Mailman 3 February 2012 - Python-announce-list

Python Concurrency, March 19-22, 2012, Chicago
by David Beazley Feb. 23, 2012

Feb. 23, 2012

Python Concurrency and Distributed Computing Workshop with David Beazley, author "Python Essential Reference" http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/index.html March 19-22, 2012 Chicago, Illinois Just a quick note to say that there are still a few slots available for my upcoming course on Python concurrency and distributed systems. This is a highly in-depth course that aims to get to the bottom of all major approaches to Python concurrency including threads, coroutines multiprocessing, event-driven I/O (async), message passing and more. The course is strictly limited to 6 people and is being held in Chicago's distinctive Andersonville neighborhood. Come to hack some Python code while enjoying the sights, sounds, and tastes of the city. Cheers, Dave

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[ANNOUNCE] pypiserver 0.5.1 - minimal pypi server
by Ralf Schmitt Feb. 23, 2012

Feb. 23, 2012

Hi, I've just uploaded pypiserver 0.5.1 to the python package index. pypiserver is a minimal PyPI compatible server. It can be used to serve a set of packages and eggs to easy_install or pip. pypiserver is easy to install (i.e. just easy_install pypiserver). It doesn't have any external dependencies. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypiserver/ should contain enough information to easily get you started running your own PyPI server in a few minutes. The code is available on github: https://github.com/schmir/pypiserver Changes in version 0.5.1 ------------------------- - make 'pypi-server -U' compatible with pip 1.1 -- Cheers, Ralf

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Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) #14 is coming! [corrected dates]
by Richard Jones Feb. 23, 2012

Feb. 23, 2012

Note: this email corrects the dates given in the previous announcement. The 14th Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) is coming. It'll run from the 6th to the 13th of May. Not April as previously announced. http://pyweek.org/14/ New user registration is NOT YET OPEN. It will open one month before the challenge starts. The PyWeek challenge: - Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team, - Is intended to be challenging and fun, - Will hopefully increase the public body of game tools, code and expertise, - Will let a lot of people actually finish a game, and - May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!) If you're in the US and can make it I'm co-presenting a 3 hour pygame tutorial at PyCon in March.

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ANN: moin-1.9.4 released
by Reimar Bauer Feb. 21, 2012

Feb. 21, 2012

This release ist mostly about security and bug fixes and a few minor changes (including Python 2.7 compatibility). For details see: http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/raw-file/1.9.4/docs/CHANGES See http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinDownload for the release archive. BTW, for future moin 1.9 releases, we still need many more people helping with maintaining and updating translations on http://master19.moinmo.in/ . So, especially if you speak some non-english language, you can help! See http://moinmo.in/MoinDev/Translation for details. These days we spent most of our time on developing moin2, see http://moinmo.in/MoinMoin2.0 for details. If you like to hack / test new stuff, have a look! Also feel invited to help with it, so it gets ready for production sooner. If you are interested in helping, feel free to contact us on IRCH chat, see: http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinChat

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What do you want me to discuss at PyCon's keynote?
by Guido van Rossum Feb. 21, 2012

Feb. 21, 2012

I'm starting to think about my annual PyCon keynote. I don't want it to be just a feel-good motivational speech (I'm no good at those), nor a dry "state of the Python union" talk (I'm bored with those), but I'd like to hear what Python users care about. I've created a Google+ post for feedback: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115212051037621986145/posts/P8XZ5Zxvpxk Post your questions as comments there, or vote on others' questions using your +1 button. If you don't have a G+ account, you can mail questions to guido(a)python.org-- I will then copy them here anonymously for voting, unless you ask me not to, or ask me to add your name. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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ANN: python-ldap 2.4.8
by Michael Ströder Feb. 21, 2012

Feb. 21, 2012

Find a new release of python-ldap: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-ldap/2.4.8 python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAPURLs and LDAPv3 schema). Project's web site: http://www.python-ldap.org/ Ciao, Michael. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Released 2.4.8 2012-02-21 Changes since 2.4.7: Lib/ * Fixed overzealous check for non-unique NAMEs in ldap.schema.subentry.SubSchema.__init__() * Fixed typos in control decoding method ldap.controls.simple.OctetStringInteger.decodeControlValue() * Added experimental support for draft-vchu-ldap-pwd-policy

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Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) #14 is coming!
by Richard Jones Feb. 21, 2012

Feb. 21, 2012

The 14th Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) is coming. It'll run from the 22nd to the 29th of April. http://pyweek.org/14/ New user registration is NOT YET OPEN. It will open one month before the challenge starts. The PyWeek challenge: - Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team, - Is intended to be challenging and fun, - Will hopefully increase the public body of game tools, code and expertise, - Will let a lot of people actually finish a game, and - May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!) If you're in the US and can make it I'm co-presenting a 3 hour pygame tutorial at PyCon in March.

