Mailman 3 December 2010 - Python-announce-list

Sybase module 0.40pre1 released
by Robert Boehne Dec. 14, 2010

Dec. 14, 2010

WHAT IS IT: The Sybase module provides a Python interface to the Sybase relational database system. It supports all of the Python Database API, version 2.0 with extensions. ** This version is a pre-release not intended for production use ** The module is available here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/python-sybase/python-sybase-0.40pre1.tar.gz The module home page is here: http://python-sybase.sourceforge.net/ MAJOR CHANGES SINCE 0.39: Modify the DateTimeAsPython output conversion to return None when NULL is output support for Python without threads Ignore additional non-error codes from Sybase (1918 and 11932) Use outputmap in bulkcopy mode (thanks to patch by Cyrille Froehlich) Raise exception when opening a cursor on a closed connection Added unit tests Added new exception DeadLockError when Sybase is in a deadlock situation Add command properties CS_STICKY_BINDS and CS_HAVE_BINDS Added support for inputmap in bulkcopy reuse command and cursor when calling cursor.execute with same request Use ct_setparam to define ct_cursor parameters types instead of ct_param implicit conversion for CS_DATE_TYPE in CS_DATETIME_TYPE DataBuf Adding ct_cmd_props wrapper Increase DataBuf maxlength for params of a request when using CS_CHAR_TYPE params so that the buf can be reused BUGS CORRECTED SINCE 0.39: Corrected money type when using CS_MONEY4 (close bug 2615821) Corrected thread locking in ct_cmd_props (thanks to patch by Cyrille Froehlich) Corrected bug in type mapping in callproc (thanks to report by Skip Montanaro) Correct passing None in a DataBuf (thanks to patch by Bram Kuijvenhoven) The full ChangeLog is here: https://python-sybase.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/python-sybase/tags/r0_40p…

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ANN: ActivePython 2.7.1.3 is now available
by Sridhar Ratnakumar Dec. 13, 2010

