Mailman 3 February 2011 - Python-announce-list

[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, February 15, 2011, 08:00pm
by Mike Müller 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, February 15 at 8:00 pm at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ). 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. Food and soft drinks are provided. Please send a short confirmation mail to info(a)python-academy.de, so we can prepare appropriately. Current information about the meetings are at http://www.python-academy.com/user-group . Mike == Leipzig Python User Group === Wir treffen uns am Dienstag, 15.02.2011 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). Willkommen ist jeder, der Interesse an Python hat, die Sprache bereits nutzt oder nutzen möchte. Für das leibliche Wohl wird gesorgt. Eine Anmeldung unter info(a)python-academy.de wäre nett, damit wir genug Essen besorgen können. Aktuelle Informationen zu den Treffen sind unter http://www.python-academy.de/User-Group zu finden. Viele Grüße Mike

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[RELEASED] Python 3.2 rc 3
by Georg Brandl 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the third 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 v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1YzkAACgkQN9GcIYhpnLAggwCfQ92djMinrmNkGI4Ma3VRqrcX EWIAn16kTEJtvEH/7DJApp7YdhnmIRBd =NJ1B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[ANN]: sahriswiki 0.8.1 (a Lightweight Wiki Engine)
by James Mills 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

Hello all, I'm pleased to announce the release of sahriswiki 0.8.1 This is a minor bug-fix release. For more information see the PyPi page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sahriswiki/ cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method"

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[ANN]: circuits-1.4 (Lightweight Event driven Asynchronous Application Framework)
by James Mills 12 Feb '11

12 Feb '11

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the release of circuits-1.4 This is a backwards incompatible release containing new and deprecated features. This release also fixes several bugs that were present in the previous release and includes more unit tests and coverage. For more information see the PyPi page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/circuits/1.4 cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method"

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ANN: carray 0.4 is out
by Francesc Alted 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

[Let's hope that the message is complete this time :)] Announcing carray 0.4 ===================== What's new ---------- The most prominent feature in 0.4 is the support of multidimensional carrays. Than means that, for example, you can do:: >>> a = ca.arange(6).reshape((2,3)) Now, you can access any element in any dimension:: >>> a[:] array([[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5]]) >>> a[1] array([3, 4, 5]) >>> a[1,::2] array([3, 5]) >>> a[1,1] 4 Also, all the iterators in carray have received a couple of new parameters that allows to `limit` or `skip` selected elements in queries. Finally, many performance improvements have been implemented (mainly related with efficient zero-detection code). This allows for improved query times when using iterators. See: https://github.com/FrancescAlted/carray/wiki/query-compress for an example on how fast the new iterators can do. For more detailed info, see the release notes in: https://github.com/FrancescAlted/carray/wiki/Release-0.4 What it is ---------- carray is a chunked container for numerical data. Chunking allows for efficient enlarging/shrinking of data container. In addition, it can also be compressed for reducing memory needs. The compression process is carried out internally by Blosc, a high-performance compressor that is optimized for binary data. carray comes with an exhaustive test suite and fully supports both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Also, it is typically tested on both UNIX and Windows operating systems. Resources --------- Visit the main carray site repository at: http://github.com/FrancescAlted/carray You can download a source package from: http://carray.pytables.org/download Manual: http://carray.pytables.org/docs/manual Home of Blosc compressor: http://blosc.pytables.org User's mail list: carray(a)googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/carray ---- Enjoy! -- Francesc Alted

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[ANNOUNCE] PyGObject 2.27.90 released (pre-release for 2.28.0)
by John Palmieri 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

