Mailman 3 August 2009 - Python-announce-list

Roundup Issue Tracker 1.4.9 released
by Richard Jones 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

I'm proud to release version 1.4.9 of Roundup which fixes some bugs: - fixed action taken in response to invalid GET request - fixed classic tracker template to submit POST requests when appropriate - fix problems with french and german locale files (issue 2550546) - Run each message of the mail-gateway in a separate transaction, see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.user/9500 - fix problem with bounce-message if incoming mail has insufficient privilege, e.g., user not existing (issue 2550534) - fix construction of individual messages to nosy recipents with attachments (issue 2550568) - re-order sqlite imports to handle multiple installed versions (issue 2550570) - don't show entire history by default (fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=540629) - remove use of string exception If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.3 or later (but not 3+) for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: roundup-demo Release info and download page: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ (but not 3+) installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though an install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql and postgresql).

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ANN: python-utmp 0.8
by garabik-news-2005-05＠kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

python-utmp 0.8 =============== python-utmp provides 3 modules to access utmp and wtmp records: * utmpaccess is lowlevel module written in C, wrapping/emulating glibc functions * UTMPCONST provides useful constants * utmp is module build on top of utmpaccess module, providing object oriented interface. Module works on both SysV and BSD systems. Notable changes: * some support for python3 * __repr__ method for UtmpRecord and UtmpEntry URL: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/python-utmp/ License: almost public domain -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!

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Distribute 0.6 released
by Tarek Ziadé 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Hi all, I am pleased to announce the release of Distribute 0.6. Distribute is a friendly fork of the Setuptools project. You can get more info, download it and install it using the instructions from its PyPI page : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute --- CHANGES (compared to setuptools 0.6c9) : setuptools * Packages required at build time where not fully present at install time. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/12. * Protected against failures in tarfile extraction. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/10. * Made Jython api_tests.txt doctest compatible. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/7. * sandbox.py replaced builtin type file with builtin function open. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/6. * Immediately close all file handles. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3. * Added compatibility with Subversion 1.6. This references http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/1. pkg_resources * Avoid a call to /usr/bin/sw_vers on OSX and use the official platform API instead. Based on a patch from ronaldoussoren. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/5. * Fixed a SandboxViolation for mkdir that could occur in certain cases. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/13. * Allow to find_on_path on systems with tight permissions to fail gracefully. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/9. * Corrected inconsistency between documentation and code of add_entry. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/8. * Immediately close all file handles. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3. easy_install * Immediately close all file handles. This closes http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/3. Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org

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ANN: gnupg v0.2.1 released
by Vinay Sajip 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

A new version of the Python module which wraps GnuPG has been released. What Changed? ============= This is a minor bug-fix release. See the project website ( http://code.google.com/p/python-gnupg/ ) for more information. The current version passes all tests on Windows (Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, Jython 2.5.0) and Ubuntu (Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.0, Jython 2.5.0). What Does It Do? ================ The gnupg module allows Python programs to make use of the functionality provided by the Gnu Privacy Guard (abbreviated GPG or GnuPG). Using this module, Python programs can encrypt and decrypt data, digitally sign documents and verify digital signatures, manage (generate, list and delete) encryption keys, using proven Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) encryption technology based on OpenPGP. This module is expected to be used with Python versions >= 2.4, as it makes use of the subprocess module which appeared in that version of Python. This module is a newer version derived from earlier work by Andrew Kuchling, Richard Jones and Steve Traugott. A test suite using unittest is included with the source distribution. Simple usage: >>> import gnupg >>> gpg = gnupg.GPG(gnupghome='/path/to/keyring/directory') >>> gpg.list_keys() [{ ... 'fingerprint': 'F819EE7705497D73E3CCEE65197D5DAC68F1AAB2', 'keyid': '197D5DAC68F1AAB2', 'length': '1024', 'type': 'pub', 'uids': ['', 'Gary Gross (A test user) <gary.gross(a)gamma.com>']}, { ... 'fingerprint': '37F24DD4B918CC264D4F31D60C5FEFA7A921FC4A', 'keyid': '0C5FEFA7A921FC4A', 'length': '1024', ... 'uids': ['', 'Danny Davis (A test user) <danny.davis(a)delta.com>']}] >>> encrypted = gpg.encrypt("Hello, world!", ['0C5FEFA7A921FC4A']) >>> str(encrypted) '-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)\n \nhQIOA/6NHMDTXUwcEAf ... -----END PGP MESSAGE-----\n' >>> decrypted = gpg.decrypt(str(encrypted), passphrase='secret') >>> str(decrypted) 'Hello, world!' >>> signed = gpg.sign("Goodbye, world!", passphrase='secret') >>> verified = verified = gpg.verify(str(signed)) >>> print "Verified" if verified else "Not verified" 'Verified' For more information, visit http://code.google.com/p/python-gnupg/ - as always, your feedback is most welcome (especially bug reports, patches and suggestions for improvement). Enjoy! Cheers Vinay Sajip Red Dove Consultants Ltd.

