Mailman 3 January 2013 - Python-announce-list

Final reminder: OSCON Call for Proposals (deadline 2/4)
by Aahz Jan. 31, 2013

Jan. 31, 2013

DEADLINE Monday February 4 OSCON (O'Reilly Open Source Convention), the premier Open Source gathering, will be held in Portland, OR July 22-26. We're looking for people to deliver tutorials and shorter presentations. http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013 http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/cfp/251 Hope to see you there! -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that … [View More]

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[ANN] Summer School "Advanced Scientific Programming in Python" in Zürich, Switzerland
by Tiziano Zito Jan. 31, 2013

Jan. 31, 2013

Advanced Scientific Programming in Python ========================================= a Summer School by the G-Node and the Physik-Institut, University of Zurich Scientists spend more and more time writing, maintaining, and debugging software. While techniques for doing this efficiently have evolved, only few scientists actually use them. As a result, instead of doing their research, they spend far too much time writing deficient code and reinventing the wheel. In this course we will present a … [View More]selection of advanced programming techniques, incorporating theoretical lectures and practical exercises tailored to the needs of a programming scientist. New skills will be tested in a real programming project: we will team up to develop an entertaining scientific computer game. We use the Python programming language for the entire course. Python works as a simple programming language for beginners, but more importantly, it also works great in scientific simulations and data analysis. We show how clean language design, ease of extensibility, and the great wealth of open source libraries for scientific computing and data visualization are driving Python to become a standard tool for the programming scientist. This school is targeted at Master or PhD students and Post-docs from all areas of science. Competence in Python or in another language such as Java, C/C++, MATLAB, or Mathematica is absolutely required. Basic knowledge of Python is assumed. Participants without any prior experience with Python should work through the proposed introductory materials before the course. Date and Location ================= September 1—6, 2013. Zürich, Switzerlandi. Preliminary Program =================== Day 0 (Sun Sept 1) — Best Programming Practices - Best Practices, Development Methodologies and the Zen of Python - Version control with git - Object-oriented programming & design patterns Day 1 (Mon Sept 2) — Software Carpentry - Test-driven development, unit testing & quality assurance - Debugging, profiling and benchmarking techniques - Best practices in data visualization - Programming in teams Day 2 (Tue Sept 3) — Scientific Tools for Python - Advanced NumPy - The Quest for Speed (intro): Interfacing to C with Cython - Advanced Python I: idioms, useful built-in data structures, generators Day 3 (Wed Sept 4) — The Quest for Speed - Writing parallel applications in Python - Programming project Day 4 (Thu Sept 5) — Efficient Memory Management - When parallelization does not help: the starving CPUs problem - Advanced Python II: decorators and context managers - Programming project Day 5 (Fri Sept 6) — Practical Software Development - Programming project - The Pelita Tournament Every evening we will have the tutors' consultation hour : Tutors will answer your questions and give suggestions for your own projects. Applications ============ You can apply on-line at http://python.g-node.org Applications must be submitted before 23:59 CEST, May 1, 2013. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June 1, 2013. No fee is charged but participants should take care of travel, living, and accommodation expenses. Candidates will be selected on the basis of their profile. Places are limited: acceptance rate is usually around 20%. Prerequisites: You are supposed to know the basics of Python to participate in the lectures. You are encouraged to go through the introductory material available on the website. Faculty ======= - Francesc Alted, Continuum Analytics Inc., USA - Pietro Berkes, Enthought Inc., UK - Valentin Haenel, freelance developer and consultant, Berlin, Germany - Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Krasnow Institute, George Mason University, USA - Eilif Muller, Blue Brain Project, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland - Emanuele Olivetti, NeuroInformatics Laboratory, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and University of Trento, Italy - Rike-Benjamin Schuppner, Technologit GbR, Germany - Bartosz Teleńczuk, Unité de Neurosciences Information et Complexité, CNRS, France - Stéfan van der Walt, Applied Mathematics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa - Bastian Venthur, Berlin Institute of Technology and Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology, Germany - Niko Wilbert, TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, Germany - Tiziano Zito, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Organized by Nicola Chiapolini and colleagues of the Physik-Institut, University of Zurich, and by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek and Tiziano Zito for the German Neuroinformatics Node of the INCF. Website: http://python.g-node.org Contact: python-info(a)g-node.org [View Less]

