Mailman 3 September 2008 - Python-announce-list

ETS 3.0.2 released!
by Dave Peterson 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

I'm pleased to announce that the Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) 3.0.2 has just been tagged and released! Source distributions (.tar.gz) have been pushed to PyPi. Window's binaries will be built and uploaded to PyPi over the next 24 hours or so. You can update to ETS 3.0.2 like so: easy_install -U ets>=3.0.2 Changes ----------- ETS 3.0.2 is an update to ETS 3.0.1 that includes the following changes: * Update of Enable to fix problems doing 'setup.py install'. * Update of ETSProjectTools to fix bugs and improve the help messages. * Update of Mayavi to fix bugs found during the SciPy conference. * Update of Traits, TraitsGUI, and TraitsBackend* to fix a number of issues (see https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/query?milestone=Traits+3.0.2) What is ETS? ------------------ The Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) is a collection of components developed by Enthought and our partners, which we use every day to construct custom scientific applications. It includes a wide variety of components, including: * an extensible application framework * application building blocks * 2-D and 3-D graphics libraries * scientific and math libraries * developer tools The cornerstone on which these tools rest is the Traits package, which provides explicit type declarations in Python; its features include initialization, validation, delegation, notification, and visualization of typed attributes. More information is available for all these packages from the Enthought Tool Suite development home page: http://code.enthought.com/projects/tool-suite.php -- Dave

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ANN: OpenOpt 0.19 (free optimization framework, Python language)
by dmitrey 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Hello, We're pleased to announce: OpenOpt v 0.19, free (license: BSD) optimization framework (written in Python language) with connections to lots of solvers (some are C- or Fortran-written) is released. Changes since previous release 0.18 (June 15, 2008): * Some changes for NLP/NSP solver ralg (especially related to handling linear constraints Ax <= b, Aeq x = beq, lb <= x <= ub) * Bugfix for ralg and IPOPT linear constraints handling * ALGENCAN v 2.0.x has been connected (v 1.0 is no longer supported, v 2.0.3 or later is required) * Bugfix for constrained NLSP graphic output (constrained nssolve isn't turned to latest ralg version yet) * Scale parameter for lpSolve (p.scale = {False} | True | 0 | 1) * New OO class LLAVP (linear least absolute values aka linear least deviations) * Improved handling of non-linear functions with restricted dom * GLP (global) solver galileo now can handle integer problems (via p.useInteger = 1 or True) * Another one GLP (global) solver connected: pswarm * Lots of work related to oofun concept (see OO Doc page for details) * Add converters llsp2nlp, llavp2nsp * Convenient handling of maximization problems (via p.goal = 'max' or 'maximum') * Some code clean up and bugfixes Backward incompatibility: * Changed objective function in LLSP * MATLAB-style gradtol renamed to gtol (for to provide same syntax to scipy.optimize fmin_bfgs, fmin_cg and less-to-type) Newsline: http://openopt.blogspot.com/ Homepage: http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/OpenOpt Regards, OpenOpt developers.

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ANN: Leo 4.5.1 final released
by Edward K Ream 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

Leo 4.5.1 final is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 Leo 4.5.1 final fixes several important bugs in Leo 4.5 final: - Eliminated spurious error messages in the goto-global-line command. - @shadow files with unknown file extensions now work properly. - Improved Leo's installer. 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 major reorganizations of Leo's code: including sax-based parsing, support for the Graph world (unified nodes), and simplified drawing code. - Leo is now an installable package. - Prepared code to be ready for Python 3.0. - Many small improvements and bug fixes. Quote of the month: ------------------- Squeak and Leo have been two of the most significant technologies to redefine my personal computer experience and the ideas behind computing. 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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Beginning Computer Programming with HLA and PYTHON
by dwzavitz＠gmail.com 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

Beginning Computer Programming with HLA and PYTHON will provide the beginner with a tremendous jump start in understanding. The newbie will readily appreciate the benefits of the High Level instructions in Python and HLA and the benefits of Low Level instructions in Assembly after just a little 'hands on' use of each. The reason for these free online Google Docs is to provide a fun and user friendly, but solid and quickly productive foundation for new programmers. And Python and HLA programs will work on today's most popular operating systems, so you will be well positioned with your programs for future customers. http://developers-heaven.net/forum/index.php/topic,46.msg83.html#msg83

