Mailman 3 January 2015 - Python-announce-list

pyzeliard - zeliard clone GPLv2
by Automn Jan. 20, 2015

Jan. 20, 2015

Hello, The old Sierra-On-Line game zeliard has been ported to python-pygame. The features for now are : fighting, cavern code, jumping, moving around and room exits. There is also some weapon store, bank and fortune teller work. You start in Bosque Town and can go to the Cavern of Malicia. I will try to stay as close to the real thing as I can. The code is at https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyzeliard/files/ The license is GPL version 2. Enjoy, Automn -- my blog : http://thediaryofelvishhealer.blogspot.com/ Time heals.

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Pygments 2.0.2 released
by Georg Brandl Jan. 20, 2015

Jan. 20, 2015

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm happy to announce the release of Pygments 2.0.2. Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python. The 2.0.2 release contains a fix for a prominent bug that would duplicate tracebacks in the "Python console" lexer that's used, among others, for the display of doctest blocks in Sphinx. It is recommended to update. Report bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker: <http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main/issues>. Download it from <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygments>, or look at the demonstration at <http://pygments.org/demo>. Enjoy, Georg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlS9/q0ACgkQN9GcIYhpnLBM/QCdHwlKidM0pbxx9vowrdenAqBK YM0AniGfB/jFWdvqPlM4wmZRg166km9Z =oE6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ANN: eGenix Talks & Videos: Advanced Database Programming
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg Jan. 19, 2015

Jan. 19, 2015

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING eGenix Talks & Videos "Advanced Database Programming" This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/EuroPython-2014-Advanced-Database-Progra… ________________________________________________________________________ eGenix Talk "Advanced Database Programming" At last year's EuroPython 2014 conference in Berlin, Marc-André Lemburg, CEO of eGenix, gave the following talk on database programming in Python. We have now turned the talk into video presentation for easy viewing and also released the presentation slides: EuroPython 2014 - Advanced Database Programming ----------------------------------------------- Advanced concepts in Python database programming. The Python DB-API 2.0 provides a direct interface to many popular database backends. It makes interaction with relational database very straight forward and allows tapping into the full set of features these databases provide. This talk covers advanced database topics which are relevant in production environments such as locks, distributed transactions and transaction isolation. We also give advice on how to deal with common problems you face when working with complex database systems. http://www.egenix.com/library/presentations/EuroPython-2014-Advanced-Databa… Related Python Coaching and Consulting -------------------------------------- If you are interested in learning more about these advanced techniques, eGenix now offers Python project coaching and consulting services to give your project teams advice on how to implement complex database architectures in Python. Please contact our eGenix Sales Team (sales(a)egenix.com) for information. http://www.egenix.com/services/coaching/ More interesting eGenix presentations are available in the presentations and talks section of the library on our website: http://www.egenix.com/library/presentations/ Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 19 2015) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC Plone/Zope Database Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2015-01-09: Released eGenix pyOpenSSL 0.13.7 ... http://egenix.com/go68 2015-01-20: Python Meeting Duesseldorf ... http://egenix.com/go69 ::::: 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/

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Pygame RPG system including small game (GPLv2)
by Automn Jan. 18, 2015

Jan. 18, 2015

I wrote a small spellbook and priest RPG system with some enemy magic and player magic. There is a Faerun based game inside with four rooms. You could call it a graphical nethack (nethack.org.) The code is GPL version 2. Everything is at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/evermeet See the download area for the codebase. Best regards, Automn -- my blog : http://thediaryofelvishhealer.blogspot.com/ Time heals.

