Mailman 3 May 2011 - Python-announce-list

PyPad 2.7.1 (Update 2)
by Jon D 12 May '11

12 May '11

Hi All, PyPad 2.7.1 Update 2 is now available on the AppStore. This is mainly a bug fix release addressing a number of issues with the interactive mode, but does also add some colour highlighting of output. PyPad is a port of the standard python code base to the iPad. It includes most of the standard python modules and can be used for testing small scripts or interactively for simple computation. Regards, Jon

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RedNotebook 1.1.6
by Jendrik Seipp 11 May '11

11 May '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? ----------- * Fix date encoding (LP:775269) * Some translations updated Cheers, Jendrik

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EuroPython: Early Bird will end in 2 days!
by Palla 11 May '11

11 May '11

Hi all, If you plan to attend, you could save quite a bit on registration fees! The end of Early bird is on May 12th, Friday, 23:59:59 CEST. We'd like to ask to you to forward this post to anyone that you feel may be interested. We have an amazing lineup of tutorials, events and talks. We have some excellent keynote speakers and a very complete partner program... but early bird registration ends in 2 days! Right now, you still get discounts on talks and tutorials so if you plan to attend Register Now: http://ep2011.europython.eu/registration/ While you are booking, remember to have a look at the partner program and our offer for a prepaid, data+voice+tethering SIM. We'd like to ask to you to forward this post to anyone that you feel may be interested. All the best, -- ->PALLA

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, May 10, 2011, 08:00pm
by Mike Müller 09 May '11

09 May '11

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, May 10 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, 10.05.2011 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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pyCologne Python User Group Cologne - Meeting, May 11, 2011, 6.30pm
by Andi Albrecht 09 May '11

09 May '11

The next meeting of pyCologne will take place: Wednesday, May, 11th 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 month's agenda: - PythonCamp Review (everyone) - Lightning Talks (everyone) 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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[ANN] EuroScipy 2011 - deadline extended
by Tiziano Zito 08 May '11

08 May '11

=================================== EuroScipy 2011 - Deadline Extended! =================================== Deadline extended! You can submit your contribution until Friday May 13. --------------------------------------------- The 4th European meeting on Python in Science --------------------------------------------- **Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, August 25-28 2011** We are happy to announce the 4th EuroScipy meeting, in Paris, August 2011. The EuroSciPy meeting is a cross-disciplinary gathering focused on the use and development of the Python language in scientific research. This event strives to bring together both users and developers of scientific tools, as well as academic research and state of the art industry. Main topics =========== - Presentations of scientific tools and libraries using the Python language, including but not limited to: - vector and array manipulation - parallel computing - scientific visualization - scientific data flow and persistence - algorithms implemented or exposed in Python - web applications and portals for science and engineering. - Reports on the use of Python in scientific achievements or ongoing projects. - General-purpose Python tools that can be of special interest to the scientific community. Tutorials ========= There will be two tutorial tracks at the conference, an introductory one, to bring up to speed with the Python language as a scientific tool, and an advanced track, during which experts of the field will lecture on specific advanced topics such as advanced use of numpy, scientific visualization, software engineering... Keynote Speaker: Fernando Perez =============================== We are excited to welcome Fernando Perez (UC Berkeley, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, USA) as our keynote speaker. Fernando Perez is the original author of the enhanced interactive python shell IPython and a very active contributor to the Python for Science ecosystem. Important dates =============== Talk submission deadline: Sunday May 8 Program announced: Sunday May 29 Tutorials tracks: Thursday August 25 - Friday August 26 Conference track: Saturday August 27 - Sunday August 28 Call for papers =============== We are soliciting talks that discuss topics related to scientific computing using Python. These include applications, teaching, future development directions, and research. We welcome contributions from the industry as well as the academic world. Indeed, industrial research and development as well academic research face the challenge of mastering IT tools for exploration, modeling and analysis. We look forward to hearing your recent breakthroughs using Python! Submission guidelines ===================== - We solicit talk proposals in the form of a one-page long abstract. - Submissions whose main purpose is to promote a commercial product or service will be refused. - All accepted proposals must be presented at the EuroSciPy conference by at least one author. The one-page long abstracts are for conference planing and selection purposes only. We will later select papers for publication of post-proceedings in a peer-reviewed journal. How to submit an abstract ========================= To submit a talk to the EuroScipy conference follow the instructions here: http://www.euroscipy.org/card/euroscipy2011_call_for_papers Organizers ========== Chairs: - Gaël Varoquaux (INSERM, Unicog team, and INRIA, Parietal team) - Nicolas Chauvat (Logilab) Local organization committee: - Emmanuelle Gouillart (Saint-Gobain Recherche) - Jean-Philippe Chauvat (Logilab) Tutorial chair: - Valentin Haenel (MKP, Technische Universität Berlin) Program committee: - Chair: Tiziano Zito (MKP, Technische Universität Berlin) - Romain Brette (ENS Paris, DEC) - Emmanuelle Gouillart (Saint-Gobain Recherche) - Eric Lebigot (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie) - Konrad Hinsen (Soleil Synchrotron, CNRS) - Hans Petter Langtangen (Simula laboratories) - Jarrod Millman (UC Berkeley, Helen Wills NeuroScience institute) - Mike Müller (Python Academy) - Didrik Pinte (Enthought Inc) - Marc Poinot (ONERA) - Christophe Pradal (CIRAD/INRIA, Virtual Plantes team) - Andreas Schreiber (DLR) - Stéfan van der Walt (University of Stellenbosch) Website ======= http://www.euroscipy.org/conference/euroscipy_2011 _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion(a)scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

