Mailman 3 May 2012 - Python-announce-list

odt2sphinx 0.1.2 released
by Christophe de Vienne 22 May '12

22 May '12

Hello, odt2sphinx 0.1.2 is now available on pypi : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/odt2sphinx/. Odt2sphinx convert OpenDocument Text file(s) to one or several .rst files suitable for Sphinx. Changes ------- * Now handle external images (issue #1). * Handle note, tip and warning styles in lists items. This allow to use lists inside a note, a tip or a warning. * Add "Information" to the styles mapping. Regards Christophe de Vienne

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pyPEG 2 for Python 3.x
by Volker Birk 21 May '12

21 May '12

Python is a nice scripting language. It even gives you access to its own parser and compiler. It also gives you access to different other parsers for special purposes like XML and string templates. But sometimes you may want to have your own parser. This is what's pyPEG for. And pyPEG supports Unicode. pyPEG is a plain and simple intrinsic parser interpreter framework for Python version 3.x. It is based on Parsing Expression Grammar, PEG. An intrinsic parser parses directly out of and into the type and object system of the programming language, here Python 3.x. You can download pyPEG 2 via PyPI or following this link: <http://fdik.org/pyPEG2/pyPEG2.tar.gz> pyPEG's Documentation you can find here: <http://fdik.org/pyPEG> pyPEG has a Bitbucket repository at <https://bitbucket.org/fdik/pypeg/> pyPEG is under the GNU General Public Licence version 2. -- Volker Birk, author

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ANN: pyicl, a python interval container package based on boost.icl
by John Reid 21 May '12

21 May '12

pyicl is a python package that exposes the functionality of boost.icl to python using boost.python. Documentation: http://packages.python.org/PyICL/ PyPi page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyICL/ boost.icl is a general purpose interval container library written in C++. Its author, Joachim Faulhaber, describes it thus: "Intervals are almost ubiquitous in software development. Yet they are very easily coded into user defined classes by a pair of numbers so they are only implicitly used most of the time. The meaning of an interval is simple. They represent all the elements between their lower and upper bound and thus a set. But unlike sets, intervals usually can not be added to a single new interval. If you want to add intervals to a collection of intervals that does still represent a set, you arrive at the idea of interval_sets provided by this library. Interval containers of the ICL have been developed initially at Cortex Software GmbH to solve problems related to date and time interval computations in the context of a Hospital Information System. Time intervals with associated values like amount of invoice or set of therapies had to be manipulated in statistics, billing programs and therapy scheduling programs. So the ICL emerged out of those industrial use cases. It extracts generic code that helps to solve common problems from the date and time problem domain and can be beneficial in other fields as well. One of the most advantageous aspects of interval containers is their very compact representation of sets and maps. Working with sets and maps of elements can be very inefficient, if in a given problem domain, elements are typically occurring in contiguous chunks. Besides a compact representation of associative containers, that can reduce the cost of space and time drastically, the ICL comes with a universal mechanism of aggregation, that allows to combine associated values in meaningful ways when intervals overlap on insertion." Regards, John.

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ANN: NumPy 1.6.2 released
by Ralf Gommers 20 May '12

