Mailman 3 June 2012 - Python-announce-list

TextTest 3.23: blackbox testing tool
by Geoff Bache 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

Dear all, There are many enhancements and bug fixes, notably - Tests run in parallel if run locally on a multicore machine - Improved handling of knownbugs - New possibility to split up long result files with many different changes present. Regards, Geoff Bache .... TextTest is a tool for automatic text-based functional testing. This means running a batch-mode executable in lots of different ways from the command line, and using the text output produced as a means of controlling the behavior of that application. As well as being usable "standalone", it is an extendable framework for black-box testing written in Python. It's also useful as a test management tool wrapping some other test tool as a test runner. Homepage: http://www.texttest.org Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/texttest Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/texttest-users Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/texttest Source: https://code.launchpad.net/texttest

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new cache and pep8 pytest plugin releases
by holger krekel 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

i just released two new plugins: * pytest-cache-0.9 (initial) for easy caching of values across test runs and a new --lf option to rerun the failing tests of a previous run. Install, basic example and API (for use by other plugins) is here: http://packages.python.org/pytest-cache/readme.html * pytest-pep8-1.0 a flexible pep8 checker which allows to keep your project PEP8 compliant with your choice of ignore-options on a per-file basis. It avoids checking files that haven't changed. Examples and docs at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-pep8 have fun, holger

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execnet-1.1: cross-interpreter distributed execution library
by holger krekel 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

execnet-1.1 is a backward compatible beta release of the popular (>53000 pypi downloads of 1.0.9) cross-interpreter execution library. If you are in need of connecting Python2 and Python3 and/or want to throw PyPy in your deployment mix, then you might want to join Quora and many others and try out execnet. execnet provides a share-nothing model with channel-send/receive communication and distributed execution across many Python interpreters across version, platform and network barriers. See below for changes and see here for extensive documentation and tested examples: http://codespeak.net/execnet Particular thanks to Ronny Pfannschmidt for a lot of internal cleanups and to Alex Gaynor for providing feature patches. Have fun, holger 1.1 (compared to 1.0.9) -------------------------------- - introduce execnet.dumps/loads providing serialization between python interpreters, see http://codespeak.net/execnet/basics.html#dumps-loads - group.remote_exec now supports kwargs as well - support per channel string coercion configuration, helping with dealing with mixed Python2/Python3 environments. - Popen2IO.read now reads correct amounts of bytes from nonblocking fd's - added a ``dont_write_bytecode`` option to Popen gateways, this sets the ``sys.dont_write_bytecode`` flag on the spawned process, this only works on CPython 2.6 and higher. Thanks to Alex Gaynor. - added a pytest --broken-isp option to skip tests that assume DNS queries for unknown hosts actually are resolved as such (Thanks Alex Gaynor) - fix issue 1 - decouple string coercion of channels and gateway - fix issue #2 - properly reconfigure the channels string coercion for rsync, so it can send from python2 to python3 - refactor socketserver, so it can be directly remote_exec'd for starting a socket gateway on a remote

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ANN: Python Meeting Düsseldorf - 17.07.2012
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

