Mailman 3 August 2008 - Python-announce-list

pylib/py.test 0.9.2
by holger krekel 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Welcome to the 0.9.2 py lib and py.test release - mainly fixing Windows issues, providing better packaging and integration with setuptools. Summry of main features: * py.test: cross-project testing tool with many advanced features * py.execnet: ad-hoc code distribution to SSH, Socket and local sub processes * py.magic.greenlet: micro-threads on standard CPython ("stackless-light") * py.path: path abstractions over local and subversion files * rich documentation of py's exported API * tested against Linux, Win32, OSX, works on python 2.3-2.6 good entry points: Pypi pages: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/py/ Download/Install: http://codespeak.net/py/0.9.2/download.html Documentation/API: http://codespeak.net/py/0.9.2/index.html the CHANGELOG excerpt for the 0.9.1 -> 0.9.2 transition: * refined installation and metadata, created new setup.py, now based on setuptools/ez_setup (thanks to Ralf Schmitt for his support). * improved the way of making py.* scripts available in windows environments, they are now added to the Scripts directory as ".cmd" files. * py.path.svnwc.status() now is more complete and uses xml output from the 'svn' command if available (Guido Wesdorp) * fix for py.path.svn* to work with svn 1.5 (Chris Lamb) * fix path.relto(otherpath) method on windows to use normcase for checking if a path is relative. * py.test's traceback is better parseable from editors (follows the filenames:LINENO: MSG convention) (thanks to Osmo Salomaa) * fix to javascript-generation, "py.test --runbrowser" should work more reliably now * removed previously accidentally added py.test.broken and py.test.notimplemented helpers. * there now is a py.__version__ attribute best and have fun, holger krekel -- collaborative expert contracting: http://merlinux.eu PyPy Python/Compiler tool chain: http://codespeak.net/pypy pylib py.test/greenlets/svn APIs: http://pylib.org

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Announcing a feature update (v1.4) of YaMA, the meeting assistant
by Atul 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hi, Yet Another Meeting Assistant (YaMA), will help you with the Agenda, Meeting Invitations, Minutes of a Meeting as well as Action Items. If you are the assigned minute taker at any meeting, this tool is for you. Checkout http://yama.sourceforge.net/ YaMA is written in Python and Tkinter, is open source software released under GPLv2, and is hosted by SourceForge (www.sourceforge.net) Whats New in version 1.4 : 1. Usability enhancements 2. Interoperability enhancements 3. Minor Bug Fixes 4. Exports/Imports Attendees list to/from CSV format Thanks and Regards, -- Atul

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Pre-Pycon London Python meetup, September the 2nd.
by Simon Brunning 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Details here: http://tinyurl.com/5btwsd -- Cheers, Simon B.

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RELEASED Python 2.6b3 and 3.0b3
by Barry Warsaw 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the third and last planned beta releases of Python 2.6 and Python 3.0. Please note that these are beta releases, and as such are not suitable for production environments. We continue to strive for a high degree of quality, and these releases are intended to freeze the feature set for Python 2.6 and 3.0. As these are the last planned beta releases, we strongly urge you to download these releases and test them against your code. Once we reach release candidates (currently planned for 03-Sep-2008), only highly critical bugs will be fixed before the final release. If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit bug reports at http://bugs.python.org For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python 2.6 website: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/ and the Python 3.0 web site: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/ See PEP 361 for release schedule details: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/ Enjoy, - -Barry Barry Warsaw barry(a)python.org Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIrN472YZpQepbvXERAl4fAJ9QxHhSn/jYdA3lCYvgfXRhBVV2pgCfdNUx 3NTlSrsSULxXhoMqiNmUMSg= =Z4+y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Cryha - Toolkit for crypto on database
by Kless 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

I'm proud to release version 0.9 of Cryha. Cryha is a Python toolkit for securing information into a data base; it lets hash passwords, and encrypt/decrypt personal information. It is ready for input of Unicode characters, and the schema is returned as Unicode. The text is stored according to this schema for a hash: ``separator, the hash function identifier, separator, the salt, separator, the hash output`` And this another for a cipher text: ``separator, the cipher identifier, separator, the mode identifier, separator, the IV parameter, separator, the ciphertext`` The idea of the schema has been taken of Linux systems that store the hashed passwords so, using a ``$`` as separator. For more information about Cryha read on its home project [1]. It can be installed via setuptools: $ sudo easy_install Cryha [1] http://github.com/kless/cryha/tree/master

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Resolver One 1.2
by Giles Thomas 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

We are proud to announce the release of Resolver One, version 1.2 - the largest IronPython application in the world, we think, at 38,000 lines of production code backed up by 150,000 lines of unit and functional tests. Resolver One is a Rapid Application Development tool for analysing and presenting business data, using a familiar spreadsheet interface combined with a powerful IronPython-based scripting capability that allows you to insert your own code directly into the recalculation loop. For version 1.2, we have on big headline feature; a new function called RunWorkbook that allows you to "call" one spreadsheet from another, passing in parameters and pulling out results - just like functions, but without having to code the function by hand. This allows you to mix spreadsheet-based and code-based logic, using the best paradigm for the job in hand. We've also added a whole bunch of usability enhancements - the full (long!) changelist is up on our website, or you can see a screencast: <http://www.resolversystems.com/screencasts/release-1.2> It's free for non-commercial use, so if you would like to take a look, you can download it from our website: <http://www.resolversystems.com/get-it/> (registration no longer required). Best regards, Giles -- Giles Thomas MD & CTO, Resolver Systems Ltd. giles.thomas(a)resolversystems.com +44 (0) 20 7253 6372 Try out Resolver One! <http://www.resolversystems.com/get-it/> 17a Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5RD, UK VAT No.: GB 893 5643 79 Registered in England and Wales as company number 5467329. Registered address: 843 Finchley Road, London NW11 8NA, UK

