Python-announce-list October 2012

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pytest-2.3: improved fixtures/funcargs and unittest support
by holger krekel 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

pytest-2.3: improved fixtures / better unittest integration ============================================================================= pytest-2.3 comes with many major improvements for fixture/funcarg management and parametrized testing in Python. It is now easier, more efficient and more predicatable to re-run the same tests with different fixture instances. Also, you can directly declare the caching "scope" of fixtures so that dependent tests throughout your whole test suite can re-use database or other expensive fixture objects with ease. Lastly, it's possible for fixture functions (formerly known as funcarg factories) to use other fixtures, allowing for a completely modular and re-useable fixture design. For detailed info and tutorial-style examples, see: http://pytest.org/latest/fixture.html Moreover, there is now support for using pytest fixtures/funcargs with unittest-style suites, see here for examples: http://pytest.org/latest/unittest.html Besides, more unittest-test suites are now expected to "simply work" with pytest. All changes are backward compatible and you should be able to continue to run your test suites and 3rd party plugins that worked with pytest-2.2.4. If you are interested in the precise reasoning (including examples) of the pytest-2.3 fixture evolution, please consult http://pytest.org/latest/funcarg_compare.html For general info on installation and getting started: http://pytest.org/latest/getting-started.html Docs and PDF access as usual at: http://pytest.org and more details for those already in the knowing of pytest can be found in the CHANGELOG below. Particular thanks for this release go to Floris Bruynooghe, Alex Okrushko Carl Meyer, Ronny Pfannschmidt, Benjamin Peterson and Alex Gaynor for helping to get the new features right and well integrated. Ronny and Floris also helped to fix a number of bugs and yet more people helped by providing bug reports. have fun, holger krekel Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.3.0 ----------------------------------- - fix issue202 - better automatic names for parametrized test functions - fix issue139 - introduce @pytest.fixture which allows direct scoping and parametrization of funcarg factories. Introduce new @pytest.setup marker to allow the writing of setup functions which accept funcargs. - fix issue198 - conftest fixtures were not found on windows32 in some circumstances with nested directory structures due to path manipulation issues - fix issue193 skip test functions with were parametrized with empty parameter sets - fix python3.3 compat, mostly reporting bits that previously depended on dict ordering - introduce re-ordering of tests by resource and parametrization setup which takes precedence to the usual file-ordering - fix issue185 monkeypatching time.time does not cause pytest to fail - fix issue172 duplicate call of pytest.setup-decoratored setup_module functions - fix junitxml=path construction so that if tests change the current working directory and the path is a relative path it is constructed correctly from the original current working dir. - fix "python setup.py test" example to cause a proper "errno" return - fix issue165 - fix broken doc links and mention stackoverflow for FAQ - catch unicode-issues when writing failure representations to terminal to prevent the whole session from crashing - fix xfail/skip confusion: a skip-mark or an imperative pytest.skip will now take precedence before xfail-markers because we can't determine xfail/xpass status in case of a skip. see also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11105828/in-py-test-when-i-explicitly-sk… - always report installed 3rd party plugins in the header of a test run - fix issue160: a failing setup of an xfail-marked tests should be reported as xfail (not xpass) - fix issue128: show captured output when capsys/capfd are used - fix issue179: propperly show the dependency chain of factories - pluginmanager.register(...) now raises ValueError if the plugin has been already registered or the name is taken - fix issue159: improve http://pytest.org/latest/faq.html especially with respect to the "magic" history, also mention pytest-django, trial and unittest integration. - make request.keywords and node.keywords writable. All descendant collection nodes will see keyword values. Keywords are dictionaries containing markers and other info. - fix issue 178: xml binary escapes are now wrapped in py.xml.raw - fix issue 176: correctly catch the builtin AssertionError even when we replaced AssertionError with a subclass on the python level - factory discovery no longer fails with magic global callables that provide no sane __code__ object (mock.call for example) - fix issue 182: testdir.inprocess_run now considers passed plugins - fix issue 188: ensure sys.exc_info is clear on python2 before calling into a test - fix issue 191: add unittest TestCase runTest method support - fix issue 156: monkeypatch correctly handles class level descriptors - reporting refinements: - pytest_report_header now receives a "startdir" so that you can use startdir.bestrelpath(yourpath) to show nice relative path - allow plugins to implement both pytest_report_header and pytest_sessionstart (sessionstart is invoked first). - don't show deselected reason line if there is none - py.test -vv will show all of assert comparisations instead of truncating

