Mailman 3 June 2012 - Python-announce-list

tox-1.4: reference cross-section values, fixes, leaner reporting
by holger krekel June 13, 2012

June 13, 2012

tox 1.4: the virtualenv-based test run automatizer ============================================================================= I am happy to announce tox 1.4 which brings: - improvements with configuration file syntax, now allowing re-using selected settings across config file sections. see http://bit.ly/Ly3K4f - terminal reporting was simplified and streamlined. Now with verbosity==0 (the default), less information will be shown and you can use one or multiple "-v" options to increase verbosity. - internal re-organisation so that the separately released "detox" tool can reuse tox code to implement a fully distributed tox run. More documentation: http://tox.testrun.org/ Installation: pip install -U tox code hosting and issue tracking on bitbucket: http://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox What is tox? ---------------- tox standardizes and automates tedious test activities driven from a simple ``tox.ini`` file, including: * creation and management of different virtualenv environments with different Python interpreters * packaging and installing your package into each of them * running your test tool of choice, be it nose, py.test or unittest2 or other tools such as "sphinx" doc checks * testing dev packages against each other without needing to upload to PyPI best, Holger Krekel 1.4 ----------------- - fix issue26 - no warnings on absolute or relative specified paths for commands - fix issue33 - commentchars are ignored in key-value settings allowing for specifying commands like: python -c "import sys ; print sys" which would formerly raise irritating errors because the ";" was considered a comment - tweak and improve reporting - refactor reporting and virtualenv manipulation to be more accessible from 3rd party tools - support value substitution from other sections with the {[section]key} syntax - fix issue29 - correctly point to pytest explanation for importing modules fully qualified - fix issue32 - use --system-site-packages and don't pass --no-site-packages - add python3.3 to the default env list, so early adopters can test - drop python2.4 support (you can still have your tests run on python-2.4, just tox itself requires 2.5 or higher.

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pyPEG 2.5 released
by Volker Birk June 12, 2012

June 12, 2012

This release offers support for Python 2.7 and to 3.x. pyPEG is a plain and simple intrinsic parser interpreter framework for Python version 2.7 and 3.x. It is based on Parsing Expression Grammar, PEG. With pyPEG you can parse and compose many formal languages in a very easy way. pyPEG supports partial parsing and recomposing text. It is well suited to be used in a Wiki engine or development tool as well as for common parsing purposes. You can find pyPEG at http://fdik.org/pyPEG/ and in PyPI. The Mercurial repository is at https://bitbucket.org/fdik/pypeg/ There is support in #python.de on Freenode. Yours, VB. -- Marktkonforme Demokratie: der Steuerzahler bezahlt die Spielschulden.

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Sybase module 0.40 released
by Robert Boehne June 11, 2012

June 11, 2012

WHAT IS IT: The Sybase module provides a Python interface to the Sybase relational database system. It supports all of the Python Database API, version 2.0 with extensions. The module is available here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/python-sybase/python-sybase-0.40.tar.gz The module home page is here: http://python-sybase.sourceforge.net/ MAJOR CHANGES SINCE 0.39: Modify the DateTimeAsPython output conversion to return None when NULL is output support for Python without threads Ignore additional non-error codes from Sybase (1918 and 11932) Use outputmap in bulkcopy mode (thanks to patch by Cyrille Froehlich) Raise exception when opening a cursor on a closed connection Added unit tests Added new exception DeadLockError when Sybase is in a deadlock situation Add command properties CS_STICKY_BINDS and CS_HAVE_BINDS Added support for inputmap in bulkcopy reuse command and cursor when calling cursor.execute with same request Use ct_setparam to define ct_cursor parameters types instead of ct_param implicit conversion for CS_DATE_TYPE in CS_DATETIME_TYPE DataBuf Adding ct_cmd_props wrapper Increase DataBuf maxlength for params of a request when using CS_CHAR_TYPE params so that the buf can be reused BUGS CORRECTED SINCE 0.39: Corrected money type when using CS_MONEY4 (close bug 2615821) Corrected thread locking in ct_cmd_props (thanks to patch by Cyrille Froehlich) Corrected bug in type mapping in callproc (thanks to report by Skip Montanaro) Correct passing None in a DataBuf (thanks to patch by Bram Kuijvenhoven) The full ChangeLog is here: https://python-sybase.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/python-sybase/tags/r0_40/…

