Mailman 3 May 2009 - Python-announce-list

DEADLINE: OSCON 2009 early bird June 2
by Aahz 26 May '09

26 May '09

Registration is now open for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). OSCON 2009 will be July 20-24 in San Jose, California. Early registration ends June 2. Use the special discount code 'os09pgm' for an extra 15% off. For more information: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ my-python-code-runs-5x-faster-this-month-thanks-to-dumping-$2K- on-a-new-machine-ly y'rs - tim

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Jython 2.5.0 Release Candidate 3 out!
by Frank Wierzbicki 26 May '09

26 May '09

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that Jython 2.5rc3 is available for download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jython/jython_installer-2.5rc3.jar. See the http://www.jython.org/Project/installation.html for installation instructions. This is the third release candidate of the 2.5 version of Jython. It partially fixes JLine on Cygwin and fixes some threading issues. Almost every release in the past year has been followed shortly by another release to fix a windows bug. Today I finally got off of my butt and installed Windows on a VM and spent the day testing, so hopefully this one will not follow that pattern. Please try this out and report any bugs that you find here: http://bugs.jython.org. -Frank

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Annoucement: Racetrack 1.0 repository
by Nagappan Alagappan 26 May '09

26 May '09

[reposting plain-text for c.l.py.announce] Hello all, Racetrack <http://racetrackqa.com/> is a designed to store and display the results of automated tests. At VMware <http://vmware.com/>, over 2,000,000 test results have been stored in Racetrack Repository. Over 25 different teams use the repository to report results. It has a very simple data model, just three basic tables. ResultSet (stores information about a set of tests (Product, Build, etc.) Result, which stores information about the testcase itself, and ResultDetail, which stores the details of each verification performed within the test. ResultDetails also include screenshots and log files, make it easy for the triage engineer to determine the cause of the failure. We are very excited to offer Racetrack to the public<https://launchpad.net/racetrack>as an Open Source project. It offers complete visibility on test results to the organization, much more than Pass/Fail. QA Engineers, Developers, QA Managers, Project Managers all find it useful to quickly see the results of Basic Acceptance Tests, available within an hour of the build completing. Racetrack Triage Report makes it easy to see the number of defects found by a set of tests, and the number of failures caused by Product Changes, and Script failures. By adding a reference to your Bugzilla and Build systems, you can easily provide links directly from Racetrack to a defect or a build information page. The Web Services API is already part of the package, and SilkTest and Java APIs will be added shortly. Thanks Nagappan -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org http://nagappanal.blogspot.com

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Annoucement: Racetrack 1.0 repository
by Nagappan Alagappan 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hello all, Racetrack <http://racetrackqa.com/> is a designed to store and display the results of automated tests. At VMware <http://vmware.com/>, over 2,000,000 test results have been stored in Racetrack Repository. Over 25 different teams use the repository to report results. It has a very simple data model, just three basic tables. ResultSet (stores information about a set of tests (Product, Build, etc.) Result, which stores information about the testcase itself, and ResultDetail, which stores the details of each verification performed within the test. ResultDetails also include screenshots and log files, make it easy for the triage engineer to determine the cause of the failure. We are very excited to offer Racetrack to the public<https://launchpad.net/racetrack>as an Open Source project. It offers complete visibility on test results to the organization, much more than Pass/Fail. QA Engineers, Developers, QA Managers, Project Managers all find it useful to quickly see the results of Basic Acceptance Tests, available within an hour of the build completing. Racetrack Triage Report makes it easy to see the number of defects found by a set of tests, and the number of failures caused by Product Changes, and Script failures. By adding a reference to your Bugzilla and Build systems, you can easily provide links directly from Racetrack to a defect or a build information page. The Web Services API is already part of the package, and SilkTest and Java APIs will be added shortly. Thanks Nagappan -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org http://nagappanal.blogspot.com

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Version 0.12.0 of CodeInvestigator was released on May 26.
by hans moleman 25 May '09

25 May '09

CodeInvestigator version 0.12.0 was released on May 26. Bug fixes: - A garbage collect issue with GTK - Aborting a run tries to retain as much debug information as possible New features: - A clock in the status window helps with locating the event handler in the list of entry points CodeInvestigator is a tracing tool for Python programs. Running a program through CodeInvestigator creates a recording. Program flow, function calls, variable values and conditions are all stored for every line the program executes. The recording is then viewed with an interface consisting of the code. The code can be clicked: A clicked variable displays its value, a clicked loop displays its iterations. You read code, and have at your disposal all the run time details of that code. A computerized desk check tool and another way to learn about your program. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=183942

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[ANNOUNCE] PyGTK 2.15.1 - unstable
by Gian Mario Tagliaretti 24 May '09

