Mailman 3 August 2012 - Python-announce-list

Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) #15 is coming!
by Richard Jones Aug. 13, 2012

Aug. 13, 2012

The 15th Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) is coming. It'll run from the 9th to the 16th of September: http://pyweek.org/ The PyWeek challenge: 1. Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team, 2. Is intended to be challenging and fun, 3. Will increase the public body of game tools, code and expertise, 4. Will let a lot of people actually finish a game, and 5. May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!) Check out the help page for how to compete and the growing resources message board post: http://pyweek.org/s/help/ http://pyweek.org/d/4008/ Richard

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[RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 beta 2
by Georg Brandl Aug. 12, 2012

Aug. 12, 2012

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the second beta release of Python 3.3.0 -- a little later than originally scheduled, but much better for it. This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended in production settings. Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x. Major new features and changes in the 3.3 release series are: * PEP 380, syntax for delegating to a subgenerator ("yield from") * PEP 393, flexible string representation (doing away with the distinction between "wide" and "narrow" Unicode builds) * A C implementation of the "decimal" module, with up to 80x speedup for decimal-heavy applications * The import system (__import__) now based on importlib by default * The new "lzma" module with LZMA/XZ support * PEP 397, a Python launcher for Windows * PEP 405, virtual environment support in core * PEP 420, namespace package support * PEP 3151, reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy * PEP 3155, qualified name for classes and functions * PEP 409, suppressing exception context * PEP 414, explicit Unicode literals to help with porting * PEP 418, extended platform-independent clocks in the "time" module * PEP 412, a new key-sharing dictionary implementation that significantly saves memory for object-oriented code * PEP 362, the function-signature object * The new "faulthandler" module that helps diagnosing crashes * The new "unittest.mock" module * The new "ipaddress" module * The "sys.implementation" attribute * A policy framework for the email package, with a provisional (see PEP 411) policy that adds much improved unicode support for email header parsing * A "collections.ChainMap" class for linking mappings to a single unit * Wrappers for many more POSIX functions in the "os" and "signal" modules, as well as other useful functions such as "sendfile()" * Hash randomization, introduced in earlier bugfix releases, is now switched on by default In total, almost 500 API items are new or improved in Python 3.3. For a more extensive list of changes in 3.3.0, see http://docs.python.org/3.3/whatsnew/3.3.html (*) To download Python 3.3.0 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.0/ Please consider trying Python 3.3.0 with your code and reporting any bugs you may notice to: http://bugs.python.org/ Enjoy! (*) Please note that this document is usually finalized late in the release cycle and therefore may have stubs and missing entries at this point. - -- Georg Brandl, Release Manager georg at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.3's contributors) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAnxVAACgkQN9GcIYhpnLAECACcDeE+N2AfYVnuwMkq682znfDU ODAAn0J87+MVA9WHEV5iYZd3ub9ZhbpC =LvY0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[ANN] PyInstaller 2.0
by Hartmut Goebel Aug. 8, 2012

Aug. 8, 2012

Hello, on behalf of the PyInstaller development team I'm happy to announce PyInstaller 2.0. http://www.pyinstaller.org Special thanks to Martin Zibricky who did most of the development work for this release. === What it is === PyInstaller is a program that converts (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and AIX. Its main advantages over similar tools are that PyInstaller works with any version of Python since 2.3, it builds smaller executables thanks to transparent compression, it is fully multi-platform, and use the OS support to load the dynamic libraries, thus ensuring full compatibility. The main goal of PyInstaller is to be compatible with 3rd-party packages out-of-the-box. This means that, with PyInstaller, all the required tricks to make external packages work are already integrated within PyInstaller itself so that there is no user intervention required. You'll never be required to look for tricks in wikis and apply custom modification to your files or your setup scripts. === Changes === Major changes for this release are: * Minimum suported Python version is now 2.3. * Support for Mac OS X 64-bit, Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion) has been added. * For OS X, application bundles (.app) can be created automatically. * Experimental support for AIX (thanks to Martin Gamwell Dawids). * Experimental support for Solaris (thanks to Hywel Richards). * A Multipackage function has been added to create a collection of packages to avoid library duplication. See documentation for more details. * A new, symplified command line interface. Configure.py, Makespec.py and Build.py replaced by pyinstaller.py. See documentation for more details. * Added or improved import hooks, most notable: - PyUSB (thanks to Chien-An "Zero" Cho). - wx.lib.pubsub (thanks to Daniel Hyams). - PyQT4, win32com, pyttsx, The full changelog for this release can be found at: http://www.pyinstaller.org/export/v2.0/project/doc/CHANGES.txt === Feedback === We're eager to listen to your feedback on using PyInstaller: Ticketing system: http://www.pyinstaller.org/newticket Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/PyInstaller === Features === * Packaging of Python programs into standard executables, that work on computers without Python installed. * Multiplatform: works under Windows (32-bit and 64-bit), Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) and Mac OS X (32-bit only). * Multiversion: works under any version of Python from 2.2 up to 2.7. * Flexible packaging mode: * Single directory: build a directory containing an executable plus all the external binary modules (.dll, .pyd, .so) used by the program. * Single file: build a single executable file, totally self-contained, which runs without any external dependency. * Custom: you can automate !PyInstaller to do whatever packaging mode you want through a simple script file in Python. * Explicit intelligent support for many 3rd-packages (for hidden imports, external data files, etc.), to make them work with !PyInstaller out-of-the-box. * Full single-file EGG support: required .egg files are automatically inspected for dependencies and bundled, and all the egg-specific features are supported at runtime as well (entry points, etc.). * Partial directory EGG support: required .egg directories are automatically inspected for dependencies and bundled, but egg-specific features will not work at runtime. * Automatic support for binary libraries used through ctypes. * Support for automatic binary packing through the well-known UPX compressor. * Optional console mode (see standard output and standard error at runtime). * '''Windows-specific features''': * Support for code-signing executables. * Full automatic support for CRTs: no need to manually distribute MSVCR*.DLL, redist installers, manifests, or anything else; '''true''' one-file applications that work everywhere! * Selectable executable icon. * Fully configurable version resource section and manifests in executable. * Support for building COM servers. * '''Mac-specific features''': * Support for bundles -- Schönen Gruß Hartmut Goebel Dipl.-Informatiker (univ), CISSP, CSSLP Goebel Consult http://www.goebel-consult.de Monatliche Kolumne: http://www.cissp-gefluester.de/2011-02-fleisige-datensammler-fur-lukratives… Blog: http://www.goebel-consult.de/blog/20050401 Goebel Consult ist Mitglied bei http://www.7-it.de/

