Mailman 3 July 2012 - Python-announce-list

ANN: unicode 0.9.6
by garabik-news-2005-05＠kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

unicode is a simple python command line utility that displays properties for a given unicode character, or searches unicode database for a given name. It was written with Linux in mind, but should work almost everywhere (including MS Windows and MacOSX), UTF-8 console is recommended. ˙pɹɐpuɐʇs əpoɔı̣uՈ əɥʇ ɟo əsn pəɔuɐʌpɐ puɐ səldı̣ɔuı̣ɹd əɥʇ ɓuı̣ʇɐɹʇsuoɯəp looʇ ɔı̣ʇɔɐpı̣p ʇuəlləɔxə uɐ sı̣ ʇI ˙sʇuı̣odəpoɔ ʇuəɹəɟɟı̣p ʎləʇəldɯoɔ ɓuı̣sn əlı̣ɥʍ 'sɥdʎlɓ ɟo ɯɐəɹʇs ɹɐlı̣ɯı̣s ʎllɐnsı̣ʌ oʇuı̣ ʇxəʇ əɥʇ ʇɹəʌuoɔ oʇ pɹɐpuɐʇs əpoɔı̣uՈ əɥʇ ɟo ɹəʍod llnɟ əɥʇ sʇı̣oldxə ʇɐɥʇ 'ʎʇı̣lı̣ʇn ,əpoɔɐɹɐd, oslɐ suı̣ɐʇuoɔ əɓɐʞɔɐd əɥ⊥ Changes since previous versions: * added option to recognise octal input numerical codes * added option to convert input numerical codes from an arbitrary charset * better error messages if the codepoint exceeds sys.maxunicode URL: http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/unicode/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!

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ANN: GraphTerm - A Graphical Terminal Interface
by Ramalingam Saravanan 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

GraphTerm is a browser-based graphical terminal interface, that aims to seamlessly blend the command line and graphical user interfaces. The goal is to be fully backwards compatible with xterm, with additional graphical features being accessed only as needed. (GraphTerm builds upon two earlier browser-based terminal projects, XMLTerm and AjaxTerm.) In addition to the command line, GraphTerm implements file "finder" or "explorer" features, and the detached terminal features of GNU Screen. The interface is designed to be touch-friendly, relying upon command re-use to minimize keyboard use. It preserves history for commands entered by typing, clicking, or tapping, and is themable using CSS. GraphTerm acts as a terminal exchange server, allowing multiple users to connect to multiple computers simultaneously and share terminal sessions for collaboration. This is the first public release of GraphTerm. It can be installed from: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/graphterm - Project Page: http://info.mindmeldr.com/code/graphterm - Source: http://github.com/mitotic/graphterm - License: BSD - Version: 0.30 - Screenshots: http://info.mindmeldr.com/code/graphterm/graphterm-screenshots Enjoy, R. Saravanan

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Call for Papers: PyHPC 2012
by Andreas.Schreiber＠dlr.de 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

=============== Call for Papers =============== Workshop Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing (PyHPC 2012) November 16, 2012, Salt Lake City, USA in conjunction with the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC12) http://bit.ly/PyHPC2012 Introduction ------------ Python is a high-level programming language with a growing community in academia and industry. It is a general-purpose language adopted by many scientific applications such as computational fluid dynamics, bio molecular simulation, artificial intelligence, statistics and data analysis, scientific visualization etc. More and more industrial domains are turning towards it as well, such as robotics, semiconductor manufacturing, automotive solutions, telecommunication, computer graphics, and games. In all fields, the use of Python for scientific, high performance parallel, and distributed computing, as well as general scripted automation is increasing. Moreover, Python is well-suited for education in scientific computing. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia using Python for all aspects of high performance and scientific computing. The goal is to present Python applications from mathematics, science, and engineering, to discuss general topics regarding the use of Python (such as language design and performance issues), and to share experience using Python in scientific computing education. Topics ------ * High performance computing with Python * Performance analysis, profiling, and debugging of Python code * System administration using Python * Integration with other programming languages * Python applications in mathematics, science, and engineering * Scientific visualization * Problem solving environments * Education in scientific computing Papers/Submission ----------------- We invite you to submit a paper of up to 10 pages via the submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pyhpc2012). All papers will be published published as a part of the SC 2012 digital proceedings. These are IEEE digital library proceedings that will be available online. The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. The formatting instructions are available here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Important Dates --------------- Full paper submission: September 14, 2012 Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2012 Camera-ready papers: October 29, 2012 Program Committee ----------------- * Achim Basermann, German Aerospace Center, Germany * David Beazley, Dabeaz, LLC, USA * William E. Hart, Sandia National Laboratories, USA * Konrad Hinsen, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS Orléans, France * Guy K. Kloss, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand * Maurice Ling, The University of Melbourne, Australia * Stuart Mitchell, The University of Auckland, New Zealand * Mike Müller, Python Academy, Germany * Travis Oliphant, Continuum Analytics, Inc., USA * Fernando Pérez, University of California, Berkeley, USA * Massimo Di Pierro, DePaul University, USA * Marc Poinot, ONERA, France * Andy R. Terrel, Enthought, Inc., USA * Gaël Varoquaux, INRIA, France Workshop Organizers ------------------- * Chairs: Andreas Schreiber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany William Scullin, Argonne National Laboratory, USA E-Mail: pyhpc2012(a)dlr.de -------------------------- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) German Aerospace Center Simulation and Software Technology | Linder Hoehe | 51147 Cologne | Germany Andreas Schreiber | Head of Department Telephone 02203-601-2485 | Mobile 0173-5231013 | Telefax 02203-601-3070 | Andreas.Schreiber(a)dlr.de<mailto:Andreas.Schreiber@dlr.de> www.DLR.de<http://www.dlr.de/> | software.DLR.de<http://software.dlr.de/>

