Mailman 3 January 2014 - Python-announce-list

ANN: python-ldap 2.4.14
by Michael Ströder 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Find a new release of python-ldap: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-ldap/2.4.14 python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. It mainly wraps the OpenLDAP 2.x libs for that purpose. Additionally it contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (e.g. processing LDIF, LDAP URLs and LDAPv3 schema). Project's web site: http://www.python-ldap.org/ Ciao, Michael. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Released 2.4.14 2014-01-31 Changes since 2.4.13: Lib/ * Added ldap.controls.openldap.SearchNoOpControl * New method ldap.async.AsyncSearchHandler.afterFirstResult() for doing something right after successfully receiving but before processing first result * Better log data written when invoking ldap.LDAPLock.acquire() and ldap.LDAPLock.release() * LDAPObject and friends now pass `desc' to ldap.LDAPLock() which results in better logging * ldapobject.ReconnectLDAPObject now uses internal class-wide lock for serializing reconnects * Method signature of ReconnectLDAPObject.reconnect() changed to be able to call it with separate retry_max and retry_delay values Modules/ * Added support for retrieving negotiated TLS version/cipher with LDAPObject.get_option() with the help of upcoming OpenLDAP libs

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[ANN] Mayavi-4.3.1 released
by Prabhu Ramachandran 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Hello, Enthought is pleased to announce Mayavi-4.3.1. This is a bugfix release. Mayavi is a general purpose, cross-platform tool for 2-D and 3-D scientific data visualization. Mayavi is now tested on travis-ci. Mayavi will now work with VTK-5.10.1, 5.8 and 5.6. Mayavi will not work with VTK-6.x yet. For more details on the enhancements and fixes please see here: http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/auto/changes.html#mayavi-4-3-1 We are thankful to the following folks for their contributions: Deepak Surti, Gabi Davar, Jens Nielsen, Martin Luessi, Ondřej Čertík, Pratik Mallya, Prabhu Ramachandran and Senganal Thirunavukkarasu. cheers, Prabhu Ramachandran

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Work on Call for Participation for EuroPython 2015 has started
by M.-A. Lemburg 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

[Please help spread the word by forwarding to other relevant mailing lists, user groups, etc.; thanks :-)] The EuroPython Society (EPS) has started work on preparing the Call for Participation (CFP) for organizing the EuroPython 2015 conference: http://www.europython-society.org/ For 2015, we are setting up a new structure for the conference organization, which is focused on local and distributed work groups that are closely integrated with the EuroPython Society. We hope to greatly reduce the work load for the local teams, attract community members that want to get involved and to streamline the whole process of transitioning from one location to the next, making the conference organization a lot easier for everyone. If you are interested in potentially signing up as local team or participating in the work groups, please subscribe to one of our communication channels: * Tumblr http://www.tumblr.com/follow/europythonsociety * RSS http://www.europython-society.org/rss * Twitter https://twitter.com/europythons * EuroPython Mailing List https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython We are aiming for end of February as announcement date for the CFP 2015. Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Director EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/

