Mailman 3 January 2010 - Python-announce-list

[RELEASED] Python 2.7 alpha 2
by Benjamin Peterson Jan. 9, 2010

Jan. 9, 2010

On behalf of the Python development team, I'm gleeful to announce the second alpha release of Python 2.7. Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series. It includes many features that were first released in Python 3.1. The faster io module, the new nested with statement syntax, improved float repr, and the memoryview object have been backported from 3.1. Other features include an ordered dictionary implementation, unittests improvements, and support for ttk Tile in Tkinter. For a more extensive list of changes in 2.7, see http://doc.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html or Misc/NEWS in the Python distribution. To download Python 2.7 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/ Please note that this is a development release, intended as a preview of new features for the community, and is thus not suitable for production use. The 2.7 documentation can be found at: http://docs.python.org/2.7 Please consider trying Python 2.7 with your code and reporting any bugs you may notice to: http://bugs.python.org Have fun! -- Benjamin Peterson 2.7 Release Manager benjamin at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 2.7's contributors)

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SQLObject 0.12.1
by Oleg Broytman Jan. 8, 2010

Jan. 8, 2010

Hello! I'm pleased to announce version 0.12.1, a bugfix release of branch 0.12 of SQLObject. What is SQLObject ================= SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are described as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be easy to use and quick to get started with. SQLObject supports a number of backends: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, Sybase, MSSQL and MaxDB (also known as SAPDB). Where is SQLObject ================== Site: http://sqlobject.org Development: http://sqlobject.org/devel/ Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sqlobject-discuss Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlobject Download: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SQLObject/0.12.1 News and changes: http://sqlobject.org/News.html What's New ========== News since 0.12.0 ----------------- * The cache culling algorithm was enhanced to eliminate memory leaks by removing references to dead objects; tested on a website that runs around 4 million requests a day. * Fixed a bug in col.py and dbconnection.py - if dbEncoding is None suppose it's 'ascii'. * Fixed three bugs in PostgresConnection. * Fixed a bug in FirebirdConnection. For a more complete list, please see the news: http://sqlobject.org/News.html Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phd.pp.ru/ phd(a)phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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SQLObject 0.11.3
by Oleg Broytman Jan. 8, 2010

Jan. 8, 2010

Hello! I'm pleased to announce version 0.11.3, a minor bugfix release of 0.11 branch of SQLObject. What is SQLObject ================= SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are described as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be easy to use and quick to get started with. SQLObject supports a number of backends: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, Sybase, MSSQL and MaxDB (also known as SAPDB). Where is SQLObject ================== Site: http://sqlobject.org Development: http://sqlobject.org/devel/ Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sqlobject-discuss Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlobject Download: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SQLObject/0.11.3 News and changes: http://sqlobject.org/News.html What's New ========== News since 0.11.2 ----------------- * The cache culling algorithm was enhanced to eliminate memory leaks by removing references to dead objects; tested on a website that runs around 4 million requests a day. * Fixed a bug in col.py and dbconnection.py - if dbEncoding is None suppose it's 'ascii'. * Fixed a bug in FirebirdConnection. For a more complete list, please see the news: http://sqlobject.org/News.html Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phd.pp.ru/ phd(a)phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, January 12, 2010, 08:00pm
by Mike Müller Jan. 7, 2010

Jan. 7, 2010

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, January 12 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 introduce the modules xml.sax[1] and xml.sax.handler[2]. They are useful for fast processing of large amounts of XML data. 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 . Mike == Leipzig Python User Group === Wir treffen uns am Dienstag, 12.01.2010 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). Markus Zapke-Gründemann wird die Module xml.sax[1] und xml.sax.handler[2] vorstellen, mit denen sich schnell große Mengen an XML-Daten verarbeiten lassen. 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 Mike [1] http://docs.python.org/library/xml.sax.html [2] http://docs.python.org/library/xml.sax.handler.html

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IMDbPY 4.4
by Davide Alberani Jan. 6, 2010