[This announcement is in German since it targets a local user group meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany] ________________________________________________________________________ ANKÜNDIGUNG Python Meeting Düsseldorf http://pyddf.de/ Ein Treffen von Python Enthusiasten und Interessierten in ungezwungener Atmosphäre. Dienstag, 17.07.2012, 18:00 Uhr Clara Schumann Raum DJH Düsseldorf Diese Nachricht können Sie auch online lesen: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/Python-Meeting-Duesseldorf-2012-07-17 ________________________________________________________________________ EINLEITUNG Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf (http://pyddf.de/) ist eine neue lokale Veranstaltung in Düsseldorf, die sich an Python Begeisterte in der Region wendet. Wir starten bei den Treffen mit einer kurzen Einleitung und gehen dann zu einer Reihe Kurzvorträgen (Lightning Talks) über, bei denen die Anwesenden über neue Projekte, interessante Probleme und sonstige Aktivitäten rund um Python berichten können. Anschließend geht es in eine Gaststätte, um die Gespräche zu vertiefen. Einen guten Überblick über die Vorträge bietet unser YouTube-Kanal, auf dem wir die Vorträge nach den Meetings veröffentlichen: http://www.youtube.com/pyddf/ Veranstaltet wird das Meeting von der eGenix.com GmbH, Langenfeld, in Zusammenarbeit mit Clark Consulting & Research, Düsseldorf: * http://www.egenix.com/ * http://www.clark-consulting.eu/ ________________________________________________________________________ ORT Für das Python Meeting Düsseldorf haben wir den Clara Schumann Raum in der modernen Jugendherberge Düsseldorf angemietet: Jugendherberge Düsseldorf Düsseldorfer Str. 1 40545 Düsseldorf Telefon: +49 211 557310 http://www.duesseldorf.jugendherberge.de Die Jugendherberge verfügt über eine kostenpflichtige Tiefgarage (EUR 2,50 pro Stunde, maximal EUR 10,00). Es ist aber auch möglich per Bus und Bahn anzureisen. Der Raum befindet sich im 1.OG links. ________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAMM Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf nutzt eine Mischung aus Open Space und Lightning Talks: Die Treffen starten mit einer kurzen Einleitung. Danach geht es weiter mit einer Lightning Talk Session, in der die Anwesenden Kurzvorträge von fünf Minuten halten können. Hieraus ergeben sich dann meisten viele Ansatzpunkte für Diskussionen, die dann den Rest der verfügbaren Zeit in Anspruch nehmen können. Für 19:45 Uhr haben wir in einem nahegelegenen Restaurant Plätze reserviert, damit auch das leibliche Wohl nicht zu kurz kommt. Lightning Talks können vorher angemeldet werden, oder auch spontan während des Treffens eingebracht werden. Ein Beamer mit XGA Auflösung steht zur Verfügung. Folien bitte als PDF auf USB Stick mitbringen. Lightning Talk Anmeldung bitte formlos per EMail an info(a)pyddf.de ________________________________________________________________________ KOSTENBETEILIGUNG Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf wird von Python Nutzern für Python Nutzer veranstaltet. Da Tagungsraum, Beamer, Internet und Getränke Kosten produzieren, bitten wir die Teilnehmer um einen Beitrag in Höhe von EUR 10,00 inkl. 19% Mwst. Wir möchten alle Teilnehmer bitten, den Betrag in bar mitzubringen. ________________________________________________________________________ ANMELDUNG Da wir nur für ca. 20 Personen Sitzplätze haben, möchten wir bitten, sich per EMail anzumelden. Damit wird keine Verpflichtung eingegangen. Es erleichtert uns allerdings die Planung. Meeting Anmeldung bitte formlos per EMail an info(a)pyddf.de ________________________________________________________________________ WEITERE INFORMATIONEN Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Webseite des Meetings: http://pyddf.de/ Mit freundlichen Grüßen, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jun 20 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/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2012-07-17: Python Meeting Duesseldorf ... 27 days to go 2012-07-02: EuroPython 2012, Florence, Italy ... 12 days to go ::: 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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Closes this week: PyCon Australia 2012 and Google Australia announce gender diversity grants
by Chris Neugebauer 19 Jun '12

19 Jun '12

Hello there! Just a friendly reminder to all of you that applications for our Gender Diversity Grants close on Friday this week. Google Australia are funding several AU$500 grants for deserving women living outside of the Souther Tasmania Region to attend PyCon Australia 2012, which us happening in August in Hobart. Please pass this onto anyone you know who may be interested in applying for one of these grants. Further information can be found at http://2012.pycon-au.org/diversity_grants including the application form. Original message follows. --Chris *** PyCon Australia and Google Australia are pleased to announce that they're joining forces to offer gender diversity delegate grants to women who wish to attend PyCon Australia in 2012. These grants will cover up to $AUD500 of travel, accommodation and registration costs for women living outside of the Southern Tasmania region to attend this year's conference. These grants aim to reduce the financial barriers to attending PyCon Australia 2012, by subsidising the registration and travel costs of people from diverse groups, who contribute in important ways to the Python community. More information can be found at http://2012.pycon-au.org/diversity_grants ==== Eligibility ==== In order to be eligible for one of the grants, you must be: - A woman, aged 18 or older - A professional, enthusiast or student interested in, or currently working in Python-related fields or projects - Planning to attend both days of PyCon Australia 2012 - In order to be eligible for the travel and accommodation grant, you must additionally: live further than 150 km (by road) from the conference venue. (If you are unsure, please visit http://maps.google.com.au/maps/place?q=Wrest%20Point,%20Tasmania and use the "Get Directions" link in the upper left-hand corner to calculate the driving distance from your place of residence to the venue.) More information can be found at http://2012.pycon-au.org/diversity_grants ==== Award Amount ==== All selected grant recipients will be extended the Early Bird registration rates to PyCon Australia, provided registration is completed prior to 13 July. In addition, recipients of the travel and accommodation grant will be reimbursed up to $500 in travel and accommodation costs. More information can be found at http://2012.pycon-au.org/diversity_grants ==== Timeline ==== Applications for the gender diversity delegates grants are open now, and will close on Friday 22 June We will notify all successful recipients of their award by Friday 29 June so that you can have ample time to complete your travel plans. More information can be found at http://2012.pycon-au.org/diversity_grants === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. The third PyCon Australia will be held on August 18 and 19, 2012 in Hobart, Tasmania, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon Australia informs the country’s Python developers with presentations, tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2012, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org or e-mail us at contact(a)pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Gold sponsors: Google Australia (www.google.com.au), and the Australian Computer Society (Tasmanian Branch) (www.acs.org.au); our Event partners: Kogan, and Secret Lab; and our Silver sponsors: the Python Software Foundation, the Django Software Foundation, Anchor Systems, Red Hat, ekit, RimuHosting, 99designs and CSIRO. -- --Christopher Neugebauer Conference Coordinator and Sponsor Liaison PyCon Australia: Hobart 2012 -- http://2012.pycon-au.org -- @pyconau Conference registration and accommodation deals now available! See our website for details. Jabber: chrisjrn(a)gmail.com -- IRC: chrisjrn on irc.freenode.net -- WWW: http://chris.neugebauer.id.au -- Twitter/Identi.ca: @chrisjrn