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Ann: New Stackless Website
by Christian Tismer June 11, 2012

June 11, 2012

I'm very happy to announce ================================== Stackless Python has a New Website ================================== Due to a great effort of the Nagare people: http://www.nagare.org/ and namely by the tremendous work of Alain Pourier, Stackless Python has now a new website! This is no longer Plone based, but a nicely configured Trac site. The switch to it has happened right now, the old website will be around for a few days under http://zope.stackless.com while the new site is accessible as http://www.stackless.com stackless.com now allows the source to be browsed (an hourly updated clone from hg.python.org) and includes a new issue tracker. Please let me know if you encounter any problems. cheers -- Chris -- Christian Tismer :^)<mailto:tismer@stackless.com> tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 121 : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14482 Potsdam : PGP key -> http://pgp.uni-mainz.de work +49 173 24 18 776 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 fax n.a. PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/

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ANN: Jug 0.9.1. Parallel Programming Framework
by Luis Pedro Coelho June 11, 2012

June 11, 2012

Hello List, This is to let you know of a new release of Jug. Jug allows you to write code that is broken up into tasks and run different tasks on different processors (even across a cluster). Jug is a pure Python implementation and should work on any platform. WHAT'S NEW Version 0.9.1 contains a few minor improvements and several bugfixes. In particular, Tasklet usage is a lot less buggy (previously, several uses would trigger idiotic bugs, now they work as they should). LINKS *Mailing List*: http://groups.google.com/group/jug-users *Documentation*: http://packages.python.org/Jug *Code*: http://github.com/luispedro/jug *Website*: http://luispedro.org/software/jug *Video*: http://vimeo.com/8972696 Bug reports, suggestions, &c are welcome. On the jug-users mailing list or by private email to me. -- Luis Pedro Coelho | Institute for Molecular Medicine | http://luispedro.org

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otrace - an object-oriented debugger for nonlinear tracing
by Ramalingam Saravanan June 10, 2012

June 10, 2012

otrace is an object-oriented debugger for nonlinear tracing of asynchronous or multithreaded interactive programs. It addresses some of the limitations of sequential debugging techniques which do not work well with server programs, where multiple requests are handled in parallel. For example, instrumenting web servers with print/logging statements can often result in voluminous log output with interleaved streams of messages. otrace takes a different approach to debugging that relies less on sequential operations. Its features including taking "snapshots" of variables for tracing, "tagging" objects for tracking across different method invocations, and modifying live code ("monkey patching") to insert print statements etc. otrace maps all the objects in the running program, as well as the "snapshot" objects, to a virtual filesystem mounted under "/osh". It provides a shell-like interface, oshell, with commands like "cd", "ls" etc. that can be used to browse classes, methods, and instance variables in the virtual filesystem. Tab completion and simple wildcarding are supported. This is the first public release of otrace. It can be installed from: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/otrace - Project page: http://info.mindmeldr.com/code/otrace - Source: http://github.com/mitotic/otrace - License: BSD - Version: 0.30 Enjoy, R. Saravanan ------------------ PS. Here is a brief excerpt of terminal output from a demo session, to provide a flavor of oshell command usage: # Initiate tracing of a method globals> cd Receive osh..Receive> pwd /osh/globals/Receive osh..Receive> ls -lf resp* respond = <unbound method Receive.respond> osh..Receive> trace respond Tracing Receive.respond

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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, June 12 2012, 08:00 p.m.
by Mike Müller June 10, 2012

June 10, 2012

=== Leipzig Python User Group === We will meet on Tuesday, June 12 at 8:00 p.m. at the training center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany ( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ). Everybody who uses Python, plans to do so or is interested in learning more about the language is encouraged to participate. While the meeting language will be mainly German, we will provide English translation if needed. Food and soft drinks are provided. Please send a short confirmation mail to info(a)python-academy.de, so we can prepare appropriately. Current information about the meetings are at http://www.python-academy.com/user-group . Mike == Leipzig Python User Group === Wir treffen uns am Dienstag, 12.06.2012 um 20:00 Uhr im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig ( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ). Willkommen ist jeder, der Interesse an Python hat, die Sprache bereits nutzt oder nutzen möchte. Für das leibliche Wohl wird gesorgt. Eine Anmeldung unter info(a)python-academy.de wäre nett, damit wir genug Essen besorgen können. Aktuelle Informationen zu den Treffen sind unter http://www.python-academy.de/User-Group zu finden. Viele Grüße Mike