Jan. 6, 2010

IMDbPY 4.4 is available (tgz, rpm, exe) from: http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/ IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies. In this release, a huge number of bugs were fixed and many parsers were made more robust. Platform-independent and written in pure Python (and few C lines), IMDbPY can retrieve data from both the IMDb's web server and a local copy of the whole database. IMDbPY package can be very easily used by programmers and developers to provide access to the IMDb's data to their programs. Some simple example scripts are included in the package; other IMDbPY-based programs are available from the home page. -- Davide Alberani <alberanid(a)libero.it> [GPG KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://www.mimante.net/

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Galway Python Meetup - Wed, Feb 3rd, 2010 - 19:00
by Vicky Lee Jan. 6, 2010

Jan. 6, 2010

Hi All, When - Wed Feb 3rd 2010, 19:00 Where - Westwood Bar, Westwood House Hotel, Dangan, Newcastle, Galway Contact - Michael Kerrin Details up at http://www.python.ie/meetup/2010/galway_python_meetup_-_feb_2010/ Thanks again to Michael for arranging this event. Here's hoping for more Python meetups outside of Dublin. ;) Cheers, /// Vicky ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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cx_Freeze 4.1.2
by Anthony Tuininga Jan. 6, 2010

Jan. 6, 2010

What is cx_Freeze? cx_Freeze is a set of scripts and modules for freezing Python scripts into executables in much the same way that py2exe and py2app do. It requires Python 2.3 or higher since it makes use of the zip import facility which was introduced in that version. Where do I get it? http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net What's new? Changes from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 1) Fix bug that caused the util extension to be named improperly. 2) Fix bug that prevented freezing from taking place if a packaged submodule was missing. 3) Fix bug that prevented freezing from taking place in Python 3.x if the encoding of the source file wasn't compatible with the encoding of the terminal performing the freeze. 4) Fix bug that caused the base modules to be included in the library.zip as well as the base executables.

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[ANN] RedNotebook 0.9.1
by Jendrik Seipp Jan. 6, 2010

Jan. 6, 2010

Version 0.9.1 of RedNotebook has just been released. You can get it at http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net What is RedNotebook? -------------------- RedNotebook is a graphical diary and journal helping you keep track of notes and thoughts. It includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and word clouds. You can also format, tag and search your entries. Packages are available for common Linux distributions and Windows. What's new? ----------- * Markup highlighting is now much faster * Webkit can now be used for previews (in the config file, set useWebkit to 1). * Make welcome text translatable * Add comments for translators * Make help available online Cheers, Jendrik

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EPD 6.0 released
by Ilan Schnell Jan. 5, 2010

Jan. 5, 2010

Hello, I am pleased to announce that EPD (Enthought Python Distribution) version 6.0 has been released. This is the first EPD release which is based on Python 2.6, and 64-bit Windows and MacOSX support is also available now. You may find more information about EPD, as well as download a 30 day free trial, here: http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php You can find a complete list of updates in the change log: http://www.enthought.com/EPDChangelog.html About EPD --------- The Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) is a "kitchen-sink-included" distribution of the Python Programming Language, including over 75 additional tools and libraries. The EPD bundle includes NumPy, SciPy, IPython, 2D and 3D visualization, and many other tools. http://www.enthought.com/products/epdlibraries.php It is currently available as a single-click installer for Windows XP, Vista and 7, MacOS (10.5 and 10.6), RedHat 3, 4 and 5, as well as Solaris 10 (x86 and x86_64/amd64 on all platforms). EPD is free for academic use. An annual subscription including installation support is available for individual and commercial use. Additional support options, including customization, bug fixes and training classes are also available: http://www.enthought.com/products/support_level_table.php - Ilan

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PyCon early-bird ends TOMORROW (Jan 6)
by Catherine Devlin Jan. 5, 2010

Jan. 5, 2010

PyCon early-bird registration discounts end TOMORROW, Jan. 6. The time for raw panic has arrived. Run into the nearest open public place. Wave your arms in the air, tear your hair, and scream wildly. Sobbing hysterically is a nice touch. Or, if all that sounds too tiring for you, just stop by http://us.pycon.org/2010/registration/ and register. After tomorrow, rates will go from wonderfully-cheap $450/300/400 (corporate/individual/student) to still-pretty-darn-cheap $600/350/225. Remind your friends! See you in Atlanta! -- - Catherine http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/ *** PyCon * Feb 17-25, 2010 * Atlanta, GA * us.pycon.org ***

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The Python: Rag, January issue available
by Bernard Czenkusz Jan. 5, 2010

Jan. 5, 2010

The January issue of The Python: Rag is available at: http://www.pythonrag.org or http://groups.google.co.uk/group/pythonrag A monthly, free, community run, Python magazine in pdf format, intended for anyone interested in Python.

