I'm happy to announce that ActivePython 3.1.0.1 is now available for
download from:
http://www.activestate.com/activepython/python3/
This is a major release that updates ActivePython3 to core Python 3.1.
What is ActivePython?
---------------------
ActivePython is ActiveState's binary distribution of Python. Builds
for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, HP-UX and AIX are made freely available.
ActivePython includes the Python core and the many core extensions:
zlib and bzip2 for data compression, the Berkeley DB (bsddb) and
SQLite (sqlite3) database libraries, OpenSSL bindings for HTTPS
support, the Tix GUI widgets for Tkinter, ElementTree for XML
processing, ctypes (on supported platforms) for low-level library
access, and others. The Windows distribution ships with PyWin32 -- a
suite of Windows tools developed by Mark Hammond, including bindings
to the Win32 API and Windows COM. See this page for full details:
http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/3.1/whatsincluded.html
As well, ActivePython ships with a wealth of documentation for both
new and experienced Python programmers. In addition to the core Python
docs, ActivePython includes the "What's New in Python" series, "Dive
into Python", the Python FAQs & HOWTOs, and the Python Enhancement
Proposals (PEPs).
An online version of the docs can be found here:
http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/3.1/
We would welcome any and all feedback to:
ActivePython-feedback(a)activestate.com
Please file bugs against ActivePython at:
http://bugs.activestate.com/query.cgi?set_product=ActivePython
On what platforms does ActivePython run?
----------------------------------------
ActivePython includes installers for the following platforms:
- Windows/x86
- Windows/x64 (aka "AMD64")
- Mac OS X
- Linux/x86
- Linux/x86_64 (aka "AMD64")
Extra Bits
----------
ActivePython releases also include the following:
- ActivePython31.chm: An MS compiled help collection of the full
ActivePython documentation set. Linux users of applications such as
xCHM might find this useful. This package is installed by default on
Windows.
Extra bits are available from:
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePython/etc/
Thanks, and enjoy!
The Python Team
--
Sridhar Ratnakumar
sridharr at activestate.com
We are glad to announce release 2.5 of the Modular toolkit for Data
Processing (MDP).
MDP is a Python library of widely used data processing algorithms that
can be combined according to a pipeline analogy to build more complex
data processing software. The base of available algorithms includes,
to name but the most common, Principal Component Analysis (PCA and
NIPALS), several Independent Component Analysis algorithms (CuBICA,
FastICA, TDSEP, JADE, and XSFA), Slow Feature Analysis, Restricted Boltzmann
Machine, and Locally Linear Embedding.
What's new in version 2.5?
--------------------------------------
- New nodes for XSFA, Linear Regression, Histogram, Cutoffs
- The parallel package has grown more features
- Tons of bug fixes
Resources
---------
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116959
Homepage: http://mdp-toolkit.sourceforge.net
Mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=116959
--
Pietro Berkes
Volen Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA, USA
Niko Wilbert
Institute for Theoretical Biology
Humboldt-University
Berlin, Germany
Tiziano Zito
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
Humboldt-University
Berlin, Germany
pyArkansas 2009 is set for Saturday, November 14 and is once again being
hosted by our friends in the Computer Science Department at the University
of Central Arkansas. This year we are planning classes GIS, Image
Processing using Jython, Introduction to Python and Django. More details
will be announced as we continue, but I wanted to get the date announced to
the community.
________________________________________________________________________
ANNOUNCING
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to relational databases - from all major platforms
This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading:
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________________________________________________________________________
INTRODUCTION
The mxODBC Connect Database Interface for Python allows users to
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Unlike our mxODBC Python extension, mxODBC Connect is designed
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quality ODBC drivers for all the platforms you target with your Python
application.
Instead you use an easy to install Python client library which
connects directly to the mxODBC Connect database server over the
network.
This makes mxODBC Connect the ideal basis for writing cross-platform
database programs and utilities in Python, especially if you run
applications that need to communicate with databases such as MS SQL
Server and MS Access, Oracle Database, IBM DB2 and Informix, Sybase
ASE and Sybase Anywhere, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SAP MaxDB and many more,
that run on Windows or Linux machines.