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ANN: Spyder v2.1.11
by Pierre Raybaut 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

Hi all, On the behalf of Spyder's development team (http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/people/list), I'm pleased to announce that Spyder v2.1.11 has been released and is available for Windows XP/Vista/7, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/ This is a pure maintenance release -- a lot of bugs were fixed since v2.1.10: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/ChangeLog Spyder is a free, open-source (MIT license) interactive development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging and introspection features. Originally designed to provide MATLAB-like features (integrated help, interactive console, variable explorer with GUI-based editors for dictionaries, NumPy arrays, ...), it is strongly oriented towards scientific computing and software development. Thanks to the `spyderlib` library, Spyder also provides powerful ready-to-use widgets: embedded Python console (example: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/sift3.png), NumPy array editor (example: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/sift2.png), dictionary editor, source code editor, etc. Description of key features with tasty screenshots can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/Features On Windows platforms, Spyder is also available as a stand-alone executable (don't forget to disable UAC on Vista/7). This all-in-one portable version is still experimental (for example, it does not embed sphinx -- meaning no rich text mode for the object inspector) but it should provide a working version of Spyder for Windows platforms without having to install anything else (except Python 2.x itself, of course). Don't forget to follow Spyder updates/news: * on the project website: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/ * and on our official blog: http://spyder-ide.blogspot.com/ Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making Spyder an efficient scientific development/computing environment. Join us to help creating your favourite environment! (http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/NoteForContributors) Enjoy! -Pierre

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PyCon UK Call for Papers
by Michael Foord 28 Jul '12

28 Jul '12

PyCon UK 2012, the UK's official Python conference, returns from the 28th September to 1st October, Coventry UK. http://www.pyconuk.org/ This volunteer run and organised conference includes sprints, training, open space and social events. For more information please see our site at pyconuk.org and our wiki at pyconuk.net If you would like to share your expertise, tell us your horror stories or pimp your project, please consider giving a talk at PyConUK. Your talk should reflect at least one of our four themes ( http://pyconuk.net/Themes ). When planning your talk, it should be no more than 40 minutes. Please email us the following: Your name A contact number A one paragraph biography The title of your talk A short one paragraph abstract Which theme (or themes) your talk can be categorised under. If we accept your talk, we would also require a longer abstract in order to create a wiki page. To submit a talk, please email submit(a)pyconuk.net before Tuesday 14th August 2012. If you have already given us your talks, and had confirmation from John or Zeth, then ignore this message, but we still need the data in the wiki if it is not already there. Best Wishes, PyCon UK Team

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New Cygwin Package: python-3.2.3-1
by Jason Tishler 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

New News: === ==== I have released Cygwin Python 3.2.3-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. This is the first, official Python 3 release in the Cygwin standard distribution and consists of the following packages: o idle3-3.2.3-1 o python3-3.2.3-1 o python3-debuginfo-3.2.3-1 o python3-doc-3.2.3-1 o python3-test-3.2.3-1 o python3-tkinter-3.2.3-1 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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ANN: wxPython 2.9.4.1 patch
by Robin Dunn 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

A build problem was discovered in 2.9.4.0 where a required wxWidgets header file was not being installed, causing build errors in wxPython when doing non in-place builds. This only affects builds using the wxGTK port of wxWidgets. To correct this problem a small patch file has been made available. It adds the installation of the missing header file, removes the use of another missing header which is no longer required, and updates the version number. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxpython/files/wxPython/2.9.4.0/wxPython-sr… -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org

