Mailman 3 April 2008 - Python-announce-list

ANN: PyEnchant 1.4.0
by Ryan Kelly April 19, 2008

April 19, 2008

Hi All, I'm pleased to announce the release of PyEnchant version 1.4.0. This version brings compatibility with the latest release of the underlying enchant library, including some new features. Cheers, Ryan ChangeLog for 1.4.0: -------------------- * upgrade to enchant v1.4.0, with new functionality and APIs: * unicode PWL filenames now handled correctly on Windows * All dictionary providers now use a shared default personal word file (largely obsoleting the DictWithPWL class) * Ability to exclude words using Dict.remove, remove_from_session (such words will always be marked as misspelled) * Dict.add_to_personal renamed to Dict.add (but the old name still works, for backwards-compatibility) * Dict.is_added/Dict.is_removed for checking membership of word lists * upgrade bundled glib DLLs in Windows version About: ------ Enchant (http://www.abisource.com/enchant/) is the spellchecking package behind the AbiWord word processor, is being considered for inclusion in the KDE office suite, and is proposed as a FreeDesktop.org standard. It's completely cross-platform because it wraps the native spellchecking engine to provide a uniform interface. PyEnchant brings this simple, powerful and flexible spellchecking engine to Python: http://pyenchant.sourceforge.net/ It also provides extended functionality including classes for tokenizing text and iterating over the spelling errors in it, as well as a ready-to-use text interface and dialogs for wxPython and GTK. Current Version: 1.4.0 Licence: LGPL with exemptions, as per Enchant itself -- Ryan Kelly http://www.rfk.id.au | This message is digitally signed. Please visit ryan(a)rfk.id.au | http://www.rfk.id.au/ramblings/gpg/ for details ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ pyenchant-users mailing list pyenchant-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyenchant-users

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Announce : TimeDuration 0.1a released
by Andrew Lee April 18, 2008

April 18, 2008

This is a pure python module for parsing time interval strings, normalizing, comparing and ordering time intervals. This module is still in alpha phase. It handles string like : "1 hour, 15 minutes and 23.2 seconds" "01:15:23.2" "1h 15min 23.2sec" Output from *nix uptime or time commands : "15 days, 23:04" "0m2.496s" It handles comparisons and sorting of TimeDuration objects. It normalizes time interval strings, e.g. : "5 d, 27 h, 75 m 120 s" will normalize to "6 D 04:17:0.00" TODO: * Catch garbled input strings that might confuse the parser. * Create an iterable class to handle slices, min, max, sums, average, mean and stddev * More testing Homepage: http://statz.com/libs-TimeDuration/ Author : Andrew Lee (fiacre.patrick - at - gmail.com)

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ANN: pyspread 0.0.1
by Martin Manns April 18, 2008

April 18, 2008

pyspread 0.0.1 is now available at: http://pyspread.sourceforge.net pyspread is a spreadsheet that accepts a pure python expression in each cell. Highlights: + No non-python syntax add-ons + Access to python modules from cells + 3D grid + Numpy object array for representation of string entry into grid cell + Numpy object array for representation of eval function array + Cell access via slicing of numpy function array + X, Y, and Z yield current cell location for relative reference Requires: Python 2.5, Numpy 1.0.4, and wxPython 2.8.7.1. License: GPL Best Regards Martin Manns -- mmanns <at> gmx.net

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DoIt 0.1.0 Released
by Eduardo Schettino April 17, 2008

April 17, 2008

DoIt - A task execution tool (build-tool) ========================================= This is the first public release of DoIt Website: http://python-doit.sourceforge.net/ Release: DoIt 0.1.0 License: MIT Maintainer: schettino72(a)gmail.com About ----- DoIt is a build tool that focus not only on making/building things but on executing any kind of tasks in an efficient way. Designed to be easy to use and "get out of your way". DoIt like most build tools is used to execute tasks defined in a configuration file. Configuration files are python modules. The tasks can be python functions (or any callable) or an external shell script. DoIt automatically keeps track of declared dependencies executing only tasks that needs to be update (based on which dependencies have changed). In DoIt, unlike most(all?) build-tools, a task doesn't need to define a target file to use the execute only if not up-to-date feature. This make DoIt specially suitable for running test suites. DoIt can be used to perform any task or build anything, though it doesn't support automatic dependency discovery for any language. Cheers, Eduardo

