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[ANN] bcolz v0.10.0
by Valentin Haenel 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

======================= Announcing bcolz 0.10.0 ======================= What's new ========== This is a cleanup-and-refactor release with many internal optimizations and a few bug fixes. For users, the most important improvement is the new-and-shiny context manager for bcolz objects. For example for the ctable constructor:: >>> with bcolz.ctable(np.empty(0, dtype="i4,f8"), ...: rootdir='mydir', mode="w") as ct: ...: for i in xrange(N): ...: ct.append((i, i**2)) ...: >>> bcolz.ctable(rootdir='mydir') ctable((100000,), [('f0', '<i4'), ('f1', '<f8')]) nbytes: 1.14 MB; cbytes: 247.18 KB; ratio: 4.74 cparams := cparams(clevel=5, shuffle=True, cname='blosclz') rootdir := 'mydir' [(0, 0.0) (1, 1.0) (2, 4.0) ..., (99997, 9999400009.0) (99998, 9999600004.0) (99999, 9999800001.0)] This is very useful for on-disk objects since it takes care of flushing the data automatically. It works with all the top-level functions as listed in: http://bcolz.blosc.org/reference.html#top-level-functions. For a complete list of changes check the release notes at: https://github.com/Blosc/bcolz/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.rst What it is ========== *bcolz* provides columnar and compressed data containers that can live either on-disk or in-memory. Column storage allows for efficiently querying tables with a large number of columns. It also allows for cheap addition and removal of column. In addition, bcolz objects are compressed by default for reducing memory/disk I/O needs. The compression process is carried out internally by Blosc, an extremely fast meta-compressor that is optimized for binary data. Lastly, high-performance iterators (like ``iter()``, ``where()``) for querying the objects are provided. bcolz can use numexpr internally so as to accelerate many vector and query operations (although it can use pure NumPy for doing so too). numexpr optimizes the memory usage and use several cores for doing the computations, so it is blazing fast. Moreover, since the carray/ctable containers can be disk-based, and it is possible to use them for seamlessly performing out-of-memory computations. bcolz has minimal dependencies (NumPy), comes with an exhaustive test suite and fully supports both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Also, it is typically tested on both UNIX and Windows operating systems. Together, bcolz and the Blosc compressor, are finally fulfilling the promise of accelerating memory I/O, at least for some real scenarios: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/Blosc/movielens-bench/blob/master/queryi… Other users of bcolz are Visualfabriq (http://www.visualfabriq.com/) the Blaze project (http://blaze.pydata.org/), Quantopian (https://www.quantopian.com/) and Scikit-Allel (https://github.com/cggh/scikit-allel) which you can read more about by pointing your browser at the links below. * Visualfabriq: * *bquery*, A query and aggregation framework for Bcolz: * https://github.com/visualfabriq/bquery * Blaze: * Notebooks showing Blaze + Pandas + BColz interaction: * http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/blaze.pydata.org/notebooks/timings-csv.ipynb * http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/blaze.pydata.org/notebooks/timings-bcolz.ip… * Quantopian: * Using compressed data containers for faster backtesting at scale: * https://quantopian.github.io/talks/NeedForSpeed/slides.html * Scikit-Allel * Provides an alternative backend to work with compressed arrays * https://scikit-allel.readthedocs.org/en/latest/bcolz.html Installing ========== bcolz is in the PyPI repository, so installing it is easy:: $ pip install -U bcolz Resources ========= Visit the main bcolz site repository at: http://github.com/Blosc/bcolz Manual: http://bcolz.blosc.org Home of Blosc compressor: http://blosc.org User's mail list: bcolz(a)googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/bcolz License is the new BSD: https://github.com/Blosc/bcolz/blob/master/LICENSES/BCOLZ.txt Release notes can be found in the Git repository: https://github.com/Blosc/bcolz/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.rst ---- **Enjoy data!**