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Wing IDE 4.1.9 released
by Wingware 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hi, Wingware has released version 4.1.9 of Wing IDE, our integrated development environment designed specifically for the Python programming language. Wing IDE provides a professional quality code editor with vi, emacs, and other key bindings, auto-completion, call tips, refactoring, context-aware auto-editing, a powerful graphical debugger, version control, unit testing, search, and many other features. For details see http://wingware.com/ This minor release includes: Preference to show property values in the debugger (off by default to avoid calling user code) Show inherited class attributes in Stack Data and Watch tools Several VI mode fixes Several Turbo auto-completer mode fixes Fix Pretty Print option in the Python Shell and Debug Probe Fix stepping over and out of Django templates Fix debugging files with non-ascii characters in their names under Python 3 Support for debugging 64bit NUKE/NUKEX on Windows and expanded NUKE How-To Improve switching documents with Ctrl-Tab Avoid clipboard confusion caused by some applications on Windows About 25 other bug fixes and minor improvements For a complete change log see http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/4.1.9/CHANGELOG.txt Free trial: http://wingware.com/wingide/trial Downloads: http://wingware.com/downloads Feature matrix: http://wingware.com/wingide/features More information: http://wingware.com/ Sales: http://wingware.com/store/purchase Upgrades: https://wingware.com/store/upgrade Questions? Don't hesitate to email us at sales(a)wingware.com. Thanks, -- Stephan Deibel Wingware | Python IDE Advancing Software Development www.wingware.com

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pyNVML - GPU Monitoring and Management
by Robert Alexander 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

I'm pleased to announce the release of pyNVML 3.304: Python Bindings for the NVIDIA Management Library. pyNVML provides programmatic access to static information and monitoring data for NVIDIA GPUs, as well as management capabilities. It exposes the functionality of the NVML library. See http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-management-library-nvml for more information about NVML. The pyNVML download package and its documentation can be found at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nvidia-ml-py/ http://packages.python.org/nvidia-ml-py/ pyNVML is currently used to report GPU information in Ganglia. Check it out at http://developer.nvidia.com/ganglia-monitoring-system Requires Python 2.5, or an earlier version with the ctypes module. Released under the BSD license. Download the latest supported driver at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-downloads Robert Alexander NVIDIA Tesla Software Engineer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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ANN: v0.3 of pipe_controller released; supports swapping pipe components at run time
by vasudevram 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

I've released v0.3 of pipe_controller (*), my experimental tool to simulate pipes in Python: https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/pipe_controller (*) I had earlier been calling it PipeController, but that is the name of the main class in the package. From now on I'm referring to it as pipe_controller (the Python module name). Changes in v0.3: - you can now swap components of a pipe_controller pipe at run time, and it can separately save the results of running the pipe, before and after a component swap, to separate output files; the test program test_pipe_controller_04.py in the download package shows how to do this. That is, you can do something like this (using UNIX syntax, though pipe_controller is in Python and works differently): foo | bar | baz # with output going to file 1 then swap the positions of foo and baz, then run the pipe again: baz | bar | foo # with output going to file 2 and so on - any number of times, all in the same program run. This feature lets you experiment with, and validate, your pipeline logic, to make sure that it does what you intended, e.g. you can check the output both before and after swapping components of the pipe, to decide which order you really need - or which order is optimal - see next paragraph. The feature can also be used to time the execution of two or more different versions of the pipeline (with vs. without swapping of components), to see which runs faster, for cases where changing the order of those components makes no difference to the output, e.g. if those two components are commutative, in the mathematical sense (like a + b = b + a). Blog post about swapping pipe components at run time with pipe_controller: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/10/swapping-pipe-components-at-runtime.html pipe_controller v0.3 can be downloaded here: https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/pipe_controller/downloads (Click on the "Branches" tab on that page) - Vasudev Ram www.dancingbison.com jugad2.blogspot.com twitter.com/vasudevram

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Columbus Python Workshop for women and their friends, Jan 18-19
by Catherine Devlin 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Announcing the first Columbus Python Workshop for women and their friends! Jan. 18-19, 2013 The Columbus Python Workshop for women and their friends is a free hands-on introduction to computer programming that's fun, accessible, and practical even to those who've never programmed at all before. We empower women of all ages and backgrounds to learn programming in a beginner-friendly environment. Thanks to Pillar Technologies for hosting the workshop in their brand-new office in Columbus' Short North! The workshop is the latest in a series based on the famous Boston Python Workshop; they've already introduced hundreds of beginners to programming in Boston, Indianapolis, Portland, Chicago, and Kansas City. Now it's Ohio's turn, so spread the word! Get more details and sign up now: https://openhatch.org/wiki/Columbus_Python_Workshop * Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Traditionally, Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated by highlighting the achievements of present and past women in programming. Today, instead, I'm saluting the contributors of the future! * -- - Catherine http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com

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WSME 0.4 released
by Christophe de Vienne 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

About WSME ---------- WSME (Web Service Made Easy) is a very easy way to implement webservices in your python web application (or standalone). Main Changes ------------ * Automatically converts unicode strings to/from ascii bytes. * Use d2to1 to simplify setup.py. * Implements the SPORE specification. * Fixed a few things in the documentation Documentation ------------- http://packages.python.org/WSME/ Download -------- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/WSME/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/WSME-Soap/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/WSME-ExtDirect/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/WSME-SQLAlchemy/ Cheers, Christophe de Vienne

