Mailman 3 March 2015 - Python-announce-list

ChromeDriver Installer
by Peter Hudec 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Hi, You can now easily install the ChromeDriver executable with pip: (e)$ pip install chromedriver-installer https://github.com/peterhudec/chromedriver_installer Enjoy! Peter Hudec

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ANN: decorator 3.4.1
by Michele Simionato 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

The decorator module is 10 year old but still alive and kicking! This release 3.4.1 contains some minor bug fixes. The big change is in the hosting: since Google Code is shutting down the project is now hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/micheles/decorator You can download the new release from PyPI with the usual $ pip install decorator The documentation is on GitHub too: https://github.com/micheles/decorator/blob/3.4.1/documentation.rst (for Python 2.X) https://github.com/micheles/decorator/blob/3.4.1/documentation3.rst (for Python 3.X) Travis is now used to run the tests on several Python versions at the same time: https://travis-ci.org/micheles/decorator/builds/54584865 Enjoy! Michele Simionato

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devpi-client-2.1.0/devpi-server-2.1.5: maintenance releases
by holger krekel 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

We just released devpi-server-2.1.5 and devpi-client-2.1.0 as maintenance and minor improvement releases. devpi is a system for managing packaging, documentation, test and installation workflows for private Python packages. See http://doc.devpi.net for documentation and tutorials and below for the changelog. many thanks to Florian Schulze who did most of the heavy-lifting for this release and of course to the issue/PR creators! best, holger krekel changelogs ---------- devpi-server-2.1.5 (compared to 2.1.4): - fix devpi-ldap issue17: the push command directly used the username instead of using a general permission check, that caused groups in acl_upload to not be honored. - fix issue171: "devpi push" of an existing package fails on non volatile index and overwrites on volatile. - before devpi-server 2.1.5 it was possible to upload multiple documentation zip files for the same package version if the filename differed in case, this broke export and replication of server state and the documentation view. Now the newest upload will be used and older ones ignored. devpi-client-2.1.0 (compared to 2.0.5): - fix issue199: "devpi upload" and "devpi test" can now handle packages with dashes in their name. - change: the following fixes change behavior if used in scripts - fix issue174: ask for confirmation when deleting an index or user. - fix issue156 and issue199: "devpi push" now uses "pkgname==version" like "list" and "test". This also fixes usage with packages containing dashes in their name. -- about me: http://holgerkrekel.net/about-me/ contracting: http://merlinux.eu

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SQLObject 2.1.2 and 1.7.5
by Oleg Broytman 15 Mar '15

15 Mar '15

Hello! I'm pleased to announce versions 2.1.2 and 1.7.5, minor feature releases of of SQLObject. What's new in SQLObject ======================= * Use fdb adapter for Firebird. Contributor for this release is Neil Muller. 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/2.1.2 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SQLObject/1.7.5 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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requests v2.6.0 released
by Ian Cordasco 15 Mar '15

15 Mar '15

About Requests ++++++++++++++ Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings. Requests takes all of the work out of Python HTTP/1.1 — making your integration with web services seamless. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, powered by urllib3. 2.6.0 (2015-03-14) ++++++++++++++++++ **Bugfixes** - Fix handling of cookies on redirect. Previously a cookie without a host value set would use the hostname for the redirected URL exposing requests users to session fixation attacks and potentially cookie stealing. This was disclosed privately by Matthew Daley of `BugFuzz <https://bugfuzz.com>`_. An CVE identifier has not yet been assigned for this. This affects all versions of requests from v2.1.0 to v2.5.3 (inclusive on both ends). - Fix error when requests is an ``install_requires`` dependency and ``python setup.py test`` is run. (#2462) - Fix error when urllib3 is unbundled and requests continues to use the vendored import location. - Include fixes to ``urllib3``'s header handling. - Requests' handling of unvendored dependencies is now more restrictive. **Features and Improvements** - Support bytearrays when passed as parameters in the ``files`` argument. (#2468) - Avoid data duplication when creating a request with ``str``, ``bytes``, or ``bytearray`` input to the ``files`` argument. (Release notes are also available http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/community/updates/#software-updat… )

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Azure SDK v0.10.0 Released
by Christopher Wilcox 14 Mar '15

14 Mar '15

I am glad to announce the release of the Azure SDK for Python v0.10.0. This package is available on the Python package index at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/azure. The azure package makes it easy to access Microsoft Azure components such as Service Management, Storage Tables, Storage Blobs, Storage Queues, and Service Bus. Some of the things you can do with the Azure SDK are: - Create and Deploy Linux or Windows VMs - Create Storage Accounts - Transfer data on many storage offerings Notable updates for v0.10.0 include: - Performance improvements in xml deserialization of storage and service bus Table storage query_entities is ~25X faster for the maximum of 1000 entities - Ability to upload and download blobs using multiple connections, along with retries when a chunk upload/download failure occurs Controlled via the max_connections, max_retries, retry_wait parameters - Use get_certificate_from_publish_settings to get a .pem certificate from your azure publish settings file - Ability to adjust the global http timeout - Service bus event hub support (create/update/delete hubs + send events) Also, I want to thank GitHub users lmazuel, rhaps0dy, timfpark, gaellbn, moutai, edevil, rjschwei and okaram for their contributions. Full Release Notes: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/releases/tag/v0.10.0

