Mailman 3 February 2013 - Python-announce-list

RedNotebook 1.7.0
by jendrikseipp＠web.de 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

A new RedNotebook version has been released. You can get the tarball, 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 in this version? --------------------------- * Allow filtering exported days by tags (Alistair Marshall). * Add option to export only the currently selected text (Alistair Marshall). * Move spellcheck option from preferences to edit menu and add F7 shortcut (Alistair Marshall). * Enable spellchecking on Windows. See help for adding custom dictionaries. * Better error message for invalid markup. * Show warning if no directory is selected before clicking the "Open" button when choosing a journal directory. * Gracefully handle BadStatusLines when checking for new versions. * Do not try to set file permissions on Windows where they are unavailable. * Fix hide-from-cloud for words containing backslashes (LP:1131412). * Fix relative file links on Windows. * Code: Switch from optparse to argparse (Alistair Marshall). Cheers, Jendrik

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[ANN] PyLint 0.27 / logilab-astng 0.24.2
by Sylvain Thénault 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi there, I'm very pleased to announce the release of pylint 0.27 [1] and logilab-astng 0.24.2 [2] . There has been a lot of enhancements and bug fixes since the latest release, so you're strongly encouraged to upgrade. See ChangeLog for details. Many thanks to all the people who contributed to this release! [1] http://www.logilab.org/project/pylint/0.27.0 / [2] http://www.logilab.org/project/logilab-astng/0.24.2 Enjoy! -- Sylvain Thénault, LOGILAB, Paris (01.45.32.03.12) - Toulouse (05.62.17.16.42) 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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[ANN]: Simple 0.6 (Lightweight python markdown blog)
by tom Tom 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Simple 0.6 has been released and is available from https://github.com/orf/simple Whats new in 0.6? ------------------- * Redesigned editing interface (http://i.imgur.com/KkGtlTx.png) * Drag and drop image uploads * Better settings migration support What is Simple? ------------------- Simple is a lightweight python blog. Its designed to be simple - no fussy WYSIWYG editors or clutter, you simply write your post in markdown into the editor and publish. It consists of only 1 file (excluding resources), has a limited number of pure-python dependencies, is fast and easy to deploy.

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Wing IDE 4.1.11 released
by Wingware 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi, Wingware has released version 4.1.11 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 minor release includes: * Right click on tool tabs to assign a key binding to the tool * Allow auto-stripping trailing white space to be limited to project files * Support for Subversion version 1.7.x * Allow introduce variable refactoring in more contexts * Support opening files with Wing via the Linux .desktop file * Improve auto-editing fixups * Fix keep external console open under Python 3 * Restore original editor and focus after refactoring operations complete * Show skipped icon for groups of unit tests that were all skipped * 13 other bug fixes and minor improvements For a complete change log see http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/4.1.11/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 sales(a)wingware.com. Thanks, -- Stephan Deibel Wingware | Python IDE Advancing Software Development www.wingware.com

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PyCon Australia 2013 Call for Proposals is now open! (Closes April 5)
by Chris Neugebauer 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

PyCon Australia 2013 is pleased to announce that its Call for Proposals is now open! The conference this year will be held on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July 2013 in Hobart, Tasmania. We'll also be featuring a day of miniconfs on Friday 5 July. The deadline for proposal submission is Friday April 5, 2013, and more information can be found at http://pycon-au.org/cfp PyCon Australia attracts professional developers from all walks of life, including industry, government, and science, as well as enthusiast and student developers. We’re looking for proposals for presentations and tutorials on any aspect of Python programming, at all skill levels from novice to advanced. Presentation subjects may range from reports on open source, academic or commercial projects; or even tutorials and case studies. If a presentation is interesting and useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program. We're especially interested in short presentations that will teach conference-goers something new and useful. Can you show attendees how to use a module? Explore a Python language feature? Package an application? Proposals about the Django web framework are very strongly encouraged, and will also be considered for inclusion in DjangoCon AU, to be held on Friday 5 July. We welcome first-time speakers; we are a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience. If you have friends or colleagues who have something valuable to contribute, twist their arms to tell us about it! Please also forward this Call for Proposals to anyone that you feel may be interested. To find out more go to the official Call for Proposals page here: http://pycon-au.org/cfp See you in Hobart in July! == About PyCon Australia == PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. The fourth PyCon Australia will be held on July 5--7, 2013 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 2013, 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 Platinum sponsor: Australian Computer Society (Tasmanian Branch) (www.acs.org.au); and our Gold Sponsor, Google Australia (www.google.com.au). For full details of our sponsors, see our website. -- --Christopher Neugebauer Conference Coordinator and Sponsor Liaison PyCon Australia: Hobart 2013 -- http://pycon-au.org -- @pyconau 5–7 July 2013, Call for Proposals now open! Jabber: chrisjrn(a)gmail.com -- IRC: chrisjrn on irc.freenode.net -- WWW: http://chris.neugebauer.id.au -- Twitter/Identi.ca: @chrisjrn

