Mailman 3 August 2010 - Python-announce-list

[ANN] Websourcebrowser 0.4a released
by Stefan Schwarzer Aug. 4, 2010

Aug. 4, 2010

Hello, I'm happy to announce the release of Websourcebrowser 0.4a. Websourcebrowser is a program intended to get a quick overview of a project's source code. The program is controlled from a web browser which displays a directory tree and a source code file side by side. The homepage of the project is at http://websourcebrowser.sschwarzer.net/ The download of version 0.4a is at http://websourcebrowser.sschwarzer.net/download *** Note that this is still an alpha release. *** I use the program regularly to dive into new projects, but I consider it in the alpha stage because it has been used and tested by only a few other people than me. On Windows, this version doesn't seem to work with IE 8.0 whereas it works with Firefox 3.6.8. I know the software could be improved a lot. For some ideas, look at http://websourcebrowser.sschwarzer.net/trac/wiki/Ideas http://websourcebrowser.sschwarzer.net/trac/browser/todo.txt If I implement this alone, it'll probably take years, given that Websourcebrowser is a spare time project (beside my other project, ftputil). So it would be great to get more developers on board. Of course, I'm thankful for feedback on the mailing list (subscription required to avoid spam, sorry), http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/websourcebrowser or via private e-mail. If you encounter problems, you may also file a bug report at http://websourcebrowser.sschwarzer.net/trac/newticket *** You need to log in as user wsbuser with password wsb . *** Stefan

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Jamming with Django : An Introduction - Aug 12-13 - Chicago
by David Beazley Aug. 4, 2010

Aug. 4, 2010

Jamming with Django : An Introduction August 12-13, 2010 Chicago, Illinois http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/index.html Spend a few days in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood learning how to set up your first Django website. Taught by Chicago-area Django developers Chad Glendenin and Rodrigo Guzman and hosted by David Beazley, author of the Python Essential Reference, this is a chance to learn about Django in a completely unique setting where your success is guaranteed. This course is strictly limited to 6 students and includes breakfast, lunch, and snacks at local eateries. You won't be disappointed. Cheers, Dave

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pyCologne Python User Group Cologne - Meeting, August 11, 2010, 6.30pm
by Andi Albrecht Aug. 4, 2010

Aug. 4, 2010

Hello, The next meeting of pyCologne will take place: Wednesday, August, 11th 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: - adm6 - ip6tables-, pf.conf- and ipf scripts with Python (Johannes Hubertz) - Python libraries for accessing Excel files (Sophia Raab) 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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pyxser-1.4.6r --- Python Object to XML serializer/deserializer
by Daniel Molina Wegener Aug. 3, 2010

Aug. 3, 2010

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello Python Community. I'm pleased to announce pyxser-1.4.6r, a python extension which contains functions to serialize and deserialize Python Objects into XML. It is a model based serializer. Here is the ChangeLog entry for this release: This release contains some bug fixes, mainly related to type checking and type handling. I hope this small extension will help you on your programming tasks. The project is hosted at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxser/ The web page for the project is located at: http://coder.cl/products/pyxser/ PyPi entry is: http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=pyxser&version=1.4.6r Some release notes: http://coder.cl/2010/08/ann-pyxser-1-4-6r-released/ For a sample article on how to integrate pyxser with ZSI WebServices: http://coder.cl/2009/10/18/pyxser-and-zsi-webservices/ Thanks and best regards, - -- Daniel Molina Wegener <dmw [at] coder [dot] cl> System Programmer & Web Developer Phone: +56 (2) 979-0277 | Blog: http://coder.cl/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJMWEr1AAoJEHxqfq6Y4O5NIPUP/1Pp4fuivyhmc395DTXVNNRG Ir3ClwzXyB3LxMBsMm8wxcaqtiz9siD42kwbIBtXtiH9GS68BDhPxW2haG8a+tqW WDJGkwW817Na71+c0aK+Gn/OZ1/Ui3TqR1bbUee8bOK630vAhCCM2KoZdgBbgaNf 5VM8d6w3DSf8419yEUgS+sm7D/CCr5YY5A4NcloQMM9IBEv16wGE6ylW+LXHydkM +oWV2u7WoqShaJ9NgBgX3mNlRUKmbih+qmWm47ngb9QjdLvJd/lFHT6Kl5e1TkzK YOqA8EwjJPYgrtM6sdU12UR9a2U0zCdoGyr5XWJYRXSevlJQ7eIUdefttL39ROIw 6IFlFMp1/b7HAZC7NGmYOjIIlz30p1mxogwyk//EVPhGdXKvYhyPj+j1JxAinAUd IYGBV9mZR3Z/GxdKO9nq6QO/g9Z+FV6zz59WI/p2mnhdepgfbSh5nTQzTlWTU8U0 Z8F/YSQNULUCJnaT0CNcLq/zgJic54A0/oLvgJw6EIdGQ/grDokcnGNLMIn3u1Xu DKy4/0OTyz/kdIaBRJN+tWnVjGq8geozV6wkLvkL3sgc2r2xrosX4XsOAylgyxLY guyUty8AHFodBGelKIGUAKgXkWkcE/MKFOdvt95BEeROmDYbxRhh7s6HtlOKXeu0 BM/4RmzYpHZN6ymu42sl =DDz1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Pydev 1.6.1 Released
by Fabio Zadrozny Aug. 3, 2010

