Mailman 3 September 2008 - Python-announce-list

Network Monitor released
by Bernard Czenkusz 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Version 0.8 now released. What is SkipoleMonitor? ================= SkipoleMonitor is a free network monitor for Windows and Linux. On running the program, a GUI window appears, and hosts can be added, which Skipole Monitor will regularly ping, showing the results via a built-in Web server. Hosts can be grouped, so the Web server will show group symbols which the viewer can open to inspect the hosts, or further sub-groups, within. As hosts (and groups of hosts) change status, SkipoleMonitor can be set to send email and syslog alerts. Written in Python, and uses the wxPython library, it has been tested on Windows and Linux. License : GPL Further details, including screenshots are available at: http://www.skipole.net ================= Bernard Czenkusz bernie at skipole.co.uk

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[pygtk] ANNOUNCE: PyGObject 2.15.4
by Johan Dahlin 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

I am pleased to announce version 2.15.4 of the Python bindings for GObject. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.15/ What's new since PyGObject 2.15.3? - Fix typo in GPointer type registration (Loïc Minier,#550463) - support G_TYPE_CLOSURE in codegen (Gian) Blurb: GObject is a object system library used by GTK+ and GStreamer. PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyGTK, PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GObject library itself PyGObject is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full featured applications. PyGObject requires glib >= 2.14.0 and Python >= 2.3.5 to build. GIO bindings require glib >= 2.16.0. Johan _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk(a)daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/

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pyArkansas on October 4th
by Greg Lindstrom 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

We are pleased to announce that pyArkansas will be held on the campus of University of Central Arkansas (www.uca.edu) on October 4th. Scheduled classes in the morning include Python 101 taught by Dr. Bernard Chen (incoming faculty at UCA but having taught the course at Georgia State University), "Python 201" taught by Jeff Rush (Dallas Python Users Group) and Python for Unix/Linux Administration (Noah Gift teaching on his -- and Jeremy Jones' -- newly released OReilly title). The afternoon features talks and a panel discussion along with lots of great give aways and swag. Due to limitations of physical space we must close registration at 100 participants (in honor of my first OS, SunOS, we may go to 110). Check out our wiki at http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/HomePage. There's no registration fee, so if you're in the area stop on by...we are looking forward to a great day. Greg Lindstrom Python Artists of Arkansas (PyAR^2)

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Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 2)
by Gabriel Genellina 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

QOTW: "Information outlives technology." - Tim Bray http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/24/XMLisOK, but notice all the offspring of this meme any simple search makes apparent Thoughts about the various forms of the import statement: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f40481… Looking for an atomic increment operation: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5a60c8… Comparing unicode and byte strings: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c87e29… Alternatives eval() in unsafe environments: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/908cc0… An algorithmic problem (identify where "good data" starts inside a sequence) as an excuse to post many creative solutions (including generators and even regular expressions): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8979bf… Enumerating all the currently installed Python modules: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4d07c1… When to use try/except: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/fc867e… str.downer? str.downcase? str.lowercase is the *obvious* name, isn't it? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/cfd0a5… ======================================================================== 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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ANN: Leo 4.5 final released
by Edward K Ream 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Leo 4.5 final is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 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 magor 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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cx_Freeze 4.0
by Anthony Tuininga 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

What is cx_Freeze? cx_Freeze is a set of scripts and modules for freezing Python scripts into executables in much the same way that py2exe and py2app do. It requires Python 2.3 or higher since it makes use of the zip import facility which was introduced in that version. Where do I get it? http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net What's new? This release marks a significant change in functionality. Any feedback is appreciated. Changes from 4.0b1 to 4.0 1) Added support for copying files to the target directory. 2) Added support for a hook that runs when a module is missing. 3) Added support for binary path includes as well as excludes; use sequences rather than dictionaries as a more convenient API; exclude the standard locations for 32-bit and 64-bit libaries in multi-architecture systems. 4) Added support for searching zip files (egg files) for modules. 5) Added support for handling system exit exceptions similarly to what Python does itself as requested by Sylvain. 6) Added code to wait for threads to shut down like the normal Python interpreter does. Thanks to Mariano Disanzo for discovering this discrepancy. 7) Hooks added or modified based on feedback from many people. 8) Don't include the version name in the display name of the MSI. 9) Use the OS dependent path normalization routines rather than simply use the lowercase value as on Unix case is important; thanks to Artie Eoff for pointing this out. 10) Include a version attribute in the cx_Freeze package and display it in the output for the --version option to the script. 11) Include build instructions as requested by Norbert Sebok. 12) Add support for copying files when modules are included which require data files to operate properly; add support for copying the necessary files for the Tkinter and matplotlib modules. 13) Handle deferred imports recursively as needed; ensure that from lists do not automatically indicate that they are part of the module or the deferred import processing doesn't actually work! 14) Handle the situation where a module imports everything from a package and the __all__ variable has been defined but the package has not actually imported everything in the __all__ variable during initialization. 15) Modified license text to more closely match the Python Software Foundation license as was intended. 16) Added sample script for freezing an application using matplotlib. 17) Renamed freeze to cxfreeze to avoid conflict with another package that uses that executable as requested by Siegfried Gevatter. Changes from 3.0.3 to 4.0b1 1) Added support for placing modules in library.zip or in a separate zip file for each executable that is produced. 2) Added support for copying binary dependent files (DLLs and shared libraries) 3) Added support for including all submodules in a package 4) Added support for including icons in Windows executables 5) Added support for constants module which can be used for determining certain build constants at runtime 6) Added support for relative imports available in Python 2.5 and up 7) Added support for building Windows installers (Python 2.5 and up) and RPM packages 8) Added support for distutils configuration scripts 9) Added support for hooks which can force inclusion or exclusion of modules when certain modules are included 10) Added documentation and samples 11) Added setup.py for building the cx_Freeze package instead of a script used to build only the frozen bases 12) FreezePython renamed to a script called freeze in the Python distribution 13) On Linux and other platforms that support it set LD_RUN_PATH to include the directory in which the executable is located

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Elisa Media Center 0.5.8 Release
by Florian Boucault 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Dear Elisa users, The Elisa team is happy to announce the release of Elisa Media Center 0.5.8 codenamed "Purgatory". This week the focus was on the support of more remote controls on Windows and on performance improvements. As usual, numerous bug were also fixed. Here are the important changes that were introduced: - Remote controls support on Windows for Apple remotes, Streamzap remotes and Windows Media Center remotes has been improved. - Elisa received a brand new D-Bus API which allows other applications to interact with it. - You should now experience less jerky transitions while browsing Elisa. 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 Enjoy! The Elisa team

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Roundup Issue Tracker version 1.4.6 released
by Richard Jones 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

I'm proud to release version 1.4.6 of Roundup. 1.4.6 is a bugfix release: - Fix bug introduced in 1.4.5 in RDBMS full-text indexing - Make URL matching code less matchy 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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