Mailman 3 August 2010 - Python-announce-list

ANN: DirectPython 11 0.1
by Heikki Salo Aug. 9, 2010

Aug. 9, 2010

The first alpha release of DirectPython 11 is ready for testing. DirectPython 11 is an extension to the Python programming langugage which provides access to the Microsoft Windows Direct3D 11 API. Home page: http://directpython11.sourceforge.net/ Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/directpython11/files/ -- Heikki Salo

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ANN: python-ldap-2.3.12
by Michael Ströder Aug. 9, 2010

Aug. 9, 2010

Find a new release of python-ldap: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-ldap/2.3.12 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). Project's web site: http://www.python-ldap.org/ Ciao, Michael. -- Michael Ströder E-Mail: michael(a)stroeder.com http://www.stroeder.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Released 2.3.12 2010-08-05 Changes since 2.3.11: Lib/ * Removed tabs from various modules to make things work with python -tt. * Quick fix to ldif.is_dn() to let multi-valued RDNs pass as valid. Is too liberal in some corner-cases though... * Fix to ldif.is_dn() to allow dashes in attribute type (see SF#3020292) * ldap.open() now outputs a deprecation warning * module-wide locking is now limited to calling _ldap.initialize(). Still ldap.functions._ldap_function_call() is used to wrap all calls for writing debug log. Modules/ * New LDAP options available in OpenLDAP 2.4.18+ supported in LDAPObject.get/set_option(): ldap.OPT_X_KEEPALIVE_IDLE, ldap.OPT_X_KEEPALIVE_PROBES, ldap.OPT_X_KEEPALIVE_INTERVAL, ldap.OPT_X_TLS_CRLCHECK, ldap.OPT_X_TLS_CRLFILE Doc/ * Various small updates/improvements

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TkinterTreectrl v.1.0 released
by klappnase Aug. 9, 2010

Aug. 9, 2010

Hello, there is an updated version of the Tkinter wrapper of the tktreectrl widget available at : http://klappnase.bubble.org/TkinterTreectrl/index.html The treectrl widget allows to create fancy things like sortable multi column listboxes and hierarchical tree views. An impressive set of screenshots of things you can do with treectrl can be found at the treectrl project page : http://tktreectrl.sourceforge.net . The TkinterTreectrl package makes this functionality available for Python/Tkinter. Best regards Michael

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DjangoCon US 2010
by Steve Holden Aug. 8, 2010

Aug. 8, 2010

This is a reminder that DjangoCon US 2010 is now under a month away! The third such conference, DjangoCon returns this year to the green Doubletree Hotel in Portland, OR from September 7-9, with a three day sprint hosted by Urban Airship from September 10-12. The program schedule is at http://djangocon.us/schedule/ and you can register at http://djangocon.us/tickets/ The conference price for hotel accommodation is guaranteed only until August 13, so if you plan to attend you should register straight away. -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010 http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/

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ANN: Shed Skin 0.5
by Mark Dufour Aug. 8, 2010

Aug. 8, 2010

Hi all, I have just released Shed Skin 0.5, an experimental (restricted) Python-to-C++ compiler. Please see my blog for more details about the release: http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/ Thanks, Mark Dufour. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6LsfnBmdnk

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HL7 v3 (XML) importer
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Aug. 6, 2010

Aug. 6, 2010

an HL7 v2 importer was written by john paulett, and it has been enhanced to support some of the HL7 v3 standard, which is XML-based. no dependencies are required: xml.sax is used so as to reduce the dependencies to purely python. additionally, as HL7 has versions/revisions, published data specifications were pulled from mirthcorp.com and transformed into python, automatically. HL7v3 revisions 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.31, 2.4 and 2.5 are supported. there is still work to be carried out: MSH, PID, NTE, ORC, ORB and OBX are the presently supported segmentss, with a hard-coded assumption about the data hierarchy instead of using the same MessageFormat specifications that mirthcorp.com have written. this is likely to be corrected soon, but the project for which the code is being updated only requires "lab data imports", so support for other MessageFormats is not a high priority. in case anyone is interested, this hl7 library is to be used in gnumed, to be able to import laboratory data reports into the gnumed database. code is at: http://github.com/lkcl/hl7 i realise that this code is pretty specialist, but if you're looking around for free software libraries or applications that support HL7, http://mirthcorp.com is pretty much it, and mirth is pretty heavy-duty and forces a dependency of java and javascript for scripting, which may be of concern to some. hence, this smaller library is being created, in python. l.

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ANN: SfePy 2010.3 released
by Robert Cimrman Aug. 6, 2010

Aug. 6, 2010

I am pleased to announce release 2010.3 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. Development, mailing lists, issue tracking: http://sfepy.org Documentation: http://docs.sfepy.org/doc Git repository: http://github.com/sfepy Project page: http://sfepy.kme.zcu.cz Highlights of this release -------------------------- - significantly rewritten code for better interactive use - cleaner and simpler high level interface - new tutorial section: - Interactive Example: Linear Elasticity [1] [1] http://docs.sfepy.org/doc/tutorial.html#interactive-example-linear-elastici… Major improvements ------------------ Apart from many bug-fixes, let us mention: - new examples: - demonstration of the high level interface - new tests: - tests of the new high level interface - simplified but more powerful homogenization engine For more information on this release, see http://sfepy.googlecode.com/svn/web/releases/2010.3_RELEASE_NOTES.txt (full release notes, rather long and technical). Best regards, Robert Cimrman and Contributors (*) (*) Contributors to this release (alphabetical order): Vladimír Lukeš, Osman, Andre Smit, Logan Sorenson

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Announcing: python-ghostscript 0.1
by Hartmut Goebel Aug. 6, 2010

Aug. 6, 2010

Announcing: python-ghostscript 0.1 A Python-Interface to the Ghostscript library using ctypes :Version: Version 0.1 :Copyright: GNU Public License v3 (GPLv3) :Author: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel(a)crazy-compiler.com> :Homepage: http://bitbucket.org/htgoebel/python-ghostscript :Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ghostscript `Ghostscript`__, is a well known interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. This package implements a interface to the Ghostscript C-library using `ctypes`__. Both a low-level and a pythonic, high-level interface are provided. __ http://www.ghostscript.com/ __ http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html This package is currently tested only under GNU/Linux. Please report whether it works in your environment, too. Thanks. Example ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is an example for how to use the high-level interface of `python-ghostscript`. This implements a very basic ps2pdf-tool:: import sys import ghostscript args = [ "ps2pdf", # actual value doesn't matter "-dNOPAUSE", "-dBATCH", "-dSAFER", "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite", "-sOutputFile=" + sys.argv[1], "-c", ".setpdfwrite", "-f", sys.argv[2] ] ghostscript.Ghostscript(*args) -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel(a)crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, August 10, 2010, 08:00pm
by Stefan Schwarzer Aug. 6, 2010

Aug. 6, 2010

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, August, 10th, 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ). Markus Zapke-Gründemann will be talking about pip, distribute and virtualenv. Mike Müller will tell us something about his visit to the OSCON; I, Stefan, will do the same for EuroPython. 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, 10.08.2010 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). Markus Zapke-Gründemann spricht über pip, distribute und virtualenv. Mike Müller hat etwas von der OSCON in den USA zu erzählen und ich, Stefan, von der EuroPython. 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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[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.6 release candidate 1 now available
by Barry Warsaw Aug. 4, 2010

Aug. 4, 2010

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