Mailman 3 March 2009 - Python-announce-list

pywinauto 0.3.8 released - collection of changes from the last two years
by Mark Mc Mahon 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hi, The 0.3.8 release of pywinauto is now available. pywinauto is a set of open-source (LGPL) modules for using Python as a GUI automation 'driver' for Windows NT based Operating Systems (NT/W2K/XP). SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywinauto Download from SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157379 Here is the list of changes from 0.3.7: 0.3.8 Collecting improvements from last 2 years ------------------------------------------------------------------ 15-March-2009 * Fixed toolbar button pressing - This required for HwndWrapper.NotifyParent() to be updated (to accept a new ID parameter) * Fixed a bug wherea listview without a column control would make pywinauto fail to capture the dialog. * Converted documenation from Pudge generated to Sphinx Generated * Added some baic support for Pager and Progress controls (no tests yet) * Added some more VB 'edit' window classes * Added some more VB 'listbox' window classes * Added some more VB 'button' window classes * Ensured that return value from ComboBoxWrapper.SelectedIndices is always a tuple (there was a bug where it would sometimes be a ctypes array) * Changed default for finding windows to find disabled windows as well as enabled ones (previous was to find enabled windows only) (note this may impact scripts that relied on the previous setting i.e. in cases where two dialogs have the same title!) * Much better handling of InvalidWindowHandle during automation runs. This could be raised when a closing window is still available when the automation was called, but is gone half way through whatever function was called. * Made clicking more robust by adding a tiny wait between each SendMessageTimeout in _perform_click(). * Added attributes ``can_be_label`` and ``has_title`` to ``HwndWrapper`` and subclasses to specify whether a control can act as a label for other controls, and whether the title should be used for identifying the control. If you have created your own HwndWrapper subclasses you may need to override the defaults. * Added a ``control_id`` parameter to find_windows which allows finding windows based off of their control id's * Added a FriendlyClassName method to MenuItem * Split up the functions for button truncation data * Commented out code to get a new font if the font could not be recovered * Moved code to get the control font from Truncation test to handleprops * Added a function to get the string representation of the bug. (need to refactor PrintBugs at some point). * Fixed a variable name (from fname -> font_attrib as fname was not a defined variable!) * Forced some return values from MissingExtraString test to be Unicode * Fixed the MiscValues test (converted to Unicode and removed some extraneous characters) * Updated the path for all unittests * Made two unit tests sligthly more robust and less dependent on computer/app settings * Updated timing settings for unit tests * Updated the examples to work in dev environment. If you want to follow this project then please sign up to the mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pywinauto-users Thanks Mark

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ANN: OpenOpt 0.23 - free numerical optimization framework
by dmitrey 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hi all, OpenOpt 0.23, a free Python-written numerical optimization framework (license: BSD) with some own solvers and connections to tens of 3rd party ones, has been released. Our new homepage: http://openopt.org Introduction to the framework: http://openopt.org/Foreword All release details are here: http://openopt.org/Changelog or http://forum.openopt.org/viewtopic.php?id=58 Special thanks to Stepan Hlushak for writing GLP (global) solver "de" ("differential evolution"). Regards, OpenOpt developers.

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Papywizard 2.0.0
by Frédéric 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

I'm pleased to announce the new release of Papywizard 2.0.0! http://trac.gbiloba.org/papywizard This new branch now uses PyQt as graphical toolkit. This first release does not add many new features, and is more or less the same as the 1.6.1. But it can now run on MacOS (binary package coming soon). Main new features ----------------- - switch to PyQt - external script support for tethered shooting - shutter triggering pulse width param What is Papywizard? ------------------- Papywizard is a free panohead control software, mainly developped for the Merlin/Orion astronomic mount[1][2] but usable for other panoheads, as long as it is possible to talk to them (hardware/software). The project is developped with the support of Kolor company[3], which develops the famous Autopano Pro stitcher software[4]. Comments, questions and bug reports must be posted on APP forums[5]. Enjoy! [1]http://www.astronome.fr/produit-monture-multi-fonctions-merlin-696.html [2]http://www.telescope.com/control/product/~category_id=mounts_and_tripods/… [3]http://www.kolor.com [4]http://www.autopano.net [5]http://www.autopano.net/forum -- Frédéric

