Mailman 3 January 2010 - Python-announce-list

EPD 6.0 and IPython Webinar Friday
by Amenity Applewhite 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Happy 2010! To start the year off, we've released a new version of EPD and lined up a solid set of training options. Scientific Computing with Python Webinar This Friday, Travis Oliphant will then provide an introduction to multiprocessing and iPython.kernal. Scientific Computing with Python Webinar Multiprocessing and iPython.kernal Friday, January 22: 1pm CST/7pm UTC Register Enthought Live Training Enthought's intensive training courses are offered in 3-5 day sessions. The Python skills you'll acquire will save you and your organization time and money in 2010. Enthought Open Course February 22-26, Austin, TX • Python for Scientists and Engineers • Interfacing with C / C++ and Fortran • Introduction to UIs and Visualization Enjoy! The Enthought Team EPD 6.0 Released Now available in our repository, EPD 6.0 includes Python 2.6, PiCloud's cloud library, and NumPy 1.4... Not to mention 64-bit support for Windows, OSX, and Linux. Details. Download now. New: Enthought channel on YouTube Short instructional videos straight from the desktops of our developers. Get started with a 4-part series on interpolation with SciPy. Our mailing address is: Enthought, Inc. 515 Congress Ave. Austin, TX 78701 Copyright (C) 2009 Enthought, Inc. All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend

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py.test-1.2.0: junitxml, standalone test scripts, pluginization
by holger krekel 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi all, i just released some bits related to automated testing with Python: py-1.2.0: py.test core which grew junitxml, standalone-script generation pytest-xdist-1.0: separately installable dist-testing & looponfailing plugin pytest-figleaf-1.0: separately installable figleaf-coverage testing plugin See below or at this URL for the announcement: http://pylib.org/announce/release-1.2.0.html If you didn't experience much speed-up or previously had problems with distributed testing i recommend you try to install "pytest-xdist" now and see if it works better. For me it speeds up some tests runs by 500% on a 4 CPU machine due to its better internal model and several fixes. (It's five times because several tests depend on IO and don't block CPU meanwhile). Another tip: if you use "pip" (best with a virtualenv) you can do e.g.: pip install pytest-xdist pip uninstall pytest-xdist to conveniently activate/deactivate plugins for py.test. easy_install works ok as well but has no uninstall, yet remains the only option for installing with Python3 at the moment, though. You need to use the fine 'distribute' project's easy_install for the latter. cheers & have fun, holger py.test/pylib 1.2.0: junitxml, standalone test scripts, pluginization -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- py.test is an advanced automated testing tool working with Python2, Python3 and Jython versions on all major operating systems. It has a simple plugin architecture and can run many existing common Python test suites without modification. It offers some unique features not found in other testing tools. See http://pytest.org for more info. py.test 1.2.0 brings many bug fixes and interesting new abilities: * --junitxml=path will create an XML file for use with CI processing * --genscript=path creates a standalone py.test-equivalent test-script * --ignore=path prevents collection of anything below that path * --confcutdir=path only lookup conftest.py test configs below that path * a 'pytest_report_header' hook to add info to the terminal report header * a 'pytestconfig' function argument gives direct access to option values * 'pytest_generate_tests' can now be put into a class as well * on CPython py.test additionally installs as "py.test-VERSION", on Jython as py.test-jython and on PyPy as py.test-pypy-XYZ Apart from many bug fixes 1.2.0 also has better pluginization: Distributed testing and looponfailing testing now live in the separately installable 'pytest-xdist' plugin. The same is true for 'pytest-figleaf' for doing coverage reporting. Those two plugins can serve well now as blue prints for doing your own. thanks to all who helped and gave feedback, have fun, holger krekel, January 2010 Changes between 1.2.0 and 1.1.1 ===================================== - moved dist/looponfailing from py.test core into a new separately released pytest-xdist plugin. - new junitxml plugin: --junitxml=path will generate a junit style xml file which is processable e.g. by the Hudson CI system. - new option: --genscript=path will generate a standalone py.test script which will not need any libraries installed. thanks to Ralf Schmitt. - new option: --ignore will prevent specified path from collection. Can be specified multiple times. - new option: --confcutdir=dir will make py.test only consider conftest files that are relative to the specified dir. - new funcarg: "pytestconfig" is the pytest config object for access to command line args and can now be easily used in a test. - install 'py.test' and `py.which` with a ``-$VERSION`` suffix to disambiguate between Python3, python2.X, Jython and PyPy installed versions. - new "pytestconfig" funcarg allows access to test config object - new "pytest_report_header" hook can return additional lines to be displayed at the header of a test run. - (experimental) allow "py.test path::name1::name2::..." for pointing to a test within a test collection directly. This might eventually evolve as a full substitute to "-k" specifications. - streamlined plugin loading: order is now as documented in customize.html: setuptools, ENV, commandline, conftest. also setuptools entry point names are turned to canonical namees ("pytest_*") - automatically skip tests that need 'capfd' but have no os.dup - allow pytest_generate_tests to be defined in classes as well - deprecate usage of 'disabled' attribute in favour of pytestmark - deprecate definition of Directory, Module, Class and Function nodes in conftest.py files. Use pytest collect hooks instead. - collection/item node specific runtest/collect hooks are only called exactly on matching conftest.py files, i.e. ones which are exactly below the filesystem path of an item - change: the first pytest_collect_directory hook to return something will now prevent further hooks to be called. - change: figleaf plugin now requires --figleaf to run. Also change its long command line options to be a bit shorter (see py.test -h). - change: pytest doctest plugin is now enabled by default and has a new option --doctest-glob to set a pattern for file matches. - change: remove internal py._* helper vars, only keep py._pydir - robustify capturing to survive if custom pytest_runtest_setup code failed and prevented the capturing setup code from running. - make py.test.* helpers provided by default plugins visible early - works transparently both for pydoc and for interactive sessions which will regularly see e.g. py.test.mark and py.test.importorskip. - simplify internal plugin manager machinery - simplify internal collection tree by introducing a RootCollector node - fix assert reinterpreation that sees a call containing "keyword=..." - fix issue66: invoke pytest_sessionstart and pytest_sessionfinish hooks on slaves during dist-testing, report module/session teardown hooks correctly. - fix issue65: properly handle dist-testing if no execnet/py lib installed remotely. - skip some install-tests if no execnet is available - fix docs, fix internal bin/ script generation -- ----- End forwarded message ----- --

