Mailman 3 August 2008 - Python-announce-list

pysyncml 0.1 released
by Jérôme Laheurte 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Hi, I'm happy to announce the first release of pysyncml, a Python wrapper for the Funambol C++ API. The project page, with example scripts and API reference, is here: https://pysyncml.forge.funambol.org/ You can download it from here: https://pysyncml.forge.funambol.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList Tested platforms are: Linux i386 (Slackware 12), MacOS X 10.4 and Windows XP. Binaries are available for these platforms (for Python 2.5), as well as source code. * About pysyncml * pysyncml has two parts: * A Python extension module (_pysyncml) wrapping the Funambol C++ API (see http://www.funambol.com/) * A pure Python module (pysyncml) with higher-level classes to ease writing SyncML-aware applications in Python. pysyncml is licensed under the GPL, version 2.1. -- Jérôme Laheurte <fraca7(a)free.fr>

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pyArkansas Conference, Oct 4
by Greg Lindstrom 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

The Arkansas Python Users Group announces a 1-day Python conference to be held on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas (www.uca.edu) on October 4. We plan a 3-hour "Introduction to Python" class as well as talks on text/file processing, Python standard library, Django, pyGame, OLPC and GIS programming. Everyone is welcome although we need to cap registration at 100 due to the physical space we have. Check out our wiki ( http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/) for more information.

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Regular Toronto Area Python User's Group this Tuesday 7pm
by Mike C. Fletcher 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

We'll be holding our regular Toronto Area Python User's Group meeting this coming Tuesday at 7pm at Linux Caffe. Tentative topic: "Profiling, debugging, testing, a discussion of tools, tricks and techniques" Looking to pool our resources on what tools, tricks and techniques are available for debugging (Python) code, particularly larger projects, but if you have something that really helps for small projects that would be cool too. Bring your favourite ideas and share them with the group. Linux Caffe is at the corner of Grace and Harbord, one block South of Christie subway station. More location details on the web-site: http://www.pygta.org Have fun all, Mike PS: Speaking of the web-site, we have some new text proposed for the group's mission statement, we should take a few minutes to discuss that at some point. -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

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Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 12)
by Gabriel Genellina 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

QOTW: "... XML Schema ... include[s] 44 built-in types and a complex set of rules for defining additional types, encompassing atomic, simple, complex, primitive, derived, list, union, and anonymous types, as well as two forms of inheritance, twelve 'constraining facets', substitution groups, and various other features." - Don Chamberlin http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~denilson/docs/cascon03/chamberlin.pdf "The whole XML world has migrated from 'It is deliberately simple so all languages can play' to 'Let's complexify it so those pesky GPL guys can't keep up.'" - Harry George http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/cd6ef4d89adb44ad Comparing the speed of a fixed algorithm in Python, Java and other languages: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/fa8a42… Don't rely on eval(repr(x))==x even for unit tests only: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1202ba… How to find out if an object is a class: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6a1901… Cleanly exiting from a thread when Ctrl-C is pressed: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/192e7e… An optimization experiment using Psyco: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8e7fa3… The advantage of using asynchat over plain asyncore: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6be27e… How to sort a list on multiple keys: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1bb535… How was your first Python impression, when you read Python code for the first time? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9caa68… ======================================================================== 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://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/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: pyglet 1.1
by Alex Holkner 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

pyglet 1.1 has been released, with many new features since pyglet 1.0 (scroll down for details). http://www.pyglet.org --- pyglet provides an object-oriented programming interface for developing games and other visually-rich applications for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Some of the features of pyglet are: * No external dependencies or installation requirements. For most application and game requirements, pyglet needs nothing else besides Python, simplifying distribution and installation. * Take advantage of multiple windows and multi-monitor desktops. pyglet allows you to use as many windows as you need, and is fully aware of multi-monitor setups for use with fullscreen games. * Load images, sound, music and video in almost any format. pyglet can optionally use AVbin to play back audio formats such as MP3, OGG/Vorbis and WMA, and video formats such as DivX, MPEG-2, H.264, WMV and Xvid. Some of the new features of pyglet 1.1 are: * Formatted text rendering, including a small subset of HTML * Fast 2D sprite rendering * A new graphics API, simplifying the use of high-performance VBOs in OpenGL * A resource-loading API, including automatic texture packing * Animated GIF support, and animations created from sprite sheets * Frame-by-frame image retrieval from video sources * An optional managed, CPU-friendly main event loop Cheers Alex.

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ANN: papyros 0.2
by George Sakkis 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

I am pleased to announce papyros-0.2, the second alpha release of papyros: http://code.google.com/p/papyros/. Compared to the initial release 14 months ago, only the basic goal has remained the same; both the API and the internals have been thoroughly revamped. Some of the highlights are: - As simple as it gets: for most purposes, the API is reduced to a single method ("dispatcher.execute(tasks)"). - Easier task definition. - (Optional) ordered task execution and chunksize (inspired from pyprocessing). - A distributed group can now handle concurrently more than one independent task sequences: enables serving multiple clients. - Several bug fixes and performance improvements. About ----- Papyros is a small platform independent package for parallel processing. Currently two main implementations are provided for the same API: one using multiple threads and the other multiple processes on one or more hosts through Pyro (http://pyro.sourceforge.net/).

