Python-announce-list August 2016

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Sphinx-1.4.6 released
by Komiya Takeshi 20 Aug '16

20 Aug '16

Hi all, I'm delighted to announce the release of Sphinx 1.4.6, now available on the Python package index at <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx>. It includes about 1 incompatible change and 12 bug fixes for the 1.4.5 release series. For the full changelog, go to <http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/changes.html>. Thanks to all collaborators 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! -- Takeshi KOMIYA

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pytest 3.0.0 released!
by Bruno Oliveira 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

Hello everyone, The pytest team is proud to announce the 3.0.0 release! pytest is a mature Python testing tool with more than a 1600 tests against itself, passing on many different interpreters and platforms. This release contains a lot of bugs and improvements, and much of the work done on it was possible because of the 2016 Sprint[1], which was funded by an indiegogo campaign which raised over US$12,000 with nearly 100 backers. There's a "What's new in pytest 3.0" [2] blog post highlighting the major features in this release. To see the complete changelog and documentation, please visit: http://docs.pytest.org As usual, you can upgrade from pypi via: pip install -U pytest Thanks to all who contributed to this release, among them: AbdealiJK Ana Ribeiro Antony Lee Brandon W Maister Brianna Laugher Bruno Oliveira Ceridwen Christian Boelsen Daniel Hahler Danielle Jenkins Dave Hunt Diego Russo Dmitry Dygalo Edoardo Batini Eli Boyarski Florian Bruhin Floris Bruynooghe Greg Price Guyzmo HEAD KANGAROO JJ Javi Romero Javier Domingo Cansino Kale Kundert Kalle Bronsen Marius Gedminas Matt Williams Mike Lundy Oliver Bestwalter Omar Kohl Raphael Pierzina RedBeardCode Roberto Polli Romain Dorgueil Roman Bolshakov Ronny Pfannschmidt Stefan Zimmermann Steffen Allner Tareq Alayan Ted Xiao Thomas Grainger Tom Viner TomV Vasily Kuznetsov aostr marscher palaviv satoru taschini Happy testing, The py.test Development Team [1] http://blog.pytest.org/2016/pytest-development-sprint/ [2] http://blog.pytest.org/2016/whats-new-in-pytest-30/

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PyDev 5.2.0 Released
by Fabio Zadrozny 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

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. * Inital support for code-completion using **PEP 484 static type declarations**. * **Debugger** * Fixed racing condition where the variables view would not be properly shown in the debugger -- which made an additional select of the stack required in order to show the variables (#PyDev-672). * Reusing the existing stack from the thread in the debugger (so that the expanded state of the variables is properly kept on step over). * Fixed issue changing attribute of local variable in the variables view (#PyDev.Debugger-56). * Fixed issue on attach to process: it required the pydevd_tracing to be at the top-level and it was moved to _pydevd_bundle (restored it to be a public API). * **Indentation** * The default indent mode now changed to better follow PEP 8 guidelines: * Indenting directly after {, [, ( will add one indent level. * Indenting after another token in a line with a {, [, ( will indent to the {, [, ( level. * It's possible to restore previous indent modes (which either always indented to the parenthesis level or always indented a single level) in the preferences > PyDev > Editor > Typing. * **Interactive console** * IPython 5 now supported in interactive console (#PyDev-710). * Fixed issue executing single line with multiple statements in console. * Fixed issue executing a multiple line statement in Jython. * **Others** * The (fast) parser which detects the outline of a Python module now handles mixed indentation (and additional fixes which could result in log entries such as "Did not expect to find item below node: Assign..."). * Support for unpacking generalizations (PEP 448) which could still result in a syntax error for the Python 3 grammar (#PyDev-701). * Fixed error in code analysis when the code is connected to an RTC source control (#PyDev-184, patch by Wesley Barroso Lopes) 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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ANN: PERMPOLY v1.0 released
by Mok-Kong Shen 18 Aug '16

18 Aug '16

PERMPOLYSP is a block cipher (with authentication) with substitutions of bit groups with pseudo-randomly determined permutation polynomials mod 2**n and pseudo-random permutations of bytes. It employs in its algorithm a number of mechanisms with the goal to enhance the dynamics/variability of runtime encryption processing. Available at: http://s13.zetaboards.com/Crypto/topic/7590068/1/ M. K. Shen