Dec. 13, 2010

ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePython 2.7.1.3, a complete, ready-to-install binary distribution of Python 2.7. http://www.activestate.com/activepython/downloads What's New in ActivePython-2.7.1.3 ================================== *Release date: 6-Dec-2010* New Features & Upgrades ----------------------- - Upgrade to Python 2.7.1 (`release notes <http://svn.python.org/projects/python/tags/r271/Misc/NEWS>`__) - Upgrade to Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 (`changes <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26961>`_) - Security upgrade to openssl-0.9.8q - [MacOSX] Tkinter now requires ActiveTcl 8.5 64-bit (not Apple's Tcl/Tk 8.5 on OSX) - Upgrade to PyPM 1.2.6; noteworthy changes: - New command 'pypm log' to view log entries for last operation - Faster startup (performance) especially on Windows. - Rewrite of an improved dependency algorithm (#88038) - install/uninstall now accepts the --nodeps option - 'pypm install <url>' to directly download and install a .pypm file - 'pypm show' improvements - 'pypm show' shows other installed packages depending on the shown package - 'pypm show' accepts --rdepends to show the list of dependents - 'pypm show' shows extra dependencies (for use in the 'install' cmd) - 'pypm show' lists all available versions in the repository - 'pypm freeze' to dump installed packages as requirements (like 'pip freeze') - Support for pip-stye requirements file ('pypm install -r requirements.txt') - Upgraded the following packages: - Distribute-0.6.14 - pip-0.8.2 - SQLAlchemy-0.6.5 - virtualenv-1.5.1 Noteworthy Changes & Bug Fixes ------------------------------ - Bug #87951: Exclude PyPM install db to prevent overwriting user's database. - Bug #87600: create a `idleX.Y` script on unix - [Windows] Installer upgrade: automatically uninstall previous versions - Bug #87783 - [Windows] Renamed "python27.exe" to "python2.7.exe" (Unix like) - [Windows] Include "python2.exe" - PyPM bug fixes: - Bug #88882: Fix pickle incompatability (sqlite) on Python 3.x - Bug #87764: 'pypm upgrade' will not error out for missing packages - Bug #87902: fix infinite loops with cyclic package dependencies (eg: plone) - Bug #88370: Handle file-overwrite conflicts (implement --force) What is ActivePython? ===================== ActivePython is ActiveState's binary distribution of Python. Builds for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux are made freely available. Solaris, HP-UX and AIX builds, and access to older versions are available in ActivePython Business, Enterprise and OEM editions: http://www.activestate.com/python ActivePython includes the Python core and the many core extensions: zlib and bzip2 for data compression, the Berkeley DB (bsddb) and SQLite (sqlite3) database libraries, OpenSSL bindings for HTTPS support, the Tix GUI widgets for Tkinter, ElementTree for XML processing, ctypes (on supported platforms) for low-level library access, and others. The Windows distribution ships with PyWin32 -- a suite of Windows tools developed by Mark Hammond, including bindings to the Win32 API and Windows COM. ActivePython 2.6, 2.7 and 3.1 also include a binary package manager for Python (PyPM) that can be used to install packages much easily. For example: C:\>pypm install mysql-python [...] C:\>python >>> import MySQLdb >>> See this page for full details: http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.7/whatsincluded.html As well, ActivePython ships with a wealth of documentation for both new and experienced Python programmers. In addition to the core Python docs, ActivePython includes the "What's New in Python" series, "Dive into Python", the Python FAQs & HOWTOs, and the Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs). An online version of the docs can be found here: http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.7/ We would welcome any and all feedback to: activepython-feedback(a)activestate.com Please file bugs against ActivePython at: http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActivePython Supported Platforms =================== ActivePython is available for the following platforms: - Windows (x86 and x64) - Mac OS X (x86 and x86_64; 10.5+) - Linux (x86 and x86_64) - Solaris/SPARC (32-bit and 64-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) - Solaris/x86 (32-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) - HP-UX/PA-RISC (32-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) - HP-UX/IA-64 (32-bit and 64-bit) (Enterprise or OEM edition only) - AIX/PowerPC (32-bit and 64-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) More information about the Business Edition can be found here: http://www.activestate.com/business-edition Custom builds are available in the Enterprise Edition: http://www.activestate.com/enterprise-edition Thanks, and enjoy! The Python Team -- Sridhar Ratnakumar Python Developer ActiveState, The Dynamic Language Experts sridharr(a)activestate.com http://www.activestate.com Get insights on Open Source and Dynamic Languages at www.activestate.com/blog

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PyCon 2011 Registration and Financial aid open and available!
by Jesse Noller Dec. 13, 2010

Dec. 13, 2010

[Sorry for that last partial email] I wanted to take a moment and let everyone know that the PyCon 2011 Registration system is now online and accepting registrations for the conference! http://us.pycon.org/2011/tickets/ PyCon 2011 is looking to be the biggest, and most impressive PyCon yet, we've already booked one fantastic keynote speaker, and the program committee is hard at work selecting the talks for the conference - over 200 proposals were submitted! We're filling up the poster sessions, a stunning number of tutorials are being reviewed - this really does look like it's going to be huge. Financial aid is also open and available: http://us.pycon.org/2011/registration/financialaid/ Feel free to reach out to anyone on the PyCon 2011 team to ask any questions you might have. We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta. Jesse Noller PyCon 2011

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ANN: cssutils 0.9.8a1
by Christof Dec. 12, 2010