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Nikola version 7.6.1 released
by Roberto Alsina 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.6.1. It fixes some bugs and adds new features. 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 Jupyter (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 (which is rebuilding only what has been changed). Find out more at the website: https://getnikola.com/ Key Changes since v7.6.0 ======================== * Many Wordpress importer improvements * Modern reST stylesheets, based in part on Bootstrap 3 (Issue #1150) Downloads ========= Get it on [GitHub][] and [PyPI][]. [GitHub]: https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/releases/tag/v7.6.1 [PyPI]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Nikola/7.6.1 Changes ======= Features -------- * Several improvements to WordPress importer (PR #1867): * Allowing to export categories and category hierarchy with --export-categories-as-categories * Allowing to exclude private posts, and allowing to include empty posts * Allowing to use HTTP authentication for downloads with --download-auth (PR #1848) * Allowing to export comments with --export-comments * Allowing to use WordPress page compiler to directly convert posts to HTML on import with --transform-to-html * Allowing to use WordPress page compiler on imported site instead of converting posts to markdown with --use-wordpress-compiler * Allowing to automatically install the WordPress page compiler when needed with --install-wordpress-compiler * Exporting information on attachments per post as JSON (#1867 and #1888) * Exporting post status and excerpt * New ‘pagekind’ variable available to identify different kind of pages from theme templates * Add ``--no-server`` option to ``nikola auto`` (Issue #1883) * Always return unicode in slugify (Issue #1885) * Remove logging handlers (Issue #1797) * Add ``-d``, ``--detach`` option to ``nikola serve`` (Issue #1871) * Use provided teaser format (``*_READ_MORE_LINK``) with custom teaser text (Issue #1879) * Delete old ``bootstrap`` theme (use ``bootstrap3`` instead) * Screen reader-friendly navbar collapses and dropdowns (Issue #1863) * Modern reST stylesheets, based in part on Bootstrap 3 (Issue #1150) Bugfixes -------- * Add missing ``xmlns:xhtml`` namespace to sitemaps (Issue #1890) * Fixed superfluous rebuild problems with Python 3. Note that this will cause rebuilds for most sites. (Issue #1887) * Fix links in sample post (Issue #1874) * Don't use deprecated Yapsy methods (Isue #1868) * Surpress wincing when auto is aborted during rebuilding * Show tags only from the current language on tag listing pages (Issue #1856) * Remove gap between line numbers and code (Issue #1859) * Fix spurious warnings about posts published in the future (Issue #1850)

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ANN: psutil 3.1.0 released
by Giampaolo Rodola' 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

Hello all, I'm glad to announce the release of psutil 3.1.0: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/ About ===== psutil (python system and process utilities) is a cross-platform library for retrieving information on running processes and system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network) in Python. It is useful mainly for system monitoring, profiling and limiting process resources and management of running processes. It implements many functionalities offered by command line tools such as: ps, top, lsof, netstat, ifconfig, who, df, kill, free, nice, ionice, iostat, iotop, uptime, pidof, tty, taskset, pmap. It currently supports Linux, Windows, OSX, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris, both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, with Python versions from 2.6 to 3.5 (users of Python 2.4 and 2.5 may use 2.1.3 version). PyPy is also known to work. New fatures ========= - [Linux] disk_partitions() added support for ZFS filesystems. - continuous tests integration for Windows - continuous code quality test integration Main bugfixes =========== - [Windows] Process.open_files() no longer hangs. Instead it uses a thred which times out and skips the file handle in case it's taking too long to be retrieved. (patch by Jeff Tang) - [Windows] Process.name() no longer raises AccessDenied for pids owned by another user. - [Windows] Process.memory_info() no longer raises AccessDenied for pids owned by another user. - [Linux] Process.cmdline() can be truncated. - [Windows] add inet_ntop function for Windows XP to support IPv6. Links ==== - Home page: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil - Downloads: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=psutil#downloads - Documentation: http://pythonhosted.org/psutil/ -- Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com

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ANN python-taiga 0.4.0
by Andrea Stagi 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Python-taiga 0.4.0 released! python-taiga is a python module for communicating with Taiga.io, a new project management platform! For more info https://taiga.io/ This release includes minfixes and support for tasks, issues and user stories history. You can find python-taiga code on Github https://github.com/nephila/python-taiga Any kind of contribution is appreciated! :) -- 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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xlwings v0.3.6 adds support for Excel 2016 for Mac!
by Felix Zumstein 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

I am pleased to announce the release of xlwings v0.3.6: This release mainly adds support for the brand new Excel 2016 on Mac and allows for a parallel installation of Excel 2011 and 2016. Check the Release Notes for full details: 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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Call for proposals for PyCon Spain is open!
by Juan Luis Cano 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Hello all: On behalf of the Python Spain association and the PyConES 2015 organizer team, I am very pleased to announce that *the call for proposals for PyConES 2015 is open*! http://2015.es.pycon.org/en/blog/call-for-proposals-open/ PyConES is the yearly Python Conference in Spain, which will celebrate its third edition on November 21st and 22nd in Valencia, with a tutorials/workshops session on Friday 20th. It is a moderately big event, with a steady attendee count of 350 people since its very first edition in Madrid and three parallel tracks. You can read the details of the announcement here: http://2015.es.pycon.org/en/blog/get-ready-for-pycones-2015/ You can already buy your tickets for the conference: the early bird ones were sold in less than 24 hours, and we expect them to be sold out soon after the schedule is published, so don't miss your opportunity! https://www.ticketea.com/pycones2015/ For further information please don't hesitate to contact us on this email: contacto2015(a)es.pycon.org <mailto:contacto2015@es.pycon.org> See you at PyConES this November! Juan Luis Cano PyConES 2015 Team Chair of Python Spain Association

