Mailman 3 March 2015 - Python-announce-list

TextTest 3.28 - blackbox testing tool
by Geoff Bache March 12, 2015

March 12, 2015

Dear all, The latest release of TextTest includes - New commenting feature added to the HTML report. - HTML report now automatically cleans old runs. - New feature in static GUI for experimenting with run dependent text. - "Rerun" functionality overhauled, can now load rerun results into original run. - Bug fixes. Cloud support more reliable. and many other things besides. Regards, Geoff Bache .... TextTest is a tool for automatic text-based functional testing. This means running a batch-mode executable in lots of different ways from the command line, and using the text output produced as a means of controlling the behavior of that application. As well as being usable "standalone", it is an extendable framework for black-box testing written in Python. It's also useful as a test management tool wrapping some other test tool as a test runner. Homepage: http://www.texttest.org Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/texttest Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/texttest-users Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/texttest Source: https://code.launchpad.net/texttest

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SEA conference -- Python for Scientific Computing
by Davide Del Vento March 11, 2015

March 11, 2015

The Annual SEA Conference and Tutorials are intended to be forums for broad discussions on multiple aspects of scientific software engineering. This year's conference and tutorials will be focused on Python for Scientific Computing. Early bird registration is only $175 and we have a terrific program! Find out more at https://sea.ucar.edu/conference/2015 Regards, SEA Chair http://sea.ucar.edu/

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EuroPython 2015: Early-Bird tickets sold out!
by M.-A. Lemburg March 11, 2015

March 11, 2015

We are very happy to announce that early-bird tickets are sold out! The tickets were sold in less than a week! We’d like to thank everyone for the fantastic feedback. Given the rush to the early-bird tickets (we sold 100 tickets in the first 4 hours), we recommend to not wait too long before getting your standard ticket. It is likely, we’ll sell out early again this year. As announced we had temporarily closed the registration for a short while today and have now reopened it with the standard rate prices: *** https://ep2015.europython.eu/en/registration/ *** Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2015 Team http://www.europython-society.org/

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[ANN] Pylint 1.4.2 / Astroid 1.3.5 released
by Claudiu Popa March 11, 2015

March 11, 2015

Hello, I'm happy to announce the release of Pylint 1.4.2 and astroid 1.3.5. The following changes were included in these releases: For pylint: * Don't require a docstring for empty modules. Closes issue #261. * Fix a false positive with `too-few-format-args` string warning, emitted when the string format contained a normal positional argument ('{0}'), mixed with a positional argument which did an attribute access ('{0.__class__}'). Closes issue #463. * Take in account all the methods from the ancestors when checking for too-few-public-methods. Closes issue #471. * Catch enchant errors and emit 'invalid-characters-in-docstring' when checking for spelling errors. Closes issue #469. * Use all the inferred statements for the super-init-not-called check. Closes issue #389. * Add a new warning, 'unichr-builtin', emitted by the Python 3 porting checker, when the unichr builtin is found. Closes issue #472. * Add a new warning, 'intern-builtin', emitted by the Python 3 porting checker, when the intern builtin is found. Closes issue #473. * Add support for editable installations. * The HTML output accepts the `--msg-template` option. Patch by Dan Goldsmith. * Add 'map-builtin-not-iterating' (replacing 'implicit-map-evaluation'), 'zip-builtin-not-iterating', 'range-builtin-not-iterating', and 'filter-builtin-not-iterating' which are emitted by `--py3k` when the appropriate built-in is not used in an iterating context (semantics taken from 2to3). * Add a new warning, 'unidiomatic-typecheck', emitted when an explicit typecheck uses type() instead of isinstance(). For example, `type(x) == Y` instead of `isinstance(x, Y)`. Patch by Chris Rebert. Closes issue #299. * Add support for combining the Python 3 checker mode with the --jobs flag (--py3k and --jobs). Closes issue #467. * Add a new warning for the Python 3 porting checker, 'using-cmp-argument', emitted when the `cmp` argument for the `list.sort` or `sorted builtin` is encountered. * Make the --py3k flag commutative with the -E flag. Also, this patch fixes the leaks of error messages from the Python 3 checker when the errors mode was activated. Closes issue #437. For astroid: * Add the ability to optimize small ast subtrees, with the first use in the optimization of multiple BinOp nodes. This removes recursivity in the rebuilder when dealing with a lot of small strings joined by the addition operator. Closes issue #59. * Obtain the methods for the nose brain tip through an unittest.TestCase instance. Closes Pylint issue #457. * Fix a crash which occurred when a class was the ancestor of itself. Closes issue #78. * Improve the scope_lookup method for Classes regarding qualified objects, with an attribute name exactly as one provided in the class itself. For example, a class containing an attribute 'first', which was also an import and which had, as a base, a qualified name or a Gettattr node, in the form 'module.first', then Pylint would have inferred the `first` name as the function from the Class, not the import. Closes Pylint issue #466. * Implement the assigned_stmts operation for Starred nodes, which was omitted when support for Python 3 was added in astroid. Closes issue #36. If you find any bugs, don't hesitate to open a new issue on our issue tracker. Enjoy!