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Jython 2.5.3rc1 released!
by Frank Wierzbicki Aug. 8, 2012

Aug. 8, 2012

The announcement and download links are here: http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2012/08/jython-253rc1-released.html -Frank

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[ANNOUNCE] pypiserver 0.6.1 - minimal private pypi server
by Ralf Schmitt Aug. 7, 2012

Aug. 7, 2012

Hi, I've just uploaded pypiserver 0.6.1 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 0.6.1 ------------------------ - make 'python setup.py register' work - added init scripts to start pypiserver on ubuntu/opensuse -- Cheers Ralf

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c 0.5.0 Release: Compile extension modules on Import
by James Pye Aug. 5, 2012

Aug. 5, 2012

"c" is an alternative to distutils' Extension() support or Makefile compilation of simple extension modules. It provides a meta_path hook that performs compilation and linkage of C, C++, or Objective-C source files upon import. Any Python implementation providing a functional "sysconfig" module should work. NOTE: Naturally, win32/win64 is not likely functional. Sorry. Currently, there is no way to build out compilation and link parameters, but future version are planned to include a cute solution to the problem. (Likely, embedding pkgconfig and -framework references in the C source requiring them) http://pypi.python.org/pypi/c

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PythonOnWheels (PoW)
by python onwheels Aug. 3, 2012

Aug. 3, 2012

Hi, I am announcing PythonOnWheels. (short PoW) Projectname: PythonOnWheels Motto: We are only on wheels but it feels like having wings ;) A quick and easy to use generative Web framework for python. STOP: I know what you are thinking: " What the world doen't need are more lawyers and python web frameworks" And you are right. But I am announcing this mostly to get feedback from the community. Any feedback is welcome. Some years ago I saw a screencast about ruby on rails and that really blew my mind. I Searched something equivalant for python but found only micro or mega frameworks. So I think there is even some space for PoW. Besides the fun I had and have developing it ;) The idea is to make the developer focus on his/her App instead of the framework. List of Features (not complete) ------------------------------------- * Model View Controller * Uses the well proven Ruby On Rails principles ** convention over configuration ** generate_model, generate_controller, generate_migration * Scaffolding dabei ** generate_scaffold * JQuery integration * AJAX * Responsive Layout based on Twitter Bootstrap * Lightweight - simple and easy to use * Nose Tests * automatically generate for you. runtest script to run them * Database Migrations * web app generation with batteries included: ** Session support ** basic authentication (Beta 2) * Runs with Apache & mod_wsgi * includes a ready to run simple_server * full environment on your laptop, mac or pc Coming for Beta 1: --------------------- * Observer pattern * Validation (as a plugin) Screencast: ------------- Weblog with PythonOnWheels in 10 minutes. -> http://bit.ly/QAmoxX Homepage: ---------- http://www.pythononwheels.org Get it on Github: ------------------ https://github.com/pythononwheels/pow_devel/tree/beta1 (Be sure to take the beta1 branch (as of 03.08.20120)) Prerequsites: ---------------- I did not reinvent the wheel but rely on the brilliant and proven standards out there so PoW (and you) will need: webob (pip or easy_install) Mako (pip or easy_install) Beaker (pip or easy_install) SQLAlchemy (pip or easy_install) nose (pip or easy_install) So, that's all folks ;) I am really appreciating any feedback. reply to this or email to khz(a)pythononwheels.org. best regards, Klaas