Dec. 12, 2010

what is it ---------- A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. (Not a renderer though!) about this release ------------------ 0.9.8a1 is an early alpha release. Please note the *major* changes in the css value API. main changes ------------ + **API CHANGE (major)** replace CSSValue with PropertyValue, Value and other classes. NEW CLASSES: :class:`cssutils.css.PropertyValue` replaces CSSValue and CSSValueList - is iterable (iterates over all single Value objects which in soruce CSS might be separated by "," "/" or " " - a comma separated list of IDENT values is no longer handled as a single String (e.g. ``Arial, sans-serif``) :class:`cssutils.css.Value` replaces CSSPrimitiveValue with separate ``value`` and ``type`` info (value is typed, so e.g. string for e.g. STRING, IDENT or URI values, int or float) and is base class for more specific values like: :class:`cssutils.css.URIValue` replaces CSSPrimitiveValue, additional attribute ``uri`` :class:`cssutils.css.DimensionValue` replaces CSSPrimitiveValue, additional attribute ``dimension`` :class:`cssutils.css.ColorValue` replaces CSSPrimitiveValue, additional attribute ``red``, ``green``, ``blue`` and ``alpha`` **TODO: Not yet complete, only rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla and has values use this object and color and alpha information no done yet!** :class:`cssutils.css.CSSFunction` replaces CSSPrimitiveValue function, not complete yet also renamed ``ExpressionValue`` to :class:`cssutils.css.MSValue` with new API - IMPROVEMENT/CHANGE: Validation of color values is tighter now. Values like ``hsl(1, 2, 3)`` do not validate as it must be ``hsl(1, 2%, 3%)``. This mostly effects HSL/A and RGB/A notation. - **IMPROVEMENT**: New Value parsing and API accelerate parsing of style declarations which take about 20-30% less time now. Of course this depends on the complexity of your styles. + BUGFIX: fixes issue #41, #42, #45, #46 PropertyValue.value returns value without any comments now, else use PropertyValue.cssText - FEATURE: ``cssutils.replaceUrls()`` accepts as first argument a `cssutils.css.CSSStyleSheet` but now also a :class:`cssutils.css.CSSStyle license ------- cssutils is published under the LGPL version 3 or later, see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ If you have other licensing needs please let me know. download -------- For download options see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ cssutils needs Python 2.4 and higher or Jython 2.5 and higher (tested with Python 2.7.1(x64), 2.6.5(x64), 2.5.4(x32), 2.4.4(x32) and Jython 2.5.1 on Win7x64 only) Bug reports (via Google code), comments, etc are very much appreciated! Thanks. Christof

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, December 14, 2010, 08:00pm
by Stefan Schwarzer Dec. 12, 2010

Dec. 12, 2010

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, December, 14th, 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ). 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 welcome. 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, 14. Dezember 2010 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). 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. Viele Grüße Stefan

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ANN: ActivePython 3.1.3.5 is now available
by Sridhar Ratnakumar Dec. 10, 2010