20 May '12

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the availability of NumPy 1.6.2. This is a maintenance release. Due to the delay of the NumPy 1.7.0, this release contains far more fixes than a regular NumPy bugfix release. It also includes a number of documentation and build improvements. Sources and binary installers can be found at <https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.6.2rc1/> http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.6.2/, release notes are copied below. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release. Enjoy, The NumPy developers ========================= NumPy 1.6.2 Release Notes ========================= This is a bugfix release in the 1.6.x series. Due to the delay of the NumPy 1.7.0 release, this release contains far more fixes than a regular NumPy bugfix release. It also includes a number of documentation and build improvements. ``numpy.core`` issues fixed --------------------------- #2063 make unique() return consistent index #1138 allow creating arrays from empty buffers or empty slices #1446 correct note about correspondence vstack and concatenate #1149 make argmin() work for datetime #1672 fix allclose() to work for scalar inf #1747 make np.median() work for 0-D arrays #1776 make complex division by zero to yield inf properly #1675 add scalar support for the format() function #1905 explicitly check for NaNs in allclose() #1952 allow floating ddof in std() and var() #1948 fix regression for indexing chararrays with empty list #2017 fix type hashing #2046 deleting array attributes causes segfault #2033 a**2.0 has incorrect type #2045 make attribute/iterator_element deletions not segfault #2021 fix segfault in searchsorted() #2073 fix float16 __array_interface__ bug ``numpy.lib`` issues fixed -------------------------- #2048 break reference cycle in NpzFile #1573 savetxt() now handles complex arrays #1387 allow bincount() to accept empty arrays #1899 fixed histogramdd() bug with empty inputs #1793 fix failing npyio test under py3k #1936 fix extra nesting for subarray dtypes #1848 make tril/triu return the same dtype as the original array #1918 use Py_TYPE to access ob_type, so it works also on Py3 ``numpy.f2py`` changes ---------------------- ENH: Introduce new options extra_f77_compiler_args and extra_f90_compiler_args BLD: Improve reporting of fcompiler value BUG: Fix f2py test_kind.py test ``numpy.poly`` changes ---------------------- ENH: Add some tests for polynomial printing ENH: Add companion matrix functions DOC: Rearrange the polynomial documents BUG: Fix up links to classes DOC: Add version added to some of the polynomial package modules DOC: Document xxxfit functions in the polynomial package modules BUG: The polynomial convenience classes let different types interact DOC: Document the use of the polynomial convenience classes DOC: Improve numpy reference documentation of polynomial classes ENH: Improve the computation of polynomials from roots STY: Code cleanup in polynomial [*]fromroots functions DOC: Remove references to cast and NA, which were added in 1.7 ``numpy.distutils`` issues fixed ------------------------------- #1261 change compile flag on AIX from -O5 to -O3 #1377 update HP compiler flags #1383 provide better support for C++ code on HPUX #1857 fix build for py3k + pip BLD: raise a clearer warning in case of building without cleaning up first BLD: follow build_ext coding convention in build_clib BLD: fix up detection of Intel CPU on OS X in system_info.py BLD: add support for the new X11 directory structure on Ubuntu & co. BLD: add ufsparse to the libraries search path. BLD: add 'pgfortran' as a valid compiler in the Portland Group BLD: update version match regexp for IBM AIX Fortran compilers. ``numpy.random`` issues fixed ----------------------------- BUG: Use npy_intp instead of long in mtrand

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Jython 2.7 alpha1 is out!
by fwierzbicki＠gmail.com 17 May '12

17 May '12

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that Jython 2.7 alpha1 is available for download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jython/files/jython-dev/2.7.0a1/jython_inst…. See the installation instructions here: http://wiki.python.org/jython/InstallationInstructions I'd like to thank Adconion Media Group for sponsoring my work on Jython 2.7. I'd also like to thank the many contributors to Jython. Jython 2.7 alpha1 implements much of the functionality introduced by CPython 2.6 and 2.7. There are still some missing features, in particular bytearray and the io system are currently incomplete. Please report any bugs here: http://bugs.jython.org/ Thanks! -Frank

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pyrepl 0.8.4 - multiline terminal editing and liberal licensed readline replacement
by Ronny Pfannschmidt 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hello, i'm pleased to announce the release of pyrepl 0.8.4 its available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyrepl/0.8.4 pyrepl is a Python library, inspired by readline, for building flexible command line interfaces, featuring: * sane multi-line editing * history, with incremental search * completion, including displaying of available options * a fairly large subset of the readline emacs-mode keybindings * a liberal, Python-style, license * a new python top-level * no global variables, so you can run two or more independent readers without having their histories interfering. * no hogging of control -- it should be easy to integrate pyrepl into YOUR application's event loop. * generally speaking, a much more interactive experience than readline (it's a bit like a cross between readline and emacs's mini-buffer) * unicode support (given terminal support) * a readline replacement which supports colors Summary of 0.8.4: + initial python3 support (expect some bugs) + support for more readline hooks + backport various fixes from pypy + gracefully break on sys.stdout.close() Summary of 0.8.3: + First release from new home on bitbucket. + Various fixes to pyrepl.readline. + Allow pyrepl to run if unicodedata is unimportable. Summary of 0.8.2: + This is the same version which is distributed with PyPy 1.4, which uses it as its default interactive interpreter: - have the possibility of having a "CPython-like" prompt, with ">>>" as PS1 and "..." as PS2 - add the pyrepl.readline module, which exposes a subset of CPython's readline implemented on top of pyrepl + Add support for colored completions: see e.g. fancycomplete: http://bitbucket.org/antocuni/fancycompleter

