Mailman 3 February 2011 - Python-announce-list

ANN: Komodo 6.1 released
by Todd Whiteman 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hello all, We are pleased to tell you that Komodo 6.1 has been released. With this release Komodo continues to improve it's Python support: * smarter Python code intelligence * completions for underscore names like __init__ and __name__ * better support of relative module and package imports * better debugging tooltips when hovering over variables * improved Django template support, which now provides: * tag and filter completions for Django template files * updated code syntax highlighting * smart auto indentation handling for template files * hyperlinks to easily jump between view and template file * includes Python 3.2 debugging client and code intelligence libraries For a detailed overview of the new Komodo 6.1 features, check out these web pages: http://community.activestate.com/komodo-61-features http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide/whats-new Note that Komodo comes in two different flavors - the *commercial* Komodo IDE version and the *free* Komodo Edit version. You can find out more on these two Komodo versions here: http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide Enjoy, Todd

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ANN: 8-Day Python Power Course in Leipzig/Germany
by Mike Müller 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Eight Days of Python Training ----------------------------- Can't get enough of Python? Then this course is for you. A three day introduction to Python as a warm-up, followed by five days of advanced Python training. All courses given in English. May 13 - 15, 2011 Python for Programmers May 16 - 20, 2011 Python Power Course May 16, 2011 Advanced Python Programming May 17, 2011 Optimizing Python Programs May 18, 2011 Python Extensions with Other Languages May 19, 2011 Fast Code with the Cython Compiler May 20, 2011 High Performance XML with Python Venue: Python Academy, Leipzig, Germany Trainers: Mike Müller, Stefan Behnel About the Trainers ------------------ Mike Müller, Ph.D has been teaching Python since 2004. He is the founder of Python Academy and regularly gives open and in-house Python courses as well as tutorials at PyCon US, OSCON, EuroSciPy and PyCon Asia-Pacific. Stefan Behnel, Ph.D is Senior Software Developer at Senacor Technologies AG as well as freelance consultant and software developer specializing in Python and Open Source. He is core developer of both the Cython compiler and the lxml XML toolkit. More Information ---------------- http://www.python-academy.com/courses/python_power_course.html -- Mike mmueller(a)python-academy.de

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pytest-2.0.1: bug fixes and better asserts
by holger krekel 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

py.test 2.0.1: bug fixes and better asserts =========================================================================== Welcome to pytest-2.0.1, a maintenance and bug fix release of pytest, a mature testing tool for Python, supporting CPython 2.4-3.2, Jython and latest PyPy interpreters. See extensive docs with tested examples here: http://pytest.org/ If you want to install or upgrade pytest, just type one of:: pip install -U pytest # or easy_install -U pytest Many thanks to all issue reporters and people asking questions or complaining. Particular thanks to Floris Bruynooghe and Ronny Pfannschmidt for their great coding contributions and many others for feedback and help. best, holger krekel Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 ---------------------------------------------- - refine and unify initial capturing so that it works nicely even if the logging module is used on an early-loaded conftest.py file or plugin. - fix issue12 - show plugin versions with "--version" and "--traceconfig" and also document how to add extra information to reporting test header - fix issue17 (import-* reporting issue on python3) by requiring py>1.4.0 (1.4.1 is going to include it) - fix issue10 (numpy arrays truth checking) by refining assertion interpretation in py lib - fix issue15: make nose compatibility tests compatible with python3 (now that nose-1.0 supports python3) - remove somewhat surprising "same-conftest" detection because it ignores conftest.py when they appear in several subdirs. - improve assertions ("not in"), thanks Floris Bruynooghe - improve behaviour/warnings when running on top of "python -OO" (assertions and docstrings are turned off, leading to potential false positives) - introduce a pytest_cmdline_processargs(args) hook to allow dynamic computation of command line arguments. This fixes a regression because py.test prior to 2.0 allowed to set command line options from conftest.py files which so far pytest-2.0 only allowed from ini-files now. - fix issue7: assert failures in doctest modules. unexpected failures in doctests will not generally show nicer, i.e. within the doctest failing context. - fix issue9: setup/teardown functions for an xfail-marked test will report as xfail if they fail but report as normally passing (not xpassing) if they succeed. This only is true for "direct" setup/teardown invocations because teardown_class/ teardown_module cannot closely relate to a single test. - fix issue14: no logging errors at process exit - refinements to "collecting" output on non-ttys - refine internal plugin registration and --traceconfig output - introduce a mechanism to prevent/unregister plugins from the command line, see http://pytest.org/plugins.html#cmdunregister - activate resultlog plugin by default - fix regression wrt yielded tests which due to the collection-before-running semantics were not setup as with pytest 1.3.4. Note, however, that the recommended and much cleaner way to do test parametraization remains the "pytest_generate_tests" mechanism, see the docs.