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tox-1.7.0: many bug fixes and little improvements
by holger krekel 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Just released tox-1.7.0 (finally), the generic virtualenv-based test runner for Python. It contains a lot of fixes and improvements although there are some bugs remaining. While a lot of pull requests are thankfully offered i could use some more co-maintaining/reviewing to allow for some faster progress. Anyway, to install to 1.7.0 : pip install -U tox and to look at the docs: https://testrun.org/tox/latest/ have fun, holger 1.7.0 --------- - don't lookup "pip-script" anymore but rather just "pip" on windows as this is a pip implementation detail and changed with pip-1.5. It might mean that tox-1.7 is not able to install a different pip version into a virtualenv anymore. - drop Python2.5 compatibility because it became too hard due to the setuptools-2.0 dropping support. tox now has no support for creating python2.5 based environments anymore and all internal special-handling has been removed. - merged PR81: new option --force-dep which allows to override tox.ini specified dependencies in setuptools-style. For example "--force-dep 'django<1.6'" will make sure that any environment using "django" as a dependency will get the latest 1.5 release. Thanks Bruno Oliveria for the complete PR. - merged PR125: tox now sets "PYTHONHASHSEED" to a random value and offers a "--hashseed" option to repeat a test run with a specific seed. You can also use --hashsheed=notset to instruct tox to leave the value alone. Thanks Chris Jerdonek for all the work behind this. - fix issue132: removing zip_safe setting (so it defaults to false) to allow installation of tox via easy_install/eggs. Thanks Jenisys. - fix issue126: depend on virtualenv>=1.11.2 so that we can rely (hopefully) on a pip version which supports --pre. (tox by default uses to --pre). also merged in PR84 so that we now call "virtualenv" directly instead of looking up interpreters. Thanks Ionel Maries Cristian. This also fixes issue140. - fix issue130: you can now set install_command=easy_install {opts} {packages} and expect it to work for repeated tox runs (previously it only worked when always recreating). Thanks jenisys for precise reporting. - fix issue129: tox now uses Popen(..., universal_newlines=True) to force creation of unicode stdout/stderr streams. fixes a problem on specific platform configs when creating virtualenvs with Python3.3. Thanks Jorgen Schäfer or investigation and solution sketch. - fix issue128: enable full substitution in install_command, thanks for the PR to Ronald Evers - rework and simplify "commands" parsing and in particular posargs substitutions to avoid various win32/posix related quoting issues. - make sure that the --installpkg option trumps any usedevelop settings in tox.ini or - introduce --no-network to tox's own test suite to skip tests requiring networks - introduce --sitepackages to force sitepackages=True in all environments. - fix issue105 -- don't depend on an existing HOME directory from tox tests.

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execnet-1.2 released: gevent/eventlet support, many improvements
by holger krekel 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Hi all, just released execnet-1.2, the tool for writing distributed zero-install python programs. The release contains lots of improvements and fixes. Most notably execnet now supports to use gevent/eventlet models on each of the initiating side and the remote side (configurable separately). See the changelog below for details. Install it via: pip install -U execnet Read the docs here: http://codespeak.net/execnet/ have fun playing, holger 1.2 -------------------------------- - fix issue22 -- during interpreter shutdown don't throw an exception when we can't send a termination sequence anymore as we are about to die anyway. - fix issue24 -- allow concurrent creation of gateways by guarding automatic id creation by a look. Thanks tlecomte. - majorly refactor internal thread and IO handling. execnet can now operate on different thread models, defaults to "thread" but allows for eventlet and gevent if it is installed. - gateway.remote_exec() will now execute in multiple threads on the other side by default. The previous neccessity of running "gateway.remote_init_threads()" to allow for such concurrency is gone. The latter method is now a no-op and will be removed in future versions of execnet. - fix issue20: prevent AttributError at interpreter shutdown by not trying to send close/last_message messages if the world around is half destroyed. - fix issue21: allow to create local gateways with sudo aka makegateway("popen//python=sudo python"). Thanks Alfredo Deza for the PR. - streamline gateway termination and simplify proxy implementation. add more internal tracing. - if execution hangs in computation, we now try to send a SIGINT to ourselves on Unix platforms instead of just calling thread.interrupt_main() - change license from GPL to MIT - introduce execnet.dump/load variants of dumps/loads serializing/unserializing mechanism. - improve channel.receive() communication latency on python2 by changing the default timeout of the underlying Queue.get to a regular None instead of the previous default -1 which caused an internal positive timeout value (a hack probably introduced to allow CTRL-C to pass through for <python2.5 versions). - extended ssh-syntax to allow passing of command line args, e.g. "ssh= -p 50 hostname". The options are passed to the underlying ssh client binary. Thanks tundish. - fix issue15: interoperability with inspect.getstack(). Thanks Peter Feiner. - fix issue10 : skip PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE test if it we are running with PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE set. - dont try the jython pid fixup on a RemoteIO - avoid accidentally setting exc_info() in gateway_base.py

