columns. * Task Coach now uses the infinity symbol ('∞') to display the number of days left for tasks without a due date, instead of the word 'Infinite'. * Task Coach now uses a real arrow symbol ('→') instead of '->' for separating parent and child subjects in the different viewers. Feature removed: * Task Coach no longer keeps track of the 'last modification time' of tasks. 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 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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PyCon Financial Aid Application Deadline: Feb. 11th
by Ted Pollari 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Just a quick reminder -- applications for financial aid for PyCon 2008 are due on Monday, February 11th! Please see http://us.pycon.org/2008/registration/financial-aid/ for application details.

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NYC Python Users Meetup February Meeting Announcement....
by John Clark 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Please pardon the PSA: The New York City Python Users Meetup Group is planning on having our February meeting on February 12th, from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. For more information, please see: http://python.meetup.com/172/calendar/7082384/ Anyone in the NYC area interested in using Python, learning more about Python, or teaching others about Python is welcome to attend. Thanks, -jdc

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ANN: ETS 2.6.0 released
by Dave Peterson 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

I'm proud to announce that ETS 2.6.0 has been released! Changes ----------- The biggest change between this release and last fall's ETS 2.6.0b1 release is that the examples run correctly, there are a few bug fixes in various sub-projects, and all the sub-projects have dropped their beta designation as well. Getting ETS --------------- Binary and source distributions are available from Enthought's servers via the following URLs. Please note that a new release of ETS is packaged as a collection of separate, individually usable projects and relies on a meta-egg and setuptools / easy_install's dependency mechanism to completely install. Other distribution formats become available over time as demand warrants. * Binary eggs: Please see our Install wiki page at https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/Install/ for platform support and installation instructions per platform. * Source tarballs: http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/source/ What Is ETS? ----------------- The Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) is a collection of components developed by Enthought and our partners, which we use every day to construct custom scientific applications. It includes a wide variety of components, including an extensible application framework, application building blocks, 2-D and 3-D graphics libraries, scientific and math libraries, developer tools, and Python package management tools. The cornerstone on which these tools rest is the Traits package, which provides explicit type declarations in Python; its features include initialization, validation, delegation, notification, and visualization of typed attributes.

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Elixir 0.5.1 released!
by Gaetan de Menten 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

I am very pleased to announce that version 0.5.1 of Elixir (http://elixir.ematia.de) is now available. As always, feedback is very welcome, preferably on Elixir mailing list. This is mostly a bug fixes release (especially for people using inheritance), but we have also a few minor new features, including a new plugin for managing entities as (ordered) lists, enhanced support for custom base classes and an alternate (nicer) syntax to define synonym properties. The full list of changes can be seen at: http://elixir.ematia.de/trac/browser/elixir/tags/0.5.1/CHANGES What is Elixir? --------------------- Elixir is a declarative layer on top of the SQLAlchemy library. It is a fairly thin wrapper, which provides the ability to create simple Python classes that map directly to relational database tables (this pattern is often referred to as the Active Record design pattern), providing many of the benefits of traditional databases without losing the convenience of Python objects. Elixir is intended to replace the ActiveMapper SQLAlchemy extension, and the TurboEntity project but does not intend to replace SQLAlchemy's core features, and 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 ---------------- http://groups.google.com/group/sqlelixir/about -- Gaëtan de Menten http://openhex.org

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ANN: ConfigObj 4.5.1 and validate 0.3.1
by Fuzzyman 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

After one year and two days since the last release, there is a new release of ConfigObj. * ConfigObj 4.5.1 http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html * Validate 0.3.1 http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/validate.html This release adds a few new features, plus has several bugfixes and minor performance improvements. Thanks to all those who gave feedback, reported bugs and provided patches. What are ConfigObj and Validate? ========================= **ConfigObj** is a simple to use but powerful configuration file management library. Features include: * Nested sections to any depth * Unicode support * List and multiline values * Integrated with a powerful validation system - including automatic type checking/conversion - repeated sections - and allowing default values * All comments in a file are preserved when writing * The order of keys/sections is preserved * A powerful unrepr mode for storing basic datatypes **validate** is the module (optional) used for config file validation and type marshalling. It can be used outside of ConfigObj for matching string values against a text specification which also does type conversion. Changes in ConfigObj 4.5.1 ==================== Distribution updated to include version 0.3.1 of validate. This means that Unicode configspecs now work. ConfigObj will now guarantee that files will be written terminated with a newline. ConfigObj will no longer attempt to import the ``validate`` module, until/unless you call ``ConfigObj.validate`` with ``preserve_errors=True``. This makes it faster to import. New methods ``restore_default`` and ``restore_defaults``. ``restore_default`` resets an entry to its default value (and returns that value). ``restore_defaults`` resets all entries to their default value. It doesn't modify entries without a default value. You must have validated a ConfigObj (which populates the ``default_values`` dictionary) before calling these methods. BUGFIX: Proper quoting of keys, values and list values that contain hashes (when writing). When ``list_values=False``, values containing hashes are triple quoted. Added the ``reload`` method. This reloads a ConfigObj from file. If the filename attribute is not set then a ``ReloadError`` (a new exception inheriting from ``IOError``) is raised. BUGFIX: Files are read in with 'rb' mode, so that native/non-native line endings work! Minor efficiency improvement in ``unrepr`` mode. Added missing docstrings for some overridden dictionary methods. Added the ``reset`` method. This restores a ConfigObj to a freshly created state. Removed old CHANGELOG file. Changes in Validate 0.3.1 ================== BUGFIX: Unicode checks no longer broken. Improved performance with a parse cache. New ``get_default_value`` method. Given a check it returns the default value (converted to the correct type) or raises a ``KeyError`` if the check doesn't specify a default. Added 'tuple' check and corresponding 'is_tuple' function (which always returns a tuple). BUGFIX: A quoted 'None' as a default value is no longer treated as None, but as the string 'None'. BUGFIX: We weren't unquoting keyword arguments of length two, so an empty string didn't work as a default. BUGFIX: Strings no longer pass the 'is_list' check. Additionally, the list checks always return lists. A couple of documentation bug fixes. Removed CHANGELOG from module. Michael Foord

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CodeInvestigator version 0.7.1
by Martien Friedeman 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

CodeInvestigator version 0.7.1 was released on February 7. This release fixes a bug. The search function was broken. The search function allows you to search through all the recorded variable values. CodeInvestigator is a tracing tool for Python programs. Running a program through CodeInvestigator creates a recording. Program flow, function calls, variable values and conditions are all stored for every line the program executes. The recording is then viewed with an interface consisting of the code. The code can be clicked: A clicked variable displays its value, a clicked loop displays its iterations. You read code, and have at your disposal all the run time details of that code. A computerized desk check tool and another way to learn about your program. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=183942

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, February 12, 2008, 08:00pm
by Mike Müller 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, February 12 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ). Maik Derstappen will give a presentation about Plone. 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, 12.02.2008 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). Maik Derstappen wird einen Vortrag über Plone halten. 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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