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execnet-1.0.3: safer ssh-interpreter termination
by holger krekel 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

execnet is a small and stable pure-python library for working with local or remote clusters of Python interpreters, with ease. It supports seamless instantiation of remote interpreters through the 'ssh' command line binary. The 1.0.3 release is a minor backward compatible release with these changes: - refine termination: CTRL-C and gateway.exit will now try harder to interrupt remote execution. this helps to avoid left-over ssh-processes. - fix read-on-non-blocking-files issue probably related to jython only: the low-level read on subprocess pipes may be non-blocking, returning less bytes than requested - so we now loop. - Windows/python2.4: fix bug that killing subprocesses would fail - make RemoteError and TimeoutError available directly on execnet namespace - fix some doc and test issues (thanks thm and ronny), add ssh_fileserver example - update internal copy of apipkg - always skip remote tests if no ssh specs given More info here: http://codespeak.net/execnet cheers, holger --

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comtypes 0.6.2 released
by Thomas Heller 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

I'm happy to announce the 0.6.2 comtypes release: http://sourceforge.net/projects/comtypes/ Here are the release notes: comtypes 0.6.2 released. Summary of important changes: - Several bug fixes for COM event handlers implemented in Python. - Allow typelib wrappers that (wrongly?) contain 'SAFEARRAY(VARIANT)*'. - DllCanUnloadNow() always returns S_FALSE in comtypes inproc COM servers. - The COM interfaces IViewObject, IViewObject2, and IViewObjectEx in the new module comtypes.viewobject. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detailed changelog since version 0.6.0: 2010-01-15 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Bumped version number to 0.6.2. * CoUninitialize() returns nothing, not HRESULT. 2009-12-22 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Bug fixes for event handlers implemented in Python. 2009-12-11 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * COM servers implemented in Python can now fire events; it did not work in some cases. * When an exception occurs in a COM event handler, a traceback is printed. 2009-11-26 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Allow typelib wrappers that contain 'SAFEARRAY(VARIANT*)' parameter types to be imported. Calling these methods will fail, though. 2009-11-13 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * To avoid a memory leak when PyInitialize()/PyUninitialize() are called several times, return S_FALSE from inproc server's DllCanUnloadNow(). 2009-11-05 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * COMObject subclasses can now implement a _final_release_() method to free up resources, for example. This method is called when the COM reference count reaches zero. * Implement __hash__ method in dynamic dispatch classes. This fixes a 'python -3' warning. * comtypes\safearray.py: When numpy is not installed, creating safearrays took a very long time. This is fixed now. * comtypes\test\test_server.py: New way to test COM client and server. Work in progress. 2009-10-22 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Support broken COM objects that provide IProvideClassInfo2, but not IProvideClassInfo (although the latter is derived from the former). See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2829887&group_id=1… * Fixed a regression from the 0.4 version, [out] parameters didn't accept pointers or arrays any longer. Thanks again to Michael Eddington. 2009-10-19 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Fix a memory leak in Python COM servers. Thanks to Michael Eddington for the patch. 2009-10-02 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * comtypes\test\test_server.py: Start a better approach to test both COM object calls and COM object implementations. 