Mailman 3 September 2009 - Python-announce-list

Announcing: Python Open Mike blog
by Catherine Devlin Sept. 8, 2009

Sept. 8, 2009

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 ***

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Python Keyring Lib v0.2 Released
by Kang Zhang Sept. 7, 2009

Sept. 7, 2009

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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Kang Zhang Computer Science Dept. Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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xlutils 1.4.1 released!
by Chris Withers Sept. 6, 2009

Sept. 6, 2009

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

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TestFixtures 1.6.1 released!
by Chris Withers Sept. 6, 2009

Sept. 6, 2009

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

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ANN: Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, September 8, 2009, 08:00pm
by Stefan Schwarzer Sept. 6, 2009

Sept. 6, 2009

=== 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

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PyCon 2010 - Call for Tutorials
by Greg Lindstrom Sept. 5, 2009

Sept. 5, 2009

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

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[ANN] Athens Python User Group - Meeting September 9, 2009, 19:00.
by Orestis Markou Sept. 4, 2009

Sept. 4, 2009

== 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

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REMINDER: PyCon 2010: Call for Proposals
by Aahz Sept. 3, 2009

Sept. 3, 2009

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

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Pydev 1.5.0 (Pydev Extensions open sourced)
by Fabio Zadrozny Sept. 3, 2009

Sept. 3, 2009

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.org http://pydev.blogspot.com

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Sphinx 0.6.3 released
by Georg Brandl Sept. 3, 2009

Sept. 3, 2009

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

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