Mailman 3 July 2010 - Python-announce-list

arithmetic 0.1
by Patricio Paez July 14, 2010

July 14, 2010

Hi all, The first version of module arithmetic has been released. *arithmetic* is a Python module that allows mixing arithmetic operations and text. A sample Tk-based editor that uses the module is provided as a starting point. Tutorial documents are included, they will quickly show all the features of arithmetic. It is licensed under the Gnu GPL license version 2 or later. Home http://pp.com.mx/python/arithmetic Download http://pp.com.mx/python/arithmetic/arithmetic-0.1.tar.gz Regards, Patricio Páez <pp(a)pp.com.mx>

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pyCologne Python User Group Cologne - Meeting, July 14, 2010, 6.30pm
by Andi Albrecht July 13, 2010

July 13, 2010

Hello, The next meeting of pyCologne will take place: Wednesday, July, 14th starting about 6.30 pm - 6.45 pm at Room 0.14, Benutzerrechenzentrum (RRZK-B) University of Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 Köln, Germany Agenda: - Text Indexing and Searching with PyLucene (Thomas Koch) Further discussion topics, news, book-presentations etc. are welcome on each of our meetings! At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant. Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at: http://www.pycologne.de (Sorry, the web-links are in German only.) Best Wishes , Andi

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[ANNOUNCE] PyGObject 2.21.5 - unstable
by Tomeu Vizoso July 12, 2010

July 12, 2010

Hi, I am pleased to announce version 2.21.5 of the Python bindings for GObject. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.21/ What's new since PyGObject 2.21.4? - Shut up some compiler warnings (Florian Müllner) - Adjust to API break in GObject-Introspection (Florian Müllner) - pass in the demo app so demos can use utility methods like requesting file paths (John (J5) Palmieri) - demo fixes to keep up with Gtk+ (John (J5) Palmieri) - override test fixes for new GTK+ annotations (John (J5) Palmieri) - Fix warning. (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) - fix up treeiter usage due to caller-allocates annotations in gtk+ (John (J5) Palmieri) - add entry completion demo (John (J5) Palmieri) - string changes (John (J5) Palmieri) - add the Entry demo directory and the entry_buffer demo (John (J5) Palmieri) - fix loading of demo modules to support sub modules (John (J5) Palmieri) - add the ability to have demos in sub catagories (John (J5) Palmieri) - Add __name__ to DynamicModule class. (Jose Aliste) - Do not override GdkRectangle. (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) - Add override for TreeModel implementing __len__() (Philip Withnall) Note to packagers: This release adds compatibility with the latest gobject-introspection release and updates its dependency to 0.9.2. Please note that more API changes are coming in gobject-introspection so it may be better to only package releases (not git snapshots). Blurb: GObject is an object system library used by GTK+ and GStreamer. PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyGTK, and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GObject library itself PyGObject is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full featured applications. PyGObject requires glib >= 2.22.4 and Python >= 2.3.5 to build. GIO bindings require glib >= 2.22.4. Please remember that this is an unstable release and shouldn't be used in production. Regards, The PyGObject team

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tox, a new generic virtualenv/test management tool
by holger krekel July 12, 2010

July 12, 2010

I have been talking about it with various people lately and am now happy announce the first release of "tox". tox aims to automate tedious Python related test activities driven from a simple ``tox.ini`` file, including: * creation and management of virtualenv environments * installing your Python package into each of them * run your test tool of choice (nose, py.test, unittests, you name it) * testing packages against each other without needing to upload to PyPI tox runs well on Python2.4 up until Python3.1 and integrates well with Continous Integration servers like Hudson. There are many real-life examples and a fair amount of docs. Read up on http://codespeak.net/tox and please report any issues. This is a fresh project and i'd like to drive further improvements from real world needs and feedback. thanks & cheers, holger krekel

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Roundup Issue Tracker 1.4.15 released
by Richard Jones July 12, 2010

July 12, 2010

I'm proud to release version 1.4.15 of Roundup which mostly fixes some regressions in the last release: Fixed: - A bunch of regressions were introduced in the last release making Roundup no longer work in Python releases prior to 2.6 - make URL detection a little smarter about brackets per issue2550657 (thanks Ezio Melotti) If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.3 or later (but not 3+) for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: roundup-demo Release info and download page: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard(a)users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ (but not 3+) installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though an install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql and postgresql).

