Mailman 3 January 2014 - Python-announce-list

Sphinx 1.2.1 released
by Georg Brandl 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm very happy to announce the release of Sphinx 1.2.1, now available on the Python package index at <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx>. It includes about 42 bug fixes for the 1.2 release series. What's new in 1.2 (very short version)? ======================================= - - Dropped Python 2.4 support - - Added Python 3.3 support - - Improvement of internationalization - - Improvement of builders: html, texinfo, latex and gettext. - - Added builders: xml and pseudoxml - - Added sphinx.ext.linkcode extension - - Added more non-ASCII code point characters path support - - Added theme plugin mechanism - - Added and update 10 locales - - Added experimental support for parallel building with a new -j option - - Added docs: detailed "Installing Sphinx" and "Sphinx Developer's Guide" For the full changelog, go to <http://sphinx-doc.org/changes.html>. Thanks to all collaborators and contributors! What is it? =========== Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of multiple reStructuredText source files). Website: http://sphinx-doc.org/ IRC: #sphinx-doc on irc.freenode.net cheers, Georg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlLcFFwACgkQN9GcIYhpnLCk+gCeNtGjxCL8KH+CU0SR5EvBmMy7 I6UAnjJi5HRcnKSAm7Q6pn/gZNYjRqgO =hMR6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Frosted - The fast and simple Python code checker - V 1.0.0 released
by timothy.crosley＠gmail.com 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

Pyflakes has been forked to create Frosted: a simple, fast, and well documented Python code checker. See more here: https://github.com/timothycrosley/frosted

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A day of free Python & Django talks & tutorials, Cardiff (UK)
by real-not-anti-spam-address＠apple-juice.co.uk 19 Jan '14

19 Jan '14

Django Weekend Cardiff <https://djangoweekend.org/> is completely sold out. Our open day remains open however, and you're invited to attend the numerous talks, tutorials and demonstrations in the programme. They'll all be held at Cardiff University. <https://djangoweekend.org/tutorials-demonstrations/> There are fifteen different sessions in the open day programme, on all kinds of subjects - from medicine to robotics - and at various levels of technical complexity. One of the key audiences for the open day is developers who want to learn more about Python and Django so if that's you, you're especially welcome. Another key audience is A-level science pupils and teachers, and we have a number of talks that have been devised with them in mind - so if you know any, please point them in our direction, as we'll be very pleased to see them. All the sessions are free, and refreshments will be provided. Registration is required so we know how many people to expect, and places in the tutorials will be limited. The sooner you register the better it is for us, because we have to plan catering, access and other practicalities - so please do it as soon as you can! Register: <https://djangoweekend-open-day.eventbrite.co.uk> And finally, do pass on details of the open day to anyone else whom you think might be interested. Thanks, Daniele -- Django Weekend Cardiff, the first-ever Django conference in the UK Three days of Django/Python talks, tutorials and code sprints <https://djangoweekend.org/>

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Cython 0.20 release
by Robert Bradshaw 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

I'm happy to announce the release of Cython 0.20. You can download it directly from the Cython site at http://cython.org/ or from PyPI at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cython/0.20 . There are a significant number of new features and bug fixes in this release, for a summary see https://github.com/cython/cython/blob/8d4d615c49e858fc61663bd3b335ffde593c2… . Documentation is up at http://docs.cython.org/0.20/. Many thanks to all those who contributed. - Robert

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EuroPython Society website now live
by M.-A. Lemburg 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

The EuroPython Society has created a new website to collect information on EuroPython, the society and its workings: http://www.europython-society.org/ For those who don’t know: the society is a Swedish non-profit organization which was formed in 2004 by the EuroPython organizers to put on EuroPython conferences. A new board was voted in at the EuroPython 2012 conference: https://ep2013.europython.eu/blog/2012/07/08/change-board-europython-society Given the size of EuroPython conferences, we’re working on formalizing the EuroPython selection process, providing resources and arranging with local teams to run EuroPython conferences: http://www.europython-society.org/cfp We consider the EuroPython Society the representation of the EuroPython attendees, so if you have questions, requests for improvements or other ideas on how to improve the series, please feel free to contact us: http://www.europython-society.org/contact You can also become members of the EuroPython Society at no charge and then vote at the general assembly of the society. Please visit our members page for more information: http://www.europython-society.org/members Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Director EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/

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EuroPython has a new blog
by M.-A. Lemburg 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

The EuroPython Society has setup a new blog for EuroPython in its efforts to provide more conference facilities for the EuroPython organization and to enhance the EuroPython attendee experience. http://blog.europython.eu/ There’s an RSS feed in case you want to subscribe to it: http://blog.europython.eu/rss The blog itself is hosted on Tumblr, so you can also follow the blog using your Tumblr account: log in, visit the blog and click “Follow" in the upper right corner: http://www.tumblr.com/follow/europython If you’re looking for older blog entries, please check the EuroPython 2013 blog, which lists the entries for 2011-2013: https://ep2013.europython.eu/blog/ Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Director EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/

