Mailman 3 November 2013 - Python-announce-list

Wing IDE 5.0 released
by Wingware 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hi, Wingware has released version 5.0 of Wing IDE, our integrated development environment designed specifically for the Python programming language. Wing IDE provides a professional quality code editor with vi, emacs, and other key bindings, auto-completion, call tips, refactoring, context-aware auto-editing, a powerful graphical debugger, version control, unit testing, search, and many other features. For details see http://wingware.com/ This new major release includes: * Now runs native on OS X * Draggable tools and editors * Configurable toolbar and editor & project context menus * Optionally opens a different sets of files in each editor split * Lockable editor splits * Optional Python Turbo completion (context-appropriate completion on all non-symbol keys) * Sharable color palettes and syntax highlighting configurations * Auto-editing is on by default (except some operations that have a learning curve) * Named file sets * Sharable launch configurations * Asynchronous I/O in Debug Probe and Python Shell * Expanded and rewritten tutorial * Preliminary support for Python 3.4 For details see http://wingware.com/wingide/whatsnew For a complete change log see http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/5.0.0/CHANGELOG.txt Free trial: http://wingware.com/wingide/trial Downloads: http://wingware.com/downloads Feature matrix: http://wingware.com/wingide/features More information: http://wingware.com/ Sales: http://wingware.com/store/purchase Upgrades: https://wingware.com/store/upgrade Questions? Don't hesitate to email us at support(a)wingware.com. Thanks, -- Stephan Deibel Wingware | Python IDE Advancing Software Development www.wingware.com

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devpi-{server,client}-1.2.1: bug fixes + refinement to test
by holger krekel 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

devpi-1.2.1: bug fixes and improved test command ========================================================== The devpi-{server,client}-1.2.1 releases bring important bug fixes and refinements. See Changelog below. For getting started with deploying your own pypi server on a laptop or on company server and for using the "devpi" workflow tool (optional), see: http://doc.devpi.net If you want to upgrade an existing installation, you should be able to execute:: $ pip install -U devpi $ devpi-server --upgrade-state [--serverdir YOUR_SERVER_DIR] Have fun, holger krekel Changelog 1.2.1 ---------------------- devpi-server: - fix an import issue for doc files which were wrongly tied to a newer version of a base index. now version "auto" detection for storing doc files only works within a stage. Thanks Laurent Brack for bringing it up and providing the repo. - fix issue66: api endpoints now also respect --outside-url setting so that you can serve devpi from a subpath. Thanks for Fabian Snovna for reporting and analysis. - fix issue63: skip egg links that go to a directory (this requires doing a SVN checkout which devpi-server does not do). Thanks Ken Jung for analyzing the problem. - fix issue68: don't derive metadata from filename but instead look it up in metadata or submitted form. - fix cache-invalidation when normalized_project_name != real_name (e.g. for Django but also many others). addresses issue59. - add newline to simple list output for better human readability of the page (thanks Brandon Maister) - make xmlrpc calls to pypi's changelog API use "requests" sessions so that http proxies are respected there as well (fixes issue58). thanks to riehlm for identifying the problem and testing the fix. - internally refactor and consolidate mocking against requests library - --upgrade-state will upgrade now between major.minor/major.minor+1 changes. devpi-client: - fix "python -m devpi" invocation. Thanks Sebastian Ralph. - fix issue66: "devpi use user/index" can now switch between URLs if user/index is mounted on a subpath. - fix issue71: allow pip/setuptools like requirements specs with the test subcommand, e.g. "devpi test 'pkg>=1.0'". Thanks Sebastian Rahlf for the PR.

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[ANN] iPOPO 0.5.5
by Thomas Calmant 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

=========== iPOPO 0.5.4 =========== iPOPO v0.5.5 has been released ! About iPOPO =========== iPOPO is a service-oriented component model (SOCM) framework for Python, inspired from the Java project iPOJO and from the OSGi specification. What's new in 0.5.5 =================== Major change : the iPOPO project is now released under the Apache License 2.0 (instead of GPLv3). This version introduces the iPOPO handlers: they allow to create new decorators and to add some behavior to components instances. New features: Added a context pelix.utilities.use_service(bundle_context, service_reference), like the use_ipopo(bundle_context) added in the previous release Added iPOPO handlers get_*_service_reference*() methods have a default LDAP filter set to None. Only the service specification is required, event if set to None. Added the ConfigurationAdmin service : a white board pattern persistent configuration service Added the FileInstall service : watches for changes in folders You can take a look at the documentation at https://ipopo.coderxpress.net/ Feel free to send feedback on your experience of Pelix/iPOPO, via the mailing lists: User list : http://groups.google.com/group/ipopo-users Development list : http://groups.google.com/group/ipopo-dev Have fun ! Thomas