Aug. 3, 2010

Hi All, Pydev 1.6.1 has been released Details on Pydev: http://pydev.org Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com Release Highlights: ------------------------------- * **Debugger** * **Critical Fix: issue that prevented the debugger from working with Python 3 solved** * Improving socket connection handling * **Launching** * Restart last launch and terminate all launches actions created * Restart last: **Ctrl+Shift+F9** (in pydev editor) * Terminate all: **Ctrl+Alt+F9** (in pydev editor) * Buttons were also added to pydev consoles * **Utilities** * **2to3**: Right-clicking a folder or file will show an option in the Pydev menu to convert from python 2 to python 3 (note that lib2to3 must available in the python installation). * Defining execfile in a Python 3 interactive console so that Ctrl+Alt+Enter works. * Fixed issue in the code style preferences page (switched value shown). * com.ziclix.python.sql added to the forced builtins in a Jython install by default. * Improved some icons when on a dark theme (patch from Kenneth Belitzky) What is PyDev? --------------------------- PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python, Jython and IronPython development -- making Eclipse a first class Python IDE -- It comes with many goodies such as code completion, syntax highlighting, syntax analysis, refactor, debug and many others. Cheers, -- Fabio Zadrozny ------------------------------------------------------ Software Developer Aptana http://aptana.com/ Pydev - Python Development Environment for Eclipse http://pydev.org http://pydev.blogspot.com

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arithmetic 0.2
by Patricio Paez Aug. 1, 2010

Aug. 1, 2010

Hi all, The second version of module arithmetic has been released, it simplifies and fixes some bugs. *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-0.2.tar.gz Regards, Patricio Páez <pp(a)pp.com.mx>

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grin 1.2
by Robert Kern Aug. 1, 2010

Aug. 1, 2010

grin is a grep-like tool for recursively searching through text files, primarily source code. Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/grin SVN: https://svn.enthought.com/svn/sandbox/grin/trunk License: BSD grin 1.2 is a feature release. * Add several speed-enhancements from Paul Pelzl. * Allow reading of sockets, thanks to Floris Bruynooghe. * Added enhanced file extension recognition to handle extensions like # or .tar.gz, thanks to Anders J. Munch. * Add grinpython.py example which will search through Python files and only find results in actual code, string literals, or comments, in any combination. * Silent handling of KeyboardInterrupt. * Bug fixes and small enhancements from Sam Ockman, Adam Gomaa and Larry Hastings. * Update the argparse 1.1 to use the new, non-deprecated handling of the --version argument. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco

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ANN: Numexpr 1.4 released
by Francesc Alted Aug. 1, 2010

Aug. 1, 2010

======================== Announcing Numexpr 1.4 ======================== Numexpr is a fast numerical expression evaluator for NumPy. With it, expressions that operate on arrays (like "3*a+4*b") are accelerated and use less memory than doing the same calculation in Python. What's new ========== The main improvement in this version is the support for multi-threading in pure C. Threading in C provides the best performance in nowadays multi-core machines. In addition, this avoids the GIL that hampers performance in many Python apps. Just to wet your appetite, look into this page where the implementation is briefly described and where some benchmarks are shown: http://code.google.com/p/numexpr/wiki/MultiThreadVM In case you want to know more in detail what has changed in this version, see: http://code.google.com/p/numexpr/wiki/ReleaseNotes or have a look at RELEASE_NOTES.txt in the tarball. Where I can find Numexpr? ========================= The project is hosted at Google code in: http://code.google.com/p/numexpr/ And you can get the packages from PyPI as well: http://pypi.python.org/pypi Share your experience ===================== Let us know of any bugs, suggestions, gripes, kudos, etc. you may have. Enjoy! -- Francesc Alted

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[RELEASED] Python 3.2 alpha 1
by Georg Brandl Aug. 1, 2010

Aug. 1, 2010

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the first alpha preview release of Python 3.2. Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and stabilize the Python 3.x line. Since the final release of Python 2.7, the 2.x line will only receive bugfixes, and new features are developed for 3.x only. Since PEP 3003, the Moratorium on Language Changes, is in effect, there are no changes in Python's syntax and built-in types in Python 3.2. Development efforts concentrated on the standard library and support for porting code to Python 3. Highlights are: * numerous improvements to the unittest module * PEP 3147, support for .pyc repository directories * an overhauled GIL implementation that reduces contention * many consistency and behavior fixes for numeric operations * countless fixes regarding string/unicode issues; among them full support for a bytes environment (filenames, environment variables) * a sysconfig module to access configuration information * a pure-Python implementation of the datetime module * additions to the shutil module, among them archive file support * improvements to pdb, the Python debugger For an extensive list of changes in 3.2, see Misc/NEWS in the Python distribution. To download Python 3.2 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.2/ 3.2 documentation can be found at: http://docs.python.org/3.2/ Please consider trying Python 3.2 with your code and reporting any bugs you may notice to: http://bugs.python.org/ Enjoy! - -- Georg Brandl, Release Manager georg at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.2's contributors) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkxVQJsACgkQN9GcIYhpnLBxIgCcCiVu/QUkFf0bYM2Vmi8St3mZ 2N4An04q36lr47OA+bslqG/4Zj7ZwVOX =iL8N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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