Mailman 3 January 2009 - Python-announce-list

ANN: new snapshot of the eric4 Pylons plugin released
by Detlev Offenbach 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Hi, this is to inform everybody about the availability of the Pylons plugin for eric4. It adds Pylons support to the eric4 Python IDE. The Plugin is available via the eric4 web site at http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/index.html What is eric4 ------------- eric4 is a Python IDE, that comes with batteries included. It is extensible via a plugin system. Please see the a.m. web site for more details. Regards, Detlev -- Detlev Offenbach detlev(a)die-offenbachs.de

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Announce: Parametric Solutions (parasol)
by Charlie Taylor 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Parasol is a python framework in which mathematical models can be investigated parametrically. Parasol enables easy optimization, sensitivity study, and visualization. The math model can be as big or as small as desired. Output is generated in plain text, HTML, and native Microsoft Suite files (Excel, Word and PowerPoint). A problem is defined by input and output parameters. Results are presented in a manner that conveys insight into system trends and characteristics. The process of performing an analysis results in an ample assortment of graphs, charts, and images that display system sensitivities, variations, and characteristics. Barriers to creating these displays have been reduced to single commands in order to facilitate their use. Parasol has been designed to run under Microsoft Windows. Home Page: http://pyparasol.sourceforge.net/

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EuroDjangoCon '09
by Robert [Siu Design] 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

We have released the EuroDjangoCon website at http://euro.djangocon.org/along with the call for participation. For those of you that don't know, EuroDjangoCon will be on 4th, 5th and 6th May 2009 in Prague. It's the first European Django conference brought to you by Robert Lofthouse (Siu Design - http://www.siudesign.co.uk) who organised the successful DjangoCon 2008 conference at Google HQ. EuroDjangoCon is a Django conference that aims to bring together the community and provide a wide range of sessions, panels, lightning talks and showcases of Django usage within various businesses. We aim to educate, provoke thought and bring people together to turn ideas into working code. http://euro.djangocon.org/blog/2009/1/24/eurodjangocon-announcement/ - Blog announcement http://euro.djangocon.org/conference/talk/ - Talk submission form Regards Robert Lofthouse (DjangoCon/EuroDjangoCon Chairman)

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Announce: Pyevolve 0.5 released !
by Perone 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

The Pyevolve v.0.5 was released. Pyevolve was developed to be a complete genetic algorithms framework written in pure python. More information at: http://pyevolve.sourceforge.net

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ANN: Python FTP Server library (pyftpdlib) 0.5.1 released
by Giampaolo Rodola' 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hi, I'm pleased to announce release 0.5.1 of Python FTP Server library (pyftpdlib). http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib === About === Python FTP server library provides an high-level portable interface to easily write asynchronous FTP servers with Python. Based on asyncore framework pyftpdlib is currently the most complete RFC-959 FTP server implementation available for Python programming language. === Major enhancements === This new version, aside from fixing some bugs, includes the following major enhancements: * A new script implementing FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) has been added in the demo directory. * File transfers are now 40% faster thanks to the re-dimensioned application buffer sizes. * ASCII data transfers on Windows are now 200% faster. * Preliminary support for SITE command has been added. * Two new callback methods to handle "file received" and "file sent" events have been added. A complete list of changes including enhancements and bug fixes is available here: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/wiki/ReleaseNotes05 === More links === * Source tarball: http://pyftpdlib.googlecode.com/files/pyftpdlib-0.5.1.tar.gz * Online docs: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/wiki/Tutorial * FAQs: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/wiki/FAQ * RFCs compliance paper: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/wiki/RFCsCompliance * Issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/issues/list * Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/pyftpdlib Thanks, --- Giampaolo Rodola' < g.rodola [at] gmail [dot] com > http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/

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ANN: Hypy 0.8.2 (minor bugfixes)
by Cory Dodt 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Hypy is a fulltext search interface for Python applications. Use it to index and search your documents from Python code. Hypy is based on the estraiernative bindings by Yusuke Yoshida. * Fast, scalable * Perfect recall ratio by N-gram method * High precision by hybrid mechanism of N-gram and morphological analyzer * Phrase search, regular expressions, attribute search (including numeric and date comparisons), and similarity search * Simple and powerful API Homepage, downloads, everything, etc.: http://goonmill.org/hypy/ This is of course on pypi and can be installed with easy_install or pip. You will need Hyper Estraier installed to use it. Release Version 0.8.2 (2009-01-20) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * I was unconditionally importing ez_setup in my setup.py and that makes it hard to easy_install. Don't do that. * No library functionality change, but now more users can install it.