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DjangoCon US 2012
by Steve Holden 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Pythonistas: We are happy to remind all Django users that DjangoCon US is in DC this year, from September 3-8 (main conference September 4-6). Early bird pricing is available until August 3, and the schedule will be published shortly after this announcement is made. http://djangocon.us/ Since this is DjangoCon's first ever visit to the East coast we are hoping for good attendance from up and down the East coast, but some delegates will come from as far away as Australia, so Americans have no excuse! regards Steve -- The Open Bastion is the Holden Web http://TheOpenBastion.com/ subsidiary responsible for http://holdenweb.com/ technical events such as DjangoCon http://djangocon.us/

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ANN: wxPython 2.9.4.0 (classic)
by Robin Dunn 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Announcing ---------- wxPython 2.9.4.0 (classic) has been released and is now available for download at http://wxpython.org/download.php. There have been a few enhancements and additions, and lots of bugs fixed. More details are below. Various binaries are available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and also for OSX using the Carbon and Cocoa APIs, for Python 2.6 and 2.7. Source code is also available at http://wxpython.org/download.php of course, for building your own. What is wxPython? ----------------- wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is implemented as a set of Python extension modules that wrap the GUI components of the popular wxWidgets cross platform library, which is written in C++. wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program will usually run on multiple platforms without modifications. Currently supported platforms are 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows, most Linux or other Unix-like systems using GTK2, and Mac OS X 10.4+. In most cases the native widgets are used on each platform to provide a 100% native look and feel for the application. Changes in 2.9.4.0 ------------------- wx.lib.pubsub: Pusub now defaults to the new "kwarg" version of the API. In order to continue using the original "arg1" API you will need to import wx.lib.pubsub.setuparg1 before importing any other pubsub modules. The wx.RA_USE_CHECKBOX and wx.RB_USE_CHECKBOX constants were removed. They were only used by the incomplete PalmOS port which has been removed from the wxWidgets source tree. wx.Font: There is now GetStrikethrough and SetStrikethrough methods. wx.StaticBox: Fixed the client origin and client size on MSW so children of the static box should not overlap the box's label or border lines. Added wx.HTMLDataObject Applied a patch from Sam Partington that fixes some threading issues in the wrapper code and other cool stuff. Added the missing wx/lib/agw/data dir to the installers. Add wx.EnhMetaFile and wx.EnhMetaFileDC for MSW. This DC type is what is used by the print framework in the print preview window, so it needed to be wrapped so self.GetDC() would work properly. -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org

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ANN: PyTables 2.4.0 released
by Antonio Valentino 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

========================== Announcing PyTables 2.4.0 ========================== We are happy to announce PyTables 2.4.0. This is an incremental release which includes many changes to prepare for future Python 3 support. What's new ========== This release includes support for the float16 data type and read-only support for variable length string attributes. The handling of HDF5 errors has been improved. The user will no longer see HDF5 error stacks dumped to the console. All HDF5 error messages are trapped and attached to a proper Python exception. Now PyTables only supports HDF5 v1.8.4+. All the code has been updated to the new HDF5 API. Supporting only HDF5 1.8 series is beneficial for future development. Documentation has been improved. As always, a large amount of bugs have been addressed and squashed as well. In case you want to know more in detail what has changed in this version, please refer to: http://pytables.github.com/release_notes.html You can download a source package with generated PDF and HTML docs, as well as binaries for Windows, from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytables/files/pytables/2.4.0 For an online version of the manual, visit: http://pytables.github.com/usersguide/index.html What it is? =========== PyTables is a library for managing hierarchical datasets and designed to efficiently cope with extremely large amounts of data with support for full 64-bit file addressing. PyTables runs on top of the HDF5 library and NumPy package for achieving maximum throughput and convenient use. PyTables includes OPSI, a new indexing technology, allowing to perform data lookups in tables exceeding 10 gigarows (10**10 rows) in less than a tenth of a second. Resources ========= About PyTables: http://www.pytables.org About the HDF5 library: http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ About NumPy: http://numpy.scipy.org/ Acknowledgments =============== Thanks to many users who provided feature improvements, patches, bug reports, support and suggestions. See the ``THANKS`` file in the distribution package for a (incomplete) list of contributors. Most specially, a lot of kudos go to the HDF5 and NumPy (and numarray!) makers. Without them, PyTables simply would not exist. Share your experience ===================== Let us know of any bugs, suggestions, gripes, kudos, etc. you may have. ---- **Enjoy data!** -- The PyTables Team

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