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Roundup Issue Tracker version 1.4.5.1 released
by Richard Jones 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

I'm proud to release version 1.4.5 of Roundup. 1.4.5.1 has one new feature: - Add use of username/password stored in ~/.netrc in mailgw (sf patch #1912105) It is otherwise mostly a bugfix release: - 'Make a Copy' failed with more than one person in nosy list (sf #1906147) - xml-rpc security checks and tests across all backends (sf #1907211) - Send a Precedence header in email so (well-written) autoresponders don't - Fix mailgw total failure bounce message generation (thanks Bradley Dean) - Fix for postgres 8.3 compatibility (and bug) (sf patch #2030479 and bug #1959261) - Fix for translations (sf patch #2032526) - Fire reactors after file storage is all done (sf patch #2001243) - Allow negative ids other than -1 for item generation (sf patch #1982481) - Better German translation for retiring users (sf #1998701) - More improvements to German translation (sf #1919446) - Add filter() to XML-RPC interface (sf patch #1966456) - Fix IndexError when there are no messages to an issue (sf patch #1894249) - Prevent broken pipe errors in csv export (sf patch #1911449) - New session API and cleanup thanks anatoly t. - Make WSGI handler threadsafe (sf #1968027) - Improved URL matching RE (sf #2038858) - Allow binary file content submission via XML-RPC (sf #1995623) - Don't run old code on newer database (sf #1979556) - Fix HTML injection into page title - Fix indexer handling of indexed Link properties (sf #1936876) If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.3 or later for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: roundup-demo Release info and download page: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql and postgresql).

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Elisa Media Center 0.5.6 Release
by Florian Boucault 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Dear Elisa users, The Elisa team is happy to announce the release of Elisa Media Center 0.5.6 codenamed "Perks". A very important and long awaited improvement of this release is the introduction of DVD playback including DVD menus support. It is elegantly integrated in the user interface making it easy and natural to use. A well deserved big thanks goes to the GStreamer hackers who made that possible to happen. A considerable number of bugs were also fixed during this cycle (25 bugs) mainly related to device hotplugging and to the media scanner. On top of these bug fixes, this release also introduces the following new features: - Contextual actions now available in all view modes (list with preview, grid, coverflow). - First support for contextual actions in the pictures section. - DVD playback with support of menus. Installers and sources can be downloaded from http://elisa.fluendo.com/download/ Bug reports and feature requests are welcome at https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug There is still a known issue in this release and we are working on solving it as fast as possible: Audio CDs are not detected. Have a nice day, The Elisa team

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Elixir 0.6.1 released!
by Gaetan de Menten 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

I am very pleased to announce that version 0.6.1 of Elixir (http://elixir.ematia.de) is now available. As always, feedback is very welcome, preferably on Elixir mailing list. This is a minor release featuring some bug fixes (one of them to handle a late rename in SQLAlchemy's 0.5 beta cycle), a new, slighty nicer, syntax for providing custom arguments to the column(s) needed for ManyToOne relationships and some exception messages improvements. The full list of changes can be seen at: http://elixir.ematia.de/trac/browser/elixir/tags/0.6.1/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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PyUseCase 1.4.1 released!
by Geoff Bache 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Dear all, This is (again) an announcement for a tool that has existed for some time but hasn't been listed here before. The current release has only a couple of minor bugfixes to version 1.4 but as TextTest (previous message) depends on it I tend to release both at about the same time. Regards, Geoff Bache About PyUseCase (See also http://www.texttest.org/index.php?page=concepts&n=xusecase): ============= PyUseCase is a record/replay layer for Python GUIs. It consists of two modules: usecase.py, which is a generic framework for all Python GUIs (or even non-GUI programs) and gtkusecase.py, which is specific to PyGTK GUIs. See www.pygtk.org for more info on PyGTK. The aim is only to simulate the interactive actions of a user, not to verify correctness of a program. Essentially it allows an interactive program to be run in batch mode. Another tool is needed for verification of behaviour, for example TextTest, also available from SourceForge. The idea of a "use-case" recorder is described in some detail in a paper at http://www.carmensystems.com/research_development/articles/crtr0402.pdf To summarise, the motivation for it is that traditional record/replay tools, besides being expensive, tend to record very low-level scripts that are a nightmare to maintain and can only be read by developers. This is in large part because they record the GUI mechanics rather than the intent behind the test. (Even though this is usually in terms of widgets not pixels now) Use-case recorders like PyUseCase are built around the idea of recording in a domain language via the developer setting up a mapping between the actions that can be performed with the UI and names that describe what the point of these actions is. This incurs an extra setup cost of course, but it has the dual benefit of making the tests much more readable and much more resilient to future UI changes than if they are recorded in a more programming-language-like script. Another key advantage is that, because we instrument the code anyway to create the above mapping, it is easy to tell PyUseCase where the script will need to wait, thus allowing it to record "wait" statements without the test writer having to worry about it. This is otherwise a common headache for recorded tests: most other tools require you to explicitly synchronise the test when writing it (external to the recording). Example recorded usecase ("test script") for a flight booking system: wait for flight information to load select flight SA004 proceed to book seats # SA004 is full... accept error message quit

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