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Announce: LDTP 3.0 - Linux GUI test automation tool
by Nagappan Alagappan Aug. 3, 2012

Aug. 3, 2012

Hello, Highlights: * Java / C# / VB.NET <http://vb.net/> / PowerShell / Ruby are now officially supported LDTP scripting languages other than Python New Features: * Firefox have check / uncheck as actions for check box New APIs: * selectpanel * selectpanelname * selectpanelindex Bug fix: * Simplified the implementation verifyselect for combobox menuitem * Fix QT related accessibility issue * Bug#673931 - Python-ldtp has issues if the application calls an env or other program to run Credit: * Ubuntu QA team members (Dave Morley, Ara Pulido) * VMware desktop QA team members * Kartik Mistry (Debian package maintainer) * Thanks to all others who have reported bugs through forum / email / in-person / IRC About LDTP: Cross Platform GUI Automation tool Linux version is LDTP, Windows version is Cobra and Mac version is PyATOM (Work in progress). * Linux version is known to work on GNOME / KDE (QT >= 4.8) / Java Swing / LibreOffice / Mozilla application on all major Linux distribution. * Windows version is known to work on application written in .NET / C++ / Java / QT on Windows XP SP3 / Windows 7 / Windows 8 development version. * Mac version is currently under development and verified only on OS X Lion. Where ever PyATOM runs, LDTP should work on it. Download source: https://github.com/ldtp/ldtp2 Download binary (RPM / DEB): http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anagappan:/ldtp2:/ Documentation references: For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html Java doc - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/javadoc/ Report bugs - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net Thanks Nagappan -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org Cobra - Windows GUI Automation tool - https://github.com/ldtp/cobra http://nagappanal.blogspot.com

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Announce: Cobra 2.0 - Windows GUI test automation tool
by Nagappan Alagappan Aug. 3, 2012

Aug. 3, 2012

Hello, Highlights * Java / C# / VB.NET <http://vb.net/> / PowerShell / Ruby are now officially supported LDTP scripting languages other than Python * Approximately 130 APIs are compatible with Linux version of LDTP * C# client is compatible with Mono .NET framework and we have tested it on Linux/Mac * Identify object name based on automation id (window id, as per SilkTest users) * i18n support * CPU / Memory logging * Remote test execution New features: * List / Tree item API's are added * Scroll to the element if the respective pattern is enabled * Added new characters in keyboard input * Object lookup based on wildcard("?") * Double click on allowed object's * Added hyper link widget type under known objects New APIs: * getwindowsize * simulatemousemove * gettablerowindex * getobjectnameatcoords * onwindowcreate (Java/C# client) * removecallback (Java/C# client) * mouserightclick Bug fixes: * Taskbar is now identified as pane, rather than ukn * generatemouseevent API now takes the optional argument, compatible with Linux * Fixed a crash, if the window title has back slash * Grabing focus on combobox element fails the object selection, removed the respective code * Ignore special characters while searching object name * Fix regexp in object lookup * getcellvalue API now takes the optional argument, compatible with Linux * Handle task manager menuitem, which worked slightly different than other menu * Fixed listing sub-menus with a simplified method * getcellvalue API now as the Linux version * getchild API now returns appropriate output * Fixed *window APIs to work with different types of window * Fixed mouse left click on a text widget Credit: * John Yingjun Li (VMware) have contributed most of the code in this release. I really appreciate all his effort * VMware colleagues * Thanks to all others who have reported bugs through forum / email / in-person / IRC Please spread the word and also share your feedback with us. About LDTP: Cross Platform GUI Automation tool Linux version is LDTP, Windows version is Cobra and Mac version is PyATOM (Work in progress). * Linux version is known to work on GNOME / KDE (QT >= 4.8) / Java Swing / LibreOffice / Mozilla application on all major Linux distribution. * Windows version is known to work on application written in .NET / C++ / Java / QT on Windows XP SP3 / Windows 7 / Windows 8 development version. * Mac version is currently under development and verified only on OS X Lion. Where ever PyATOM runs, LDTP should work on it. Download source: https://github.com/ldtp/cobra Download binary (Windows XP / Windows 7 / Windows 8): http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/cobra-latest/ System requirement: .NET 3.5, refer README.txt after installation Documentation references: For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html Java doc - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/javadoc/ Report bugs - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net Thanks Nagappan -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org Cobra - Windows GUI Automation tool - https://github.com/ldtp/cobra http://nagappanal.blogspot.com -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org Cobra - Windows GUI Automation tool - https://github.com/ldtp/cobra http://nagappanal.blogspot.com

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