Mailman 3 May 2009 - Python-announce-list

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by Aahz 11 May '09

11 May '09

On Monday 2009-05-11, mail.python.org will be switched to another machine starting roughly at 14:00 UTC. This should be invisible (expected downtime is less than ten minutes). -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code." --Bill Harlan

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Announce: Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 1.6.0 released
by Nagappan A 11 May '09

11 May '09

[reposted in plaintext by aahz(a)pythoncraft.com] Greetings all, We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 1.6.0. This release features number of important breakthroughs in LDTP as well as in the field of Test Automation. This release note covers a brief introduction on LDTP followed by the list of new features and major bug fixes which makes this new version of LDTP the best of the breed. Useful references have been included at the end of this article for those who wish to hack / use LDTP. About LDTP: Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework (C / Python) and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the Accessibility libraries to poke through the application's user interface. The framework also has tools to record test-cases based on user events in the interface of the application which is under testing. We strive to help in building a quality desktop. Whats new in this release: Bug fixes: 578609 - LDTP should use LOGNAME instead of (or in addition to) USER 553747 - cannot click window itself 579027 - onwindowcreate expects a _NON_ stripped window title 575120 - component should have a getrole() method (ooldtp.py) 573103 - ldtpeditor could not find glade file 'ldtpeditor.glade' 547572 - Components should be exposed in a hierarchical way Special thanks to Willi Walker <william.walker at sun.com>, Anupa Kamath <anupak at vmware.com>, Ara Pulido <ara at ubuntu.com>, Sandro Millien <msp at lloedy.com>, Guofu Xu <Guofu.Xu at access-company.com>, Szil?rd Pfeiffer <szilard.pfeiffer at gmail.com> New API addition: Progress bar APIs Layered pane APIs Download source tarball - http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/1.x/1.6.x/ldtp-1.6.0.tar.gz Binary (openSUSE / Ubuntu / Fedora / Debian / RHEL / CentOS / Mandriva) - http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anagappan/ (Just scheduled in openSUSE build service, might take time to complete depending upon server load) Eitan Isaacson <eitan at ascender.com> has started LDTPv2, a complete rewrite of LDTP in python using pyatspi, soon this will be available through ldtp.fd.o git repository. For now you can access them from http://github.com/eeejay/ldtp2/tree/master References: For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net Thanks Nagappan -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org http://nagappanal.blogspot.com

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Announce: Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 1.6.0 released
by Nagappan A 11 May '09

11 May '09

Greetings all, We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 1.6.0. This release features number of important breakthroughs in LDTP as well as in the field of Test Automation. This release note covers a brief introduction on LDTP followed by the list of new features and major bug fixes which makes this new version of LDTP the best of the breed. Useful references have been included at the end of this article for those who wish to hack / use LDTP. About LDTP: Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework (C / Python) and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the Accessibility libraries to poke through the application's user interface. The framework also has tools to record test-cases based on user events in the interface of the application which is under testing. We strive to help in building a quality desktop. Whats new in this release: Bug fixes: 578609 - LDTP should use LOGNAME instead of (or in addition to) USER 553747 - cannot click window itself 579027 - onwindowcreate expects a _NON_ stripped window title 575120 - component should have a getrole() method (ooldtp.py) 573103 - ldtpeditor could not find glade file 'ldtpeditor.glade' 547572 - Components should be exposed in a hierarchical way Special thanks to Willi Walker <william.walker at sun.com>, Anupa Kamath <anupak at vmware.com>, Ara Pulido <ara at ubuntu.com>, Sandro Millien <msp at lloedy.com>, Guofu Xu <Guofu.Xu at access-company.com>, Szilárd Pfeiffer <szilard.pfeiffer at gmail.com> New API addition: Progress bar APIs Layered pane APIs Download source tarball - http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/1.x/1.6.x/ldtp-1.6.0.tar.gz Binary (openSUSE / Ubuntu / Fedora / Debian / RHEL / CentOS / Mandriva) - http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anagappan/ (Just scheduled in openSUSE build service, might take time to complete depending upon server load) Eitan Isaacson <eitan at ascender.com> has started LDTPv2, a complete rewrite of LDTP in python using pyatspi, soon this will be available through ldtp.fd.o git repository. For now you can access them from http://github.com/eeejay/ldtp2/tree/master References: For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net Thanks Nagappan -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org http://nagappanal.blogspot.com

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, May 12, 2009, 08:00pm
by Stefan Schwarzer 10 May '09

10 May '09

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, May 12 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ). 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 . Stefan == Leipzig Python User Group === Wir treffen uns am Dienstag, 12.05.2009 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). 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 Stefan

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[ANN] ftputil 2.4.1 released
by Stefan Schwarzer 10 May '09

