Mailman 3 December 2011 - Python-announce-list

ANN: Speedometer 2.4 - bandwidth and download monitor
by Ian Ward 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

Announcing Speedometer 2.8 -------------------------- Speedometer home page: http://excess.org/speedometer/ Download: http://excess.org/speedometer/speedometer-2.8.tar.gz New in this release: ==================== - Added a linear scale option: -l. Best used in combination with -m (and possibly -n) to customize the range to be displayed. Thanks to jukie.net for sponsoring this feature. - Replace silly "curved" reading with a weighted moving average - New option to display all values in bits per second: -s - New options to set minimum (-n) and maximum (-m) values displayed on the graphs in bytes/s. Defaults are -n 32 and -m 2**32 - Accept shortened versions of -rx and -tx: -r and -t My intent is to drop use of the original forms in 3.0 and add --long-versions of all options - Use IEC notation of sizes MiB, GiB etc. - Install script as both speedometer.py and speedometer About Speedometer ================= Speedometer is a console bandwidth and file download progress monitor with a linear/logarithmic bandwidth display and a simple command-line interface. Speedometer requires Urwid for full-console bar graph display. Urwid may be downloaded from: http://excess.org/urwid/ Speedometer is released under the GNU LGPL.

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Sybase module 0.40pre2 released
by Robert Boehne 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

WHAT IS IT: The Sybase module provides a Python interface to the Sybase relational database system. It supports all of the Python Database API, version 2.0 with extensions. Please downolad, test and report any problems with the pre-release. ** This version is a pre-release not intended for production use ** The module is available here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/python-sybase/python-sybase-0.40pre2.tar.gz The module home page is here: http://python-sybase.sourceforge.net/ MAJOR CHANGES SINCE 0.40pre1: Better support for building against Sybase 15 on Windows, UNIX/Linux and 64-bit platforms. MAJOR CHANGES SINCE 0.39: Modify the DateTimeAsPython output conversion to return None when NULL is output support for Python without threads Ignore additional non-error codes from Sybase (1918 and 11932) Use outputmap in bulkcopy mode (thanks to patch by Cyrille Froehlich) Raise exception when opening a cursor on a closed connection Added unit tests Added new exception DeadLockError when Sybase is in a deadlock situation Add command properties CS_STICKY_BINDS and CS_HAVE_BINDS Added support for inputmap in bulkcopy reuse command and cursor when calling cursor.execute with same request Use ct_setparam to define ct_cursor parameters types instead of ct_param implicit conversion for CS_DATE_TYPE in CS_DATETIME_TYPE DataBuf Adding ct_cmd_props wrapper Increase DataBuf maxlength for params of a request when using CS_CHAR_TYPE params so that the buf can be reused BUGS CORRECTED SINCE 0.39: Corrected money type when using CS_MONEY4 (close bug 2615821) Corrected thread locking in ct_cmd_props (thanks to patch by Cyrille Froehlich) Corrected bug in type mapping in callproc (thanks to report by Skip Montanaro) Correct passing None in a DataBuf (thanks to patch by Bram Kuijvenhoven) The full ChangeLog is here: https://python-sybase.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/python-sybase/tags/r0_40p…

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Cornice 0.4 released
by Tarek Ziadé 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hey, We've released Cornice 0.4. Cornice provides helpers to build & document REST-ish Web Services with Pyramid This version has multiple new features like a request validation system and a nice errors handling system. The later let your web services return a JSON on all 400s with a structured list of info on errors. The main benefits are: - automatic handling of some HTTP errors. (Ask yourself: is your app handlind 405 or 406 errors?) - automatic web service documentation via Sphinx - simple way to validate and convert requests data, and return structured 400 responses. Check it out : - Documentation : http://packages.python.org/cornice/ - Latest blog post : http://ametaireau.github.com/notmyidea/introducing-cornice.html - Latest release : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cornice/ - Repository : https://github.com/mozilla-services/cornice We'd love feedback or new contributors ! Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org

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mrjob v0.3.0 released
by Jimmy Retzlaff 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