By removing the need to install and configure ODBC drivers on the
client side, mxODBC Connect greatly simplifies setup and
configuration of database driven client applications, while at
the same time making the network communication between client and
database server more efficient and more secure.
For more information, please see the product page:
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________________________________________________________________________
NEWS
mxODBC Connect 1.0.2 is a patch-level release of our new mxODBC Connect
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We have upgraded the server to our latest eGenix pyOpenSSL release
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When upgrading, please always upgrade both the server and the client
installations to the same version - even for patch level releases.
Customers who have purchased mxODBC Connect 1.0 licenses can download
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new licenses or upgrades. The licenses will continue to work with
version 1.0.2.
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licenses from our online shop in order to use mxODBC Connect.
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DOWNLOADS
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configuration of the product can be found on the product page:
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for details about our support offerings.
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--
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com
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I am pleased to announce that the Python Software Foundation is
sponsoring 10 students' travel, registration, and accommodation for
the SciPy 2009 conference (Aug. 18-23). The focus of the conference
is both on scientific libraries and tools developed with Python and on
scientific or engineering achievements using Python. If you're in
college or a graduate program, please check out the details here:
http://conference.scipy.org/student-funding
About the conference
--------------------
SciPy 2009, the 8th Python in Science conference, will be held from
August 18-23, 2009 at Caltech in Pasadena, CA, USA. The conference
starts with two days of tutorials to the scientific Python tools.
There will be two tracks, one for introduction of the basic tools to
beginners, and one for more advanced tools. The tutorials will be
followed by two days of talks. Both days of talks will begin with a
keynote address. The first day’s keynote will be given by Peter
Norvig, the Director of Research at Google; while, the second keynote
will be delivered by Jon Guyer, a Materials Scientist in the
Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group at NIST. The program committee will
select the remaining talks from submissions to our call for papers.
All selected talks will be included in our conference proceedings
edited by the program committee. After the talks each day we will
provide several rooms for impromptu birds of a feather discussions.
Finally, the last two days of the conference will be used for a number
of coding sprints on the major software projects in our community.
For the 8th consecutive year, the conference will bring together the
developers and users of the open source software stack for scientific
computing with Python. Attendees have the opportunity to review the
available tools and how they apply to specific problems. By providing
a forum for developers to share their Python expertise with the wider
commercial, academic, and research communities, this conference
fosters collaboration and facilitates the sharing of software
components, techniques, and a vision for high level language use in
scientific computing.
For further information, please visit the conference homepage:
http://conference.scipy.org.
Important Dates
---------------
* Friday, July 3: Abstracts Due
* Friday, July 10: Announce accepted talks, post schedule
* Friday, July 10: Early Registration ends
* Tuesday-Wednesday, August 18-19: Tutorials
* Thursday-Friday, August 20-21: Conference
* Saturday-Sunday, August 22-23: Sprints
* Friday, September 4: Papers for proceedings due
Executive Committee
-------------------
* Jarrod Millman, UC Berkeley, USA (Conference Chair)
* Gaël Varoquaux, INRIA Saclay, France (Program Co-Chair)
* Stéfan van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
(Program Co-Chair)
* Fernando Pérez, UC Berkeley, USA (Tutorial Chair)
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm thrilled to announce the first
production release of Python 3.1.
Python 3.1 focuses on the stabilization and optimization of the features and
changes that Python 3.0 introduced. For example, the new I/O system has been
rewritten in C for speed. File system APIs that use unicode strings now handle
paths with undecodable bytes in them. Other features include an ordered
dictionary implementation, a condensed syntax for nested with statements, and
support for ttk Tile in Tkinter. For a more extensive list of changes in 3.1,
see http://doc.python.org/3.1/whatsnew/3.1.html or Misc/NEWS in the Python
distribution.
To download Python 3.1 visit:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1/
The 3.1 documentation can be found at:
http://docs.python.org/3.1
Bugs can always be reported to:
http://bugs.python.org
Enjoy!
