Mailman 3 February 2010 - Python-announce-list

unittest2: backport of the new features in unittest for Python 2.7
by Michael Foord 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

In Python 2.7 and 3.2 a whole bunch of improvements to unittest will arrive. ``unittest2`` is a backport of the new features (and tests) to work with Python 2.4, 2.5 & 2.6. The major changes include new assert methods, clean up functions, assertRaises as a context manager, new command line features, test discovery and the ``load_tests`` protocol. * The unittest2 Library: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2 * New and Improved: unittest2 article http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/unittest2.shtml * Mercurial Development Repository: <http://hg.python.org/unittest2 All the best, Michael

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IMDbPY 4.5
by Davide Alberani 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

IMDbPY 4.5 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, important fixes to access the remote data and some improvements to the local database. 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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First Lalita release: 0.1.1
by Facundo Batista 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

Python Argentina is pleased to announce the 0.1.1 release of Lalita. https://edge.launchpad.net/lalita/trunk/pre-alpha-1 Lalita is yet another IRC bot, one where new functionality is simple to create by just adding easy-to-write plugins. This is a pre-alpha release, our first release, but the delivered product is quite robust: we're using it in production since almost a year ago. Lalita is written with some goals in mind: - Twisted! (we don't like threads) - Pluggable: easy to implement new functionalities - Have fun: yes, it's Python As is said before, it's really easy to add new functionality (just copy the example plugin and touch a couple of lines), but Lalita itself has a lot of plugins already included, among which stand out: - freenode: Executes all the authentication dialog on the Freenode servers (this plugin does not offer functionality to the end user, but allows Lalita to connect to Freenode using a registered user). - misc: Implements a very simple functionality: answers "pong" to the user after receiving a "ping". - url: Collects all the URLs that are said in the different channels, allowing then to search through them. - seen: Implements two commands: "last" and "seen". The former tells what is the last said by an user, and the later tells when an user was seen last time (sometimes they match, sometimes don't). For further information, the project page is: https://edge.launchpad.net/lalita Regards, -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/

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[ANN] Karrigell-3.0.4 released
by Pierre Quentel 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

Hi, A new version of the web framework Karrigell has been released. The main changes are : - more robust session management in multi-threaded and multi-process environments - Unicode management in HTMLTags - Unicode management and error reports in Karrigell Templates - more of MySQL : can be used for users database ; improved online management ; blog application - use of the WhizzyWig Javascript library for blog applications - make script caching and HTTP caching optional - the alias keys can be regular expressions for a more flexible url resolution - bug fix for default host configuration and for cookie expiry date Home page : http://karrigell.sourceforge.net Downloads : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67940 Group : http://groups.google.com/group/karrigell Cheers, Pierre

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ANN: TextTest 3.17
by Geoff Bache 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hi all, There's a new version of the black-box test tool TextTest out. There are various enhancements, notably: - The HTML report now generates graphs of the results over time if you install the "matplotlib" library - The static GUI "Selection tab" is now available in the dynamic GUI also, with some new options relevant there also - The traffic-interception mechanism can now intercept Python modules - Can now set a timeout after which tests will automatically be killed. - You can now produce Junit-format reports for display by continuous integration servers like Hudson. and many bugfixes and other improvements. See the mailing list for more details. Regards, Geoff Bache .... TextTest is a tool for automatic text-based functional testing. This means running a batch-mode executable in lots of different ways from the command line, and using the text output produced as a means of controlling the behavior of that application. As well as being usable "standalone", it is an extendable framework for black-box testing written in Python. Homepage: http://www.texttest.org Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/texttest Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/texttest-users Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/texttest Source: https://code.launchpad.net/texttest

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ANN: PyUseCase 3.2 - GUI testing for Python (PyGTK and now Tkinter)
by Geoff Bache 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hi all, A new release of PyUseCase is out. There have been some minor improvements to PyGTK support but the main effort has been getting Tkinter support off the ground. At this point Tkinter support is fairly basic and doesn't come close to covering the widget set, but it's working on a couple of different "real-life" (but smallish) applications. The widgets it will currently handle interaction with are Button, Entry, Label, Menu, Tk, Toplevel and tkMessageBox. Adding support for further widgets shouldn't be too hard. If anyone's interested in trying to move this forward, I'd be interested to here from you - I'm very happy to help people get started. Regards, Geoff Bache A bit more detail: PyUseCase is an unconventional GUI testing tool for PyGTK and Tkinter, along with a framework for testing Python GUIs in general. Instead of recording GUI mechanics directly, it asks the user for descriptive names and hence builds up a "domain language" along with a "UI map file" that translates this language into actions on the current GUI widgets. The point is to reduce coupling, allow very expressive tests, and ensure that GUI changes mean changing the UI map file but not all the tests. Instead of an "assertion" mechanism, it auto-generates a log of the GUI appearance and changes to it. The point is then to use that as a baseline for text-based testing, using e.g. TextTest. It also includes support for instrumenting code so that "waits" can be recorded, making it far easier for a tester to record correctly synchronized tests without having to explicitly plan for this. Homepage: http://www.texttest.org/index.php?page=ui_testing Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyusecase Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyusecase-users (new) Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyusecase/ Source: https://code.launchpad.net/pyusecase/

