Mailman 3 March 2008 - Python-announce-list

ANN: IronPython 2.0 Beta 1
by Dave Fugate 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Hello Python Community, I'm pleased to announce IronPython 2.0 Beta 1. This particular release contains almost one hundred bug fixes of which the majority were reported on www.codeplex.com/IronPython (118 votes)! 2.0 Beta 1 includes the following improvements over the Alphas: * PEP 328, absolute and relative imports, has been implemented * PEP 302, new import hooks, has been implemented * Numerous Python dictionary improvements * 'sys' is now a real builtin module * Test projects for IronPython .NET (ClrAssembly) and COM interop (DlrComLibrary) support have been added to the 'Src\Tests' directory within the source zip file * More improvements to the -X:PreferComDispatch flag We'd like to thank everyone in the IronPython Community who reported bugs fixed in 2.0B1: undebtedly, Anthony Baxter, pobrien, Kamil Dworakowski, millind, romank, tarlano, Michael Foord, Evan Klitzke, sanxiyn, jbevain, jackeyoo, Jeff Brown, Oliver Yu, rridge, lthompson, JiaJun Liu, CriGoT, abs, jdhardy, sbergman, sjmachin, Eloff, atifaziz, arman0, Qvin, Vizcayno, Davy Mitchell, CurtHagenlocher, Laurion, luntain, py_sunil, zvikag, David Fraser, Gary Stephenson, and Beaton. You can download IronPython 2.0 Beta 1 at: http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython… The IronPython Team WHAT IS IRONPYTHON? IronPython is a new implementation of the Python programming language running on .NET. It supports an interactive console with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest of the .NET Framework and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python programmers, while maintaining full compatibility with the Python language.

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ANN: Leo 4.4.8 beta 2 released
by Edward K Ream 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Leo 4.4.8 beta 2 is available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 This version features a new ipython plugin that provides a two-way bridge between Leo and IPython. See http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/IPythonBridge.html Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html The highlights of Leo 4.4.8: ---------------------------- - Leo's source code is now managed by bzr. See the Bzr link below. - Leo's discussion is now hosted by Google Groups: See the Forum link below. - The first, third, fifth etc. arguments to g.es and g.es_print can now be translated using Python's gettext.gettext function. - Completed ILeo: a bridge between IPython and Leo. See http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/IPythonBridge.html - Added support for arguments to minibuffer commands. - @menu trees can now refer to commands created by @command and @button nodes - Added support for common @commands nodes in settings files. Links: ------ Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Forum: http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 Bzr: http://code.launchpad.net/leo-editor/ 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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bbfreeze 0.96.1
by Ralf Schmitt 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Hi all, I uploaded bbfreeze 0.96.1 to python's cheeseshop [*]. bbfreeze creates standalone executables from python scripts (similar to py2exe). bbfreeze works on windows and unix-like operating systems (no OS X unfortunately). bbfreeze is able to freeze multiple scripts, handle egg files and track binary dependencies. This release fixes a rather severe bug, where the whole site-packages directory could be zipped as an egg file. New in this release is support for easy install entry scripts and development eggs. It now also contains better recipes for wxPython, kinterbasdb and mercurial. More information can be found in the package index: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/ bbfreeze/<http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/bbfreeze/> The development repository (mercurial) can be found here: http://systemexit.de/repo/bbfreeze [*] Note: 0.96.0 had been released yesterday, but it contains a bug, which prevents eggs from being packaged as a whole. Regards, - Ralf

