Mailman 3 July 2008 - Python-announce-list

Announce: PyBindGen 0.9 released
by Gustavo Carneiro July 27, 2008

July 27, 2008

PyBindGen is a Python module that is geared to generating C/C++ code that binds a C/C++ library for Python. It does so without extensive use of either C++ templates or C pre-processor macros. It has modular handling of C/C++ types, and can be easily extended with Python plugins. The generated code is almost as clean as what a human programmer would write. It can be downloaded from: http://code.google.com/p/pybindgen/ Bug reports should be filed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pybindgen Special thanks to Roman Yakovenko (lots of help with pygccxml) and Mathieu Lacage (API suggestions, documentation writing). === pybindgen 0.9 === - Fix GCC 4.2 compilation warnings; - Works with some GCCXML 0.9/cvs snapshots (tested with 2008-04-20), in addition to stable 0.7; - Support for overloaded virtual methods; - Add 'ignore' annotation support, allowing to ignore functions and methods; - Generally work hard to make sure the generated code at least always compiles, even if we have to disable generation of certain wrappers; - Add support for protected methods and constructors; - Preliminary support for templated classes/methods/functions; - Add more type conversions, such as uint64_t and uint16_t; - Support implicit conversions also for pass-by-reference parameters; - Add supported for nested (i.e. defined inside a class) enums and classes; - Add support for adding manually written custom method or function wrappers; - Split the gccxmlparser.ModuleParser.parse() method into several smaller methods, to allow greater customization and flexibility; - Add support for customising C++ class instance creation code; - Much improved support for wrapping pure C code; - Support std::ostream << myobject mapped as str(myobject) (Mathieu Lacage) - Support default values in parameters; - More intuitive API (thanks Mathieu Lacage for feedback) - Support generation of a Python pybindgen script from scanned API; - Support splitting of generated python script and/or C/C++ module into several files; - Lots of small bug fixes, and other features I probably forgot; - New tutorial (thanks Mathieu Lacage), and API docs. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit "The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert

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bliptv.reader V1.0 released
by Christian Scholz July 27, 2008

July 27, 2008

I am pleased to announce Version 1.0 of bliptv.reader, a package for easy access to videos hosted on blip.tv. You can get it via PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bliptv.reader What is bliptv.reader? ---------------------- bliptv.reader is a Python wrapper around the API of video hosting service blip.tv. It gives you easy access to shows and episodes and many properties of them. Of course you can also easily access the actual video files including their filesize and dimensions. For a full explanation of the motivation behind it and some example code have a look at my blog post about it: http://tinyurl.com/64t7tv or check the PyPI homepage: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bliptv.reader -- Christian -- Christian Scholz Homepage: http://comlounge.net COM.lounge blog: http://mrtopf.de/blog Luetticher Strasse 10 Skype: HerrTopf 52064 Aachen Video Blog: http://comlounge.tv Tel: +49 241 400 730 0 E-Mail cs(a)comlounge.net Fax: +49 241 979 00 850 IRC: MrTopf, Tao_T neue Show: TOPFtäglich (http://mrtopf.de/blog/category/topf-taglich/)

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Mindstorms NXT Bluetooth API modules (with XInput support)
by Jason R. Coombs July 26, 2008

July 26, 2008

I'm pleased to announce jaraco.nxt 1.0, the first public release of a library for communicating with the Lego Mindstorms NXT devices. A minimal web site has been set up at: http://www.jaraco.com/projects/jaraco.nxt The modules have been uploaded to PyPI and should be installable using: easy_install jaraco.nxt The source is also available from PyPI. The package implements the Bluetooth API, as specified in the Lego SDK. The modules should work in any OS that supports the Bluetooth Serial protocol and the pyserial library. Additionally, a module is provided that implements receiving input from an XBox 360 controller via the Microsoft XInput library (requires ctypes). This project is very much a work in progress, and any patches are welcome. -- Regards Jason R. Coombs

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[pygtk] ANNOUNCE: PyGObject 2.15.2
by Johan Dahlin July 26, 2008

July 26, 2008

I am pleased to announce version 2.15.2 of the Python bindings for GObject. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.15/ What's new since PyGObject 2.15.2? 2.15.2 26-jul-2008 - New module: glib, which contains the parts of the old gobject bindings which are in the glib library. MainLoop/MainContext/Sources/GOption and a few others has now moved. - Add a new installed library libpyglib-2.0, which contains the extension API for third-part modules instead of relying on macros which accesses struct fields. - Add bindings for gio.File.enumerate_children_async, gio.FileEnumerator.next_files_async, gio.Mount.mount, gio.File.mount_mountable, gio.File.mount_enclosing_volume, gio.File.unmount_mountable, gio.File.copy. - Add a new api for mapping a GError domain to an exception and register an exception for GIOError. - Remove leading IO_* prefix for the gio flags and register a quark for the domain. - Use GSlice in the glib module and bump required version to 2.14. Blurb: GObject is a object system library used by GTK+ and GStreamer. PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject+ library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyGTK, PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GObject library itself PyGObject is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full featured applications. PyGObject requires glib >= 2.14.0 and Python >= 2.3.5 to build. GIO bindings require glib >= 2.16.0. Johan

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ANN: RELEASE: 4Py
by webmaster＠keyphrene.com July 25, 2008

