Mailman 3 December 2009 - Python-announce-list

ANN: pyrtm-0.2 released
by Sridhar Ratnakumar 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

pyrtm is a Python API binding for accessing Remember The Milk. This releases fixes a few issues related to API spec. * app.py: Fix for unreliable type of 'taskseries' (#5) * rtm.py: Fixed incorrect number of arguments to "lists" (#3) * rtm.py: Try to import django.utils.simplejson before falling back * app.py: Made it a command-line app accepting key/secret/token as args To download pyrtm, visit: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyrtm You can also install pyrtm using pip or PyPM: $ pip install pyrtm $ pypm install pyrtm -srid

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Pyro 3.10 released
by Irmen de Jong 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hi, Pyro 3.10 has been released! Pyro is a an advanced and powerful Distributed Object Technology system written entirely in Python, that is designed to be very easy to use. Have a look at http://pyro.sourceforge.net for more information. Highlights of this release are: - improvements in the SSL configuration - uses new-style classes so super() now works in Pyro objects - various minor bugfixes As always the detailed changes are in the changes chapter in the manual. Please read this for more details and info before upgrading. You can download Pyro 3.10 from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyro or from PyPI http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pyro/ Enjoy, Irmen de Jong

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ANN: TextTest 3.16.1
by Geoff Bache 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hi all, TextTest 3.16 was released last week and there is now a bugfix release also. The main changes are around the HTML batch report, which will amongst other things now generate you a nice "dashboard" page giving the latest status of all your applications. There is also integration with the Jira bug tracker, and improvements to basic functionality like "run_dependent_text" and "collate_file". Regards, Geoff Bache .... TextTest is a tool for automatic text-based functional testing. This means running a batch-mode executable in lots of different ways from the command line, and using the text output produced as a means of controlling the behavior of that application. As well as being usable "standalone", it is an extendable framework for black-box testing written in Python. Homepage: http://www.texttest.org Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/texttest Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/texttest-users Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/texttest Source: https://code.launchpad.net/texttest

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Upcoming Python Classes in New York
by Steve Holden 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Holden Web is pleased to announce three upcoming classes in New York city the week of January 18. Jan 18-20 Introduction to Python (3 days) - Steve Holden http://holdenweb.com/py/introclass/ Jan 21 .NET: IronPython from the Ground Up (1 day) - Michael Foord http://holdenweb.com/py/ironpython/ Jan 22 Practical Django Skills (1 day) - Jacob Kaplan-Moss http://holdenweb.com/py/practicaldjango/ Our current course offerings are always listed at http:/holdenweb.com/py/training/ We also present on-site and/or custom classes - please contact us for further information. regards Steve

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[ANN] Next meeting of pyCologne, December, 9th
by Thomas Lenarz 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

The next meeting of pyCologne (Cologne, Germany) will take place Wednesday, December, 9th starting about 6.30 pm - 6.45 pm at Room 0.14, Benutzerrechenzentrum (RRZK-B) University of Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 Köln, Germany This time we haven't got a fixed agenda yet. We will probably talk about the organization of this year's Christmas Party. At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant. Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at: http://www.pycologne.de (Sorry, this page is in German only) Best Regards, Thomas

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CMNDBOT 0.1 BETA2 released
by Bart Thate 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hello world ! a week after BETA1 i'm releasing BETA2, changes go fast ;] what changed in this version: * RSS plugin can now push to xmpp clients .. add cmndbot(a)appspot.com to your jabber client and do 1) rss-add to add a feed 2) use rss-start to make the bot start sending you feed updates. * a gadget plugin that enables you to load gadgets with one command (well two if you need to add the gadgets url) * a iframe gadget was made that loads the bots web interface into wave and other gadget containers * focus of the command box is now off when loading the gadget * a plugin dedicated to wave functionality was made. currently it has commands to get the id of the wave, getting the url redirecting to the wave and one to get a list of the wave's participants * lots of other bug fixes .. running from one to the other ;] Bart About CMNDBOT: CMNDBOT is an IRC like command bot for wave, web and xmpp, and has a plugin structure to allow users to program there own plugins. CMNDBOT is free code (BSD) so you can clone it and run a CMNDBOT yourself. Source is available at http://cmndbot.googlecode.com/ For a live example of CMNDBOT see cmndbot(a)appspot.com for jabber and wave and http://cmndbot.appspot.com for web. You can also try the new iframe gadget at http://cmndbot.appspot.com/iframe.xml or ... invite the bot to your wave and run !load cmndbot ;] feedback is very much appriciated, i made a wave where we can meet: https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BV9a2mVSOC