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PyCon Finland 2012 - Call for Proposals
by Jyrki Pulliainen June 10, 2012

June 10, 2012

PyCon Finland 2012 Call For Proposals PyCon Finland will take place October 22-23 in Espoo. The first day will feature presentations and the second is reserved for sprints and hands-on. We are currently accepting proposals for both talks and sprints. If you would like to give a presentation, organize a sprint or see presentations on a particular topic, please see instructions at http://fi.pycon.org. The deadline for proposals is the first of August. The organizers will notify accepted presenters and sprint coordinators by the 14th of August.. The presentation slots will be 20/40 minutes + 10 minutes of discussion at the end. Shared sessions are also possible. The language for the presentations should be English to encourage international participation. We are also trying to find a keynote speaker. If you know a good speaker who might be persuaded to come please let us know. Pycon Finland is not possible without corporate sponsorship. If you are interested in sponsoring this year’s event, please contact Python Finland at hallitus(a)python.fi for details about sponsorship packages. -- Jyrki Pulliainen Chairman, Python Finland

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PyDoc - Python Documentation Plugin for Eclipse
by Alexey Gaidamaka June 10, 2012

June 10, 2012

Greets! Since i'm new to Python, i've decided to create a handy plugin for Elipse SDK which is my primary dev environment. Practically the plugin is a simple html archive from python documentation website running inside Eclipse so you can call it using Eclipse help system. As for now it is pretty large (~7 mb), but i'm planning to optimize it in near future. For more information, please visit: http://pydoc.tk/ or https://sourceforge.net/projects/pydoc/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Advices are appreciated! Contact e-mail: <br> <a href="ahaidamaka(a)gmail.com"> <ahaidamaka(a)gmail.com>ahaidamaka(a)gmail.com</a> <ahaidamaka(a)gmail.com>

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[ANN] tperimeter 1.113 Released And Available
by Tim Daneliuk June 9, 2012

June 9, 2012

'tperimeter' Version 1.113 is released and available at: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tperimeter/ The last public release was 1.112 What's New ---------- Changed the wrapper file rebuild logic to delete outstanding access requests independently of how often the script is run (either by cron, or manually). This means that the 'cron' frequency now determines the average waiting time before a user's request is fulfilled. The '${DURATION}' variable in 'rebuild-hosts.allow.sh' sets how long access will be permitted (The default value is 10 minutes). Minor documentation updates, typo fixes, and housekeeping. What Is 'tperimeter'? --------------------- Have you ever been away from the office and needed, say, ssh access to your system? Ooops - you can't do that because in your zealous pursuit of security, you set your TCP wrappers to prevent outside access to all but a select group of hosts. Worse still, everywhere you go, your local IP address changes so there is no practical way to open up the wrappers for this situation. 'tperimeter' is a dynamic TCP wrapper control system that gives you (limited) remote control of your TCP wrapper configuration. It does this via a web interface that you've (hopefully) secured with https/SSL. You just log in, specify your current IP address and one of the services you want to access. 'tperimeter' will then briefly open a hole in your wrappers long enough to let you in. It then automatically closes the hole again. Voila! Remote access to your system, wherever you are. You get much of the facility of a VPN or so-called "port knocking" without most of the aggravation. As a side benefit, 'tperimeter' will also simplify management of your standard /etc/hosts.allow TCP wrapper control file. 'tperimeter' is written in python, shell script, and html. It is very small and easy to maintain. It was developed and tested on FreeBSD 4.x/8.x, and apache 1.x/2.x, but should run with very minor (or no) modification on most Unix-like systems like Linux or Mac OS X hosts. It comes complete with documentation in html, pdf, dvi, and Postscript formats. There is no licensing fee for any use, personal, commercial, government, or institutional. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra(a)tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/

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Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.6.8-2
by Jason Tishler June 9, 2012

June 9, 2012

New News: === ==== I have updated the version of Python to 2.6.8-2. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following are the changes since the previous release: o build against expat 2.1.0 so pyexpat builds cleanly: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-06/msg00142.html Old News: === ==== Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. If interested, see the Python web site for more details: http://www.python.org/ Please read the README file: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/python.README since it covers requirements, installation, known issues, etc. Standard News: ======== ==== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. Jason

