Mailman 3 July 2012 - Python-announce-list

traad: client-server Python refactoring with rope
by Austin Bingham 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

I'm happy to announce the inaugural release of traad, a client-server (XMLRPC) system for using the rope Python refactoring library. The goal of traad is to make it easier to access rope functionality from clients where it's not easy to run Python. In its current state, traad is really only fit for interfacing emacs with rope, but other clients could easily be supported. traad consists of two main parts. First, there is the Python-based server which simply exposes the rope API via XMLRPC. A single traad server is analogous to a rope Project. Second, there are client interfaces for talking with the server. Currently, there is only an emacs lisp client. The traad project page is on github at: https://github.com/abingham/traad traad is under active development, and any feedback is very welcome. Enjoy! Austin Bingham

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Four weeks until PyCon Australia 2012: Have you registered yet?
by Chris Neugebauer 22 Jul '12

22 Jul '12

Things have been very busy here at PyCon Australia 2012 headquarters -- we've been busy putting the finishing touches on what we hope will be an amazing conference for Python programmers from around Australia and beyond. === T-shirt registration deadline: Tuesday 31 July. === Of course, a conference is nothing without people attending, and there's still plenty of opportunity to join in the fun. Registrations for the conference will remain open until the week of the conference, or until we sell out; but if you want one of our fantastic conference t-shirts, you'll need to have your registration finalised on Tuesday, 31 July. Prices for reigstrations start at $44 for students, and $198 for individuals. You can register at http://2012.pycon-au.org/register/prices === More Events! === For those of you attending the conference, you'll be pleased to know that we've confirmed a few more of our events for the conference. The annual PyLadies breakfast is happening on the Saturday, before conference festivities start, at Wrest Point's Pier One waterfront restaurant. This event is open to all female delegates to the conference, and is being sponsored by our good friends at Google Australia. We've also finalised details of our conference dinner -- we'll be sharing details of these with you next week, but needless to say, we're very excited about it, and can't wait to share this with you. === 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, BitBucket by Atlassian, ekit, Ionata Web Solutions, RimuHosting, and CSIRO. -- --Christopher Neugebauer Jabber: chrisjrn(a)gmail.com -- IRC: chrisjrn on irc.freenode.net -- AIM: chrisjrn157 -- MSN: chris(a)neugebauer.id.au -- WWW: http://chris.neugebauer.id.au -- Twitter/Identi.ca: @chrisjrn

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PyCon Argentina 2012 - Community Voting Process has begun & Registration is Open!
by Mariano Reingart 20 Jul '12