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ANN python-taiga 0.1.0
by Andrea Stagi March 11, 2015

March 11, 2015

python-taiga 0.1.0 released! python-taiga is a python module for communicating with the Taiga.io, a new project management platform, for more info https://taiga.io/ You can find python-taiga code on Github https://github.com/nephila/python- taiga Any kind of contribution is appreciated! :) =.4S.= -- Andrea Stagi (@4stagi) - Develover @Nephila Job profile: http://linkedin.com/in/andreastagi Website: http://4spills.blogspot.it/ Github: http://github.com/astagi

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Sphinx 1.3 released
by Takayuki Shimizukawa March 11, 2015

March 11, 2015

Hi all, I'm very happy to announce the release of Sphinx 1.3 available on the Python package index at <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx>. It includes about 50 features, several incompatible changes and fixes a lot of bugs/buglets from the 1.2.3 version of Sphinx. What's new in 1.3 (very short version)? ======================================= - Drop Python 2.5, 3.1, 3.2 support - Add Python 3.4 support - Drop docutils 0.10 or older support - Add docutils 0.12 support - Remove sphinx.ext.oldcmarkup extension - Rename Sphinx "default" theme into "classic" - Add Extensions: sphinx.ext.napoleon - Add Themes: alabaster (new default), sphinx_rtd_theme, bizstyle - Add Builders: applehelp - Add numfig feature that numbering figure, table and code-block - Add any role that can be used to find a cross-reference of any type in any domain - Add :caption: for toctree, code-block and literalinclude - Add sphinx-quickstart command line options and non-wizard mode - Add stemming support for 14 languages - Improvement of i18n: auto mo compile, uid calc is disabled by default, more translatable targets - Improvement of parallel building For the full changelog, go to <http://sphinx-doc.org/changes.html>. Thanks to all coraborators and contributers! 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 Enjoy! -- Takayuki SHIMIZUKAWA http://about.me/shimizukawa

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EuroPython 2015: Announcing standard ticket prices
by M.-A. Lemburg March 10, 2015

March 10, 2015

Last week has been very busy. We’ve launched the website, started the early-bird ticket sales and handled the first round of attendee questions with our brand new help desk system (based on django-helpdesk). At the same time, we have been finalizing the budget for the conference, which now allows us to set the standard ticket prices for this year. We tried to keep student prices as low as possible, since we would like to see more students at the conference: Student: EUR 120.00 Personal: EUR 340.00 Business: EUR 530.00 (incl. 10% Spanish VAT) Early-bird tickets are nearly sold out but we still have a few left. If you want to save some money, you can still get these tickets at highly reduced prices. *** https://ep2015.europython.eu/en/registration/ *** After the early-bird tickets have sold out, we’ll close the registration for a short while and then reopen it with the standard prices. Given the rush to early-bird tickets, we expect the conference to sell out again this year, so don’t wait too long before getting one. Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2015 Team http://www.europython-society.org/

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SQLObject 2.1.1 and 1.7.4
by Oleg Broytman March 9, 2015

March 9, 2015

Hello! I'm pleased to announce minor bugfix releases 2.1.1 and 1.7.4. What's new in SQLObject ======================= * Minor fix in PostgresConnection: close the cursor and connection in _createOrDropDatabase even after an error. Contributor for this release is Gregor Horvath. For a more complete list, please see the news: http://sqlobject.org/News.html What is SQLObject ================= SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. Your database tables are described as classes, and rows are instances of those classes. SQLObject is meant to be easy to use and quick to get started with. SQLObject supports a number of backends: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, Sybase, MSSQL and MaxDB (also known as SAPDB). Python 2.6 or 2.7 is required. Where is SQLObject ================== Site: http://sqlobject.org Development: http://sqlobject.org/devel/ Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/sqlobject-discuss Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlobject Download: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SQLObject/2.1.1 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SQLObject/1.7.4 News and changes: http://sqlobject.org/News.html Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd(a)phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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DePy 2015
by Massimo DiPierro March 9, 2015

March 9, 2015

Hello everybody, We are organizing a new conference on Python in Chicago (May 29-30) with focus on Numerical Applications, Machine Learning and Web: http://mdp.cdm.depaul.edu/DePy2015/default/index We are looking for participants, speakers, and sponsors. Please register and submit a submit a talk/tutorial proposal. Massimo

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[RELEASED] Python 3.5.0a2 is now available
by Larry Hastings March 9, 2015

March 9, 2015

On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.5 release team, I'm thrilled to announce the availability of Python 3.5.0a2. Python 3.5.0a2 is the second alpha release of Python 3.5, which will be the next major release of Python. Python 3.5 is still under heavy development, and is far from complete. This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended for production settings. Two important notes for Windows users about Python 3.5.0a2: * If you have previously installed Python 3.5.0a1, you must manually uninstall it before installing Python 3.5.0a2 (issue23612). * If installing Python 3.5.0a2 as a non-privileged user, you may need to escalate to administrator privileges to install an update to your C runtime libraries. You can find Python 3.5.0a2 here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-350a2/ Happy hacking, //arry/

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