Mailman 3 August 2008 - Python-announce-list

ANN: Leo 4.5 beta 4 released
by Edward K Ream 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Leo 4.5 beta 4 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 This beta 4 release will likely be the last release before Leo 4.5 final. Leo 4.5 contains many important new features. See below for details. Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html The highlights of Leo 4.5: -------------------------- - Full support for @shadow files in Leo's core. - Major improvements to Leo's key binding code. - The beginning of usable vim-like bindings. - uA's may now be associated with vnodes in @thin and @shadow files. - Several magor reorganizations of Leo's code: including sax-based parsing, support for the Graph world (unified nodes), simplified drawing code. - Leo is now an installable package. - Prepared code to be ready for Python 3.0. - Many small improvements and bug fixes. 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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Version 2.3 of mod_wsgi is now available.
by Graham Dumpleton 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Version 2.3 of mod_wsgi is now available. The software and documentation are both available from: http://www.modwsgi.org The mod_wsgi package consists of an Apache web server module designed and implemented specifically for hosting Python based web applications that support the WSGI interface specification. Examples of major Python web frameworks and applications which are known to work in conjunction with mod_wsgi include CherryPy, Django, MoinMoin, Pylons, Trac, TurboGears, Werkzeug and Zope. Version 2.3 of mod_wsgi is a bug fix update. The most important of the bug fixes addresses a data truncation issue when using wsgi.file_wrapper extension (on Windows or Apache 1.3 on UNIX) with file objects. Data truncation could also occur for all deployment configurations for any other file like objects used with wsgi.file_wrapper. It is highly recommended that if you are using version 2.0 or 2.1 of mod_wsgi that you upgrade, especially if using web applications such as Trac, which make use of the wsgi.file_wrapper extension. Note that version 2.3 of mod_wsgi was a quick fire release to fix issues caused in version 2.2 release which preceded 2.3 by a day or so. If you have already obtained version 2.2 of mod_wsgi, you should ensure you upgrade to version 2.3. A description of changes in version 2.2/2.3 can be found in the change notes at: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ChangesInVersion0202 http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ChangesInVersion0203 If you have any questions about mod_wsgi or wish to provide feedback, use the Google group for mod_wsgi found at: http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi Enjoy Graham Dumpleton

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ANN: v0.5 of speech.py, the Python speech recognition module
by Michael Gundlach 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

I'm pleased to announce version 0.5 of the Python speech recognition module, speech.py. What is speech.py? =============== speech.py provides a clean and simple interface to the Microsoft Speech Kit, allowing your Windows Python program to speak out loud and to recognize spoken input. Homepage: http://pyspeech.googlecode.com/ PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/speech/ Installation: "easy_install speech" (you may also need one or two programs that are available via the homepage) What's new in version 0.5? =================== The most important addition is support for synchronous speech recognition, allowing you to detect speech much as raw_input() detects typing. For example, the following code detects speech and repeats what was heard: import speech answer = speech.input("Say something.") speech.say("You said: %s" % answer) answer = speech.input("Say a number less than three.", ["Zero", "One", "Two"]) speech.say("You picked %s" % answer) (This is in addition to the existing asynchronous API, allowing you to register callbacks to execute whenever certain spoken text is heard.) This release also represents a stabilization of the API and documentation -- thank you to the users to worked with early versions of the module as the API was refined. This will likely be the last release announced before 1.0, when support for grammar state machines is added. Example application: MusicButler ======================== An example application is available at http://musicbutler.googlecode.com -- a robot that learns your MP3 collection and then lets you control your stereo via voice interaction.. MusicButler is in alpha and doesn't warrant its own announcement yet; but it is a good example of a complex speech application.

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ANN: pyspread 0.0.9
by Martin Manns 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

pyspread 0.0.9 has been released. About: pyspread is a spreadsheet that accepts a pure python expression in each cell. New features: + Find & Replace + Undo & Redo + New context menu in grid + Improved speed especially for large grids + Relative addressing revamped + CSV import improved + Icons changed to Tango iconset + Docstrings improved + Bug fixes in print framework Highlights: + Numpy high performance arrays for spreadsheet calculation + Full access to python batteries from each cell + No non-python syntax add-ons + 3D grid + Cell access via slicing of numpy array S + X, Y, and Z yield current cell location for relative reference Notes: Please use distutils for installation. Make sure that the old files are deleted: $ su $ rm -Rf [MyPythonPath]/site-packages/pyspread* $ python setup.py install $ exit $ pyspread.py Requires: Python >=2.4, Numpy >=1.1.0, and wxPython >=2.8.7.1. License: GPL Project page: http://pyspread.sourceforge.net Enjoy Martin

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ANN: python-unixtools 0.0.1
by Hartmut Goebel 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

I'm pleased to announce python-unixtools 0.0.1, a set of Unix tools implemented in pure Python. These tools are currently only meant as supplement to be able to use distutils's sdist_tar, sdist_bztar and sdist_gztar on Windows/Wine. Thus they currently only support the flags required by distutils. But perhaps this will grow. Feel free to enhance. Includes tools: * tar * gzip * bzip2 :Quick Installation: easy_install -U python-unixtools :Download: http://python-unixtools.origo.ethz.ch/download/ :Author: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel(a)goebel-consult.de> :Copyright: GNU Public Licence v3 (GPLv3) :Homepage: http://python-unixtools.origo.ethz.ch/ -- Schönen Gruß - Regards Hartmut Goebel Dilp.-Informatiker (univ.), CISSP Goebel Consult Spezialist für IT-Sicherheit in komplexen Umgebungen http://www.goebel-consult.de

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Portable Python alpha packages
by Perica Zivkovic 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

