Mailman 3 October 2016 - Python-announce-list

ANN: Leo 5.4
by Edward K. Ream Oct. 22, 2016

Oct. 22, 2016

Leo <http://leoeditor.com/> 5.4 is now available on SourceForge <http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/Leo/> and on GitHub <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor>. Many thanks to all who have contributed. Special thanks to those who have made major improvements to Leo's Wikipedia page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_%28text_editor%29>. Leo is an IDE, outliner and PIM, as described here <http://leoeditor.com/preface.html>. Simulating Leo's features in Vim, Emacs or Eclipse is possible, just as it is possible to simulate Python in assembly language... *The highlights of Leo 5.4* - Added clone-find commands, a new way to use Leo. - The clone-find and tag-all-children commands unify clones and tags. - The new pyflakes and flake8 make it possible to check files from within Leo. - Added importers for freemind, mindjet, json and coffeescript files. - Rewrote the javascript importer. - Imported files can optionally contain section references. - The viewrendered plugin supports @pyplot nodes. - Improved the mod_http plugin. - @chapter trees need no longer be children of @chapters nodes. - All known bugs have been fixed. *Links* - Leo's home page <http://leoeditor.com> - Documentation <http://leoeditor.com/leo_toc.html> - Tutorials <http://leoeditor.com/tutorial.html> - Video tutorials <http://leoeditor.com/screencasts.html> - Forum <http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor> - Download <http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/> - Leo on GitHub <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor> - What people are saying about Leo <http://leoeditor.com/testimonials.html> - A web page that displays .leo files <http://leoeditor.com/load-leo.html> - More links <http://leoeditor.com/leoLinks.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edward K. Ream: edreamleo(a)gmail.com Leo: http://leoeditor.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ANN: Python Meeting Düsseldorf - 26.10.2016
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg Oct. 20, 2016

Oct. 20, 2016

[This announcement is in German since it targets a local user group meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany] ________________________________________________________________________ ANKÜNDIGUNG Python Meeting Düsseldorf http://pyddf.de/ Ein Treffen von Python Enthusiasten und Interessierten in ungezwungener Atmosphäre. Mittwoch, 26.10.2016, 18:00 Uhr Raum 1, 2.OG im Bürgerhaus Stadtteilzentrum Bilk Düsseldorfer Arcaden, Bachstr. 145, 40217 Düsseldorf Diese Nachricht ist auch online verfügbar: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/Python-Meeting-Duesseldorf-2016-10-26 ________________________________________________________________________ NEUIGKEITEN * Bereits angemeldete Vorträge: Charlie Clark "Testing mit Hypothesis" Tom Engemann "MicroPython auf dem ESP8266" Johannes Spielmann "PyCharm als Python IDE" Jochen Wersdörfer "CookieCutter" Matthias Endler "Visual Studio Code als Python IDE" Weitere Vorträge können gerne noch angemeldet werden: info(a)pyddf.de * Startzeit und Ort: Wir treffen uns um 18:00 Uhr im Bürgerhaus in den Düsseldorfer Arcaden. Das Bürgerhaus teilt sich den Eingang mit dem Schwimmbad und befindet sich an der Seite der Tiefgarageneinfahrt der Düsseldorfer Arcaden. Über dem Eingang steht ein großes "Schwimm' in Bilk" Logo. Hinter der Tür direkt links zu den zwei Aufzügen, dann in den 2. Stock hochfahren. Der Eingang zum Raum 1 liegt direkt links, wenn man aus dem Aufzug kommt. Google Street View: http://bit.ly/11sCfiw ________________________________________________________________________ EINLEITUNG Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf ist eine regelmäßige Veranstaltung in Düsseldorf, die sich an Python Begeisterte aus der Region wendet: * http://pyddf.de/ Einen guten Überblick über die Vorträge bietet unser YouTube-Kanal, auf dem wir die Vorträge nach den Meetings veröffentlichen: * http://www.youtube.com/pyddf/ Veranstaltet wird das Meeting von der eGenix.com GmbH, Langenfeld, in Zusammenarbeit mit Clark Consulting & Research, Düsseldorf: * http://www.egenix.com/ * http://www.clark-consulting.eu/ ________________________________________________________________________ PROGRAMM Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf nutzt eine Mischung aus Open Space und Lightning Talks, wobei die Gewitter bei uns auch schon mal 20 Minuten dauern können ;-). Lightning Talks können vorher angemeldet werden, oder auch spontan während des Treffens eingebracht werden. Ein Beamer mit XGA Auflösung steht zur Verfügung. Lightning Talk Anmeldung bitte formlos per EMail an info(a)pyddf.de ________________________________________________________________________ KOSTENBETEILIGUNG Das Python Meeting Düsseldorf wird von Python Nutzern für Python Nutzer veranstaltet. Um die Kosten zumindest teilweise zu refinanzieren, bitten wir die Teilnehmer um einen Beitrag in Höhe von EUR 10,00 inkl. 19% Mwst, Schüler und Studenten zahlen EUR 5,00 inkl. 19% Mwst. Wir möchten alle Teilnehmer bitten, den Betrag in bar mitzubringen. ________________________________________________________________________ ANMELDUNG Da wir nur für ca. 20 Personen Sitzplätze haben, möchten wir bitten, sich per EMail anzumelden. Damit wird keine Verpflichtung eingegangen. Es erleichtert uns allerdings die Planung. Meeting Anmeldung bitte formlos per EMail an info(a)pyddf.de ________________________________________________________________________ WEITERE INFORMATIONEN Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Webseite des Meetings: http://pyddf.de/ Mit freundlichen Grüßen, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Database Interfaces ... http://products.egenix.com/ >>> Plone/Zope Database Interfaces ... http://zope.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: 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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Leo 5.4-b1 released
by Edward K. Ream Oct. 20, 2016