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[TIP] ANN: oejskit 0.8.7 JavaScript in-browser testing with py.test plugin and unittest.py glue
by Samuele Pedroni Jan. 4, 2010

Jan. 4, 2010

I'm happy to announce a new release of OE jskit 0.8.7 available on PyPI. Main points of interest: - user-defined naming of browsers for the remote browser script so that it is easier to run a test suite for example against machines running ie7 and ie8 both, see "Remote browsers" in the doc for more details. - the glue code to run JavaScript tests with unittest.py is now documented - compatibility with py.test 1.1.1 cleanups, the plugin is now exposed to py.test through a setuptools entry point About OE jskit: jskit contains infrastructure and in particular a py.test plugin to enable running unit tests for JavaScript code inside browsers. It contains also glue code to run JavaScript tests from unittest.py based test suites. The approach also enables to write integration tests such that the JavaScript code is tested against server-side Python code mocked as necessary. Any server-side framework that can already be exposed through WSGI can play. The plugin requires py.test 1.1.1 at least. More information and downloading at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/oejskit including a changelog, documentation and the talk I gave at Europython 2009. jskit was initially developed by Open End AB and is released under the MIT license. In various incarnations it has been in use and useful at Open End for more than two years, we are quite happy to share it. Samuele Pedroni for Open End

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CMNDBOT 0,.1 released
by Bart Thate Jan. 3, 2010

Jan. 3, 2010

new in this release: * updated the repository to GZRBOT code * a outputcache and poller gadget is now available to support writing to waves (right now the poller polls every minute) * RSS plugin looks stable todo: * make gozernet work .. this lets GZRBOT bots communicate with each other by using json over xmpp * use this to implement wave <-> IRC relaying * port monitoring of bot output * port karma plugin * port quote plugin demo: http://cmndbot.appspot.com wave/xmpp: cmndbot(a)appspot.com about CMNDBOT: CMNDBOT is a port of GOZERBOT to the Google Application Engine. It supports wave, web and xmpp. It has a plugin structure that lets you add commands or register callbacks for events. License is BSD

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[ANNOUNCE] PyGobject 2.21.1 - unstable
by Gian Mario Tagliaretti Jan. 2, 2010

