Mailman 3 March 2011 - Python-announce-list

GroupServer 11.03 — Pineapple Snow at a Child's Party
by Richard Waid 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

The team at OnlineGroups.Net is pleased to announce the release of GroupServer 11.03 — Pineapple Snow at a Child's Party. Pineapple Snow is now available from: http://groupserver.org/downloads/ Changes in this release concentrate on a new Change Email Settings page. The the release notes contain more details on the changes that have been made: http://groupserver.org/downloads/release_notes/ GroupServer is written in Python utilising the Zope and the ZTK framework. We believe that GroupServer has the ease of use of web based groups such as Google Groups, the administrative freedom of mailing list managers such as Mailman, and the developer-freedom of open source software with the GPL Licence. A feature comparison is available: http://groupserver.org/groupserver/features/ We are now looking forward to the next release: GroupServer 11.04 — Slushy Followed by a Pounding Headache. Details of what we are planning in each release can be seen on the GroupServer Trac site: https://projects.iopen.net/groupserver/roadmap If you wish to report a bug, please do so here: http://groupserver.org/reportbug We would love to hear what you think about GroupServer, you can email us at: <support(a)onlinegroups.net> We would like to acknowledge the ongoing support of the e-Democracy.org project <http://e-democracy.org> in making GroupServer releases possible. If you would like to have features added to GroupServer, are unable to contribute technically, but have the means to contribute financially, the team at OnlineGroups.Net would love to hear from you. We are able to help with both generic GroupServer improvements as well as bespoke GroupServer development and deployment for your organisation, including web design. We can also provide setup assistance, including remote hands support. If you wish to try GroupServer in a hosted environment without installing, and with the benefit of all the latest features, please try OnlineGroups.Net at: http://onlinegroups.net We hope you enjoy the new release as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you! Best regards, Richard Waid Technical Lead Onlinegroups.Net

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Wing IDE 4.0.1 released
by Wingware 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Hi, Wingware has released version 4.0.1 of Wing IDE, an integrated development environment designed specifically for the Python programming language. Wing IDE is a cross-platform Python IDE that provides a professional code editor with vi, emacs, and other key bindings, auto-completion, call tips, refactoring, a powerful graphical debugger, version control, unit testing, search, and many other features. **Changes in Version 4.0.1** * Several fixes in source analysis, find uses, and refactoring * Improves Django support and adds support for Django 1.3 * Adds support for 64-bit Python 3.2 on Windows * Improves diff/merge for non-ascii text and on Windows * Adds support for debugging Python with -O command line option * Avoids a potential hang in the debugger with wx and gtk GUI apps * Fixes a potential crash on long lines in the editor * Fixes problems that could lead to failure to start * About 40 other bug fixes and minor improvements See the change log for details. **New Features in Version 4.0** Version 4.0 adds the following new major features: * Refactoring -- Rename and move symbols, and extract code to function or method * Find Uses -- Find all points of use of a symbol * Diff/Merge -- Graphical file and repository comparison and merge * Django Support -- Debug Django templates, run Django unit tests, and more * matplotlib Support -- Maintains live-updating plots in shell and debugger * Simplified Licensing -- Includes all OSes and adds Support+Upgrades subscriptions Complete Change Log: http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/4.0.1/CHANGELOG.txt Details on Licensing Changes: http://wingware.com/news/2011-02-16 **About Wing IDE** Wing IDE is an integrated development environment designed specifically for the Python programming language. It provides powerful editing, testing, and debugging features that help reduce development and debugging time, cut down on coding errors, and make it easier to understand and navigate Python code. Wing IDE can be used to develop Python code for web, GUI, and embedded scripting applications. Wing IDE is available in three product levels: Wing IDE Professional is the full-featured Python IDE, Wing IDE Personal offers a reduced feature set at a low price, and Wing IDE 101 is a free simplified version designed for teaching beginning programming courses with Python. Version 4.0 of Wing IDE Professional includes the following major features: * Professional quality code editor with vi, emacs, and other keyboard personalities * Code intelligence for Python: Auto-completion, call tips, find uses, goto-definition, error indicators, refactoring, smart indent and rewrapping, and source navigation * Advanced multi-threaded debugger with graphical UI, command line interaction, conditional breakpoints, data value tooltips over code, watch tool, and externally launched and remote debugging * Powerful search and replace options including keyboard driven and graphical UIs, multi-file, wild card, and regular expression search and replace * Version control integration for Subversion, CVS, Bazaar, git, Mercurial, and Perforce * Integrated unit testing with unittest, nose, and doctest frameworks * Django support: Debugs Django templates, provides project setup tools, and runs Django unit tests * Many other features including project manager, bookmarks, code snippets, diff/merge tool, OS command integration, indentation manager, PyLint integration, and perspectives * Extremely configurable and may be extended with Python scripts * Extensive product documentation and How-Tos for Django, matplotlib, Plone, wxPython, PyQt, mod_wsgi, Autodesk Maya, and many other frameworks Please refer to http://wingware.com/wingide/features for a detailed listing of features by product level. System requirements are Windows 2000 or later, OS X 10.3.9 or later (requires X11 Server), or a recent Linux system (either 32 or 64 bit). Wing IDE supports Python versions 2.0.x through 3.2.x and Stackless Python. For more information, see the http://wingware.com/ **Downloads** Wing IDE Professional and Wing IDE Personal are commercial software and require a license to run. A free trial can be obtained directly from the product when launched. Wing IDE Pro -- Full-featured product: http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide/4.0 Wing IDE Personal -- A simplified IDE: http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide-personal/4.0 Wing IDE 101 -- For teaching with Python: http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide-101/4.0 **Purchasing and Upgrading** Wing 4.0 requires an upgrade for Wing IDE 2.x and 3.x users at a cost of 1/2 the full product pricing. Upgrade a license: https://wingware.com/store/upgrade Purchase a new license: https://wingware.com/store/purchase -- The Wingware Team Wingware | Python IDE Advancing Software Development www.wingware.com