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PyCon 2011 - Call for Tutorial Volunteers
by Greg Lindstrom 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

PyCon 2010 is complete and plans for PyCon 2011 in Atlanta have already begun! The main conference will once again be proceeded by two days of tutorials. There was quite a bit of feedback from students and teachers this year that we want to incorporate in next years classes. In order to do this, more people need to get involved; why not you? You do not need to have any experience in organizing a national conference, just the desire to help out. There is plenty to do from tasks that take a couple of hours to others that span months and you will get help with everything. The areas we will be working on are: * Proposals - help with the call for tutorial proposals and selection of classes * Room Assignments - help get the selected tutorials assigned to classrooms and monitor attendance numbers * Notes - work with teachers to get class notes printed and distributed * Program Guide - work with conference organizers to get tutorial information in the conference guide * Feedback - Work to get meaningful feedback from students and teachers (so PyCon 2012 is even better!) * Payments - collect information so our teachers get paid * Runner - On tutorial days at the conference, make yourself available to do whatever needs to be done. It's a lot of work -- and a lot of fun-- to put on tutorials for PyCon each year. You won't get paid, but you will get one of the snappy "staff" tee shirts when you attend PyCon and you get to work with an incredibly dedicated group of volunteers. Interested? Please drop a note at pycon-tutorials(a)python.org and let us know. Thanks, Greg Lindstrom Tutorial Coordinator, PyCon 2011 (Atlanta)

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ANN: Leo 4.7.1 released
by Edward K Ream 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Leo 4.7.1 final February 26, 2010 Leo 4.7.1 final is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 Leo 4.7.1 fixes a dangerous bug in Leo 4.7. When converting file-like sentinels to thin-like sentinels in an external file, Leo now issues a warning and sets the corresponding @file node dirty. This ensures that Leo will write the converted external file and .leo file together, making it impossible to lose data. Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html The highlights of Leo 4.7: -------------------------- - Leo now uses the simplest possible internal data model. This is the so-called "one-node" world. - Leo supports Python 3.x. - Leo requires Python 2.6 or above. - Several important improvements in file handling. - Leo converts @file nodes to @thin nodes automatically. - Leo creates a 'Recovered Nodes' node to hold data that otherwise might be lost due to clone conflicts. - @auto-rst now works much more reliably reliably. - Leo no longer supports @noref trees. Such trees are not reliable in cooperative environments. - A new Windows installer. - Many other features, including new command line options and new plugins. - Dozens of bug fixes. Links: ------ Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Forum: http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 Bzr: http://code.launchpad.net/leo-editor/ Quotes: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/testimonials.html

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ANN: PyTables 2.2b3 released
by Francesc Alted 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

=========================== Announcing PyTables 2.2b3 =========================== PyTables is a library for managing hierarchical datasets and designed to efficiently cope with extremely large amounts of data with support for full 64-bit file addressing. PyTables runs on top of the HDF5 library and NumPy package for achieving maximum throughput and convenient use. This is the third, and most probably last, beta version of 2.2 release. The main addition in this beta version is the addition of Blosc (http://blosc.pytables.org), a high-speed compressor that is meant to work at similar speeds, or higher, than the memory-cache bandwidth in modern processors. This will allow for very high performance in internal, in-memory PyTables computations while still using compression. Remember that Blosc is still in *beta* and it is not meant for production purposes yet. You have been warned! In case you want to know more in detail what has changed in this version, have a look at: http://www.pytables.org/moin/ReleaseNotes/Release_2.2b3 You can download a source package with generated PDF and HTML docs, as well as binaries for Windows, from: http://www.pytables.org/download/preliminary For an on-line version of the manual, visit: http://www.pytables.org/docs/manual-2.2b3 Resources ========= About PyTables: http://www.pytables.org About the HDF5 library: http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ About NumPy: http://numpy.scipy.org/ Acknowledgments =============== Thanks to many users who provided feature improvements, patches, bug reports, support and suggestions. See the ``THANKS`` file in the distribution package for a (incomplete) list of contributors. Most specially, a lot of kudos go to the HDF5 and NumPy (and numarray!) makers. Without them, PyTables simply would not exist. Share your experience ===================== Let us know of any bugs, suggestions, gripes, kudos, etc. you may have. ---- **Enjoy data!** -- Francesc Alted

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ANN: python-ldap-2.3.11
by Michael Ströder 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Find a new release of python-ldap: http://www.python-ldap.org/ python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs and LDAPv3 schema). Ciao, Michael. -- Michael Ströder E-Mail: michael(a)stroeder.com http://www.stroeder.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Released 2.3.11 2010-02-26 Changes since 2.3.10: Lib/ * Fixed LDAP URL parsing with four ? but no real extensions * ldap.ldapobject.LDAPObject.rename_s() now also accepts arguments serverctrls and clientctrls * Removed untested and undocumented class ldap.ldapobject.SmartLDAPObject * Removed broken method ldap.ldapobject.LDAPObject.manage_dsa_it() Modules/ * Make use of LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_NEWCTX only if available in OpenLDAP libs used for the build * Fixed #ifdef-statements for OPT_X_TLS_PROTOCOL_MIN Doc/ * Some updates and corrections regarding description of use of LDAPv3 controls * Some more descriptions for constants * Removed comments related to old LaTeX-based documentation system

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