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ordereddict 0.4.5 ( fast implementation of ordereddict and sorteddict in C)
by Anthon van der Neut 17 Jun '12

17 Jun '12

After a hiatus of several years, I am pleased to announce version 0.4.5 of the ordereddict module. This is primarily a bug fix release and will be the last one for ordereddict in this form. Changes: - fixed a bug in slicing SortedDicts found by Migel Anguel - fixed a bug reinserting last item again beyond last position found by Volkan Çetin - fixed a bug for repeated deletion and insertion in small ordereddict (found and fixed independently by Darren Dowker and Fabio Zadronzy. Darren's fix was more elegant (and included extra tests)). Future direction: - ordereddict will soon get a new home on the website of my company. The sources will then be cloneable and the package made avaialble via PyPi. - A compatability layer for the new collections.OrderedDict in the standard library that passes all the OrderedDict tests has already been implemented and will be included in that release. -------- From the blurb on ordereddict's home-page: This is an implementation of an ordered dictionary with Key Insertion Order (KIO: updates of values do not affect the position of the key), Key Value Insertion Order (KVIO, an existing key's position is removed and put at the back). Sorted dictionaries are also provided. Currently only with Key Sorted Order (KSO, no sorting function can be specified, but a transform function to be applied on the key before comparison can be supplied). It implementation is directly derived from dictobject.c and its speed is 5-10% slower than dict() and 5-9 times faster than Larosa/Foord excellent pure Python implemention. This module has been tested under: Ubuntu 12.04, gcc 4.6.3, Python 2.7.3 Ubuntu 8.04, gcc 4.2.4, Python 2.6.4 Ubuntu 8.04, gcc 4.2.4, Python 2.5.2 Windows XP, Visual C++ 2008 Express, Python 2.7.3 Windows XP, Visual C++ 2008 Express, Python 2.6.5 ordereddict's home on the web is at http://anthon.home.xs4all.nl/Python/ordereddict there you also find the links where the source can be downloaded. The .zip file there included a precompiled .pyd file for Windows (Python 2.7.3).

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IMDbPY 4.9
by Davide Alberani 16 Jun '12

16 Jun '12

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies. Version 4.9 can be downloaded from http://imdbpy.sf.net/ In this release: an urgent fix for the search queries, some new features like a "gender" field for persons in the database, improved performances restoring imdbIDs and many other fixes.