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EuroPython 2011: call for paper is ending - Please spread the word
by Palla 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Hi everyone, I'm Francesco and I am writing on behalf of "Python Italia APS", a no-profit association promoting EuroPython conference. (www.europython.eu) Europython End of Call for Presentations is April 6th. I'd like to ask to you to forward this mail to anyone that you feel may be interested. We're looking for proposals on every aspects of Python: programming from novice to advanced levels, applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organisation. **First-time speakers are especially welcome**; EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience. If you have friends or colleagues who have something valuable to contribute, twist their arms to tell us about it! Presenting at EuroPython ------------------------ We will accept a broad range of presentations, from reports on academic and commercial projects to tutorials and case studies. As long as the presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the programme. Can you show the conference-goers something new and useful? Can you show attendees how to: use a module? Explore a Python language feature? Package an application? If so, consider submitting a talk. Talks and hands-on trainings ---------------------------- There are two different kind of presentations that you can give as a speaker at EuroPython: * **Regular talk**. These are standard "talk with slides", allocated in slots of 45, 60 or 90 minutes, depending on your preference and scheduling constraints. A Q&A session is held at the end of the talk. * **Hands-on training**. These are advanced training sessions for a smaller audience (10-20 people), to dive into the subject with all details. These sessions are 4-hours long, and audience will be strongly encouraged to bring a laptop to experiment. They should be prepared with less slides and more source code. If possible, trainers will also give a short "teaser talk" of 30 minutes the day before the training, to tease delegates into attending the training. In the talk submission form, we assume that you intend to give a regular talk on the subject, but you will be asked if you are available for also doing a hands-on training on the very same subject. Speakers that will give a hands-on training are rewarded with a **free entrance** to EuroPython to compensate for the longer preparation required, and might also be eligible for a speaking fee (which we cannot confirm at the moment). Topics and goals ---------------- Specific topics for EuroPython presentations include, but are not limited to: - Core Python - Other implementations: Jython, IronPython, PyPy, and Stackless - Python libraries and extensions - Python 3.x migration - Databases - Documentation - GUI Programming - Game Programming - Network Programming - Open Source Python projects - Packaging Issues - Programming Tools - Project Best Practices - Embedding and Extending - Science and Math - Web-based Systems Presentation goals usually are some of the following: - Introduce audience to a new topic they are unaware of - Introduce audience to new developments on a well-known topic - Show audience real-world usage scenarios for a specific topic (case study) - Dig into advanced and relatively-unknown details on a topic - Compare different options in the market on a topic Community-based talk voting --------------------------- This year, for the first time in EuroPython history, the talk voting process is fully public. Every partecipant gains the right to vote for talks submitted during the Call For Papers, as soon as they commit to their presence at the conference by buying a ticket. See all the details in the talk voting[1] page. Contacts -------- For any further question, feel free to contact the organizers at info(a)pycon.it. Thank you! [1]: http://ep2011.europython.eu/talk-voting -- ->PALLA

