Mailman 3 March 2014 - Python-announce-list

Call for Proposals: PyCon AU 2014 in Brisbane
by PyCon AU 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

PyCon Australia 2014 is pleased to announce that its Call for Proposals is now open! The conference this year will be held on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 August 2014 in Brisbane. We'll also be featuring a day of miniconfs on Friday 1 August. The deadline for proposal submission is Friday April 25, 2014, 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 1 August. 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 Brisbane in August! == About PyCon Australia == PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. The fifth PyCon Australia will be held on August 1--5, 2014 in Brisbane, 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 2014, 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, Red Hat, and our Gold sponsors, Google Australia and Netbox Blue. For full details of our sponsors, see our website.

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aspectlib 0.3.0
by Ionel Cristian Maries 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hey everyone, I'm pleased to announce the first public release of `aspectlib`. It's on PyPI at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aspectlib `aspectlib` is an aspect-oriented programming, monkey-patch and decorators library. It is useful when changing behavior of existing code is desired. I've mainly created `aspectlib` because I needed: * An easy way to instrumenting existing code for debugging, profiling and other measurements. * An easy way to write tests for and mock behavior in less flexible code. An example: import aspectlib import aspectlib.debug aspectlib.weave( ('socket.socket', 'socket._fileobject'), aspectlib.debug.log(stacktrace=6), # show 6 frames on_init=True ) This makes debugging socket based protocols and apps a snap. There are many other use cases. `aspectlib` is under development - any feedback is welcome ! Thanks, Ionel Cristian Mărieș

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asyncio 0.4.1 released
by Guido van Rossum 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

*** NOTE: Python 3.3 only! This module is in the stdlib in Python 3.4. *** On the heels of Python 3.4.0rc2, I've put a new version of the asyncio package for Python 3.3 on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asyncio/0.4.1 There's a source distro and a 32-bit Windows wheel. (For 64-bit Windows I could use some help.) About asyncio: it's a new stdlib module for asynchronous I/O based on the "yield from" statement that was added to Python 3.3. It was inspired by Twisted and the async support in Tornado (amongst other influences). The original code name for the project is Tulip and this is where the latest developments happen: http://code.google.com/p/tulip/. Also check out PEP 3156: http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/. For Python 2 and 3.2, Victor Stinner has created a backport named Trollius: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/trollius/0.1.5 -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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[RELEASED] Python 3.3.5 release candidate 2
by Georg Brandl 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 3.3.5, release candidate 2. Python 3.3.5 includes a fix for a regression in zipimport in 3.3.4 (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) and a few other bugs. Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x. In total, almost 500 API items are new or improved in Python 3.3. For a more extensive list of changes in the 3.3 series, see http://docs.python.org/3.3/whatsnew/3.3.html To download Python 3.3.5 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.5/ This is a preview release, please report any bugs to http://bugs.python.org/ The final release is scheduled one week from now. Enjoy! - -- Georg Brandl, Release Manager georg at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.3's contributors) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlMUUKoACgkQN9GcIYhpnLD5OACfTpRkcM9aXUx2XbiXoZtIgSE7 BqwAnjwpAuqc9lKJ0O3XOw5qDvDPYsNb =EGuB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Sphinx 1.2.2 released
by Georg Brandl 02 Mar '14

