Mailman 3 June 2011 - Python-announce-list

pyNVML - GPU Monitoring and Management
by Robert Alexander June 16, 2011

June 16, 2011

I'm pleased to announce the release of pyNVML 2.0: Python Bindings for the NVIDIA Management Library pyNVML provides programmatic access to static information and monitoring data for NVIDIA GPUs, as well as limited management capabilities. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nvidia-ml-py/ http://packages.python.org/nvidia-ml-py/ Requires Python 2.5, or an earlier version with the ctypes module. Released under the BSD license. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Wing IDE 4.0.3 released
by Wingware June 14, 2011

June 14, 2011

Hi, Wingware has released version 4.0.3 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 4.0.3** This is a maintenance release with the following changes: * Added ability to save and load test results * Added ability to run unittest tests from the command line and save the results for loading into Wing * Allow access to the search engine and source analysis from the scripting API * Provide optional reminder when Support+Upgrades is expiring * Added copy-selection-or-line command * About 36 bug fixes for source analysis, refactoring, and other features 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/4.0.3/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 Optional Support+Upgrades subscriptions are available for expanded support coverage and free upgrades to new major releases: http://wingware.com/support/agreement Thanks! -- The Wingware Team Wingware | Python IDE Advancing Software Development www.wingware.com

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Leo 4.9 b4 released
by Edward K. Ream June 14, 2011

June 14, 2011

Leo 4.9 b4 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/ If you have trouble downloading, please do try an alternate mirror. Unless serious problems are reported, expect Leo 4.9 rc1 this Friday, June 17 and 4.9 final on Tuesday, June 21. Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html **The highlights of Leo 4.9:** - The Qt gui completely replaces the Tk gui--Qt gui now has all essential features of Tk, including plugins. - Completed Leo's autocompleter. - The rendering pane can now display movies, html, svg images, etc. - The scrolledmessage plugin can now use the rendering pane. - Nodes may contain multiple @language directives. - Leo highlights URL's everywhere. Ctrl-click URL's opens them in your web browser. - Leo uses an @file node's extension by default if there is no @language directive in effect. - Unified extract and import commands. - Leo can now colorize multiple @language directives in a single node. - Plain up/down arrow keys in headline-editing mode select a new node. - New commands to insert, delete, change or print uA's. - Added namespace directive to .leo files. - Fixed many bugs, some important, others merely annoying. Links: ------ Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Forum: http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/ Bzr: http://code.launchpad.net/leo-editor/ Quotes: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/testimonials.html Edward K. Ream June 14, 2011

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Python Bootcamp - Last week to Register (June 20-24, 2011)
by Chander Ganesan June 14, 2011

June 14, 2011

Just a reminder that there are only 3 weeks remaining to register for the Open Technology Group's Python Bootcamp, a 5 day hands-on, intensive, in-depth introduction to Python. This course is confirmed and guaranteed to run. Not up for summer travel? Attend the hands-on, instructor-led class virtually - at a significant cost savings! Worried about the costs of air and hotel to travel for training? Don't! Our All-Inclusive Packages provide round-trip airfare and single-occupancy hotel accommodations (in a nice hotel!) and are available for all students attending from the Continental US, parts of Canada, and parts of Europe! Best of all, these packages can be booked up to June 17, 2011! For complete course outline/syllabus, or to enroll, call us at 877-258-8987 or visit our web site at: http://www.otg-nc.com/python-bootcamp OTG's Python Bootcamp is a 5 day intensive course that teaches programmers how to design, develop, and debug applications using the Python programming language. Over a 5 day period through a set of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises, students will learn how to develop powerful applications using Python and integrate their new found Python skills in their day-to-day job activities. Students will also learn how to utilize Python's Database API to interface with relational databases. This Python course is available for on-site delivery world-wide (we bring the class to you) for a group as small as 3, for as little as $8,000 (including instructor travel & per-diem)! Our course is guaranteed to run, regardless of enrollment, and available in an "all inclusive" package that includes round-trip airfare, 5 nights of hotel accommodation, shuttle services (to/from the airport, to/from our facility, and to/from local eateries/shopping), and our training. All-inclusive packages are priced from $2,595 for the 5 day course (course only is $2,295) - or attend virtually for $1,995. For more information - or to schedule an on-site course, please contact us at 877-258-8987 . The Open Technology Group is the world leader in the development and delivery of training solutions focused around Open Source technologies. -- Chander Ganesan Open Technology Group, Inc. One Copley Parkway, Suite 210 Morrisville, NC 27560 919-463-0999/877-258-8987 http://www.otg-nc.com