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ANN: Komodo IDE 4.3 & Komodo Edit 4.3 released
by Trent Mick 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Komodo IDE 4.3.0 and Komodo Edit 4.3.0 have been released. Installers for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are available here: http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_ide/ http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_edit/ What's New in Komodo 4.3.0 ========================== - New **Unit Testing Integration** for Python, Ruby, PHP and Perl. Currently the Python support is for basic unittest-based test suites. In subsequent versions we plan to add nose support. (Komodo IDE-only) - New **Replace in Files** provides full and *safe* replace functionality across whole source trees. There is a preview of changes, and undo support. - New **Find in Project** and significant improvements to the find system to make it more convenient to find stuff. - A new **Abbreviations** editor feature to quickly insert code snippets. You'll never have to manually enter this again: if __name__ == '__main__': ... - Komodo Edit is now open-source! Back in October, we announced the Open Komodo project. We did that by November, but this release is finally the first full open-source release of a Komodo app. A lot of Komodo is written in Python (and XUL and JavaScript). We'd love for some of you to get involved: http://www.openkomodo.com/ ActiveState at PyCon ==================== Todd Whiteman, one of the core Komodo developers, will be at PyCon in Chicago this weekend. He'll be giving a lightning talk (on Friday) on some of the cool PyXPCOM -- plugging Python into Mozilla -- work that he's been doing. He'd be happy to talk Komodo-shop with you. About Komodo ============ Komodo IDE is a commercial multi-platform integrated development environment for dynamic languages (Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, JavaScript) and web tech (HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT): full-featured debuggers; code browsing; Subversion, CVS and Perforce integration, regular expression toolkit (Rx); interactive shells; and everything in Komodo Edit. Komodo Edit is the free and *open-source* little brother of Komodo IDE. It is a multi-platform, multi-language editor that kicks ass. Features include: - an excellent editor (based on Scintilla) - autocomplete and calltips for many languages - Vi and Emacs keybindings - background syntax checking - syntax coloring for dozens of languages (including template languages like Django's template language) - schema-based XML autocomplete - full project support - remote files - extensibility via Python or JavaScript macros, or via Firefox-style extensions - multi-language file support (get HTML, CSS and JavaScript autocomplete all in one HTML file!). If you tried Komodo before and weren't happy, give it another try. Let us know what you think here: community: http://community.activestate.com/products/Komodo email: http://listserv.activestate.com/mailman/listinfo/komodo-discuss bugs: http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Komodo Enjoy, Trent -- Trent Mick trentm at activestate.com

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[ANN] PyGtkImageView 1.1.0 -- Image viewer widget for PyGTK
by BJörn Lindqvist 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

I'm pleased to finally announce PyGtkImageView 1.1.0! Description ----------- GtkImageView is a simple image viewer widget for GTK+. Similar to the image viewer panes in gThumb or Eye of Gnome. It makes writing image viewing and editing applications easy. Among its features are: * Mouse and keyboard zooming. * Scrolling and dragging. * Adjustable interpolation. * Fullscreen mode. * GIF animation support. * Ability to make selections. * Extensible using a tool system. PyGtkImageView is the Python bindings for GtkImageView. PyGtkImageView Download ----------------------- Subversion: svn co http://publicsvn.bjourne.webfactional.com/pygtkimageview Tarball: http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/pygtkimagevi… API doc: http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/chrome/common/pygtkimageview-docs/ PDF: http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/pygtkimagevi… Project website: http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com Examples -------- Here is the canonical example for using the widget:: import gtk import gtk.gdk import gtkimageview view = gtkimageview.ImageView() scroll = gtkimageview.ImageScrollWin(view) # Where "box" is a gtk.Box already part of your layout. box.pack_start(scroll) pixbuf = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file("someimage.png") view.set_pixbuf(pixbuf) -- mvh Björn

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VIFF 0.4
by Martin Geisler 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

I'm very happy to announce the release of VIFF version 0.4: Tar/GZ: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.4.tar.gz Tar/BZ2: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.4.tar.bz2 Zip: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.4.zip Exe: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.4.win32.exe The changes since version 0.3 are: Implemented a reliable Bracha broadcast which is secure against active adversaries. Shamir sharings, pseudo-random as well as standard, can now be asymmetric which means that only a subset of the parties provide input. The open protocol is now also asymmetric, in the sense that only a subset of the parties receive the opened result. The behavior of field elements in Boolean expressions has been fixed. This means that "GF256(0) and GF256(1)" now returns GF256(0) instead of GF256(1). Added a modern implementation of the classic Yao millionaires example from 1982 which started this field of research. About VIFF: Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework is a framework for creating efficient and secure multi-party computations (SMPC). Players, who do not trust each other, participate in a joint computation based on their private inputs. The computation is done using a cryptographic protocol which allows them to obtain a correct answer without revealing their inputs. Operations supported include addition, multiplication, and comparison, all with Shamir secret shared outputs. -- Martin Geisler VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient SMPC (Secure Multi-Party Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.

