Mailman 3 March 2013 - Python-announce-list

[sphinx-dev] Sphinx 1.2 beta 1 released
by Georg Brandl March 31, 2013

March 31, 2013

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm very happy to announce the release of Sphinx 1.2, beta 1, available on the Python package index at <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx>. Please test and report bugs to <http://dev.sphinx-doc.org/sphinx/issues>. This is the first testing release for Sphinx 1.2, a new feature release with lots of improvements and new features, such as better search results, more support for internationalization and faster parallel builds. … [View More]

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[ANN] ftputil 2.8 released
by Stefan Schwarzer March 30, 2013

March 30, 2013

ftputil 2.8 is now available from http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/download . Changes since version 2.7.1 --------------------------- - After some discussion [1] I decided to remove the auto-probing before using the `-a` option for `LIST` [2] to find "hidden" files and directories. The option is used by default now, without probing for exceptions. If this new approach causes problems, you can use ftp_host = ftputil.FTPHost(...) ftp_host.use_list_a_option = False - Several bugs … [View More]

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Extended Call for Proposals for Presentations and Tutorials at PyCon SG 2013
by George Goh March 29, 2013

March 29, 2013

Hi, On behalf of the organizing committee of PyCon SG 2013, we are announcing our Extended Call for Proposals for Presentations and Tutorials for the 2013 PyCon Singapore Conference, to be held in Singapore from June 13 to 15, 2013. We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker is Wes McKinney, main developer of pandas (http://pandas.pydata.org/) and author of the new book "Python for Data Analysis". To submit your proposal(s) for presentations and/or tutorials, please refer to the … [View More]

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IMAPClient 0.9.2
by Menno Smits March 28, 2013

March 28, 2013

I'm pleased to announce version 0.9.2 of IMAPClient, the easy-to-use and Pythonic IMAP client library. Highlights for this release: * The IMAP THREAD command is now supported. Thanks to Lukasz Mierzwa for the patches. * Enhanced CAPABILITY querying. * Better documentation for contributors (see HACKING file). Links: * Announcement: http://freshfoo.com/blog/IMAPClient-0.9.2 * Project: http://imapclient.freshfoo.com/ * PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/IMAPClient/0.9.2 * Manual: http://… [View More]

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PyCon Australia 2013 Early Bird registration and Accommodation deals now available!
by Chris Neugebauer March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

tl;dr: PyCon Australia early bird registrations are now open! Find out more at http://2013.pycon-au.org/register/prices, including details of our accommodation programme. ** PyCon Australia is excited to announce that early bird conference registrations are now available for our 2013 conference, to be held on Saturday 6 and Sunday 6 July in Hobart, Tasmania. Early bird registration will be extended to the first 80 confirmed conference registrations, or until Friday 3 May, whichever comes … [View More]first. PyCon Australia is the national conference for students, enthusiasts and professionals working with the Python programming language; it represents a unique opportunity for Python developers to meet fellow developers, and gain knowledge from experts and core Python developers from around Australia and the world. Securing your registration during the early bird period ensures your place at all of the events that PyCon Australia has to offer. Early bird registration comes with a substantial discount for tickets at our "Enthusiast" and "Professional" rates. Early bird tickets at both the "Enthusiast" and "Professional" level are guaranteed a seat at our conference dinner. All tickets include access to the CodeWars event on Friday 5 July, and the post-conference sprints on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 July. Early bird registration starts at $44 for full-time students; $168 for enthusiasts and $420 for professionals. This year's conference also features two single-day miniconfs, being held on Friday 5 July: DjangoCon AU, the first national gathering of Australian Django developers; and the Python on OpenStack Day. Entry to these miniconfs is free for professional delegates, and $44 for students and enthusiasts. PyCon Australia has been working closely with our venue to provide a great conference experience; we're very pleased to be able to offer accommodation to delegates for the duration of the conference. We've secured an allocation of rooms within the Wrest Point complex. Rooms available to delegates start at $135 per night; rooms with wired internet access start at $157 per night. Information on conference registration, including details on how to book delegate accommodation through our preferred provider can be found at the PyCon Australia website (http://2013.pycon-au.org). Our conference Call for Proposals is still open, and will close on Friday 5 April. We can't wait to 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; CFP now open: closes 5 April -- http://pycon-au.org/cfp Jabber: chrisjrn(a)gmail.com -- IRC: chrisjrn on irc.freenode.net -- WWW: http://chris.neugebauer.id.au -- Twitter/Identi.ca: @chrisjrn [View Less]

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ANN: matplotlib 1.2.1
by Michael Droettboom March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

I'm pleased to announce the release of matplotlib 1.2.1. This is a bug release and improves stability and quality over the 1.2.0 release from four months ago. All users on 1.2.0 are encouraged to upgrade. Since github no longer provides download hosting, our tarballs and binaries are back on SourceForge, and we have a master index of downloads here: http://matplotlib.org/downloads <http://matplotlib.org/downloads.html> Highlights include: - Usage of deprecated APIs in matplotlib … [View More]

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[RELEASED] Python 3.2.4 rc 1 and Python 3.3.1 rc 1
by Georg Brandl March 26, 2013

March 26, 2013

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I am pleased to announce the first release candidates of Python 3.2.4 and 3.3.1. Python 3.2.4 will be the last regular maintenance release for the Python 3.2 series, while Python 3.3.1 is the first maintenance release for the 3.3 series. Both releases include hundreds of bugfixes. There has recently been a lot of discussion about XML-based denial of service attacks. Specifically, certain XML files can … [View More]

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[ANN] GMPY2 2.0.0 has been released
by casevh＠gmail.com March 26, 2013

