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Hello!
I'm pleased to announce version 0.12.2, a bugfix release of branch 0.12
of SQLObject.
What is SQLObject
=================
SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are described
as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be
easy to use and quick to get started with.
SQLObject supports a number of backends: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite,
Firebird, Sybase, MSSQL and MaxDB (also known as SAPDB).
Where is SQLObject
==================
Site:
http://sqlobject.org
Development:
http://sqlobject.org/devel/
Mailing list:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sqlobject-discuss
Archives:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlobject
Download:
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SQLObject/0.12.2
News and changes:
http://sqlobject.org/News.html
What's New
==========
News since 0.12.1
-----------------
* Fixed a bug in inheritance - if creation of the row failed and if the
connection is not a transaction and is in autocommit mode - remove
parent row(s).
* Do not set _perConnection flag if get() or _init() is passed the same
connection; this is often the case with select().
For a more complete list, please see the news:
http://sqlobject.org/News.html
Oleg.
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Hello!
I'm pleased to announce version 0.11.4, a minor bugfix release of 0.11 branch
of SQLObject.
What is SQLObject
=================
SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are described
as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be
easy to use and quick to get started with.
SQLObject supports a number of backends: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite,
Firebird, Sybase, MSSQL and MaxDB (also known as SAPDB).
Where is SQLObject
==================
Site:
http://sqlobject.org
Development:
http://sqlobject.org/devel/
Mailing list:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sqlobject-discuss
Archives:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlobject
Download:
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SQLObject/0.11.4
News and changes:
http://sqlobject.org/News.html
What's New
==========
News since 0.11.3
-----------------
* Fixed a bug in inheritance - if creation of the row failed and if the
connection is not a transaction and is in autocommit mode - remove
parent row(s).
* Do not set _perConnection flag if get() or _init() is passed the same
connection; this is often the case with select().
For a more complete list, please see the news:
http://sqlobject.org/News.html
Oleg.
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Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
On behalf of Twisted Matrix Laboratories, I am honored to announce the
release of Twisted 10.0.
Highlights include:
* Improved documentation, including "Twisted Web in 60 seconds"
* Faster Perspective Broker applications
* A new Windows installer that ships without zope.interface
* Twisted no longer supports Python 2.3
* Over one hundred closed tickets
For more information, see the NEWS file.
It's stable, backwards compatible, well tested and in every way an
improvement. Download it now from:
http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/10.0/Twisted-10.0.0.tar.bz2 or
http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/10.0/Twisted-10.0.0.win32-py2.5.…
Many thanks to Jean-Paul Calderone and Chris Armstrong, whose work on
release automation tools and answers to numerous questions made this
possible. Thanks also to the supporters of the Twisted Software
Foundation and to the many contributors for this release.
jml
Version 0.3.8 of the Python config module has been released.
What Does It Do?
================
The config module allows you to implement a hierarchical configuration
scheme with support for mappings and sequences, cross-references
between one part of the configuration and another, the ability to
flexibly access real Python objects, facilities for configurations to
include and cross-reference one another, simple expression evaluation
and the ability to change, save, cascade and merge configurations. You
can easily integrate with command line options using optparse.
This module has been developed on python 2.3 but should work on
version 2.2 or greater. A test suite using unittest is included in the
distribution.
A very simple configuration file (simple.cfg):
# starts here
message: Hello, world!
#ends here
a very simple program to use it:
from config import Config
cfg = Config(file('simple.cfg'))
print cfg.message
results in:
Hello, world!
Configuration files are key-value pairs, but the values can be
containers that contain further values.
A simple example - with the example configuration file:
messages:
[
{
stream : `sys.stderr`
message: 'Welcome'
name: 'Harry'
}
{
stream : `sys.stdout`
message: 'Welkom'
name: 'Ruud'
}
{
stream : $messages[0].stream
message: 'Bienvenue'
name: Yves
}
]
a program to read the configuration would be:
from config import Config
f = file('simple.cfg')
cfg = Config(f)
for m in cfg.messages:
s = '%s, %s' % (m.message, m.name)
try:
print >> m.stream, s
except IOError, e:
print e
which, when run, would yield the console output:
Welcome, Harry
Welkom, Ruud
Bienvenue, Yves
The above example just scratches the surface. There's more information
about this module available at
http://www.red-dove.com/config-doc/
Comprehensive API documentation is available at
http://www.red-dove.com/config/index.html
As always, your feedback is most welcome (especially bug reports,
patches and suggestions for improvement). Enjoy!
Cheers
Vinay Sajip
Red Dove Consultants Ltd.
Changes since the last release posted on comp.lang.python[.announce]:
=====================================================
Fixed parsing bug which caused failure for negative numbers in
sequences.
Improved resolution logic.
This is a Content Management System built on Python & itools, among
other features ikaaro provides:
- content and document management (index&search, metadata, etc.)
- multilingual user interfaces and content
- high level modules: wiki, forum, tracker, etc.
