Mailman 3 May 2008 - Python-announce-list

ANN: Assembly Line 0.5
by Greg Ewing May 8, 2008

May 8, 2008

I've uploaded a new version of my PyWeek 6 game, Assembly Line. http://media.pyweek.org/dl/6/gregpw6/AssemblyLine-0.5.zip As a potential Pyggy entry, I'm keen to get some testing and feedback on it. This version is greatly expanded. Some of the new features include: * More machine types and enhanced machine functionality * Simulation of a market that's buying your products * Multiple factories * Extensive reports showing what's going on with sales and finances * Sales and profit targets to aim for, and salary raises to seek after Note that not all the products and machines are available at once now. The new machines will become available as the game progresses (about one every two months of game time) and you need to spend money to research new products. I still haven't done much playtesting or balancing -- I've verified that the Phunky Phrisbee, Mojo Mallet and Supa Slice can be manufactured and sold at a profit, but I don't know about the others yet. -- Greg

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REMINDER: Python Sprint Weekend This Weekend!
by Trent Nelson May 7, 2008

May 7, 2008

Just a friendly reminder that this weekend is the Python sprint weekend! Look forward to seeing everyone on #python-dev irc.freenode.net over the course of the weekend! Trent. On 16 Apr, 18:52, Trent Nelson wrote: > > 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, taking 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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Pydev 1.3.16 Released
by Fabio Zadrozny May 7, 2008

May 7, 2008

Hi All, Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.3.16 have been released Details on Pydev Extensions: http://www.fabioz.com/pydev Details on Pydev: http://pydev.sf.net Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com Release Highlights in Pydev Extensions: ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Code Analysis: __path__ Not correctly found on some situations. * Local rename (ctrl+2+r): Positions correctly ordered for tabbing. Release Highlights in Pydev: ---------------------------------------------- * Interactive console: help() works * Interactive console: context information showing in completions * Interactive console: backspace will also delete the selected text * Interactive console: ESC does not close the console when in floating mode anymore * Code completion: calltips context info correctly made 'bold' * Code completion: variables starting with '_' do not come in import * * Code completion: can be requested for external files (containing system info) * Code completion: fixed recursion condition * Code completion: egg file distributed with dll that has a source module with the same name only with a __bootstrap__ method now loads the dll instead of the source module (e.g.: numpy egg) * Debugger: Step over/Step return can now execute with untraced frames (much faster) * Debugger: Problem when handling thread that had no context traced and was directly removed. * Launching: F9 will reuse an existing launch instead of creating a new one every time * Launching: The default launch with Ctrl+F11 will not ask again for the launch associated with a file (for new launches -- old launches should be deleted) * Project Explorer: fixed integration problems with CDT (and others) * Launch: console encoding passed as environment variable (no longer written to the install location) * More templates for "surround with" (Ctrl+1) * Previous/next method could match 'class' and 'def' on invalid location * Outline: Assign with multiple targets is recognized * Bug fix for pydev package explorer when refreshed element parent was null What is PyDev? --------------------------- PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python and Jython development -- making Eclipse a first class Python IDE -- It comes with many goodies such as code completion, syntax highlighting, syntax analysis, refactor, debug and many others. Cheers, -- Fabio Zadrozny ------------------------------------------------------ Software Developer ESSS - Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software http://www.esss.com.br Pydev Extensions http://www.fabioz.com/pydev Pydev - Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse http://pydev.sf.net http://pydev.blogspot.com

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Washington DC bug-day sprint this Saturday
by A.M. Kuchling May 7, 2008

May 7, 2008

HacDC has kindly offered to host a Python sprint for the global Python sprint weekend, this coming Saturday afternoon (May 10th), noon to 4PM. The sprint will be at HacDC's rented space at 1525 Newton St NW, Washington DC 20010 USA. See http://www.hacdc.org for maps. Further details are in HacDC's wiki at <http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php?title=Python_sprint> Please add your name to the wiki page if you're planning to attend. If there's interest, I can prepare a short introductory talk on Python development and the bug tracker; there's a separate section of the page where you can indicate your interest in seeing the introduction, so please add your name. A.M. Kuchling amk(a)amk.ca

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Pygments 0.10 "Malzeug" released
by Georg Brandl May 6, 2008

May 6, 2008

I've just uploaded the Pygments 0.10 packages to CheeseShop. Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python. Download it from <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygments>, or look at the demonstration at <http://pygments.org/demo>. Highlights in this release are: - Lexers added: * Io * Smalltalk * Darcs patches * Tcl * Matlab * Matlab sessions * FORTRAN * XSLT * tcsh * NumPy * Python 3 * S, S-plus, R statistics languages * Logtalk - Makefile lexer is now capable of handling BSD and GNU make syntax. - In the LatexFormatter, the *commandprefix* option is now by default 'PY' instead of 'C', since the latter resulted in several collisions with other packages. Also, the special meaning of the *arg* argument to ``get_style_defs()`` was removed. - Added ImageFormatter, to format code as PNG, JPG, GIF or BMP. (Needs the Python Imaging Library.) - Support doc comments in the PHP lexer. - Handle format specifications in the Perl lexer. - Fix function and interface name highlighting in the Java lexer. - Fix at-rule handling in the CSS lexer. - Handle KeyboardInterrupts gracefully in pygmentize. - Added BlackWhiteStyle. I want to express my gratitude to all contributors who helped to build this impressive feature list for 0.10. Thanks! Cheers, Georg

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ChiPy May Meeting
by bray＠sent.com May 6, 2008