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ikaaro 0.20.5 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" April 17, 2008

April 17, 2008

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. The layout of the user interface (back-office) has been optimized for 1024 pixels wide windows, while still being functional for 800 pixels wide windows. Many issues have been addressed, including #256, #260, #268, #270, #271, #274, #276, #277, #282 and #287. Resources --------- Download http://download.ikaaro.org/ikaaro/ikaaro-0.20.5.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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EuroPython 2008: Call for Participation
by Paul Boddie April 16, 2008

April 16, 2008

Book Monday 7th July to Wednesday 9th July 2008 in your calendar! EuroPython 2008, the European conference for the communities around Python, including the Zope and Plone communities, will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania. Last year's conference was a great success, featuring a variety of talks, entertaining lightning talks and inspiring keynotes. With your participation, we want to make EuroPython 2008, the seventh EuroPython, even more successful than the previous six. Talks and Themes ---------------- Do you have something you wish to present at EuroPython? Perhaps you have a new application, framework or package to show off. Or perhaps you want to show people how to solve a particular kind of problem, or to describe your experiences working with different Python-oriented solutions. Previous conferences have featured a wide range of talks covering all of this, from the unveiling of software projects to coverage of relevant techniques for developing software in Python. Once again EuroPython will feature conference themes (rather than tracks, traditionally used at conferences), and these themes should help speakers to target their talks and presentations at areas of special interest to the Python community. We will then arrange them into related groups and schedule them in the space available. Here are the chosen themes for EuroPython 2008: Python Language (featuring Python 3000, Python implementations and Python packaging) Python in Action (Python projects and deployments in government, industry and beyond) Mobile Computing (Python in mobile and embedded devices) Large Scale Python (Python in research, distributed computing, scientific computing) Web Programming (Python on the Web: Zope 3, Django and everything else) Database Programming (object-relational mappers and data management techniques) User Interfaces (across or beyond the Web, the desktop and the device) Games (featuring pygame, pyglet and other game-making technologies) The deadline for talk proposals is Thursday 22nd May at midnight (24:00 CEST, Central European Summer Time, UTC+2). To propose a talk, go to... http://www.europython.org/community/Talk_Submissions ...and follow the instructions. Other Talks, Activities and Events ---------------------------------- Conferences like EuroPython don't stand still: we would like to expand the range of events featured at the conference. If you have an idea for a different kind of event than a conventional talk or presentation, we would like to hear it. Some anticipated activities of this nature include the following: * Tutorials - where you teach others about your area of expertise * Panel discussions - where you and others discuss a subject and inform the audience * Teach the presenter - where you learn from an audience of experts (and perhaps a few other beginners, too) And if your company is considering sponsoring EuroPython, why not consider proposing a sponsored event? See the sponsorship page for details: http://www.europython.org/community/Sponsorship Other Ways to Participate ------------------------- Apart from giving talks, there are plenty of other ways to participate in the conference. Just attending and talking to people you find here can be satisfying enough, but there are three other kinds of activity you may wish to plan for: Lightning Talks, Open Space and Sprints. Lightning Talks are very short talks that give you just enough time to introduce a topic or project, Open Space is an area reserved for informal discussions, and Sprints are focused gatherings for developers interested in particular projects. For more information please see the following pages: * Lightning Talks: http://www.europython.org/community/Lightning_Talks * Open Space: http://www.europython.org/community/Open_Space * Sprints: http://www.europython.org/community/Sprints Sprints will take place from Thursday 8th July until (and including) Saturday 12th July. Talk Recordings and Interviews ------------------------------ One area where EuroPython has not traditionally been strong is in the area of providing audio and video from the conference. This year, we would like to encourage volunteers to come forward and help us offer recordings of talks so that those not able to come to Vilnius might still have the chance of hearing and seeing the talks after the event. In addition, it would also be very interesting to conduct interviews of members of the Python community, allowing them to offer their insights into the conference and other related topics. For more information please see this page: http://www.europython.org/community/Audio_and_Video We intend to record talks and to make them available under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Further Information ------------------- For more general information on the conference, please visit... http://www.europython.org/ Looking forward to seeing what you fine folk have been up to, The EuroPython Team P.S. You can help with conference publicity by publishing this announcement in your own corner of the community. Co-ordinate with the organisers here: http://www.europython.org/community/Planning/Publicity