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ANNOUNCE: sqlkit 0.9.3.2
by sandro 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

ANNOUNCE: sqlkit 0.9.3.2 March, 31 - 2011 I'm happy to announce release 0.9.3.1 of sqlkit package for Python. http://sqlkit.argolinux.org/ This release ------------ An option as been added to sqledit to create tables if the model is provided. Mask Sqlwidget now automatically switches to a multicolumn layout if no layout is provided and many fields are to be displayed. The setup now creates a sqledit executable for Windows as well The python package ------------------ SQLkit PyGtk package provides Mask and Table widgets to edit database data. It's meant as a base for database desktop applications. The application --------------- It also provides 'sqledit' a PyGTK application based on sqlkit that can be used from command line to browse and edit data. The package has 2 very rich demo suites for sql widgets (the main one in sqlkit/demo/sql/demo.py) and for layout creation Translations ------------ If you like sqlkit and want to help translating, you may find the project on: https://launchpad.net/sqlkit Main features of sqlkit: ------------------------ * editor of databases in 2 modes: table & mask * based on sqlalchemy: can cope with many different databases * very powerfull filtering capabilities: - each field can be used to filter records - filter may span relationship - date filtering possible also on relative basis (good for saved queries) * completion on all text field and foreign keys * very easy way to draw a layout for mask views * completely effortless editing of relationships * very easy way to set defaults * possibility to display totals of numeric fields * any possible sql constraint can be attached to a Mask or a Table. It can be expressed as a normal sqlalchemy query or with django-like syntax * sqledit: the application to edit db Sqlkit is based on: ------------------- * python (>= 2.5) * PyGtk * Sqlalchemy (>= 0.5.4) * python-dateutil * babel (localization) * you db driver of choice Dowload & more: --------------- * Download: http://sqlkit.argolinux.org/misc/download.html easy_install sqlkit * Source: hg clone http://hg.argolinux.org/py/sqlkit * Google Group: http://groups.google.it/group/sqlkit/ * Translation: https://launchpad.net/sqlkit * Tutorial: http://sqlkit.argolinux.org/misc/tutorials.html * Changelog: http://sqlkit.argolinux.org/download/Changelog * License: GNU GPLv3

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ANN: trombi 0.9.0
by Jyrki Pulliainen 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Announcing Trombi version 0.9.0 Trombi is an asynchronous CouchDB client for Tornado, the asynchronous web server by Facebook. Version 0.9.0 brings following changes: Views: * Add support for querying _all_docs (Thanks Jeremy Kelley) * Add support for bulk_docs * Add support for changes feed * Introduce Paginator for paginating results (thanks Jarrod Baumann) Documents: * Drop support for Document._as_dict, which was deprecated in 0.8 Other: * Improve error handling in various places * Support Tornado's SimpleHTTPClient * Various bug fixes Trombi is available at PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/trombi/0.9.0 Sources and issue tracker are available in Github: https://github.com/inoi/trombi Documentation for 0.9.0 is available at: https://github.com/inoi/trombi Cheers, Jyrki Pulliainen

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multipy -- Install multiple Python versions locally
by Petri Lehtinen 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

I'm pleased to announce multipy, a shell utility that helps you install and manage multiple local Python installations. It's available at https://github.com/akheron/multipy It downloads source tarballs for the newest version of any Python X.Y, compiles the source, and installs everything under a single directory hierarchy. By default, the install location is ~/multipy. distribute is also installed along with each Python version, as well as an activate script (in the spirit of virtualenv) for easier shell integration. multipy is a single shell script. It requires a POSIX compliant shell, wget, tar and gzip to download and extract source tarballs, and a compiler, development headers and libraries to compile Python. No existing Python installation is required. multipy should work on any Unix-like system that Python can be compiled on. Python versions 2.4 and up can be installed (including all 3.x releases). Usage examples: Install Python 2.7 and 3.2: $ multipy install 2.7 3.2 Install all supported Python versions (2.4 and up): $ multipy install all List installed Python versions: $ multipy list Remove Python 2.7: $ multipy remove 2.7 Use a custom installation directory: $ multipy -b /path/to/somewhere install 3.2 Tweak PATH to "activate" the local Python 2.5: $ . $(multipy activate 2.5) After this, e.g. python and easy_install can be used without an absolute path. To leave this mode, use deactivate. Regards, Petri Lehtinen