Oct. 20, 2016

Leo <http://leoeditor.com/> 5.4-b1 is now available on SourceForge <http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/Leo/>. Leo is an IDE, a PIM and and an outliner. *The highlights of Leo 5.4* - Added clone-find commands, a new way to use Leo. - The clone-find and tag-all-children commands unify clones and tags. - The new pyflakes and flake8 make it possible to check files from within Leo. - Added importers for freemind, mindjet, json and coffeescript files. - Rewrote the javascript importer. It can optionally generate section references. - Imported files can optionally contain section references. - The viewrendered plugin supports @pyplot nodes. - Improved the mod_http plugin. - @chapter trees need no longer be children of @chapters nodes. - All known bugs have been fixed. *Leo is*: - A fully-featured IDE, with Emacs-like commands. - An outliner. Everything in Leo is an outline. - A Personal Information Manager. - A browser with a memory. - A powerful scripting environment. - A tool for studying other people's code. - Extensible via a simple plugin architecture. - A tool that plays well with IPython, vim and xemacs. - Written in 100% pure Python - Compatible with Python 2.6 and above or Python 3.0 and above. - A tool with an inspiring and active community. *Leo's unique features*: - Always-present, persistent, outline structure. - Leo's underlying data is a Directed Acyclic Graph. - Clones create multiple views of an outline. - A simple, powerful, outline-oriented Python API. - Scripts and programs can be composed from outlines. - Importers convert flat text into outlines. - Scripts have full access to all of Leo's sources. - Commands that act on outline structure. Example: the rst3 command converts outlines to reStructuredText. - @test and @suite scripts create unit tests automatically. - @button scripts apply scripts to outline data. - Outline-oriented directives. Simulating these features in vim, Emacs or Eclipse is possible, just as it is possible to simulate Python in assembly language... *Links* - Leo's home page <http://leoeditor.com> - Documentation <http://leoeditor.com/leo_toc.html> - Tutorials <http://leoeditor.com/tutorial.html> - Video tutorials <http://leoeditor.com/screencasts.html> - Forum <http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor> - Download <http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/> - Leo on GitHub <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor> - What people are saying about Leo <http://leoeditor.com/testimonials.html> - A web page that displays .leo files <http://leoeditor.com/load-leo.html> - More links <http://leoeditor.com/leoLinks.html> Edward ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edward K. Ream: edreamleo(a)gmail.com Leo: http://leoeditor.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[ANN] 'tsshbatch' Server Automation Tool Version 1.317 Released
by Tim Daneliuk Oct. 19, 2016

