Mailman 3 January 2010 - Python-announce-list

Cape Town Python Users Group meeting - 30/01/2010
by Neil Muller Jan. 25, 2010

Jan. 25, 2010

The next Cape Town Python Users Group meeting will be Sat, 30th January, starting from around 14:00, in the sudo room at the bandwidth barn. See http://python.org.za/pugs/cape-town/MeetingTwentyFour for details. -- Neil Muller

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[ANN] Pyspread 0.0.14 released
by Martin Manns Jan. 24, 2010

Jan. 24, 2010

Pyspread 0.0.14 released ======================== I am pleased to announce the new release 0.0.14 of pyspread. About: ------ Pyspread is a cross-platform Python spreadsheet application. It is based on and written in the programming language Python. Instead of spreadsheet formulas, Python expressions are entered into the spreadsheet cells. Each expression returns a Python object that can be accessed from other cells. These objects can represent anything including lists or matrices. Pyspread runs on Linux and *nix platforms with GTK support as well as on Windows (XP and Vista tested). On Mac OS X, some icons are too small but the application basically works. Homepage -------- http://pyspread.sourceforge.net New features ------------ * Sparse grid introduced. It supports up to 80 000 000 rows. * Safe mode for inspecting foreign files * GPG signatures for own files (requires PyMe) * Help framework * New About dialog * Insertion of cell access code via Ctrl + Insert * Simplified Macro editor dialog * Improved cycle detection algorithm for grid Bug fixes --------- * Globals now update immediately * Color works now when loading pys files * wxPython v 2.8 is now preferred * Error handling bug removed * Help files are now found after changing the path * Font rendering in Windows fixed Known issues ------------ * Grid updates cause ficker on Windows (BUG 2938160) Enjoy Martin

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[ANN] Python 2.5.5 Release Candidate 2.
by "Martin v. Löwis" Jan. 24, 2010

Jan. 24, 2010

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release candidate 2 of Python 2.5.5. This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. Users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.6 (which is 2.6.4 at this point). This releases fixes issues with the logging and tarfile modules, and with thread-local variables. Since the release candidate 1, additional bugs have been fixed in the expat module. See the detailed release notes at the website (also available as Misc/NEWS in the source distribution) for details of bugs fixed. For more information on Python 2.5.5, including download links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.5.5 Highlights of the previous major Python releases are available from the Python 2.5 page, at http://www.python.org/2.5/highlights.html Enjoy this release, Martin Martin v. Loewis martin(a)v.loewis.de Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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Python Ireland Unconference (Sat, Feb 6th 2010, 11am)
by Vicky Lee Jan. 23, 2010

Jan. 23, 2010

http://www.python.ie/meetup/2010/python_ireland_unconference/ Python Ireland is holding its first unconference on Saturday 6th February. What is an unconference I hear you ask? An unconference is an anti-conference, it takes the most interesting bits of conferences (the hallway chat) and turns that into the entire conference. You turn up with whatever you want to talk about (or ask) and everyone there agrees the schedule. Then whatever happens after that is the unconference. The rules are fairly simple (lifted from http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/UnConference_'Rules'): 1. The people who come are the best people who could have come. 2. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. 3. It starts when it starts. 4. It's over when it's over. 5. The Law of Two Feet (also known as if the topic doesn't interest you, wander off to one that does). Bruce Eckel is a huge fan, in fact he gave a good talk on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3S0wlbek0 When is it? Saturday, 6th February from 11:00 to whenever we want (or we get kicked out at night, whichever comes first). Where is it? The Computer Science building, UCD. Helpful signs will be posted on the doors. http://www.csi.ucd.ie/directions What do I need? Yourself, bring a laptop if you want (for showing off stuff or hacking on things). Will there be food? The canteens should be open, 10 and 5 minutes walk from the unconference. What will happen? We'll get together in the morning and go over how the unconference will work. Then everyone stands in front of a session board and puts up sessions. Once we've got a schedule we like the unconference starts. Many thanks to Seán Murphy for helping organise this and providing facilities in UCD. /// Python Ireland (python.ie)

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[ANN] GNUmed EMR client 0.6.0
by Sebastian Hilbert Jan. 23, 2010

