Mailman 3 April 2008 - Python-announce-list

Re: ANN: pyspread 0.0.4
by Martin Manns 27 Apr '08

27 Apr '08

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:21:56 +0200 Martin Manns <mmanns(a)gmx.net> wrote: > The newest version pyspread 0.0.4 now runs on > + GTK > + Windows > + Mac (not tested myself but got positive reports) > > New features in 0.0.4: > + Column, line and table insertion and deletion > + Themeable toolbar I forgot to post the short description and the link: 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 >=2.4, Numpy 1.0.4, and wxPython 2.8.7.1. License: GPL Project page: http://pyspread.sourceforge.net Best Regards Martin

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ANN: pyspread 0.0.4
by Martin Manns 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

Hi, The newest version pyspread 0.0.4 now runs on + GTK + Windows + Mac (not tested myself but got positive reports) New features in 0.0.4: + Column, line and table insertion and deletion + Themeable toolbar Feedback is very welcome! Best Regards Martin

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ANN : Karrigell-2.4.0 released
by Pierre Quentel 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

Hi all, A new version of the web framework Karrigell is released The main changes are : - an integrated framework for user management : function Login(role) in a script restricts access to the users who have the specified role ; function Role() returns user's role (admin, editor, visitor, etc) - a new administration interface for server configuration, localization of scripts, database management (available for MySQL and SQLite) Home page : http://karrigell.sourceforge.net Google group : http://groups.google.com/group/karrigell Tutorial : http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Karrigell_Tutorial Regards, Pierre

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Announce: Ubuntu OpenWeek Python Packaging Session
by Jorge O. Castro 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hello, I'd like to invite members of the Python community to join us during Ubuntu Open Week -- a week of IRC sessions where users can interact with developers during specific sessions. This open week will take place from 28 April to 3 May. Of specific interest to this list will be Emilio Pozuelo Monfort's Python Packaging session at 2100UTC on May 1st. Emilio will cover details on how to package Python applications for use in distributions like Ubuntu and Debian. The schedule and instructions on how to participate are here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek Thanks, and hope to see you there!

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ANN: EPD - Enthought Python Distribution released
by Travis Vaught 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Greetings, Enthought is pleased to announce the release of the Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) version 2.5.2001. http://www.enthought.com/epd This release makes available both the RedHat 3.x (amd64) and Windows XP (x86) installers. OS X, Ubuntu and more (modern) RHEL versions are coming soon(!). About EPD --------- The Enthought Python Distribution is a "kitchen-sink-included" distribution of the Python Programming Language as well as over 60 additional tools and libraries. It includes NumPy, SciPy, IPython, 2D and 3D visualization, database adapters and a lot of other tools right out of the box. Enthought is offering access to this bundle as a free service to academic and other non-profit organizations. We also offer an annual fee-based subscription service for Commercial and Governmental users to download and update the software bundle. (Everyone may try it out for free. Please see the License Information below.) Included Software ----------------- A short list includes: Python 2.5.2, NumPy, SciPy, Traits, Mayavi, Chaco, Kiva, Enable, Matplotlib, wxPython and VTK. The complete list of software with version numbers is available here: http://www.enthought.com/products/epdlibraries.php License Information ------------------- EPD is a bundle of software, every piece of which is available separately for free under various open-source licenses. Not-for- profit, private-sector access to the bundle and its updates is, and will remain, free under the terms of the Subscription Agreement (see http://www.enthought.com/products/epdlicense.php ). Commercial and Governmental users may try the bundle for free for 30 days. After the trial period, users may purchase a one-year subscription to download and update the bundle. Downloaded software obtained under the subscription agreement may be used by the subscriber in perpetuity. This model should sound familiar, as our commercial offering is quite similar to the business model of a certain linux distributor. More information is also available in the FAQ ( http://www.enthought.com/products/epdfaq.php ). For larger deployments, or those with special build or distribution needs, an Enterprise Subscription is also available. Thanks ------ EPD is compelling because it solves a thorny packaging and distribution problem, but also because of the libraries which it includes. The folks here at Enthought would like to thank the Python developer community and the wider community that authors and contributes to these included libraries. We put these things to work every day and would be much less productive without them. So, thanks!