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Wing IDE 5.0.2 released
by Wingware 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Hi, Wingware has released version 5.0.2 of Wing IDE, our integrated development environment designed specifically for the Python programming language. Wing IDE includes 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/ Changes in this minor release include: * Support for matplotlib with Anaconda * Support for Django 1.6 * Preference to auto-add EOL at end of files * Preference to disable mouse wheel font zoom * Fix code analysis in files containing \r EOLs * Fix typing in middle of toolbar search * Improve look of tabbed areas in dark color palettes * Fix problems with backspace at start of line * Fix VI mode : commands * Fix dragging tools back into main window * 30 other bug fixes For details see http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/5.0.2/CHANGELOG.txt New features in Wing 5 include: * Now runs native on OS X * Draggable tools and editors * Configurable toolbar and editor & project context menus * Optionally opens a different sets of files in each editor split * Lockable editor splits * Optional Python Turbo completion (context-appropriate completion on all non-symbol keys) * Sharable color palettes and syntax highlighting configurations * Auto-editing is on by default (except some operations that have a learning curve) * Named file sets * Sharable launch configurations * Asynchronous I/O in Debug Probe and Python Shell * Expanded and rewritten tutorial * Support for Python 3.4 and Django 1.6 For more information on what's new in Wing 5, see http://wingware.com/wingide/whatsnew Free trial: http://wingware.com/wingide/trial Downloads: http://wingware.com/downloads Feature matrix: http://wingware.com/wingide/features Sales: http://wingware.com/store/purchase Upgrades: https://wingware.com/store/upgrade Questions? Don't hesitate to email us at support(a)wingware.com. Thanks, -- Stephan Deibel Wingware | Python IDE Advancing Software Development www.wingware.com

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ANN: Python Events Calendar - Please submit your 2014 events
by M.-A. Lemburg 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

[Please help spread the word by forwarding to other relevant mailing lists, user groups, etc. world-wide; thanks :-)] ________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING Python Events Calendars - Please submit your 2014 events 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 Created in Oct 2012, the project has been proven to be a success as you can see in the past events listed in the calendars. We would like to encourage everyone to submit their 2014 events, so that the Python community can get a better overview over what's happening in Python land. ________________________________________________________________________ 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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PyGObject 3.11.4 Released
by Simon Feltman 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

I am pleased to announce version 3.11.4 of the Python bindings for GObject. This is the fourth alpha release of the 3.11.x series for GNOME 3.12. Notable additions in this release include demos showing off CSS with GTK+ thanks to Gian Mario Tagliaretti. While these demos are not currently included in the in the release tarball, they are available in our git repository: https://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/tree/demos/gtk-demo Python doc strings for introspected classes and functions have been updated. Classes now list available constructors with their function signatures and type annotations. Function doc strings now accurately present their signatures and no longer include implicit arguments like list lengths. Download ======== The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org: https://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/3.11/pygobject-3.11.4.tar.xz (497K) sha256sum: 073bc913bfafcbdad5578a976022d60c4f13707489e7fb83c492ca17327e9ab7 What’s new since PyGObject 3.11.4 ================================= - Add enum and flags member methods (Simon Feltman) (#693099) - overrides: Fix __repr__ for various Gdk structs (Simon Feltman) - python.m4: g/c JD_PYTHON_CHECK_VERSION (Patrick Welche) (#721662) - Support union creation with PyGIStruct (Simon Feltman) - docs: List constructors in object and struct doc strings (Simon Feltman) (#708060) - docs: Fix array length argument skipping with preceding out arguments - docs: Add return values and skip implicit out arguments in functions (Simon Feltman) (#697356) - docs: Skip implicit array length args when building function doc strings (Simon Feltman) (#697356) - gtk-demo: Add CSS demos (Gian Mario Tagliaretti) (#719722) - build: Avoid clash between gi/types.py and stdlib (Colin Watson) (#721025) About PyGObject =============== GObject is a object system used by GTK+, GStreamer and other libraries. PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for use in Python programs when accessing GObject libraries. Like the GObject library itself PyGObject is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose scripts up to large full featured applications. PyGObject now dynamically accesses any GObject libraries that uses GObject Introspection. It replaces the need for separate modules such as PyGTK, GIO and python-gnome to build a full GNOME 3.0 application. Once new functionality is added to gobject library it is instantly available as a Python API without the need for intermediate Python glue.