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Global Python Sprint Weekends: May 10th-11th and June 21st-22nd.
by Trent Nelson April 16, 2008

April 16, 2008

Following on from the success of previous sprint/bugfix weekends and sprinting efforts at PyCon 2008, I'd like to propose the next two Global Python Sprint Weekends take place on the following dates: * May 10th-11th (four days after 2.6a3 and 3.0a5 are released) * June 21st-22nd (~week before 2.6b2 and 3.0b2 are released) It seems there are a few of the Python User Groups keen on meeting up in person and sprinting collaboratively, akin to PyCon, which I highly recommend. I'd like to nominate Saturday across the board as the day for PUGs to meet up in person, with Sunday geared more towards an online collaboration day via IRC, where we can take care of all the little things that got in our way of coding on Saturday (like finalising/preparing/reviewing patches, updating tracker and documentation, writing tests ;-). For User Groups that are planning on meeting up to collaborate, please reply to this thread on python-dev(a)python.org and let every- one know your intentions! As is commonly the case, #python-dev on irc.freenode.net will be the place to be over the course of each sprint weekend; a large proportion of Python developers with commit access will be present, increasing the amount of eyes available to review and apply patches. For those that have an idea on areas they'd like to sprint on and want to look for other developers to rope in (or just to communicate plans in advance), please also feel free to jump on this thread via python-dev@ and indicate your intentions. For those that haven't the foggiest on what to work on, but would like to contribute, the bugs tracker at http://bugs.python.org is the best place to start. Register an account and start searching for issues that you'd be able to lend a hand with. All contributors that submit code patches or documentation updates will typically get listed in Misc/ACKS.txt; come September when the final release of 2.6 and 3.0 come about, you'll be able to point at the tarball or .msi and exclaim loudly ``I helped build that!'', and actually back it up with hard evidence ;-) Bring on the pizza and Red Bull! Trent.

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itools 0.20.5 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" April 16, 2008

April 16, 2008

itools is a Python library, it groups a number of packages into a single meta-package for easier development and deployment: itools.abnf itools.http itools.tmx 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 This release includes a new proof-of-concept package, itools.abnf implements RFC 4234, the "Augmented Backus-Naur Form"; it uses a Scannerless Generalized-LR algorithm (see Eelco Visser et al). It is not yet ready for production use, but taking shape. See bug #263 [1] for further details. There has been lots of work on the XML parser, most notably, now it accepts an open file as the input parameter. See bug #285 [2] for further details. There is also a new dependency, now itools (in particular the XML parser) requires the GLib library [3], version 2.14 or later. Many other issues have been addressed, among them now the catalog is able to index CJK text strings. [1] http://bugs.ikaaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263 [2] http://bugs.ikaaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285 [3] http://www.gtk.org/ Resources --------- Download http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.20.5.tar.gz http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.20.5.win32-py2.5.exe http://download.ikaaro.org/itools/itools-0.20.5.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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S3 Call for Participation
by "Martin v. Löwis" April 16, 2008

April 16, 2008

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation *** Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008 *** May 15-16, 2008 Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Important dates ] * Early registration: April 20, 2008 * S3 workshop: May 15-16, 2008 [ Program ] * 3 invited talks * 6 technical papers * http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/program/ [ Invited speakers ] * Ian Piumarta (Viewpoints) * Dan Ingalls (Sun Labs) * Richard P. Gabriel (IBM Research) [ Registration ] * http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/s3/registration/ We hope to see you in Potsdam, Kim Rose and Robert Hirschfeld ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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London Python Meetup, Tuesday May the 6th
by Simon Brunning April 15, 2008

April 15, 2008

It's doubly good time for a Python meet-up. Firstly, Django's Jacob Kaplan-Moss is in town. If I can coax him into speaking, I will. Secondly, what with the release of the Google App Engine, I expect a big increase in interest in Python in general. Details here: http://tinyurl.com/3snu66 -- Cheers, Simon B. simon(a)brunningonline.net http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ GTalk: simon.brunning | MSN: small_values | Yahoo: smallvalues

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