Mailman 3 September 2010 - Python-announce-list

ANN: pyforge - a New Mocking Library for Python
by vmalloc 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Hi all! I'm pleased to announce the release of pyforge, a new mocking library written for python. pyforge is (yet another) library for writing mock-based, record-replay style, unit tests in Python. The package has been greatly inspired by Mox, but has been written to replace it due to several shortcomings that I've experienced with it. pyforge is available at http://github.com/vmalloc/pyforge and on PyPI. Comments, suggestions, and ideas for improvement are more than welcome. Thanks, Rotem

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ANN: mpmath 0.16 released
by Fredrik Johansson 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Hi all, Version 0.16 of mpmath is now available on the project website: http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/ It can also be downloaded from the Python Package Index: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mpmath/0.16 Mpmath is a pure-Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic that implements an extensive set of mathematical functions. It can be used as a standalone library or via SymPy (http://code.google.com/p/sympy/), and is also available as a standard component of Sage (http://sagemath.org/). The versions in Sage and SymPy will be updated soon. For details about the new features in this version, see the following blog post and the changelog: http://fredrik-j.blogspot.com/2010/09/announcing-mpmath-016.html http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.16/CHANGES Changes in 0.16 include new special functions (incomplete elliptic integrals, inhomogeneous Bessel functions, Bessel function zeros, parabolic cylinder functions), rewritten functions (Lambert W function, Airy functions), and various other fixes and improvements. Support has also been added for new extension code that will make mpmath 0.16 much faster in Sage, particularly affecting elementary and hypergeometric functions. My work on mpmath 0.16 was funded using resources from NSF grant DMS-0757627, whose support is gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks to William Stein for enabling this. Extensive documentation is available at: http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/build/index.html or http://mpmath.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0.16/doc/build/index.html Bug reports and other comments are welcome on the issue tracker at http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/issues/list or the mpmath mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/mpmath Enjoy, Fredrik Johansson

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asciitable 0.3.1
by Tald 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

I'd like to announce the release of version 0.3.1 of asciitable, an extensible module for reading and writing ASCII tables. This release features the new capability to write ASCII tables using the same basic infrastructure and API as for reading. http://cxc.harvard.edu/contrib/asciitable/ Other updates include: - Python 3 compatibility - Significant documentation updates - Improved test coverage - New Reader class to read in-memory tables Regards, Tom Aldcroft

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Call for proposals -- PyCon 2011
by Jesse Noller 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Call for proposals -- PyCon 2011 -- <http://us.pycon.org/2011/> =============================================================== Proposal Due date: November 1st, 2010 PyCon is back! With a rocking new website, a great location and more Python hackers and luminaries under one roof than you could possibly shake a stick at. We've also added an "Extreme" talk track this year - no introduction, no fluff - only the pure technical meat! PyCon 2011 will be held March 9th through the 17th, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Home of some of the best southern food you can possibly find on Earth!) The PyCon conference days will be March 11-13, preceded by two tutorial days (March 9-10), and followed by four days of development sprints (March 14-17). PyCon 2011 is looking for proposals for the formal presentation tracks (this includes "extreme talks"). A request for proposals for poster sessions and tutorials will come separately. Want to showcase your skills as a Python Hacker? Want to have hundreds of people see your talk on the subject of your choice? Have some hot button issue you think the community needs to address, or have some package, code or project you simply love talking about? Want to launch your master plan to take over the world with Python? PyCon is your platform for getting the word out and teaching something new to hundreds of people, face to face. In the past, PyCon has had a broad range of presentations, from reports on academic and commercial projects, tutorials on a broad range of subjects, and case studies. All conference speakers are volunteers and come from a myriad of backgrounds: some are new speakers, some have been speaking for years. Everyone is welcome, so bring your passion and your code! We've had some incredible past PyCons, and we're looking to you to help us top them! Online proposal submission is open now! Proposals will be accepted through November 10th, with acceptance notifications coming out by January 20th. To get started, please see: <http://us.pycon.org/2011/speaker/> For videos of talks from previous years - check out: <http://python.mirocommunity.org/category/conferences> For more information on "Extreme Talks" see: <http://us.pycon.org/2011/speaker/extreme/> We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta! Please also note - registration for PyCon 2011 will also be capped at a maximum of 1,500 delegates, including speakers. When registration opens (soon), you're going to want to make sure you register early! Speakers with accepted talks will have a guaranteed slot. Important Dates: * November 1st, 2010: Talk proposals due. * December 15th, 2010: Acceptance emails sent. * January 19th, 2010: Early bird registration closes. * March 9-10th, 2011: Tutorial days at PyCon. * March 11-13th, 2011: PyCon main conference. * March 14-17th, 2011: PyCon sprints days. Contact Emails: Van Lindberg (Conference Chair) - van(a)python.org Jesse Noller (Co-Chair) - jnoller(a)python.org PyCon Organizers list: pycon-organizers(a)python.org

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gevent 0.13.1 released
by Denis Bilenko 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hi! I'm happy to announce that Gevent 0.13.1 is released. What is it? gevent is a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet to provide a high-level synchronous API on top of libevent event loop. Features include: * Fast event loop based on libevent (epoll on Linux, kqueue on FreeBSD). * Lightweight execution units based on greenlet. * API that re-uses concepts from the Python standard library (for example there are Events and Queues). * Cooperative sockets with ssl support. * DNS queries performed through libevent-dns. * Monkey patching utility to get 3rd party modules to become cooperative. * Fast WSGI server based on libevent-http. Homepage: http://www.gevent.org/ What's new in 0.13.1? Gevent 0.13.1 is a maintenance release, fixing a number of bugs in various modules. Read the full changelog here: http://www.gevent.org/changelog.html Get it from PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gevent Cheers, Denis.