Oct. 19, 2016

'tsshbatch' Version 1.317 is now released and available for download at: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tsshbatch This is a major update with important bug fixes and improvements. Existing users will want to update sooner rather than later. The last public release was 1.228. --------------------------------------------------------------------- What Is 'tsshbatch'? -------------------- 'tsshbatch' is a server automation tool to enable you to issue commands to many servers without having to log into each one separately. When writing scripts, this overcomes the 'ssh' limitation of not being able to specify the password on the command line. 'tsshbatch' has a sophisticated inventory management system (host files) as well as a mechanism for organizing libraries of standard jobs (command files). Both local and global variables may be defined and/or used in either. 'tsshbatch' also understands basic 'sudo' syntax and can be used to access a server, 'sudo' a command, and then exit. 'tsshbatch' thus allows you to write complex, hands-off scripts that issue commands to many servers without the tedium of manual login and 'sudo' promotion. System administrators, especially, will find this helpful when working in large server farms. 'tsshbatch' is written in Python and requires the 'paramiko library. It has been tested on a number of Linux and FreeBSD variants. See Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsshbatch Related: Ansible, Capistrano, ClusterSSH, Fabric, PSSH, Rundeck WHATSNEW For 'tsshbatch' 1.317 (Sat Oct 15 16:12:34 CDT 2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - It is now possible to define local variables with the .local directive. These have visibility and scope only with the file where they are defined, but otherwise work the same as globally defined variables. Local variables also support "execution variable" style definition. - Hostfile names must now be passed using the -i option. The argument can be the name of a single file or a quoted list of files. The option can appear on the command line more than once. -H and -i can be used together to create custom host lists. - The -L option will list all (if any) host- and command files found on their respective search paths. - The -W option will write out the inventory of hosts that would be processed if you actually executed the program, and then terminates. This works only in test mode. This allows you to embed tsshbatch in external shell scripts like this: for server in $(tsshbatch.py -i devserverlist -uatserverlist -W) do ssh $server done Why? Because tsshbatch has lots of powerful ways to maintain inventories of hosts and combine them through includes and multiple command line arguments. The -W option makes it convenient for external programs to make use of those inventory features. - The -F "string ..." option will examine every file on the host- or command paths, looking for matching strings within these files. Matches will report the file name, the location within the file, and the line containing any of the specified strings. This is a simple, case-insensitive string literal match and does not support regular expressions. This is handy when you're looking for a host name or command string, say like, "sudo", and you don't want to have to manually go through all your support files. - The -V "string ..." option does the exact opposite of -F. It lists all the files that do NOT contain any of the specified strings. - The -r option has been added to suppress reporting of start/stop statistics. This allows you to make statistics reporting the default, say via the $TSSHBATCH environment variable, but override it when you need to. - A new directive, .notify, tells tsshbatch to print an informative message from within a command file. This is a runtime activity and is helpful, for example, when tracking progress of a long command file. Notifications are disabled in silent mode. [CHANGES] - The -H option can now appear on the command line multiple times thereby creating an aggregate list of all hosts named therein. - Hostfiles must now be passed as an argument of -i. This was done to provide a consistent way of passing multiple host files on the commandline. - .include targets (file name specifications) may now reference previously defined variables. [BUG FIXES] - File transfers now properly honor the -s (silent output) flag. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra(a)tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/

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<Programming> 2017: Call for papers
by Tim Molderez Oct. 17, 2016