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geonamescache - Geonames data for continents, cities and US states available from PyPI
by Ramiro 16 May '12

16 May '12

geonamescache is a small Python library that provides functions to retrieve names and codes of continents, countries and US states as Python dictionaries. The included geonames data is obtained from http://www.geonames.org/. The module can be downloaded from PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/geonamescache The source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/yaph/geonamescache Happy geocoding! Ramiro

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IMAPClient 0.9
by Menno Smits 16 May '12

16 May '12

All, I'm pleased to announce version 0.9 of IMAPClient, the easy-to-use and Pythonic IMAP client library. Highlights for this release: * Support for Gmail's label API. Thanks to Brian Neal for the patches for this. * Significant cleanup and refactoring in preparation for Python 3 compatibility. * The "livetest" module can now be safely used against IMAP accounts with real data. Previously it could only be used with dummy accounts due to the destructive nature of the tests. Existing data is now left alone. * Fixed handling of IMAP servers that return all-digit folder name without quotes. Thanks to Rhett Garber for the bug report. * Much improved test coverage (again, in preparation for Python 3 support) * Fixed rename live test so that it uses folder namespaces * STATUS responses are now parsed more robustly - fixes folder_status() with MS Exchange. * Numerous livetest fixes to work around oddities with the MS Exchange IMAP implementation. Links: * Project: http://imapclient.freshfoo.com/ * PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/IMAPClient/0.9 * Manual: http://readthedocs.org/docs/imapclient/en/latest/index.html * NEWS: http://imapclient.freshfoo.com/browser/NEWS IMAPClient can be installed from PyPI (pip install imapclient) or downloaded from the IMAPClient site. The main focus of the next release (0.10) will be Python 3 support as this is easily the most requested feature. Watch this space for more news on this. Regards, Menno

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Wing IDE 4.1.6 released
by Wingware 16 May '12

16 May '12

Hi, Wingware has released version 4.1.6 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, context-aware auto-editing, a powerful graphical debugger, version control, unit testing, search, and many other features. **Changes** This release includes: * Support for Django 1.4 * Syntax highlighting Qt Style Sheet (.qss) files * Command to show selected file in OS-provided file manager * Per-project configuration of Debug Network Port for remote debugging * Several auto-editing fixes * Several turbo completion mode fixes * Replace All preserves fold state when possible * Git blame support * Fixed debugging QThreads in older PyQt versions * Shorter delay in restarting Python Shell or debug process * About 15 other bug fixes and minor improvements Complete change log: http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/4.1.6/CHANGELOG.txt **New Features in Version 4** Version 4 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 * Auto-Editing -- Reduce typing by auto-entering expected code * 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 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 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, context-aware auto-editing, 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/featuresfor a detailed listing of features by product level. System requirements are Windows 2000 or later, OS X 10.3.9or 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/4.1 Wing IDE Personal -- A simplified IDE: http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide-personal/4.1 Wing IDE 101 -- For teaching with Python: http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide-101/4.1 **Purchasing and Upgrading** Wing 4.x 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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ANN: eGenix pyOpenSSL Distribution 0.13.0-1.0.0j
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 16 May '12

16 May '12

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING eGenix.com pyOpenSSL Distribution Version 0.13.0-1.0.0j 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 included OpenSSL version to 1.0.0g. New features in OpenSSL 1.0.0j since 1.0.0g ------------------------------------------- OpenSSL 1.0.0j fixes several vulnerabilities relative to 1.0.0g: 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 ------------------------------------------------- * Fixed a compatibility problem with Python 2.7's distutils that was introduced in Python 2.7.3 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, May 16 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/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2012-07-02: EuroPython 2012, Florence, Italy 47 days to go 2012-04-26: Released mxODBC 3.1.2 http://egenix.com/go28 2012-04-25: Released eGenix mx Base 3.2.4 http://egenix.com/go27 ::: 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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