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Python Toolbox 0.1 released
by ram.rachum＠gmail.com June 8, 2012

June 8, 2012

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the first release of the Python Toolbox: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python_toolbox/ The Python Toolbox is a collection of Python tools for various tasks. It contains: - ``python_toolbox.caching``: Tools for caching functions, class instances and properties. - ``python_toolbox.cute_iter_tools``: Tools for manipulating iterables. Adds useful functions not found in Python's built-in ``itertools``. - ``python_toolbox.context_managers``: Pimping up your context managers. - `python_toolbox.emitters`: A publisher-subscriber framework that doesn't abuse strings. - And many, *many* more! The Python Toolbox contains **100+** useful little tools. Please keep in mind that Python Toolbox is still in alpha stage, and that backward compatibility would *not* be maintained in this phase. Documentation: http://python-toolbox.readthedocs.org Thanks, Ram.

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Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.6.8-1
by Jason Tishler June 8, 2012

June 8, 2012

New News: === ==== I have updated the version of Python to 2.6.8-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following are the changes since the previous release: o upgrade to Python 2.6.8 Old News: === ==== Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. If interested, see the Python web site for more details: http://www.python.org/ Please read the README file: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/python.README since it covers requirements, installation, known issues, etc. Standard News: ======== ==== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. Jason

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PyPy 1.9 - Yard Wolf
by Maciej Fijalkowski June 8, 2012

June 8, 2012

==================== PyPy 1.9 - Yard Wolf ==================== We're pleased to announce the 1.9 release of PyPy. This release brings mostly bugfixes, performance improvements, other small improvements and overall progress on the `numpypy`_ effort. It also brings an improved situation on Windows and OS X. You can download the PyPy 1.9 release here: http://pypy.org/download.html .. _`numpypy`: http://pypy.org/numpydonate.html What is PyPy? ============= PyPy is a very compliant Python interpreter, almost a drop-in replacement for CPython 2.7. It's fast (`pypy 1.9 and cpython 2.7.2`_ performance comparison) due to its integrated tracing JIT compiler. This release supports x86 machines running Linux 32/64, Mac OS X 64 or Windows 32. Windows 64 work is still stalling, we would welcome a volunteer to handle that. .. _`pypy 1.9 and cpython 2.7.2`: http://speed.pypy.org Thanks to our donors ==================== But first of all, we would like to say thank you to all people who donated some money to one of our four calls: * `NumPy in PyPy`_ (got so far $44502 out of $60000, 74%) * `Py3k (Python 3)`_ (got so far $43563 out of $105000, 41%) * `Software Transactional Memory`_ (got so far $21791 of $50400, 43%) * as well as our general PyPy pot. Thank you all for proving that it is indeed possible for a small team of programmers to get funded like that, at least for some time. We want to include this thank you in the present release announcement even though most of the work is not finished yet. More precisely, neither Py3k nor STM are ready to make it in an official release yet: people interested in them need to grab and (attempt to) translate PyPy from the corresponding branches (respectively ``py3k`` and ``stm-thread``). .. _`NumPy in PyPy`: http://pypy.org/numpydonate.html .. _`Py3k (Python 3)`: http://pypy.org/py3donate.html .. _`Software Transactional Memory`: http://pypy.org/tmdonate.html Highlights ========== * This release still implements Python 2.7.2. * Many bugs were corrected for Windows 32 bit. This includes new functionality to test the validity of file descriptors; and correct handling of the calling convensions for ctypes. (Still not much progress on Win64.) A lot of work on this has been done by Matti Picus and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc. * Improvements in ``cpyext``, our emulator for CPython C extension modules. For example PyOpenSSL should now work. We thank various people for help. * Sets now have strategies just like dictionaries. This means for example that a set containing only ints will be more compact (and faster). * A lot of progress on various aspects of ``numpypy``. See the `numpy-status`_ page for the automatic report. * It is now possible to create and manipulate C-like structures using the PyPy-only ``_ffi`` module. The advantage over using e.g. ``ctypes`` is that ``_ffi`` is very JIT-friendly, and getting/setting of fields is translated to few assembler instructions by the JIT. However, this is mostly intended as a low-level backend to be used by more user-friendly FFI packages, and the API might change in the future. Use it at your own risk. * The non-x86 backends for the JIT are progressing but are still not merged (ARMv7 and PPC64). * JIT hooks for inspecting the created assembler code have been improved. See `JIT hooks documentation`_ for details. * ``select.kqueue`` has been added (BSD). * Handling of keyword arguments has been drastically improved in the best-case scenario: proxy functions which simply forwards ``*args`` and ``**kwargs`` to another function now performs much better with the JIT. * List comprehension has been improved. .. _`numpy-status`: http://buildbot.pypy.org/numpy-status/latest.html .. _`JIT hooks documentation`: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/jit-hooks.html JitViewer ========= There will be a corresponding 1.9 release of JitViewer which is guaranteed to work with PyPy 1.9. See the `JitViewer docs`_ for details. .. _`JitViewer docs`: http://bitbucket.org/pypy/jitviewer Cheers, The PyPy Team

