Mailman 3 October 2017 - Python-announce-list

EuroPython 2017: Videos for Thursday available online
by M.-A. Lemburg 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

We are pleased to announce the third batch of cut videos for EuroPython 2017. To see the new videos, please head over to our EuroPython YouTube channel and select the "EuroPython 2017" playlist. The new videos start at entry 96 in the playlist. * EuroPython 2017 Videos * http://europython.tv/ Next week we will release the last batch of videos currently marked as "private". Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2017 Team http://ep2017.europython.eu/ http://www.europython-society.org/ PS: Please forward or retweet to help us reach all interested parties: https://twitter.com/europython/status/922070616836071425 Thanks.

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PyScripter 3.0.0 released
by pyscripter＠gmail.com 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

PyScripter is a free and open-source Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) created with the ambition to become competitive in functionality with commercial Windows-based IDEs available for other languages. Here are the new features: * Python 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 support * New Style Engine (VCL Styles) with high quality choices * Visual Style Preview and selection (View, Select Style) *Visual Source highlighter theme selection (Editor Options, Select theme) * German Translation added See: Announcement with screenshot: https://pyscripter.blogspot.com/ Features: https://github.com/pyscripter/pyscripter/wiki/Features Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyscripter/files

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[RELEASE] Python 3.7.0a2 is now available for testing
by Ned Deily 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Python 3.7.0a2 is the second of four planned alpha previews of Python 3.7, the next feature release of Python. During the alpha phase, Python 3.7 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. The next preview, 3.7.0a3, is planned for 2017-11-27. You can find Python 3.7.0a2 and more information here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-370a2/ -- Ned Deily nad(a)python.org -- []

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ANN: pyftpdlib doc moved to readthedocs.io
by Giampaolo Rodola' 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Old https://pythonhosted.org/pyftpdlib/ doc is no longer available. New doc is now at: http://pyftpdlib.readthedocs.io/ -- Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com

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ANN: psutil doc moved to readtheocs.io
by Giampaolo Rodola' 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Old https://pythonhosted.org/psutil/ doc is no longer available. New doc is now at: http://psutil.readthedocs.io/ -- Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com

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ANN: Bokeh 0.12.10 Released
by Bryan Van de ven 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

On behalf of the Bokeh team, I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.12.10 of Bokeh! For more information and details, please see the announcement post at: https://bokeh.github.io/blog/2017/10/17/release-0-12-10/ If you are using Anaconda/miniconda, you can install it with conda: conda install -c bokeh bokeh Alternatively, you can also install it with pip: pip install bokeh Full information including details about how to use and obtain BokehJS are at: https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/0.12.10/docs/installation.html Issues, enhancement requests, and pull requests can be made on the Bokeh Github page: https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh Documentation is available at: https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/0.12.10 There are over 260 total contributors to Bokeh and their time and effort help make Bokeh such an amazing project and community. Thank you again for your contributions. Finally, for questions or technical assistance we recommend starting with detailed posts on Stack Overflow. Or if you are interested in contributing, come by the Bokeh dev chat room: https://gitter.im/bokeh/bokeh-dev Thanks, Bryan Van de Ven

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Salabim 2.2.6 released
by Ruud van der Ham 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

The latest version of *salabim* (discrete event simulation) is available on GitHub. *Salabim* now runs with Python 2.7, 3.x and PyPy under Windows, OS X, Linux as well as iOS (Pythonista). The manual is now much improved. See www.salabim.org for all details..

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BOTLIB #31 released
by Bart Thate 14 Oct '17

