Our monthly Houston Python Meetup ("PyHou") will
be on Tuesday August 18th starting at 7:00 PM.
This month's topic BioPython -- tools for
Bioinformatics processing with Python -- presented
by Ryan Hill.
For full details and to RSVP, please see our
Meetup site:
http://python.meetup.com/14/
Thanks,
Karl
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the first bugfix
release of the Python 3.1 series, Python 3.1.1.
This bug fix release fixes many normal bugs and several critical ones including
potential data corruption in the io library.
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.
Please note the Windows and Mac binaries are not available yet but
will be in the coming days.
To download Python 3.1.1 visit:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1.1/
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 3.1.1's contributors)
I'm proud to announce release 1.3.3 of Hatta wiki engine.
http://hatta-wiki.org/
What is Hatta?
--------------
Hatta is a small wiki engine designed to run locally or via WSGI inside
a directory in a Mercurial repository. All the pages are normal text or
binary (for images and such) files, also editable from outside of the
wiki -- the page history is taken from the repository.
Who is it for?
--------------
It's mostly for small development teams to use for documentation of
the project right in the repository. It's mostly a plain, traditional
wiki, without fancy features to distract from doing real work.
Features
--------
* single python script file
* no installation necessary, just run it in your repository
* can also run on the server as WSGI application
* fast indexed search and backlinks
* lives inside a repository, so can be cloned, merged, etc.
* customizable by creating wiki pages with styles, logo, menu, etc.
This version
------------
* Search results based on word rank
* Rendering CSV file support (thanks to Cezary Krzyżanowski)
* Mac bundle (thanks to Cezary Krzyżanowski)
* Configurable smileys
Enjoy!
--
Radomir Dopieralski, http://sheep.art.pl
Call for proposals -- PyCon 2010 -- <http://us.pycon.org/2010/>
===============================================================
Due date: October 1st, 2009
Want to showcase your skills as a Python Hacker? Want to have
hundreds of people see your talk on the subject of your choice? Have some
hot button issue you think the community needs to address, or have some
package, code or project you simply love talking about? Want to launch
your master plan to take over the world with python?
PyCon is your platform for getting the word out and teaching something
new to hundreds of people, face to face.
Previous PyCon conferences have had a broad range of presentations,
from reports on academic and commercial projects, tutorials on a broad
range of subjects and case studies. All conference speakers are volunteers
and come from a myriad of backgrounds. Some are new speakers, some
are old speakers. Everyone is welcome so bring your passion and your
code! We're looking to you to help us top the previous years of success
PyCon has had.
PyCon 2010 is looking for proposals to fill the formal presentation tracks.
The PyCon conference days will be February 19-22, 2010 in Atlanta,
Georgia, preceded by the tutorial days (February 17-18), and followed
by four days of development sprints (February 22-25).
Online proposal submission is open now! Proposals will be accepted
through October 1st, with acceptance notifications coming out on
November 15th. For the detailed call for proposals, please see:
<http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/proposals/>
For videos of talks from previous years - check out:
<http://pycon.blip.tv>
We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!
--
Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/
"I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped
right there." --Steve Gonedes
On behalf of the Python development team, I'm pleased to announce the first
release candidate of Python 3.1.1.
This bug fix release fixes many normal bugs and several critical ones including
potential data corruption in the io library. The final version should be out
within the next week.
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 3.1.1 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 3.1.1's contributors)
Hi all,
Version 0.13 of mpmath is now available from the website:
http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/
It can also be downloaded from the Python Package Index:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mpmath/0.13
Mpmath is a pure-Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point
arithmetic that implements an extensive set of mathematical functions.
It can be used as a standalone library or via SymPy
(http://code.google.com/p/sympy/), and is also available as a
component of Sage (http://sagemath.org/).
Version 0.13 implements about 30 new special functions, including
Kelvin, Struve, Coulomb, Whittaker, associated Legendre, Meijer G,
Appell, incomplete beta, generalized exponential integral, Hurwitz
zeta and Clausen functions. The algorithms for hypergeometric-type
functions have been greatly improved to robustly handle arbitrarily
large arguments and limit cases of the parameters. Other new features
and bug fixes are included as well.
For a more comprehensive changelog, see:
http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.13/CHANGES
For development tidbits and demonstrations of the new features, see
the blog: http://fredrik-j.blogspot.com/
Extensive documentation is available at:
http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.13/doc/build/index.html
Bug reports and other comments are welcome on the issue tracker at
http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/list or the mpmath mailing
list: http://groups.google.com/group/mpmath
My work on mpmath 0.13 was made with the goal to bring
arbitrary-precision evaluation of special functions in Sage up to par
with Mathematica and Maple, and was kindly sponsored by the American
Institute of Mathematics under the support of National Science
Foundation Grant No. 0757627. Special thanks to Sage's lead developer
William Stein for offering his grant resources to support this
project, and for providing much encouragement. The new version of
mpmath will soon be available in Sage.