10 May '09

ftputil 2.4.1 is now available from http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/download . Changes since version 2.4 ------------------------- Several bugs were fixed: - On Windows, some accesses to the stat cache caused it to become inconsistent, which could also trigger exceptions (report and patch by Peter Stirling). - In ftputil 2.4, the use of ``super`` in the exception base class caused ftputil to fail on Python <2.5 (reported by Nicola Murino). ftputil is supposed to run with Python 2.3+. - The conversion of 12-hour clock times to 24-hour clock in the MS format parser was wrong for 12 AM and 12 PM. Upgrading is strongly recommended. What is ftputil? ---------------- ftputil is a high-level FTP client library for the Python programming language. ftputil implements a virtual file system for accessing FTP servers, that is, it can generate file-like objects for remote files. The library supports many functions similar to those in the os, os.path and shutil modules. ftputil has convenience functions for conditional uploads and downloads, and handles FTP clients and servers in different timezones. Read the documentation at http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/documentation . License ------- ftputil is Open Source software, released under the revised BSD license (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php ). Stefan

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[ANNOUNCE] PyGoocanvas 0.14.1
by Gian Mario Tagliaretti 10 May '09

10 May '09

I am pleased to announce version 0.14.1 of the Python bindings for Goocanvas. It is available at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygoocanvas/0.14/ The bindings are updated with the new Goocanvas API PyGooCanvas 0.14.1 (May 10 2009) ================== o Fix a segfault due to an API change in PycCairo (Gian Mario) o Autogenerate the ChangeLog from git logs (Gian Mario) o Fix the build when using libtool 2.x (Gian Mario) o Make the required changes after the switch to git (Gian Mario) Blurb: ====== Goocanvas [1] is a canvas widget for GTK+, It is similar in many ways to FooCanvas, hence the name, but it uses cairo for rendering, it has an optional model/view split, and uses interfaces for items & views (so you can easily turn any application object into a canvas item or view). PyGooCanvas is a wrapper which exposes the goocanvas API to the python world. It is fairly complete; most of the API are covered. The documentation is done, anyway bug reports on docs are really important to improve the documentation. Like the GTK+ library, PyGTK and GooCanvas itself PyGooCanvas is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. PyGooCanvas requires: ===================== o Goocanvas >= 0.14 o PyGObject >= 2.10.1 (2.11.3 to build the docs) o PyGTK >= 2.10.4 (2.12.0 to use gtk.Tooltip) o PyCairo >= 1.8.0 Bug reports should go to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=pygoocanvas [1] http://live.gnome.org/GooCanvas cheers -- Gian Mario Tagliaretti GNOME Foundation member gianmt(a)gnome.org

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[ANN] pyxser-1.0R --- python xml serialization
by Daniel Molina Wegener 09 May '09

09 May '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm pleased to announce pyxser-1.0R, a Python-Object to XML serializer and deserializer. This package it's completly written in C and licensed under LGPLv3. The tested Python versions are 2.5.X and 2.7.X. * home page: http://coder.cl/software/pyxser * hosted at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxser/ The current ChangeLog is as follows: 1.0rc1 (2009.04.26): Daniel Molina Wegener <dmw(a)coder.cl> * Added both byte string and unicode returning and procesing functions. This means that we have serialize(), serialize_c14n(), serialize_c14n_strict(), unserialize(), validate() and validate_c14n() functions for byte strings and u_serialize(), u_serialize_c14n(), u_serialize_c14n_strict(), u_unserialize(), u_validate() and u_validate_c14n() for unicode strings. * Removed memory leaks, now it runs over 1400000 pyxser operations without crashing (100000 cicles testing every function). * Removed bugs concerning reference counting that was crashing when trying to access unserialized objects attributes. * This is an approach to a production environment release ;) 1.0r (2009.05.09): Daniel Molina Wegener <dmw(a)coder.cl> * Set default validation to XML Schema validation, to allow pyxser to work with WebServices and similar technologies, without restricting the namespace prefix to pyxs. * Removed memory leaks concerning XML Schema validation. * Succeful tests with more than 1.200.000 pyxser operations. * Added pyxser 1.0 XML Schema to allow imports of the pyxser model into WebServices WSDL and similar technologies. * Addded getxsd(), getxsd_c14n(), u_validate_c14n_dtd(), u_validate_dtd(), validate_c14n_dtd(), validate_dtd() functions. * All *_dtd() related functions allows you to validate pyxser documents using the pyxser 1.0 DTD, instead of the pyxser 1.0 XML Schema. Feel free to use and test. You can modify test-utf8-prof.py to use more than 100.000 cicles without crashing. Best regards, - -- ..O.| Daniel Molina Wegener | C/C++ Developer ...O| dmw [at] coder [dot] cl | FreeBSD & Linux OOO| http://coder.cl/ | Standards Basis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKBlUKAAoJEHxqfq6Y4O5NCP8P/0ty9R3I6mjR4rEcbK70M3vA VDqni88WCtQJ65F3M75u8GIKKk92wK7UyqM7LoMSxb6nh50FQppcqYT0so3sdsDy /5rZTs9wHF/BTjCFqzzA8sY1IzJYwIaD0MxiiPh9t8oIfhUgvS4EkRh/7on7tYY+ rYyNrzw38YAb+64MeaayVEj9WjNxTbSfIHD9fIQddWfE1AFcYui9xamkQ71N4fa1 kFyq2avYW9PSiaQNxpEmNdsw3BgL+DlM7mUCg8205hGbwcT1jzKt0QwvSCDPfAAB UNxVErGq4vdTpCKZVfyK/pJbtBjB8rPBn3FvoKhodqm3+lwvAlFjTiselH2PvFtx zlRmz+dsEDD9Z9w0DK5sJtPq8Pqmip1ms0RAiJOUSHT7/esadVZcsYUtUpXjFuFW XlZSucdOLm7FCVMPl7sgn+MMAJ74DoKXHojxnn6yoUc/STxxXaekcJKSAVZOxnJs OyTHQNwXRMFsnsZ3h3D0jLfjZXlvHqBGqcJIsEa5Qp6cfdpxFPS04U7NQL4o3TZu eooIv9RQiXp6BVDI6+SWL0ER459+/GA+BMMKTZ2mmUthYk2TRePhORuhRHQp8Tjv 7Uo1yaLHsAkO6/GQIRFqLbPPFCwBjLgn5HwtmhjkWgZuivJLgMIVYbC3E+h5EiKn HRnVdQmSsIPa0QWJhty0 =YR3H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ANN: cssutils 0.9.6a4
by Christof Hoeke 09 May '09