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WSME 0.5b1 released
by Christophe de Vienne Jan. 30, 2013

Jan. 30, 2013

About WSME ---------- Web Service Made Easy (WSME) simplify the writing of REST web services by providing simple yet powerful typing which removes the need to directly manipulate the request and the response objects. WSME can work standalone or on top of your favorite python web (micro)framework, so you can use both your prefered way of routing your REST requests and most of the features of WSME that rely on the typing system like: * Alternate protocols, including ones supporting … [View More]

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GeoBases: data services and visualization
by alexprengere＠gmail.com Jan. 29, 2013

Jan. 29, 2013

This new project provides tools to play with geographical data. It also works with non-geographical data, except for map visualizations :). There are embedded data sources in the project, but you can easily play with your own data in addition to the available ones. Files containing data about airports, train stations, countries, ... are loaded, then you can: - performs various types of queries ( find this key, or find keys with this property) - fuzzy searches based on string distance ( find … [View More]

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Eventlet 0.12
by Sergey Shepelev Jan. 25, 2013

Jan. 25, 2013

Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python that allows you to change how you run your code, not how you write it. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/eventlet/0.12.0 This release features important bug fix of zmq bind(PUB) 100% busy CPU in idle. Thanks to Geoff Salmon. Also: * greenio: Fix socket.settimeout() did not switch back to blocking mode. Thanks to Peter Skirko. * greenio: socket.dup() made excess fcntl syscalls. Thanks to Peter Portante. * setup: Remove legacy --without-greenlet … [View More]

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Python User Group Bonn
by Oliver Frietsch Jan. 23, 2013

Jan. 23, 2013

[This is an announcement for a local user group in Bonn, Germany. Because of that, the rest of the text is in German. Sorry for that...] ------------------------------ ANKÜNDIGUNG ----------------------------- *Python User Group Bonn* <http://wiki.python-forum.de/pybonn> *Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2013, 19 Uhr* Hochschulrechenzentrum der Universität Bonn Wegelerstraße 6, 53115 Bonn … [View More]

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[ANN] PhreeqPy 0.2 released
by Dr. Mike Mueller Jan. 23, 2013

Jan. 23, 2013

A new PhreeqPy version has been released. Its available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/phreeqpy/0.2.0 Documentation can be found at http://www.phreeqpy.com What is PhreeqPy? ----------------- PhreeqPy provides Python tools for PHREEQC [1], a comprehensive software for hydro-geo-chemical modeling. PhreeqPy includes a ctypes-based wrapper for IPhreeqc [2] and is especially useful for coupling PHREEQC with transport codes and automated parameter studies. It runs with Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3 as … [View More]

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StoryText 3.9 - GUI testing tool
by Geoff Bache Jan. 23, 2013

Jan. 23, 2013

Hi all, The 3.9 release features the following: - Many improvements for SWT/Eclipse - A key bugfix for Swing and Java 7 - Improvements to the usecase editor GUI Regards, Geoff Bache A bit more detail: StoryText is an unconventional GUI testing tool for PyGTK, Tkinter, wxPython, Swing and SWT along with a Python framework for testing GUIs in general. Instead of recording GUI mechanics directly, it asks the user for descriptive names and hence builds up a "domain language" along with a "UI … [View More]

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TextTest 3.25 - blackbox testing tool
by Geoff Bache Jan. 23, 2013

Jan. 23, 2013

Dear all, There are many enhancements and bug fixes, notably - Can now have separate locations for logs (shared disk) and sandbox (local disk) - Dynamic GUI now shows previews of files that compared equal - Improvements to Jenkins plugin and integration with StoryText editor for GUI testing 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 … [View More]

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CFP: TAEECE2013 Conference Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE
by Jackie B Jan. 22, 2013

Jan. 22, 2013

The International Conference on Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE2013) Mevlana University, Konya, Turkey May 9-11, 2013 http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/taeece2013/index.php All the accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential inclusion to IEEE Xplore and Ei Compendex. The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: *Electronics Engineering - 3D Semiconductor Device Technology - Advanced … [View More]

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