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pytest-xdist-1.10 released (distributed testing plugin)
by holger krekel 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Hi all, also released pytest-xdist-1.11 with some little improvements and speedups regarding overheads for distributing tests (maybe 10%, not too much). Install it with: pip install -U pytest-xdist and checkout the pypi page: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-xdist best, holger 1.10 ------------------------- - add glob support for rsyncignores, add command line option to pass additional rsyncignores. Thanks Anatoly Bubenkov. - fix pytest issue382 - produce "pytest_runtest_logstart" event again in master. Thanks Aron Curzon. - fix pytest issue419 by sending/receiving indices into the test collection instead of node ids (which are not neccessarily unique for functions parametrized with duplicate values) - send multiple "to test" indices in one network message to a slave and improve heuristics for sending chunks where the chunksize depends on the number of remaining tests rather than fixed numbers. This reduces the number of master -> node messages (but not the reverse direction)

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pytest-2.5.2: fixes, plugin index, contribution guide
by holger krekel 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

pytest-2.5.2: fixes, plugin page, contribution guide =========================================================================== pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1000 tests against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms. The 2.5.2 release fixes a few bugs with two maybe-bugs remaining and actively being worked on (and waiting for the bug reporter's input). We also have a new contribution guide thanks to Piotr Banaszkiewicz and an improved 3rd party plugin overview (including py2/py3 tests) page thanks to Bruno Oliveira. See docs at: http://pytest.org As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via:: pip install -U pytest Thanks to the following people who contributed to this release: Anatoly Bubenkov Ronny Pfannschmidt Floris Bruynooghe Bruno Oliveira Andreas Pelme Jurko Gospodnetić Piotr Banaszkiewicz Simon Liedtke lakka Lukasz Balcerzak Philippe Muller Daniel Hahler have fun, holger krekel 2.5.2 ----------------------------------- - fix issue409 -- better interoperate with cx_freeze by not trying to import from collections.abc which causes problems for py27/cx_freeze. Thanks Wolfgang L. for reporting and tracking it down. - fixed docs and code to use "pytest" instead of "py.test" almost everywhere. Thanks Jurko Gospodnetic for the complete PR. - fix issue425: mention at end of "py.test -h" that --markers and --fixtures work according to specified test path (or current dir) - fix issue413: exceptions with unicode attributes are now printed correctly also on python2 and with pytest-xdist runs. (the fix requires py-1.4.20) - copy, cleanup and integrate py.io capture from pylib 1.4.20.dev2 (rev 13d9af95547e) - address issue416: clarify docs as to conftest.py loading semantics - fix issue429: comparing byte strings with non-ascii chars in assert expressions now work better. Thanks Floris Bruynooghe. - make capfd/capsys.capture private, its unused and shouldnt be exposed

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ANN: Python Events Calendar - Now with Twitter feed
by M.-A. Lemburg 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

[Please help spread the word by forwarding to other relevant mailing lists, user groups, etc. world-wide; thanks :-)] ________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING Python Events Calendars - Now with Twitter feed maintained by the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and a group of volunteers ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION As some of you may know, the PSF has put together a team of volunteers who are maintaining a central Python events calendar. We currently have two calendars in place: * Python Events Calendar - meant for conferences and larger gatherings focusing on Python or a related technology (in whole or in part) * Python User Group Calendar - meant for user group events and other smaller local events The calendars are displayed on http://pycon.org/ and in a smaller version in the sidebar of the http://python.org/ website. You can subscribe to the calendars using iCal and RSS feeds and also embed the calendar widgets on your sites. Please see our wiki page for details: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar The calendars are open to the world-wide Python community, so you can have local user group events, as well as regional and international conference events added to the calendars. ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS We have now created a Twitter feed for the calendars, which you can follow to get updates on all newly added events: https://twitter.com/pythonevents The tweets come with links to the event listings, which you can add to your own Google calendars with a single click. ________________________________________________________________________ ADDING EVENTS If you want to have entries added to those calendars, please write to events(a)python.org and include the following information: * Name of the event * Type of the event (conference, bar camp, user group, etc) * Focus on Python and approximate size * URL * Location and country * Date and time (if relevant) For recurring events, please also include a description of the recurrence in a way that's compatible and supported by Google calendars. ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION More information on the calendars, the URLs, feed links, IDs, embedding, etc. is available on the wiki: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Director Python Software Foundation http://www.python.org/psf/

