Mailman 3 October 2009 - Python-announce-list

ChiPy October Meeting and Social meetup this Thursday at 7pm
by Brian Ray Oct. 7, 2009

Oct. 7, 2009

Chicago Python User Group ========================= This month meeting will be a social meet up open house. We will offer a tutor session where small groups will help answer questions or show each other language features. This will be a very casual meeting without a formal presentation. There may be some lighting talks, games, or sprints--whatever we feel like. Nonetheless, this will be a good time to get out of your cubical, garage, basement, coffee shop, bike, office, and hang out with really great group of Python enthusiasts. How often to do you get to ask questions one-on-one with doctors, scientists, hackers, and general pythonic people in an open and friendly setting? See you there... this will be the best meeting ever. Thanks in advance to our new venue hosts: Pumping Station: One When ---- Thursday 7:00pm October 8th 2009 Location -------- * Pumping Station: One * `3354 N. Elston <http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=3354+N.+Elsto… >`_, come in the red door * food plans are currently being made, local options include Chief O'Neill's, Kuma's, Square... * RSVP to johnstoner2 ((at the domain)) gmail ((dot)) com 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> ChiPy Announcement *ONLY* Mailing List: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chipy-announce > Python website: <http://python.org>

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ANN: cssutils 0.9.6final
by Christof Hoeke Oct. 7, 2009

Oct. 7, 2009

what is it ---------- A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. (Not a renderer though!) about this release ------------------ 0.9.6 is a full release. main changes ------------ + BUGFIX: Definition of macro for `positivenum` in cssutils profiles actually did allow nagative numbers, fixed (thanks to Jason R. Coombs) license ------- cssutils is published under the LGPL version 3 or later, see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ If you have other licensing needs please let me know. download -------- For download options see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ cssutils needs Python 2.4 or higher or Jython 2.5 and higher (tested with Python 2.6.3, 2.5.2, 2.4.4 and Jython 2.5.1 on Vista only) Bug reports (via Google code), comments, etc are very much appreciated! Thanks. Christof

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Python Ireland presents October Talks @ Seagrass Restaurant, Dublin (19:00)
by Vicky Lee Oct. 7, 2009

Oct. 7, 2009

Hi All, When: --------- 14th October 2009, 19:00 Where: ---------- Seagrass Restaurant, 30 South Richmond Street, Dublin 2--a short walk from Charlemont Luas stop ( map <http://bit.ly/U4zNy>) What: -------- 19:00-19:30 Vishal Vatsa: IPython: The awesome python shell 19:30-20:00 Rory Geoghegan: Cocoa and the Python/C API 20:00-20:30 Open floor: Lightning Talks Please note that the only caveat for the free venue is that we buy tapas and drink while we are there, I'm sure that's not a problem. I've booked for 20-25 people, hopefully we won't be too cramped in the room, so turn up early if you want a seat. Cheers, /// Vicky P.S.: I've never been to Seagrass, but I have read some good feedback about the function room from the Ruby Ireland event. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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ANN: M2Crypto 0.20.2
by Heikki Toivonen Oct. 7, 2009

Oct. 7, 2009

M2Crypto is the most complete Python wrapper for OpenSSL featuring RSA, DSA, DH, HMACs, message digests, symmetric ciphers (including AES); SSL functionality to implement clients and servers; HTTPS extensions to Python's httplib, urllib, and xmlrpclib; unforgeable HMAC'ing AuthCookies for web session management; FTP/TLS client and server; S/MIME; ZServerSSL: A HTTPS server for Zope and ZSmime: An S/MIME messenger for Zope. Smartcards supported with the Engine interface. This is the 0.20.2 release. Download links and bug filing instructions on the homepage at: http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto. Changelog: - (Re)Enable configuration and use with OpenSSL 0.9.7g and older by disabling RSA PSS methods when using such old OpenSSL that don't support it, thanks to Stef Walter NOTE: If you are using OpenSSL that is newer than 0.9.7g there is no need to update. -- Heikki Toivonen - http://heikkitoivonen.net