20 Jul '12

PyCon Argentina 2012 - Community Voting Process has begun & Registration is Open! =============================================================== We're glad to announce that Community Voting Process has started for PyCon Argentina 2012. You can select your preferences among more than 82 talks proposed and 11 tutorials/workshops. This year, we're opening the Scientific and Extreme tracks, with more than 12 proposals each! Please help us voting your prefered talks for the conference following the next link (registration required): http://ar.pycon.org/2012/activity/vote Admittance is free of charge (gratis), to register, please complete the following form: http://ar.pycon.org/2012/user/register PyCon Argentina 2012 Keynotes ----------------------------------------------- This year, the pre-confirmed keynote presenters are: * Massimo Di Pierro (US) - De Paul University: web2py / FermiQCD * Andrea Gavana (DK) - Maersk Oil: wx.lib.agw & 2D/3D visualization * Brett Cannon (CA) - Google: python core developer: importlib py3k pypy * Christophe Pettus (US) - PostgreSQL Experts: Django & ORMs * Thiago Avelino (BR) - Mochii: MongoDB - London * Craig Kerstiens (US) - Heroku: Tools, django, Postgres We also have talks submitted from speakers around the world (Chile, Peru, Brasil, Spain, US), with many attendees already registered from nearby countries (including Venezuela, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico). For more information please see our main webpage: http://ar.pycon.org/2012?lang=en PgDay Argentina 2012 - in parallel! -------------------------------------------------- This year, the the Argentina's PostgreSQL mini-conference will be held in parallel to PyConAR sprints for first time, trying to share resources and bring the communities together. http://www.pgday.com.ar PyCon Argentina 2012 Sponsors ------------------------------------------------ We wish to thank the following Sponsors that made PyCon Argentina possible: * Diamond: MSA Group: http://www.msa.com.ar/ * Diamond: Machinalis: http://www.machinalis.com/ * Gold: Urban Station: http://argentina.enjoyurbanstation.com/ * Silver: Fierro, Onapsis, Core Security, Grupo 42, Datatec * Bronze: Thymbira, Liricus, WingWare Our special thanks goes to the Python Software Fundation, the PostgreSQL community, Google Inc., Maersk Oil, 10gen, Heroku, Packt and Python Brazil, who make possible to bring the renowned speakers to the conference and provides several other facilities. Call for sponsors is still open, for more information see: http://ar.pycon.org/2012/sponsors/prospectus?lang=en PyCon Argentina 2012 Important Dates: --------------------------------------------------------- * 20-Jul-2012 to 27-Jul-2012: Community Voting * 1-Ago-2012: Notification of talk/tutorial acceptance * 12-Ago-2012: Schedule Publication * 12-Sep-2012: Deadline for Call for Posters and Workshops * 12-Oct-2012: Deadline for Call for Sponsors, Stands, etc. PyCon Argentina 2012 Main Events: ---------------------------------------------------- * November 12th - 14th, 2012: Sprints and Workshops! * November 15th, 2012: Tutorials * November 16th - 17th, 2012: Main Conference talks November 18th will be a tourist day with social activities. About PyCon Argentina 2012: ====================== PyCon Argentina is the largest annual worldwide community gathering of Spanish-speaking users and developers of the Python programming language. It is a community conference organized by volunteers of Python Argentina community (PyAr), lasting several days which will bring short courses and lectures related to this language that incipiently makes its place among the developers. We intended to make a space where anyone interested can come to ask, learn and experiment with these tools. This year, the event will be held at Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital and one of the most important cities in Latin America. Best regards, Mariano Reingart PyCon Argentina 2012 Chair http://ar.pycon.org/2012

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RedNotebook 1.5
by Jendrik Seipp 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

A new RedNotebook version has been released. You can get the tarball, the Windows installer and links to distribution packages at http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/downloads.html What is RedNotebook? -------------------- RedNotebook is a **graphical journal** and diary helping you keep track of notes and thoughts. It includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and word clouds. You can also format, tag and search your entries. RedNotebook is available in the repositories of most common Linux distributions and a Windows installer is available. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ for its interface. What's new? ----------- * Use new logo redesigned by Ciaran. * Remember possible undo/redo actions for each day separately. * Turn all entries of old "Tags" categories into tags without entries at startup. * Suggest last tag when a new tag is added. * When suggesting to use the last tag, leave focus on the tag. * Enable copy menu item in preview mode. (LP:834473) * Grey out cut and paste menu items in preview mode. * Only allow hiding words from the cloud, not the tags. * Add shortcut (Ctrl+Home) for "Go to Today" * Fix undo for tags. * Fix: Remove special characters in template names before displaying them. * Exports: Make tag lists scrollable and sort the available tags alphabetically. * Install .mo files (translations) in the standard directories under Linux. * Drop support for Python 2.5. This means that we now support Python 2.6 and 2.7. * Windows: Update libraries in installer to gtk+ 2.24 and python 2.7. * Windows: Correctly show italics in preview. * OSX: Make the _() function available even if gettext is not working. * Update translations. Cheers, Jendrik

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[ANN] Pylint 0.25.2 / ASTNG 0.24 / logilab-common 0.58.1 released
by Sylvain Thénault 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hi there, I've released this morning new versions of Pylint, ASTNG and logilab-common projects. For more information, read http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/100365 Enjoy! -- Sylvain Thénault, LOGILAB, Paris (01.45.32.03.12) - Toulouse (09.54.03.55.76) Formations Python, Debian, Méth. Agiles: http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure: http://www.logilab.fr/services CubicWeb, the semantic web framework: http://www.cubicweb.org