24 May '09

A new unstable development release of the Python bindings for GTK+ has been released. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.15/ Blurb: GTK+ is a toolkit for developing graphical applications that run on systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It provides a comprehensive set of GUI widgets, can display Unicode bidi text. It links into the Gnome Accessibility Framework through the ATK library. PyGTK provides a convenient wrapper for the GTK+ library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GTK+ library itself PyGTK is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full features applications. What's new since 2.15.0? - (Add HSV support to gtk.gdk.Color objects) - Add floating-point support to gtk.gdk.Color (Paul) - Retire hand-written ChangeLog; autocreate from Git history (Paul) - Fix conditional in docs/Makefile.am (Frederic Peters) - Document that gtk.gdk.GC coordinates are not related to allocation (Paul) - Make pygtk_boxed_unref_shared() also handle Py_None (Paul) - Make gtk.MenuItem.set_submenu accept None (Paul) - Don't run 'fixxref.py' if documentation is not built (Björn Lindqvist) - Apply libtool 2.2 compatibility patch (Gian) - Plug reference leak on main signal watch source (Paul) - Add extra warning against accidental misuse of tree model columns (Paul) - Wrap gtk.Border attributes and constructor (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez) - Make gtk.gdk.Event.time accept 'long' in assignments (Paul) - Wrap gtk.RcStyle attributes (Paul) PyGTK requires GTK+ >= 2.8.0 and Python >= 2.3.5 to build. Bug reports, as always, should go to Bugzilla; check out http://pygtk.org/developer.html and http://pygtk.org/feedback.html for links to posting and querying bug reports for PyGTK. cheers -- Gian Mario Tagliaretti GNOME Foundation member gianmt(a)gnome.org

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[ANNOUNCE] PyGobject 2.18.0 - stable
by Gian Mario Tagliaretti 24 May '09

24 May '09

I am pleased to announce version 2.18.0 of the Python bindings for GObject. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.18/ What's new since PyGObject 2.17.0? - Improve gio docs with some more classes (Gian) - Wrap gio.OutputStream.splice_async() (Gian) - Add Python ver into installed libpyglib name (Emilio Pozuelo Monfort) - Wrap gio.OutputStream.flush_async() (Gian) - Use 'Requires.private' for libffi in '.pc' files (Josselin Mouette) - Add wrapper for gio.FileAttributeMatcher (Gian) - Mark relevant glib.IOChannel methods as METH_NOARGS (Paul) - Retire hand-written ChangeLog; autocreate from Git history (Paul) - Wrap gio.InputStream.skip_async() (Gian) - Add in codegen -n --namespace option and the code to remove dll API in headers, added documentation (Siavash Safi) - Properly mark glib.get_user_special_dir() as a keywords method (Paul) Blurb: GObject is a object system library used by GTK+ and GStreamer. PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyGTK, PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GObject library itself PyGObject is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full featured applications. PyGObject requires glib >= 2.14.0 and Python >= 2.3.5 to build. GIO bindings require glib >= 2.16.0. cheers -- Gian Mario Tagliaretti GNOME Foundation member gianmt(a)gnome.org

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repoze.what - Redis plugin available
by Kless 24 May '09

24 May '09

I'm pleased to announce the repoze.what plugin to use in Redis databases. repoze.what is an authorization framework for WSGI applications, based on repoze.who (which deals with authentication and identification). Redis is a key-value database. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists and sets with atomic operations to push/pop elements. For more information: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/repoze.what.plugins.redis/ Project Home: http://bitbucket.org/ares/repozewhatpluginsredis/

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bcryptor released
by Kless 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hi, I'm proud to announce bcryptor; a wrapper for bcrypt, the password- hashing algorithm used in OpenBSD. bcryptor substitutes to bcryptWrap, which has been already deleted from PyPi. bcryptor uses a better directory structure and API names. For more information read at <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bcryptor/> The source code is at <http://www.bitbucket.org/ares/bcryptor/> To install run: $ sudo easy_install bcryptor and to use it, its API is very simple: >>> import bcryptor >>> bcrypt = bcryptor.Bcrypt() >>> hash = bcrypt.create('crack my pass') And to validate: >>> bcrypt.valid('crack my pass', hash) True >>> bcrypt.valid('Crack my pass', hash) False

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bzr-1.15final released
by Bob Tanner 23 May '09

23 May '09

The smart server will no longer raise 'NoSuchRevision' when streaming content with a size mismatch in a reconstructed graph search. New command ``bzr dpush``. Plugins can now define their own annotation tie- breaker when two revisions introduce the exact same line. The Bazaar team is happy to announce availability of a new release of the bzr adaptive version control system. Thanks to everyone who contributed patches, suggestions, and feedback. Bazaar is now available for download from http://bazaar-vcs.org/ Download as a source tarball; packages for various systems will be available soon. -- Bob Tanner <tanner(a)real-time.com> Key fingerprint = F785 DDFC CF94 7CE8 AA87 3A9D 3895 26F1 0DDB E378

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