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PyDev 3.3.3 Released
by Fabio Zadrozny 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Hi All, PyDev 3.3.3 has been released Details on PyDev: http://pydev.org Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com LiClipse (PyDev standalone with goodies such as support for Django Templates, Kivy Language, Mako Templates, Html, Javascript, etc): http://brainwy.github.io/liclipse/ What is PyDev? --------------------------- PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python, Jython and IronPython development -- making Eclipse a first class Python IDE -- It comes with many goodies such as code completion, syntax highlighting, syntax analysis, code analysis, refactor, debug, etc. Release Highlights: ------------------------------- * **Important**: PyDev requires Eclipse 3.8 or 4.3 onwards and Java 7! For older versions, keep using PyDev 2.x (see LiClipse: http://brainwy.github.io/liclipse for a PyDev standalone with all requirements bundled). * **Code Completion**: - Compiled modules are now indexed and shown in the context-insensitive code-completion. - In an empty file, a code-completion request will show options related to creating modules (press Ctrl+Space twice to show only those templates). * **Performance**: - Building (indexing) of Python files is **much** faster. - Code completion does not get slown down by other analysis done in the background due to shell synchronization. * **Interactive Console**: - The interactive console now has tab-completion (so, tab can be used to show completions such as in IPython). * **Debugger**: - **Locals are now properly changed in the debugger** -- along with set next statement and auto-reloading this can make a debug session much more enjoyable! - Added a way to skip functions on a step-in on functions with **#@DontTrace** comments: - **Makes it possible to skip a lot of boilerplate code on a debug session!** - Can be enabled/disabled in the debugger preferences; - Ctrl+1 in a line with a method shows option to add **#@DontTrace** comment (if enabled in the preferences). - Debugging Stackless is much improved, especially for versions of Stackless released from 2014 onwards (special thanks to Anselm Kruis who improved stackless itself for this integration to work properly). - Reload during a debug session is improved and more stable: - Only updates what it can in-place or adds new attributes; - Shows what's being patched in the console output; - New hooks are provided for clients which may want to extend the reload; - See: Auto Reload in Debugger: http://pydev.org/manual_adv_debugger_auto_reload.html for more details. * **General**: - Compiled modules are now indexed, so, **fix import with Ctrl+1 now works with itertools, PyQt and other 'forced builtins'**. - When diffing a Python file, the PyDev comparison (with proper syntax highlighting) is now the default. - When finding a definition in a .pyd file, if there's a related .pyx in the same location, it's opened. - Running unit-tests will not try to import files that are in folders that don't have an __init__.py file. - Alt+Shift+O can be used to toggle mark occurrences. - Ctrl+3 not bound by default anymore on PyDev so that it does not conflict with the Eclipse Ctrl+3 (Ctrl+/ can be used instead). - Fixed recursion issue when finding file in pydev package explorer. - When configuring the interpreter, links are not followed when resolving entries for the PYTHONPATH. - It's possible to launch a directory containing a __main__.py file executable. - Fixed issues when creating django project without any existing project in the workspace. - Fixed deadlock on code-completion. - __pycache__ folders are hidden by default. * **Organize imports**: - When saving a file, if automatically organizing imports, don't remove unused imports even if that option is checked. - When saving a file, if automatically organizing imports, and nothing changes, don't change the buffer (so, no undo command is created). - @NoMove can be used in an import so that the import organizer doesn't mess with it. * **Refactoring**: - Fixed error when moving resource in PYTHONPATH to a dir out of the PYTHONPATH. - On a search make sure we search only python files, not dlls (which could give OutOfMemory errors and make the search considerably slower). - Multiple fixes on the rename module refactoring. Cheers, -- Fabio Zadrozny ------------------------------------------------------ Software Developer LiClipse http://brainwy.github.io/liclipse PyDev - Python Development Environment for Eclipse http://pydev.org http://pydev.blogspot.com

