Python-announce-list September 2011

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PyCon Finland 2011: two weeks left to register & updates

by Petri Lehtinen

There's only two weeks left to register to PyCon Finland 2011! Register now at http://fi.pycon.org/ ! Here are some updates: Dinner ====== Due to the generosity of our great sponsors, we'll be able to stand a dinner on Monday evening for everyone with a corporate and normal ticket! If you have already registered as a student and are willing to upgrade your ticket, please contact hallitus(a)python.fi or me directly. If you have a normal ticket but are not going to attend the dinner, also please tell us so that we will know the number of participants. Information for Guests ====================== We whipped up a new venue, travel and accommodation guide. It is available at http://piratepad.net/n9hlXdwY2P, and it contains lots of good information for those who haven't visited Finland or Turku before. There's also a guest list available at http://piratepad.net/MdRfSPDfIl, to make it easier to organize traveling together, etc. Feel free to add your contact information there! Pre-conference activities ========================= We'll organize a pre-conference meetup at restaurant Koulu, Eerikinkatu 18, Turku, on Sunday October 16th at 19:00. If you're coming to Turku already on Sunday, we hope to see you there! Spread the word! ================ There's only two weeks left to register to PyCon Finland. Spread the word, write to your blogs, tell your friends and co-workers. Let's make it this year's best conference in Finland! Mikko Ohtamaa, one of the organizers, wrote a great blog post: 3 reasons why you should send your corporate representative to PyCon (Finland) http://opensourcehacker.com/2011/09/15/3-reasons-why-you-should-send-your-c… A must-read for every employer! Petri Lehtinen Organizer, PyCon Finland 2011 http://fi.pycon.org/

9 years, 5 months

[ANN} OpenOpt, FuncDesigner, DerApproximator, SpaceFuncs release 0.36 Options

by dmitrey

Hi all, new release of our free scientific soft (OpenOpt, FuncDesigner, DerApproximator, SpaceFuncs) v. 0.36 is out: OpenOpt: Now solver interalg can handle all types of constraints and integration problems Some minor improvements and code cleanup FuncDesigner: Interval analysis now can involve min, max and 1-d monotone splines R -> R of 1st and 3rd order Some bugfixes and improvements SpaceFuncs: Some minor changes DerApproximator: Some improvements for obtaining derivatives in points from R^n where left or right derivative for a variable is absent, especially for stencil > 1 See http://openopt.org for more details. Regards, D.

9 years, 5 months

A documents editor in Firefox with Python Sphinx tool

by 文山杜

Baow is a tool that makes it easy to organize your internet resources and create intelligent and beautiful web pages within Firefox web browser. Highlights : * Tree based outline, help you organize internet resources and documents. * Save or bookmark web images, files or pages. * Multi level project management. * Full text search. * Generate web pages by Python Sphinx tools, http://sphinx.pocoo.org . Lots of quick menus help you write and preview Python Sphinx and reStructuredText markup documents. * Multi platform support, Windows, Linux, Mac, etc. Home page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/baow/ Help: http://www.baow.com/help/

9 years, 5 months

Problem with Dos command by python script

by Jonatas Emidio

Here i come!! I have the following problem... I need run by python script a string with some "DOS commands - Windows prompt"!! For exemple: print 'cd temp' print 'mkdir temp_app' How can i run this string in the python, but as a DOS interpreter?

9 years, 5 months

New project | quicli: write command line interfaces quickly

by Kyle Alan Hale

Quicli is a wrapper around Python's built in argparse module. While argparse focuses on a comprehensive set of features, quicli emphasizes a simple, easy-to-use interface, driven by function metadata and decorators, with integrated data validation. This isn't meant to replace argparse (it depends on it, actually) but to enhance it. Where argparse is strong, quicli reinforces. Where argparse is bulky, quicli is svelte. What quicli lacks, it still allows argparse to provide. For usage and installation instructions, visit <http:// dev.kylealanhale.com/wiki/projects/quicli> Features: * Major argparse features are implemented and accessible via function decorators * Introspects default values for argument names and types, as well as program name, description, and help message * Simple validation of user input * An extended FileType object * The ability to restart a program on error (optionally with different input values than were initially provided) for seamless error recovery * Progress context managers (visual feedback helpers, including a text- based progress bar) * Unit tests for all of the above * Extensive documentation This is my first public python project, so I'm eager for feedback from the community.

9 years, 5 months

[ANN] bzr 2.4.1 released

by Vincent Ladeuil

Hi all, Here comes our new stable release: 2.4.1 Bazaar <http://bazaar.canonical.com/> is part of the GNU project <http://gnu.org/> to produce a free operating system. After the slight delay for the 2.4.0 release, we're back on our regular release schedule. This is a bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for all users on earlier 2.4 releases. 2.4.1 contains all known bug fixes for all stable releases (including the ones we made for the previous stable series). Thanks to all participants, whether you sent merge proposals, comments, suggestions and feedback, we very much appreciate all of them. Bazaar is now available for download from https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.4/2.4b4/ as a source tarball. Installers are available for windows from the url above, OSX ones are on their way. 2.4.1 has also been uploaded to debian and ubuntu. The detailed changelog is available below, Vincent Bug Fixes ********* * ``config.LocationMatcher`` properly excludes unrelated sections. (Vincent Ladeuil, #829237) * ``dirstate.fdatasync`` and ``repository.fdatasync`` can now properly be disabled. (Vincent Ladeuil, #824513) * Disable ``os.fsync`` and ``os.fdatasync`` by default when running ``bzr selftest``. You can use ``--sync`` to re-enable them. (John Arbash Meinel, #837293) * Fix i18n use when no environment variables are set. (Jelmer Vernooij, #810701) * Avoid UnicodeDecode error when reporting EINVAL from transports. (IWATA Hidetaka, #829237) Documentation ************* * Corrected documentation for BZR_PROGRESS_BAR. (Dennis Benzinger, #735417) Testing ******* * The test suite should now be able to run under weird environments where ``/etc/passwd`` doesn't contain the ``uid`` for the user running selftest or where ``fakeroot`` is used but ``/root`` is inacessible. (Vincent Ladeuil, #825027)