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RELEASED Python 2.6rc1
by Barry Warsaw 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy to announce the first release candidate for Python 2.6. This is a release candidate, so while it is not suitable for production environments, we strongly encourage you to download the release and test it on your software. We expect only critical bugs to be fixed between now and the final 2.6 release, still scheduled for October 1st, 2008. There is one more release candidate planned for September 17th. You might notice that unlike earlier releases, we are /not/ releasing Python 3.0rc1 at this time. It was decided that 3.0 still needs time to resolve open issues and that we would not hold up the 2.6 release for this. We feel that Python 2.6 is nearly ready for its 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/ (Note that the Windows installers will be uploaded shortly.) 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 v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSMsXV3EjvBPtnXfVAQJFsgP9GxZYQocbDTd0Z/0yEjpHfZ/FTd8y83jV 5JouO07lB8XtLawnWB9hF8sUrCuBVog5He3mLVUPDmlyn30qvjYWMG2J6zW0yYMX yZdjUyUmta0IMCsXe7YXj369xebh4nWuwG4tDygly4donA7GYPXAlxI48MmyDJxw 1v07LM4Dttw= =Nd3s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Py3K or Not at PyGTA Tuesday
by Mike C. Fletcher 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

It seems that Py3K (Python 3.0) is just around the corner, so let's discuss it. If you've played with converting your code to 3.0, are just toying with the idea, or have gone whole-hog and converted, bring your experiences to the table. A more general discussion of your strategies for migrating and maintaining code among different language/library versions should hopefully emerge. As usual, we'll be at Linux Caffe (corner of Grace and Harbord, 1 block South of Christie station), starting around 7pm and going until whenever on the Third Tuesday of the month. http://www.pygta.org/ Have fun all, Mike -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

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ZMySQLDA 3.0 for Zope 2
by John Eikenberry 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

ZMySQLDA 3.0 final. MySQL Database Adapter for Zope 2. Extensively reworked for stability and compatibility with versions 2.8+ and modern MySQL versions. New features from auto-creating database to limited Unicode support. It is available both from sourceforge and from pypi. License: Zope Public License (ZPL) Version 1.0 http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.ZMySQLDA/3.0 <p><a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.ZMySQLDA/3.0">ZmySQLDA 3.0</a> - MySQL Zope-2 database adapter. (11-Sep-2008) -- John Eikenberry [jae(a)zhar.net - http://zhar.net] ______________________________________________________________ "It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." - Rod Serling

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Texas Regional Unconference - Oct. 4-5
by Travis Vaught 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Greetings, I just wanted to alert everyone of the upcoming, 2nd annual, Python Texas Regional Unconference which will be held in Austin, TX this year. http://www.scipy.org/TXUncon2008 This site is a wiki page, so edit away! Like last year, this Unconference is intended to be a FREE event for Pythoneers from all over the Texas region to gather and share experiences and developments. Again, the topics to be presented are purely up to the participants. Last year there were two main tracks of talks: Python in Scientific Computing, and Python in Web Frameworks. We welcome any other presentations as well. Please see the schedule at the link above and add yourself to the list of attendees so we'll know you're coming. Please pass along this info to any other local meetup groups as appropriate. Please join the list at texas(a)python.org for any discussion or questions (http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/texas). Best, Travis

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Jython 2.5 Alpha3 Released!
by Frank Wierzbicki 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that Jython 2.5a3 is available for download at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jython/jython_installer-2.5a3.jar. See the installation instructions here: http://jython.org/Project/installation.html Jython 2.5 Alpha3 fixes a bug that caused installation problems for many Windows users, so Oti Humbel and Leo Soto came to the rescue with an assist by Geoffrey French. Oti also fixed standalone mode while he was there. Yay! As before, this is an alpha release so be careful. -Frank