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, August 11, 2009, 08:00pm
by Stefan Schwarzer 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, August 11 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ). We will talk about the EuroSciPy which took place at the end of July in Leipzig and was visited by three of our group's members. 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, 11.08.2009 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). Wir werden über die EuroSciPy Ende Juli in Leipzig sprechen, an der drei Mitglieder unserer Gruppe teilgenommen haben. 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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Survey: Does your company use Python? Do you know a company that uses Python?
by VanL 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

This is a survey to find as many companies using Python as we can. You can see the survey below: <http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHlwaUxIY2g0ZXpUMk4tREZDSTY…..> You don't need to work at the company to add it to this list! We will filter for duplicates. The answers to this survey will be kept private. If you still don't want to identify yourself, no problem! We just want to know where Python is being used.

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Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Aug 6)
by Gabriel Genellina 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

QOTW: "The economy rises and falls, money comes and goes, but a great conference has permanent good effects. Well, a lot more permanent than government fiscal policy, anyway." - Python Software Foundation Director "bitter-in-victory-gracious-in-defeat-ly y'rs" timbot Is python free of "buffer overflow" errors? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/a31faac6feced289/ Lessons learned in implementation of a write-once dict: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/bc8b91669257e246/ Methods, attributes, iterators, lambdas, and how Ruby handles them: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/6e4fc61946513405/ Python 3 allows for custom types to be used as a class namespace not just dicts): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/50caadd10d2cca16/ Could Python be used to write a device driver? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/4efc28f9fe45b69e/ The various meanings of the underscore character '_' in identifiers: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/e32d577ad3d5a208/ Generate a new object each time a name is imported: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/b7112f74e2efa8bd/ heapq.nlargest takes a "key" argument - why not the other functions in the same module? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/a5095d3f4b54f79b/ Immutable objects and how they could improve concurrency [old thread, still alive]: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/cb0cf56c52321ccc/5c82cd09… How to modify a variable in an outer (non global) scope: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/e0e64250bd82825f/ Best way to add "private" directories to sys.path: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/cb43cf90d72f6833/ Interval arithmetic: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/71f050d8f5987244/ Ensure that no more than three instances of the same program are running at the same time: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/af7ae6429c2bda1e/ Some people don't like the way Python documentation is managed/presented: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/a52b22cd90b15ef8/ ======================================================================== Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional center of Pythonia http://www.python.org Notice especially the master FAQ http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the marvelous daily python url http://www.pythonware.com/daily Just beginning with Python? This page is a great place to start: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiasts": http://pythonpapers.org/ The Python Magazine is a technical monthly devoted to Python: http://pythonmagazine.com Readers have recommended the "Planet" sites: http://planetpython.org http://planet.python.org comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be sure to scan this newsgroup weekly. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/topics Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..." Updates appear more-than-weekly: http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html The Python Package Index catalogues packages. http://www.python.org/pypi/ Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group mailing lists http://www.python.org/sigs/ Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're subject with a vision of what the language makes practical. http://www.pythonology.com/success The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official responsibility for Python's development and maintenance. http://www.python.org/psf/ Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation. http://www.python.org/psf/donations/ The Summary of Python Tracker Issues is an automatically generated report summarizing new bugs, closed ones, and patch submissions. http://search.gmane.org/?author=status%40bugs.python.org&group=gmane.comp.p… Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python hyperlinks retains a few gems. http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Python FAQTS http://python.faqts.com/ The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and interesting recipes. http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/ Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation. Watch this space for links to them. Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available, see: http://www.python.org/channews.rdf For more, see: http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a SourceForge reincarnation. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/ del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary. It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence. http://del.icio.us/tag/python Enjoy the *Python Magazine*. http://pymag.phparch.com/ *Py: the Journal of the Python Language* http://www.pyzine.com Dr.Dobb's Portal is another source of Python news and articles: http://www.ddj.com/TechSearch/searchResults.jhtml?queryText=python and Python articles regularly appear at IBM DeveloperWorks: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/search/searchResults.jsp?searchSite=dW&se… Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://search.gmane.org/?query=python+URL+weekly+news+links&group=gmane.com… http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=Python-URL!+group%3Acomp.lang.pyth… http://lwn.net/Search/DoSearch?words=python-url&ctype3=yes&cat_25=yes There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments for and against are occasionally entertained. Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. E-mail to <Python-URL(a)phaseit.net> should get through. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning (approximately), ask <claird(a)phaseit.net> to subscribe. Mention "Python-URL!". Write to the same address to unsubscribe. -- The Python-URL! Team-- Phaseit, Inc. (http://phaseit.net) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. Watch this space for upcoming news about posting archives.