July 25, 2008

4Py is a collection of wrappers for Python. You can retrieve this package in Org.keyphrene Library. Org.keyphrene has been splited to simple package. SSL4Py is an OpenSSL Wrapper. SSH4Py is a LibSSH2 Wrapper (SSH, SCP, SFTP). Spell4Py is a Hunspell Wrapper. http://www.keyphrene.com/products/4py/

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PyGoogleDesktop v0.4 released!
by Jack G. Atkinson Jr. July 25, 2008

July 25, 2008

I'm pleased to announce the release of PyGoogleDesktop version 0.4 available at http://code.google.com/p/pythongoogledesktop/ Feedback is welcome. What is PyGoogleDesktop? ----------------------------- PyGoogleDesktop is a python interface into the Google Desktop search engine. It allows you to script searches in the Google Desktop engine with existing python code. Right now, only Windows platforms are supported, but future plans to support other OS's will hopefully happen as time permits. This is released under at new BSD-style license. -- --------------------------------------------- Jack G. Atkinson Jr. "Jay" Consultant Doxa Logos Technologies, Inc. doxalogos(a)gmail.com Ph (256)-728-3584 Fax (256)-728-2544 ---------------------------------------------

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ActiveState Code (the new Python Cookbook) has been launched
by Trent Mick July 25, 2008

July 25, 2008

Hello all, I happy to announce that ActiveState Code has been taken out of beta. This is the new site replacing the ASPN Cookbooks -- in particular the Python Cookbook. http://code.activestate.com/ The site was soft-launched two weeks ago, and I believe it is ready for real use now. All old ASPN Cookbook links will now redirect to the new site. All user and recipe ids have been maintained to make transition easier. The old cookbook categories are now done with tags, links to the category pages have been maintained via redirects. Details on the category -> tag translation are here: http://code.activestate.com/aspnredir/categories/ Full details of the launch are here: http://trentm.com/blog/archives/2008/07/24/activestate-code-lauched/ But really it is more fun to just browse around. Just Python recipes: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/ I hadn't known that Raymond Hettinger had 4 of the top 5 voted recipes. This is handy for seeing the most prolific authors: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/ Alex Martelli's recipes are always good reading: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/97991/ Personally, I hope tagging (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/) will enable things like: - developing a set of examples for using "ctypes" (I struggled a lot when getting going with ctypes) - showing example usages of a lot of the modules in the stdlib. For example, the logging module is capable of a *lot*, but more example configurations would help me use it. I welcome all feedback. Cheers, Trent -- Trent Mick trentm at activestate.com

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ikaaro 0.20.6 released
by "J. David Ibáñez" July 22, 2008

July 22, 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. This is a bug-fix release. Among others, there are several fixes for the tracker and for sending emails. Also, TinyMCE has been upgraded to the 3.0.9 version. But maybe most important is the move of the web site to a new domain name, now http://www.hforge.org/ will be hosting ikaaro and related projects. Resources --------- Download http://download.hforge.org/ikaaro/ikaaro-0.20.6.tar.gz Home http://www.hforge.org/ikaaro Mailing list http://www.hforge.org/community/ http://archives.hforge.org/index.cgi?list=itools Bug Tracker http://bugs.hforge.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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Elixir 0.6.0 released!
by Gaetan de Menten July 22, 2008

July 22, 2008

I am very pleased to announce that version 0.6.0 of Elixir (http://elixir.ematia.de) is now available. As always, feedback is very welcome, preferably on Elixir mailing list. Please look at: http://elixir.ematia.de/trac/wiki/Migrate05to06 for detailed upgrade notes. Here are the highlights for this release: - Added support for SQLAlchemy 0.5 - Better support for entities spread across several modules: in relationship definitions, you don't have to use the "full path" to the other entity anymore. - Changed the default session characteristics to be more inline with SQLAlchemy defaults (if you were using the default session, please look at those upgrade notes!). - New methods on the base entity to update entities from or dump entities to a hierarchical (JSON-like) dictionary structure. It also features a bunch of bugfixes, mostly related to non-default schema and autoloaded entities. The full list of changes can be seen at: http://elixir.ematia.de/trac/browser/elixir/tags/0.6.0/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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Elisa Media Center 0.5.2 Release
by Olivier Tilloy July 21, 2008

July 21, 2008

Dear Elisa Users, The Elisa team is happy to announce the second official release of the 0.5 series of the Elisa Media Center, Elisa 0.5.2 'Good news everyone...'. With this release Elisa takes another step towards its goal of being a true cross-platform media center. It works under Windows Vista and XP, as well as the main Linux distributions. The main outlines of this release are: - The integration of a media scanner that indexes one's music collection and allows one to browse it by Artists/Albums, with automatic albums' covers and artists' photos retrieval; - The localization of the UI. Thanks to contributions from the community Elisa is currently fully translated in Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Swedish and Brazilian Portuguese. Various bugs have also been fixed since the release of Elisa 0.5.1, the complete list can be found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+milestone/0.5.2 There are still some known issues in this release and we are working on solving them as fast as possible: - Audio Visualization does not work on Windows - Audio CD are not detected - DAAP client missing under Windows - USB storage devices do not show up on Linux To find out more on the progress of the project, you can check the project's page on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/elisa Feel free to try it out! Elisa 0.5.2 can be downloaded from the website at http://elisa.fluendo.com/download/. You can also help us by suggesting cool features, reporting bugs, submitting patches, writing plugins or localizing Elisa in your language. Best regards, The Elisa team

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