9 years, 5 months

pyCologne Python User Group Cologne - Meeting, September 14, 6.30pm

by Andi Albrecht

We will meet Wednesday, September, 14th starting about 6.30 pm - 6.45 pm at Room 0.14, Benutzerrechenzentrum (RRZK-B) University of Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 Köln, Germany We want to discover BigBlueButton (http://bigbluebutton.org/), an Open Source Web Conferencing system, and django-bigbluebutton. 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

9 years, 5 months

[ANN] Shed Skin 0.9

by Mark Dufour

Hi all, I have just released version 0.9 of Shed Skin, a (restricted-)Python to C++ compiler. Please see my blog for the full announcement: http://shed-skin.blogspot.com The Shed Skin homepage is located here: http://shedskin.googlecode.com Thanks! Mark Dufour. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6LsfnBmdnk

9 years, 5 months

Pre-PyCon Ireland meetup @ Against the Grain - Wed, 14th Sept, 7pm

by Vicky Twomey-Lee

Hi All, Since PyCon Ireland is around the corner, so we decided to kick off a pre-conf party at Against the Grain. We have a room booked upstairs and there will be FREE FOOD (*sorry for shouting). So come along and join us, it's free and open for all. More details: http://www.python.ie/meetup/2011/pre-pycon-ireland-pub-meetup/ *Quick plug... By the way, if you haven't registered for PyCon Ireland, you can still do so at: https://secure.python.ie/pycon-ireland-2011/ Cheers, /// Vicky ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

9 years, 5 months

ANNOUNCE: wxPython 2.9.2.2

by Robin Dunn

Announcing ---------- wxPython 2.9.2.2 has been released and is available for download at http://wxpython.org/download.php. This build adds some fixes for some bugs, and also a couple nice new features. The Cairo version of the wx.GraphicsContext back-end can now be used on Windows, and there is a new module in the library that helps wx applications to update themselves when new versions of the software are released. Various binaries are available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and also for OSX using the Carbon and Cocoa APIs, for Python 2.6 and 2.7, and source code is also available at http://wxpython.org/download.php of course for building your own. What is wxPython? ----------------- wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is implemented as a set of Python extension modules that wrap the GUI components of the popular wxWidgets cross platform library, which is written in C++. wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program will usually run on multiple platforms without modifications. Currently supported platforms are 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows, most Linux or other Unix-like systems using GTK2, and Mac OS X 10.4+. In most cases the native widgets are used on each platform to provide a 100% native look and feel for the application. Changes in 2.9.2.2 ------------------ Fixed a problem with wx.ListCtrl.InsertStringItem when an imageIndex was not passed. Change the listctrl to not always assume that there is an image. Several fixes for the wx.lib.agw modules. Fixed a problem in wxGrid on OSX-cocoa where it would close the cell editor immediately because of extra kill focus events. Added an OSX implementation for the wxRegion constructor taking a sequence of points. Added the ability to use the Cairo backend for wx.GraphicsContext on Windows. The Cairo libraries are loaded dynamically on-demand, so there is not a runtime dependency on Cairo for applications that do not use it. The Cairo DLL and its dependencies are bundled with the wxPython installers. We expect to be able to also add dynamic loading of Cairo for OSX soon, (but if anybody would like to volunteer that would be nice too.) To create a Cairo graphics context you first have to get the Cairo GraphicsRenderer and then use it to create the context, like this:: cr = wx.GraphicsRenderer.GetCairoRenderer() ctx = cr.CreateContext(dc) If either GetCairoRenderer or CreateContext fails (either it's not supported or the Cairo shared libraries can not be found) then None will be returned, so be sure to check the return values. Using Cairo on Windows is usually faster and seems to be of better quality than using the GDI+ backend. The wx.GCDC class can now be constructed with an already exisiting wx.GraphicsContext. The wx.lib.softwareupdate module has been added. It implements a class designed to be mixed with wx.App in a derived class and provides code for enabling your applications to update themselves when new releases are made available (very similar to how most applications on the Mac will prompt you to allow it to self-update.) This is based on the Esky library available from the Python package index at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/esky. To enable your application to be self-updatable it must be packaged as an Esky bundle, which is a .zip file with a certain structure and meta-data, which means that you will have to modify your setup.py files to enable this. There is an example showing how to do this in the samples/doodle folder of the wxPython source tarball or the docs and demos package. Added a MultiMessageDialog class to wx.lib.dialogs that is similar to the stock wx.MessageDialog, but is additionally able to have a scrollable message area, custom icons, and customized button labels, (although they will still use the stock IDs). There is also a MultiMessageBox Function that is like the wx.MessageBox function. -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org

9 years, 5 months

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Python-announce-list September 2011