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pylib-1.4.1: bug fixes
by holger krekel 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

py-1.4.1: cross-python lib for fs path, code, io, ... manipulations =========================================================================== This is a bug fix release of the "py" lib, see below for detailed changes. The py lib is a small library comprising APIs for filesystem and svn path manipulations, dynamic code construction and introspection, a Py2/Py3 compatibility namespace ("py.builtin"), IO capturing, terminal colored printing (on windows and linux), ini-file parsing and a lazy import mechanism. It runs unmodified on all Python interpreters compatible to Python2.4 up until Python 3.2, PyPy and Jython. The general goal with "py" is to provide stable APIs for some common tasks that are continously tested against many Python interpreters and thus also to help transition. Here are some docs: http://pylib.org NOTE: The prior py-1.3.X versions contained "py.test" which since py-1.4.0 comes as its own separate "pytest" distribution, see: http://pytest.org Also, the "py.cleanup|py.lookup|py.countloc" helpers are now part of the pycmd distribution, see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycmd Changes between 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 ================================================== - fix issue1 - py.error.* classes to be pickleable - fix issue2 - on windows32 use PATHEXT as the list of potential extensions to find find binaries with py.path.local.sysfind(commandname) - fix (pytest-) issue10 and refine assertion reinterpretation to avoid breaking if the __nonzero__ of an object fails - fix (pytest-) issue17 where python3 does not like star-imports, leading to misrepresentation of import-errors in test modules - fix ``py.error.*`` attribute pypy access - allow path.samefile(arg) to succeed when arg is a relative filename - fix (pytest-) issue20 path.samefile(relpath) works as expected now

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LAST CHANCE: OSCON Call for Proposals (deadline 2/7)
by Aahz 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

DEADLINE Monday February 7 OSCON (O'Reilly Open Source Convention), the premier Open Source gathering, will be held in Portland, OR July 25-29. We're looking for people to deliver tutorials and shorter presentations. http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011 http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/cfp/144 Hope to see you there! -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." --Butler Lampson

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ANN: circuits-1.3.3 (Asynchronous Component-based Application Framework)
by James Mills 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the release of circuits-1.3.3 What is circuits ? ========== circuits is a Lightweight Event driven and Asynchronous Application Framework for the Python Programming Language with a strong Component Architecture. circuits also includes a lightweight, high performance and scalable HTTP/WSGI web server (with some similar features to CherryPy) as well as various I/O and Networking components. What's new ? ======== - New circuits.web.apps namespace with two mini-apps included - MemoryMonitor (a port of Dowser to debug memory leaks in your circuits.web app) - WebConsole (a port of httprepl by the same author of Dowser to give you an interactive console in your circuits.web app) - circuits.core.debugger: Debugger now takes an optional keyword argument "chop" to chop long lines when printing to sys.stderr - A new jsonserializer.py example in examples/web/ - Several bug-fixes and other improvements. Get it from PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/circuits/1.3.3 Read the documentation: http://packages.python.org/circuits See the examples: https://bitbucket.org/prologic/circuits/src/1.3.3/examples/ Please give us feedback on the circuits-users groups http://groups.google.com/group/circuits-users or on the #circuits IRC Channel on the FreeNode IRC Network. cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method"

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Plumber, an alternative to mixin-based subclassing
by Florian Friesdorf 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

An alternative to mixin-based subclassing: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plumber -- Florian Friesdorf <flo(a)chaoflow.net> GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 Jabber/XMPP: flo(a)chaoflow.net IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC

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Cython 0.14.1 has been released
by robertwb 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Cython 0.14.1 has just been released. This release is primarily a bug fix release building on top of 0.14. Download: http://cython.org/release/Cython-0.14.1rc3.tar.gz == New Features == - The gdb debugging support was extended to include all major Cython features, including closures. raise MemoryError() is now safe to use as Cython replaces it with the correct C-API call. - Better support for testing (including on Windows) - General improvements and bug fixes The bug tracker has a list of the major improvements and fixes: http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/query?status=closed&group=component&orde… == Incompatible changes == - Decorators on special methods of cdef classes now raise a compile time error rather than being ignored. - In Python 3 language level mode (-3 option), the 'str' type is now mapped to 'unicode', so that cdef str s declares a Unicode string even when running in Python 2. == Contributors == Many people contributed to this release, including: - Stefan Behnel - Alexey Borzenkov - Robert Bradshaw - Lisandro Dalcin - Mark Florisson - W. Trevor King - Vitja Makarov A special thanks also to the many people who did testing and contributed useful bug reports.

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JSONBOT 0.6.1 RELEASED
by Bart Thate 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Hello every human out there ! i'm pleased to announce the release of JSONBOT 0.6.1 FINAL, a release that saw a lot of work into the shell side of things and no changes to GAE. 0.6.1 has the following changes: * the ! char is not used instead of | in a pipeline. This is to make it easier to use a pipeline on mobile phones. * a new commandline interface has been created. You can now do "jsb botcommand " .. no need to start up the console app when you have a single command to execute * ? is now used a query character, so things you learn the bot with ! learn can be queried with ? * auto_register and guestasuser config options are now disabled by default * core xmpp parsing code has been rewritten * many more bug fixes. You can grab a copy of the code (tarball or mercurial repo) at http://jsonbot.googlecode.com Hope you enjoy this release as much as i enjoyed making it ;] Have Fun ! Bart About JOSNBOT: JSONBOT is a remote event-driven framework for building bots that talk JSON to each other over XMPP. This distribution provides bots built on this framework for console, IRC, XMPP for the shell and WWW and XMPP for the Google Application engine. JSONBOT is all of the following: a shell console bot a shell IRC bot a shell XMPP bot a Web bot running on Google Application Engine a XMPP bot running on Google Application Engine a Google Wave bot running op Google Application Engine the XMPP bots are used to communicate between bots plugin infrastructure to write your own functionality event driven framework by the use of callbacks

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pyCologne Python User Group Cologne - Meeting, February 9, 2011, 6.30pm
by Andi Albrecht 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place: Wednesday, February, 9th starting about 6.30 pm - 6.45 pm at Room 0.14, Benutzerrechenzentrum (RRZK-B) University of Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 Köln, Germany On this months schedule: - What's New in MoinMoin 2.0 (Reimar Bauer) - PythonCamp planning Any presentations, 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.) Regards, Andi

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