Oct. 17, 2016

<Programming> 2017 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming April 3-6, 2017, Brussels, Belgium http://2017.programming-conference.org We started a new conference and journal focused on everything to do with programming, including the experience of programming. We call the conference <Programming> for short. Paper submissions and publications are handled by the journal. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************** <Programming> 2017 accept scholarly papers including essays that advance the knowledge of programming. Almost anything about programming is in scope, but in each case there should be a clear relevance to the act and experience of programming. PAPER SUBMISSIONS: December 1, 2016 We accept submissions covering several areas of expertise. These areas include, but are not limited to: • General-purpose programming • Distributed systems programming • Parallel and multi-core programming • Graphics and GPU programming • Security programming • User interface programming • Database programming • Visual and live programming • Data mining and machine learning programming • Interpreters, virtual machines and compilers • Modularity and separation of concerns • Model-based development • Metaprogramming and reflection • Testing and debugging • Program verification • Programming education • Programming environments • Social coding ******************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ******************************************************** To build a community and to foster an environment where participants can exchange ideas and experiences related to practical software development, ‹Programming› will host a number of workshops, during the days before the main conference. The workshops will provide a collaborative forum to exchange recent and/or preliminary results, to conduct intensive discussions on a particular topic, or to coordinate efforts between representatives of a technical community. They are intended as a forum for lively discussion of innovative ideas, recent progress, or practical experience on programming and applied software development in general for specific aspects, specific problems, or domain-specific needs. We also encourage practical, hands-on workshops in which participants actually experience one or several aspects of practical software development. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS: November 15, 2016 The duration of workshops is in general one day, but we encourage the submission of half-day workshop proposals on focused topics as well. In exceptional situations, e.g., for workshops that involve actual practice of programming-related activities, workshop organizers can request a 2 day workshop slot. If desired, the workshop proceedings can be published in the ACM Digital Library. ******************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ******************************************************** Research paper submissions: December 1, 2016 Research paper first notifications: February 1, 2017 Research paper final notifications: March 7, 2017 Workshop proposals: November 15, 2016 PX 2017 workshop submissions: January 15, 2017 Poster abstract submissions: January 16, 2017 ******************************************************** ORGANIZATION ******************************************************** General Chair: Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Local Organizing Chair: Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Program Chair: Crista V. Lopes, University of California, Irvine Organizing Committee: Jörg Kienzle (workshops), McGill University Hidehiko Masuhara (demos), Tokyo Institute of Technology Ralf Lämmel (contest), University of Koblenz-Landau Jennifer Sartor (posters), Vrije Universiteit Brussel Tobias Pape (web technology), HPI - University of Potsdam Tim Molderez (publicity), Vrije Universiteit Brussel Program Committee: Andrew Black, Portland State University Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria Robby Findler, Northwestern University Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Málaga Richard Gabriel, IBM Research Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Jeff Gray, University of Alabama Robert Hirschfeld, HPI - University of Potsdam Roberto Ierusalimschy, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Jörg Kienzle, McGill University Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology Sasa Misailovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Guido Salvaneschi, Technische Universität Darmstadt Mario Südholt, Ecole des mines de Nantes Jurgen Vinju, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Tijs van der Storm, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica ******************************************************** <Programming> 2017 is kindly supported by: ACM in-cooperation ACM SIGPLAN in-cooperation ACM SIGSOFT in-cooperation AOSA Vrije Universiteit Brussel ******************************************************** For more information, visit http://2017.programming-conference.org

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ANN: SciPy India 2016
by Prabhu Ramachandran Oct. 17, 2016

Oct. 17, 2016

Hello, We are pleased to announce the SciPy India conference 2016. SciPy India is an annual conference on using Python for research and education. The conference is currently in its eighth year and will be held at IIT Bombay on 10th and 11th December, 2016. The registration and call for papers are open. Please visit http://scipy.in to register and submit your proposals. Please spread the word! Call for Papers ============= We look forward to your submissions on the use of Python for scientific computing and education. This includes pedagogy, exploration, modeling, and analysis from both applied and developmental perspectives. We welcome contributions from academia as well as industry. For details on the paper submission please see here: http://scipy.in/2016/cfp/ Important Dates ================ - Call for proposals end: 20th November 2016 - List of accepted proposals will be published: 1st December 2016. We look forward to seeing you at SciPy India. Regards, Prabhu Ramachandran (For the SciPy organizing team)

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PyDev 5.3.0 Released
by Fabio Zadrozny Oct. 14, 2016