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tiffany 0.4 released
by Christian Tismer 16 Jun '12

16 Jun '12

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. Version 0.4 ----------- This is a compatibility update for Python 2.6. I hope to submit Python 3.2 compatibility with version 0.5. 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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OpenOpt Suite 0.39
by dmitrey 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Hi all, I'm glad to inform you about new OpenOpt release 0.39 (quarterly since 2007). OpenOpt is free, even for commercial purposes, cross-platform software for mahematical modeling and (mainstream) optimization. Our website have reached 259 visitors daily, that is same to tomopt.com and ~ 1/3 of gams.com (details). In the new release: interalg (medium-scaled solver with specifiable accuracy abs(f-f*) <= fTol): add categorical variables and general logical constraints, many other improvements Some improvements for automatic differentiation DerApproximator and some OpenOpt/FuncDesigner functionality now works with PyPy (Python with dinamic compilation, some problems are solved several times faster now) New solver lsmr for dense/sparse LLSP (linear least squares) Some bugfixes and some other changes In our website (http://openopt.org) you could vote for most required OpenOpt Suite development direction(s). Regards, D.

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PyCon Australia 2012 Conference Programme Revealed!
by Chris Neugebauer 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

(Hobart Tasmania, 15 June 2012) With both of our keynotes announced, PyCon Australia is very proud to be able to reveal the programme for the 2012 conference, to be held on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 August 2012 in Hobart, Tasmania. Following an impressive response to our Call for Proposals the conference will feature three full tracks of presentations and tutorials, across two days, covering all aspects of the Python ecosystem, presented by experts and core developers of key Python technology. Our keynote presenters, Mark Ramm, Engineering Manager on Juju at Canonical [1], and Kenneth Reitz, Python lead at Heroku [2] will be joined by a wide array of presenters covering a broad range of backgrounds, including industry, research, government and academia. As ever, PyCon Australia is a great place to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in Python web technology: From Heroku, Lincoln Stoll will be presenting on the 12 Factor Method for building software-as-a-service apps [3]. Other web related topics include deployment and testing techniques for Django applications and techniques for asynchronous web programming. There's also a wide range of talks for the rapidly growing community of developers using Python in science. Edward Schofield's survey of the latest developments in Python for Science and Engineering [4] will get you up to scratch on what tools and techniques are shaping the Python world for scientists. From there, case studies and introductory talks will delve into all aspects of Python in science: including techniques for handling large scientific data sets, natural language processing, and data visualisation -- attendees working with Python in all fields of science will gain something from PyCon Australia 2012. Finally, for newcomers to Python looking to quickly enhance their Python skillset, Graeme Cross' tutorials [5] in our Classroom stream will help you to rapidly enhance your knowledge of Python -- you can then attend our general stream talks to glean a snapshot of the state of the art in Python. PyCon Australia 2012 programme committee chair, Richard Jones, was impressed with the level of response to the Call for Proposals, which closed in early May: "We had an unprecedented response to our Call for Proposals this year, and this has helped us to put together one of the strongest programmes ever at PyCon Australia. There's something for every developer working with Python in this year's programme -- be they working in web technology, in research, or even if they're just a Python enthusiast who wants to learn more about their favourite language." The full schedule for PyCon Australia 2012 can be found at http://2012.pycon-au.org/programme/schedule Registrations for PyCon Australia 2012 are now open, with prices starting at AU$44 for students, and tickets for the general public starting at AU$198. All prices include GST, and more information can be found at http://2012.pycon-au.org/register/prices We're looking forward to seeing this excellent programme brought to life at PyCon Australia 2012, in Hobart, in August. [1] http://2012.pycon-au.org/media/news/24 [2] http://2012.pycon-au.org/media/news/18 [3] http://2012.pycon-au.org/schedule/59/view_talk?day=sunday [4] http://2012.pycon-au.org/schedule/67/view_talk?day=saturday [5] http://2012.pycon-au.org/schedule/56/view_talk?day=saturday === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. The third PyCon Australia will be held on August 18 and 19, 2012 in Hobart, Tasmania, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon Australia informs the country’s Python developers with presentations, tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2012, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org or e-mail us at contact(a)pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Gold sponsors: Google Australia ( www.google.com.au), and the Australian Computer Society (Tasmanian Branch) ( www.acs.org.au); our Event partners: Kogan, and Secret Lab; and our Silver sponsors: the Python Software Foundation, the Django Software Foundation, Anchor Systems, 99designs, Red Hat, ekit, RimuHosting, and CSIRO. -- --Christopher Neugebauer Conference Coordinator and Sponsor Liaison PyCon Australia: Hobart 2012 -- http://2012.pycon-au.org -- @pyconau Conference registration and accommodation deals now available! See our website for details. Jabber: chrisjrn(a)gmail.com -- IRC: chrisjrn on irc.freenode.net -- WWW: http://chris.neugebauer.id.au -- Twitter/Identi.ca: @chrisjrn

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