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Karlsruhe Python User Group, June 15th 2012, 7pm
by Jürgen A. Erhard June 7, 2012

June 7, 2012

The Karlsruhe Python User Group (KaPy) meets again. Friday, 2012-06-15 (June 15th) at 19:00 (7pm) in the rooms of Entropia eV (the local affiliate of the CCC). See http://entropia.de/wiki/Anfahrt on how to get there. For your calendars: meetings are held monthly, on the 3rd Friday. There's also a mailing list at https://lists.bl0rg.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kapy.

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tiffany 0.3 released
by Christian Tismer June 7, 2012

June 7, 2012

# coding=utf-8 Tiffany - Read/Write Multipage-Tiff with PIL without PIL ======================================================== Tiffany stands for any tiff. The tiny module solves a large set of problems, has no dependencies and just works wherever Python works. Tiffany was developed in the course of the *DiDoCa* project and will now appear on PyPi. Abstract ======== During the development of *DiDoCa* (Distributed Document Capture) we were confronted with the problem to read multipage Tiff scans. The GUI toolkit *PySide (Qt)* does support Tiff, but only shows the first page. We also had to support Fax compression (CCITT G3/G4), but *Qt* supports this. As a first approach we copied single pages out of multi-page tiff files using *tiffcp* or *tiffutil* (OS X) as a temp file for display. A sub-optimum solution, especially for data security reasons. The second approach replaced this by a tiny modification of the linkage of the tiff directories (IFD). This way, a tiff file could be patched in memory with the wanted page offset and then be shown without any files involved. Unfortunately also this solution was not satisfactory: - out tiff files have anomalies in their tiff tags like too many null-bytes and wrong tag order, - Qt's implementation of tiff is over-pedantic and ignores all tags after the smalles error. Being a good friend of *Fredrik Lundh* and his *PIL* since years, I tried to attach the problem using this. Sadly Fredrik hasn't worked much on this since 2006, and the situation is slightly messed up: *PIL* has a clean-up of tiff tags, but cannot cope with fax compression by default. There exists a patch since many years, but this complicates the build process and pulls with *libtiff* a lot of dependencies in. Furthermore, *PIL* is unable to write fax compressed files, but blows the data up to the full size, making this approach only a half solution as well. After a longer odyssey I saw then the light of a Tiffany lamp: I use only a hand-full of *PIL*s files, without any modification, pretend to unpack a tiff file, but actually cheating. Only the tiff tags are nicely processed and streamlined, but the compressed data is taken unmodified as-is. When writing a tiff page out, the existing data is just assembled in the correct order. For many projects like *didoca* that are processing tiff files without editing their contents, this is a complete solution of their tiff problem. The dependencies of the project stay minimal, there are no binaries required, and Tiffany is with less than 300 lines remarkably small. Because just 5 files from *PIL* are used and the _imaging module is not compiled at all, I'm talking about "PIL without PIL" ;-) Tiffany is a stand-alone module and has no interference with *PIL*. You can see this by looking at ``import_mapper.py``. This module modifies ``__import__`` so that the *PIL* modules appear as top-level internally, but become sub-modules of tiffany in ``sys.modules``. Please let me know if this stuff works for you, and send requests to <tismer(a)stackless.com> or use the links in the bitbucket website: https://bitbucket.org/didoca/tiffany cheers -- Chris -- Christian Tismer :^)<mailto:tismer@stackless.com> tismerysoft GmbH : Have a break! Take a ride on Python's Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 121 : *Starship* http://starship.python.net/ 14482 Potsdam : PGP key -> http://pgp.uni-mainz.de work +49 173 24 18 776 mobile +49 173 24 18 776 fax n.a. PGP 0x57F3BF04 9064 F4E1 D754 C2FF 1619 305B C09C 5A3B 57F3 BF04 whom do you want to sponsor today? http://www.stackless.com/