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Trac 0.12.7 Released
by Ryan Ollos 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Trac 0.12.7 Released ==================== Trac 0.12.7, a maintenance release for the long term maintenance release line 0.12.x, is here. You will find this release at the usual places: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDownload#PreviousStableRelease https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Trac/0.12.7 For the security conscious people, the md5sums of the packages are: 3abf3329989bbf9cbc581e3058dfa56e Trac-0.12.7.tar.gz 10a7d3c3bf801d7f7a46cfbb2b1af903 Trac-0.12.7.win32.exe d888e4267602cf32abcf8e6d48eb8b07 Trac-0.12.7.win-amd64.exe 7bc761d3a234e130c729900f21dd2e26 Trac-0.12.7.zip Trac 0.12.7 fixes a minor security issue, as well as a half dozen other minor issues: - InterWiki filters links through `[wiki] safe_schemes` option if `[wiki] render_unsafe_content` is disabled (#12053). You can find the detailed list of tickets at: http://trac.edgewall.org/milestone/0.12.7 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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[ANN] pikka-bird collector 0.2.0, server 0.1.0, puppet 0.1.0 released
by tiredpixel 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Dear People, I'm pleased to announce 3 related releases of Pikka Bird, a new ops monitoring tool aiming for ease of use and configuration. pikka-bird-collector 0.2.0: Pikka Bird ops monitoring tool Collector component. (Python) https://github.com/tiredpixel/pikka-bird-collector-py pikka-bird-server 0.1.0: Pikka Bird ops monitoring tool Server component. (Python) https://github.com/tiredpixel/pikka-bird-server-py pikka-bird-puppet 0.1.0: Pikka Bird ops monitoring tool Puppet module. (Puppet) https://github.com/tiredpixel/pikka-bird-puppet Changelogs would be fairly long, so excuse me for not posting them here. If you are interested, however, please see `CHANGELOG.md` in the repos above, or the main release announcements on the `pikka.bird` Librelist. (archives http://librelist.com/browser/pikka.bird/, sign up details in repos above) This is my first public announcement of a release on this list. Thus, it is possible that I by accident somehow breach etiquette for a missive of this nature. If this transpires, please accept my apologies - -- and please also let me know! :) Peace, tiredpixel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJVovE6AAoJEOFolTkanF7VOHcH/jIejHTEwHQFObwBlFvsQJS1 8S8S+xM7uwEqlXwUSq0xvV1LwRYwLnkxQKt0jJ43Rb33Zp78jizX6SwWy9F0D0mN +jaOte1hWBeoDLQLvSrheHMui+uLHes3dCloZ0j51ApofgG4eg5ghIGIS2BzhEmV mIreUqWYwjL6H+sanzLRsg7T3LRV7U4ucsTfohyo1yooqoLj27LZMrhxNeMPM43n wl6ObJL84izGwYK2HQxgekbdkzwEb4PEqiNXR3Qwsyr+YDdl87aP92W3wh7S2QB/ rz3FfF6g1m0flNtVFa6c4K3/aFf8otiPDXGhYNjaWF7ntR8Aqf6WpEUl1SpIxyc= =bIkz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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EuroPython 2015: Recruiting Offers
by M.-A. Lemburg 12 Jul '15

12 Jul '15

Many of our sponsors are looking for new employees, so EuroPython 2015 is not only an exciting conference, but may very well also be your chance to find the perfect job you’ve always been looking for. Sponsor job board ----------------- We will post sponsor recruiting offers on the job board of our website: *** https://ep2015.europython.eu/en/sponsor/job-board/ *** Sponsor recruiting messages --------------------------- If you want to receive the sponsor messages directly to your inbox, please log in to the website and enable the recruiting message option in your privacy settings: https://ep2015.europython.eu/accounts/profile/#account-spam-control Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2015 Team http://ep2015.europython.eu/ http://www.europython-society.org/

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PEP8's repository has moved to the PyCQA organization on GitHub
by Ian Cordasco 12 Jul '15

12 Jul '15

Hey everyone, I just wanted to let all of you know that late last night Johann Rocholl, creator of pep8, has moved the project to the PyCQA organization on GitHub. The new URL for the project is https://github.com/PyCQA/pep8. All old issues and pull requests are preserved as part of the process. For more information, please read http://www.coglib.com/~icordasc/blog/2015/07/moving-pep8-to-the-pycqa.html Cheers, Ian Cordasco Core developer of Flake8, requests, and a few other projects

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