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REMINDER: OSCON 2009: Call For Participation
by Aahz 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention has opened up the Call For Participation -- deadline for proposals is Tuesday Feb 3. OSCON will be held July 20-24 in San Jose, California. For more information, see http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/cfp/57 -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

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Evoque Templating v0.4 for Python 3.0
by Mario Ruggier 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Pleased to announce release 0.4 of Evoque Templating -- the generic full-featured text template engine with state-of-the-art features such as: exclusively unicode, dynamic overlays, format-extensible automatic quoting, in-process sandbox, caching, small (992 SLOC), simple, fast, etc. See overview of features at: http://evoque.gizmojo.org/features/ Highlights of release 0.4: - Support for Python 3.0 The same Evoque code base now runs on Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0 -- possibly making Evoque the first full-featured template engine available for Python 3.0. Behaviour is identical on all four Python versions. - Tighter lockdown of the in-process sandbox (restricted mode) Primarily by an elaborated runtime scan of all expressions that are passed for evaluation. For an overview of how Evoque implements the in- process sandbox see: http://evoque.gizmojo.org/usage/restricted/ -- and yes, you may interpret this as an open challenge and invitation to try and break[*] it , and, in the unlikely chance that you succeed, you may request anything you like as compensation, as long as it is beer ;-) - Revision of whitespace handling Notably, reworked the meaning of the slurpy_directives=True mode to be more what most people seem to expect. - Continued speed improvements More minor performance optimizations. Evoque is fast, and is a real contender for the dubious but gratifying honour of overall **fastest pure-python template engine**. Included in the distribution are 3 benchmarks -- you can see the measured results on OS X 10.5 for Python 2.6.1 (as there is not much to benchmark against on Python 3.0) at: http://evoque.gizmojo.org/benchmark/ The resulting numbers are a tribute to python's conceptual integrity -- that rewards a straightforward implementation of a simple design with... amazing performance. Full changelog at: http://evoque.gizmojo.org/changelog/ Cheers, Mario [*] for a quick and dirty script to run devious templates, see: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/f6f0dfd67609f370

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buzhug 1.4
by Pierre Quentel 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hi there, buzhug (http://buzhug.sourceforge.net) is a fast, pure-Python database engine, with a syntax based on list comprehensions for queries instead of SQL The new version 1.4 adds the boolean type for fields, and the capacity to define a default value for each field on base creation For bug reports and discussions about buzhug : http://groups.google.com/group/buzhug Cheers, Pierre

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PyAMF 0.4 released
by Thijs Triemstra | Collab 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

The PyAMF team is proud to announce the release of 0.4 final! PyAMF [1] is a lightweight library that allows Flash and Python applications to communicate via Adobe’s ActionScript Message Format. This release fixes over a 100 tickets, see the changelog [2] for the complete list of changes. We now consider the library to be stable and ready for production! A brief overview of the changes: - A new C extension to pyamf.util and pyamf.amf3. This is a work in progress, created using Cython, and more sections of the library will be moved to C as they are identified. Thanks to Gerard Escalante. - An adapter for SQLAlchemy 0.4/0.5 is available, allowing object graphs to be easily encoded. See the wiki for more information. Thanks to Dave Thompson and Michael Van Tellingen. - Improvements to the Google App Engine adapter to allow datastore objects to be easily encoded/decoded. Check out the download page [3], installation instructions [4] or the API documentation [5] for more information. Questions? First stop is the mailing list [6] but we also hang out on IRC [6]. [1] http://pyamf.org [2] http://pyamf.org/browser/pyamf/tags/release-0.4/CHANGES.txt [3] http://pyamf.org/wiki/Download [4] http://pyamf.org/wiki/Install [5] http://api.pyamf.org [6] http://pyamf.org/wiki/MailingList [7] irc://irc.collab.eu/pyamf

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