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EPD 5.1 released
by Ilan Schnell Oct. 7, 2009

Oct. 7, 2009

Hello, I am pleased to announce that EPD (Enthought Python Distribution) version 5.1 has been released. You may find more information about EPD, as well as download a 30 day free trial, here: http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php This release contains updates and bug fixes to several packages, as well as a few new packages. You can find the release notes here: https://svn.enthought.com/epd/wiki/Py25/5.1.0/RelNotes About EPD --------- The Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) is a "kitchen-sink-included" distribution of the Python Programming Language, including about 100 additional tools and libraries. The EPD bundle includes NumPy, SciPy, IPython, 2D and 3D visualization, database adapters, and a lot of other tools right out of the box. http://www.enthought.com/products/epdlibraries.php It is currently available as a single-click installer for Windows XP (x86), MacOS (for OS X 10.5 and above), RedHat 3, 4 and 5, as well as Solaris 10 (x86 and x86_64/amd64). EPD is free for academic use. An annual subscription including installation support is available for individual and commercial use. Additional support options, including customization, bug fixes and training classes are also available: http://www.enthought.com/products/support_level_table.php - Ilan

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ANN: AsciiDoc 8.5.0 released
by Stuart Rackham Oct. 7, 2009

Oct. 7, 2009

This release includes lots of enhancements, but the big news is that the a2x toolchain wrapper has been rewritten in Python and now supports the EPUB e-book standard. All additions and changes are detailed in the changelog: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/CHANGELOG.html What is it? ----------- AsciiDoc is an uncomplicated text document format for writing articles, documentation, manuals, books and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML, XHTML and DocBook (articles, books and refentry documents) using the asciidoc(1) command. DocBook can be post-processed to presentation formats such as HTML, PDF, EPUB, DVI, roff and Postscript using the a2x toolchain wrapper and readily available Open Source tools. AsciiDoc is configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file syntax and the backend output markups (which can be almost any type of SGML/XML markup) can be customized and extended by user. Requisites ---------- Python 2.4 or higher. Obtaining AsciiDoc ------------------ Examples and online documentation at http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ AsciiDoc can be downloaded from the SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/asciidoc/ The online Mercurial repository is at http://hg.sharesource.org/asciidoc/ Regards, Stuart -- Stuart Rackham

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ANN: ActivePython 2.6.3.7 (and PyPM) is now available
by Sridhar Ratnakumar Oct. 7, 2009