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unittest2 0.5.0: setuptools compatible test collector and Python 2.3 distribution
by Michael Foord July 11, 2010

July 11, 2010

unittest2 0.5.0 has just been released. This version of unittest2 has "feature parity" with the version of unittest in Python 2.7: * unittest2 on PyPI http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2 If you want to ensure that your tests run identically under unittest2 and unittest in Python 2.7 you should use unittest2 0.5.0. Later versions of unittest2 will include changes in unittest made in Python 3.2 and onwards after the release of Python 2.7. unittest2 is a backport of the recent enhancements in the Python unittest testing library in Python 2.7. * New and Improved: unittest2 article http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/unittest2.shtml * unittest2 issue tracker http://code.google.com/p/unittest-ext/issues/list * Mercurial Development Repository: http://hg.python.org/unittest2 Improvements in unittest2 over standard unittest in Python 2.6 and earlier include: * automatic test discovery from the command line * failfast, catch and buffer command line options * class and module level setup and teardowns * ``addCleanup`` for better resource handling * test skipping and expected failures * improvements to ``assertRaises`` and ``assertAlmostEqual`` * *many* new assert methods, plus better failure messages * ``load_tests`` protocol for customizing test loading * various other API improvements and fixes unittest2 is tested with Python 2.4 - 2.7. New in 0.5.0 is a distribution for Python 2.3 contributed by Mark Roddy. Also new in 0.5.0 is a setuptools compatible test collector. If you put ``test_suite = 'unittest2.collector'`` in setup.py you can then find and run your tests (using test discovery) with: ``python setup.py test`` This starts test discovery with the default parameters from the directory containing setup.py, so it is perhaps most useful as an example (see unittest2/collector.py). All Changes in 0.5.0 ==================== Addition of a setuptools compatible test collector (very basic). Specify ``test_suite = 'unittest2.collector'`` in your setup.py. ``TestSuite.debug()`` and ``TestCase.debug()`` now execute cleanup functions and class and module level setups and teardowns. No longer monkey-patch os.path.relpath for Python 2.4 / 2.5 so that projects don't accidentally depend on our patching. Contributed by Konrad Delong. Added a Python version specific unit2 entrypoint. This will, for example, create a ``unit2-2.6`` script if unittest2 is installed with Python 2.6. (Requires setuptools or distribute.) Python 2.3 compatibility (in the python2.3 branch of the repository), contributed by Mark Roddy. setuptools console script entry points are created as '.py' scripts on Windows. Feature parity with the Python 2.7 final release. -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/blog

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, July 13, 2010, 08:00pm
by Stefan Schwarzer July 11, 2010

July 11, 2010

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, July 13th, 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 encouraged to participate. 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, 13.07.2010 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. Aktuelle Informationen zu den Treffen sind unter http://www.python-academy.de/User-Group zu finden. Viele Grüße Stefan

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grailbrowser now running under python 2.5 (probably above too)
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton July 11, 2010

July 11, 2010

source at: http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser $ python grail.py (note the lack of "python1.5" or "python2.4") conversion of the 80 or so regex's to re has been carried out. entirely successfully or not is a matter yet to be determined. always a hoot to try browsing http://www.bbc.co.uk or http://www.youtube.com with a browser from 11+ years ago, it still cannot be resisted as grail is the only working graphical web browser in the world written in pure python [pybrowser is still in development, stalled]. l.