What is mrjob? ----------------------- mrjob is a Python package that helps you write and run Hadoop Streaming jobs. mrjob fully supports Amazon's Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which allows you to buy time on a Hadoop cluster on an hourly basis. It also works with your own Hadoop cluster. Some important features: * Run jobs on EMR, your own Hadoop cluster, or locally (for testing). * Write multi-step jobs (one map-reduce step feeds into the next) * Duplicate your production environment inside Hadoop * Upload your source tree and put it in your job's $PYTHONPATH * Run make and other setup scripts * Set environment variables (e.g. $TZ) * Easily install python packages from tarballs (EMR only) * Setup handled transparently by mrjob.conf config file * Automatically interpret error logs from EMR * SSH tunnel to hadoop job tracker on EMR * Minimal setup * To run on EMR, set $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY * To run on your Hadoop cluster, install simplejson and make sure $HADOOP_HOME is set. More info: * Install mrjob: pip install mrjob -OR- easy_install mrjob * Documentation: http://packages.python.org/mrjob/ * PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mrjob * Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/mrjob * Development is hosted at github: http://github.com/Yelp/mrjob What's new? -------------------- mrjob v0.3.0 is a major new release. Full details are at http://packages.python.org/mrjob/whats-new.html - here are a few highlights: v0.3.0, 2011-12-07 * Combiners * *_init() and *_final() for mappers, reducers, and combiners * Custom option parsers * Job flow pooling on EMR (saves time and money!) * SSH log fetching * New EMR diagnostic tools A big thanks to the contributors to this release: Steve Johnson, Dave Marin, Wahbeh Qardaji, Derek Wilson, Jordan Andersen, and Benjamin Goldenberg!

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ANN: Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Beta 1
by Dino Viehland 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

We're pleased to announce the release of Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Beta ( http://pytools.codeplex.com/releases/view/76089 ). Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is an open-source plug-in for Visual Studio which supports programming with the Python programming language. This release includes new core IDE features, a couple of new sample libraries for interacting with Kinect and Excel, and many bug fixes for issues reported since the release of 1.0. Since the last alpha release we've fixed over 30 bugs and implemented several features around the project system and references. For IronPython users you can now add references to .NET projects or .NET assemblies and we'll automatically reload and re-analyze the references when they're rebuilt. For CPython users you can now add a reference to a .pyd extension module and we'll analyze the extension module and provide completions. We've also improved intellisense across multiple Python projects in the same solution. Finally we've added support for using IPython mode w/o PyLab - this enables out-of-line graphs and improves the startup time of the interactive window. We've also added many new features which improve the basic editing experience which were also available during 1.1 Alpha. This includes a feature for automatically adding imports after typing an identifier, a command for cleaning up unused imports, support for recognizing isinstance() calls and using them for providing improved completions, and using goto definition to go to members defined in the standard library. We've also made improvements to the project system so it'll behave more like the C# including proper support of linked files outside of the project directory. And we've made some improvements to our IPython REPL support including support for inline graphs and proper support for IPython's numbered prompts. Finally we've made several small improvements to the debugger including the option to step into the Python standard library while debugging, the option to not break on SystemExit exception with exit codes of zero as well as displaying the Python thread name in the threads window. Altogether this release includes over 130 features and bug fixes since 1.0 - a complete list of the changes is available here: http://bit.ly/IpyTools11Beta1Fixes Another major addition to 1.1 includes the addition of two additional sample libraries available as separate downloads: PyKinect for working with the Kinect Beta SDK and Pyvot for working with Excel spreadsheets. Once downloaded and installed these plug-in to Visual Studio and provide templates; and they provide built-in support for installing into one of the recognized Python interpreters via Tools->Python Tools->Samples. The PyKinect sample is a wrapper around the Kinect SDK and enables development with the Kinect SDK directly from Python. The library presents an API which is similar to the API exposed via the Kinect SDK for C# developers. The sample includes a new template for quickly getting started creating games using PyGame with PyKinect. PyKinect is licensed under a license similar to the existing Kinect SDK. Pyvot (pronounced Pivot) connects familiar data-exploration and visualization tools in Excel with the powerful data analysis and transformation capabilities of Python, with an emphasis on tabular data. It provides a simple and Pythonic interface to Excel, smoothing over the pain points in using the existing Excel object model as exposed via COM. We'd like to thank all of the users who took the time to report issues and feedback for this release: 445363200, Andrew, AphexSA, benpmorgan, chadbr, dgkbny, drgn, holmboe, hyh, jimpeak, juanalumni, lblanchon, liuzhenhai, mahpour, MichaelBaker, po6856, pztrick44, salerio, slide_o_mix, somini, SoonStudios, stakemura, sumitbasu, swift_dev, synergetic, teebot, timeisaparallax, tonyandrewmeyer, xavier_grundus, and Zooba. Thanks, The Python Tools for Visual Studio Team