--
Benjamin Peterson
Release Manager
benjamin at python.org
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.1's contributors)
Hi all,
The version 0.2.0 of the Nagare web framework is now released !
To read about its features:
http://www.nagare.org/trac/wiki/NagareFeatures
Release info and download page:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nagare
Release info and download page of the examples:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nagare.examples
Source and documentation available at the website:
http://www.nagare.org
Mailing lists - the place to ask questions:
http://groups.google.com/group/nagare-users
About Nagare
============
Nagare is a components based framework: a Nagare application
is a composition of interacting components each one with its
own state and workflow kept on the server. Each component
can have one or several views that are composed to generate
the final web page. This enables the developers to reuse or
write highly reusable components easily and quickly.
Thanks to Stackless Python, Nagare is also a continuation-based
web framework which enables to code a web application like a
desktop application, with no need to split its control flow in
a multitude of controllers and with the automatic handling of
the back, fork and refresh actions from the browser.
Its component model and use of the continuation come from the
famous Seaside Smalltalk framework.
Furthermore Nagare integrates the best tools and standard from
the Python world. For example:
- WSGI: binds the application to several possible publishers,
- lxml: generates the DOM trees and brings to Nagare the full
set of XML features (XSL, XPath, Schemas ...),
- setuptools: installs, deploys and extends the Nagare framework
and the Nagare applications too,
- PEAK Rules: generic methods are heavily used in Nagare, to
associate views to components, to define security rules, to
translate Python code to Javascript ...
- WebOb: for its Request and Response Objects.
Examples
========
A complete "guess a number" game to taste how easy web coding
becomes using continuations:
import random
from nagare import component, util
class Number(component.Task):
"""A little game to guess a number
"""
def go(self, comp):
"""The game algorithm, using continuation for a pure linear Python code
In:
- ``comp`` -- this component
"""
self.attempt = 1
number = random.randint(1, 20)
comp.call(util.Confirm('I choose a number between 1 and 20. Try to guess
it'))
while True:
x = comp.call(util.Ask('Try #%d: ' % self.attempt))
if not x.isdigit():
continue
x = int(x)
if x > number:
comp.call(util.Confirm('Choose a lower number'))
if x < number:
comp.call(util.Confirm('Choose a greater number'))
if x == number:
comp.call(util.Confirm('You guessed the number in %d attempts' %
self.attempt))
break
self.attempt += 1
A simple todo list, illustrating the programmatic HTML generation,
the association of view(s) to Python objects and the direct association
of callbacks to HTML form elements and links:
from nagare import presentation
from nagare.namespaces import xhtml
# A plain Python ``TodoList`` class
class TodoList(object):
def __init__(self):
self.todo = []
def add_todo(self, msg):
self.todo.append(msg)
# The default HTML view, generated in programmatic HTML
@presentation.render_for(TodoList)
def render(self, h, comp, model):
# ``h`` is a (X)HTML renderer
(http://www.nagare.org/trac/wiki/RendererObjects)
with h.div:
for msg in self.todo:
h << h.blockquote(msg) << h.hr
with h.form:
h << 'New todo:' << h.br
h << h.textarea.action(self.add_todo) << h.br
h << h.input(type='submit', value='Add')
return h.root
0.2.0 Changelog
===============
Python Stackless 2.6.2 is now the recommanded Python version.
New features
------------
- When an AJAX update contains CSS or Javascript urls, they are correctly
fetched.
- Multiple AJAX updates object added
- Session lock added (distributed lock when memcached is used)
- A session can now contains SQLAlchemy (and Elixir) entities
- LRU management of the sessions and continuations
- ``nagare-admin create-rules`` administrative command added.
Generation of the Apache / lighttpd / ngnix rewrite rules to serve the
statics
contents. See :wiki:`NagareAdmin`
- ``nagare-admin batch`` administrative command added. To execute Python
statements. See :wiki:`NagareAdmin`
- Easy WSGI pipe creation
- An application can now be registered under several urls
- The automatic reloader can be configured with a list of files to watch
- API to logout and change the user identity/password added
- automatic generation of a ``link(rel="canonical" ...)`` in the page header
as an alias without the session and continuation parameters
- ``min_compress_len`` parameter added in the memcached configuration
- YUI AJAX modules updated to 2.7.0
- SQLAlchemy updated to 0.5.x
Changes
-------
- Complete refactoring of the AJAX communication. The "wire" format is now
Javascript.