Oct. 14, 2016

Release Highlights: ------------------------------- * **Important** PyDev now requires Java 8 and Eclipse 4.5 onwards. * PyDev 4.5.5 is the last release supporting Java 7 and Eclipse 3.8. * See: update sites page for the update site of older versions of PyDev. * See: the **PyDev does not appear after install** section on the download page for help on using a Java 8 vm in Eclipse. * **Syntax validation for multiple grammars** * Helps to make code which is **Python 2 and 3 compatible**. * To customize, go to Project Properties > PyDev - Interpreter/Grammar, and select **grammars for "additional syntax validation"**. * **Code completion** * The code-completion can now do substring based matches (i.e.: the proposals will be shown if any part of the completion matches the requested name). * It's **still** not the default (to activate it, change the setting **"Preferences > PyDev > Editor > Code Completion > Match substrings on code completion?"** to true). * Completion proposals have the part of the completion used to do the match in bold. * Qualifiers of the completion (i.e.: package name) are styled differently (color may be customized in **General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts > Basic Qualifier Information Color**). * Completions are re-sorted when the name used to request a code completion changes. * **Sorting** is based on: * The current name typed (so that matches that are exact or start with the requested token appear first). * The type of the completion (parameter, local, context insensitive with auto-import, etc). * Where the completion was found (so, matches from the same project go first, referenced projects second and standard library last). * **Ctrl and Shift Behavior when applying code-completion proposal** * Ctrl is always **"replace the current name with the completion"** for all completions. * Pressing Ctrl to override the next name in code completion no longer looses the highlight in the editor. * On code completion with auto-import, for doing local imports, the pop-up must be focused and Shift must be kept pressed while the completion is applied. * **PyQt5 support in Interactive Console** * PyQt5 may now be used as a backend in the interactive console so that widgets/plots can be inspected interactively while using the console. * May be activated with **%matplotlib qt5** (when using IPython) or in **"Preferences > PyDev > Interactive Console > Enable GUI event loop integration > PyQt5"**. What is PyDev? --------------------------- PyDev is an open-source Python IDE on top of Eclipse for Python, Jython and IronPython development. It comes with goodies such as code completion, syntax highlighting, syntax analysis, code analysis, refactor, debug, interactive console, etc. Details on PyDev: http://pydev.org Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com What is LiClipse? --------------------------- LiClipse is a PyDev standalone with goodies such as support for Multiple cursors, theming, TextMate bundles and a number of other languages such as Django Templates, Jinja2, Kivy Language, Mako Templates, Html, Javascript, etc. It's also a commercial counterpart which helps supporting the development of PyDev. Details on LiClipse: http://www.liclipse.com/ Cheers, -- Fabio Zadrozny ------------------------------------------------------ Software Developer LiClipse http://www.liclipse.com PyDev - Python Development Environment for Eclipse http://pydev.org http://pydev.blogspot.com PyVmMonitor - Python Profiler http://www.pyvmmonitor.com/

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Nikola v7.8.1 is out!
by Chris Warrick Oct. 13, 2016

Oct. 13, 2016

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.8.1. 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/ Downloads ========= Install using `pip install Nikola` or download tarballs on GitHub and PyPI: https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/releases/tag/v7.8.1 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Nikola/7.8.1 Changes ======= Bugfixes -------- * Rename ``stories`` to ``pages`` in most of the codebase (Issue #1891) * Report missing/unknown dates in posts with filenames (Issues #2505, #2506) * Report filename of post that raised exception when scanning (Issue #2505) * Accept ``page`` and ``pages`` for the ``type`` field in post lists * Don’t crash if a post list has no posts (Issue #2489) Features -------- * Add Hebrew translation by Yitzhak Bar Geva * Add Chinese (Traditional) ``zh_TW`` translation by Po-Wen Chi * Add ``nikola theme --list-installed`` (Issue #2504) * Add ``KATEX_AUTO_RENDER`` setting to configure math delimiters * Update KaTeX version to 0.6.0: support aligned math display * Better support for a tree of files in ``data/``

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tox-2.4.0 released, moved to github, docs on readthedocs now
by holger krekel Oct. 12, 2016