Dec. 10, 2010

ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePython 3.1.3.5, a complete, ready-to-install binary distribution of Python 3.1. http://www.activestate.com/activepython/downloads What's New in ActivePython-3.1.3.5 ================================== *Release date: 6-Dec-2010* New Features & Upgrades ----------------------- - Upgrade to Python 3.1.3 (`release notes <http://svn.python.org/projects/python/tags/r313/Misc/NEWS>`__) - Upgrade to Tcl/Tk 8.5.9 (`changes <http://wiki.tcl.tk/26961>`_) - Security upgrade to openssl-0.9.8q - [MacOSX] Tkinter now requires ActiveTcl 8.5 64-bit (not Apple's Tcl/Tk 8.5 on OSX) - Upgrade to PyPM 1.2.6; noteworthy changes: - New command 'pypm log' to view log entries for last operation - Upgraded the following packages: - SQLAlchemy-0.6.5 - virtualenv5-1.3.4.5 Noteworthy Changes & Bug Fixes ------------------------------ - [MacOSX] Include missing architecture binaries - Bug #88876 - PyPM bug fixes: - depgraph: Fix a bug with missing extra in install_requires - Bug #88825 - depgraph: Fix a bug with double-marking a package for upgrade - Bug #88664: handle cyclic dependencies in the depgraph algorithm - Ignore comments (starting with #) in the requirements file - Fix: ignore empty lines in requirements.txt - Bug #88882: Fix pickle incompatability (sqlite) on Python 3.x What is ActivePython? ===================== ActivePython is ActiveState's binary distribution of Python. Builds for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux are made freely available. Solaris, HP-UX and AIX builds, and access to older versions are available in ActivePython Business, Enterprise and OEM editions: http://www.activestate.com/python ActivePython includes the Python core and the many core extensions: zlib and bzip2 for data compression, the Berkeley DB (bsddb) and SQLite (sqlite3) database libraries, OpenSSL bindings for HTTPS support, the Tix GUI widgets for Tkinter, ElementTree for XML processing, ctypes (on supported platforms) for low-level library access, and others. The Windows distribution ships with PyWin32 -- a suite of Windows tools developed by Mark Hammond, including bindings to the Win32 API and Windows COM. ActivePython 2.6, 2.7 and 3.1 also include a binary package manager for Python (PyPM) that can be used to install packages much easily. For example: C:\>pypm install mysql-python [...] C:\>python >>> import MySQLdb >>> See this page for full details: http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/3.1/whatsincluded.html As well, ActivePython ships with a wealth of documentation for both new and experienced Python programmers. In addition to the core Python docs, ActivePython includes the "What's New in Python" series, "Dive into Python", the Python FAQs & HOWTOs, and the Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs). An online version of the docs can be found here: http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/3.1/ We would welcome any and all feedback to: activepython-feedback(a)activestate.com Please file bugs against ActivePython at: http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActivePython Supported Platforms =================== ActivePython is available for the following platforms: - Windows (x86 and x64) - Mac OS X (x86 and x86_64; 10.5+) - Linux (x86 and x86_64) - Solaris/SPARC (32-bit and 64-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) - Solaris/x86 (32-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) - HP-UX/PA-RISC (32-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) - HP-UX/IA-64 (32-bit and 64-bit) (Enterprise or OEM edition only) - AIX/PowerPC (32-bit and 64-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) More information about the Business Edition can be found here: http://www.activestate.com/business-edition Custom builds are available in the Enterprise Edition: http://www.activestate.com/enterprise-edition Thanks, and enjoy! The Python Team -- Sridhar Ratnakumar Python Developer ActiveState, The Dynamic Language Experts sridharr(a)activestate.com http://www.activestate.com Get insights on Open Source and Dynamic Languages at www.activestate.com/blog

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pdb++ 0.6: a drop-in replacement for pdb
by Antonio Cuni Dec. 10, 2010

Dec. 10, 2010

Hi, I finally released pdb++ (which got some attention due to a lightning talk at last europython). It starts from version 0.6, since it has been around for years now and it is stable enough to be used during normal devlopment. https://bitbucket.org/antocuni/pdb/src >From the README: This module is an extension of the pdb module of the standard library. It is meant to be fully compatible with its predecessor, yet it introduces a number of new features to make your debugging experience as nice as possible. pdb++ features include: * colorful TAB completion of Python expressions (through fancycompleter) * optional syntax highlighting of code listings (through pygments) * sticky mode * several new commands to be used from the interactive (Pdb++) prompt * smart command parsing (hint: have you ever typed r or c at the prompt to print the value of some variable?) * additional convenience functions in the pdb module, to be used from your program pdb++ is meant to be a drop-in replacement for pdb. If you find some unexpected behavior, please report it as a bug. Enjoy, Antonio Cuni

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PyPy winter sprint in Leysin, Switzerland
by Armin Rigo Dec. 9, 2010