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pytest-incremental - an incremental test runner
by Eduardo Schettino 07 May '11

07 May '11

pytest-incremental ==================== an incremental test runner (pytest plug-in) What is an "incremental test runner" ? ======================================= The idea is to execute your tests faster by executing not all of them but only the "required" ones. When talking about build-tools it is common to refer to the terms: * initial (full) build - all files are compiled * incremental build (or partial rebuild) - just changed files are compiled * no-op build - no files are compiled (none changed since last execution) So an "incremental test runner" will only re-execute tests that were affected by changes in the source code since last successful execution. docs: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-incremental code: https://bitbucket.org/schettino72/pytest-incremental .

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Wing IDE 4.0.2 released
by Wingware 06 May '11

06 May '11

Hi, Wingware has released version 4.0.2 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 4.0.2** * Added introduce variable refactoring operation * Support for using *.pi files to augment source analysis of *.py files * Support autocompletion for PySide Qt bindings * Recognize tags and attributes for HTML5 * Avoid problems with Ubuntu Unity * Fixed matplotlib support for GtkAgg backend and missing default backend * Syntax highlight comments in Django template files * Fixed syntax highlighting for Cython, VHDL, R, and several others * Fixed failure to replace all search matches near the end of a file * 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/move symbols, extract to function/method, and introduce variable * 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/4.0.2/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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[ANN] guiqwt v2.1.3
by Pierre.RAYBAUT＠CEA.FR 06 May '11

06 May '11

Hi all, I am pleased to announce that `guiqwt` v2.1.3 has been released. Based on PyQwt (plotting widgets for PyQt4 graphical user interfaces) and on the scientific modules NumPy and SciPy, guiqwt is a Python library providing efficient 2D data-plotting features (curve/image visualization and related tools) for interactive computing and signal/image processing application development. Complete change log is now available here: http://code.google.com/p/guiqwt/wiki/ChangeLog Documentation with examples, API reference, etc. is available here: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/ This version of `guiqwt` includes a demo software, Sift (for Signal and Image Filtering Tool), based on `guidata` and `guiqwt`: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/sift.html Windows users may even download the portable version of Sift 0.2.3 to test it without having to install anything: http://code.google.com/p/guiqwt/downloads/detail?name=sift023_portable.zip When compared to the excellent module `matplotlib`, the main advantages of `guiqwt` are: * Performance: see http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/overview.html#performances * Interactivity: see for example http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/plot.png * Powerful signal processing tools: see for example http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/fit.png * Powerful image processing tools: * Real-time contrast adjustment: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/contrast.png * Cross sections (line/column, averaged and oblique cross sections!): http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/cross_section.png * Arbitrary affine transforms on images: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/transform.png * Interactive filters: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/imagefilter.png * Geometrical shapes/Measurement tools: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/image_plot_tools.png * Perfect integration of `guidata` features for image data editing: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/simple_window.png But `guiqwt` is more than a plotting library; it also provides: * Framework for signal/image processing application development: see http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/examples.html * And many other features like making executable Windows programs easily (py2exe helpers): see http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/disthelpers.html guiqwt has been successfully tested on GNU/Linux and Windows platforms. Python package index page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/guiqwt/ Documentation, screenshots: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/ Downloads (source + Python(x,y) plugin): http://guiqwt.googlecode.com Cheers, Pierre --- Dr. Pierre Raybaut CEA - Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives

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Stackato - a platform for Python and Perl applications on public and private clouds
by Sridhar Ratnakumar 05 May '11

05 May '11

We're pleased to announce Stackato, the first end-to-end enterprise cloud platform for dynamic language applications. Initially for Python and Perl and based on Cloud Foundry, Stackato enables you to deploy, manage, and scale Python and Perl applications in the private or public cloud. Sign up for the Stackato Developer Preview. http://activestate.com/cloud http://www.activestate.com/blog/2011/05/stackato-platform-python-and-perl-c… Simply install Stackato, deploy, and run your new or existing apps in the cloud. Plus with Stackato you'll get: Easy deployment of existing apps to the cloud with little re-engineering Versatility—simple deployment from desktop to cloud via our award winning Komodo IDE or from the command line Portability between a virtual machine, a private cloud like VMware's vSphere, or a public IaaS provider Secure multi-tenancy and configuration of auto-scaling Automatic provisioning of application environment with languages and frameworks (such as Django, Pyramid, Mojolicious, or Catalyst) Automatic provisioning of module/package dependencies Choice of database engine (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis) Much more... All while relying on your choice of our ActivePython and ActivePerl distributions. Interested in giving it a try? Sign up for the Stackato Developer Preview, and provide us with feature requests and early feedback. Your opinions and comments are important to us! We look forward to hearing from you, and hope that you're as excited as we are to enter the cloud realm. -- Sridhar Ratnakumar Software Developer ActiveState

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