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Introduction to Python Masterclass, May 11-13, 2009 in Chicago
by David Beazley 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

* * Introduction to Python Masterclass * * May 11-13, 2009 Chicago, Illinois with David Beazley, author "Python Essential Reference" http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago Take your Python programming skills to the next level. David Beazley is pleased to offer a comprehensive hands-on course for programmers, scientists, and engineers who want to master the essential elements of Python programming in order to solve real-world problems in data processing, systems administration, databases, and software integration. If you are new to Python, this class will quickly bring you up to speed and allow you to immediately apply Python to problems you face everyday. If you already know some Python, this course will give you new insights, inspire you to improve the programs you have already written, and give you a roadmap towards Python 3 and beyond. This is the same class that Dave has taught on-site to more than 400 students including rocket scientists, robot builders, hardware engineers, financial wizards, and web programmers. Forget about the midwest winter and mind-numbing suburban technology parks---the venue for this class is centrally located in the heart of Chicago's vibrant downtown financial/theater district. When class is not in session, you will be just steps away from many of Chicago's most famous cultural attractions, shopping districts, and lakefront parks. Come prepared for three days of serious Python instruction and springtime urban exploration. More details about the class including discounts for early registration can be found at: http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago I hope to see you there! -- Dave Beazley http://www.dabeaz.com

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Cython 0.11 Released
by Robert Bradshaw 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

The Python compiler Cython 0.11 was just released. We would like to thank Stefan Behnel, Robert Bradshaw, Ondrej Certik, Lisandro Dalcin, Jason Evans, Magnus Lie Hetland, Hoyt Koepke, and Dag Sverre Seljebotn who contributed code to this release, as well as the many others who contributed ideas, bug reports, and feedback. What is Cython? ===================== Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python itself. Cython is based on the well-known Pyrex, but supports more cutting edge functionality and optimizations. The Cython language is very close to the Python language, but Cython additionally supports calling C functions and declaring C types on variables and class attributes. This allows the compiler to generate very efficient C code from Cython code. This makes Cython the ideal language for wrapping for external C libraries, and for fast C modules that speed up the execution of Python code. Where to get it? ===================== http://cython.org/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cython/ Release Notes ===================== The majority of changes in this version are internal, the largest of which is moving most temp allocation to the code generation phase which has several advantages and will greatly facilitate future development. In conjunction with this, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote a "reference counting nanny" which, when enabled, warns of potential double-frees and memory-leaks. Though it will not find memory leaks in user code (malloc is just as dangerous as ever) it is a great tool for verifying that Cython itself is outputting correct code and is an invaluable consistency check during the many changes we've been making to temporary variable handling. There have also been many improvements for developers--for example, the parse tree is printed on compiler crashes, the testing framework has been enhanced, and there is a mode to produce output files interlaced with the compiler's call stacks to more easily trace what's going on. The most visible new user-level features are size_t as a native type (as part of Lisandro Dalcin's cleanup and improvement of Python <-> C type conversions) and proper Python semantics for optimized range() loops (Magnus Lie Hetland). C(p)def functions can now take decorators, though only @cython.locals is currently supported, and inline functions can appear in .pxd files. There were also numerious bug fixes, optimizations, and general code cleanups that happened in this release too. A list of closed tickets can be found at http://trac.cython.org/ cython_trac/query?group=component&milestone=0.11 . Though not every change is associated to a trac ticket, we plan to be more stringent about this in the future. We have several patches already done that didn't make it into 0.11, and so 0.11.1 will be out soon.

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Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.4.7
by Richard Jones 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

I'm proud to release version 1.4.7 of Roundup. 1.4.7 is primarily a bugfix release which contains important security fixes: - a number of security issues were discovered by Daniel Diniz - EditCSV and ExportCSV altered to include permission checks - HTTP POST required on actions which alter data - HTML file uploads served as application/octet-stream - Handle Unauthorised in file serving correctly - New item action reject creation of new users - Item retirement was not being controlled - Roundup is now compatible with Python 2.6 - Improved French and German translations - Improve consistency of item sorting in HTML interface - Various other small bug fixes, robustification and optimisation Though some new features made it in also: - Provide a "no selection" option in web interface selection widgets - Debug logging now uses the logging module rather than print - Allow CGI frontend to serve XMLRPC requests. - Added XMLRPC actions, as well as bridging CGI actions to XMLRPC actions. - Optimized large file serving via mod_python / sendfile(). - Support resuming downloads for (large) files. 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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ANN: AsciiDoc 8.4.1 released
by Stuart Rackham 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

