Mailman 3 March 2010 - Python-announce-list

BetterBatch 0.9.6 released - Some critical issues with variable references
by mark.m.mcmahon＠gmail.com 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi, The 0.9.6 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: 0.9.6 Some critical issues with variable references ------------------------------------------------------------------ 02-March-2011 * Fixed an issue with how variables are dealt with. I was finding that during the run phase variables would still have values laeft over from the test phase. 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 0.9.6</A> Powerful, safe and simple batch language. (02-Mar-2010)

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Sphinx 0.6.5 released
by Georg Brandl 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm proud to announce the release of Sphinx 0.6.5, which is a bugfix-only release in the 0.6 series. What is it? =========== Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of multiple reStructuredText source files). Website: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ What's new in 0.6.5 (short version)? ==================================== Several major bugs and problems have been fixed. The full list is at <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/changes.html>. cheers, Georg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuMPQIACgkQN9GcIYhpnLD5HACgnrrqm/N8W4sMcohLk7AL/3BT F9EAnAoyiDd5sFEzNLp0dFjoV0FacjIS =jzth -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Pygments 1.3 "Schneeglöckchen" released
by Georg Brandl 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

I've just uploaded the Pygments 1.3 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: - Added the ``ensurenl`` lexer option, which can be used to suppress the automatic addition of a newline to the lexer input. - Lexers added: * Ada * Coldfusion * Modula-2 * haXe * R console * Objective-J * Haml and Sass * CoffeeScript - Enhanced reStructuredText highlighting. - Added support for PHP 5.3 namespaces in the PHP lexer. - Added a bash completion script for `pygmentize`, to the external/ directory (#466). Enjoy, Georg

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ANN: SfePy 2010.1 released
by Robert Cimrman 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

I am pleased to announce release 2010.1 of SfePy. Description ----------- SfePy (simple finite elements in Python) is a software for solving systems of coupled partial differential equations by the finite element method. The code is based on NumPy and SciPy packages. It is distributed under the new BSD license. Mailing lists, issue tracking, git repository: http://sfepy.org Home page: http://sfepy.kme.zcu.cz Documentation: http://docs.sfepy.org/doc Contributors to this release: Vladimír Lukeš, Logan Sorenson. Highlights of this release -------------------------- - new sphinx-based documentation - refactoring of base functions (polynomial spaces) and element geometry description - interpolation between different meshes - terms for describing perfusion and active fibres in the total Lagrangian formulation (applicable, for example, to active muscle tissue models) Major improvements ------------------ Apart from many bug-fixes, let us mention: - data probing: - automatic refinement of probe points, speed-up - postprocessing and visualization: - VTK source construction for any format supported by MeshIO classes: - this means displaying meshes in formats Mayavi knows nothing about - graphical logging: - support logging to a text file, vertical line plot, allow several Log instances - new examples: - application of the theory of homogenization to elasticity - perfusion, active fibres - new tests and many new terms For more information on this release, see http://sfepy.googlecode.com/svn/web/releases/2010.1_RELEASE_NOTES.txt (full release notes, rather long). Best regards, Robert Cimrman

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BetterBatch 0.9.5 released - Added For loops and Parallel sections
by mark.m.mcmahon＠gmail.com 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

From: mark.m.mcmahon(a)gmail.com To: python-announce(a)python.org Hi, The 0.9.5 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: 0.9.5 Added For loops and Parallel sections ------------------------------------------------------------------ 01-March-2011 * Huge refactoring of the code. Removed Step.replace_vars() methods and instead added a 'phase' parameter to execute. This makes the code simpler and reduces some duplication. Testing is now done by using ``step.exectute(..., phase = "test")`` and execution by using ``step.exectute(..., phase = "run")``. * Escape < and > in the output of commands. * Add many new tests overall coverage now 95%. * Added debug option (prints tracebacks on error). * Fixed `issue 1 <http://code.google.com/p/betterbatch/issues/detail?id=1>`_ 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 0.9.5</A> Powerful, safe and simple batch language. (01-Mar-2010)

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The Python: Rag March issue available
by Bernard Czenkusz 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

The March issue of The Python: Rag is available at: http://tinyurl.com/pyrag2010-03 with previous issues available at the web site: http://www.pythonrag.org or http://groups.google.co.uk/group/pythonrag

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ANN: A new version (0.2.4) of the Python module which wraps GnuPG has been released.
by Vinay Sajip 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