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CVE-2009-0668 and CVE-2009-0669: Releases to fix ZODB ZEO server vulnerabilities
by Jim Fulton 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Vulnerabilities have been found in the Zope Object Database (ZODB) Zope Enterprise Objects (ZEO) network protocol that allow: CVE-2009-0668 Arbitrary Python code execution in ZODB ZEO storage servers CVE-2009-0669 Authentication bypass in ZODB ZEO storage servers The vulnerabilities only apply if you are using ZEO to share a database among multiple applications or application instances and if untrusted clients are able to connect to your ZEO servers. The first vulnerability (CVE-2009-0668) was introduced in ZODB 3.3 (Zope 2.8). The second vulnerability (CVE-2009-0669) was introduced in ZODB 3.2 (Zope 2.7). Overview These vulnerabilities are addressed by updates to ZODB. Newer releases of Zope are also being provided for people who get ZODB with Zope releases. A new release of ZODB is available here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ZODB3/3.8.2 (There is also a new development release at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ZODB3/3.9.0b5.) New Zope releases that include the fixes can be found here: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.9 http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.11.4 http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.11 http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.11 http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope3/3.1.1 http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope3/3.2.4 http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope3/3.3.3 http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope3/3.4.1 We recommend updating any ZEO storoage servers you're running to ZODB 3.8.2 (or ZODB 3.9.0b5) or to ZODB software provided with the Zope releases listed above. These versions support ZEO clients as old as ZODB 3.2. It isn't necessary to update client software (such as Zope application servers). Restricting access to ZEO storage servers It is very important to restrict write access to ZODB databases. These releases only protect against vulnerabilities in the ZEO network protocol. ZODB uses Python pickles to store data. Loading data from the database can cause arbitrary code to be executed as part of object deserialization. Clients have full access to manipulate database data. For this reason, it is very important that only trusted clients be allowed to write to ZODB databases. Jim -- Jim Fulton

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Moovida Media Center 1.0.6 Release
by Olivier Tilloy 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Dear Python users, The Moovida team is happy to announce the release of Moovida Media Center 1.0.6, code-named "Jana". Moovida, formerly known as 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 new version fixes many important bugs (see attached release notes) among which crashes on windows (reduced by 35%) and improves the overall performance (the UI is twice as fluid and Moovida uses 10MB less memory). Thanks to contributions from the community, Moovida now ships with complete translations for Spanish, French, Italian, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese. Everyone is welcome to contribute to translate Moovida in their mother tongue: see http://translations.launchpad.net/elisa. This release is a lightweight release, meaning it is pushed through our automatic plugin update system. Additionally a windows installer is available for download on our website. As usual, for users already running Moovida, the upgrade to 1.0.6 should be done automatically via the plugin repository. A complete list of the issues fixed can be found at: http://launchpad.net/elisa/+milestone/1.0.6 This is also summarised in the (attached) release notes. Installers and sources can be downloaded from http://www.moovida.com/download/ Bug reports and feature requests are welcome at http://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug Have a media-centered week, Olivier, for the Moovida team [1] http://www.gstreamer.net/ [2] https://code.fluendo.com/pigment/trac Moovida 1.0.6 "Jana" ==================== This is Moovida 1.0.6, sixth release of the 1.0 branch. New features since 1.0.5: - A common caching module in the core Bugs fixed since 1.0.5: - 380974: Widget styles updated too often - 392082: [win:crash] Startup crash when calling __GetProcFromComCtl32 on Acer machines - 401839: [win32] Moovida doesn't start for usernames containing an apostrophe - 259135: [linux] Unable to display pictures served by Coherence over UPnP - 268220: 'Setup LIRC' script crashes after setting up all keys - 293805: [solaris] Moovida doesn't install desktop file - 388910: Picture library is not opening - 396501: Multiple simultaneous loading of the same section - 396510: Unable to login into flickr account - 398541: [win32] FLAC files not recognized - 399384: Tracebacks when entering/scrolling a list controller - 403058: Texts cuts if Liberation font used by Moovida - 408707: Description of track/song going beyond the length of 'textbox' - 254951: The discogs resource provider modifies requests - 274324: Hide passwords in the text entry of the on-screen-keyboard - 296523: Generic "favorites" plugin depends on the "shoutcast" plugin - 303307: Invalid frob error from the flickr plugin - 319517: Flickr account cannot be accessed again if once logged out - 390625: Text gets regenerated for widgets not seen on screen - 396948: List widgets don't properly update when deleting or changing items - 400137: moovida 1.0.5. crashes in i18n when no locale is set - 403966: [win32] Removed media sources re-appear - 329849: The man-page is outdated - 399977: HAL plugin should work on Solaris Download You can find source releases of Moovida on the download page: http://www.moovida.com/download Moovida Homepage More details can be found on the project's website: http://www.moovida.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: - Anna Wojdel - David McLeod - Fernando Casanova Coch - Florian Boucault - Guillaume Emont - Jutta Mailander - Lionel Martin - Loïc Molinari - Maxwell Young - Michał Sawicz - Olivier Tilloy - Philippe Normand - Rafał Zawadzki - Ugo Riboni - Xose Pérez

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Pyowa Meeting Tomorrow (8/6)
by Mike Driscoll 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Pyowa Meeting - Thursday, Aug. 8th, 2009 Time: 6:30 - 8:45 p.m. Location: Ames Public Library, Founders Suite, Ames, IA Itinerary: - Presentation on Building Executables and Installers with GUI2Exe and Inno Setup - Possible group programming exercise - Social Time We hope to see you there! -------------------- Mike Driscoll www.pyowa.org

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