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moin-1.9.0 released
by Reimar Bauer 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

============================================== MoinMoin 1.9.0 advanced wiki engine released ============================================== MoinMoin is an easy to use, full-featured and extensible wiki software package written in Python. It can fulfill a wide range of roles, such as a personal notes organizer deployed on a laptop or home web server, a company knowledge base deployed on an intranet, or an Internet server open to individuals sharing the same interests, goals or projects. A wiki is a collaborative hypertext environment with an emphasis on easy manipulation of information. The 1.9 branch brings you several new features. The download page: http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinDownload = 1.9.0 release infos = For details see the http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/raw-file/1.9.0/docs/CHANGES. == Major new features == * MoinMoin requires Python 2.4 now. * MoinMoin is now a WSGI application (based on werkzeug, http://werkzeug.pocoo.org) Please read the new install docs about how to use it, see: http://master19.moinmo.in/InstallDocs * We now offer different sized sets of system/help pages and the default underlay just contains a single page: LanguageSetup. You need to be superuser, visit that page and then install the language packs you like (minimum is the essential set for English). LanguageSetup is the default page_front_page, you need to change that after installing language packs. * New modular group and dict data access, you can use group and dict backend modules to access group and dict data stored anywhere you like. See also the new HelpOnDictionaries and HelpOnGroups pages. * Improved Xapian indexing / search. regex search with Xapian enabled also is based on the xapian index now. * Improved drawing support for twikidraw and anywikidraw see HelpOnDrawings. * Default theme is now modernized * Syntax highlighting is based on the pygments (http://pygments.org/) library now, see HelpOnParsers. * Authentication improvements for http_auth, ldap and openid * SlideShow action added * PackagePages creates package file on-the-fly in memory and send it to the client Plus lots of other features and bug fixes. MoinMoin History ================ MoinMoin has been around since year 2000. The codebase was initally started by Jürgen Hermann; it is currently being developed by a growing team. Being originally based on PikiPiki, it has evolved heavily since then (PikiPiki and MoinMoin 0.1 consisted of just one file!). Many large enterprises have been using MoinMoin as a key tool of their intranet, some even use it for their public web page. A large number of Open Source projects use MoinMoin for communication and documentation. Of course there are also many private installations. For more information see http://moinmo.in/

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ANN: RELEASE: KetchupTV 1.0.0.0
by webmaster＠keyphrene.com 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Ketchup TV is a little video player. You can watch WebTV and listen WebRadio. You can watch your own playlists. Ketchup TV has a podcast service with trailers, news and others contents. Ketchup TV is a clone project of FreeHD Gadget. Ketchup TV works without Sidebar and it embed VLC libraries. Ketchup TV has been developed to resolve installation of FreeHD. So try KetchupTV.