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ANN: cssutils 0.9.5.1
by Christof Hoeke 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

what is it ---------- A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. (Not a renderer though!) about this release ------------------ 0.9.5.1 is a bugfix release. main changes ------------ 0.9.5.1 080811 + **BUGFIX**: Fixed parsing of ``}a,b`` which resulted in TypeError until now. + **BUGFIX**: A rule with a selector using an undefined and therefor invalid namespace prefix is ignored now. + **BUGFIX**: Removed typo in MediaList which resulted in Exception when parsing medialist containing ``all`` and another media. + **BUGFIX**: Reading imported styles may have failed under certain conditions with an AttributeError. + FEATURE: Added ``cssutils.VERSION`` which is the current release version, in this case e.g. ``"0.9.5.1"`` + IMPROVEMENT: Optimized imports and partly removed circular ones which are a bit tricky... Note: CSSValue, CSSValueList, and CSSPrimitiveValue and the relevant methods/properties Property.cssValue and CSSStyleDeclaration.getPropertyCSSValue are more or less DEPRECATED and will probably be replaced with interfaces defined in CSSOM. For now use the properties and methods that handle values as simple strings, e.g. ``Property.value``. As the aforementioned classes are not hardly that useful anyway this should not be a big problem but please beware if you use or have used them. If you think this a bad idea please let me know! license ------- cssutils is published under the LGPL version 3 or later, see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ If you have other licensing needs please let me know. download -------- For download options see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ cssutils needs Python 2.4 or higher (tested with Python 2.5.2 on Vista only) Bug reports (via Google code), comments, etc are very much appreciated! Thanks. Christof

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July PSF Board meeting minutes available
by David Goodger 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Minutes of Regular Meetings of the Board of Directors of the Python Software Foundation, July 14, 2008: http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2008-07-14 David Goodger, PSF Secretary

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ANN: yolk 0.4.1
by Rob Cakebread 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

yolk 0.4.1 has been released. This is mainly a bugfix release. Changes: * Added HTTP proxy support for XML-RPC * -f is now case-insensitive * -S does not return the entire PyPI index if a package doesn't exist (this was fixed upstream in PyPI) * Check for integer with -L What is yolk? ============= yolk is a command-line client and library for querying installed Python packages on your system and packages in The Python Package Index (PyPI). http://tools.assembla.com/yolk Features: * List installed Python packages (all, active, non-active, develpment mode) * Show which installed packages have updates available on PyPI * Show all metadata for a package or individual fields, installed or via PyPI * Show just URLs for source, egg or repository (SVN etc.) * Show setuptools entrypoints for a module * All commands available through PyPI's XML-RPC interface yolk uses a setuptools-based plugin system. Third-party plugins =================== * yolk-portage - Shows which packages were installed via Gentoo Linux's package manager and which were installed directly via setuptools/distutils. Applications based on yolklib ============================= * g-pypi - Creates ebuilds for Gentoo Linux by querying PyPI * qyolk - GUI for yolk in QT

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[Elisa] Elisa Media Center 0.5.5 Release
by Olivier Tilloy 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Dear Elisa users, This mail announces the release of Elisa Media Center 0.5.5 codenamed "Submission". An accent has been put on stability during this release cycle which resulted in 18 bugs fixed. We have also introduced new features and re-introduced some that were in the 0.3.x series and had not been ported to the new architecture yet. This includes: - Port of the avahi plugin from the 0.3.x series. - Port of the DAAP plugin from the 0.3.x series. - First support for contextual actions in the music section. - The media scanner now handles pictures which are indexed in the database and accessible from the Photo Library. 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 are still some known issues in this release and we are working on solving them as fast as possible: - Audio CD are not detected Have an excellent day, The Elisa team Elisa 0.5.5 "Submission" ======================== This is Elisa 0.5.5, fifth release of the 0.5 branch. New features since 0.5.4: - Port of the avahi plugin from the 0.3.x series, which discovers hosts and services on your local network. - Port of the DAAP plugin from the 0.3.x series, which allows browsing DAAP music shares (iTunes, Rhythmbox, Banshee, Amarok, Exaile, ...) on your local network. - First support for contextual actions in the music section: * Add an artist, an album, a track or a radio station to your list of favorites for faster access and classification * Play all the tracks of a given album or all the albums of a given artist * Shuffle at the same level - The media scanner now handles pictures which are indexed in the database and accessible from the Photo Library. Bugs fixed since 0.5.4: - 248873: black volume bar extends past grey overlay - 255757: Sequential playlists are broken - 256049: Display of actions broken in decades view - 256862: Player wait animation stay visible sometime - 233757: .srt subtitles are not shown - 251787: Losing the title display in coverflow and grid modes - 253202: thumbnail is gone when fastly scrolling in video files - 254703: [win32] elisa crashes scrolling up and down the music library - 255744: album cover missing in tracks-of-album view - 255748: No artist pictures displayed - 255751: favorites entry is displayed before USB devices in music section - 255753: "All tracks" entry for artists is not displayed correctly - 252637: Songs without Albums, Not Visible In Artist View - 253938: [win32] don't ship the pdb files with elisa - 255672: Flickr plugin tries to load bunch of wrong images - 255745: multiple wrong covers in the albums overview - 255992: [win32] when elisa crashes, the dump-alert is split into three - 243236: audio visualisation is not taking the full screen Download You can find source releases of Elisa on the download page: http://elisa.fluendo.com/download Elisa Homepage More details can be found on the project's website: http://elisa.fluendo.com Support and Bugs We use Launchpad for bug reports and feature requests: https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug Developers All code is in a Bazaar branch and can be checked out from there. It is hosted on Launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/elisa Contributors to this release: - Alessandro Decina - Benjamin Kampmann - David McLeod - Florian Boucault - Guido Amoruso - Guillaume Emont - Gunnar Holmberg - Jesús Corrius - Joshua Eichen - Lionel Martin - Olivier Tilloy - Philippe Normand

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