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pygobject 2.28.6 released
by Nacho June 13, 2011

June 13, 2011

I am pleased to announce version 2.28.6 of the Python bindings for GObject. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.28/ What’s new since PyGObject 2.28.4? - closure: avoid double free crash (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) - [gi] backport of "GVariant has a GType" fe386a (John (J5) Palmieri) - [gi] fixes to backport commit 6b5a65 - in older glib GVariants are still structs (John (J5) Palmieri) - GVariantType is a boxed struct (Tomeu Vizoso) - Use _gi.Struct to wrap fundamentals (Tomeu Vizoso) - Added __eq__ method for Gdk.Color and Gdk.RGBA (Jason Siefken) - Remove useless import (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) - Revert "[gi] Removed hack to avoid using GLib.Variant.new_variant." (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) - closure: Check the out arg is not null. Fixes bug #651812 (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro) - Fix GC-related crash during PyGObject deallocation (Daniel Drake) - Fix symbol names to be locale independent (Martin Pitt) - Updated DOAP file (Sebastian Pölsterl) 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 2 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 3.0 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

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PyTexas 2011 Call for Proposals
by Brad Allen June 13, 2011

June 13, 2011

PyTexas 2011, the fourth annual Python programming conference for Texas and the surrounding region, will take place Saturday September 10 and Sunday September 11, 2011 at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Last year with 94 attendees, PyTexas 2010 reached critical mass to achieve an exciting event akin to a small taste of PyCon, and this year we're want to further boost participation and sponsor support. In order to succeed, we need you to step forward and commit to giving a presentation, a tutorial, or perhaps organize a panel discussion...go ahead and propose your idea, whether serious or silly, we want to consider it. We are also looking for proposals for keynote speakers, and are working toward obtaining sponsor pledges to bring in funding to pay travel expenses for speakers willing to travel. If you are outside the Texas area, and want to give a presentation, please contact me to discuss reimbursement options. PyTexas is especially interested in hosting a Beginner's Track for those new to Python. If your proposal would be suitable for inclusion in a Beginner's Track, please indicate so. Organizers will work with speakers and instructors in the Beginner's Track to help them coordinate their talks/tutorials into a coherent learning curve for new Python users. Please submit proposals by end of day (23:59 CST) July 16, 2011. Accepted speakers will be notified by August 1. For details on submitting a proposal see: http://pytexas.org/CallForProposals2011 If you are undecided about submitting a proposal, or have questions, please feel free to contact me.

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Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.1.4
by Benjamin Peterson June 12, 2011

June 12, 2011

2011/6/12 Paul Moore <p.f.moore(a)gmail.com>: > On 12 June 2011 18:58, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin(a)python.org> wrote: >> On behalf of the Python development team, I'm sanguine to announce a release >> candidate for the fourth bugfix release for the Python 3.1 series, Python 3.1.4. > > Is this actually a RC, or is that a typo? That is a typo. This is a final release! > Paul. > -- Regards, Benjamin

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[RELEASED] Python 3.1.4
by Benjamin Peterson June 12, 2011

June 12, 2011

On behalf of the Python development team, I'm sanguine to announce a release candidate for the fourth bugfix release for the Python 3.1 series, Python 3.1.4. Since the 3.1.4 release candidate 2 weeks ago, there have been three changes: 1. test_zipfile has been fixed on systems with an ASCII filesystem encoding. 2. pyexpat.__version__ has be changed to be the Python version. 3. A regression from 2.7.1 in the handling of comments in the netrc module has been resolved. (see issue #12009). 3.1.4 will the last bug fix release in the 3.1 series before 3.1. After 3.1.4, 3.1 will be in security-only fix mode. The Python 3.1 version series focuses on the stabilization and optimization of the features and changes that Python 3.0 introduced. For example, the new I/O system has been rewritten in C for speed. File system APIs that use unicode strings now handle paths with undecodable bytes in them. Other features include an ordered dictionary implementation, a condensed syntax for nested with statements, and support for ttk Tile in Tkinter. For a more extensive list of changes in 3.1, see http://doc.python.org/3.1/whatsnew/3.1.html or Misc/NEWS in the Python distribution. This is a production release. To download Python 3.1.4 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1.4/ A list of changes in 3.1.4 can be found here: http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/feae9f9e9f30/Misc/NEWS The 3.1 documentation can be found at: http://docs.python.org/3.1 Bugs can always be reported to: http://bugs.python.org Enjoy and be merry! -- Benjamin Peterson Release Manager benjamin at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.1.4's contributors)