Jan. 23, 2010

Dear all, I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.6.0 of the GNUmed EMR client and version 12.0 of the GNUmed EMR server. The GNUmed project builds free, liberated open source Electronic Medical Record software to assist and improve longitudinal care. It is made available at no charge and is capable of running on GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It is developed by a handful of medical doctors and programmers from all over the world. It can be useful to anyone documenting the health of patients including, but not limited to, doctors, physical therapists, occupational therapists ... The big improvements are - LaTeX based letter writing - medication handling The full list of changes: 0.6.0 - can promote an episode to being a health issue - can add home phone/external ID to newly created patient directly - can track diagnostic certainty classification (ABCD) on episodes and issues - can track procedures performed on a patient - can do end user friendly free-text search across all EMRs - can move all progress notes of a pre-selected list of encounters to another episode - can manage provinces - can manage substance intake - can print medication list - can print LaTeX as well as OOo letters - referral letter template contributed by Rogerio Luz and James Busser - can interface with German "MMI/Gelbe Liste" external drug database - show info on drug/substance by PZN / name - show interactions - import drugs/substances - can display UI in Polish and a few other languages (all partially) - can include potential problems in problem list of soap plugin - can remove DOB from person - improved (more) placeholders - gender to re placement mapper - medication list - allergies list - problems list - improved inbox - improved tarballs: include schema/API docs, better names - improved import path detection Get your copy here: http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/0.6/ http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/v12/ Yes, this will require you to upgrade your existing v11 databases by ./upgrade-db.sh 11 12 These scripts can help: http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/net_upgrade-gnumed_server.sh http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/net_install-gnumed_server.sh Please enjoy and report bugs ! Sebastian Hilbert on behalf of the GNUmed team

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Mastering Python 3 I/O - Special Preview - Feb 5, 2010 (Chicago)
by David Beazley Jan. 22, 2010

Jan. 22, 2010

Mastering Python 3 I/O ** PyCON'2010 Tutorial Preview in Chicago ** with David Beazley February 5, 2010, 12pm - 5pm http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/index.html Can't make it to PyCON, but want to attend a cutting-edge tutorial on the latest Python features? Join David Beazley, author of the Python Essential Reference, in Chicago for a preview of his new tutorial "Mastering Python 3 I/O." The goal of this tutorial is to take a top to bottom tour of the Python 3 I/O system and to focus on essential features that you must know if you are ever going to port existing applications to Python 3 or use it for real applications. This tutorial promises to go far beyond what you find in the documentation and books (Dave's included). You'll learn about tricky gotchas, see interesting practical examples, and get a better grasp of how Python 3 is put together. This tutorial preview includes a free copy of the "Python Essential Reference, 4th Ed.", lunch at one of Chicago's finest new restaurants, artisinal pastries and more--all for the same price as a tutorial at PyCON. However, it's strictly limited to 8 attendees. More information is available at: http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/index.html Cheers, Dave

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RELEASED: Quixote 2.7b2
by Neil Schemenauer Jan. 22, 2010