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Vulnerability in zdaemon 2.0.5 and earlier
by Jim Fulton June 7, 2012

June 7, 2012

zdaemon is a Unix (Unix, Linux, Mac OS X) Python program that wraps commands to make them behave as proper daemons. See http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zdaemon. zdaemon can be configured to start as root and then switch to a less privileged user. In version 2.0.5 and earlier, zdaemon didn't update supplementary groups. Processes started as root retain root's supplementary groups, likely providing more privileges than intended. This is fixed by zdaemon 2.0.6. It's recommended that people using zdaemon 2.0.5 and earlier upgrade to 2.0.6 at their earliest convenience. Jim -- Jim Fulton

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ANN: python-ldap 2.4.10
by Michael Ströder June 7, 2012

June 7, 2012

Find a new release of python-ldap: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-ldap/2.4.10 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, LDAP URLs and LDAPv3 schema). Project's web site: http://www.python-ldap.org/ Ciao, Michael. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Released 2.4.10 2012-06-07 Changes since 2.4.9: Lib/ * ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject.reconnect() now preserves order of options set with LDAPObject.set_option before. This is needed e.g. for setting connection-specific TLS options. Demo/ * Better version of Demo/pyasn1/syncrepl.py (thanks to Ben Cooksley) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Released 2.4.9 2012-03-14 Changes since 2.4.8: Lib/ * ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject.reconnect() now does kind of an internal locking to pause other threads while reconnecting is pending. * Changes to bind- and startTLS-related operation methods of class ReconnectLDAPObject for more robustness * New constant ldap.OPT_NAMES_DICT contains mapping from integer to variable name for all option-related constants.

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[ANN] Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.5 Beta
by Dino Viehland June 7, 2012

June 7, 2012

We're pleased to announce the release of Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.5 Beta [http://pytools.codeplex.com/releases/view/88766]. Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is an open-source plug-in for Visual Studio which supports programming with the Python language. PTVS supports a broad range of features including: * Supports CPython, IronPython, Jython and PyPy * Python editor with advanced member, signature intellisense and refactoring * Code navigation: "Find all refs", goto definition, and object browser * Local and remote debugging * Profiling with multiple views * Integrated Python interactive session window with inline matplotlib graphics * Support for HPC clusters and MPI, including debugging and Profiling * Interactive parallel computing via integrated IPython REPL (read-evaluate-print-loop) The primary new feature for this release is Django including Azure support! The http://www.djangoproject.com is a popular Python webframework/CMS which is used by many reputable companies and high-traffic websites. In this Beta release, the following are supported: * Create a New Project / Django Application * Add Django HTML Template * Intellisense for Django templates * Runtime debugging of Django templates * Use IIS with a pure-Python FastCGI interface * Support for deploying to Windows Azure when Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio is installed For more information on Python support for Windows Azure, please see http://www.windowsazure.com. This release also introduces Python client libraries for Windows Azure services available via PyPI that work across Windows, Linux and Mac OS operating systems. The 1.5 release also includes several new intellisense features including some contributed by the community. This includes completions after "def " based upon methods defined in base classes and completions for exception types after "raise" statements" (thanks Zooba!). There are also improvements to the import intellisense. Full list of issues addressed in 1.5 beta: 714 VS crashes when open project 713 Import Intellisense should work after typing "," 712 IronPython REPL runs in builtin and not main 704 pyopencl causes AttributeError when run under the debugger. 702 VS startup crash 699 Resolve import box doesn't show when I hover the mouse on functions. 676 exception when launching a python solution with vs2010 667 stop executing when error occurs 711 Send to REPL fails with "The Python REPL process has exited" 717 Error in Interactive window crashes VS We'd like to thank the following people who took the time to report the issues and feedback for this release: ajp, Anna0311, golubdr, hjyh, hyh, mahpour, tramsay, and zooba.