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PyGObject 3.11.2 released
by Simon Feltman 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

I am pleased to announce version 3.11.2 of the Python bindings for GObject. This is the second alpha release of the 3.11.x series for GNOME 3.12. An important change with this release is deprecation messages are emitted when using positional arguments with overridden initializers. Positional arguments will continue to be supported for the remainder of the 3.x series but also updating to use keyword arguments is compatible with prior releases. Please see the following wiki and bug report for rational: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705810 Download ======== The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org: https://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/3.11/pygobject-3.11.2.tar.xz (669K) sha256sum: 1c606b1a98e6574218f0aa78e803c18b56c35020fa08bd1fbc3db4b720ec5a13 What’s new since PyGObject 3.11.2 ================================= - gkt-demo: Change main info/source notebook into a GtkStack - Add deprecation warnings and cleanup class initializer overrides (#705810) - Fix dir method for static GParamSpec in Python 3 - Remove overzealous argument checking for callback userdata (#711173) About PyGObject =============== GObject is a object system used by GTK+, GStreamer and other libraries. PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for use in Python programs when accessing GObject libraries. Like the GObject library itself PyGObject is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full featured applications. PyGObject now dynamically accesses any GObject libraries that uses GObject Introspection. It replaces the need for separate modules such as PyGTK, GIO and python-gnome to build a full GNOME 3.0 application. Once new functionality is added to gobject library it is instantly available as a Python API without the need for intermediate Python glue.

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[ANN] ftputil 3.0 released
by Stefan Schwarzer 17 Nov '13

17 Nov '13

ftputil 3.0 is now available from http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/download . Changes since version 2.8 ------------------------- Note: This version of ftputil is _not_ backward-compatible with earlier versions. See the links below for information on adapting existing client code. - This version adds Python 3 compatibility! :-) The same source is used for Python 2.x and Python 3.x. I had to change the API to find a good compromise for both Python versions. - ftputil now requires at least Python 2.6. - Remote file-like objects use the same semantics as Python's `io` module. (This is the same as for the built-in `open` function in Python 3.) - `ftputil.ftp_error` was renamed to `ftputil.error`. - For custom parsers, import `ftputil.parser` instead of `ftputil.stat`. For more information please read http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/trac/wiki/Documentation http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/trac/wiki/WhatsNewInFtputil3.0 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. License ------- ftputil is Open Source software, released under the revised BSD license (see http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause ). Stefan

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Pies v 2.0.0 released - Run Python 3 code on python 2 Unchanged!
by timothy.crosley＠gmail.com 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

Pies is a Python2 & 3 Compatibility layer with the philosophy that all code should be Python3 code. Starting from this viewpoint means that when running on Python3 pies adds virtually no overhead. Instead of providing a bunch of custom methods (leading to Python code that looks out of place on any version) pies aims to back port as many of the Python3 API calls, imports, and objects to Python2 - Relying on special syntax only when absolutely necessary.

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PyPy 2.2
by Armin Rigo 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