Jan. 2, 2010

I am pleased to announce version 2.21.1 of the Python bindings for GObject. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.21/ What's new since PyGObject 2.21.0? - Wrap gio.Volume.eject_with_operation (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Mount.eject_with_operation (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Mount.unmount_mountable_with_operation (Gian Mario) - Wrap File.unmount_mountable_with_operation (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.File.stop_mountable (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.File.start_mountable (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.File.replace_readwrite_async (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.File.poll_mountable (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.File.open_readwrite_async (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.File.eject_mountable_with_operation (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.File.create_readwrite_async (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Drive.stop (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Drive.start (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.SocketListener.accept_socket_async|finish (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.SocketListener.accept_finish (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.SocketListener.accept_async (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.SocketListener.accept_socket (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.SocketListener.accept (Gian Mario) - Make cancellable optional in gio.SocketClient.connect_to_host (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.SocketListener.add_address (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.SocketClient.connect_to_service_async (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.SocketClient.connect_to_host_async (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.SocketClient.connect_async (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.SocketAddressEnumerator.next_async (Gian Mario) - Add a missing object gio.InetSocketAddress new in GIO 2.22 (Gian Mario) - Make cancellable optional for gio.SocketAddressEnumerator.next (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Socket.condition_wait (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Socket.condition_check (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Resolver.lookup_service_finish (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Resolver.lookup_service_async (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Resolver.lookup_service (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Resolver.lookup_by_address_async (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Resolver.lookup_by_name_finish (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Drive.eject_with_data (Gian Mario) - Deprecate old gio.Drive methods (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.Resolver.lookup_by_name (Gian Mario) - Make cancellable optional in gio.Resolver.lookup_by_address (Gian Mario) - Strip g_ prefix for many other functions (Gian Mario) - Strip g_ prefix from InetAddress functions (Gian Mario) - Fix function name gio.resolver_get_default (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.FileIOStream.query_info_async (Gian Mario) - Register enums and flags in PyGI if needed (Tomeu Vizoso, #603534) - Wrap gio.IOStream.close_async (Gian Mario) - Make cancellable optional in GFile.create_readwrite (Gian Mario) - Remove a duplicate entry in gio.defs (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.FileInfo.set_modification_time (Gian Mario) - Wrap gio.EmblemedIcon.get_emblems (Gian Mario) - Update Enums and Flags with new API (Gian Mario) - Fix handling of uchar in pyg_value_from_pyobject (Bastian Winkler) Blurb: GObject is a object system library used by GTK+ and GStreamer. PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyGTK, PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GObject library itself PyGObject is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full featured applications. PyGObject requires glib >= 2.22.4 and Python >= 2.3.5 to build. GIO bindings require glib >= 2.22.4. Please remember that this is an unstable release and shouldn't be used in production. cheers -- Gian Mario Tagliaretti GNOME Foundation member gianmt(a)gnome.org

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pySerial 2.5-rc2 (2nd release candidate)
by Chris Liechti Jan. 2, 2010

Jan. 2, 2010

I'm happy to announce a release candidate of pySerial: 2.5-rc2 http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ Whats new since rc1: - Several small bugfixes. - updated RFC2217 implementation, client support. - changed Posix read implementation (error handling for disconnected devices) - See CHANGES.txt in the distribution for full list. Source archive and Windows installers can be downloaded from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyserial/files/ The Windows installer for Python 3.x has py3k in its name, the other one is for Python 2.x. The source archive's setup.py should automatically convert using 2to3 when run with Python 3.x. chris -- What is pySerial? Quoting from the home page: This module encapsulates the access for the serial port. It provides backends for Python running on Windows, Linux, BSD (possibly any POSIX compliant system), Jython and IronPython (.NET and Mono). The module named "serial" automatically selects the appropriate backend.

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Python Concurrency Workshop, Jan 14-15, 2010
by David Beazley Jan. 2, 2010

Jan. 2, 2010

Python Concurrency Workshop, v2.0 January 14-15, 2010 Chicago, Illinois http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/concurrent.html *** Last Two Weeks to Register *** Join David Beazley, author of the Python Essential Reference, for an in-depth workshop on concurrent programming techniques and idioms. This workshop, designed for more experienced Python programmers, covers threads, synchronization, message passing, multiprocessing, distributed computing, coroutines, asynchronous I/O and other related topics with an eye towards writing programs that can run on multiple CPU cores, clusters, or distributed systems. A major theme of the workshop is to explore and understand different programming techniques, their associated performance properties, and other tradeoffs. You'll definitely walk away with new insight and a better understanding of how different parts of Python work under the covers. Workshop attendance is strictly limited to six people. More information, including a detailed topic index, is available at: http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/concurrent.html Hopefully I'll see you in a few weeks!

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Pygments 1.2 "Neujahr" released
by Georg Brandl Jan. 1, 2010

Jan. 1, 2010

I've just uploaded the Pygments 1.2 packages to CheeseShop. Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python. Download it from <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygments>, or look at the demonstration at <http://pygments.org/demo>. As always, many thanks go to Tim Hatch for writing or integrating many of the bug fixes and new features in this release. Of course, thanks to all other contributors too! Feature changelog: - Dropped Python 2.3 compatibility. - Lexers added: * Asymptote * Go * Gherkin (Cucumber) * CMake * OOC - Added options for rendering LaTeX in source code comments in the LaTeX formatter (#461). - Added `line_number_start` option to image formatter (#456). - Added `hl_lines` and `hl_color` options to image formatter (#457). - Added the Monokai style (#453). Enjoy, Georg

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