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[ANN]Uliweb 0.2.4 released!
by limodou 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

## About Uliweb Uliweb is a full-stacked Python based web framework. It has three main design goals, they are: reusability, configurability, and replaceability. All the functionalities revolve around these goals. This project was created and lead by Limodou <mailto:limodou@gmail.com>. ## License Uliweb is released under BSD license. ## Change Log * Fix ORM is not compatible with SQLAlchemy 0.9.1. Old style: ``` cond = None cond = (Blog.c.id==5) & None ``` will not right in 0.9.1, because None will not be skipped, so you can change above code `cond = None` to : ``` from sqlalchemy.sql import true cond = true() ``` or ``` from uliweb.orm import true cond = true() ``` * add `__contains__` to functions, so you can test if an API is already defined, just use: ``` 'flash' in functions ``` * Refact generic.py, remove `functions.flash` and `functions.get_fileserving` dependencies by default. * Fix `yield` support in view function, you can also used in gevent environment, for example: ``` @expose('/test') def test(): yield "<ul>" for i in range(10): yield "<li>%d</li>" % (i + 1) sleep(1) yield "</ul>" ``` * Fix `rawsql()` bug for different database engine * Fix `jsonp()` dumps Chinese characters bug * Add `trim_path()` function to `utils/common.py`, it can trim a file path to limited length, for example: ``` >>> a = '/project/apps/default/settings.ini' >>> trim_path(a, 30) '.../apps/default/settings.ini' ``` Default limited length is 30. * Add ORM connection information output when given `-v` option in command line. And the password will be replace with `'*'`. For example: ``` $>uliweb syncdb -v Connection : mysql://blog:***@localhost/blog?charset=utf8 [default] Creating [1/1, blog] blog...EXISTED ``` * Add multiple apps support for `makeapp` command, so you can use : ``` uliweb makeapp a b c ``` to create `a`, `b`, `c` apps at once time. * Refactor `save_file()` process, add `headers` and `convertors` parameter. `headers` used to create csv header instead of using column name, but you can create alias name like this: ``` User.c.username.label(u"Name") ``` and `convertors` used to convert column value, for example: ``` def name(value, data): """ value is the column value data is the current record object """ return value + 'test' save_file(do_(select([User.c.name])), 'test.csv', convertors={'name':name}) ``` * Fix `call_view()` invoke `wrap_result` bug. Missing pass `handler` parameter to wrap_result. ## Features * Project Organization * MVT(Model View Template) development model. * Distributed development but unified management. Uliweb organizes a project with small apps. Each app can have its own configuration file(settings.ini), template directory, and static directory. Existing apps can be easily reused, but are treated as a compound. web application project if configured as such. Developers can also reference static files and templates between apps, thus easing inter-application data exchange. All apps in a project are loaded by default if INSTALLED_APPS is not configured in the configuration file. All separate app configuration files are automatically processed at project startup. * URL Mapping * Flexiable and powerful URL mapping. Uliweb uses werkzeug's routing module. User can easily define a URL, which in turn can be easily bound with a view function. URLs can also be created reversely according to the view function name. It supports argument definitions in URLs and default URL mapping to a view function. * View and Template * View templates can be automatically applied. If you return a dict variable from view function, Uliweb will automatically try to match and apply a template according to the view function name. * Environment execution mode. Each view function will be run in an environment, which eliminates the need to write many import statements. Plus there are already many objects that can be used directly, for example: request, response, etc. This is DRY and saves a lot of coding * Developers can directly use Python code in a template, the Python code does not neede to be indented as long as a pass statement is added at the end of each code block. Uliweb also supports child template inclusion and inheritance. * ORM * Uliorm is the default ORM module but not configured by default. Developers are free to use any ORM module as preferred. * Uliorm supports model creation and automatic database migiration(table creation and table structure modification). * I18n * Can be used in python and template files. * Browser language and cookie settings are supported including automatic language switching. * Provides a command line tool that developers can use to extract .po files. This can happen either at the app level or project level process. It can automatically merge .pot files to existing .po files. * Extension * Dispatch extension. This is a dispatch processing mechanism that utilizes different types of dispatch points. So you can write procedures to carry out special processes and bind them to these dispatch points. For example, database initicalization, I18n process initialization, etc. * middleware extension. It's similar to Djangos. You can configure it in configuration files. Each middleware can process the request and response objets. * Special function calls in the views module initial process. If you write a special function named __begin__, it'll be processed before any view function can be processed, this allows developers to do some module level processing at that point, for example: check the user authentication, etc. * Command Line Tools * Creates project, creates apps, and include the basic essential directory structure, files and code. * Export static files, you can export all available apps' static files to a special directory. Also supports css and js combinition and compress process. * Startup a development web server thats supports debugging and autoreload. * Apps can also have its own command line tools. For example: orm, auth, etc. * Deployment * Supports mod_wsgi in Apache. * Supports uwsgi. * Development * Provide a development server, and can be automatically reload when some module files are modified. * Enhanced debugging, you can check the error traceback, template debugging is also supported. ## Commuity * Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/uliweb ## Links * **Uliweb** Project Homepage https://github.com/limodou/uliweb * **Uliweb-doc** Documentation Project http://github.com/limodou/uliweb-doc * **Uliweb-doc Online** Document http://limodou.github.com/uliweb-doc/ * **plugs** Uliweb Apps Collection Project https://github.com/limodou/plugs -- I like python! UliPad <<The Python Editor>>: http://code.google.com/p/ulipad/ UliWeb <<simple web framework>>: https://github.com/limodou/uliweb My Blog: http://my.oschina.net/limodou

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