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SQLObject 3.1.0
by Oleg Broytman 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Hello! I'm pleased to announce version 3.1.0, the first stable release of branch 3.1 of SQLObject. What's new in SQLObject ======================= Features -------- * Add UuidCol. * Add JsonbCol. Only for PostgreSQL. Requires psycopg2 >= 2.5.4 and PostgreSQL >= 9.2. * Add JSONCol, a universal json column. * For Python >= 3.4 minimal FormEncode version is now 1.3.1. * If mxDateTime is in use, convert timedelta (returned by MySQL) to mxDateTime.Time. Documentation ------------- * Developer's Guide extended to explain SQLObject architecture and how to create a new column type. * Fix URLs that can be found; remove missing links. * Rename reStructuredText files from *.txt to *.rst. Source code ----------- * Fix all `import *` using https://github.com/zestyping/star-destroyer. Tests ----- * Tests are now run at Circle CI. * Use pytest-cov for test coverage. Report test coverage via coveralls.io and codecov.io. * Install mxDateTime to run date/time tests with it. Contributor for this release is Lutz Steinborn. 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, 2.7 or 3.4+ 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/3.1.0 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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{RELEASE] Python 3.6.0a4 is now available
by Ned Deily 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.6 release team, I'm happy to announce the availability of Python 3.6.0a4. 3.6.0a4 is the last of four planned alpha releases of Python 3.6, the next major release of Python. During the alpha phase, Python 3.6 remains under heavy development: additional features will be added and existing features may be modified or deleted. Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments. You can find Python 3.6.0a4 here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-360a4/ The next planned release of Python 3.6 will be 3.6.0b1, currently scheduled for 2016-09-12. 3.6.0b1 will mark the beginning of the beta phase of Python 3.6; at that time, feature development for 3.6 will be complete and the emphasis will change to fixing bugs and regressions. More information about the release schedule can be found here: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/ --Ned -- Ned Deily nad(a)python.org -- []

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Twisted 16.3.1 Release Announcement
by Amber "Hawkie" Brown 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

On behalf of Twisted Matrix Laboratories, I am honoured to announce the release of Twisted 16.3.1. This is a bug fix & security fix release, and is recommended for all users of Twisted. The fixes are: - A bugfix for a HTTP/2 edge case, - Fix for CVE-2008-7317 (generating potentially guessable HTTP session identifiers) - Fix for CVE-2008-7318 (sending secure session cookies over insecured connections) - Fix for CVE-2016-1000111 (http://httpoxy.org/ <http://httpoxy.org/>) For more information, check the NEWS file (link provided below). You can find the downloads at <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Twisted <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Twisted>> (or alternatively <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Downloads>>). The NEWS file is also available at <https://github.com/twisted/twisted/blob/twisted-16.3.1/NEWS <https://github.com/twisted/twisted/blob/twisted-16.3.1/NEWS>>. Many thanks to everyone who had a part in this release - the supporters of the Twisted Software Foundation, the developers who contributed code as well as documentation, and all the people building great things with Twisted! Twisted Regards, Amber Brown (HawkOwl)

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Python 3 tkinter graphical statistical distributions fitter
by zunzun.com＠gmail.com 13 Aug '16

13 Aug '16

I created a Python 3 tkinter graphical statistical distributions fitting application that will fit a 1D data set to all of the continuous statistical distributions in scipy.stats, with graphical display of the distributions plotted against normalized histograms of the data. Fitted results can be sorted by nnlf, AIC or AIC_BA. The URL on GitHub is: https://github.com/zunzun/tkInterStatsDistroFit James Phillips

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Rstransaction 0.1 released
by Pascal Chambon 10 Aug '16

10 Aug '16

Hello, I'm pleased to announce the release of "rstransaction" package. This is a python2/python3 toolbox to create transactional systems, for any kind of operations: in-memory, on filesystems, on remote storages... It supports commits/rollbacks and savepoints. It was never used in production, but is well tested, and easily extendable to support different kinds of behaviour : immediate or lazy actions, recording of operations to disk files or DBs in case of crash, auto-rollback on error or not... More information here: https://github.com/pakal/rstransaction https://pypi.python.org/pypi/RSTransaction regards, Pascal Chambon

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EuroPython 2016: Thank you to all our organizers and volunteers
by M.-A. Lemburg 09 Aug '16

09 Aug '16

EuroPython 2016 is now over and was an overwhelming success thanks to everyone who helped make it happen. Since EuroPython would not be possible without the help of our volunteers and organizers, we’d like to say Thank You !!! to all the individuals who invested time and effort into the event. Please see our blog post for the full list of people who have helped: http://blog.europython.eu/post/148685512862/europython-2016-thank-you-to-al… If you are interested in helping with EuroPython 2017, we invite you to join the workgroups. Please go to the EuroPython Workgroups page: http://www.europython-society.org/workgroups and follow the instructions there to get signed up. Many thanks ! With gravitational regards, -- EuroPython 2016 Team http://ep2016.europython.eu/ http://www.europython-society.org/ PS: Please forward or retweet to help us reach all interested parties: https://twitter.com/europython/status/762968990658523137 Thanks.

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Python-announce-list August 2016