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StoryText 3.12 - GUI testing tool
by Geoff Bache 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

Hi all, The 3.12 release features the following: - Basic support for PyGI added, so PyGTK support is now compatible with GTK3 applications. - StoryText Editor GUI now allows user to choose when there are several variants of an action description - SWT/Eclipse enhancements, notable improved image description and NatTable support being more mature and complete Regards, Geoff Bache A bit more detail: StoryText is an unconventional GUI testing tool for PyGTK, Tkinter, wxPython, Swing and SWT along with a Python framework for testing GUIs in general. Instead of recording GUI mechanics directly, it asks the user for descriptive names and hence builds up a "domain language" along with a "UI map file" that translates this language into actions on the current GUI widgets. The point is to reduce coupling, allow very expressive tests, and ensure that GUI changes mean changing the UI map file but not all the tests. Instead of an "assertion" mechanism, it auto-generates a log of the GUI appearance and changes to it. The point is then to use that as a baseline for text-based testing, using TextTest. It also includes support for instrumenting code so that "waits" can be recorded, making it far easier for a tester to record correctly synchronized tests without having to explicitly plan for this. Homepage: http://www.texttest.org/index.php?page=ui_testing Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyusecase Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/texttest-users Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/storytext/ Source: https://code.launchpad.net/sto <https://code.launchpad.net/storytext/>rytext

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Karlsruhe (Germany) Python User Group, March 20th 2015, 7pm
by Jürgen A. Erhard 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

The Karlsruhe Python User Group (KaPy) meets again. Friday, 2015-03-20 (March 20th) at 19:00 (7pm) in the rooms of Entropia eV (the local affiliate of the CCC). See http://entropia.de/wiki/Anfahrt on how to get there. For your calendars: meetings are held monthly, on the 3rd Friday. There's also a mailing list at https://lists.bl0rg.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kapy.

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EuroPython 2015: Call for proposal dates available
by M.-A. Lemburg 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

The Program work group (WG) has decided on the dates for the Call for Proposal (CFP) dates: Monday, 2015-03-16 Tuesday, 2015-04-14 You will be able to submit your proposals through the EuroPython website during these 4 weeks. We have these types of presentations available for submission: * Talks: 170 slots available (80x 30min, 85x 45min, 5x 60min) * Trainings: 20 slots * Posters: 25 slots * Help desks: 5 slots Please note that the exact number of submissions we can accept depends on schedule and room requirements, so the above numbers are only estimates. Talk times include time for questions. The full Call for Proposal with all details will be made available on Monday, 2015-03-16. We are publishing these dates early because we’ve been getting a lot of requests for the CFP dates. Talks/Trainings in Spanish and Basque ------------------------------------- Since EuroPython is hosted in Bilbao and EuroPython has traditionally always been very open to the local Python communities, we are also accepting a number of talks and trainings in Spanish and Basque. All other talks/trainings should be held in English. Talk voting ----------- As in 2013, we will again have talk voting, which means that attendees who have already registered will get to see the talk submissions and can vote on them. The Program WG will also set aside a number of slots which they will then select based on other criteria to e.g. increase diversity or give a chance to less mainstream topics. The schedule will then be announced early in May. Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2015 Team http://www.europython-society.org/

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC 3.3.2 - Python ODBC Database Interface
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

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It includes these enhancements and fixes: Driver Compatibility -------------------- MS SQL Server * Fixed an "ODBC driver sent negative string size" error when using empty strings or None with output parameters for SQL Server ODBC drivers. * Clarified that due to the way the SQL Server ODBC driver sends data, mixing output parameters and output result sets is not possible. A work-around for this is to send back output parameters as additional result set. SAP Sybase ASE * Added a work-around for the Sybase ASE ODBC driver which has problems with BIGINT columns. These are now supported. * Fixed a possible "ODBC driver sent negative string size" error when using empty strings or None with output parameters for Sybase ASE ODBC drivers. Misc ---- * Fixed the handling of None as default value for output parameters in e.g. stored procedures to use VARCHAR binding rather than CHAR binding. The latter caused padding with some database backends. * Changed cursor.colcount to be determined on-demand rather than right after the prepare step of statement execution. * Fixed an issue with mxODBC triggering unwanted ODBC errors after the prepare step when calling a stored procedure. These were not reported, but do show up in the ODBC log. * Fixed some minor issues with the package web installer. For the full set of changes please check the mxODBC change log: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBC/changelog.html ________________________________________________________________________ FEATURES mxODBC 3.3 was released on 2014-04-08. 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Please see http://www.egenix.com/services/support/ for details about our support offerings. _______________________________________________________________________ INFORMATION About Python (http://www.python.org/): Python is an object-oriented Open Source programming language which runs on all modern platforms. By integrating ease-of-use, clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid application design, Python establishes an ideal programming platform for today's IT challenges. About eGenix (http://www.egenix.com/): eGenix is a software project, consulting and product company focusing on expert services and professional quality products for companies, Python users and developers. 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