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[ANNOUNCE] pypiserver 0.5.0 - minimal pypi server
by Ralf Schmitt 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Hi, I've just uploaded pypiserver 0.5.0 to the python package index. pypiserver is a minimal PyPI compatible server. It can be used to serve a set of packages and eggs to easy_install or pip. pypiserver is easy to install (i.e. just easy_install pypiserver). It doesn't have any external dependencies. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypiserver/ should contain enough information to easily get you started running your own PyPI server in a few minutes. The code is available on github: https://github.com/schmir/pypiserver Changes in version 0.5.0 ------------------------- - make setup.py install without calling 2to3 by changing source code to be compatible with both python 2 and python 3. We now ship a slightly patched version of bottle. The upcoming bottle 0.11 also contains these changes. - make the single-file pypi-server-standalone.py work with python 3 -- Cheers, Ralf

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ANN: SfePy 2011.4
by Robert Cimrman 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

I am pleased to announce release 2011.4 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. Home page: http://sfepy.org Mailing lists, issue tracking: http://code.google.com/p/sfepy/ Git (source) repository: http://github.com/sfepy Documentation: http://docs.sfepy.org/doc Highlights of this release -------------------------- - cython used instead of swig to interface C code - many terms unified thanks to new optional material term argument type - updated Lagrangian formulation for large deformations - automatic generation of gallery of examples For more information on this release, see http://sfepy.googlecode.com/svn/web/releases/2011.4_RELEASE_NOTES.txt (full release notes, rather long and technical). Best regards, Robert Cimrman and Contributors (*) (*) Contributors to this release (alphabetical order): Vladimír Lukeš, Matyáš Novák

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SQLObject 1.2.1
by Oleg Broytman 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

Hello! I'm pleased to announce version 1.2.1, the first stable release of branch 1.2 of SQLObject. What is SQLObject ================= SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are described as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be easy to use and quick to get started with. SQLObject supports a number of backends: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, Sybase, MSSQL and MaxDB (also known as SAPDB). Where is SQLObject ================== Site: http://sqlobject.org Development: http://sqlobject.org/devel/ Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sqlobject-discuss Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlobject Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/SQLObject/1.2.1 News and changes: http://sqlobject.org/News.html What's New ========== * A bug was fixed in handling ``modulo`` operator - SQLite implements only ``%``, MySQL - only ``MOD()``, PostgreSQL implements both. For a more complete list, please see the news: http://sqlobject.org/News.html Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd(a)phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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ANN: Urwid 1.0.1, Urwid 0.9.9.3 - Console UI Library
by Ian Ward 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Announcing Urwid 1.0.1 and Urwid 0.9.9.3 ---------------------------------------- Urwid home page: http://excess.org/urwid/ Manual: http://excess.org/urwid/wiki/UrwidManual Tarballs: http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-1.0.1.tar.gz http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.9.9.3.tar.gz About these releases: ===================== These are bug-fix releases for Urwid 1.0.0 and Urwid 0.9.9.2. Release 0.9.9.3 may be the last in the 0.9.9 series. Users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the 1.0 series. New in 1.0.1: ============= * Fix for Terminal widget in BSD/OSX * Fix for a Filler mouse_event() position bug * Fix support for mouse positions up to x=255, y=255 * Fixes for a number of string encoding issues under Python 3 * Fix for a LineBox border __init__() parameters * Fix input input of UTF-8 in tour.py example by converting captions to unicode * Fix tutorial examples' use of TextCanvas and switch to using unicode literals * Prevent raw_display from calling tcseattr() or tcgetattr() on non-ttys * Disable curses_display external event loop support: screen resizing and gpm events are not properly supported * Mark PollingListWalker as deprecated New in 0.9.9.3: =============== * ListBox now includes a get_cursor_coords() method, allowing nested ListBox widgets * Fix for a Filler mouse_event() position bug * Fix support for mouse positions up to x=255, y=255 * Fix for leaks of None object in str_util extension * Fix for WidgetWrap and AttrMap not working with fixed widgets About Urwid =========== Urwid is a console UI library for Python. It features fluid interface resizing, Unicode support, multiple text layouts, simple attribute markup, powerful scrolling list boxes and flexible interface design. Urwid is released under the GNU LGPL.

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