02 Mar '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm delighted to announce the release of Sphinx 1.2.2, now available on the Python package index at <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx>. It includes about 12 bug fixes for the 1.2 release series, among them a regression in 1.2.1. 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 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! cheers, Georg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlMS4x8ACgkQN9GcIYhpnLAS6wCeNQgU9l7QrYrLhxX7OgiMVLuY fIAAoI+/BMhDyw2dzAv0TCRrRbxW/uFU =7IYV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Nikola v6.4.0 released!
by Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Nikola team, I’m pleased to announce the release of Nikola v6.4.0. What is Nikola? =============== Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python. It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown — and can even turn IPython Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (rebuilding only what has been changed). Find out more at the website: <http://getnikola.com/> Key Changes since v6.3.0 ======================== * The `code.css` (and `all*.css`) files have been revamped to support dark themes and Markdown properly. Please remove those files from your output directory and run `nikola build` to get the fixes. * `nikola auto` supports livereload v2.1.0. * Added `nikola new_page`, equivalent to `nikola new_post -p`. * Deploys to sub-directories (eg. `http://example.com/blog/`) are now fully supported and bug-free. Get it! ======= Nikola is available for download at [GitHub][0] and [PyPI][1]. [0]: https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/releases/tag/v6.4.0 [1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Nikola Debian Packages =============== In the v6.3.0 announcement, it was promised that an `install_bs3` command would be added to the Debian packages. The v6.3.0 packages were released yesterday and they contain the promised patch. Please use it to install the theme if you need it. Committers ========== $ git log v6.3.0..v6.4.0 --pretty='format:%an'|sort|uniq -c|sort \ > --reverse 144 Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick 83 Roberto Alsina 19 Ramiro Morales 12 Thibauld Nion 11 Daniel Aleksandersen 9 Eric Meaney 8 Ondrej Grover 4 Evgeni Golov 3 Tim Chase 2 Casey M. Bessette 1 Puneeth Chaganti 1 Ivan Teoh 1 Dav Clark Changelog ========= Features - -------- * Add `nikola new_page` command (equivalent to `nikola new_post -p`) (Issue #1060) * Add `LESS_OPTIONS` and `SASS_OPTIONS` for specifying additional parameters to LESS/Sass compilers (Issue #1020) * Warn users about bootswatch_theme being incompatible with bootstrap3-gradients * Add `link://filename/foo/bar.rst` syntax to refer to the post generated from foo/bar.rst (Issue #1035) * Log messages are colorized (colorama is required under Windows) (Issue #1044) * Template filters are configurable via the `TEMPLATE_FILTERS` config variable (Issue #1038) * Added Hindi translation by Sean Pue * Livereload v2.1.0 is supported and frozen as the version to use due to backwards-incompatible updates (Issue #1023) * Support `:linenos:` and `:number-lines:` in listings (Issue #1010) * Support `:linenos:` in code blocks for Sphinx compatibility (Issue #1010) * New `link:///foo` links which always point to absolute paths (/foo in that case) (Issue #986) * Bootstrap 3 has been updated to v3.1.1 (Issue #1015) * New `--browser/-b` option on the serve command to open instantly in a web browser (Issue #997) * SASS/LESS files and targets file will be processed from site root (Issue #941) Bugfixes - -------- * lastdeploy time recording was broken, changed to ISO format (Issue #1083) * Avoid undefined behaviour if `NAVIGATION_LINKS` is missing keys for a translation (Issue #1082) * Make livereload actually rebuild the site when changes are made (Issue #1067) * Fix filename encodings in WordPress imports (Issue #1053) * nikola check supports `URL_TYPE="absolute"` and `URL_TYPE="full_path"` (Issue #1046) * Fix `URL_TYPE="absolute"` and `URL_TYPE="full_path"` on non-root sites (Issue #1046) * Avoid running bundle tasks twice (Issue #1032) * Fix post links in RSS feeds for sites outside of webserver root (Issue #986) * Only run sitemap once (Issue #1032) * Fix a bug with some multilingual pages * Normalize paths (Issue #1028) * Fix drafts being leaked in feeds (Issues #934, #971) * If two tags generate the same slug, they are the same tag (Issue #1022) * Assume UTF-8 if user's locale doesn't have any encodings attached (Issue #1026 via #1021) * Support `PRETTY_URLS` for tag files (Issue #655) * Change `code.css` and `rst.css` to have sane output everywhere (Issues #913, #1009, #1050) * Fix image URLs in galleries for sites outside of webserver root (Issue #986) * Fix `link://` in RSS contents (Issue #952) * `HIDE_SOURCELINK` was set to True sometimes (Issue #1004) * Properly import cool URIs from WordPress, instead of just slugify-ing the path (Issue #693) * Fixed SASS/LESS errors when more than one theme in chain has a targets file (Issue #941) * Guard against empty list-items in base templates (Issue #936) - -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick Release Manager for v6.4.0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTEc0iAAoJEHECPb1equoWP/UIALB4cIVqSQZcCNQ6UmMVgmXL 4xz8G7QTGMtdUrmlfFP6CpL+ddjCAefNonN8BqyumGao/WiUKRrUeUHaILoAD0Df LCC39njPYlW5KtmS5o95xJSStapAPfmN1nz05JUO+D93yqJ0mVJPWE3XiKk2rRXT H4OSUmOC+AN+KVlTWQtLy6yyXu5JQlfNiBTr8vyPV5t0SjFNZcaPb3GSHH+vy4sX c0h7NjPWEkwUyItNOx1sVxzJQ/4/y4CxrNwwm7lNgNCqx9xkrUeQK2l9xq4q0pd1 EeIHcCRdBmtbcnFxk5X8Xi32oPMzzt/7kpFNR/1e+00mzYj/lPCqXBpnvIVBDVs= =UniW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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