Oct. 12, 2016

tox-2.4.0 brings some fixes and new features, see the changelog below. Docs are now at: https://tox.readthedocs.org and, thanks to Ronny Pfannschmidt, the tox repository is now on github: https://github.com/tox-dev/tox also many thanks to Oliver Bestwalter, Alex Grönholm, Stefan Obermann, Danielle Jenkins, Ted Shaw, Andrzej Ostrowski and Florian Bruhin who helped with the release particularly during the crowd-funded testing sprint we had in Freiburg, June 2016. have testing fun, holger krekel 2.4.0 ----- - remove PYTHONPATH from environment during the install phase because a tox-run should not have hidden dependencies and the test commands will also not see a PYTHONPATH. If this causes unforeseen problems it may be reverted in a bugfix release. Thanks Jason R. Coombs. - fix issue352: prevent a configuration where envdir==toxinidir and refine docs to warn people about changing "envdir". Thanks Oliver Bestwalter and holger krekel. - fix issue375, fix issue330: warn against tox-setup.py integration as "setup.py test" should really just test with the current interpreter. Thanks Ronny Pfannschmidt. - fix issue302: allow cross-testenv substitution where we substitute with ``{x,y}`` generative syntax. Thanks Andrew Pashkin. - fix issue212: allow escaping curly brace chars "\{" and "\}" if you need the chars "{" and "}" to appear in your commands or other ini values. Thanks John Vandenberg. - addresses issue66: add --workdir option to override where tox stores its ".tox" directory and all of the virtualenv environment. Thanks Danring. - introduce per-venv list_dependencies_command which defaults to "pip freeze" to obtain the list of installed packages. Thanks Ted Shaw, Holger Krekel. - close issue66: add documentation to jenkins page on how to avoid "too long shebang" lines when calling pip from tox. Note that we can not use "python -m pip install X" by default because the latter adds the CWD and pip will think X is installed if it is there. "pip install X" does not do that. - new list_dependencies_command to influence how tox determines which dependencies are installed in a testenv. - (experimental) New feature: When a search for a config file fails, tox tries loading setup.cfg with a section prefix of "tox". - fix issue275: Introduce hooks ``tox_runtest_pre``` and ``tox_runtest_post`` which run before and after the tests of a venv, respectively. Thanks to Matthew Schinckel and itxaka serrano. - fix issue317: evaluate minversion before tox config is parsed completely. Thanks Sachi King for the PR. - added the "extras" environment option to specify the extras to use when doing the sdist or develop install. Contributed by Alex Grönholm. - use pytest-catchlog instead of pytest-capturelog (latter is not maintained, uses deprecated pytest API)

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[RELEASE] Python 3.6.0b2 is now available
by Ned Deily Oct. 11, 2016

Oct. 11, 2016

On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.6 release team, I'm happy to announce the availability of Python 3.6.0b2. 3.6.0b2 is the second of four planned beta releases of Python 3.6, the next major release of Python, and marks the end of the feature development phase for 3.6. Among the new major new features in Python 3.6 are: * PEP 468 - Preserving the order of **kwargs in a function * PEP 487 - Simpler customization of class creation * PEP 495 - Local Time Disambiguation * PEP 498 - Literal String Formatting * PEP 506 - Adding A Secrets Module To The Standard Library * PEP 509 - Add a private version to dict * PEP 515 - Underscores in Numeric Literals * PEP 519 - Adding a file system path protocol * PEP 520 - Preserving Class Attribute Definition Order * PEP 523 - Adding a frame evaluation API to CPython * PEP 524 - Make os.urandom() blocking on Linux (during system startup) * PEP 525 - Asynchronous Generators (provisional) * PEP 526 - Syntax for Variable Annotations (provisional) * PEP 528 - Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 (provisional) * PEP 529 - Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8 (provisional) * PEP 530 - Asynchronous Comprehensions Please see "What’s New In Python 3.6" for more information: https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/3.6.html You can find Python 3.6.0b2 here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-360b2/ Beta releases are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to support the new feature release. We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to test with 3.6 during the beta phase and report issues found to bugs.python.org as soon as possible. While the release is feature complete entering the beta phase, it is possible that features may be modified or, in rare cases, deleted up until the start of the release candidate phase (2016-12-05). Our goal is have no changes after rc1. To achieve that, it will be extremely important to get as much exposure for 3.6 as possible during the beta phase. Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments The next planned release of Python 3.6 will be 3.6.0b3, currently scheduled for 2016-10-31. More information about the release schedule can be found here: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/ -- Ned Deily nad(a)python.org -- []

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