A new version of the Python module which wraps GnuPG has been released. What Changed? ============= This is a minor enhancement release. See the project website ( http://code.google.com/p/python-gnupg/ ) for more information. The current version passes all tests on Windows (Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, Jython 2.5.1) and Ubuntu (Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.0, Jython 2.5.1). What Does It Do? ================ The gnupg module allows Python programs to make use of the functionality provided by the Gnu Privacy Guard (abbreviated GPG or GnuPG). Using this module, Python programs can encrypt and decrypt data, digitally sign documents and verify digital signatures, manage (generate, list and delete) encryption keys, using proven Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) encryption technology based on OpenPGP. This module is expected to be used with Python versions >= 2.4, as it makes use of the subprocess module which appeared in that version of Python. This module is a newer version derived from earlier work by Andrew Kuchling, Richard Jones and Steve Traugott. A test suite using unittest is included with the source distribution. Simple usage: >>> import gnupg >>> gpg = gnupg.GPG(gnupghome='/path/to/keyring/directory') >>> gpg.list_keys() [{ ... 'fingerprint': 'F819EE7705497D73E3CCEE65197D5DAC68F1AAB2', 'keyid': '197D5DAC68F1AAB2', 'length': '1024', 'type': 'pub', 'uids': ['', 'Gary Gross (A test user) <gary.gross(a)gamma.com>']}, { ... 'fingerprint': '37F24DD4B918CC264D4F31D60C5FEFA7A921FC4A', 'keyid': '0C5FEFA7A921FC4A', 'length': '1024', ... 'uids': ['', 'Danny Davis (A test user) <danny.davis(a)delta.com>']}] >>> encrypted = gpg.encrypt("Hello, world!", ['0C5FEFA7A921FC4A']) >>> str(encrypted) '-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)\n \nhQIOA/6NHMDTXUwcEAf ... -----END PGP MESSAGE-----\n' >>> decrypted = gpg.decrypt(str(encrypted), passphrase='secret') >>> str(decrypted) 'Hello, world!' >>> signed = gpg.sign("Goodbye, world!", passphrase='secret') >>> verified = gpg.verify(str(signed)) >>> print "Verified" if verified else "Not verified" 'Verified' For more information, visit http://code.google.com/p/python-gnupg/ - as always, your feedback is most welcome (especially bug reports, patches and suggestions for improvement). Enjoy! Cheers Vinay Sajip Red Dove Consultants Ltd.

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[ANN] argparse 1.1 - Command-line parsing library
by Steven Bethard 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

======================= Announcing argparse 1.1 ======================= The argparse module provides an easy, declarative interface for creating command line tools, which knows how to: * parse the arguments and flags from sys.argv * convert arg strings into objects for your program * format and print informative help messages * and much more... The argparse module improves on the standard library optparse module in a number of ways including: * handling positional arguments * supporting sub-commands * allowing alternative option prefixes like + and / * handling zero-or-more and one-or-more style arguments * producing more informative usage messages * providing a much simpler interface for custom types and actions Download argparse ================= The argparse homepage has links for source, MSI and single file distributions of argparse: http://code.google.com/p/argparse/ About this release ================== This is the final release of argparse before its move to the Python 2.7 and 3.2 standard libraries. Major enhancements in this release: * ArgumentParser(..., version=XXX) is deprecated. Instead, you should use add_argument(..., action='version') which is more flexible and does not force you to accept -v/--version as your version flags. * Usage and help (but not version) messages are now written to stdout instead of stderr, consistent with most existing programs. * User defined types passed as a type= argument can now raise an ArgumentTypeError to provide a custom error message. * Namespace objects now support containment, e.g. "'foo' in args". Various bugs were also squashed, e.g. "from argparse import *" now works. See the news file for detailed information: http://argparse.googlecode.com/svn/tags/r11/NEWS.txt Enjoy! Steve -- Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that? --- The Hiphopopotamus

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moin 1.9.2 release - important security and bug fixes, please upgrade immediately
by Reimar Bauer 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

MoinMoin 1.9.2 is a security bug fix release. For details see: http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/raw-file/1.9.2/docs/CHANGES Please update as soon as possible. See http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinDownload for the release archive and the change log. BTW, we still need much more people helping with cleaning up on master19.moinmo.in. So, especially if you speak some non-english language, you can help! See http://moinmo.in/MoinDev/Translation for details.

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