A new blog, python-open-mike.posterous.com, has been created for open
discussion in the Python community. *Anyone* can post to this blog,
simply by emailing to post(a)python-open-mike.posterous.com.
Not everyone has, wants, or feels ready for a blog of their own; we
want to make sure that everyone has a chance to speak out to the
Python community. We hope to broaden discussion in the Python
blogosphere by making it even easier for new participants to join in
the conversation.
Blog posts will be moderated, so there will be a delay in your posting
until a moderator can review them. They should be relevant to the
Python community. Please include your name in your post, unless you
have a specific reason for wishing to remain anonymous.
--
- Catherine
http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/
*** PyOhio * July 25-26, 2009 * pyohio.org ***
Hi all,
We're proud to annouce that Python keyring lib 0.2 is released.
Introduction
=========
The Python keyring lib provides a easy way to access the system keyring
service from python. It can be used in any application that needs safe
password storage.
Page on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyring/
What's new in v0.2?
===============
It's a bugfix-only version for v0.1, the major change is the support for
Python 2.4+. So if you're using Python 2.6, it's not needed to upgrade.
Regards,
Kang
--
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Kang Zhang
Computer Science Dept.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hi All,
I'm pleased to announce a new release of xlutils. This package is a
small collection of utilities that make use of both xlrd and xlwt to
process Microsoft Excel files.
This release includes memory and speed enhancements for xlutils.filter
and xlutils.copy.
To find out more, please read here:
http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/python/xlutils
In case you're not aware, xlrd and xlwt are two excellent pure-python
libraries for reading and writing Excel files. They run on any platform
and, likely, any implementation of Python without the need for horrific
things like binding to Excel via COM and so needing a Windows machine.
If you use any of xlrd, xlwt or xlutils, the following google group will
be of use:
http://groups.google.com.au/group/python-excel
Hope some of this is of interest, I'd love to hear from anyone who ends
up using it!
cheers,
Chris
--
Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting
- http://www.simplistix.co.uk
Hi All,
I'm pleased to announce a new release of TestFixtures.
This package is a collection of helpers and mock objects that are useful
when writing unit tests or doc tests.
This release sees the following changes:
- @replace and Replacer.replace can now replace attributes that may
not be present, provided the `strict` parameter is passed as False.
- should_raise now catches BaseException rather than Exception so
raising of SystemExit and KeyboardInterrupt can be tested.
To find out more, please read here:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/testfixtures
cheers,
Chris
--
Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting
- http://www.simplistix.co.uk
=== Leipzig Python User Group ===
We will meet on Tuesday, September 8 at 8:00 pm at the training
center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany
( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ).
Markus Zapke-Gründemann will talk about the micro web framework
Bottle.
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, 08.09.2009 um 20:00 Uhr im
Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig
( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ).
Markus Zapke-Gründemann wird das Mikro-Web-Framework Bottle
vorstellen.
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
The Tutorial Committee for PyCon 2010 in Atlanta is now accepting proposals
for classes. This year will feature 2 days of classes prior to the
"official" conference. These classes are 3-hour long sessions concentrating
on specific Python packages or techniques and are taught by some of the
smartest cookies in the Python Universe. Anything Python may be submitted
for consideration but there are a limited number of sessions to be filled.
Topics taught or requested over the past two years include:
* Python 101 - An introduction to programming Python, either for complete
beginners or programmers experienced in other languages.
* Python 201 - There has been repeated requests for classes covering
"intermediate" topics; data structures, database techniques,
classes/objects, standard library, eggs, etc.
* Python 401 - Classes covering "advanced" topics;
multi-processing/concurrency, iterators/generators, OOP, etc.
* Web Topics - Frameworks, web testing, design, security, scraping.
* Scientific Python - MatLab, SciPy
* Testing - Frameworks, methods
* GUI - Dabo, wxPython, TkInter, etc.
* More: XML, GIS, SQLAlchemy, Jython, System Administration
More information, including a sample proposal and blank template, are at
http://us.pycon.org/2010/tutorials/proposals/.
Questions? Email us at pycon-tutorials(a)python.org.
Greg Lindstrom
== Announcing the 1st meeting of the Athens Python User Group ==
If you live near Athens, Greece and are interested in meeting fellow
Python programmers, meet us for a friendly chat at the Eleftheroudakis
Bookstore café, on Wednesday 9 September, 7:00pm.
If you plan to attend, please add a comment here: http://orestis.gr/blog/2009/09/01/athens-python-user-group/
Orestis
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/
"Look, it's your affair if you want to play with five people, but don't
go calling it doubles." --John Cleese anticipates Usenet
Hi All,
Today, Aptana is proud to announce that Pydev and Pydev Extensions
have become a single plugin, with all the available contents open
source (and freely available for anyone) in the 1.5.0 release (it's
the same as 1.4.8 but with all the code open source).
With that, Aptana believes in providing a better service and growth
path for Pydev (which will still be actively maintained by Aptana),
enabling anyone to provide contributions to the previously closed
source product, while providing its Cloud customers a better service.
Note for those already using Pydev or Pydev Extensions:
The update site has been changed (see:
http://www.pydev.org/download.html for more details) and if you had
a previous install of Pydev Extensions, you need to uninstall it
before installing the new version of Pydev.
Note for developers:
Pydev is now available under git (at github), and its previously used
subversion will be disabled. Instructions on getting the source code
from the new location is available at:
http://www.pydev.org/developers.html
Best Regards,
--
Fabio Zadrozny
Aptana
http://aptana.com
Pydev - Python Development Environment for Eclipse
http://pydev.orghttp://pydev.blogspot.com
Hi all,
I'm proud to announce the release of Sphinx 0.6.3, which is a
bugfix-only release in the 0.6 series.
What is it?
===========
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful
documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of
multiple reStructuredText source files).
Website: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
What's new in 0.6.3 (short version)?
====================================
Over 20 bugs and problems have been fixed.
The full list is at <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/changes.html>.
cheers,
Georg