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PyCon DE 2012 - October 29 - November 3, 2012 in Leipzig
by Mike Müller Feb. 17, 2012

Feb. 17, 2012

Hi everybody, The second PyCon DE [1] will be in Leipzig again. We will have six days packed with Python topics from October 29 through November 3, 2012. One tutorial day, three days with talks and two days with a barcamp and sprints will provide a variety of types to communicate about Python. There will be social events to give everybody ample opportunity to network with like-minded Pythonistas. PyCon DE 2011 [2] in Leipzig was a great success. Virtually everybody of the 200 participants was enthusiastic about the conference. We strive to keep up the good work and to improve on a few points we got in the feedback. Mark your calendars. More details will be available soon. The event is intended to bring the German speaking Python users together. However, talks in English can be submitted by people who's native language is not German. -- Mike Müller on behave of the PyCon DE organizing teams [1] http://2012.de.pycon.org/ [2] http://2011.de.pycon.org/

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ANN: mock 0.8 final released
by Fuzzyman Feb. 16, 2012

Feb. 16, 2012

After more than six months development work mock 0.8 has been released. 0.8 is a big release with many new features, general improvements and bugfixes. You can download mock 0.8.0 final from the PyPI page or install it with: pip install -U mock mock is a library for testing in Python. It allows you to replace parts of your system under test with mock objects. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/changelog.html#version-0-8-0 The only changes in mock 0.8.0 final since 0.8rc2 are: * Improved repr of `sentinel` objects * `ANY` can be used for comparisons against call objects * The return value of `MagicMock.__iter__` can be set to any iterable and isn't required to be an iterator A longer version of this announcement, including the full changelog since mock 0.7 and a couple of short examples of the most important changes, can be found on my blog: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2012_02_11.shtml#e1234 Michael Foord

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ANN: eGenix pyOpenSSL Distribution 0.13.0-1.0.0g
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg Feb. 13, 2012

Feb. 13, 2012

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING eGenix.com pyOpenSSL Distribution Version 0.13.0-1.0.0g An easy-to-install and easy-to-use distribution of the pyOpenSSL Python interface for OpenSSL - available for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix platforms This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-pyOpenSSL-Distribution-0.13.0-1.0… ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The eGenix.com pyOpenSSL Distribution includes everything you need to get started with SSL in Python. It comes with an easy-to-use installer that includes the most recent OpenSSL library versions in pre-compiled form, making your application independent of OS provided OpenSSL libraries: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/pyOpenSSL/ pyOpenSSL is an open-source Python add-on that allows writing SSL/TLS- aware network applications as well as certificate management tools: https://launchpad.net/pyopenssl/ OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of the SSL/TLS protocol: http://www.openssl.org/ ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS This new release of the eGenix.com pyOpenSSL Distribution updates the included pyOpenSSL version to 0.13.0 and the included OpenSSL version to 1.0.0g. Main new features in pyOpenSSL sine 0.10.0 ------------------------------------------ * pyOpenSSL 0.11 fixes a few bugs related to error processing; see https://launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+announcement/7128 * pyOpenSSL 0.12 fixes interaction with memoryviews, adds TLS callbacks and x509 extension introspection; see https://launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+announcement/8151 * pyOpenSSL 0.13 adds OpenSSL 1.0 support (which eGenix contributed) and a few new APIs; see https://lists.launchpad.net/pyopenssl-users/msg00008.html Please see Jean-Paul Calderone's above announcements for more details. New features in OpenSSL 1.0.0g since 1.0.0a ------------------------------------------- OpenSSL 1.0.0g fixes several vulnerabilities relative to 1.0.0a: http://openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html and includes a number of stability enhancements as well as extra protection against attacks: http://openssl.org/news/changelog.html New features in the eGenix pyOpenSSL Distribution ------------------------------------------------- * Updated the pyOpenSSL license information from LGPL to Apache License 2.0. * Added support for Python 2.7 on all platforms. * Added documentation for automatic download of egg distributions using compatible tools such as easy_install and zc.buildout. As always, we provide binaries that include both pyOpenSSL and the necessary OpenSSL libraries for all supported platforms: Windows x86 and x64, Linux x86 and x64, Mac OS X PPC, x86 and x64. We've also added egg-file distribution versions of our eGenix.com pyOpenSSL Distribution for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X to the available download options. These make setups using e.g. zc.buildout and other egg-file based installers a lot easier. ________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS The download archives and instructions for installing the package can be found at: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/pyOpenSSL/ ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING Before installing this version of pyOpenSSL, please make sure that you uninstall any previously installed pyOpenSSL version. Otherwise, you could end up not using the included OpenSSL libs. _______________________________________________________________________ SUPPORT Commercial support for these packages is available from eGenix.com. Please see http://www.egenix.com/services/support/ for details about our support offerings. ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information about the eGenix pyOpenSSL Distributon, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site or write to sales(a)egenix.com. Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 13 2012) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

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