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Announcing fileutils, a UNIX inspired file system library
by . clutchski 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Hello! I am happy to announce the release of fileutils<http://github.com/clutchski/fileutils>, a file system library inspired by classic UNIX programs like cp, mkdir and chmod. It is an attempt to smooth out some of the rough edges in the standard library's os and shutil modules, and create an intuitive, convenient way of working with files. Ok, I am going to stop blathering and let the code speak for itself. Here's a dummy example that demonstrates what fileutils can do (click here<http://gist.github.com/249919>for syntax highlighting). """ This module demonstrates the functionality of the fileutils library. http://github.com/clutchski/fileutils """ import fileutils # # Let's make some directories. # # You can create directories one at a time. fileutils.mkdir('animals') # Or many at a time, if you want. fileutils.mkdir(['animals/birds', 'animals/reptiles']) # Missing parent directories can be created as well. fileutils.mkdir_p('animals/mammals/ungulates') # Too lazy to check if a directory exists? # Don't worry, like the *nix implementation, # fileutils' mkdir_p is idempotent. fileutils.mkdir_p('animals/mammals/ungulates') # # Let's mess around with some files. # # Let's create some. fileutils.touch('animals/birds/loon') fileutils.touch( ['animals/reptiles/turtle', 'animals/reptiles/elk']) fileutils.touch('animals/mammals/baaji_river_dolphin') # Whoops, an elk isn't a reptile. # Let's move that where it belongs. fileutils.mv('animals/reptiles/elk', 'animals/mammals/ungulates') # It's too sad to think about extinct animals, so # let's pretend they never existed. fileutils.rm('animals/mammals/baaji_river_dolphin') # Want anyone to be able to execute your elk? # Well, go ahead and change the permissions. fileutils.chmod('0755', 'animals/mammals/ungulates/elk') # Let's change the ownership of some files. fileutils.chown('apache', 'apache', 'animals/reptiles/turtle') fileutils.chown_R('apache', 'apache', 'animals/mammals') # # Let's clean up and head home. # fileutils.rm_rf('animals') That's it! It's on PyPi, so you can install with "sudo easy_install fileutils". Check out the source code here<http://github.com/clutchski/fileutils.>. And here<http://clutchski.tumblr.com/post/267431466/fileutils-a-unix-inspired-file-s…>is a blog post detailing the library's motivation and inspiration. And as always, if anyone has any suggestions, thoughts or comments, it'd be great to hear from you. Thanks and take care, Matt http://clutchski.tumblr.com/ http://github.com/clutchski

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moin-1.8.6 released
by Reimar Bauer 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

============================================== MoinMoin 1.8.6 advanced wiki engine released ============================================== MoinMoin is an easy to use, full-featured and extensible wiki software package written in Python. It can fulfill a wide range of roles, such as a personal notes organizer deployed on a laptop or home web server, a company knowledge base deployed on an intranet, or an Internet server open to individuals sharing the same interests, goals or projects. A wiki is a collaborative hypertext environment with an emphasis on easy manipulation of information. MoinMoin 1.8.6 is a bug fix release and a recommended update. The 1.8 branch brings you several new features such as the GUI editor, which allows the users to edit pages in a WYSIWYG environment, and many bug fixes. The download page: http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinDownload = 1.8.6 release infos = For details see the http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.8/raw-file/1.8.6/docs/CHANGES. == Bug fixes == * Xapian indexing / indexing filters: * fix deadlocks with well- and misbehaving external filters * work around indexing run crashing when encountering encoding problems with non-ascii filenames * OpenOffice/OpenDocument filters: catch UnicodeDecodeErrors (happens with password protected files) * i18n: check if languages is not initialized yet, don't crash * http_redirect: use 301 redirect for some cases * do not use httponly session cookies, makes trouble with twikidraw and ACLs * GetText2 macro: fix for named placeholder * Fix SHA -> SSHA password hash upgrade for old user profiles. * abort RenamePage if renaming of main page fails (do not try to rename subpages) == New features == * search: improve search result ordering * add MS Powerpoint indexing filter (needs catppt from catdoc package) * migration scripts: make finding damaged edit-log entries easier * SubscribeUser action: support username regexes and unsubscribing. Note that Python 2.3 should work but we recommend 2.4 or newer. MoinMoin History ================ MoinMoin has been around since year 2000. The codebase was initally started by Jürgen Hermann; it is currently being developed by a growing team. Being originally based on PikiPiki, it has evolved heavily since then (PikiPiki and MoinMoin 0.1 consisted of just one file!). Many large enterprises have been using MoinMoin as a key tool of their intranet, some even use it for their public web page. A large number of Open Source projects use MoinMoin for communication and documentation. Of course there are also many private installations. For more information see http://moinmo.in/

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