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ANN: eGenix PyRun - One file Python Runtime 1.3.1
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg Dec. 6, 2013

Dec. 6, 2013

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING eGenix PyRun - One file Python Runtime Version 1.3.1 An easy-to-use single file relocatable Python run-time - available for Linux, Mac OS X and Unix platforms, with support for Python 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-PyRun-1.3.0-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION Our new eGenix PyRun combines a Python interpreter with an almost complete Python standard library into a single easy-to-use executable, that does not require a system wide installation and is fully relocatable. eGenix PyRun's executable only needs 11MB, but still supports most Python application and scripts - and it can be further compressed to just 3-4MB using upx. Compared to a regular Python installation of typically 100MB on disk, this makes eGenix PyRun ideal for applications and scripts that need to be distributed to many target machines, client installations or customers. It makes "installing" Python on a Unix based system as simple as copying a single file. We have been using the product internally in our mxODBC Connect Server since 2008 with great success and have now extracted it into a stand-alone open-source product. We provide both the source archive to build your own eGenix PyRun, as well as pre-compiled binaries for Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, as 32- and 64-bit versions. The binaries can be downloaded manually, or you can let our automatic install script install-pyrun take care of the installation: ./install-pyrun dir and you're done. Please see the product page for more details: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/ ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS This is a new minor release of eGenix PyRun, which comes with updates to the latest Python releases and includes a number of compatibility enhancements. New Features ------------ * Upgraded eGenix PyRun to work with and use Python 2.7.6 per default. * Upgraded eGenix PyRun to use Python 2.6.9 as default Python 2.6 version. install-pyrun Quick Installation Enhancements --------------------------------------------- Since version 1.1.0, eGenix PyRun includes a shell script called install-pyrun, which greatly simplifies installation of eGenix PyRun. It works much like the virtualenv shell script used for creating new virtual environments (except that there's nothing virtual about PyRun environments). https://downloads.egenix.com/python/install-pyrun With the script, an eGenix PyRun installation is as simple as running: ./install-pyrun targetdir We have updated this script since the last release: * install-pyrun now defaults to installing setuptools 1.4.2 and pip 1.4.1 when looking for local downloads of these tools. For a complete list of changes, please see the eGenix PyRun Changelog: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/changelog.html For a list of changes in the 1.3.0 minor release, please read the eGenix PyRun 1.3.0 announcement: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-PyRun-1.3.0-GA.html Presentation at EuroPython 2012 ------------------------------- Marc-André Lemburg, CEO of eGenix, gave a presentation about eGenix PyRun at EuroPython 2012 last year. The talk video as well as the slides are available on our website: http://www.egenix.com/library/presentations/EuroPython2012-eGenix-PyRun/ ________________________________________________________________________ LICENSE eGenix PyRun is distributed under the eGenix.com Public License 1.1.0 which is an Open Source license similar to the Python license. You can use eGenix PyRun in both commercial and non-commercial settings without fee or charge. Please see our license page for more details: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/license.html The package comes with full source code. ________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS The download archives and instructions for installing eGenix PyRun can be found at: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/ As always, we are providing pre-built binaries for all common platforms: Windows 32/64-bit, Linux 32/64-bit, FreeBSD 32/64-bit, Mac OS X 32/64-bit. Source code archives are available for installation on other platforms, such as Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc. _______________________________________________________________________ SUPPORT Commercial support for this product is available from eGenix.com. Please see http://www.egenix.com/services/support/ for details about our support offerings. ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information about eGenix PyRun, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/ About Python (http://www.python.org/): Python is an object-oriented Open Source programming language which runs on all modern platforms. By integrating ease-of-use, clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid application design, Python establishes an ideal programming platform for today's IT challenges. About eGenix (http://www.egenix.com/): eGenix is a software project, consulting and product company specializing in expert project services and professional quality products for companies, Python users and developers. Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Dec 06 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/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: 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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Autoflight - A simple script to upload a given .apk or .ipa to TestFlight.
by Andrea Stagi Dec. 4, 2013

Dec. 4, 2013

Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce you Autoflight 1.0, a simple script to upload a given .apk or .ipa to TestFlight. Autoflight is open source, if you want to improve it please send me a pull request. You can find your repository on Github at https://github.com/atooma/autoflight Installing Autoflight is simple, just type: # pip install autoflight Then you can create your config file in your working directory using json format { "api_token": "0000F4K30000", "team_token": "0000F4K30000", "notify": true, "distribution_lists": "Internal,QA" } Then type $ autoflight my_apk_or_ipa_path --config-file config.json Alternatively you can specify parameters from the command line, launch the helper to see all the available options $ autoflight --help Hope you can find Autoflight useful to speed up your work! =.4S.= -- Andrea Stagi (@4stagi) - Software Engineer @ Atooma Inc. Job profile: http://linkedin.com/in/andreastagi Website: http://4spills.blogspot.it/ Github: http://github.com/astagi

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Plotly Beta: Python plotting online and interactive IPython graphs
by Matt Sundquist Dec. 3, 2013

Dec. 3, 2013

Dear Python friends, Happy Tuesday! Plotly <https://plot.ly>--a collaborative graphing and analytics project--recently launched a beta and we would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, and feedback. Basic idea: - Import, upload, paste, and stream data into Plotly online (example<https://plot.ly/~bchartoff/344/> ). - Analyze data with a grid and Python sandbox (NumPy supported). - Our Python API <https://plot.ly/api/python/> lets you plot with code and the GUI, making publication-quality, interactive, shareable graphs in the browser. - You alone or you and your team can collaborate, share, edit, and comment on your online plots. - You can also embed graphs and data together in an iframe (Washington Post example<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/14/do-low-taxes-on-…> ). We also really, really like IPython. Interactive Plotly graphs in Notebooks: - Bubble Charts and Hover Text<http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/jackparmer/7729584> - Pandas & Plotly<http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/nipunreddevil/7734529> - Multiple axes, subplots, and insets<http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/cparmer/7628933> - NumPy and datetime <http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/cparmer/7721116> Documentation for the Python API is here <http://plot.ly/api/python>, and the Notebooks and API are also on our GitHub <https://github.com/plotly>. We would love and appreciate your expert feedback and opinions. Advice, suggestions, and support go a long way and are much appreciated. And please be forgiving (and let us know) if you encounter bugs or imperfections. We're still figuring some things out. All my best, Matt https://plot.ly Plotly Twitter <http://twitter.com/plotlygraphs> Plotly Facebook <http://facebook.com/Plotly>

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process_isolation 0.13 -- per-module process isolation in pure python
by Alex Flint Dec. 2, 2013

Dec. 2, 2013

Hi all, I'm happy to announce the release of process_isolation, a library for running python modules in sub-processes while iteracting with them like normal modules. https://github.com/alexflint/process-isolation What is process_isolation? ========================== Process isolation creates sub-processes and imports python modules into them, then provides proxies so that interacting with those modules looks like interacting with ordinary modules: from process_isolation import import_isolated sys = import_isolated('sys') sys.stdout.write('Hello world\n') # runs in a sub-process This is particularly useful for testing extension modules because segfaults and other operating system-level signals can be caught as ordinary exceptions: buggy_ext_module = import_isolated('buggy_ext_module') try: buggy_ext_module.this_might_segfault() except ProcessTerminationError as ex: print 'There be dragons!' It can also be used to safely run untrusted code, and to solve the reload problem for extension modules. Process isolation is implemented in pure python. All feedback appreciated. Alex

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