Mailman 3 January 2011 - Python-announce-list

Cape Town Python Users Group meeting - 22/01/2011
by Neil Muller 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

The next Cape Town Python Users Group meeting will be on Saturday, 22nd January, starting at 14:00. We will be using the Events room at the Bandwidth Barn. We'll have a talk on stereoscopic rendering in 3D using Blender via python. See http://www.ctpug.org.za/wiki/Meeting20110122 for more details. -- Neil Muller

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vatnumber 0.8 is out
by ced 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

vatnumber is a Python module to validate VAT numbers. It can validate VAT formats for 35 countries and can use the European VIES [1] service. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/vatnumber/0.8 The changelog for this release: * Add GB validation for the "9755" checksum introduced in November 2009 [1] http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/vieshome.do

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MDP release 3.0
by Tiziano Zito 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

We are glad to announce release 3.0 of the Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP). MDP is a Python library of widely used data processing algorithms that can be combined according to a pipeline analogy to build more complex data processing software. The base of available algorithms includes signal processing methods (Principal Component Analysis, Independent Component Analysis, Slow Feature Analysis), manifold learning methods ([Hessian] Locally Linear Embedding), several classifiers, probabilistic methods (Factor Analysis, RBM), data pre-processing methods, and many others. What's new in version 3.0? -------------------------- - Python 3 support - New extensions: caching and gradient - Automatically generated wrappers for scikits.learn algorithms - Shogun and libsvm wrappers - New algorithms: convolution, several classifiers and several user-contributed nodes - Several new examples on the homepage - Improved and expanded tutorial - Several improvements and bug fixes - New license: MDP goes BSD! Resources --------- Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdp-toolkit/files Homepage: http://mdp-toolkit.sourceforge.net Mailing list: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/mdp-toolkit-users Acknowledgments --------------- We thank the contributors to this release: Sven Dähne, Alberto Escalante, Valentin Haenel, Yaroslav Halchenko, Sebastian Höfer, Michael Hull, Samuel John, José Quesada, Ariel Rokem, Benjamin Schrauwen, David Verstraeten, Katharina Maria Zeiner. The MDP developers, Pietro Berkes Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Rike-Benjamin Schuppner Niko Wilbert Tiziano Zito

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[ANN] Update - Python Courses 2011
by Mike Müller 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Update - Python Courses 2011 ============================ The date of the EuroSciPy 2011 is finalized [1]. Being the main organizer of the first two EuroSciPy conferences in 2008 and 2009 in Leipzig and experiencing the great success of last year's event in Paris, I have to be there. Unfortunately, the conference date overlaps with our Python Summer Course (three days "Python for Programmers" plus three days "Python for Scientists and Engineers"). Therefore, we moved the course one week earlier. The new date is: August 15 - 20, 2011. All other course dates remain unchanged: Courses taught in English: February 14 - 18, 2011 Python - Software Development Training for Cheminformatics (Leipzig, Germany) May 13 - 15, 2011 Python for Programmers (Leipzig, Germany) May 16 - 20, 2011 Python Power Course (Leipzig, Germany) including Advanced Python Optimizing Python Programs Python Extensions with Other Languages Fast Code with the Cython Compiler High Performance XML with Python June 3 - 5, 2011 Introduction to Python and Python for Scientists and Engineers (Golden, CO, USA) August 15 - 17, 2011 Python for Programmers (Leipzig, Germany) August 18 - 20, 2011 Python for Scientists and Engineers (Leipzig, Germany) August 15 - 20, 2011 Python Summer Course (Combination of both course above with discount)(Leipzig, Germany) More information: http://www.python-academy.com/courses/dates.html Courses taught in German: Jan. 31 - Feb. 2, 2011 Pythonkurs bei Aberla (Zürich, Switzerland) April 4 - 6, 2011 Python für Programmierer (Leipzig, Germany) April 7 - 9, 2011 Django Python Web-Framework (Leipzig, Germany) More information: http://www.python-academy.de/Kurse/termine.html Also, if you would like teach about a Python topic you are an expert in just drop me a line. -- Mike mmueller(a)python-academy.de [1] http://www.euroscipy.org/conference/euroscipy_2011

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ANN: M2Crypto 0.21.1
by Heikki Toivonen 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Announcing M2Crypto 0.21.1 Changes: 0.21.1 - 2011-01-15 ------------------- - Distribution fix 0.21 - 2011-01-12 ----------------- - Support OpenSSL 1.0. Thanks to Miloslav Trmac for figuring out how to fix test_smime.py - Rename m2.engine_init to engine_init_error so that ENGINE_init and ENGINE_finish can be exposed, thanks to Erlo - 0.20 started releasing Python locks even around some operations that interacted with the Python runtime, potentially causing crashes and other weirdness, fix by Miloslav Trmac - Make httpslib.ProxyHTTPSConnection work with Python 2.3 M2Crypto is the most complete Python wrapper for OpenSSL featuring RSA, DSA, DH, EC, HMACs, message digests, symmetric ciphers (including AES); SSL functionality to implement clients and servers; HTTPS extensions to Python's httplib, urllib, and xmlrpclib; unforgeable HMAC'ing AuthCookies for web session management; FTP/TLS client and server; S/MIME; ZServerSSL: A HTTPS server for Zope and ZSmime: An S/MIME messenger for Zope. M2Crypto can also be used to provide SSL for Twisted. Smartcards supported through the Engine interface. -- Heikki Toivonen - http://heikkitoivonen.net