Oct. 7, 2009

I'm happy to announce that ActivePython 2.6.3.7 is now available for download from: http://www.activestate.com/activepython/ This is a patch-level release that updates ActivePython to core Python 2.6.3 along with the fixes for a couple of critical regressions that instigated the work on 2.6.4. See the release notes for full details: http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.6/relnotes.html Introducing PyPM ---------------- This release includes a new packaging tool by activestate called Python Package Manager (PyPM). PyPM - currently in beta - is the package management utility for ActivePython. It simplifies the task of locating, installing, upgrading and removing Python modules. For full details, see: http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.6/pypm.html Here's a sample command line output:: $ pypm install lxml Get: [pypm.activestate.com] :repository-index: Ready to perform these actions: The following packages will be installed: lxml-2.2.2 Get: [pypm.activestate.com] lxml 2.2.2-1 Installing lxml-2.2.2 $ python >>> import lxml.etree >>>^D $ pypm remove lxml Ready to perform these actions: The following packages will be removed: lxml-2.2.2 Removing lxml-2.2.2 $ pypm install pylons Ready to perform these actions: The following packages will be installed: pastescript-1.7.3 formencode-1.2.2 weberror-0.10.1 simplejson-2.0.9 routes-1.11 nose-0.11.1 mako-0.2.5 past edeploy-1.3.3 pylons-0.9.7 tempita-0.4 webtest-1.2 beaker-1.4.2 webhelpers-0.6.4 paste-1.7.2 pygments-1.1.1 decorator-3.1.2 webob-0.9.6.1 Get: [pypm.activestate.com] formencode 1.2.2-1 Get: [pypm.activestate.com] nose 0.11.1-1 [...] Get: [pypm.activestate.com] decorator 3.1.2-1 Get: [pypm.activestate.com] webob 0.9.6.1-1 Installing formencode-1.2.2 Installing weberror-0.10.1 [...] Installing pygments-1.1.1 Fixing script /home/sridharr/.local/bin/pygmentize Installing decorator-3.1.2 What is ActivePython? --------------------- ActivePython is ActiveState's binary distribution of Python. Builds for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, HP-UX and AIX are made freely available. ActivePython includes the Python core and the many core extensions: zlib and bzip2 for data compression, the Berkeley DB (bsddb) and SQLite (sqlite3) database libraries, OpenSSL bindings for HTTPS support, the Tix GUI widgets for Tkinter, ElementTree for XML processing, ctypes (on supported platforms) for low-level library access, and others. The Windows distribution ships with PyWin32 -- a suite of Windows tools developed by Mark Hammond, including bindings to the Win32 API and Windows COM. See this page for full details: http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.6/whatsincluded.html As well, ActivePython ships with a wealth of documentation for both new and experienced Python programmers. In addition to the core Python docs, ActivePython includes the "What's New in Python" series, "Dive into Python", the Python FAQs & HOWTOs, and the Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs). An online version of the docs can be found here: http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.6/ We would welcome any and all feedback to: ActivePython-feedback(a)activestate.com Please file bugs against ActivePython at: http://bugs.activestate.com/query.cgi?set_product=ActivePython On what platforms does ActivePython run? ---------------------------------------- ActivePython includes installers for the following platforms: - Windows/x86 - Windows/x64 (aka "AMD64") - Mac OS X - Linux/x86 - Linux/x86_64 (aka "AMD64") - Solaris/SPARC - Solaris/x86 - HP-UX/PA-RISC - AIX/PowerPC - AIX/PowerPC 64-bit Extra Bits ---------- ActivePython releases also include the following: - ActivePython26.chm: An MS compiled help collection of the full ActivePython documentation set. Linux users of applications such as xCHM might find this useful. This package is installed by default on Windows. Extra bits are available from: http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePython/etc/ Thanks, and enjoy! The Python Team -- Sridhar Ratnakumar sridharr at activestate.com

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PDFXMLRPC v1.0: Client and server for PDF creation from text
by vasudevram Oct. 6, 2009

Oct. 6, 2009

I'm happy to announce the release of v1.0 of PDFXMLRPC, a client- server application that lets users create PDF content from text, over the Internet or their intranet, using Reportlab, xtopdf, XML-RPC and Python. Usage example for PDFXMLRPC: You can run the server on one computer which is connected to the Internet. You can run the client on another computer which is connected to the Internet. When you run the client, it sends text content to the server. The server then converts this text to PDF, and sends that PDF content back to the client over the Internet. The client then writes that PDF content to a local PDF file, which the user can then open / print / etc. (But also see the part about callability (i.e., programmability) of both the client and server below.) The announcement of PDFXMLRPC is here on my blog: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2009/10/client-server-pdf-creation-with-xtopdf.h… That blog post has a link to a zip file that you can download, which contains the PDFXMLRPC package. The zip file contains the following files: - PDFXMLRPCServer.py - the server - PDFXMLRPCClient.py - the client - README.txt - documentation of the prerequisites needed (*), the URLs to get them from, the steps to install PDFXMLRPC, and steps to run the server and the client. - License.txt - the license file (PDFXMLRPC is released under the BSD License) (*) The prerequisites are: - xtopdf v1.0, Reportlab v1.x and Python 2.x or higher for the server - Python 2.x or higher for the client (XML-RPC is required for both the client and the server, but since it is included in the standard Python library, I don't treat it as a separate prerequisite). Although both the server and the client programs contain main() functions, and therefore both can be run as standalone programs, they are also both callable. There is one "top-level" class in each of the server and the client - PDFXMLRPCServer and PDFXMLRPCClient respectively. The main() functions in the server and client, act as examples of how to call those classes. Since the classes are callable, you can incorporate the functionality of the server and the client, into your own larger programs, to get the functionality of client/server PDF creation over the Net, in your own applications. I welcome any feedback on this software. You can contact me via my contact page: http://www.dancingbison.com/contact.html . Finally, thanks a lot to the Reportlab team and all the users who've helped improve Reportlab, for their work. And thanks a lot to the Python team and users as well. Thanks, Vasudev Ram --- Dancing Bison Enterprises Biz: www.dancingbison.com Google Profile: http://is.gd/tWe3 Blog: jugad2.blogspot.com xtopdf: fast and easy PDF creation: www.dancingbison.com/products.html Twitter: @vasudevram