This release introduces the new Python API for AsciiDoc (http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/asciidocapi.html). 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, 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 ------------------ The latest AsciiDoc version, examples and online documentation can be downloaded from http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ AsciiDoc can also 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: Urwid 0.9.8.4 - Console UI Library
by Ian Ward 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Announcing Urwid 0.9.8.4 ------------------------ Urwid home page: http://excess.org/urwid/ Tarball: http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.9.8.4.tar.gz RSS: http://excess.org/feeds/tag/urwid/ About this release: =================== This is a maintenance release that adds compatibility with Python 2.6 and fixes a number of bugs. New in this release: ==================== * Fixed incompatibilities with Python 2.6 (by Friedrich Weber) * Fixed a SimpleListWalker with emptied list bug (found by Walter Mundt) * Fixed a curses_display stop()/start() bug (found by Christian Scharkus) * Fixed an is_wide_character() segfault on bad input data bug (by Andrew Psaltis) * Fixed a CanvasCache with render() used in both a widget and its superclass bug (found by Andrew Psaltis) * Fixed a ListBox.ends_visible() on empty list bug (found by Marc Hartstein) * Fixed a tutorial example bug (found by Kurtis D. Rader) * Fixed an Overlay.keypress() bug (found by Andreas Klöckner) * Fixed setuptools configuration (by Andreas Klöckner) About Urwid =========== Urwid is a console UI library for Python. It features fluid interface resizing, UTF-8 support, multiple text layouts, simple attribute markup, powerful scrolling list boxes and flexible interface design. Urwid is released under the GNU LGPL.

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[ANN] PyTables 2.1.1 released
by Francesc Alted 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

=========================== Announcing PyTables 2.1.1 =========================== PyTables is a library for managing hierarchical datasets and designed to efficiently cope with extremely large amounts of data with support for full 64-bit file addressing. PyTables runs on top of the HDF5 library and NumPy package for achieving maximum throughput and convenient use. This is a maintenance release, so you should not expect API changes. Instead, a handful of bugs, like `File` not being subclassable, incorrectly retrieved default values for data types, a memory leak, and more, have been fixed. Besides, some enhancements have been implemented, like improved Unicode support for filenames, better handling of Unicode attributes, and the possibility to create very large data types exceeding 64 KB in size (with some limitations). Last but not least, this is the first PyTables version fully tested against Python 2.6. It is worth noting that binaries for Windows and Python 2.6 wears the newest HDF5 1.8.2 libraries (instead of the traditional HDF5 1.6.x) now. In case you want to know more in detail what has changed in this version, have a look at: http://www.pytables.org/moin/ReleaseNotes/Release_2.1.1 You can download a source package with generated PDF and HTML docs, as well as binaries for Windows, from: http://www.pytables.org/download/stable For an on-line version of the manual, visit: http://www.pytables.org/docs/manual-2.1.1 You may want to fetch an evaluation version for PyTables Pro from: http://www.pytables.org/download/evaluation Resources ========= About PyTables: http://www.pytables.org About the HDF5 library: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ About NumPy: http://numpy.scipy.org/ Acknowledgments =============== Thanks to many users who provided feature improvements, patches, bug reports, support and suggestions. See the ``THANKS`` file in the distribution package for a (incomplete) list of contributors. Most specially, a lot of kudos go to the HDF5 and NumPy (and numarray!) makers. Without them, PyTables simply would not exist. Share your experience ===================== Let us know of any bugs, suggestions, gripes, kudos, etc. you may have. ---- **Enjoy data!** -- The PyTables Team -- Francesc Alted

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Concurrence Framework 0.3 Released
by Henk 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Concurrence is a framework for creating massively concurrent network applications in Python. It takes a Lightweight-tasks-with-message-passing approach to concurrency. The goal of Concurrence is to provide an easier programming model for writing high performance network applications than existing solutions (Multi-threading, Twisted, asyncore etc). Concurrence uses Lightweight tasks in combination with libevent to expose a high-level synchronous API to low-level asynchronous IO. http://opensource.hyves.org/concurrence/

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