Mailman 3 February 2013 - Python-announce-list

Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.7.3-1
by Jason Tishler 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

New News: === ==== *** Cygwin has migrating from Python 2.6 to 2.7. *** I have updated the version of Python to 2.7.3-1. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following is the only change since the previous release: o promote from experimental to current Note that all Python dependent packages have been rebuilt against 2.7. I would like to thank Yaakov Selkowitz for managing the migration from Python 2.6 to 2.7. Old News: === ==== Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. If interested, see the Python web site for more details: http://www.python.org/ Please read the README file: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/python.README since it covers requirements, installation, known issues, etc. Standard News: ======== ==== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. Jason

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Karlsruhe (Germany) Python User Group, February 15th 2013, 7pm
by Jürgen A. Erhard 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

The Karlsruhe Python User Group (KaPy) meets again. Friday, 2013-02-15 (February 15th) at 19:00 (7pm) in the rooms of Entropia eV (the local affiliate of the CCC). See http://entropia.de/wiki/Anfahrt on how to get there. For your calendars: meetings are held monthly, on the 3rd Friday. There's also a mailing list at https://lists.bl0rg.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kapy.

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PyCon Singapore 2013 Call for Proposals
by George Goh 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Hi, On behalf of the organizing committee of PyCon SG 2013, we are inviting for Proposals for Presentations and Tutorials for the 2013 PyCon Singapore Conference, to be held in Singapore from June 13 to 15, 2013. Presentation and Tutorial Submission detail can be found at https://pycon.sg/proposals/ And the submission deadline for both is April 1, 2013 For enquiries, pls direct them to conference(a)pycon.sg We look forward to receiving your proposals! And to a great conference this year. Best regards, George Goh PyCon SG 2013 Programme Committee Chair

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numba 0.6.0
by mark florisson 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

On behalf of the numba team I am pleased to announce a new version of Numba, 0.6. The release includes faster numerical codes, better type inference support, faster autojit dispatch, python 2.6 support and more. Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numba/0.6.0 Documentation: http://numba.pydata.org/numba-doc/0.6/ Github: https://github.com/numba/numba Numba will be part of the next anaconda CE release 1.3.1, to be released tomorrow. Numba ====== Numba is an just-in-time specializing compiler for Python and NumPy code to LLVM for annotated functions (through decorators). It's goal is to seamlessly integrate with the Python scientific software stack and provide optimized native code and integration with native foreign languages. Dependencies: ============ * llvmpy 0.10.0 * meta (optional) * cython * numpy * LLVM 3.2 (3.1 might work but is not officially supported) Release notes: ============ * Python 2.6 support * Programmable typing * Allow users to add type inference for external code * Better NumPy type inference * outer, inner, dot, vdot, tensordot, nonzero, where, binary ufuncs + methods (reduce, accumulate, reduceat, outer) * Type based alias analysis * Support for strict aliasing * Much faster autojit dispatch when calling from Python * Faster numerical loops through data and stride pre-loading * Integral overflow and underflow checking for conversions from objects * Make Meta dependency optional Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! Dan Christensen Ilan Schnell Jon Riehl Lars Buitinck Mark Florisson Phillip Cloud Siu Kwan Lam Travis E. Oliphant Timo

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[ANN] Python Ireland February Meetup
by Diarmuid Bourke 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Hi All, When: Wednesday Feb 13th @ 7pm Where: Engine Yard, 2nd Floor, 35 Barrow St, Dublin 4. http://goo.gl/maps/ySSGi Price: FREE! What's on: Michael Twomey, "A 30 minute quick start guide to monitoring and metrics" Level: Mostly beginner Description: - What is monitoring? What are metrics? Why do I care? - What quick and dirty things can you do now to improve your life? - What could you be aiming for long term? - A quick summary of a bunch of tools: - Graphite (and of course hostedgraphite.com) - OpenTSDB - New Relic - Pingdom - Tracelytics - Datadog - Log scraping Jakub Jarosz, "MongoDB, MongoKit & Python for data driven integration testing." Level: beginner Description: I will cover few use cases of using MongoDB in the integration testing process and show how we simplified tests using pytest and JenkinsCI. Darren Fitzpatrick, Lightning talk on "How to try to make a audio game with no knowledge of python what so ever". Looking forward to seeing everyone on the night. Hopefully there will be some new faces there too. Note: Remember to go up the outside fire-escape stairwell in order to get into the building. -- Diarmuid Bourke / diarmuidbourke(a)gmail.com ZenDoc / CTO dbourke(a)getzendoc.com Python Ireland / Chairperson diarmuid(a)python.ie

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[ANN] Launcherposta 0.9
by Facundo Batista 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

LauncherPosta is a launcher. A real launcher. One that lets you launch programs. This program puts an icon in the systray where you can have a fully configurable menu to launch the programs that you most use, only two clicks away, anytime. http://launcherposta.taniquetil.com.ar/imgs/title.png Page: http://launcherposta.taniquetil.com.ar/ Changes for this release: - Have a easy way to find installed applications when adding a new entry in the menu - Better error message when fail to start something - A man page is now provided - Other small improvements Easiest way to install it, the .deb: http://launchpad.net/launcherposta/trunk/0.9/+download/launcherposta-0.9.deb To be automatically updated, install the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:facundo/launcherposta sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install launcherposta Also, you have the tarball: http://launchpad.net/launcherposta/trunk/0.9/+download/launcherposta-0.9.ta… Finally, for the same price, you can get it from PyPI: sudo easy_install launcherposta Enjoy it. -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ Twitter: @facundobatista

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Pygments 1.6 released
by Georg Brandl 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm happy to announce the release of Pygments 1.6. Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python. Pygments 1.6 is another large release, with over 30 new languages or markups supported. Heavy thanks go to all the contributors of these lexers, and to all those who reported bugs and waited patiently for this release, and to Tim Hatch for his continuing contributions. Download it from <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygments>, or look at the demonstration at <http://pygments.org/demo>. Enjoy, Georg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlEOMPMACgkQN9GcIYhpnLBaLwCfT8Ucu+vQWpk346f0NRjN5ynI YPcAn2wahrIIhU/dkT5cdqHbbkvp+XBm =TFYm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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