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ANN: python-gnupg v0.2.2 released
by Vinay Sajip Oct. 6, 2009

Oct. 6, 2009

A new version of the Python module which wraps GnuPG has been released. What Changed? ============= This is a minor bug-fix release. See the project website ( http://code.google.com/p/python-gnupg/ ) for more information. The changes were to the name of the distribution archive (now prefixed with "python-") and support was added for GnuPG v2.0.x (tested on Linux only). The current version passes all tests on Windows (Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, Jython 2.5.1) and Ubuntu (Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.0, Jython 2.5.1). What Does It Do? ================ The gnupg module allows Python programs to make use of the functionality provided by the Gnu Privacy Guard (abbreviated GPG or GnuPG). Using this module, Python programs can encrypt and decrypt data, digitally sign documents and verify digital signatures, manage (generate, list and delete) encryption keys, using proven Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) encryption technology based on OpenPGP. This module is expected to be used with Python versions >= 2.4, as it makes use of the subprocess module which appeared in that version of Python. This module is a newer version derived from earlier work by Andrew Kuchling, Richard Jones and Steve Traugott. A test suite using unittest is included with the source distribution. Simple usage: >>> import gnupg >>> gpg = gnupg.GPG(gnupghome='/path/to/keyring/directory') >>> gpg.list_keys() [{ ... 'fingerprint': 'F819EE7705497D73E3CCEE65197D5DAC68F1AAB2', 'keyid': '197D5DAC68F1AAB2', 'length': '1024', 'type': 'pub', 'uids': ['', 'Gary Gross (A test user) <gary.gross(a)gamma.com>']}, { ... 'fingerprint': '37F24DD4B918CC264D4F31D60C5FEFA7A921FC4A', 'keyid': '0C5FEFA7A921FC4A', 'length': '1024', ... 'uids': ['', 'Danny Davis (A test user) <danny.davis(a)delta.com>']}] >>> encrypted = gpg.encrypt("Hello, world!", ['0C5FEFA7A921FC4A']) >>> str(encrypted) '-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)\n \nhQIOA/6NHMDTXUwcEAf ... -----END PGP MESSAGE-----\n' >>> decrypted = gpg.decrypt(str(encrypted), passphrase='secret') >>> str(decrypted) 'Hello, world!' >>> signed = gpg.sign("Goodbye, world!", passphrase='secret') >>> verified = verified = gpg.verify(str(signed)) >>> print "Verified" if verified else "Not verified" 'Verified' For more information, visit http://code.google.com/p/python-gnupg/ - as always, your feedback is most welcome (especially bug reports, patches and suggestions for improvement). Enjoy! Cheers Vinay Sajip Red Dove Consultants Ltd.

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doit 0.4.0 relesead
by Eduardo Schettino Oct. 6, 2009

Oct. 6, 2009

doit 0.4.0 - automation tool doit comes from the idea of bringing the power of build-tools to execute any kind of task. It will keep track of dependencies between “tasks” and execute them only when necessary. It was designed to be easy to use and “get out of your way”. doit is written in Python. "tasks" can be defined in python or shell scripts. doit can be used as a build-tool or just a nice way to organize your scripts. homepage: http://python-doit.sourceforge.net/ PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/doit license: MIT contact: https://launchpad.net/~schettino72 Regards, Eduardo

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