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ANN Jug 0.8 : Task based python programming.
by Luis Pedro Coelho 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Hello List, This is to let you know of a new release of Jug, version 0.8 final. NEW IN VERSION 0.8 Version 0.8 introduces the Taskslet, which is a light-weight task, which does not save its results to disk (or database). For more details, see http://packages.python.org/Jug/tasklets.html Many bugfixes too since the 0.8 Beta: CompoundTask works correctly now (before you had to run it twice in some situations), and so does status --cache. Some bugfixes since 0.7.4 in cleanup and sleep-until. WHAT IS JUG? Jug allows you to write code that is broken up into tasks and run different tasks on different processors (even across a cluster). Jug is a pure Python implementation and should work on any platform. LINKS *Mailing List*: http://groups.google.com/group/jug-users *Documentation*: http://packages.python.org/Jug *Code*: http://github.com/luispedro/jug *Video*: http://vimeo.com/8972696 Bug reports, suggestions, &c are welcome. On the jug-users mailing list (see link above) or by private email to me: luis(a)luispedro.org -- Luis Pedro Coelho | Carnegie Mellon University | http://luispedro.org

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SQLObject 1.0.0
by Oleg Broytman 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Hello! I'm really happy to announce SQLObject version 1.0.0! 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://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/SQLObject/1.0.0 News and changes: http://sqlobject.org/News.html What's New ========== Features & Interface -------------------- * Major API change: DB URI parser was changed to use urllib.split*() and unquote(). This means any username/password/path are allowed in DB URIs if they are properly %-encoded, and DB URIs are automatically unquoted. * A new module ``__version__.py`` was added. New variables ``version`` (string) and ``version_info`` (5-tuple: major, minor, micro, release level, serial) are imported into ``sqlobject`` namespace. * In SQLite, id columns are made AUTOINCREMENT. * Parameter ``backend`` in DB URI is no longer supported, use parameter ``driver``. 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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Karrigell-4.1 : first version of the web framework for Python 3.2
by Pierre Quentel 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Hi, Karrigell is a web framework, that was only available for Python 2.x so far (http://www.karrigell.fr) With the cgi module now usable for Python 3 since version 3.2, a first release of Karrigell for Python 3.2 is published and can be downloaded from the project page : http://code.google.com/p/karrigell/ While the features are very similar, and the syntax not too different from the Python2 versions, the implementation is very different : - the framework is installed as a package with the standard "python setup.py install", not just unpacked in some directory - it manages applications, each of which has its own set of options (root url and directory, user and translation database, url of the login script, etc) - an application can define filters, a list of functions that are applied before the default processing by Karrigell and can for instance limit access to files, scripts or directories, according to file extensions, or the user status - for installation with Apache in CGI mode, the package includes a command line script to generate a set of scripts ready to install or upload The documentation is online at the site wiki : http://code.google.com/p/karrigell/wiki/Home Best regards, Pierre

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RedNotebook 1.1.4
by Jendrik Seipp 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

A new RedNotebook version has been released. You can get the tarball, the Windows installer and links to distribution packages at http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/downloads.html What is RedNotebook? -------------------- RedNotebook is a **graphical journal** and diary helping you keep track of notes and thoughts. It includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and word clouds. You can also format, tag and search your entries. RedNotebook is available in the repositories of most common Linux distributions and a Windows installer is available. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ for its interface. What's new? ----------- * Add "phone call" and "personal" templates * Fix: Application crashes while resetting last position (LP:728466) * Fix: Editing a category entry that contains a \\ removes the new line symbol (LP:719830) * Fix: Introductory text is not translated * Fix: Properly convert dates to unicode * When a format (bold, etc.) is applied with no text selected, add whitespace, not descriptive text * Add a tooltip for the edit button * Improve introductory text * Improve help text * Do not refer to annotations as "nodes" but as "entries" * Translate the word "Categories" in exports * In statistics window use "Selected Day" instead of "Current Day" * Cleanup GUI glade file * Many translations updated Cheers, Jendrik

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