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[RELEASE] Python 2.7.2
by Benjamin Peterson June 12, 2011

June 12, 2011

On behalf of the Python development team, I'm rosy to announce the immediate availability of Python 2.7.2. Since the release candidate 2 weeks ago, there have been 2 changes: 1. pyexpat.__version__ has be changed to be the Python version. 2. A regression from 3.1.3 in the handling of comments in the netrc module has been resolved. (see issue #12009). 2.7.2 is the second in bugfix release for the Python 2.7 series. 2.7 is the last major verison of the 2.x line and will be receiving only bug fixes while new feature development focuses on 3.x. The 2.7 series includes many features that were first released in Python 3.1. The faster io module, the new nested with statement syntax, improved float repr, set literals, dictionary views, and the memoryview object have been backported from 3.1. Other features include an ordered dictionary implementation, unittests improvements, a new sysconfig module, auto-numbering of fields in the str/unicode format method, and support for ttk Tile in Tkinter. For a more extensive list of changes in 2.7, see http://doc.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html or Misc/NEWS in the Python distribution. To download Python 2.7.2 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.1/ The 2.7.2 changelog is at: http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/eb3c9b74884c/Misc/NEWS 2.7 documentation can be found at: http://docs.python.org/2.7/ This is a production release, please report any bugs to http://bugs.python.org/ Enjoy and for those in the northern hemisphere, have a nice summer! -- Benjamin Peterson Release Manager benjamin at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 2.7.2's contributors)

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ANN: cssutils 0.9.8a2
by Christof June 11, 2011

June 11, 2011

what is it ---------- A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. (Not a renderer though!) about this release ------------------ 0.9.8a2 is a bugfix release. Compatibility to Python 3.x is currently in development. At the same time Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 compatibility will probably be lost... 0.9.8 will be the last version to support Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. main changes ------------ - BUGFIX: Fixed Issue #59 which showed a rather strange problem with longer space separated lists of font-family values being so slow to actually stop parsing. - BUGFIX/IMPROVEMENT: Fixed Issue #48. ``CSSParser.parseUrl()`` uses the defined fetcher of this parser *for the initial stylesheet* at url too and not just the imported sheets *from* this sheet. - BUGFIX: Fixed Issue #50 which prevented cssutils parsing the acid2.css file correctly. Problem were selectors starting directly with ``[class]`` (an attribute selector). + **API CHANGE (major)** (Known) named colors are parsed as ColorValue objects now. These are the 16 simple colors (black, white, etc) and `transparent` but not all Extended color keywords yet. Also changed ``ColorValue.type`` to ``Value.COLOR_VALUE``. ColorValue has additional properties ``red, green, blue, alpha`` and ``colorType`` which is one of IDENT, HASH or FUNCTION for now. + API CHANGE (minor) Removed already DEPRECATED ``cssutils.parse`` and ``CSSParser.parse``. Use the more specific functions/methods ``parseFile parseString parseUrl`` instead. Removed already DEPRECATED ``cssutils.log.setlog`` and ``.setloglevel``. Use ``.setLog`` and ``.setLevel`` instead. Removed already DEPRECATED ``cssutils.ser.keepUnkownAtRules`` (note the typo). Use ``.keepUnknownAtRules`` instead. - IMPROVEMENT: Added validation profiles for some properties from `CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/>`__, `CSS3 Basic User Interface Module <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/#resize>`__, `CSS Text Level 3 <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/>`__ mainly `cursor`, `outline`, `resize`, `box-shadow`, `text-shadow` license ------- cssutils is published under the LGPL version 3 or later, see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ If you have other licensing needs please let me know. download -------- For download options see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ cssutils needs Python 2.4 and higher or Jython 2.5 and higher (tested with Python 2.7.1(x64), 2.6.5(x64), 2.5.4(x32), 2.4.4(x32) and Jython 2.5.1 on Win7x64 only) Bug reports (via Google code), comments, etc are very much appreciated! Thanks. Christof

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