2009-09-09 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Fix returning SAFEARRAY of VT_RECORDs. Based on a patch from Eduardo Arias. * New module comtypes.viewobject, contains the interfaces IViewObject, IViewObject2, IViewObjectEx. IAdviseSink is faked. * Change version number to 0.6.2dev. 2009-09-04 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * CoTaskMemFree does not return a HRESULT. Patch from James Teh. 2009-08-19 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Bumped version number to 0.6.1. 2009-08-07 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * When an interface was specified in the call to IClassObject.CreateInstance, return that instead of calling GetBestInterface. Patch from James Teh. 2009-08-04 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Added comtypes.CoGetClassObject() low-level function, comtypes.client.GetClassObject() high-level function, and implemented a pythonic interface to IClassFactory's CreateInstance method: def CreateInstance(self, punkouter=None, interface=None, dynamic=False) * Added the 'dynamic=False' parameter to the comtypes.client.CoGetObject and comtypes.client.GetActiveObject functions. Suggested by James Teh. 2009-06-17 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * comtypes.automation: Support VT_I8 and VT_UI8 SAFEARRAYs. * comtypes._comobject: Restore compatibility with Python 2.3. * Add the comtypes.IServiceProvider interface. Based on a patch from Michael Curran. 2009-04-30 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Change version number in repository to 0.6.0.2dev. * Replace the VARIANTEnumerator implementation class in comtypes.server.automation with a new one which should actually be usable. * A completely new way how localserver and inproc server instances are managed: A comtypes.LocalServer or comtypes.InprocServer instance is attached to the comtypes.COMObject class at runtime. These changes keep localserver running as long as COMObject instances are alive. 2009-04-29 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * comtypes.errorinfo.ReportException now takes an additional 'stacklevel' named argument. * Add E_OUTOFMEMORY hresult code. * Register the InprocServer32 only when running as script or py2exe dll, not when running as py2exe exe server. 2009-04-25 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * SAFEARRAYs can now also be created from multi-dimensional numpy arrays. 2009-04-23 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Change version number in repository to 0.6.0.1dev. * SAFEARRAYs can now also be created from array.array objects, and from (one-dimensional) numpy arrays. This is a lot faster than creating them from Python lists or tuples, at least for large arrays. * ctypes instances like c_int, c_ubyte, and so on can now be assigned to VARIANT().value. This allows to force creation of VARIANTs with the corresponding typecodes V_I4, VT_UI1 and alike. * Accept typelibs that contain SAFEARRAY(char). 2009-03-17 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Fixed the return type of ITypeLib::ReleaseTLibAttr, which is documented wrongly in MSDN. The return type is void, not HRESULT. Reported to cause crashes on Windows 7. 2009-01-29 Thomas Heller <theller(a)python.net> * Restore compatibility with Python 2.3. * comtypes\client\_code_cache.py: Add missing 'import types' in comtypes\client\_code_cache.py. -- Thanks, Thomas -- Thanks, Thomas

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Announcing a minor update (v1.6.5) of YaMA, the meeting assistant
by Atul 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hi, Yet Another Meeting Assistant (YaMA), will help you with the Agenda, Meeting Invitations, Minutes of a Meeting as well as Action Points. If you are the assigned minute taker at any meeting, this tool is for you. Checkout http://yama.sourceforge.net/ YaMA is written in Python and Tkinter, is open source software released under GPLv2, and is hosted by SourceForge (www.sourceforge.net) Whats New in version 1.6.5 : 1. Updated User Interface 2. Usability Enhancements 3. Minor Bug Fixes 4. Training Videos -- Atul

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ANN: XYZCommander-0.0.3
by Max E. Kuznecov 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

