Mailman 3 March 2009 - Python-announce-list

Elisa Media Center 0.5.31 Release
by Olivier Tilloy 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Dear Python users, The Elisa team is happy to announce the release of Elisa Media Center 0.5.31, code-named "Voorspel In Sofia". Elisa is a cross-platform and open-source Media Center written in Python. It uses GStreamer [1] for media playback and pigment [2] to create an appealing and intuitive user interface. This release is a "light weight" release, meaning it is pushed through our automatic plugin update system. That is why there is no new Elisa windows installer nor any new packages: use the existing ones for 0.5.27; with the default configuration, they should upgrade automatically to 0.5.31. Tarballs for 0.5.31 are provided for packagers who want to disable the automatic plugin update system on their distribution. A complete list of the issues fixed can be found at: http://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+milestone/0.5.31 This is also summarised in the (attached) release notes. Installers and sources can be downloaded from http://elisa.fluendo.com/download/ Bug reports and feature requests are welcome at http://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug Have a media-centered evening, Olivier, for the Elisa team [1] http://www.gstreamer.net/ [2] https://code.fluendo.com/pigment/trac Elisa 0.5.31 "Voorspel In Sofia" ================================ This is Elisa 0.5.31, thirty-first release of the 0.5 branch. Bugs fixed since 0.5.30: - 267240: Scanning report goes over 100% - 289882: progressbar not updated on pause - 336654: Non existing items displayed in Grid mode at the beginning and the end Download You can find source releases of Elisa on the download page: http://elisa.fluendo.com/download Elisa Homepage More details can be found on the project's website: http://elisa.fluendo.com Support and Bugs We use Launchpad for bug reports and feature requests: https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug Developers All code is in a Bazaar branch and can be checked out from there. It is hosted on Launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/elisa Contributors to this release: - David McLeod - Florian Boucault - Guillaume Emont - Jesús Corrius - Lionel Martin - Marc Garcia - Maxwell Young - Olivier Tilloy - Philippe Normand

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Packaging Survey
by Tarek Ziadé 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

The Python Langage Summit is coming up. To prepare this event, I have put online a survey you can take to tell us a bit more about you and how you package your Python applications. * Who should take the survey : any Python developer that packages and distributes his code, no matter how. * Take the survey: http://tinyurl.com/package-survey Thanks to all the people that helped building the survey, and a special thanks to Massimo Di Pierro who created the application that runs the Survey and helped me to set this up. Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, March 10, 2009, 08:00pm
by Mike Müller 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, March 10 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ). Julian Moritz will talk about "Possibilities of natural language processing of websites using Django". Stefan Schwarzer will present about Mercurial. Food and soft drinks are provided. Please send a short confirmation mail to info(a)python-academy.de, so we can prepare appropriately. Everybody who uses Python, plans to do so or is interested in learning more about the language is encouraged to participate. While the meeting language will be mainly German, we will provide English translation if needed. Current information about the meetings are at http://www.python-academy.com/user-group . Mike == Leipzig Python User Group === Wir treffen uns am Dienstag, 10.03.2008 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). Julian Moritz wird über Möglichkeiten der automatischen Sprachverarbeitung bei Webseiten am Beispiel von Django berichten und Stefan Schwarzer wird uns Mercurial näher bringen. Für das leibliche Wohl wird gesorgt. Eine Anmeldung unter info(a)python-academy.de wäre nett, damit wir genug Essen besorgen können. Willkommen ist jeder, der Interesse an Python hat, die Sprache bereits nutzt oder nutzen möchte. Aktuelle Informationen zu den Treffen sind unter http://www.python-academy.de/User-Group zu finden. Viele Grüße Mike

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ANN: PyMite release 07
by dwhall 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

====== PyMite ====== :Author: Dean Hall :Copyright: Copyright 2002 Dean Hall. All rights reserved. PyMite is offered through one of two licenses: commercial or open-source. See the LICENSE file at the root of the package for licensing details. :Release: 07 :Site: http://pymite.python-hosting.com/ I would like to announce the seventh release of PyMite. PyMite is a flyweight Python interpreter written from scratch to execute on 8-bit and larger microcontrollers with resources as limited as 64 KB of program memory (flash) and 4 KB of RAM. PyMite supports a subset of the Python 2.5 syntax and can execute a subset of the Python 2.5 bytecodes. PyMite can also be compiled, tested and executed on a desktop computer. Here are the important new features in this release: - Interactive PyMite (ipm) works on AVR over serial port - Added support for the keyword lambda - Added support for list comprehensions - Fixed sys.runInThread() - Implemented builtin function dir() - Added support for string and tuple replication - Added support for funcs with default args - Added support for the keyword del - Created configurable Float datatype - Added support for Boolean type and True/False constants - Created dict, list and string modules that operate on their respective built-in types - Added support to allow heap larger than 64 KB !!Dean