May 6, 2008

Chicago Python User Group ========================= Come join us for our best meeting ever! When ---- Thursday, May 8th, ~7pm Topics ------ * The Screen craping console, Cycloctopus (Feighong Hsu) * Demonstration on using the built-in Unit Testing Django Apps (Brian Ray) * How to get back to coding and recover from Cinco de Mayo with lots of strong Coffee (The Fixx Staff) Location -------- `The Fixx Coffee Bar <http://tinyurl.com/6nvrpw>`_ This is a new venue on the North side (Lakeview). Two blocks from Belmont "L" Brown, Red, and Purple line stations. Metered and Permit street parking available. Also pay parking available at the The Vic condo building across the street from The Vic Theater. We will probably head to Matilda's or somewhere near by for drinks and socialization after the meeting. About ChiPy ----------- ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs. Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago. Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info. ChiPy website: <http://chipy.org> ChiPy Mailing List: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago> Python website: <http://python.org>

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Sphinx 0.3 released
by Georg Brandl May 6, 2008

May 6, 2008

I'm pleased to announce the next minor version of Sphinx, the Python documentation generation tool. What is it? =========== Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of multiple reStructuredText source files). Its website is at <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/>. Partial list of changes ======================= (full list at http://sphinx.pocoo.org/changes.html) * The ``toctree`` directive now supports a ``glob`` option that allows glob-style entries in the content. * A new config value, `exclude_dirs`, can be used to exclude whole directories from the search for source files. * The configuration directory (containing ``conf.py``) can now be set independently from the source directory. For that, a new command-line option ``-c`` has been added. * A new directive ``tabularcolumns`` can be used to give a tabular column specification for LaTeX output. Tables now use the ``tabulary`` package. Table output is now much better, even with default settings. Literal blocks can now be placed in tables, with several caveats. * A new config value, `latex_use_parts`, can be used to enable parts in LaTeX documents. * Autodoc now skips inherited members for classes, unless you give the new ``inherited-members`` option. * A new config value, `autoclass_content`, selects if the docstring of the class' ``__init__`` method is added to the directive's body. * sphinx.ext.autodoc: descriptors are detected properly now. * sphinx.latexwriter: implement all reST admonitions, not just ``note`` and ``warning``. * Lots of little fixes to the LaTeX output and style. Enjoy! Georg

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OSDC 2008 Sydney (1-5 Dec 2008) - Call for Papers
by Mark Rees May 6, 2008

May 6, 2008

Call for Papers Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 1st - 5th December 2008, Sydney, Australia The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy. Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical. It is a great opportunity to meet, share, and learn with like-minded individuals. This year, the conference will be held in Sydney, Australia during the first week of December (1st - 5th). If you are an Open Source maintainer, developer or user, the organising committee would encourage you to submit a talk proposal on open source tools, solutions, languages or technologies you are working with. For more details and to submit your proposal(s), goto: http://osdc.com.au/2008/papers/cfp.html If you have any questions or require assistance with your submission, please don't hesitate to ask! We recognise the importance of Open Source in providing a medium for collaboration between individuals, researchers, business and government. In recognition of this and ensure a high standard of presentations, we intend to peer-review all submitted papers. OSDC 2008 Sydney (Australia) - Key Program Dates: 30 Jun - Initial proposals (short abstract) due 21 Jul - Proposal acceptance 15 Sep - Accepted paper submissions 13 Oct - Reviews completed 27 Oct - Final paper submission cutoff For all information, contacts and updates, see the OSDC conference web site at http://osdc.com.au/2008/ Also if you are interested in sponsoring, please see: http://www.osdc.com.au/2008/sponsors/opportunities.html Regards Mark Rees OSDC 2008 Marketing Co-ordinator

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Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 6)
by Gabriel Genellina May 6, 2008

May 6, 2008

QOTW: "[buildout] is not just some stupid thing." - Alan Runyan http://wiki.python.org/moin/buildout has more background sum() doesn't use the best possible algorithm when dealing with floating point numbers: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/489396.html Is count += 1 a thread-safe operation? http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/489103.html Python may read a file faster than C code (!): http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-April/488342.html When to use #!/usr/bin/python and other variants of the shebang line: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/489190.html Find and execute a function given its name: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-April/488648.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-April/485451.html How to store program configuration options in a human-readable format: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/489094.html A simple question triggers a long thread: why ord/chr aren't methods of the str class? why str.join and not list.join? http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-April/488908.html How to "unread" a line when iterating over a file: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-April/488661.html Problems with unicode objects in exception messages: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-April/488672.html ======================================================================== 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 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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ANN: PyAMF 0.3.1 Released
by Thijs Triemstra | Collab May 5, 2008

May 5, 2008

We're pleased to announce PyAMF 0.3.1, 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, compatible with Django, Twisted, TurboGears2, Google App Engine and any WSGI-compatible application. This release provides improved support for Google App Engine and comes with following changes and fixes: - Google Model/Expando encoding now works out of the box - Django model adapter now imported only when django.db.models is imported (Ticket:261) - Fixed issue with Remote Object destination (Ticket:270) - Added a new gateway for the Google App Engine - see pyamf.remoting.gateway.google.WebAppGateway (Ticket:253) - amf0 Encoder now takes amf3 contexts into account (Ticket:268) - amf*.encode helpers can now accept multiple arguments (Ticket:267) - Removed the dependency of fpconst for Python 2.5 or newer (Ticket: 243) - Solved issue with AMFPHP exceptions in AMF client (Ticket:258) - Fixed issue with url parsing in AMF client (Ticket:256) - Client no longer raises httplib.ResponseNotReady when making multiple requests using the same RemotingService (Ticket:254) 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 IRC [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://irc.collab.eu/pyamf

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