ChiPy the Chipmunk** invites you to attend September's Chicago Python
User Group meeting. ChiPy says, "This will be the best meet ever!"
When
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Thursday September 11th 2007 7:00PM
Venue
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Imaginary Landscape, 5121 N Ravenswood Ave
Topics
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* Chris Webber - openmoko phone "how to make a phone call in < 10
lines of python."
* Pete Fein - http://code.google.com/p/grassyknoll/source/browse/branches/unhork/grassykn…
* writing-a-web-app-without-a-framework talk. Ian B.
About ChiPy
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ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs.
Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago.
Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational
efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info.
ChiPy website: <http://chipy.org>
ChiPy Mailing List: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago>
Python website: <http://python.org>
** "ChiPy the Chipmunk" is a fictitious character. Any similarity to
actual chipmunks, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Python training in Cheminformatics
Andrew Dalke is offering a course in Python programming
for cheminformatics in Leipzig, Germany on 6-7 October
and in the San Francisco Bay Area in early December. Early
registration for the Leipzig course ends 12 September.
For full details see http://dalkescientific.com/training/
or contact Andrew directly at dalke(a)dalkescientific.com .
The courses are designed for working computational
chemists with some programming experience who want to
be more effective at the software aspect of the field.
The course is hands-on, with examples directly drawn
from common needs in cheminformatics research.
Some of the topics covered are:
- an overview of the Python language
- plotting with matplotlib
- OpenEye's OEChem
- parsing CSV, SMILES and SD files
- substructure matching with SMARTS
- generating and searching fingerprints
- scripting PyMol
- calling command-line programs like InChI
- web scraping servers like PubChem
- working with Excel
Andrew Dalke
dalke(a)dalkescientific.com
python-graph
release 1.2.0
http://code.google.com/p/python-graph/
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python-graph is a library for working with graphs in Python.
This software provides a suitable data structure for representing
graphs and a whole set of important algorithms.
The code is appropriately documented and API reference is generated
automatically by epydoc.
Comments, bug reports or suggestions are welcome.
Provided features and algorithms:
* Support for directed, undirected, weighted and non-weighted graphs
* Support for hypergraphs
* Canonical operations
* XML import and export
* DOT-Language output (for usage with Graphviz)
* Random graph generation
* Accessibility (transitive closure)
* Breadth-first search
* Cut-vertex and cut-edge identification
* Depth-first search
* Identification of connected components
* Minimum spanning tree (Prim's algorithm)
* Mutual-accessibility (strongly connected components)
* Shortest path (Dijkstra's algorithm)
* Topological sorting
Python author and trainer Mark Lutz will be teaching another
3-day Python class at a conference center in Longmont, Colorado,
on October 15-17, 2008.
This is a public training session open to individual enrollments,
and covers the same topics as the 3-day onsite sessions that Mark
teaches, with hands-on lab work. The class provides an in-depth
introduction to Python and its common applications, and parallels
the instructor's popular Python books.
For more information on this session, please visit its web page:
http://home.earthlink.net/~python-training/longmont-public-classes.htm
For additional background on the class itself, see our home page:
http://home.earthlink.net/~python-training
Thanks for your interest.
--Python Training Services
Dear Elisa users,
The Elisa team is happy to announce the release of Elisa Media Center
0.5.9 codenamed "Confrontation".
This release introduces a number of important new features, among which:
- Login to restricted services (therefore allowing more functionalities
for said services inside Elisa for logged in users); currently
supported: Yes.fm; next on the list: Flickr.
- A search engine: currently allows you to search for music in your
local collection and on Yes.fm if logged in.
- A tight integration of the brand new Yes.fm, an online music service
(currently limited to Spain), in the UI, allowing local collection
completion among other cool features.
- Photo browsing by date.
As usual this release also fixes a bunch of important bugs.
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
Have a good day!
The Elisa team
Elisa 0.5.9 "Confrontation"
===========================
This is Elisa 0.5.9, ninth release of the 0.5 branch.
New features since 0.5.8:
- Login to restricted services (therefore allowing more functionalities for
said services inside Elisa for logged in users); currently supported: Yes.fm;
next on the list: Flickr.
- A search engine: currently allows you to search for music in your local
collection and on Yes.fm if logged in.
- A tight integration of the brand new Yes.fm, an online music service
(currently limited to Spain), in the UI, allowing local collection completion
among other cool features.
- Photo browsing by date.
Bugs fixed since 0.5.8:
- 252983: Theming override by independent plugins does not work
- 268053: Infinite loop in the configuration upgrader
- 253656: wrong album-cover displayed
- 257674: [pigment] Imprecise clicking triggers a drag event
- 260928: DTS does not work with Klite
- 264015: PlayAllAction is blocking and generally not too efficient
- 265083: InputManager wakes up the CPU for no reason
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
Hi,
The first meeting date for the Iowa Python Users Group (USA) has been
decided. Here are the details:
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Time / Date: Wednesday, Sept. 24 from 7-9 p.m.
Location:
Marshall County Sheriff's Office, 3rd floor
2369 Jessup Ave
Marshalltown, IA 50158
Unofficial website: http://www.ipug.pythonlibrary.org
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Don't know how to get there? Check out maps.yahoo.com or
maps.google.com. The Sheriff's Office is not actually in Marshalltown.
If you take Highway 30 East, towards Marshalltown you'll see it on your
left. There's a large water tower there and the building is a rusty red
color. There are some signs for a Tractor convention there as well. If
you're coming from the other direction, then skip ALL the exits and keep
driving until the lanes go from 4 lanes to 2. It should be the second
right after that.
I am still developing the agenda for our first meeting, but here are
some of the things we're going to discuss:
- What day really works best for meeting? (if you can't make the first
one, you can email me your votes!)
- Figure out what domain name our group should have
- Decide on what Python web framework to use to create said site (which
will be a group project)
- Try to come up with what format we want our meetings to take.
Plone and Zope users are welcome. In fact, anyone who is interested in
Python (regardless of their experience with it) is welcome to come. Let
your Iowan Python friends know.
Questions or ideas? Send them to me. Thanks!
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Mike Driscoll
email: mike at pythonlibrary dot org
Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org
Python Extension Building Network: http://www.pythonlibrary.org
On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that
Jython 2.5a2+ is available for download
http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jython/jython_installer-2.5a2.j….
See the installation instructions http://jython.org/Project/installation.html.
Django runs pretty well on this release. I am attending Djangocon
where Jim Baker and Leo Soto will be presenting on Django on Jython,
and I wanted them to be able to tell people to grab a release instead
of telling them to grab Jython from svn.
There are many bug fixes, but also many bugs that have not yet been fixed.
This is an alpha release so be careful!
ftputil 2.3 is now available from
http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/download .
Changes since version 2.2.4
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ftputil has got support for the ``with`` statement which was introduced
by Python 2.5. You can now construct host and remote file objects in
``with`` statements and have them closed automatically (contributed
by Roger Demetrescu). See the documentation for examples.
What is ftputil?
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ftputil is a high-level FTP client library for the Python programming
language. ftputil implements a virtual file system for accessing FTP
servers, that is, it can generate file-like objects for remote files.
The library supports many functions similar to those in the os,
os.path and shutil modules. ftputil has convenience functions for
conditional uploads and downloads, and handles FTP clients and servers
in different timezones.
Read the documentation at
http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/documentation .
License
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ftputil is Open Source software, released under the revised BSD
license (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php ).
Stefan
