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PyCon DE 2012 - Today, June 15, is Deadline for Proposals
by Mike Müller 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Dear Pythonistas, Only a few hours left. The deadline to submit a talk or tutorial proposal for PyCon DE 2012 is June 15, 2012, 23:59 (CEST). 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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[ANNOUNCE] pypiserver 0.6.0 - minimal private pypi server
by Ralf Schmitt 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Hi, I've just uploaded pypiserver 0.6.0 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 0.6.0 ------------------------- - make pypiserver work with pip on windows - add support for password protected uploads - make pypiserver work with non-root paths - make pypiserver 'paste compatible' - allow to serve multiple package directories using paste -- Cheers, Ralf

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[ANN] Bento 0.1.0
by David Cournapeau 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

Hi, I am pleased to announce a new release of bento, a packaging solution for python which aims at reproducibility, extensibility and simplicity. The main features of this 0.1.0 release are: - new commands register_pypi and upload_pypi to register a package to pypi and upload tarballs to it. - add sphinx command to build a package documentation if it uses sphinx. - add tweak_library/tweak_extension functions to build contexts to simplify simple builder customization (e.g. include_dirs, defines, etc...) - waf backend: cython tool automatically loaded if cython files are detected in sources - UseBackends feature: allows to declare which build backend to use when building C extensions in the bento.info file directly - add --use-distutils-flags configure option to force using flags from distutils (disabled by default). - add --disable-autoconfigure build option to bypass configure for fast partial rebuilds. This is not reliable depending on how the environment is changed, so one should only use this during development. - add register_metadata API to register new metadata to be filled in MetaTemplateFile Bento source code can be found on github: https://github.com/cournape/Bento Bento documentation is there as well: https://cournape.github.com/Bento regards, David

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Sala 1.3 released
by Petri Lehtinen 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

Sala 1.3 has been released. New features: * Support for hooks, with a post-set hook initially supported. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen. * Bash completion script for tab-completion in $SALADIR. Other changes: * Move the repository state to the .sala subdirectory. .salakey becomes .sala/key and sala.conf becomes .sala/config. These files are moved when sala 1.3 is run the first time on an old repository. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen. * Respect SALADIR when creating subdirectories with set. The new version is available on PyPI and via pip and easy_install: $ pip install -U sala Announcement: http://www.digip.org/blog/2012/06/sala-1.3-released.html Homepage: http://www.digip.org/sala/ GitHub: https://github.com/akheron/sala PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sala What is sala? ============= Sala is a command-line program that lets you store passwords and other bits of sensitive plain-text information to encrypted files on a directory hierarchy. The information is protected by GnuPG's symmetrical encryption. Sala is licensed under the MIT license. Dependencies: * Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, or newer * GnuPG Suggested packages: * pwgen: With the default configuration, used to suggest good passwords to the user (if installed). Petri Lehtinen

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detox-0.9: speeding up tox/test runs with NUM(CORES)
by holger krekel 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

Morning all, be the goats with you. I've finally released detox-0.9 to PYPI which brings parallelizing tox/test runs to your console, driving the test runner of your choice. detox has the same options and invocation as the good old one-step-after-the-other tox, the virtualenv-based generic test runner (see http://tox.testrun.org). install detox (and get tox installed for free!) with: pip install detox and run it on a project which already has a tox.ini with some environments: detox -e py26,py27,pypy to have all happen in parallel (packaging, virtualenv-creation, installation of deps, running of tests). Be the first to report issues to: http://bitbucket.org/hpk42/detox/issues best, holger P.S.: due to the recent refactoring of tox and due to the superiority of greenlet-based programming models, detox is only 175 lines of somewhat easy to read code :)

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tox-1.4: reference cross-section values, fixes, leaner reporting
by holger krekel 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

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 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

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 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

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 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

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 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

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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