14 Oct '17

BOTLIB #31 released - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/botlib BOTLIB is a python3 framework to use if you want to program CLI, IRC or XMPP bots. features ======== BOTLIB provides the following features: :: object class save/load to/from a json file. rest server serve saved object’s over http. rss fetcher echo rss feeds to irc channels. udp server udp to bot to irc channel. watcher server run tail -f and have output send to IRC channel. email scanning scan mbox format to searchable botlib objects. json backend objects are stored as json string in files on the fs. db iteration over stored objects. timestamp time based filenames gives logging capabilities future future sensors should provide entry to the logger. install ======= Clone the source: :: bart@okdan:~$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/bthate/botlib You might need to do one of the following if the bot doesn't work: bart@okdan:~/botlib$ export PYTHONPATH="." bart@okdan:~/botlib$ export PYTHONIOENCODING="utf-8" Another option is to download with pip3 and install globally: :: bart@okdan:~$ pip3 install botlib --upgrade irc === Use -n <nick>, -s <server>, -c <channel> options to make the bot join the network: :: bart@okdan:~$ bot -i irc -n botlib -s irc.freenode.net -c \#botlib You can use the -w option to write config values to ~/.bot/config/irc xmpp ==== For the xmpp server use a ~/.sleekpass file with the password in it: :: bart@okdan:~$ cat "password" > ~/.sleekpass bart@okdan:~$ bot -i xmpp,rss --room=test(a)conference.localhost users ===== One needs to add a users origin to be able to give the bot commands. One can add a user with the meet command: :: bart@okdan:~$ bot meet user@server user user@server created To give the user a permission you can use the perm command: :: bart@okdan:~$ bot perm user@server ps ok user@server The u command show the json dump of a user object: :: bart@okdan:~$ bot u user@server { "_container": { "default": "", "path": "/home/bart/.bot/user/2017-10-12/21:05:52.095737", "prefix": "object", "saved": "Thu Oct 12 21:07:03 2017", "signature": "c113c4125f8c2a88d5b312e283792ae019c61a52" }, "_type": "<class 'botlib.object.Object'>", "origin": "user@server", "perms": [ "USER", "PS" ], "user": "user@server" } The default shell user is root@shell and give all the commands that are available. commands ======== The following commands are available: :: alias key, value alias. announce announce text on all channels in fleet. begin begin stopwatch. cfg edit config files. cmnds show list of commands. deleted show deleted records. delperm delete permissions of an user. dump dump objects matching the given criteria. edit edit and save objects. end stop stopwatch. exit stop the bot. fetcher fetch all rss feeds. find present a list of objects based on prompt input. first show the first record matching the given criteria. fix fix a object by loading and saving it. idle see how long a channel/nick has been idle. last show last objectect matching the criteria. license display BOTLIB license. load force a plugin reload. log log some text. loglevel set loglevel. loud disable silent mode of a bot. ls show subdirs in working directory. man show descriptions of the available commands. mbox convert emails to botlib objects. meet create an user record. nick change bot nick on IRC. perm add/change permissions of an user. permissions show permissions granted to a user. perms show permission of user. pid show pid of the BOTLIB bot. ps show running threads. reboot reboot the bot, allowing statefull reboot (keeping connections alive). reload reload a plugin. restore set deleted=False in selected records. rm set deleted flag on objects. rss add a rss url. save make a kernel dump. shop add a shopitem to the shopping list. show show dumps of basic objects. silent put a bot into silent mode. start start a plugin. stop stop a plugin. synchronize synchronize rss feeds (fetch but don't show). test echo origin. timer timer command to schedule a text to be printed on a given time. stopwatch to measure elapsed time. today show last week's logged objects. todo log a todo item. tomorrow show todo items for tomorrow. u show user selected by userhost. uptime show uptime. version show version. w show user data. watch add a file to watch (monitor and relay to channel). week show last week's logged objects. whoami show origin. yesterday show last week's logged objects. modules ======= The following modules are available: :: botlib.bot bot base class. botlib.cli command line interfacce bot, gives a shell prompt to issue bot commands. botlib.clock timer, repeater and other clock based classes. botlib.cmnds botlib basic commands. botlib.compose construct a object into it’s type. botlib.decorator method decorators botlib.db JSON file db. botlib.engine select.epoll event loop, easily interrup_table esp. versus a blocking event loop. botlib.error botlib exceptions. botlib.event event handling classes. botlib.fleet fleet is a list of bots. botlib.handler schedule events. botlib.irc IRC bot class. botlib.kernel program boot and module loading. botlib.launcher a launcher launches threads (or tasks in this case). botlib.log log module to set standard format of logging. botlib.object JSON file backed object with dotted access. botlib.raw raw output using print. botlib.rss rss module. botlib.selector functions used in code to select what objects to use. botlib.task adapted thread to add extra functionality to threads. botlib.trace functions concering stack trace. botlib.users class to access user records. botlib.xmpp XMPP bot class. botlib.register object with list for multiple values. botlib.rest rest interface. botlib.runner threaded loop to run tasks on. botlib.space central module to store objects in. botlib.static static definitions. botlib.template cfg objects containing default values for various services and plugins. botlib.test plugin containing test commands and classes. botlib.udp relay txt through a udp port listener. botlib.utils lib local helper functions. botlib.url functions that fetch data from url. botlib.watcher watch files. botlib.worker worker thread that handles submitted jobs through Worker.put(func, args, kwargs). botlib.wisdom wijsheid, wijs ! contact ======= | Bart Thate | botfather on #dunkbot irc.freenode.net | bthate(a)dds.nl, thatebart(a)gmail.com BOTLIB has a MIT license`

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EuroPython 2017: Videos for Wednesday available online
by M.-A. Lemburg 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

We are pleased to announce the third batch of cut videos for EuroPython 2017. To see the new videos, please head over to our EuroPython YouTube channel and select the “EuroPython 2017″ playlist. The new videos start at entry 63 in the playlist. * EuroPython 2017 Videos * http://europython.tv/ In the coming two weeks, we will continue to release the other videos currently marked as “private”, in batches of one conference day per week. Enjoy, -- EuroPython 2017 Team http://ep2017.europython.eu/ http://www.europython-society.org/ PS: Please forward or retweet to help us reach all interested parties: https://twitter.com/europython/status/918860053070974976 Thanks.

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ANN: psutil 5.4.0 with AIX support is out
by Giampaolo Rodola' 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Hello all, I'm glad to announce the release of psutil 5.4.0: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil A detailed blog post is available here: http://grodola.blogspot.com/2017/10/psutil-540-with-aix-support-is-out.html About ===== psutil (process and system 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, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, 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. What's new ========== *2017-10-12* **Enhancements** - #1123: [AIX] added support for AIX platform. (patch by Arnon Yaari) **Bug fixes** - #1009: [Linux] sensors_temperatures() may crash with IOError. - #1012: [Windows] disk_io_counters()'s read_time and write_time were expressed in tens of micro seconds instead of milliseconds. - #1127: [OSX] invalid reference counting in Process.open_files() may lead to segfault. (patch by Jakub Bacic) - #1129: [Linux] sensors_fans() may crash with IOError. (patch by Sebastian Saip) - #1131: [SunOS] fix compilation warnings. (patch by Arnon Yaari) - #1133: [Windows] can't compile on newer versions of Visual Studio 2017 15.4. (patch by Max Bélanger) - #1138: [Linux] can't compile on CentOS 5.0 and RedHat 5.0. (patch by Prodesire) Links ===== - Home page: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil - Download: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/psutil - Documentation: http://psutil.readthedocs.io - What's new: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/master/HISTORY.rst -- Giampaolo - http://grodola.blogspot.com

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