- ``component.Component.init()`` and ``presentation.init_for()`` API
changes.
See :wiki:`RestfulUrl`
Bugs fixed
----------
- #19, #23, #26: race condition in the sessions management
- #22: don't clear the registered callbacks when an image is served
- #21: set the security context at the beginning of the request handling
- #13, #14: python to javascript translation updated
Enjoy!
A. Poirier
We discovered a couple of bugs in the 1.16 release that we simply had
to fix now. As such...
The Bazaar team is mostly happy & just a little bit embarrassed to
announce availability of a new release of the bzr adaptive version
control system. Bazaar is part of the GNU system <http://gnu.org/>.
End user testing of the 2a format revealed two serious bugs. The
first, #365615, caused bzr to raise AbsentContentFactory errors when
autopacking. This meant that commits or pushes to 2a-format
repositories failed intermittently.
The second bug, #390563, caused the smart server to raise
AbsentContentFactory when streaming 2a stacked 2a-format branches.
This particularly affected branches stored on Launchpad in the 2a
format.
Both of these bugs cause command failures only, neither of them cause
data corruption or data loss. And, of course, both of these bugs are
now fixed.
Thanks in particular to Robert Collins and John Arbash Meinel for
fixing these bugs.
Bazaar is now available for download from
http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download as a source tarball; packages for
various systems will be available soon.
Bug Fixes
*********
* We now properly request a more minimal set of file texts when fetching
multiple revisions. (Robert Collins, John Arbash Meinel, #390563)
* Repositories using CHK pages (which includes the new 2a format) will no
longer error during commit or push operations when an autopack operation
is triggered. (Robert Collins, #365615)
* ``chk_map.iter_interesting_nodes`` now properly uses the *intersection*
of referenced nodes rather than the *union* to determine what
uninteresting pages we still need to look at. Prior to this,
incrementally pushing to stacked branch would push the minimal data, but
fetching everything would request extra texts. There are some unhandled
cases wrt trees of different depths, but this fixes the common cases.
(Robert Collins, John Arbash Meinel, #390563)
* ``GroupCompress`` repositories now take advantage of the pack hints
parameter to permit cross-format fetching to incrementally pack the
converted data. (Robert Collins)
* ``Repository.commit_write_group`` now returns opaque data about what
was committed, for passing to the ``Repository.pack``. Repositories
without atomic commits will still return None. (Robert Collins)
* ``Repository.pack`` now takes an optional ``hint`` parameter
which will support doing partial packs for repositories that can do
that. (Robert Collins)
* RepositoryFormat has a new attribute 'pack_compresses' which is True
when doing a pack operation changes the compression of content in the
repository. (Robert Collins)
* ``StreamSink`` and ``InterDifferingSerialiser`` will call
``Repository.pack`` with the hint returned by
``Repository.commit_write_group`` if the formats were different and the
repository can increase compression by doing a pack operation.
(Robert Collins, #376748)
Pycairo is a set of Python bindings for the multi-platform 2D graphics
library cairo.
http://cairographics.orghttp://cairographics.org/pycairo
A new pycairo release 1.8.6 is now available from:
http://cairographics.org/releases/pycairo-1.8.6.tar.gzhttp://cairographics.org/releases/pycairo-1.8.6.tar.gz.md5
d10a68f88da0a6a02864bf8f0c25ee4d pycairo-1.8.6.tar.gz
Overview of changes from pycairo 1.8.4 to pycairo 1.8.6
=======================================================
General Changes:
Pycairo 1.8.6 requires cairo 1.8.6 (or later)
Bug Fixes:
ImageSurface.create_from_png _read_func fix
ToyFontFace type fix
19221: restore cairo.Matrix '*' operator to the way it originally
worked.
Other Changes:
Documentation completed.
Steve