Mailman 3 June 2020 - Python-announce-list

PyCon ZA 2020 - Call for Submissions
by Neil Muller Nov. 12, 2020

Nov. 12, 2020

PyCon ZA 2020 will take place on the 8th & 9th of October, 2020. This year, due to the ongoing uncertainty of when conference facilities will be allowed to open, we will be running PyCon ZA as an online event. We are looking for the following presentations: - Keynotes (45 minute long talks on a subject of general interest) - Talks (30 minute long talks on more specific topics) If you would like to give a presentation, please register at https://za.pycon.org/ and submit your proposal, … [View More]

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[RELEASE] Python 3.8.4rc1 is now ready for testing
by Łukasz Langa June 30, 2020

June 30, 2020

Python 3.8.4rc1 is the release candidate of the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.8. Go get it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-384rc1/ <https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-384rc1/> Assuming no critical problems are found prior to 2020-07-13, the scheduled release date for 3.8.4, no code changes are planned between this release candidate and the final release. That being said, please keep in mind that this is a pre-release and as such its main … [View More]

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ANN: SfePy 2020.2
by Robert Cimrman June 30, 2020

June 30, 2020

I am pleased to announce the release of SfePy 2020.2. Description ----------- SfePy (simple finite elements in Python) is a software for solving systems of coupled partial differential equations by finite element methods. It is distributed under the new BSD license. Home page: https://sfepy.org Mailing list: https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/sfepy.python.org/ Git (source) repository, issue tracker: https://github.com/sfepy/sfepy Highlights of this release -------------------------… [View More]

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[RELEASE] mpdecimal-2.5.0
by Stefan Krah June 29, 2020

June 29, 2020

Hi, I've released mpdecimal-2.5.0: http://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/index.html 15417edc8e12a57d1d9d75fa7e3f22b158a3b98f44db9d694cfd2acde8dfa0ca mpdecimal-2.5.0.tar.gz Starting with Python 3.9, this version should be used for an external libmpdec. Python versions 3.7 and 3.8 should use the previous version mpdecimal-2.4.2. libmpdec ======== libmpdec will continue to evolve conservatively. For the few changes, see: http://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/changelog.html libmpdec++ … [View More]

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Trac 1.0.20 Released
by Ryan Ollos June 29, 2020

June 29, 2020

Trac 1.0.20 Released ==================== Trac 1.0.20, the latest maintenance release for the older stable branch, is available. You will find this release at the usual places: https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDownload#Trac12StableRelease You can find the detailed release notes for 1.0.20 on the following pages: https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/1.0/TracChangeLog https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev/ReleaseNotes/1.0#MaintenanceReleases Now to the packages themselves: URLs: https://… [View More]

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[RELEASE] Python 3.7.8 and 3.6.11 now available - last 3.7.x bugfix release
by Ned Deily June 28, 2020

June 28, 2020

https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-7-8-and-3-6-11-now-available-last-3-7… -- Ned Deily nad(a)python.org -- []

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ANN: distlib 0.3.1 released on PyPI
by Vinay Sajip June 28, 2020

June 28, 2020

I've recently released version 0.3.1 of distlib on PyPI [1]. For newcomers, distlib is a library of packaging functionality which is intended to be usable as the basis for third-party packaging tools. The main changes in this release are as follows: * Fixed #132: Added documentation to help with relative interpreter paths. Thanks to Paul Kienzle for the patch. * Fixed #134: Allowed specifying a different target Python version when generating scripts. * Fixed #135: Exposed the `… [View More]

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Nikola v8.1.0 is out!
by Chris Warrick June 27, 2020

June 27, 2020

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v8.1.0. This release makes a few feature changes, improvements, and fixes a few bugs. 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 Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries, and is … [View More]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`. Changes ======= Features -------- * Support posts without titles (Issue #3408) * Support WebP image scaling (Issue #3399) * Use Luxon instead of Moment for fancy dates to make it more lightweight, going from 328k to 68k (Issue #3232) * New ``nikola console -s script.py`` option to run scripts that access your site (Issue #3385) * Allow preview images to be relative to posts for bootblog4 featured posts * Change the listings formatting to support word wrap with line numbers and improve appearance * Put the current language’s feed links first so that feed readers prefer it (Issue #3248) * Added support for default preview image for posts (Issue #3326) * Added support for thumbnails in gallery lists (Issue #1771) Bugfixes -------- * Support directory names in ``REDIRECTIONS`` (Issue #3421) * Return a non-zero error code when ``nikola github_deploy`` fails * Refactored scale_image causing performance increasing in image resizing. * Don’t force absolute links for brand/languages (Issue #3229) * Fix RTL mirroring in base theme (``:dir()`` pseudo-class is Firefox only) (Issue #3353) * Work around Bootstrap 4 alignment bug for RTL languages (Issue #3353) * Handle multiple level of inherit/import nesting in Mako templates correctly (Issue #3349) * Output a more informative error when files are missing due to broken symlinks or incorrect ``TRANSLATIONS_PATTERN`` values * Avoid installing ``tests`` package to site-packages, remove it from your environment if it was inadvertently added (Issue #3348) * Sometimes hyphenation added hyphens at the beginning of words (Issue #3362) * Mark gallery images as "dirty" if EXIF configuration changes (Issue #3357) * Fix regression in gallery titles being "index" if there was a index.txt and no title (Issue #3360) * Make gallery indexes depend on destination images to avoid multithreading race condition (Issue #3361) * Mark gallery thumbnails as lazy loading (Issue #2918) * Don't consider JPEG images with EXIF thumbnails as animated (Issue #3332) * Use correct language for hyphenation in posts that are not translated to all languages (Issue #3377) Internal -------- * Added Post.source() method to get a Post's object unprocessed contents. * Added Post.save() method to modify Post contents. * Made is_two_file a property that uses save() -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 [View Less]

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cx_Oracle 8.0
by Anthony Tuininga June 26, 2020

June 26, 2020

What is cx_Oracle? cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that enables access to Oracle Database for Python and conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a number of enhancements. Where do I get it? https://oracle.github.io/python-cx_Oracle The easiest method to install/upgrade cx_Oracle is via pip as in python -m pip install cx_Oracle --upgrade What's new? See the full release notes for all of the details: https://cx-oracle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes.… [View More]

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[ANN] Open pytest training (German) at the CH Open Workshoptage, September 2020, Switzerland
by Florian Bruhin June 25, 2020

June 25, 2020

Hey, Just a quick announcement that I plan to give a full-day hands-on pytest training in September in Switzerland (slides in English, but the training will be in German): https://workshoptage.ch/workshops/2020/pytest-test-driven-development-nicht… The training is a part of the "Workshoptage" organized by CH Open in September 2020, at the HSLU Campus Rotkreuz (ZG): https://workshoptage.ch/ Of course it remains to be seen how things turn out with COVID-19. The organizer (CH Open) allows you … [View More]

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