======================================= PyPy 2.2 - Incrementalism ======================================= We're pleased to announce PyPy 2.2, which targets version 2.7.3 of the Python language. This release main highlight is the introduction of the incremental garbage collector, sponsored by the `Raspberry Pi Foundation`_. This release also contains several bugfixes and performance improvements. You can download the PyPy 2.2 release here: http://pypy.org/download.html Note that the Win32 download is delayed as we fix a few more things. We would like to thank our donors for the continued support of the PyPy project. We showed quite a bit of progress on all three projects (see below) and we're slowly running out of funds. Please consider donating more so we can finish those projects! The three projects are: * Py3k (supporting Python 3.x): the release PyPy3 2.2 is imminent. * STM (software transactional memory): a preview will be released very soon, as soon as we fix a few bugs * NumPy: the work done is included in the PyPy 2.2 release. More details below. .. _`Raspberry Pi Foundation`: http://www.raspberrypi.org What is PyPy? ============= PyPy is a very compliant Python interpreter, almost a drop-in replacement for CPython 2.7. It's fast (`pypy 2.2 and cpython 2.7.2`_ performance comparison) due to its integrated tracing JIT compiler. This release supports x86 machines running Linux 32/64, Mac OS X 64, Windows 32, or ARM (ARMv6 or ARMv7, with VFPv3). Work on the native Windows 64 is still stalling, we would welcome a volunteer to handle that. .. _`pypy 2.2 and cpython 2.7.2`: http://speed.pypy.org Highlights ========== * Our Garbage Collector is now "incremental". It should avoid almost all pauses due to a major collection taking place. Previously, it would pause the program (rarely) to walk all live objects, which could take arbitrarily long if your process is using a whole lot of RAM. Now the same work is done in steps. This should make PyPy more responsive, e.g. in games. There are still other pauses, from the GC and the JIT, but they should be on the order of 5 milliseconds each. * The JIT counters for hot code were never reset, which meant that a process running for long enough would eventually JIT-compile more and more rarely executed code. Not only is it useless to compile such code, but as more compiled code means more memory used, this gives the impression of a memory leak. This has been tentatively fixed by decreasing the counters from time to time. * NumPy has been split: now PyPy only contains the core module, called ``_numpypy``. The ``numpy`` module itself has been moved to ``https://bitbucket.org/pypy/numpy`` and ``numpypy`` disappeared. You need to install NumPy separately with a virtualenv: ``pip install git+https://bitbucket.org/pypy/numpy.git``; or by directly doing ``git clone https://bitbucket.org/pypy/numpy.git``, ``cd numpy``, ``python setup.py install``. * non-inlined calls have less overhead * Things that use ``sys.set_trace`` are now JITted (like coverage) * JSON encoding used to be very fast, now decoding is as well * various buffer copying methods experience speedups (like list-of-ints to ``int[]`` buffer from cffi) * We finally wrote (hopefully) all the missing ``os.xxx()`` functions, including ``os.startfile()`` on Windows and a handful of rare ones on Posix. * numpy has a rudimentary C API that cooperates with ``cpyext`` Cheers, Armin Rigo and Maciej Fijalkowski

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Django Weekend Cardiff
by real-not-anti-spam-address＠apple-juice.co.uk 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

(With apologies if you have already seen this on another email list or newsgroup.) The UK's first-ever Django conference will take place on the 7th-9th February 2014 in Cardiff, Wales. <http://djangoweekend.org> The programme for the event: Friday: tutorials and demonstrations (also open to the public) Saturday: talks Sunday: code sprints and clinics The conference is Django-focused, but all of all aspects of Python fall within its remit - particularly in the tutorials and workshops. A venue has been booked at Cardiff University. Registration and ticket sales will open soon, as well as a call for papers. To be a success, the conference needs the support of: * people in Wales, the UK and beyond who will participate as attendees or volunteers * speakers who'd like to give talks or conduct tutorials * organisations locally and internationally willing to provide sponsorship or other support If you can offer support, please get in touch. One of the aims of the conference is to establish it as an annual event that will raise the profile in Wales of open-source software in general and Python in particular, and also bolster the local open-source software community here. Above all, however, the intention is to establish the Django Weekend in Cardiff as a meaningful and enjoyable date in the Django/Python calendar. We'll publish updates on our website, our Twitter account <https://twitter.com/DjangoWeekend> and elsewhere as appropriate. Daniele

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[Ann] Cobra 4.0 - Windows GUI test automation tool
by Nagappan Alagappan 13 Nov '13

13 Nov '13

Hello, New API: * selectrow * doubleclickrowindex * comboselectindex * multiselect * multiremove Bug fixes: * Select child row based on tree item, rather than tree * Fix callback to be registered just once * Convert all strings to utf-8 * Change port number to listen from command line Python client: * 3.x fixes Example: * New example added for automating Windows app Credit: Nagappan Alagappan <nagappan(a)gmail.com> John Yingjun Li <yingjunli(a)vmware.com> Jia Liu <jia.jl.liu(a)oracle.com> Andrew, Rob (LDTP forum) Major Silence (https://github.com/majorsilence/ldtp2) VMware colleagues Please spread the word and also share your feedback with us (email me: nagappan at gmail.com). About LDTP: Cross Platform GUI test automation tool Linux version is LDTP, Windows version is Cobra and Mac version is PyATOM. * 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 / Vista SP2 / Windows 7 SP1 / Windows 8. * Mac version is known to work on OS X Snow Leopard /Lion/Mountain Lion/Maverick. Where ever PyATOM runs, LDTP should work on it. Tests can be written in: Python/Ruby/Perl/Java/C#/Clojure/VB.NET/PowerShell Download source: https://github.com/ldtp/cobra Download binary (Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8): https://code.google.com/p/cobra-winldtp/downloads/list 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_list/ Thanks Nagappan -- Cross platform GUI testing Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org Cobra - Windows GUI Automation tool - https://github.com/ldtp/cobra ATOMac - Mac GUI Automation tool - https://github.com/pyatom/pyatom http://nagappanal.blogspot.com