Enjoy,
Fredrik Johansson
much as we'd very much like to declare a 0.6 stable release, really
really soon and move forward, the ChangeLog just keeps growing (133
and counting) with the bugfixes, testing and contributions since
0.5p1.
pyjamas is a port of GWT to python, and includes a
python-to-javascript compiler and a widget UI toolkit that is similar
to pyqt4, pygtk2 etc. applications can either be run as javascript
(in a web browser) or on the desktop (using pyjamas-desktop) as
python. conceptually therefore, pyjamas is similar to adobe AIR -
except that it's python, not ActionScript, and it's entirely free
software. hurrah!
key changes:
* the python-to-javascript has been significantly reworked, and now
includes a --strict option which adds "python strict" features at the
expense of speed. to disable these, and obtain speed instead, use
"-O"
* pyjamas-desktop has been merged into the pyjamas distribution, which
includes support for one stable browser engine (XULrunner, the same
engine behind firefox); pywebkitgtk (the engine behind safari and the
iphone) and MSHTML (IE's engine). pywebkitgtk is useable (but
unfriendly - no DOM exception handling); MSHTML is even less friendly
- COM gets in the way at present, and eats even python exceptions).
there's a lot more that could be said, but you've probably noticed all
the other prerelease notices so 'nuff said, other than: thank you to
the people who've been helping and contributing with testing, patches
and more.
downloads and more information:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pyjamashttp://sf.net/projects/pyjamashttp://code.google.com/p/pyjamashttp://pyjs.org
I am pleased to announce version 0.10.1 of the Python bindings for Poppler.
It is available at:
http://launchpad.net/poppler-python/trunk/development/+download/pypoppler-0…
md5: 146ecb7e1049dd9b92478d61c148829e
PyPoppler 0.10.1 (Aug 13 2009)
==================================
o Support for accessing Action fields (Daniel Jacobs)
o Bug #397850 AnnotMapping/Annot implementation incomplete (Gian)
o Update configure.ac to work with libtool 2.x (Gian)
o Update aclocal.m4 (Gian)
o Ignore some more files automatically created by libtool (Gian)
Blurb:
======
Poppler[1] is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.
PyPoppler is a wrapper which exposes the poppler API to the
python world. It is fairly complete, most of the API are covered.
The documentation is actually missing, help wanted :)
Like the Poppler library itself, PyPoppler is licensed under the GNU GPL.
PyPoppler requires:
=====================
o Poppler >= 0.10.0
o PyGObject >= 2.10.1
o PyGTK >= 2.10.0
o PyCairo >= 1.8.4
Bug reports should go to
https://launchpad.net/poppler-python
[1] http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
cheers
--
Gian Mario Tagliaretti
GNOME Foundation member
gianmt(a)gnome.org
Greetings all,
We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 1.7.0. 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.
LDTP NEWS
Mago project uses LDTP - http://mago.ubuntu.com
GLOM uses LDTP - http://git.gnome.org/cgit/glom/tree/ldtp/
Whats new in this release:
Get the window uptime, maximize, minimize, close, activate all or any given
window name are some of the noticable new APIs in this release. Generate key
event function now uses xmodmap to determine the current local keyboard and
generates the respective key codes.
Bug fixes:
590755 – Keycodes mismatch using generatekeyevent from python-ldtp
586655 – typo hasstate example with more one state separator '+' instead of
','
587614 – Method to measure how long a window is showing up
588674 – It would be nice if doesrowexist would look for partial matches
587456 – checkrow action fails on tree table cell
583021 – If an application changes a context, it is no longer found by LDTP
588819 – 'import ldtp' freezes interpreter
589898 – local variable 'gobject' referenced before assignment
586291 – Subsequent tests fail when first one registers callback handlers
586657 – Imporve user experience getallstates match for defined state
constants
Special thanks to Arvind Patil <apatil at vmware.com>, Ara Pulido <ara at
ubuntu.com>, Guofu Xu <Guofu.Xu at access-company.com>, nouar
garcia-mardmabek <nouar.garcia at sun.com>, José Luis Segura Lucas
<josel.segura at gmx.es>, Tim Sun <tim.miao at sun.com>, Anupa Kamath
<anupak at vmware.com>, Paul Larson <Paul.Larson at canonical.com>, Murray
Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com>, Armin Burgmeier <armin at arbur.net>,
New API addition:
Window maximize, minimize, close, activate APIs using python wnck module
Download source tarball -
http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/1.x/1.7.x/ldtp-1.7.0.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 the
server load)
Eitan Isaacson <eitan at ascender.com> has done a massive work on LDTPv2, a
complete rewrite of LDTP in python using pyatspi, available through
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ldtp/ldtp2/tree/
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
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Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project -
http://ldtp.freedesktop.orghttp://nagappanal.blogspot.com