I am pleased to announce version 2.27.90 of the Python bindings for GObject. This is a pre-release for the upcoming 2.28.0 stable release which should come in about a week if no major bugs are found. Note to maintainers and packagers, the 2.2x series will be the last series to support the static bindings. Going forward we will moving towards PyGObject 3.0 which will drop support for the static bindings and be able to clean up the code by breaking the current static binding ABI. The 2.28 and 3.0 branches will both be parallel installable and minimal support for the static bindings will continue in the 2.28 branch. A lot of fixes went in under the hood getting us ready for GNOME 3.0. A number of apps have already been ported and the last major enhancement we are waiting for is support for introspected signal parameters so that the draw signal in Gtk can pass a Cairo Context that works with PyCairo. Some higlight in this release include: * faster handling of virtual methods when constructing objects * enhanced refcounting fixes when dealing with sink refs * ABI stability for the static bindings * enhanced gdbus and gvarient handling * you can now override signals like you do vfuncs * enhanced drag and drop support added * return GErrors instead of generic runtime errors where appropriate * enhanced GtkTextBuffer support * enhanced pygi-convert.sh script for automating PyGtk to PyGObject Introspection migration * Gio.FileEnumerator now supports the Python iter protocol * Gdk.EventType 2BUTTON_PRESS and 3BUTTON_PRESS now prepended with an underscore * Gtk.Adjustment now support positional or keyword arguments in constructor * Properties now handle unicode correctly * Fix enum handling * dir() now returns GI attributes * Numerous overrides to replicate PyGtk and other interfaces * Python 3 fixes so we can compile under Python 3.2 * For a complete list of changes please read the NEWS file The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org and its mirrors: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.27/ Blurb: GObject is a object system library used by GTK+ and GStreamer. PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyGTK, PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications. Like the GObject library itself PyGObject is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full featured applications. PyGObject requires glib >= 2.22.4 and Python >= 2.5.1 to build. GIO bindings require glib >= 2.22.4. The Introspection module is the next generation Python GObject library bindings. Instead of statically wrapping every GObject based library we can now dynamically accesses any of those libraries using GObject Introspection. It replaces the need for separate modules such as PyGTK, GIO and python-gnome to build a full GNOME application. Once new functionality is added to gobject library it is instantly available as a Python API without the need for an intermediate Python module. Introspection/Python 2 bindings requires gobject-introspection >= 0.9.5 and pycairo >=1.0.2 or py2cairo >=1.8.10 Introspection/Python 3 bindings requires gobject-introspection >= 0.9.5, pycairo >=1.8.10 and Python >= 3.1 -- John (J5) Palmieri Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc.

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[ANN] bzr 2.3.0 released !
by vila 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

The Bazaar team is happy to announce availability of a new release of the bzr adaptive version control system. Bazaar is part of the GNU system <http://gnu.org/>. Thanks to everyone who contributed patches, suggestions, and feedback. Bazaar is now available for download from https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.3/2.3.0 as a source tarball or packaged for various systems. This release marks the start of another long-term-stable series. From here, we will only make bugfix releases on the 2.3 series (2.3.1, etc, and support it until August 2012), while 2.4 will become our new development series. The 2.1 and 2.2 series will also continue to get bugfixes. (Currently 2.0 is planned to be EOLed circa September 2011 and will receive only critical bugfixes.) This is a bugfix and polish release over the 2.2 series, with a large number of bugs fixed (>130), and some performance improvements. Some features have been enhanced including commits on stacked branches, upgrades of related branches, shortcut URL schemes for ubuntu and debian on launchpad and better conflict resolution. Only bugfixes from other stables series have been included since 2.3b5 so all known fixed bugs are included here. Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series.

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EPD 7.0 released
by Ilan Schnell 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

Hello, I am pleased to announce that EPD (Enthought Python Distribution) version 7.0 has been released. This major release updates to Python 2.7, Intel Math Kernel Library 10.3.1, numpy 1.5.1, in addition to updates to many of the other packages included. Please find the complete list of additions, updates and bug fixes in the change log: http://www.enthought.com/EPDChangelog.html To find more information about EPD, as well as download a 30 day free trial, visit this page: http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php About EPD --------- The Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) is a "kitchen-sink-included" distribution of the Python Programming Language, including over 90 additional tools and libraries. The EPD bundle includes NumPy, SciPy, IPython, 2D and 3D visualization, and many other tools. http://www.enthought.com/products/epdlibraries.php It is currently available as a single-click installer for Windows XP, Vista and 7, MacOS (10.5 and 10.6), RedHat 3, 4 and 5, as well as Solaris 10 (x86 and x86_64/amd64 on all platforms). All versions of EPD (32 and 64-bit) are free for academic use. An annual subscription including installation support is available for individual and commercial use. Additional support options, including customization, bug fixes and training classes are also available: http://www.enthought.com/products/support_level_table.php - Ilan

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PyCon Australia 2011: 20th & 21st August, Sydney Masonic Center
by Richard Jones 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

The second PyCon Australia will be held in Sydney on the weekend of the 20th and 21st of August at the Sydney Masonic Center. The first PyCon Australia was held in June 2010 and attracted over 200 Python programming enthusiasts. The second event is expected to host over 250 attendees. The weekend will see dozens of presentations introducing; - Python programming and techniques, - web programming, - business applications, - game development, - education, science and mathematics, - social issues, - testing, databases, documentation and more! We are hoping to organise sprints on the days following the conference proper. International guests should note that Kiwi PyCon is to run on the following weekend, making it a great opportunity to attend a couple of awesome Down Under conferences and hopefully do some sprinting with the locals. Richard Jones http://pycon-au.org/ PyCon AU Committee

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Python Game Programming Challenge 12 (April 2011) is coming!
by Richard Jones 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

The 12th Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) is coming. It'll run from the 3rd to the 10th of April. The PyWeek challenge: - Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team, - Is intended to be challenging and fun, - Will hopefully increase the public body of game tools, code and expertise, - Will let a lot of people actually finish a game, and - May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!) Richard http://pyweek.org/12/

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