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ANN: Python Meeting Düsseldorf - 19.11.2013
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

[This announcement is in German since it targets a local user group meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany] ________________________________________________________________________ ANKÜNDIGUNG Python Meeting Düsseldorf http://pyddf.de/ Ein Treffen von Python Enthusiasten und Interessierten in ungezwungener Atmosphäre. Dienstag, 19.11.2013, 18:00 Uhr Raum 1, 2.OG im Bürgerhaus Stadtteilzentrum Bilk Düsseldorfer Arcaden, Bachstr. 145, 40217 Düsseldorf Diese Nachricht ist auch online verfügbar: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/Python-Meeting-Duesseldorf-2013-11-19 ________________________________________________________________________ NEUIGKEITEN * Bereits angemeldete Vorträge: Jan Ulrich Hasecke "Was ich beim Schreiben eines Handbuches über Sphinx über Sphinx lernte" Charlie Clark "Openpyxl: Sprint & Danach" Marc-Andre Lemburg "Home-Automation mit Kivy, Mosquitto und Tellstick" Charlie Clark "Paralleles Browser-Testing mit Sauce-Labs" * Neuer Veranstaltungsraum: Wir treffen uns im Bürgerhaus in den Düsseldorfer Arcaden. Da beim letzten Mal einige Teilnehmer Schwierigkeiten hatten, den Raum zu finden, hier eine kurze Beschreibung: Das Bürgerhaus teilt sich den Eingang mit dem Schwimmbad und befindet sich an der Seite der Tiefgarageneinfahrt der Düsseldorfer Arcaden. Über dem Eingang steht ein großes Schwimm'in Bilk Logo. Hinter der Tür direkt links zu den zwei Aufzügen, dann in den 2. Stock hochfahren. Der Eingang zum Raum 1 liegt direkt links, wenn man aus dem Aufzug kommt. Google Street View: http://bit.ly/11sCfiw ________________________________________________________________________ EINLEITUNG Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf ist eine regelmäßige Veranstaltung in Düsseldorf, die sich an Python Begeisterte aus der Region wendet: * http://pyddf.de/ Einen guten Überblick über die Vorträge bietet unser YouTube-Kanal, auf dem wir die Vorträge nach den Meetings veröffentlichen: * http://www.youtube.com/pyddf/ Veranstaltet wird das Meeting von der eGenix.com GmbH, Langenfeld, in Zusammenarbeit mit Clark Consulting & Research, Düsseldorf: * http://www.egenix.com/ * http://www.clark-consulting.eu/ ________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAMM Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf nutzt eine Mischung aus Open Space und Lightning Talks, wobei die Gewitter bei uns auch schon mal 20 Minuten dauern können ;-). Lightning Talks können vorher angemeldet werden, oder auch spontan während des Treffens eingebracht werden. Ein Beamer mit XGA Auflösung steht zur Verfügung. Folien bitte als PDF auf USB Stick mitbringen. Lightning Talk Anmeldung bitte formlos per EMail an info(a)pyddf.de ________________________________________________________________________ KOSTENBETEILIGUNG Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf wird von Python Nutzern für Python Nutzer veranstaltet. Um die Kosten zumindest teilweise zu refinanzieren, bitten wir die Teilnehmer um einen Beitrag in Höhe von EUR 10,00 inkl. 19% Mwst, Schüler und Studenten zahlen EUR 5,00 inkl. 19% Mwst. Wir möchten alle Teilnehmer bitten, den Betrag in bar mitzubringen. ________________________________________________________________________ ANMELDUNG Da wir nur für ca. 20 Personen Sitzplätze haben, möchten wir bitten, sich per EMail anzumelden. Damit wird keine Verpflichtung eingegangen. Es erleichtert uns allerdings die Planung. Meeting Anmeldung bitte formlos per EMail an info(a)pyddf.de ________________________________________________________________________ WEITERE INFORMATIONEN Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Webseite des Meetings: http://pyddf.de/ Mit freundlichen Grüßen, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 12 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2013-11-19: Python Meeting Duesseldorf ... 7 days to go ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

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