Mailman 3 September 2014 - Python-announce-list

prophy 0.4.2 - fast serialization protocol
by Krzysztof Laskowski 07 Sep '14

07 Sep '14

Hello, I'd like to announce Prophy, the serialization protocol. It has a schema language and compiler generating codecs for Python and C++. It's aimed to provide tools similar to Google Protobuf to handle messages of XDR-like wire format: no tags, unpacked ints, padding for alignment. Reason for starting up the project when so many outstanding serialization protocols exist is the simplicity of native binary wire format. Prophy lets severely restricted embedded environments to encode messages efficiently (in-place) and allows acceptance tests and cooperating devices to use automatic but more resource-hungry codecs. License: MIT PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/prophy/0.4.2 Documentation: http://prophy.readthedocs.org Github: https://github.com/aurzenligl/prophy Email: krzysztof.laskowski.1986(a)gmail.com Current release is 0.4.2. Before 1.0 I plan to do: - Python 3 support, - full C++ codec (structs and unions with vectors instead of arrays and generated encode, decode, print methods), - language enhancements (includes, inner definitions, bool, string). Feel free to provide feedback. Best Regards, Krzysztof Laskowski

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Polly - Python program to generate XKCD 936 passwords from your email
by Skip Montanaro 06 Sep '14

06 Sep '14

Based on a discussion on comp.lang.python, I stole an idea from Chris Angelico. His D&D game has a parrot that listens to the chatter of the participants. You can ask Polly for a password and it will spit out an XKCD 936 password from the words it has seen. I don't play D&D, but I get a ton of mail from public mailing lists and Internet forums, so I figured I could use that stream of messages as a word set. In deference to Chris, I named it Polly. Polly is written in Python and uses imaplib to monitor an IMAP folder for messages. It seems stable enough at this point that mentioning it outside of other threads on comp.lang.python seems useful. I have no official release, just a Github repository: https://github.com/smontanaro/polly Feel free to fork it and play around. I've never used imaplib for anything, and figure that code code could use a bit of help. Skip

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[ANN] pyspread 0.3.3
by Martin Manns 06 Sep '14

06 Sep '14

============== pyspread 0.3.3 ============== Pyspread 0.3.3 is released. This is a wxPython 3.x related bugfix release that fixes a segfault when initially creating and choosing GPG keys. About pyspread ============== Pyspread is a non-traditional spreadsheet application that is based on and written in the programming language Python. The goal of pyspread is to be the most pythonic spreadsheet application. Pyspread is free software. It is released under the GPL v3. Project website: http://manns.github.com/pyspread/ Download page: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyspread Enjoy Martin

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Nikola v7.1.0 released!
by Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick 06 Sep '14

06 Sep '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the release of Nikola v7.1.0. Nikola v7.1.0 is a bugfix/feature release. It fixes quite a few bugs of v7.0.1 discovered in the intervening 3 months (sorry it took so long!), and also adds a few more features. Get it! ======= Nikola v7.1.0 is available for download at GitHub and PyPI: https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/releases/tag/v7.1.0 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Nikola Changelog ========= Features - -------- * Error out when reST gists cannot be downloaded (Issue #1402) * Added a “Skip to content” link for accessibility (Issue #1345) * Added ``minify_lines`` filter to strip leading whitespace and empty lines * Added Google Closure Compiler JavaScript filter * Print full tracebacks for conf.py errors * Added ``USE_SLUGIFY`` (defaults to True). If it’s False, Nikola allows and generates almost any Unicode character in page URLs (Issue #1321) * sources for .html files are now copied as .src.html (Issue #1354) * Copy files/*.html verbatim (skip filters) * Don’t generate STORY_INDEX if there is a conflicting story * Added support for enclosures (via optional enclosure metadata tag) (Issue #1322) Bugfixes - -------- * Fixed some margins for RTL text (Issue #1399) * Fixed sitemapindex filtering of non-sitemap XMLs * rebuild posts when metadata changes (Issue #1319) * Allow + in slugs (Issue #1344) * fix error message when tags that are too similar are found (Issues #1343, #1344) * serve .svgz with content-encoding: gzip (Issue #1380) * html5.js file for ancient IE now works outside of / (Issue #1372) * PHP compiler now removes metadata comments the usual way (Issue #1374) * PHP compiler’s permalinks were .html instead of .php (Issue #1373) * Fixed importing WordPress blogs outside of / (Issue #1368) * Fixed importing WordPress blogs without slugs (Issue #1364) * don’t forget query parts of links (Issue #1369) * Made posts that are directive-only work properly (Issue #1351) * Made mathjax work with stories (Issue #1355) * Fixed regeneration after change of ``NAVIGATION_LINKS`` * Made ``nikola bootswatch_theme`` compatible with Jinja themes * Fixed submenus in Jinja themes (Issue #1327) * Quietly ignore empty lines in bundles files * Fixed wrong filter order in post_list plugin (Issue #1365) - -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUCtxAAAoJEHECPb1equoW7WUH/3r927g0Hdsi1IyqdiLxGBvy rVyHDsMi4Km8oQxqUgJMGxruYChzTe8WiUEO/Op2JBW4tVflRmM9KhiHdi9TKKXI xjwWUgCbeRVJU8xqdarmMNL7FUh4leg6sLs1KJnL5tCIMlfys4MdlK29klKiRVrU i9amK+aNm9g4q9IpcOc10avZ4Pa4hw97FH3BkeZtbEiICxNJoPAUErKRgWx0865w SpV7ldniliBSXlmdwdatQ9tBZt2iAt8dgTWZBXpEpLD6yFLACa+BYqnM8E+N81wE GVw4IBo+00Kgo5tRxInkAJw2pvEh9wwCBxILunIShm/aO0A/GKowiVPmKHRulho= =0Xqx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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pytest-2.6.2: fixes and freeze support
by holger krekel 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