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ANN: cssutils 0.9.6a2
by Christof Hoeke 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

what is it ---------- A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. (Not a renderer though!) about this release ------------------ 0.9.6a2 is an alpha release. main changes ------------ 0.9.6a2 090308 + **API CHANGE**: :class:`cssutils.profiles.Profiles` (introduced in 0.9.6a1) has been refactored + **CHANGE**: Reporting levels of properties have changed. Please see :meth:`cssutils.css.Property.validate` for details. E.g. valid properties in the current profile are only reported on DEBUG and not INFO level anymore. The log output has been changed too, context information is provided now (line, column and name of the relevant property) + **BUGFIX**: ``p.valid == False`` is now set for Properties not valid in the current profile even if they are valid in a different profile + **BUGFIX**: Macros used when adding a new profile to ``cssutils.profile`` were polluted with ALL macros ever defined. + BUGFIX: If ``cssutils.ser.prefs.validOnly == True`` serializer incorrectly put a single ``;`` for invalid properties out until now. - **IMPROVEMENT**: comments added by ``cssutils.resolveImports`` only use the @import rules' href and not the absolute href of the referenced sheets anymore (might have been a possible security hole when showing a full local path to a sheet in a combined but not minified sheet) - IMPROVEMENT: IE specific `alpha` values like ``filter: alpha(opacity=80)`` are parsed now. 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 (tested with Python 2.6.1, 2.5.2 and 2.4.4 on Vista only) Bug reports (via Google code), comments, etc are very much appreciated! Thanks. Christof

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RELEASED Python 3.1 alpha 1
by Benjamin Peterson 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Python 3.1. Python 3.1 focuses on the stabilization and optimization of features and changes Python 3.0 introduced. The new I/O system has been rewritten in C for speed. Other features include a ordered dictionary implementation and support for ttk Tile in Tkinter. Please note that these are alpha releases, and as such are not suitable for production environments. We continue to strive for a high degree of quality, but there are still some known problems and the feature sets have not been finalized. These alphas are being released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, as well as allowing you to determine how changes in 3.1 might impact you. If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug report at http://bugs.python.org For more information and downloads, see the Python 3.1 website: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1/ See PEP 375 for release schedule details: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/ Enjoy, -- Benjamin Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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Jython 2.5 beta 2 Released
by Frank Wierzbicki 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that Jython 2.5b2 is available for download here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jython/jython_installer-2.5b2.jar. See http://www.jython.org/Project/installation.html for installation instructions. Unless a severe bug is found, this will be the last beta before we start putting out release candidates. The modjy project has been pushed into the core, there have been many bugfixes. I attempted to get all of the bugfixes out of the tracker and into the NEWS file. Hopefully we can get more disciplined about change logs in the future. Note: if you have been running Jython with --verify, we have removed that option and defaulted to that classpath behavior. We now have a --boot option for the previous 2.5 classpath behavior (jython.jar gets loaded into the boot classpath). If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you probably don't need to worry about it :) This is a beta release so be careful. -Frank

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ANN: eric 4.3.1 released
by Detlev Offenbach 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hi, I just uploaded eric 4.3.1. It is a maintenance release fixing some bugs. It is available via the eric4 web site. http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/index.html Eric is a Python (and Ruby) IDE that comes with batteries included. Please see the a.m. web site for more details. Regards, Detlev -- Detlev Offenbach detlev(a)die-offenbachs.de

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pygrace-0.4
by Michael McKerns 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

updated Python bindings for grace http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/software.html # Version 0.4: 03/02/09 migrated Numeric dependency to Numpy added license text installs with setuptools, if available more gentle install & dependency failure --- Mike McKerns California Institute of Technology http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns

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Announcing PAM 3.0 for Web testing
by bobm_qa＠hotmail.com 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Python Automation Module version 3.0 (PAM30.py). This python module allows simple automation of the Internet Explorer Browser by using the COM object. This can be used in QA or Development testing to write Automation tests in Python . Easy to use. Note: This version only only works with Python 3.0 on Windows and requires Mark Hammond's pywin32 for Python3.0 - pywin32-213.win32- py3.0.exe Simple Example to automate a google search on "Python" ###################################################### from PAM30 import PAMIE ie = PAMIE() ie.navigate("google.com") ie.setTextBox("q", "python") ie.clickButton("Google Search") ie.clickLink("Python Programming Language -- Official Website") ###################################################### Thank you Rob Marchetti

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