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PyCon DE 2012 - New Deadline for Proposals is June 15
by Mike Müller June 5, 2012

June 5, 2012

Dear Pythonistas, You haven't missed it yet. The new deadline to submit a talk or tutorial proposal for PyCon DE 2012 is June 15, 2012. Don't miss this chance to speak at the largest gathering of the German-speaking Python community. Talks and tutorials in English are welcome if you are not comfortable with German. Please spread the word and let other, interested people know about this deadline. Cheers, Mike PyCon DE 2012 - Call for Papers =============================== The second PyCon DE will be held October 29 - November 3, 2012 in Leipzig Germany. We ask you to submit your proposal for a talk [2]. Details of the call are below in German. The conference language will be German. However, talks in English by non-native German speakers will be accepted. PyCon DE 2012 - Aufruf zur Vorträgen ===================================== Ab sofort kann jeder, der sich für Python interessiert, einen Vortragsvorschlag für die PyCon DE 2012 einreichen [1]. Es gibt nur zwei Bedingungen: Das Thema sollte interessant sein, und es sollte etwas mit Python zu tun haben. Für die zweite Python-Konferenz sind wir an einer breiten Themenpalette interessiert, die das ganze Spektrum der Entwicklung, Nutzung und Wirkung von Python zeigt. Folgende Tracks sind geplant: Python als Programmiersprache ----------------------------- * Fortgeschrittene Programmierung, zum Beispiel Metaprogramming * CPython * Python-Kernentwicklung * Python-Implementierungen (PyPy, Jython, IronPython) * Python 3 * Zukünftige Entwicklungen Webanwendungen mit Python ------------------------- * Web-Frameworks für Python * Best Practises für die Python-Programmierung * Kombination von Python und JavaScript * Contentmanagement mit Python Anwendungsbereiche ------------------ * Wissenschaftliche Anwendungen mit Python * Python für Finanz-Anwendungen * Lehre mit Python / Python als erste Programmiersprache * Python im Unternehmensumfeld * Systemintegration mit Python * Grafische Nutzerschnittstellen (GUIs) * Datenbankanwendungen mit Python * Python für die Hardware-Steuerung Softwareentwicklung ------------------- * Testen von Python-Programmen * Agile Entwicklung mit Python * Algorithmen mit Python * Datenstrukturen mit Python * Design-Patterns mit Python * Parallele Programmierung mit Python * Einbetten von Python in andere Anwendungen Werkzeuge --------- * Packaging von Python-Bibliotheken * Deployment von Python-Anwendungen * IDEs für Python * Plattformen wie GAE, EC2 Python-Community ---------------- * Marketing für Python * Python, Open Source und Entwickler-Gemeinschaft Mehr ... -------- Ihr Themenbereich ist nicht aufgelistet, wäre aber aus Ihrer Sicht für die PyCon DE interessant? Kein Problem. Reichen Sie Ihren Vortragsvorschlag einfach ein. Auch wir können nicht alle Anwendungsbereiche von Python überschauen. Vortragstage sind der 30. und 31. Oktober sowie der 1. November 2012. Es gibt zwei Vortragsformate: Standard-Vortrag -- 20 Minuten Vortrag + 5 Minuten Diskussion Lang-Vortrag -- 45 Minuten Vortrag + 10 Minuten Diskussion Die Vortragszeit wird strikt eingehalten. Bitte testen Sie die Länge Ihres Vortrags. Lassen Sie gegebenenfalls ein paar Folien weg. Die Vortragssprache ist Deutsch. In begründeten Ausnahmefällen können Vorträge auch auf Englisch gehalten werden. Bitte fragen Sie uns dazu. Bitte reichen Sie Ihren Vortrag auf über die Konferenz-Website [2] ein bis zum 31.05.2012 ein. Wir entscheiden bis zum 30. Juni 2012 über die Annahme der Vorträge. [1] http://2012.de.pycon.org/news/2012/05/07/call-for-papers/ [2] http://2012.de.pycon.org/proposals/submit/talk/ PyCon DE 2012 - Call for Tutorials ================================== The second PyCon DE will be held October 29 - November 3, 2012 in Leipzig, Germany. We ask you to submit your proposal for a tutorial [1]. Details of the call are below in German. The conference language will be German. However, tutorials in English by non-native German speakers will be accepted. PyCon DE 2012 - Aufruf zu Tutorials =================================== Wir rufen alle erfahrenen Python-Nutzer auf, Bewerbungen für Tutorials für die PyCon DE 2012 einzureichen. Die Tutorials finden am 29. Oktober 2012 im Rahmen der PyCon DE (http://de.pycon.org) statt. Ein Tutorial soll drei Stunden dauern. Die Themen der Tutorials können Einführung in Python, fortgeschrittene Themen, Web-Frameworks oder andere große Python-Bibliotheken sowie typische Softwareentwicklungsarbeiten wie Testen oder Versionskontrolle mit Python sein. Bitte reichen Sie Ihren Vorschlag bis zum 31. Mai 2012 über Konferenz-Website [1] ein. Der Vorschlag muss Folgendes enthalten: * Titel * Kurzbeschreibung des Inhaltes * Zielgruppe (Anfänger, Fortgeschrittene, Experten) * stichpunktartige Gliederung des Tutorials mit Zeitangaben zu den einzelnen Punkten (die Summe muss 180 Minuten betragen) Jedes Tutorial umfasst zwei Blöcke mit je 90 Minuten mit einer halbstündigen Pause. Eine Person kann Vorschläge für zwei Tutorials machen. Wenn sich das Thema nicht sinnvoll in drei Stunden behandeln lässt, können auch zwei aufeinander aufbauende Tutorials vorgeschlagen werden. Vor jedem Tutorial müssen die Teilnehmer die Unterlagen als Datei oder ausgedruckt erhalten. Tutorial-Trainer erhalten freien Eintritt zur Konferenz. [1] http://2012.de.pycon.org/proposals/submit/tutorial/

