Mailman 3 September 2008 - Python-announce-list

ANN ChiPy September Meeting
by Brian Ray Sept. 10, 2008

Sept. 10, 2008

ChiPy the Chipmunk** invites you to attend September's Chicago Python User Group meeting. ChiPy says, "This will be the best meet ever!" When ---- Thursday September 11th 2007 7:00PM Venue ----- Imaginary Landscape, 5121 N Ravenswood Ave Topics ------ * 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 ----------- 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
by Andrew Dalke Sept. 10, 2008

Sept. 10, 2008

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

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python-graph-1.2.0 released
by Pedro Matiello Sept. 10, 2008

Sept. 10, 2008

python-graph release 1.2.0 http://code.google.com/p/python-graph/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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

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Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 9)
by Gabriel Genellina Sept. 9, 2008

Sept. 9, 2008

QOTW: "So why am I supposed to care about SOAP again? Oh yes, the wizards I can use to generate 'web service end-points' from programming language code. My years in the SOAP trenches just makes me laugh myself half to death at that notion: I would probably have been twice as productive if every time I reached for a SOAP toolkit I instead just coded straight XML in HTTP. And this represents experience with Python, Java and C WS tools." - Uche Ogbuji How to cancel instance creation given certain conditions: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7083ed… Implement a dictionary with case-insensitive keys: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/90a7e9… The behavior of hash(): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6c2d50… A generic attempt to add "verbosity" to scripts: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c2fa07… max() and sum() applied to empty sequences, or those containing None, and how these differ from their SQL counterparts: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f4b98d… Distributed processes, multiple threads, multicore CPUs: what are Python's options? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/fe55f3… Allowing underscores or other punctuation inside numeric literals: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/93dc57… How to manage two interdependent properties: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/668464… A generic GUI library, and the future of GUI development: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8904fb… ======================================================================== 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 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/group/comp.lang.python.announce/topics 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/donations/ The Summary of Python Tracker Issues is an automatically generated report summarizing new bugs, closed ones, and patch submissions. http://search.gmane.org/?author=status%40bugs.python.org&group=gmane.comp.p… 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, see: http://www.python.org/channews.rdf 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/ 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 Dr.Dobb's Portal is another source of Python news and articles: http://www.ddj.com/TechSearch/searchResults.jhtml?queryText=python and Python articles regularly appear at IBM DeveloperWorks: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/search/searchResults.jsp?searchSite=dW&se… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://search.gmane.org/?query=python+URL+weekly+news+links&group=gmane.com… http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=Python-URL!+group%3Acomp.lang.pyth… http://lwn.net/Search/DoSearch?words=python-url&ctype3=yes&cat_25=yes 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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Python training in Colorado, October 15-17
by Python Training Sept. 9, 2008

Sept. 9, 2008

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

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Elisa Media Center 0.5.9 Release
by Olivier Tilloy Sept. 9, 2008

Sept. 9, 2008

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

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Iowa Python Users Group - First Meeting
by Mike Driscoll Sept. 9, 2008

Sept. 9, 2008

Hi, The first meeting date for the Iowa Python Users Group (USA) has been decided. Here are the details: ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ 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! ------------------- Mike Driscoll email: mike at pythonlibrary dot org Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org Python Extension Building Network: http://www.pythonlibrary.org

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[ANN] Python course announcements
by Mike Müller Sept. 8, 2008

Sept. 8, 2008

Places are still available at the following courses: September 13 and 14, 2008 Python für Wissenschaftler und Ingenieure (in German) http://www.python-academy.de/Kurse/python_kurs_wissenschaftler.html October 6 and 7, 2008 Python Training for Cheminformatics (by Andrew Dalke) http://www.python-academy.com/courses/python_course_cheminformatics.html The early bird deadline for this course is September 10, 2008. Mike Müller Python Academy

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Jython 2.5 Alpha 2 Released!
by Frank Wierzbicki Sept. 6, 2008

Sept. 6, 2008

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!

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[ANN] ftputil 2.3 released
by Stefan Schwarzer Sept. 6, 2008

Sept. 6, 2008

ftputil 2.3 is now available from http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/download . Changes since version 2.2.4 --------------------------- 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? ---------------- 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 ------- ftputil is Open Source software, released under the revised BSD license (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php ). Stefan

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