March 26, 2013

I'm pleased to announce the release of GMPY2 2.0.0. GMPY2 provides access to the GMP/MPIR, MPFR, and MPC arbitrary precision arithmetic libraries. Highlights ---------- * Support for correctly rounded arbitrary precision real arithmetic, including trigonometric, logarithmic, exponential, and special functions. * Support for correctly rounded arbitrary precision complex arithmetic, including trigonometric, logarithmic, and exponential functions. * Support for contexts that control precision, … [View More]

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ANN: firehose-0.2 released
by David Malcolm March 25, 2013

March 25, 2013

"firehose" is a Python package intended for managing the results from code analysis tools (e.g. compiler warnings, static analysis, linters, etc). It currently provides parsers for the output of gcc, clang-analyzer and cppcheck. These parsers convert the results into a common data model of Python objects, with methods for lossless roundtrips through a provided XML format. There is also a JSON equivalent. It is available on pypi here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/firehose and via git … [View More]

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC 3.2.2 - Python ODBC Database Interface
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg March 25, 2013

March 25, 2013

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING eGenix.com mxODBC Python ODBC Database Interface Version 3.2.2 mxODBC is our commercially supported Python extension providing ODBC database connectivity to Python applications on Windows, Mac OS X, Unix and BSD platforms This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.… [View More]com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-3.2.2-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION mxODBC provides an easy-to-use, high-performance, reliable and robust Python interface to ODBC compatible databases such as MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle Database, IBM DB2 and Informix , Sybase ASE and Sybase Anywhere, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SAP MaxDB and many more: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/ The "eGenix mxODBC - Python ODBC Database Interface" product is a commercial extension to our open-source eGenix mx Base Distribution: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/ ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS The 3.2.2 release of our mxODBC is the latest patch level release of our popular Python ODBC Interface. In this release, we've included the following the following enhancements and fixes: Feature Enhancements -------------------- * Backported the new .cursortype attribute from the upcoming mxODBC 3.3. The new attribute allows easily adjusting and inspecting the ODBC cursor type to be used for an mxODBC cursor object. The reason for this unusual backport and inclusion in a patch level release is that we found a serious performance issue with MS SQL Server when using it with mxODBC 3.2 (see below). This needed to be addressed immediately. Driver Compatibility -------------------- * MS SQL Server performance can now be much enhanced, and increased to levels beyond that of mxODBC 3.1 and previous releases, by adjusting the default cursor type to forward-only cursors: connection = mx.ODBC.Windows.DriverConnect(...) connection.cursortype = mx.ODBC.Windows.SQL.CURSOR_FORWARD_ONLY # Cursors created on this connection will then default to forward # only cursors, instead of the mxODBC 3.2 default for SQL Server # of using static cursors cursor = connection.cursor() The performance increase compared to mxODBC 3.2.1 is enormous: from 2-3x faster executes/fetches for average queries, up to 300x faster for simple cases. In mxODBC 3.3, we will switch to using forward-only cursors per default for all database backends. * IBM DB2 can benefit from the same performance enhancements using forward-only cursors. The effect is a lot smaller, but still noticeable: up to 2x faster executes/fetches with forward-only cursors, compared to mxODBC 3.2.1. * Added documentation to explain the different cursor types, compatibility with different database backends and effects on performance. Fixes ----- * Fixed a problem with using mxODBC cursors as context managers: these worked fine in Python 2.6, but had stopped working in Python 2.7 due to changes in the Python internals. For the full set of changes please check the mxODBC change log: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/changelog.html ________________________________________________________________________ FEATURES mxODBC 3.2 was released on 2012-08-28. Please see the full announcement for highlights of the 3.2 release: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-3.2.2-GA.html For the full set of features mxODBC has to offer, please see: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/#Features ________________________________________________________________________ EDITIONS mxODBC is available in these three editions: * The low-cost Standard Edition which provides data connectivity to a single database type, e.g. just MS SQL Server. * The Professional Edition, which gives full access to all mxODBC features. * The Product Development Edition, which allows including mxODBC in applications you develop. Compared to mxODBC 3.0, we have simplified our license terms to clarify the situation on multi-core and virtual machines. In most cases, you no longer need to purchase more than one license per processor or virtual machine, scaling down the overall license costs significantly compared to earlier mxODBC releases. For a complete overview of the new editions, please see the product page. http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/#mxODBCEditions ________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS The download archives and instructions for installing the package can be found at: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/ In order to use the eGenix mxODBC package you will first need to install the eGenix mx Base package: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/ ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING Users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest mxODBC release to benefit from the new features and updated ODBC driver support. We have taken special care, not to introduce backwards incompatible changes, making the upgrade experience as smooth as possible. Customers who have purchased mxODBC 3.2 license can continue to use their licenses with this patch level release. Customers who have purchased mxODBC 2.x, 3.0 or 3.1 licenses, can benefit from upgrade discounts. We will give out 20% discount coupons going from mxODBC 2.x to 3.2 and 50% coupons for upgrades from mxODBC 3.x to 3.2. After upgrade, use of the original license from which you upgraded is no longer permitted. Please contact the eGenix.com Sales Team at sales(a)egenix.com with your existing license serials for details for an upgrade discount coupon. If you want to try the new release before purchace, you can request 30-day evaluation licenses by visiting our web-site http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/#Evaluation or by writing to sales(a)egenix.com, stating your name (or the name of the company) and the number of eval licenses that you need. _______________________________________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________________________________ INFORMATION 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 focusing on expert 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, Mar 25 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/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2013-03-13: Released eGenix pyOpenSSL 0.13 ... http://egenix.com/go39 ::::: 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/ [View Less]

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