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ANN: PyMQI 1.1 - Python interface to WebSphere MQ
by Dariusz Suchojad July 10, 2010

July 10, 2010

Hi, I'm happy to announce the release of PyMQI 1.1. *INTRODUCTION* PyMQI allows users to connect Python applications to WebSphere MQ queue managers. It can be used to develop test harnesses for WebSphere MQ based systems, for rapid prototyping of WebSphere MQ applications, for development of administrative GUIs or for mainstream MQ application development. PyMQI has been used in production environments for several years on Linux, Windows, Solaris and AIX with queue managers running on Linux, Windows, Solarix, AIX and z/OS mainframe. Supported WebSphere MQ versions are 5.0, 5.1, 5.3, 6.0 and 7.0. *What's new* * Added support for Windows AMD64, * Fixed several bugs related to PCF processing, * Added 20+ usage examples to documentation, * Created a PyMQI mailing list at http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/pymqi-list. It's a good place to join if you'd like to be informed of upcoming releases and new planned features. *Hello world with PyMQI* Here's an example showing how easy it is to connect to WebSphere MQ and put a message on a queue. import pymqi qmgr = pymqi.QueueManager(None) qmgr.connectTCPClient("QM.1", pymqi.cd(), "SVRCONN.CHANNEL.1", "192.168.1.121(1434)") q = pymqi.Queue(qmgr, "TEST.QUEUE.1") q.put("Hello from Python") *Links* Project's homepage: http://packages.python.org/pymqi/ Download URL: https://launchpad.net/pymqi/+download Usage examples: http://packages.python.org/pymqi/examples.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/fourthrealm cheers, -- Dariusz Suchojad

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mekk.xmind 0.4.0 released
by Marcin Kasperski July 9, 2010

July 9, 2010

mekk.xmind 0.4.0 has just been released What it is? =========== mekk.xmind is a pure-Python handler for XMind mind-map files. It can be used to: - generate XMind mind-maps from scratch (for example to visualize some data as a mind-map), - modify existing .xmind files, - parse existing .xmind files and analyze their content. Mind-map creation example:: from mekk.xmind import XMindDocument OUTPUT = "test.xmind" xmind = XMindDocument.create(u"First sheet title", u"Root subject") first_sheet = xmind.get_first_sheet() root_topic = first_sheet.get_root_topic() root_topic.add_subtopic(u"First item") root_topic.add_subtopic(u"Second item") t = root_topic.add_subtopic(u"Third item") t.add_subtopic(u"Second level - 1") t.add_subtopic(u"Second level - 2") root_topic.add_subtopic(u"Detached topic", detached = True) t.add_subtopic(u"Another detached", detached = True) t.add_marker("flag-red") root_topic.add_subtopic(u"Link example").set_link("http://mekk.waw.pl") root_topic.add_subtopic(u"Attachment example").set_attachment( file("map_creator.py").read(), ".txt") root_topic.add_subtopic(u"With note").set_note( u"""This is just some dummy note.""") xmind.save(OUTPUT) Mind-map parsing:: from mekk.xmind import XMindDocument xmind = XMindDocument.open("test.xmind") sheet = xmind.get_first_sheet() print "Sheet title: ", sheet.get_title() root = sheet.get_root_topic() print "Root title: ", root.get_title() print "Root note: ", root.get_note() for topic in root.get_subtopics(): print "* ", topic.get_title() print " label: ", topic.get_label() print " link: ", topic.get_link() print " markers: ", list(topic.get_markers()) # topic.get_subtopics() etc What has changed? ================= All docstrings were translated to English, plenty of undocumented methods got their documentation. A bug which caused failures while opening some XMind 3.1.1 - saved files has been fixed. Resources ========= :Source repository and issue tracker: http://bitbucket.org/Mekk/mekk.xmind/ :Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mekk.xmind/0.4.0 :XMind home: http://xmind.net -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marcin Kasperski | If we are to be successful, we must still have | http://mekk.waw.pl | the courage to put our faith in people as | | opposed to a process. (Booch,Martin,Newkirk)

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