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python-graph 1.8.2 released
by Pedro Matiello 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

python-graph release 1.8.2 http://code.google.com/p/python-graph/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ python-graph is a library for working with graphs in Python. This software provides a suitable data structure for representing graphs and a whole set of important algorithms. The code is appropriately documented and API reference is generated automatically by epydoc. Provided features and algorithms: * Support for directed, undirected, weighted and non-weighted graphs * Support for hypergraphs * Canonical operations * XML import and export * DOT-Language output (for usage with Graphviz) * Random graph generation * Accessibility (transitive closure) * Breadth-first search * Critical path algorithm * Cut-vertex and cut-edge identification * Cycle detection * Depth-first search * Gomory-Hu cut-tree algorithm * Heuristic search (A`*` algorithm) * Identification of connected components * Maximum-flow / Minimum-cut (Edmonds-Karp algorithm) * Minimum spanning tree (Prim's algorithm) * Mutual-accessibility (strongly connected components) * Pagerank algorithm * Shortest path search (Dijkstra's algorithm) * Shortest path search (Bellman-Ford algorithm) * Topological sorting * Transitive edge identification Download: http://code.google.com/p/python-graph/downloads/list Installing: If you have easy_install on your system, you can simply run: # easy_install python-graph-core And, optionally, for Dot-Language support: # easy_install python-graph-dot

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[ANN] ftputil 2.7.1 released
by Stefan Schwarzer 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

ftputil 2.7.1 is now available from http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/download . Changes since version 2.7.1 --------------------------- A packaging problem was fixed. [1] What is ftputil? ---------------- ftputil is a high-level FTP client library for the Python programming language. ftputil implements a virtual file system for accessing FTP servers, that is, it can generate file-like objects for remote files. The library supports many functions similar to those in the os, os.path and shutil modules. ftputil has convenience functions for conditional uploads and downloads, and handles FTP clients and servers in different timezones. Read the documentation at http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/documentation . License ------- ftputil is Open Source software, released under the revised BSD license (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php ). [1] http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/trac/ticket/64 Stefan

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ANN: Urwid 1.0.2
by Ian Ward 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Announcing Urwid 1.0.2 ---------------------- Urwid home page: http://excess.org/urwid/ Manual: http://excess.org/urwid/wiki/UrwidManual Tarball: http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-1.0.2.tar.gz About this release: =================== This is a stable bug-fix-only release. A number of bugs that could cause Urwid to crash in normal use have been fixed. Upgrading is recommended. New in 1.0.2: ============= * Fix for a bug when entering Unicode text into an Edit widget with a bytes caption * Fix a regression when not running in UTF-8 mode * Fix for a MainLoop.remove_watch_pipe() bug * Fix for a bug when packing empty Edit widgets * Fix for a ListBox "contents too long" error with very large Edit widgets * Prevent ListBoxes from selecting 0-height selectable widgets when moving up or down * Fix a number of bugs caused by 0-height widgets in a ListBox About Urwid =========== Urwid is a console UI library for Python. It features fluid interface resizing, Unicode support, multiple text layouts, simple attribute markup, powerful scrolling list boxes and flexible interface design. Urwid is released under the GNU LGPL.

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cx_Freeze 4.3
by Anthony Tuininga 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

What is cx_Freeze? cx_Freeze is a set of scripts and modules for freezing Python scripts into executables, in much the same way that py2exe and py2app do. Unlike these two tools, cx_Freeze is cross platform and should work on any platform that Python itself works on. It supports Python 2.3 or higher, including Python 3. Where do I get it? http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net What's new? The release notes can be read here as well: http://cx_freeze.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releasenotes.html 1) Added options to build Mac OS X application bundles and DMG packages using bdist_mac and bdist_dmg distutils commands. Written by Rob Reilink. 2) The documentation is now using Sphinx, and is available on ReadTheDocs.org. 3) Added support for Python 3.3 which uses a different compiled file format than earlier versions of Python. 4) Added support for Windows services which start automatically and which are capable of monitoring changes in sessions such as lock and unlock. 5) New cxfreeze-quickstart wizard to create a basic setup.py file. Initially written by Thomas Kluyver. 6) Included files under their original name can now be passed to include_files as a tuple with an empty second element. Written by r_haritonov. 7) File inclusions/exclusions can now be specified using a full path, or a shared library name with a version number suffix. Bugs fixed: 1) Messagebox display of certain errors in Windows GUI applications with Python 3. (Issue 3486872) 2) Running Windows GUI applications in a path containing non-ASCII characters. 3) Calculate the correct filename for the Python shared library in Python 3.2. (Issue 3411270) 4) Including a package would not include the packages within that package, only the modules within that package. (Issue #3)

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Karlsruhe (Germany) Python User Group, July 20th 2012, 7pm
by Jürgen A. Erhard 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

The Karlsruhe Python User Group (KaPy) meets again. Friday, 2012-07-20 (July 20th) 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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