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ANN: SfePy 2013.1
by Robert Cimrman 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

I am pleased to announce release 2013.1 of SfePy. Description ----------- SfePy (simple finite elements in Python) is a software for solving systems of coupled partial differential equations by the finite element method. The code is based on NumPy and SciPy packages. It is distributed under the new BSD license. Home page: http://sfepy.org Downloads, mailing list, wiki: http://code.google.com/p/sfepy/ Git (source) repository, issue tracker: http://github.com/sfepy Highlights of this release -------------------------- - unified use of stationary and evolutionary solvers - new implicit adaptive time stepping solver - elements of set and nodes of set region selectors - simplified setting of variables data For full release notes see http://docs.sfepy.org/doc/release_notes.html#id1 (rather long and technical). Best regards, Robert Cimrman and Contributors (*) (*) Contributors to this release (alphabetical order): Vladimír Lukeš, Matyáš Novák

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[ANN]: circuits 2.1.0 [] (Lightweight Event driven Asynchronous Application Framework)
by James Mills 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hi, I'm pleased to announce the release of circuits 2.1.0 [] This is a minor release which includes some new features and bug fixes. Some of the highlights of this release include: - Python 3 support. - Windows support. - PyPy support. - IPv6 support. - Better WSGI support. - Fully documented examples. - Component Interface querying. For more information see the PyPi page: pypi.python.org/pypi/circuits/ cheers James James Mills / prologic E: prologic(a)shortcircuit.net.au W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

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Announce: Stallion v0.4 (with new plp command-line tool)
by Christian S. Perone 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

I'm happy to announce the v0.4 release of Stallion ( http://perone.github.com/stallion/), a visual Package Manager interface for Python. What's new in v0.4 release: - Introduced 'plp' (Python List Packages) - Added the command 'list' for plp - Added the command 'show' for plp - Added the command 'check' for plp - Added the command 'scripts' for plp - Added 'Console Scripts' section into the distribution info at the web frontend - Added the 'Console Scripts' global section on the web frontend - Added new font type for the web frontend Thanks ! -- Blog <http://pyevolve.sourceforge.net/wordpress/> | Github<https://github.com/perone> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/tarantulae> "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."

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EuroPython 2013: Call for Proposals ending soon!
by mena＠develer.com 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Call for Proposals for EuroPython 2013 is open. It will run until March 5th, 23:59:59 CET, so don't waste time, hurry up! Visit our webpage: https://ep2013.europython.eu/call-for-proposals/

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Python User Group Bonn: Wednesday, Feb. 27th, 19oc
by Oliver Frietsch 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

[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, 27. Februar 2013, 19 Uhr* Hochschulrechenzentrum der Universität Bonn Wegelerstraße 6, 53115 Bonn <http://www.hrz.uni-bonn.de/ueber-uns/anreise> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Python User Group Bonn ist eine neu gegründete Gruppe von Python-Anwendern und -Interessierten aus Bonn und dem Umland. Wir würden uns freuen, im Rahmen unserer monatlichen Treffen möglichst viele Teilnehmer zu spannenden Vorträgen und ent-spanntem Erfahrungsaustausch versammeln zu können. Ganz gleich ob Anfänger oder Profi, ob Web, Wissenschaft, Desktop, Embedded oder ein völlig anderes Einsatzgebiet, bei uns ist jeder Besucher und jedes Python-Thema willkommen! Das Programm des Abends bestimmen die Teilnehmer durch ihre Beiträge dabei selbst. Für das Februar-Treffen sind bereits folgende Themen vorgesehen: NumPy - Henning Dickten Pandas - Maik Röder IPython - Christian Geier Die Länge der einzelnen Vorträge liegt bei jeweils etwa 10-15 Minuten; weitere Vorträge sind willkommen. Selbstverständlich besteht im Anschluss noch Gelegenheit zu Diskussion, Meinungs- und Erfahrungsaustausch. Die Teilnahme an der gesamten Veranstaltung ist kostenfrei! Unser Treffpunkt liegt zentral in Bonn und ist gut mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln oder dem PKW zu erreichen. Parkplätze stehen direkt neben dem Gebäude zur Verfügung. Interesse? Dann bis Mittwoch! Oliver Frietsch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: <http://wiki.python-forum.de/pybonn> Mailing-Liste: <http://lists.python-verband.org/mailman/listinfo/bonn> Verbands-Seite: <http://python-verband.org/community/bonn/python-user-group-bonn> -- Bonn mailing list Bonn(a)lists.python-verband.org http://lists.python-verband.org/mailman/listinfo/bonn

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