I'm pleased to announce the XYZCommander version 0.0.3! XYZCommander is a pure console visual file manager. Main features: * Tight integration with python run–time system — most of the settings can be changed "on the fly" using management console. * Powerful configuration system - define own actions, aliases, internal commands, key bindings. * Extensible plug-in system - even core functionality implemented mainly using plug–ins, keeping base system small and clean. * Events & hooks subsystem - a flexible way of reacting on certain system events. * Customizable look-n-feel - every widget component look can be changed using skins. * Unicode support Homepage: http://xyzcmd.syhpoon.name/ Download page: http://code.google.com/p/xyzcmd/downloads/list Change log for 0.0.3: XYZCommander changelog ------------------------------- New features --------------- * Python2.4 support * Permanents filters * Custom sorting * High-color mode support with urwid >= 0.9.9 * New command line options: -c colors and -s skin * XYZCommander's system prefix can be set using XYZCMD_PREFIX environment variable in case of custom installation, by default it is equal to sys.prefix. Configuration --------------- * New internal cmd "alias" is used to print all xyzcmd's aliases. * New DSL method - section(). Return whole configuration section contents as a dictionary or None. * New DSL method - fsrule(). Return libxyz.core.FSRule instance from string. * New DSL method - palette(). Create internal palette object. * New DSL method - skin(). Make and register new skin. * New option 'term_colors' in main.xyz. It defines color mode. Valid values are: 1, 16 (default), 88 and 256. It also can be defined using -c command line flag. Plugins -------- * New method :sys:panel:get_untagged() Method returns list of not tagged VFSObject instances. * New method :core:shell:echo() Method allows to show any custom string similar to command output. * Added two hooks to :sys:cmd plugin to save command history on exit and to restore its contents upon startup. * :core:shell receives a 'wait' configuration flag, indicating whether to wait for user input after command executed. * :core:shell receives a 'setup_shell' configuration flag, indicating whether to run system shell-specific initialization. * :sys:panel receives five new filter-related variables: filters_enable - enables object filtering filters_policy - dtermines filtering policy fitlers - list of FSRules to be sequentially applied on objects sorting_policy - Active sorting policy name or None sorting - Defined sorting policies. Each key corresponds to a policy name and value is either a function with two arguments (VFSObject) behaving like cmp() or a list of those functions. If value is a list, each function applied sequentially. * New method :sys:panel:filter Method takes a list of VFSObject objects and filters out entries according to filters defined in plugin configuration. * New method :sys:panel:sort Method takes a list of VFSObject objects and sorts entries according to sorting policy defined in plugin configuration. UI -- * New shortcut - (META-=) to quickly change directory in active panel to the same as in the inactive one. Skins ------ * Skins were completely reworked. Now skin file uses python syntax and DSL helper functions: skin and palette to define new skin * High-color mode now supported with urwid version >= 0.9.9. * New high-color mode skin added - lighty. -- ~syhpoon

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ANN: stream 0.8 -- pipelining and parallelizing list processing
by Anh Hai Trinh 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

I am pleased to announce that stream 0.8 is available. Stream is a module that lets one express a list-processing task as a pipeline and provide ways to easily parallelize it. An introductory article is available at <http://blog.onideas.ws/stream.py>. The reference documentation can be viewed from <http://www.trinhhaianh.com/stream.py/>. The source release is available at <http://github.com/aht/stream.py> or <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stream>. Enjoy! -- // aht http://blog.onideas.ws

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ANN: Shed Skin 0.3
by Mark Dufour 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

Hi all, I have just released Shed Skin 0.3, an experimental (restricted) Python-to-C++ compiler. Please see my blog for more details about the release: http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/ Thanks, Mark Dufour. -- "Overdesigning is a SIN. It's the archetypal example of what I call 'bad taste'" - Linus Torvalds

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[ANN] Python 2.5.5 Release Candidate 1.
by "Martin v. Löwis" 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release candidate 1 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. 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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Re: [Chicago] ANN ChiPy RSVP by 10am
by Carl Karsten 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

> Everyone is welcome but we need to let security > know in advance who is coming, so if you are planning on > attending, please list your name on (RSVP HERE): > https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHVLOTNTU3oxTzJKYjB3RmV4eV… I just found out that I was spozed to get the list in 24 hours in advance, which is about now. but because I am a newb they are cutting me some slack an I can send it in tomorrow at 10 am. You can still show up, but it will just require security to do secure things, which starts with table scans of multiple lists, and then some low bandwidth communication with someone. You will wish you were on the list. -- Carl K

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