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Trac 1.0.3 Released
by Ryan Ollos Jan. 18, 2015

Jan. 18, 2015

Trac 1.0.3 Released =================== Trac 1.0.3, the third maintenance release for the current stable branch, is now available! You will find this release at the usual places: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDownload#LatestStableRelease https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Trac/1.0.3 Trac 1.0.3 was release in October 2014 and we've provided over 40 fixes and minor enhancements since then. A few highlights from this release: - Notification is sent when adding an attachment to a ticket (#2259). - Stylesheets and scripts are loaded during autopreview, resulting in proper syntax highlighting when code WikiProcessors are added (#10470) and display of Workflow graphs without explicit autopreview (#10674). - Merge changesets are shown as differences against first parent, resulting in less noisy changesets (#10740). - Pygments 2.0 is supported (#11796). - Fixed error when completing the `initenv` TracAdmin command (#11797). - Performance improvement on systems with many thousands of authenticated users due to caching of Environment.get_known_users (#11868). - Distribution metadata of wheel package is supported and displayed on the About page (#11877). You can find the detailed release notes for 1.0.3 on the following pages: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev/ReleaseNotes/1.0#MaintenanceReleases Now to the packages themselves: URLs: http://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.0.3.tar.gz http://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.0.3.win32.exe http://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.0.3.win-amd64.exe http://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.0.3.zip MD5 sums: 89681f15d6c27aa68c4d45d569807c87 Trac-1.0.3.zip 6a0e05e95782d2c807491540234d9bc7 Trac-1.0.3.tar.gz 7ea0358a53028cc079727bcc2ba5551d Trac-1.0.3.win32.exe 64fba69c2f2811feddd23f4962d633d0 Trac-1.0.3.win-amd64.exe SHA1 sums: Acknowledgements ================ Many thanks to the growing number of people who have, and continue to, support the project. Also our thanks to all people providing feedback and bug reports that helps us make Trac better, easier to use and more effective. Without your invaluable help, Trac would not evolve. Thank you all. Finally, we offer hope that Trac will prove itself useful to like- minded programmers around the world, and that this release will be an improvement over the last version. Please let us know. :-) /The Trac Team http://trac.edgewall.org/

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Trac 1.1.3 Released
by Ryan Ollos Jan. 18, 2015

Jan. 18, 2015

Trac 1.1.3 Released =================== Trac 1.1.3 continues the 1.1.x development line leading to 1.2 with some new features and a few not-so-disruptive changes. Note that the 1.1.x releases are "stable" and tested snapshots of the trunk. They can be seen as sub-milestones on the road towards Trac 1.2. As opposed to maintenance releases, *we offer no guarantees on feature and API compatibility from one 1.1.x release to the next*. However, by following 1.1.x you get a chance to use new features earlier, and therefore be able to contribute feedback when things are still in flux. It's also less risky than just getting the latest trunk, as we won't cut a 1.1.x release in the middle of a series of changes (though we had and still intend to have a good record of keeping things always working on trunk). The intended audience are therefore enthusiast Trac users and Trac plugin developers. These packages should *not* be integrated in distributions, for example. Here are a few highlights: - The ticket creation step can be configured in the TracWorkflow and the workflow controls are present on the NewTicket page (#2045). - New notification system that can be extended by plugins (#3517). - New preferences panel for notification subscriptions (#4056). - Wiki page version comments can be edited by users with `WIKI_ADMIN` (#6573). - Improved positioning of //Add Comment// section and //author// field on the ticket form (#10207). - The delete confirmation pages warn if attachments will also be deleted (#11542). - Removed support for SilverCity, Enscript and PhpRenderer syntax highlighters (#11795). - Combined //Date & Time// and //Language// preference panels as //Localization// (#11813). - Groups and permissions can be used in the workflow `set_owner` attribute (#11839). Besides the few issues listed here, the fixes made for 1.0.3 are also included. You can find all the detailed release notes at: - http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev/ReleaseNotes/1.1#DevelopmentReleases - http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev/ReleaseNotes/1.0#MaintenanceReleases Download URLs: http://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.1.3.tar.gz http://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.1.3.win32.exe http://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.1.3.win-amd64.exe http://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.1.3.zip MD5 sums: d4358eef1ee1e6a899368e3b4dcb9de1 Trac-1.1.3.zip 5a882ddffc33743b885a145b977b0847 Trac-1.1.3.tar.gz dbc258b8a88f86ab428187751dfdb3ee Trac-1.1.3.win32.exe 77757ed80de03c837294b252d4b117bb Trac-1.1.3.win-amd64.exe SHA1 sums: 624d1255475541c031719dca2cfe43690deed827 Trac-1.1.3.zip f6edb7f685a31f869b9dcc813168c2c3097f206d Trac-1.1.3.tar.gz d78ddf0c697772606699dd90c5a76cafb0f8981c Trac-1.1.3.win32.exe c01879221c6bd9fec7857bd8d0972e5ccb71d2c6 Trac-1.1.3.win-amd64.exe Enjoy! - The Trac Team http://trac.edgewall.org/