Jan. 22, 2010

Quixote is a framework for writing Web-based applications using Python. Its goals are flexibility and high-performance, in that order. A new beta release of Quixote 2 available. This version fixes the PTL import hooks to work with Python 2.6. To download the file, see <http://quixote.ca/download.html>. Neil Summary of changes since v2.6 ============================= v2.7b2 ------ Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Fri Jan 22 13:32:44 2010 -0600 Use the StringIO module rather than cStringIO. cStringIO is gone in Python 3 and also does not handle unicode strings properly. Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Fri Jan 22 13:29:46 2010 -0600 By default, set Cache-Control in addition to the Expires header. The Expires header is sufficient for HTTP 1.0 but for HTTP 1.1 we must add a must-revalidate directive. Clients and proxies are allowed to ignore Expires in certain cases and use stale pages (RFC 2616 sections 13.1.5 and 14.9.4). Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Fri Jan 22 13:28:58 2010 -0600 Disable cimport module for Python >= 2.6. The current version of the cimport module does not support relative imports. Disable it for now. Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Sun Dec 13 14:18:45 2009 -0600 Fix reference to compile_file function (fixes compile_dir function). v2.7b1 ------ Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Mon Sep 7 00:42:51 2009 -0600 Add session iterator. Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Wed Dec 3 14:41:05 2008 -0600 Don't use callable(). Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Wed Dec 3 12:43:38 2008 -0600 Use __contains__ instead of has_key. Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Wed Dec 3 12:41:18 2008 -0600 Use utf-8 as default encoding. Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Fri Nov 28 23:00:40 2008 -0600 Use built-in set type. Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Mon Sep 7 01:30:26 2009 -0600 Work around broken ihooks module in Python 2.6. Using the import hook is still the most convenient way of using PTL modules. Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Sun Apr 12 10:57:06 2009 -0600 Remove spurious kwargs from WidgetDict.__init__. Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Tue Jun 16 09:55:31 2009 -0600 Add options to sendmail so it can be used without a Quixote config. Also, remove broken encode() call since it can't handle Unicode properly as implemented. Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Sun May 31 19:09:53 2009 -0600 Add SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY. Based on a suggestion from Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu(a)netbsd.org>, add the SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY options. Setting them to true will cause the corresponding flag to be set on the session cookie. Author: Hamish Lawson <hbl(a)st-andrews.ac.uk> Date: Mon Feb 2 10:04:04 2009 -0600 Check for other possible values of HTTPS. Currently HTTPRequest only checks whether the HTTPS environment variable has a value of 'on', but other possible positive values are '1' (as set by mod_wsgi) and 'yes'. Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas(a)arctrix.com> Date: Tue Jan 6 20:16:39 2009 -0600 Avoid infinite redirect when PATH_INFO is empty.

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Re: [ANN] hgview 1.2.0
by Stefan Behnel Jan. 22, 2010

Jan. 22, 2010

For those who are a bit less fluent in French: David Douard, 22.01.2010 08:54: > Bonjour à tous, > > j'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la sortie de hgview 1.2.0 > > http://www.logilab.org/project/hgview/1.2.0 > > hgview est une extension Mercurial pour naviguer graphiquement dans > l'historique des révisions hg (comme hgk ou hgtk) utilisant pyqt. > > Quelques détails sur l'annonce de sa sortie : > > http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/19912 """ Good day everyone, I'm happy to announce the release of hgview 1.2.0. http://www.logilab.org/project/hgview/1.2.0 hgview is a Mercurial extension for graphically navigating through the revision history of hg - just like hgk or hgtk, but using PyQT. More detailed release notes can be found here: http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/19912 """

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[ANN] hgview 1.2.0
by David Douard Jan. 22, 2010

Jan. 22, 2010

Bonjour à tous, j'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la sortie de hgview 1.2.0 http://www.logilab.org/project/hgview/1.2.0 hgview est une extension Mercurial pour naviguer graphiquement dans l'historique des révisions hg (comme hgk ou hgtk) utilisant pyqt. Quelques détails sur l'annonce de sa sortie : http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/19912 -- David Douard LOGILAB, Paris (France), +33 1 45 32 03 12 Formations Python, Zope, Debian : http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure : http://www.logilab.fr/services Informatique scientifique : http://www.logilab.fr/science

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REMINDER: OSCON 2010: Call for Proposals
by Aahz Jan. 22, 2010

Jan. 22, 2010

Deadline: Feb 1, 2010 OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention July 19 - 23, 2010 Oregon Convention Center Portland, OR http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zg6ii2gsi1l6cshb1806k2apmotnacpkrk77ttgg Faster, Freer, Smarter: Whatever your Goal, Make It Happen with Open Source More than 2,500 experts, developers, sys admins, and hackers will meet up at OSCON 2010 to explore the tools, services, and platforms that make up the vibrant open source ecosystem. Join us! The OSCON Call for Participation is now open. If you have winning techniques, favorite lifesavers, war stories, productivity tips, or other ideas to share, we want to hear from you. We're especially on the look-out for ways to do more with less, design and usability best practices, mobile device innovations, cloud computing, parallelization, open standards and data, open source in government, business models, and beyond. Speak up about the freedom--and opportunity--of open source at OSCON 2010. Submit your proposal by February 1, 2010 at: http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zr5embktof4hi37tr30hm2qshjaug3mfrdjltsmg -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." --Red Adair

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