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[ANN] CFP: SciPy India 2012 -- Dec 27-29 -- IIT Bombay
by Prabhu Ramachandran 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hello, The CFP and registration for SciPy India 2012 (http://scipy.in), to be held in IIT Bombay from December 27-29 is open. Please spread the word! Scipy In is a conference providing opportunities to spread the use of the Python programming language in the Scientific Computing community in India. One of the goals of the conference is to combine education, engineering, and science with computing through the medium of Python. This conference also aims to spread the use of Python for Scientific Computing in various fields and among different communities. Call for Papers ================ We look forward to your submissions on the use of Python for Scientific Computing and Education. This includes pedagogy, exploration, modeling and analysis from both applied and developmental perspectives. We welcome contributions from academia as well as industry. For details on the paper submission please see here: http://scipy.in/scipyin/2012/talks-cfp/ Important Dates ================ - Call for proposals end: 1st November 2012, Thursday - List of accepted proposals will be published: 19th November 2012. - Submission of first presentation: 10th December 2012. - Submission of final presentation: 20th December 2012. We look forward to seeing you at SciPy India. Regards, Prabhu Ramachandran and Jarrod Millman

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PyOpenGL 3.0.2 Released
by Mike C. Fletcher 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

PyOpenGL 3.0.2 (final, finally) has been released. The major changes since 3.0.1 (released in 2010!) are: * OpenGL core support up to 4.3 level [1] * OpenGL extension support from the current registry [1] * Some missing FreeGLUT extensions added * OpenGL.GL.framebufferobjects providing ARB/EXT alternates for framebuffer operations * Experimental OSMesa (Offscreen Mesa) context (use the environment variable PYOPENGL_PLATFORM=osmesa) Codebase changes: * Experimental Python 3.2 and PyPy support * Win64 Support (including OpenGL_accelerate) * Numarray (the ancient transitional module between Numeric and numpy) is no longer supported as an array type * More compact auto-generated wrappers * Large numbers of bug fixes Downloads are at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyOpenGL/3.0.2 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyOpenGL-accelerate/3.0.2 Future Compatibility Notes: * This will be the last release of PyOpenGL to support Python 2.5 (and it supports Python 2.5 in source-release only mode). o PyOpenGL will be moving to a "shared code" approach for Python 2/3 support, which makes supporting the older Python releases problematic * This will be the last release to support the use of bare numbers as number-array data-types o i.e. passing 1.00 to a function expecting an array/address of an float o Use Glfloat( 1.00 ) to pass in an array-compatible value o Passing in an int/long will generate a GLvoidp( I ) to allow for easy offset-address-style API usage * The ancient Numeric package (as distinct from Numpy) will be dropped as a supported array format o Numeric itself has long since been deprecated, use Numpy Enjoy all, Mike [1] Note: OpenGL extension and higher-level core feature support is auto-generated. As always, we are limited by the number of test programs that exercise more advanced features and the availability of hardware that can support the features on which to test -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com

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ConfigParser argparse integration module
by S Joshua Swamidass 13 Oct '12

13 Oct '12

Hello, It seemed like there were several requests to enable ini file parsing with argparse. I wrote module to do this. I'd be curious to know if this is useful and anyone has a better approach. See the code here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ConfArgParse Thanks! S Joshua Swamidass http://swami.wustl.edu/

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[ANN] Automated Testing on Mac (ATOMac) 1.0.0 released
by James Tatum 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

Hello, The ATOMac team is proud to announce a new release of ATOMac. About ATOMac: Short for Automated Testing on Mac, ATOMac is the first Python library to fully enable GUI testing of Macintosh applications via the Apple Accessibility API. Existing tools such as using appscript to send messages to accessibility objects are painful to write and slow to use. ATOMac has direct access to the API. It's fast and easy to use to write GUI tests. Changes in this release: * LDTP compatibility added. LDTP allows testers to write a single script that will automate test cases on Linux, Windows, and now Mac OS X. Information and documentation on LDTP can be found at the LDTP home page[0]. * Detailed documentation - Sphinx has been configured to generate documentation for ATOMac. When this documentation is uploaded, it will be linked from the home page[1]. * Various fixes to reading and writing certain accessibility attributes. * Sending function keys and newlines now works as intended. A detailed changelog is available[2]. Download source: https://github.com/pyatom/pyatom Documentation references: Sphinx documentation is being uploaded. In the meantime, please see the readme at the bottom of the github page listed above. Report bugs - https://github.com/pyatom/pyatom/issues To subscribe to ATOMac mailing lists, visit http://lists.pyatom.com/ IRC Channel - #atomac on irc.freenode.net [0] http://ldtp.freedesktop.org [1] http://pyatom.com/ [2] https://raw.github.com/pyatom/pyatom/master/CHANGELOG.txt

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Python-announce-list October 2012