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Your Python Stock Trading Algorithm, $100,000 of Our Money, & You Keep the Profit
by andrew＠quantopian.com Jan. 17, 2015

Jan. 17, 2015

The Quantopian Open is a paper trading competition. If you win, your algorithm will manage $100,000 of our money and you keep 100% of the profits. Submit your algo before market open on February 2, 2015 in order to be considered. The first winner will be selected on February 28th. www.quantopian.com/open Our development and backtesting platform is built around Python and all the open source modules you have come to love.

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EuroPython 2015: Landing in Bilbao
by M.-A. Lemburg Jan. 17, 2015

Jan. 17, 2015

After a creative and inspiring Friday afternoon, we are pleased to announce our EuroPython 2015 landing page: http://ep2015.europython.eu/ This will be the URL for EuroPython 2015 - definitely worth a bookmark, we think :-) Enjoy, -— EuroPython Society (EPS) http://www.europython-society.org/

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[ANN] Pylint 1.4.1 / Astroid 1.3.3 released
by Claudiu Popa Jan. 16, 2015

Jan. 16, 2015

Hello, It's my pleasure to announce the release of both Pylint 1.4.1 and Astroid 1.3.3 respectively. The following bug fixes and features made their way into Astroid 1.3.3: * Restore file_stream to a property, but deprecate it in favour of the newly added method Module.stream. * Add inference tips for 'tuple', 'list', 'dict' and 'set' builtins. * Add brain definition for most string and unicode methods * Add a new method to Class nodes, 'mro', for obtaining the the method resolution order of the class. * Add brain tips for six.moves. Closes issue #63. * .slots() can contain unicode strings on Python 2. * Add inference tips for nose.tools. The complete list of changes can be seen here: https://bitbucket.org/logilab/astroid/src/15cff6016b793bb64c92d04acc4da001a… For Pylint, we have the following fixes and features: * Add a new JSON reporter, usable through -f flag. * Add a new warning, 'redundant-unittest-assert', emitted when using unittest's methods assertTrue and assertFalse with constant value as argument. * Check the return of properties when checking for not-callable. Closes issue #406. * Warn about using the input() or round() built-ins for Python 3. Closes issue #411. * Use a mro traversal for finding abstract methods. Closes issue #415. * Fix a false positive on Python 2 for raising-bad-type, when raising tuples in the form 'raise (ZeroDivisionError, None)'. * Fix a false positive with invalid-slots-objects, where the slot entry was an unicode string on Python 2. Closes issue #421. The complete list of changes can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/src/02eabae6b72569876e7104db7724ad26a7… If you find any bugs, don't hesitate to open a new issue on our issue tracker (https://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/) Enjoy!

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xlwings v0.3.1 released
by Felix Zumstein Jan. 16, 2015

Jan. 16, 2015

I am happy to announce the release of xlwings v0.3.1: This fixes a long-standing bug that caused Excel to close/reopen under certain circumstances. It also adds a Workbook.set_mock_caller() method that makes it a lot easier to call code from Excel and Python without changes. See the full Release Notes here: http://docs.xlwings.org/whatsnew.html About xlwings: xlwings is a BSD-licensed python library that makes it easy to call python from Excel and vice versa: Interact with Excel from python using a syntax that is close to VBA yet pythonic. Replace your VBA macros with python code and still pass around your workbooks as easily as before. xlwings fully supports NumPy arrays and Pandas DataFrames. It works with Microsoft Excel on Windows and Mac. http://xlwings.org

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