People, As a preparation for the next Portable Python release I created some alpha packages (PP modules) and posted on the group (http:// groups.google.com/group/portablepython). It would be very nice if some of you can find the time to test these packages. Please report all issues you find on the Portable Python google group. Check this page for description how to install/use alpha packages. Click on http://groups.google.com/group/portablepython/web/alpha-packages - or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't work. cheers, Perica

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ANN: mpmath 0.9 released
by Fredrik Johansson 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

Hi, Mpmath version 0.9 is now available from the website: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/ It can also be downloaded from the Python Package Index: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mpmath/0.9 Mpmath is a pure-Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic that implements an extensive set of mathematical functions. It can be used as a standalone library or via SymPy (http://code.google.com/p/sympy/). The most significant change in 0.9 is that mpmath now transparently uses GMPY (http://code.google.com/p/gmpy/) integers instead of Python's builtin integers if GMPY is installed. This makes mpmath much faster at high precision. Computing 1 million digits of pi, for example, now only takes ~10 seconds. Extensive benchmarks (with and without GMPY) are available here: http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/bench/mpbench.html Credit goes to Case Van Horsen for implementing GMPY support. There are many new functions, including Jacobi elliptic functions (contributed by Mike Taschuk), various exponential integrals, Airy functions, Fresnel integrals, etc. Several missing basic utility functions have also been added, and Mario Pernici has taken great care to optimize the implementations of various elementary functions. For a more complete changelog, see: http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/CHANGES Bug reports and other comments are welcome at the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/list or the mpmath mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/mpmath Thanks to all who contributed code or provided feedback for this release! Fredrik

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Pygments 0.11 "Straußenei" released
by Georg Brandl 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

I've just uploaded the Pygments 0.11 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>. Many thanks go to Tim Hatch for writing or integrating most of the bug fixes and new features in this release. Of course, thanks to all other contributors too! - Lexers added: * Nasm-style assembly language, thanks to delroth * YAML, thanks to Kirill Simonov * ActionScript 3, thanks to Pierre Bourdon * Cheetah/Spitfire templates, thanks to Matt Good * Lighttpd config files * Nginx config files * Gnuplot plotting scripts * Clojure * POV-Ray scene files * Sqlite3 interactive console sessions * Scala source files, thanks to Krzysiek Goj - Lexers improved: * C lexer highlights standard library functions now and supports C99 types. * Bash lexer now correctly highlights heredocs without preceding whitespace. * Vim lexer now highlights hex colors properly and knows a couple more keywords. * Irc logs lexer now handles xchat's default time format (#340) and correctly highlights lines ending in ``>``. * Support more delimiters for perl regular expressions (#258). * ObjectiveC lexer now supports 2.0 features. - Added "Visual Studio" style. - Updated markdown processor to Markdown 1.7. - Support roman/sans/mono style defs and use them in the LaTeX formatter. - The RawTokenFormatter is no longer registered to ``*.raw`` and it's documented that tokenization with this lexer may raise exceptions. - New option ``hl_lines`` to HTML formatter, to highlight certain lines. - New option ``prestyles`` to HTML formatter. - New option *-g* to pygmentize, to allow lexer guessing based on filetext (can be slowish, so file extensions are still checked first). - ``guess_lexer()`` now makes its decision much faster due to a cache of whether data is xml-like (a check which is used in several versions of ``analyse_text()``. Several lexers also have more accurate ``analyse_text()`` now. Cheers, Georg

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Pyro 3.8 released
by Irmen de Jong 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

I'm happy to announce Pyro 3.8 -- Python's own powerful remote method invocation technology! You can get it via http://pyro.sourceforge.net, then go to the SF project homepage download area. While 3.8 is a bug-fix release there are quite a lot of improvements since the previous version. Please check the changes chapter in the manual for details: http://pyro.sourceforge.net/manual/12-changes.html#latest Have fun, and thanks for your interest, support, and feedback! --Irmen de Jong ** What is Pyro? Pyro is an acronym for PYthon Remote Objects. Pyro is an advanced and powerful Distributed Object Technology system written entirely in Python, that is designed to be very easy to use. It is extremely easy to implement a distributed system with Pyro, because all network communication code is abstracted and hidden from your application. You just get a remote Python object and invoke methods on the object on the other machine. Pyro offers you a Name Server, an Event Service, mobile objects, remote exceptions, dynamic proxies, remote attribute access, automatic reconnection, a very good and detailed manual, and many examples to get you started right away.

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Pydev 1.3.20 Released
by Fabio Zadrozny 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi All, Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.3.20 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: Show error if using token not defined in __all__ in wild import. * Search: Working with eclipse 3.4. Release Highlights in Pydev: ---------------------------------------------- * Pydev Package Explorer: Editor-link does not remove focus from current editor if it's already a match (bug when compare editor was opened) * Pydev debugger: Showing set and frozenset contents * Pydev debugger: Watch working in eclipse 3.4 * Pydev debugger: Breakpoint properties accept new lines and tabs * Pydev debugger: Workaround for python bug when filenames don't have absolute paths correctly generated * Pydev code-completion: Wild import will only show tokens defined in __all__ (if it's available) * Interactive console: Fixed problem when more attempts to connect were needed * Interactive console: Fixed console integration problem with other plugins because of interfaces not properly implemented * Incremental find: Backspace works correctly * Launch icons: Transparent background (thanks to Radim Kubacki) * Code Formatter: Exponentials handled correctly * Launching: Unit-test and code-coverage may launch multiple folders/files at once * Code coverage: Number format exception no longer given when trying to show lines not executed in the editor and all lines are executed * Auto-indent: Fixed issue when using tabs which could result in spaces being added 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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