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GPCE'08 Second Call for Participation -- NEWS --
by Pasalic Emir 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

* NEWS * * Early registration for OOPSLA and GPCE'08 has been * * extended until Septermber 15 * < http://gpce08.gpce.org > Seventh International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'08) Nashville, Tennessee (co-located with OOPSLA 2008) *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** GPCE 2008 will be co-located with OOPSLA, in Nashville, Tennessee. The GPCE technical program will take place on Oct. 19-20, before the OOPSLA technical program begins. Other GPCE events (workshops and tutorials) will run in parallel with OOPSLA events on Oct 21-23. GPCE'08 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT. GPCE'08 proceedings published by ACM Press. For full conference program and the latest news, check the GPCE'08 web site (http://gpce08.gpce.org). **** REGISTRATION Registration for GPCE'08 is handled through the OOPSLA registration page (http://www.regmaster.com/conf/oopsla2008.html). Early registration deadline has been moved to Septermber 15. If registering for OOPSLA as well, the GPCE surcharge is just $200! If registering for GPCE alone, the charge is $375 for ACM members. *** TECHNICAL PROGRAM Sunday, October 19 8:50-9:00 Welcome 9:00-10:00 Keynote Session Chair: Julia Lawall * Emerging Challenges for Large Scale Systems Integration Dr. Andrew Fano (Accenture) 10:30-12:00 Technical papers 1 Session Chair: Julia Lawall * Code Generation to Support Static and Dynamic Composition of Software Product Lines Marko Rosenmueller, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel and Gunter Saake. * Efficient Compilation Techniques for Large Scale Feature Models Marcilio Mendonca, Andrzej Wasowski, Krzysztof Czarnecki and Don Cowan. * On the Modularity of Feature Interactions Chang Hwan Peter Kim, Christian Kaestner and Don Batory. 13:30-15:00 Technical papers 2 Session Chair: Jaakko Jarvi * Using Simple Mathematics as a Modeling Language Don Batory. * From Generic to Specific: Off-line Optimization for General Constraint Solver Ye Zhang, Torben Amtoft and Flemming Nielson. * Generating Incremental Implementations of Object-Set Queries Tom Rothamel and Yanhong A. Liu. 15:30-17:00 Technical papers 3 Session Chair: Aniruddha Gokhale * Integrating Semantics and Compilation Peter Gottschling and Andrew Lumsdaine. * Generating Customized Verifiers for Automatically Generated Code Ewen Denney and Bernd Fischer. * Property Models: From Incidental Algorithms to Reusable Components Jaakko Jarvi, Mat Marcus, Sean Parent, John Freeman and Jacob Smith. 17:00-17:30 PC chair's report Monday, October 20 9:00-10:00 Keynote Session Chair: William Cook * Fundamentalist Functional Programming Erik Meijer (Microsoft) 10:30-12:00 Technical papers 4 Session Chair: William Cook * Feature Featherweight Java: A Calculus for Feature-Oriented Programming and Stepwise Refinement Sven Apel, Christian Kastner and Christian Lengauer. * Lightweight Dependent Classes Tetsuo Kamina and Tetsuo Tamai. * Typing Communicating Component Assemblages Michael Lienhardt, Vivien Quema, Alan Schmitt and Jean-Bernard Stefani. 14:00-15:00 Technical papers 5 Session Chair: David Abrahams * Polymorphic Embedding of DSLs Christian Hofer, Klaus Ostermann, Tillmann Rendel and Adriaan Moors. * Pantaxou: a Domain-Specific Language for Developing Safe Coordination Services Julien Mercadal, Nicolas Palix, Charles Consel and Julia Lawall. 15:30-17:00 Technical papers 6 Session Chair: Mark Grechanik * Program Refactoring using Functional Aspects Sven Apel, Christian Kastner and Don Batory. * Rigorous and Practical Refactoring-Based Framework Upgrade Ilie Savga, Michael Rudolf, Sebastian Gotz and Uwe Assmann. * An abstraction for reusable MDD components Vinay Kulkarni and Sreedhar Reddy.

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