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[ANN] SciPy India 2010 Call for Presentations
by Jarrod Millman 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

========================== SciPy 2010 Call for Papers ========================== The second `SciPy India Conference <http://scipy.in>`_ will be held from December 13th to 18th, 2010 at `IIIT-Hyderabad <http://www.iiit.ac.in/>`_. At this conference, novel applications and breakthroughs made in the pursuit of science using Python are presented. Attended by leading figures from both academia and industry, it is an excellent opportunity to experience the cutting edge of scientific software development. The conference is followed by two days of tutorials and a code sprint, during which community experts provide training on several scientific Python packages. We invite you to take part by submitting a talk abstract on the conference website at: http://scipy.in Talk/Paper Submission ========================== We solicit talks and accompanying papers (either formal academic or magazine-style articles) that discuss topics regarding scientific computing using Python, including applications, teaching, development and research. Papers are included in the peer-reviewed conference proceedings, published online. Please note that submissions primarily aimed at the promotion of a commercial product or service will not be considered. Important Dates ========================== Monday, Oct. 11: Abstracts Due Saturday, Oct. 30: Schedule announced Tuesday, Nov. 30: Proceedings paper submission due Monday-Tuesday, Dec. 13-14: Conference Wednesday-Friday, Dec. 15-17: Tutorials/Sprints Saturday, Dec. 18: Sprints Organizers ========================== * Jarrod Millman, Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley, USA (Conference Co-Chair) * Prabhu Ramachandran, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay, India (Conference Co-Chair) * FOSSEE Team

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The lalita IRC bot
by Facundo Batista 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Yet another IRC bot, one where new functionality is simple to create by just adding easy-to-write plugins. lalita is written with some goals in mind: - Twisted! (we don't like threads) - Pluggable: easy to implement new functionalities - Have fun: yes, it's Python All info here: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/lalita/index_en.html -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, September 21, 2010, 08:00pm
by Mike Müller 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, September 21, 8:00pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ). Stefan Schwarzer will give a talk about the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and will introduce tools for drawing UML diagrams. We meet one week later than the usual second Tuesday of the month because of an overlap with the DZUG conference in Dresden. 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 . Mike == Leipzig Python User Group === Wir treffen uns am Dienstag, 21.09.2010 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). Stefan Schwarzer hält einen Vortrag über die Unified Modeling Language (UML) und stellt Werkzeuge zum Zeichnen von UML-Diagrammen vor. Der Termin liegt eine Woche später als der planmäßige zweite Dienstag im Monat, da der sich mit der DZUG-Tagung in Dresden überschnitten hätte. 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 Mike

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conf2py (complete open source conference management system)
by Massimo Di Pierro 18 Sep '10

18 Sep '10

Conf2py is an Open Source Conference Management Software written in Python License is GPL2 A slideshow presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/mdipierro/conf2py Download as a web2py app (includes source): http://conf2py.googlecode.com/files/web2py.app.conf2py.w2p Source only from google code: hg clone https://conf2py.googlecode.com/hg/ conf2py BACKGROUND ========== This software is a complete rewrite of the web2conf software developed for PyCon US 2009 and used for registration at PyCon 2009, PyCon 2010 and Flisol 2010. The reason for the rewrite include source code simplification, added features, shift focus to more traditional academic conferences. Conf2py is in production since August 2010 for the 6th High End Visualization Workshop in Austria: http://vizworkshop.cct.lsu.edu/viz2010/ SOME FEATURES ======== - Single Sign-On using Open ID (Google) or OAuth (Facebook, MySpace, etc.) via Janrain.com, or local registration/login process. - Conference Fee Payment with Credit Card via Authorize.Net (no need for secondary login) - Default registration fields include: first name, last name, email, web page, address, company, profile text, image, type of registration, optional tutorial registration (multiple tutorials supported), food preferences, arrival date and departure date, accompanying family members (for optional hotel pre-registration). The list of fields is easily extensible. - Configurable billing policy based on time dependent conference rate for different roles and variable number of tutorials/sessions. - Configurable coupon discounts and coupon cancellation - Users can register other users and pay for them. - First page displays a slideshow - Arbitrary number of wiki pages using the markmin syntax - Wiki pages allow embedding of widgets such as "comments" or "videos" or "tagging" or "latex". - Automatic computation of geographical latitude and longitude and display of attendees on map. - Paper submission and review management with roles: author, editor, review. Author submits an abstract (talk or paper proposal). The editor may ask for a paper submission and assign a review of the paper or abstract to one ore more reviewers. The communication between editor and reviewer is invisible to the author. The identity of the reviewer is invisible to the author. The editor, based on reviewer recommendation can accept/reject a paper. Accepted papers are automatically published (a paper can be in any format and can include slides). - Paper publishing with bibtex support - Management interface with roles: manager, editor, reviewer, author (same person can have multiple roles depending on the paper). Requires web2py 1.85.3 or later. Developed by Massimo Di Pierro Support provided by MetaCryption LLC (http://metacryption.com) We hope it will be useful. Let us know how we can improve it even more. Massimo

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Sphinx 1.0.4 released
by Georg Brandl 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm happy to announce the release of Sphinx 1.0.4, a bug-fix release in the 1.0 series fixing a showstopper bug with local intersphinx inventories on Windows. 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 1.0 (very short version)? ======================================= Lots of stuff; most important of all domains support (see blog post at http://pythonic.pocoo.org/2009/9/12/new-in-sphinx-1-0-domains), new HTML themes, new output formats (manpage, epub). The full list is at <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/latest/changes.html>. cheers, Georg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkyTIgkACgkQN9GcIYhpnLD5SwCeLCMl132ZOJEo/1b2J+YbHZsE PsUAnR9bVW7OeoNu1OIr9SF1LTVdRKDc =7j+I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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