Dec. 9, 2010

===================================================================== PyPy Leysin Winter Sprint (16-22nd January 2011) ===================================================================== The next PyPy sprint will be in Leysin, Switzerland, for the seventh time. This is a fully public sprint: newcomers and topics other than those proposed below are welcome. ------------------------------ Goals and topics of the sprint ------------------------------ * Now that we have released 1.4, and plan to release 1.4.1 soon (possibly before the sprint), the sprint itself is going to be mainly working on fixing issues reported by various users. Of course this does not prevent people from showing up with a more precise interest in mind. If there are newcomers, we will gladly give introduction talks. * We will also work on polishing and merging the long-standing branches that are around, which could eventually lead to the next PyPy release. These branches are notably: - fast-forward (Python 2.7 support, by Benjamin, Amaury, and others) - jit-unroll-loops (improve JITting of smaller loops, by Hakan) - arm-backend (a JIT backend for ARM, by David) - jitypes2 (fast ctypes calls with the JIT, by Antonio). * And as usual, the main side goal is to have fun in winter sports :-) We can take a day off for ski. ----------- More info ----------- http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/12/leysin-winter-sprint.html http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/extradoc/sprintinfo/leysin-winter-2011/announ… ----------- Armin Rigo

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BetterBatch 1.1.4 released - Small bug fix and functions for getting/setting registry
by mark.m.mcmahon＠gmail.com Dec. 7, 2010

Dec. 7, 2010

Hi, The 1.1.4 release of BetterBatch is now available. BetterBatch is designed as a middle ground between batch files and more powerful languages (Python, shell scripting, etc). The project is hosted on code.google.com: http://code.google.com/p/betterbatch/ Download from http://code.google.com/p/betterbatch/downloads/list Or discuss at http://groups.google.com/group/betterbatch-discuss/topics Here is the list of changes from the last release: 1.1.4 Small bug fix and functions for getting/setting registry --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06-December-2010 * Fixed: Parameters were being directly to functions (as opposed to being passed in a variable) were being lowercased. * Added additional tools to get and set registry values =GetRegistryValue= and =SetRegistryValue()= * Better error reporting for mismatched {{{ and }}}. * Count built-in can handle quotes * Automatically call associate_bb_filetype.bb after installation. If you want to check at the home page. If you find an bug or have a suggestions then please log an issue at http://code.google.com/p/betterbatch/issues/entry Thanks Mark <P><A HREF="http://code.google.com/p/betterbatch/">BetterBatch 1.1.4</A> Powerful, safe and simple batch language. (07-Dec-2010)

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JSONBOT 0.5 RELEASED
by Bart Thate Dec. 6, 2010

Dec. 6, 2010

Hello world ;] I'm back with another release of JSONBOT, this time it is version 0.5 so we are half way through making this a 1.0 release. Lot of changes to the core as well as other bug fixes, let me sum it up: * this version requires an upgrade of your 0.4 JSONBOT if you run already a JSONBOT see UPGRADE for more details on this. * code is adapted to use the Channel API, you need google_appengine version 1.4.0 for this. * website has gotten a brand new look and feel. * JSONBOT now uses ~/.jsonbot as its default datadir. * the RSS plugin was rewritten to work on any feed instead of only feed that support the pubDate token. * shell bots now log to ~/.jsonbot/botlogs by default, rotating the logs every day. * lots and lots of bug fixes. pointers: * source code: http://jsonbot.googlecode.com * web demo: http://jsonbot.appspot.com * jabber demo: jsonbot(a)appspot.com * documentation: http://jsonbot.appspot.com/docs * bugs: http://code.google.com/p/jsonbot/issues/list * twitter: http://twitter.com/#!jsonbot I consider JSONBOT to be of BETA quality now, i think it has become quite usable ;] Any feedback would be very much appreciated. As always ... HF ! Bart about JSONBOT: JSONBOT is a remote event-driven framework for building bots that talk JSON to each other over XMPP. This distribution provides bots built on this framework for console, IRC, XMPP for the shell and WWW and XMPP for the Google Application engine. JSONBOT is all of the following: * a shell console bot * a shell IRC bot * a shell XMPP bot * a Web bot running on Google Application Engine * a XMPP bot running on Google Application Engine * a Google Wave bot running op Google Application Engine * the XMPP bots are used to communicate between bots * plugin infrastructure to write your own functionality * event driven framework by the use of callbacks

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