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[RELEASED] Python 3.2 rc 1
by Georg Brandl 16 Jan '11

16 Jan '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I'm very happy to announce the first release candidate 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 * PEP 3149, support for version tagged dynamic libraries * PEP 3148, a new futures library for concurrent programming * PEP 384, a stable ABI for extension modules * PEP 391, dictionary-based logging configuration * an overhauled GIL implementation that reduces contention * an extended email package that handles bytes messages * a much improved ssl module with support for SSL contexts and certificate hostname matching * a sysconfig module to access configuration information * additions to the shutil module, among them archive file support * many enhancements to configparser, among them mapping protocol support * improvements to pdb, the Python debugger * countless fixes regarding bytes/string issues; among them full support for a bytes environment (filenames, environment variables) * many consistency and behavior fixes for numeric operations For a more extensive list of changes in 3.2, see http://docs.python.org/3.2/whatsnew/3.2.html To download Python 3.2 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/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) iEYEARECAAYFAk0yn1QACgkQN9GcIYhpnLDTdACgqQYW5ZmTLlxmppBZItprSj7I TmAAn13lgnu9TdVy0Jln7VwOt5JW9CwL =VZ3p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Sphinx 1.0.7 released
by Georg Brandl 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm happy to announce the release of Sphinx 1.0.7, a bug-fix release in the 1.0 series, fixing a number of bugs in the 1.0 line of releases, most importantly a regression in LaTeX output introduced in 1.0.6. 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) iEYEARECAAYFAk0xvdYACgkQN9GcIYhpnLDP4QCfRl0Ns07BsYMyrCGffGk3b3ir TlkAnA/x82YNxd39PmwROoyiPrmr5qep =94qX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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alsaseq 0.4
by Patricio Paez 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi all, In this release the module was ported to Python 3, maintaining Python 2 support, and distutils are used now. alsaseq is a Python 3 and Python 2 module that allows to interact with ALSA sequencer clients. It can create an ALSA client, connect to other clients, send and receive ALSA events immediately or at a scheduled time using a sequencer queue. It provides a subset of the ALSA sequencer capabilities in a simplified model. It is implemented in C language and licensed under the Gnu GPL license version 2 or later. Home http://pp.com.mx/python/alsaseq Download http://pp.com.mx/python/alsaseq/alsaseq-0.4.tar.gz Regards, Patricio Páez pp at pp.com.mx

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PyHou January -- Python Teach and Learn! (Houston, Texas, USA)
by Walker Hale IV 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Announcing a new Meetup for PyHou - Houston Python Enthusiasts!! What: PyHou - Python Teach and Learn! When: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:00 PM Where: Stag's Head Pub 2128 Portsmouth St Houston, TX 77098 713-533-1199 Hello Pythonistas! January's "Python Teach and Learn" Meetup will focus on a back-to-basics approach, with a twist! At this session, we will ask our novices & newcomers to pair up with experts for individual or small group Q&A and demos. Know anyone who wants to get started with Python, but isn't quite sure how to jump in? Been interested in the Meetup, but was afraid it was "too technical"? (hint: it's not!) Looking to brush up on your basics? Ready for more Python awesomeness? Format: We'll start with a 15-minute tour covering the Python documentation and essential references. Afterwards, we'll pair-up/group-up and work through some core concepts. Novices: Bring your questions! Need some help with the basics? Stuck with some tricky material? We'll try to help! Experts: Please come! Everyone's an expert in some areas but a novice in others, so we'll rearrange as necessary, and your input is invaluable! Everyone: If possible, bring your laptop with charged battery and Python installed. (We'll have installers for Mac and Windows available if needed). This is our first time with this format for our Meetup, so input and suggestions are welcome and appreciated!! As usual, we'll save time at the end for general Python geekiness and catching-up. :-) Our meetup is located at the Stag's Head Pub, near Richmond and Shepherd. Please enjoy their menu and drink offerings, so they continue to enjoy hosting us! Lastly, please RSVP (even if you're a "Maybe"!) to assist us with capacity planning! RSVP to this Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/python-14/calendar/15753896/ -- Walker Hale <walker.hale.iv(a)gmail.com>

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New Python Sheffield group
by Daley Chetwynd 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hi all, I'm starting up a new Python user group in Sheffield, United Kingdom. It's being held on the final Tuesday of each month at the GIST Lab, Sheffield: http://thegisthub.net/groups/gistlab/ The first meeting is on Tues Jan 25th 2011 from 18:30 - 21:00. If you'd like to attend, please register for free at: pythonsheffield.eventbrite.com The Python Sheffield group is open to all levels of Python user. If you're in the Sheffield area then you're more than welcome to attend. If you know Python users in Sheffield, please pass the word on. :) I've set up the Twitter account @pysheff and the Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/python-sheffield Hope to see some of you there. Thanks, Daley Chetwynd -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class

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