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Python at Sun's CommunityOne May 5, 2008
by Ted Leung 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

CommunityOne is a free and open developer conference that is run by Sun on the day before JavaOne. This year, there will a space at CommunityOne dedicated to the Python community, complete with whiteboards and wifi. If you are in the Bay Area for JavaOne, or in the Bay Area, or just plain interested in Python, please register for CommunityOne — space is limited. Registering for CommunityOne gets you a bag of swag, a free lunch the day of CommunityOne, access to all the CommunityOne events and sessions, and a free pass for Day 1 of JavaOne. When you register, put “Python/Jython” in for the referral code. The URL to register is: <http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/ > I will be on a panel on community models during the general session from 9:30AM - 10:45AM, and Frank Wierzbicki and I will be doing a Python/Jython panel. In addition to the usual developer stuff, there will also be a two day Startup Camp, and the folks from RedMonk will be back to do their day long unconference thing. Ted Leung Sun Microsystems

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Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Apr 21)
by Gabriel Genellina 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

QOTW: "But people will always prefer complaining on the grounds of insufficient information to keeping quiet on the basis of knowledge." - Steve Holden http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/007b9fea0a5db786 Speed of Python vs C when reading, sorting and writing data: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/172902… The GIL was murdered - but it refuses to die: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2d537a… The "obvious" way to declare per-instance properties doesn't work: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c14aae… Metaprogramming example (metaclasses and descriptors): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e4144d… Concerns about the migration to 3.0 (Python and C code): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/25c4c3… The future replacement of string % formatting in Python 3.x: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f07fef… How widely adopted is Python 2.5? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5f15ac… What to learn after Python: Java, C++, ...? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5d8be7… Many people filter out messages posted thru Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a90b84… ======================================================================== 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 Mygale is a news-gathering webcrawler that specializes in (new) World-Wide Web articles related to Python. http://www.awaretek.com/nowak/mygale.html While cosmetically similar, Mygale and the Daily Python-URL are utterly different in their technologies and generally in their results. 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/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python.announce Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html Steve Bethard continues the marvelous tradition early borne by Andrew Kuchling, Michael Hudson, Brett Cannon, Tony Meyer, and Tim Lesher of intelligently summarizing action on the python-dev mailing list once every other week. http://www.python.org/dev/summary/ 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/donate.html Kurt B. Kaiser publishes a weekly report on faults and patches. http://www.google.com/groups?as_usubject=weekly%20python%20patch 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://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/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 are http://www.python.org/channews.rdf http://bootleg-rss.g-blog.net/pythonware_com_daily.pcgi http://python.de/backend.php 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/ The online Python Journal is posted at pythonjournal.cognizor.com. editor(a)pythonjournal.com and editor(a)pythonjournal.cognizor.com welcome submission of material that helps people's understanding of Python use, and offer Web presentation of your work. 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 Archive probing tricks of the trade: http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&num=100 http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=site%3Dgroups%26group%3Dcomp.lang.pyth… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://www.ddj.com/topic/python/ (requires subscription) http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=python-url+group:comp.lang.python*&s… http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html (dormant) or http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Python-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lan… 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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Ikaroo Tools CSV files
by Salvatore DI DI0 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

Hello Is there a way e to use joker characters in queries ? Regards Salvatore

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IMDbPY 3.5 released
by Davide Alberani 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

IMDbPY 3.5 is available (tgz, deb, rpm, exe) from: http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/ IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people and characters. With this release: changes to work on Symbian phones, many bugs fixed and some minor new features introduced. Platform-independent and written in pure Python (and few C lines), it can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole database. IMDbPY package can be very easily used by programmers and developers to provide access to the IMDb's data to their programs. Some simple example scripts are included in the package; other IMDbPY-based programs are available from the home page. -- Davide Alberani <alberanid(a)libero.it> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://erlug.linux.it/~da/

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ANNOUNCE: SCons 0.98.1 (candidate for 1.0) is now available
by Steven Knight 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, or make tool) written in Python. It is based on the design which won the Software Carpentry build tool competition in August 2000. Version 0.98.1 of SCons has been released and is now available at the SCons download page: http://www.scons.org/download.php RPM and Debian packages and a Win32 installer are all available, in addition to the traditional .tar.gz and .zip files. This release is considered a candidate for the (long-awaited) official 1.0 SCons release. We welcome and encourage widespread testing and use of this release to try to identify any problems. Please report your bugs following the guidelines at: http://scons.tigris.org/bug-submission.html WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE? This release contains a huge number of new features, fix, performance improvements, and other changes since the last widely-publicized release (0.97, last year). For a description of important changes that affect upgrading and backwards compatibility, please see our release notes: http://scons.tigris.org/RELEASE.txt For a very complete list changes, please see our change log: http://scons.tigris.org/CHANGES.txt ABOUT SCONS Distinctive features of SCons include: - a global view of all dependencies; no multiple passes to get everything built properly - configuration files are Python scripts, allowing the full use of a real scripting language to solve difficult build problems - the ability to scan files for implicit dependencies (#include files); - improved parallel build (-j) support that provides consistent build speedup regardless of source tree layout - use of MD5 signatures to decide if a file has really changed; no need to "touch" files to fool make that something is up-to-date - easily extensible through user-defined Builder and Scanner objects - build actions can be Python code, as well as external commands A scons-users mailing list is available for those interested in getting started using SCons. You can subscribe by sending email to: users-subscribe(a)scons.tigris.org Alternatively, we invite you to subscribe to the (very) low-volume scons-announce mailing list to receive notification when new versions of SCons become available: announce-subscribe(a)scons.tigris.org On behalf of the SCons team, --SK

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