09 May '09

what is it ---------- A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. (Not a renderer though!) about this release ------------------ 0.9.6a4 is an bugfix release. main changes ------------ - **API CHANGE**: Reverted handling of exceptions (issue #24) as this did not work with PyXML installed. You may again use ``str(e)`` on any raised xml.dom.Exception ``e``. Since 0.9.6a0 exceptions raised did raise a tuple of message, line and col information. Now the message alone is raised (again). Line and col information is still available as ``e.line, e.col``. + BUGFIX: Fixed issues #22 and #23 + BUGFIX: All examples at http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090423/syndata.html#illegalvalues should work now as expected - **FEATURE**: Updated some parts to http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090423/changes.html#new (most changes decribed there were already done in cssutils) - **FEATURE**: New preference option ``keepUnkownAtRules = False`` which defines if unknown atrules like e.g. ``@three-dee {...}`` are kept or not. Setting this pref to ``False`` in result removes unknown @rules from the serialized sheet which is the default for the minified settings. 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 2.6.2, 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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CodeInverstigator version 0.11.2 was released on May 8.
by hans moleman 07 May '09

07 May '09

CodeInvestigator version 0.11.2 was released on May 8. I have removed the multi threading server: It proved too unstable under windows. The unexpected "CodeInvestigator has been stopped" message should not appear anymore in windows. All platforms: Make sure you allow access port 34134 and now the additional port 34135. There was a major bug introduced in Python 2.6 that affected everyone on 2.6: Comment lines crashed the generate process. Input entry was taking too long in some cases. Special characters were not stored with the default ACSII encoding. (Thanks Saeed!) 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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ANN: Python process utility (psutil) 0.1.2 released
by Giampaolo Rodola' 07 May '09

07 May '09

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the 0.1.2 release of psutil: http://code.google.com/p/psutil === About === psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory) in a portable way by using Python, implementing many functionalities offered by tools like ps, top and Windows task manager. It currently supports Linux, OS X, FreeBSD and Windows. === Enhancements === Aside from fixing some bugs psutil 0.1.2 includes the following major enhancements: * per-process CPU user/kernel times * per-process create time * per-process CPU utilization percentage * per-process memory usage (bytes) * per-process memory utilization (percent) * total, used and free system physical/virtual memory As of now psutil is released to the general public, and should be considered a beta release implementing basic functionality. With this third release we'd like to receive feedback from users and suggestions for additional functionality. Patches and volunteers to test/develop for additional platforms welcome! === Links === * Home page: http://code.google.com/p/psutil * Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/psutil/topics * Source tarball: http://psutil.googlecode.com/files/psutil-0.1.1.tar.gz * OS X installer: http://psutil.googlecode.com/files/psutil-0.1.1-py2.6-macosx10.4.dmg * Windows Installer (Python 2.6): http://psutil.googlecode.com/files/psutil-0.1.1.win32-py2.6.exe * Api Reference: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/wiki/Documentation Thanks --- Giampaolo Rodola' http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib http://code.google.com/p/psutil/

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