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ANN: eGenix pyOpenSSL Distribution 0.13.3.1.0.1.6
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING eGenix.com pyOpenSSL Distribution Version 0.13.3.1.0.1.6 An easy-to-install and easy-to-use distribution of the pyOpenSSL Python interface for OpenSSL - available for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix platforms This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-pyOpenSSL-Distribution-0.13.3.1.0… ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The eGenix.com pyOpenSSL Distribution includes everything you need to get started with SSL in Python. It comes with an easy-to-use installer that includes the most recent OpenSSL library versions in pre-compiled form, making your application independent of OS provided OpenSSL libraries: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/pyOpenSSL/ pyOpenSSL is an open-source Python add-on that allows writing SSL/TLS- aware network applications as well as certificate management tools: https://launchpad.net/pyopenssl/ OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of the SSL/TLS protocol: http://www.openssl.org/ ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS This new release of the eGenix.com pyOpenSSL Distribution updates the included pyOpenSSL and OpenSSL versions: New in the eGenix pyOpenSSL Distribution ---------------------------------------- * Updated pyOpenSSL to the upstream trunk revision 171 (pyOpenSSL version 0.13.1+). * Added work-around for compiling pyOpenSSL trunk revision 171 on Windows with OpenSSL 1.0.0 and later. * Included support for TLS 1.1 and 1.2 in pyOpenSSL (rev 171). Please see the TLS support section in the documentation for details. http://www.egenix.com/products/python/pyOpenSSL/doc/#TLS_support * Added SSL.OP_NO_COMPRESSION and SSL.OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE context options to be able to address the CRIME attack and allow for more secure elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange setups. * Added HTML Sphinx documentation from the pyOpenSSL trunk version to the package. An online version is available from our website: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/pyOpenSSL/doc/pyopenssl.html * Updated the included CA bundles to the latest Mozilla 2014-01-28 version. * Included ca-bundle*.crt files now have the same modification date as the Mozilla certdata.txt file from which they were generated. * Restored compatibility of the ca_bundle module with Python 2.4. * Enhanced the included https_client.py example to show case OpenSSL best practices: - server name parsing (RFC 2818 support will follow in one of the next releases) - SNI (support for TLS extension to support multiple SSL sites on a single host) - setup secure default SSL options - setup secure default SSL cipher suite - use TLS 1.0 - 1.2 only - disable SSL compression negotiation (prevent CRIME attack) New in OpenSSL -------------- * Updated included OpenSSL libraries from OpenSSL 1.0.1e to 1.0.1f. See http://www.openssl.org/news/news.html and http://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html for a complete list of changes, most important: - CVE-2013-4353: A carefully crafted invalid TLS handshake could crash OpenSSL with a NULL pointer exception. A malicious server could use this flaw to crash a connecting client. - CVE-2013-6450: A flaw in DTLS handling can cause an application using OpenSSL and DTLS to crash. - CVE-2013-6449: A flaw in OpenSSL can cause an application using OpenSSL to crash when using TLS version 1.2. As always, we provide binaries that include both pyOpenSSL and the necessary OpenSSL libraries for all supported platforms: Windows x86 and x64, Linux x86 and x64, Mac OS X PPC, x86 and x64. We've also added egg-file distribution versions of our eGenix.com pyOpenSSL Distribution for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X to the available download options. These make setups using e.g. zc.buildout and other egg-file based installers a lot easier. ________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS The download archives and instructions for installing the package can be found at: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/pyOpenSSL/ ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING Before installing this version of pyOpenSSL, please make sure that you uninstall any previously installed pyOpenSSL version. Otherwise, you could end up not using the included OpenSSL libs. _______________________________________________________________________ SUPPORT Commercial support for these packages 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 the eGenix pyOpenSSL Distribution, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site or write to sales(a)egenix.com. Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 28 2014) >>> 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. 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