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Twisted 12.1.0 released
by Thomas Hervé June 5, 2012

June 5, 2012

On behalf of Twisted Matrix Laboratories, I am pleased to announce the release of Twisted 12.1. 107 tickets are closed by this release, with the following highlights: * The revival of the kqueue reactor for BSD platforms. * epoll is now the default reactor under Linux after a fix to handle files on stdin/stdout. * New reactors supporting GTK3 and GObject-Introspection. * Several enhancements regarding file descriptors passing: systemd support for servers, ability to send and receive file descriptors for IReactorUNIX and an AMP argument using that feature. * Support for IPv6 literals in connectTCP. * Persistent connections support for the new HTTP client. This is the last Twisted release supporting Python 2.5. For more information, see the NEWS file here: http://twistedmatrix.com/Releases/Twisted/12.1/NEWS.txt Download it now from: http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/T/Twisted/Twisted-12.1.0.tar.bz2 or http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/T/Twisted/Twisted-12.1.0.win32-py2.5.msi or http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/T/Twisted/Twisted-12.1.0.win32-py2.6.msi or http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/T/Twisted/Twisted-12.1.0.win32-py2.7.msi Thanks to the supporters of Twisted via the Software Freedom Conservancy and to the many contributors for this release. -- Thomas

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[ANN]: 'mkproject', Rapid Project Templating Tool, Version 1.100 Released
by Tim Daneliuk June 1, 2012

June 1, 2012

'mkproject' Version 1.100 is now released and available for download at: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/mkproject This is the first public release. --------------------------------------------------------------------- What Is 'mkproject'? ------------------ 'mkproject' is a way to quickly produce the code and documentation skeletons for a new project and to put these under 'CVS' version control. It allows you to "brand" them with your own company and copyright information, as well specifying a standard license and pricing (if any). The package comes with example templates for 'perl', 'python', and 'shell scripts'. These contain some of the standard code you may want to use with every project. Also included is an example standard for writing documentation using the 'Restructured Text' markdown language. Documentation is automatically produced in a wide variety of formats including 'html', 'PostScript', 'pdf', 'man', and plain text. Finally, a 'makefile' is included to produce documentation and release packaging for your project. The package comes with a default 'Makefile' that is useful when creating a 'FreeBSD' port of your project. Because everything is template-driven, it is simple to customize the "standard" program and documentation templates to suit your needs. It is also quite straightforward to add support for additional languages. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Complete details of all fixes, changes, and new features can be found in the WHATSNEW.txt and documentation files included in the distribution.

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