pytest-2.6.2: few fixes and cx_freeze support =========================================================================== pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1100 tests against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms. This release is drop-in compatible to 2.5.2 and 2.6.X. It also brings support for including pytest with cx_freeze or similar freezing tools into your single-file app distribution. For details see the CHANGELOG below. See docs at: http://pytest.org As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via:: pip install -U pytest Thanks to all who contributed, among them: Floris Bruynooghe Benjamin Peterson Bruno Oliveira have fun, holger krekel 2.6.2 ----------- - Added function pytest.freeze_includes(), which makes it easy to embed pytest into executables using tools like cx_freeze. See docs for examples and rationale. Thanks Bruno Oliveira. - Improve assertion rewriting cache invalidation precision. - fixed issue561: adapt autouse fixture example for python3. - fixed issue453: assertion rewriting issue with __repr__ containing "\n{", "\n}" and "\n~". - fix issue560: correctly display code if an "else:" or "finally:" is followed by statements on the same line. - Fix example in monkeypatch documentation, thanks t-8ch. - fix issue572: correct tmpdir doc example for python3. - Do not mark as universal wheel because Python 2.6 is different from other builds due to the extra argparse dependency. Fixes issue566. Thanks sontek.

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ANN: PROVABLEPRIME 1.0 (generation of provable primes with Maurer's algorithm)
by Mok-Kong Shen 05 Sep '14

05 Sep '14

PROVABLEPRIME, Generation of provable primes with Maurer's algorithm (with illustrative coding of RSA encryption (with authentication) and digital signature for sequences of fixed-sized plaintext blocks), is available at: http://s13.zetaboards.com/Crypto/topic/7234475/1/ M. K. Shen

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Python Obfuscation Challenge
by Serge Guelton 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

Hi all, The QuarksLab[0] company just released a Capture The Flag challenge with an emphasise on Python and CPython: http://blog.quarkslab.com/you-like-python-security-challenge-and-traveling-… There are a few free tickets to the HITB conference[1] to win, so unleash the hacker in you! enjoy, [0] I am indeed an employee of QuarksLab :-/ [1] https://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2014kul

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Sphinx 1.2.3 released
by Takayuki Shimizukawa 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Hi all, I'm delighted to announce the release of Sphinx 1.2.3, now available on the Python package index at <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx>. It includes about 19 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, -- Takayuki SHIMIZUKAWA http://about.me/shimizukawa

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devpi-server-2.0.4 hotfix for pypi.python.org change
by holger krekel 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

devpi-server-2.0.4 is a hotfix release to adapt to a pypi.python.org change from three days ago which would cause devpi to fail installations for packages like "Sphinx", "Django" ... because pypi now serves them under their canonical name instead of the registered one. As usual, docs for the devpi system are at http://doc.devpi.net best and have fun, Holger Krekel, merlinux GmbH devpi-server 2.0.4 -------------------- - fix issue139: adapt to a recent change in pypi which now serves under URLs using normalized project names instead of the "real" registered name Thanks Timothy Allen and others for sorting this out. - fix issue129: fix __init__ provided version and add a test that it always matches the one which pkg_resources sees (which gets it effectively from setup.py)

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