This is the companion release of itools 0.61; most important changes in
this development cycle have gone to itools, and so this ikaaro release
is relatively small:
- The bundled jquery has been upgraded from 1.3.2 to 1.4.2
- Minor user interface improvements here and there
- Sensible speed-up, mostly due to the optimizations to the database
layer in itools.handlers
For further details check the UPGRADE file.
Resources
---------
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itools is a Python library, it groups a number of packages into a single
meta-package for easier development and deployment:
itools.abnf itools.ical itools.srx
itools.core itools.log itools.stl
itools.csv itools.odf itools.tmx
itools.datatypes itools.office itools.uri
itools.fs itools.pdf itools.web
itools.gettext itools.pkg itools.workflow
itools.git itools.python itools.xapian
itools.handlers itools.relaxng itools.xliff
itools.html itools.rest itools.xml
itools.http itools.rss itools.xmlfile
itools.i18n itools.soup
The new package itools.soup is a minimal wrapper around the libsoup [1]
library. Now the itools web server is based on this library, and so the
API has considerably changed (check the documentation and the upgrade
notes to learn more). This change improves the itools support of the
HTTP protocol.
The itools.vfs package has been renamed to itools.fs, and now includes
a local-file-system (lfs) layer proving the same API as our virtual file
system. This change is to sensibly improve performance, particularly to
the itools.handlers database system.
The new itools.log package offers a simple logging facility. It is
inspired by the logging mechanism available in the Glib [2] library, and
will eventually become just a wrapper.
The ipkg-install.py and ipkg-cache-list.py scripts have been removed;
now we are using "usine" [3] to automatize software deployment. The
ipkg-build.py script should now work on Windows.
The itools.core package has seen some additions:
- the 'OrderedDict' class, for forward compatibility with Python 2.7
- the 'lazy' decorator, to make lazy properties (based on an article
by Rick Copeland [4])
- the 'thingy_type' metaclass: an ongoing experiment to fusion classes
& class-instances
Other minor improvements include slightly better support for the ical
file format.
Now the libsoup library is required for the itools.http and itools.web
packages. The minimum supported versions of glib and pygobject are
now 2.20 and 2.18 respectively. Check the upgrade notes to learn more.
[1] http://live.gnome.org/LibSoup
[2] http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/2.20/glib-Message-Logging.html
[3] http://git.hforge.org/?p=usine.git;a=summary
[4] http://blog.pythonisito.com/2008/08/lazy-descriptors.html
Resources
---------
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http://download.hforge.org/itools/0.61/itools-0.61.0.tar.gz
Home
http://www.hforge.org/itools/
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http://www.hforge.org/community/http://archives.hforge.org/index.cgi?list=itools
Bug Tracker
http://bugs.hforge.org/
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A new version of ConfigObj has just been released: 4.7.2
This is a bugfix release with several important bugfixes. It is
recommended that all users of ConfigObj 4.7 update.
* Download: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/downloads/configobj-4.7.2.zip
* PyPI Page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/configobj
* Documentation: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html
The new version can be installed with::
pip install -U configobj
Changelog
========
* BUGFIX: Restore Python 2.3 compatibility
* BUGFIX: Members that were lists were being returned as copies due to
interpolation introduced in 4.7. Lists are now only copies if
interpolation
changes a list member. (See below.)
* BUGFIX: ``pop`` now does interpolation in list values as well.
* BUGFIX: where interpolation matches a section name rather than a value
it is ignored instead of raising an exception on fetching the item.
* BUGFIX: values that use interpolation to reference members that don't
exist can now be repr'd.
* BUGFIX: Fix to avoid writing '\r\r\n' on Windows when `write` is given
a file opened in text mode ('w').
See below for important details on the change to using list values with
string interpolation.
What is ConfigObj?
==============
**ConfigObj** is a simple but powerful config file reader and writer: an
*ini
file round tripper*. Its main feature is that it is very easy to use, with a
straightforward programmer's interface and a simple syntax for config files.
ConfigObj has a host of powerful features:
* Nested sections (subsections), to any level
* List values
* Multiple line values
* Full Unicode support
* String interpolation (substitution)
* Integrated with a powerful validation system
- including automatic type checking/conversion
- and allowing default values
- repeated sections
* All comments in the file are preserved
* The order of keys/sections is preserved
* Powerful ``unrepr`` mode for storing/retrieving Python data-types
String Interpolation and List Values
=========================
For general information on string interpolation in ConfigObj see:
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html#string-interpolation
Since version 4.7 string interpolation is done on string members of list
values. If interpolation changes any members of the list then what you
get back is a /copy/ of the list rather than the original list.
This makes fetching list values slightly slower when interpolation is
on, it also means that if you mutate the list changes won't be reflected
in the original list:
>>> c = ConfigObj()
>>> c['foo'] = 'boo'
>>> c['bar'] = ['%(foo)s']
>>> c['bar']
['boo']
>>> c['bar'].append('fish')
>>> c['bar']
['boo']
Instead of mutating the list you must create a new list and reassign it.
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March is shaping up to be as busy as ever: planning SciPy 2010 (http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2010
), two great
webinars...and a new release of EPD!
*Enthought Python Distribution 6.1*
In EPD 6.1, NumPy and SciPy are dynamically linked against the MKL
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