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ANN: PyAMF 0.2
by Thijs Triemstra | Collab 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

We released PyAMF 0.2, a lightweight library that allows Flash and Python applications to communicate via Adobe's ActionScript Message Format. AMF3 and RemoteObject are supported in all the implemented Remoting gateways, currently supported for Django, Twisted, Web2Py and WSGI. This release comes with the following changes: - Encoding/decoding performance has been increased 2x for AMF0 and upto 10x(!) for AMF3 (Ticket:198) - Logging is now possible in all the supported gateways (Ticket:173) - Python 2.3 support (Ticket:33) - Python 2.6 support (Ticket:222) - Made PyAMF distributable as zip-based Python Egg (Ticket:193) - Encoders/Decoders now check for __getstate__/__setstate__ respectively (Ticket:209) - A new preprocessor function that runs after authentication, but before invoking the service method (Ticket:196) - authenticator can now be decorated with expose_request (Ticket:195) - Removed amfinfo console_script (Ticket:226) - Gateway import hack has now been removed - permanently (Ticket:224) Check out the download page [1], installation instructions [2] and examples [3]. Questions? First stop is the mailing list [4], but we also hang out on [5]. Cheers, - the PyAMF team [1] http://pyamf.org/wiki/Download [2] http://pyamf.org/wiki/Install [3] http://pyamf.org/wiki/Examples [4] http://pyamf.org/wiki/MailingList [5] irc://freenode.net/pyamf

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ANN: EuroSciPy 2008 Conference - Leipzig, Germany
by Travis Vaught 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

Greetings, We're pleased to announce the EuroSciPy 2008 Conference to be held in Leipzig, Germany on July 26-27, 2008. http://www.scipy.org/EuroSciPy2008 We are very excited to create a venue for the European community of users of the Python programming language in science. This conference will bring the presentations and collaboration that we've enjoyed at Caltech each year closer to home for many users of SciPy, NumPy and Python generally--with a similar focus and schedule. Call for Participation: ---------------------- If you are a scientist using Python for your computational work, we'd love to have you formally present your results, methods or experiences. To apply to present a talk at this year's EuroSciPy, please submit an abstract of your talk as a PDF, MS Word or plain text file to euroabstracts(a)scipy.org. The deadline for abstract submission is April 30, 2008. Papers and/or presentation slides are acceptable and are due by June 15, 2008. Presentations will be allotted 30 minutes. Registration: ------------ Registration will open April 1, 2008. The registration fee will be 100.00€ for early registrants and will increase to 150.00€ for late registration. Registration will include breakfast, snacks and lunch for Saturday and Sunday. Volunteers Welcome: ------------------ If you're interested in volunteering to help organize things, please email us at info(a)scipy.org.

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RELEASE: Elisa 0.3.5 'Papain'
by philippe＠fluendo.com 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

This mail announces the release of Elisa 0.3.5 'Papain'. Elisa is a project to create an open source cross platform media center solution. While our primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems we also currently support MacOSX and also hope to support Microsoft Windows in the future. In addition to personal video recorder functionality (PVR) and Music Jukebox support, Elisa will also interoperate with devices following the DLNA standard like Intel's ViiV systems. Elisa uses Twisted and GStreamer. Twisted enables the high-level functionality, distributing components over the network. GStreamer, through the Python bindings, enables the high-speed low-level functionality: actual media processing. For more information, see http://elisa.fluendo.com To file bugs, go to https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/newticket?component=core Elisa 0.3.5 "Papain" ==================== This is Elisa 0.3.5, fifth release of the 0.3 branch. We didn't add any feature in that release but we fixed some really important bugs preventing Elisa to work correctly. Bugs fixed since 0.3.4: - 1148: Splashcreen with compiz is cropped - 1147: non square splashscreen version number update - 1138: update the config_upgrader to activate update:updater_service - 1137: Issues thumbnailing photos while playing shoutcast - 1136: Big navigation or player issue - 1135: Ipod nano bug - 1134: Elisa don't start on Fresh Hardy - 1133: Problems installing plugins with underscore in name - 1130: the "core" egg is not correctly loaded from user-wide installation - 1088: Elisa randomly fails to start in fullscreen mode - 1085: duration does not get updated proper Download You can find source releases of Elisa in the download directory: 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 an issue tracker for bug reports and feature requests: https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/newticket Developers You can browse the repository of SVN code from our tracker. All code is in SVN and can be checked out from there. It is hosted on https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/svn/ Contributors to this release: - Guido Amoruso - Hugo Baldasano - Florian Boucault - Christophe Dumas - Alessandro Decina - Benjamin Kampmann - Arek Korbik - Lionel Martin - Loïc Molinari - Philippe Normand - Michał Sawicz - Josep Torra

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Berlin Area Python User's Group Meeting
by Stephan Diehl 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

The next meeting is on Wednesday, the 19th of march at newthinking store, starting 7pm. Details can be found at http://wiki.python.de/User_Group_Berlin See you there Stephan

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