Mailman 3 September 2020 - Python-announce-list

EuroPython 2020: First batch of edited videos available
by M.-A. Lemburg 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

We’re happy to release the first 30 cut videos of EuroPython 2020. You can watch them on our YouTube channel http://europython.tv/: * EuroPython 2020 Playlist * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8uoeex94UhHgMD9GOCbEHWku7pEPx9fW Over the next few days/weeks, we’ll keep releasing more videos in batches. We are working on over 130 videos in total, so please stop by and check the playlist for more videos, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. Help spread the word -------------------- Please help us spread this message by sharing it on your social networks as widely as possible. Thank you ! Link to the blog post: https://blog.europython.eu/post/629320931800694784/europython-2020-first-ba… Tweet: https://twitter.com/europython/status/1305822961665019906 Thanks, -- EuroPython 2020 Team https://ep2020.europython.eu/ https://www.europython-society.org/

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PyCon India 2020: The Talk Schedule is Out!
by Sayan Chowdhury 13 Sep '20

13 Sep '20

Hi everyone, The PyCon India 2020 talk schedule is out![0] The sheer amount of proposals we received from you all over the last couple of days exceeded all our wildest expectations. The review committee along with all the volunteers worked quite hard to make the deadlines work. The schedule has been released a day before the deadline which signals us that we are on track as we move forward according to the plan. All these efforts go on to accomplish one outcome. An awesome PyCon India keeping you at its epicentre! As we are releasing the talk and keynotes schedule, be sure to look out for the release of workshops and information about many more events in the coming days on Twitter and on our mailing list. Our rehearsal team is working double-time to get all the speakers in top shape for making this year's PyCon India experience amazing for everyone. To check the schedule you can visit the schedule page[1] or the homepage as well. See you, folks, in 18 days! [0] https://in.pycon.org/blog/2020/announce-schedule.html [1] https://in.pycon.org/2020/schedule/ -- Sayan Chowdhury On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/

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Pygments 2.7 released
by Matthäus G. Chajdas 12 Sep '20

12 Sep '20

I'm happy to announce the release of Pygments 2.7. Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python. Pygments 2.7 is an absolutely massive release, with a dozen new languages added and over 50 pull requests merged in total -- a big thank you to our many new first-time contributors. Please have a look at the changelog <https://pygments.org/docs/changelog/>. Report bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker: <https://github.com/pygments/pygments/issues>. Thanks go to all the contributors of these lexers, and to all those who reported bugs and waited very patiently for this release. Download it from <https://pypi.org/project/Pygments/>, or look at the demonstration at <https://pygments.org/demo/>. Enjoy, Matthäus

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pytest-6.0.2
by Ran Benita 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

pytest 6.0.2 has just been released to PyPI. This is a bug-fix release, being a drop-in replacement. To upgrade:: pip install --upgrade pytest The full changelog is available at https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html. Thanks to all of the contributors to this release: * Bruno Oliveira * Ran Benita Happy testing, The pytest Development Team

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[XPOST] PyCon India 2020 Keynote: Victor Stinner
by ABHISHEK MISHRA 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Hello Folks, We are happy to announce Victor Stinner as a Fifth Keynote speaker for PyCon India 2020. About Victor Stinner ----------- Victor Stinner is a Python core developer for 9 years. He is paid by Red Hat to maintain Python upstream (python.org) and downstream (RHEL, Fedora). Author of pyperf, faulthandler and tracemalloc modules, he is working on Python performance, security, and stability (member of the Night's Watch, maintain Python CIs: Travis CI, AppVeyor, and the large fleet of buildbot workers). He also mentors Python contributors. You can find him on Twitter: @VictorStinner Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1304384781715603456 -- Abhishek Mishra On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/

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Wing Python ID 7.2.5 has been released
by Wingware 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Wing 7.2.5 enhances the accuracy of some types of code warnings, improves Debug I/O process management, streamlines new virtualenv creation, implements vi mode :[range]y, and makes a number of usability improvements. Details: https://wingware.com/news/2020-09-09 Downloads: https://wingware.com/downloads == About Wing == Wing is a light-weight but full-featured Python IDE designed specifically for Python, with powerful editing, code inspection, testing, and debugging capabilities. Wing's deep code analysis provides auto-completion, auto-editing, and refactoring that speed up development. Its top notch debugger works with any Python code, locally or on a remote host. Wing also supports test-driven development, version control, UI color and layout customization, and includes extensive documentation and support. Wing is available in three product levels: Wing Pro is the full-featured Python IDE for professional developers, Wing Personal is a free Python IDE for students and hobbyists (omits some features), and Wing 101 is a very simplified free Python IDE for beginners (omits many features). Learn more at https://wingware.com/

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NumPy 1.19.2 released
by Charles R Harris 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Hi All, On behalf of the NumPy team I am pleased to announce that NumPy 1.19.2 has been released. This release fixes several bugs, prepares for the upcoming Cython 3.x release. and pins setuptools to keep distutils working while upstream modifications are ongoing. The aarch64 wheels are built with the latest manylinux2014 release that fixes the problem of differing page sizes used by different Linux distros. There is a known problem with Windows 10 version=2004 and OpenBLAS svd that we are trying to debug. If you are running that Windows version you should use a NumPy version that links to the MKL library, earlier Windows versions are fine. This release supports Python 3.6-3.8. Downstream developers should use Cython >= 0.29.21 when building for Python 3.9 and Cython >= 0.29.16 when building for Python 3.8. OpenBLAS >= 3.7 is needed to avoid wrong results on the Skylake architecture. The NumPy Wheels for this release can be downloaded from PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/numpy/1.19.2/>, source archives, release notes, and wheel hashes are available from Github <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.19.2>. Linux users will need pip >= 0.19.3 in order to install manylinux2010 and manylinux2014 wheels. *Contributors* A total of 8 people contributed to this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time. - Charles Harris - Matti Picus - Pauli Virtanen - Philippe Ombredanne + - Sebastian Berg - Stefan Behnel + - Stephan Loyd + - Zac Hatfield-Dodds *Pull requests merged* A total of 9 pull requests were merged for this release. - #16959: TST: Change aarch64 to arm64 in travis.yml. - #16998: MAINT: Configure hypothesis in ``np.test()`` for determinism,... - #17000: BLD: pin setuptools < 49.2.0 - #17015: ENH: Add NumPy declarations to be used by Cython 3.0+ - #17125: BUG: Remove non-threadsafe sigint handling from fft calculation - #17243: BUG: core: fix ilp64 blas dot/vdot/... for strides > int32 max - #17244: DOC: Use SPDX license expressions with correct license - #17245: DOC: Fix the link to the quick-start in the old API functions - #17272: BUG: fix pickling of arrays larger than 2GiB Cheers, Charles Harris

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PyCon India 2020 Keynote: S Anand
by ABHISHEK MISHRA 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce S Anand as the fourth Keynote speaker of PyCon India 2020. About Anand ----------- Anand is the co-founder of Gramener, a data science company. He is recognized as one of India's top 10 data scientists. He leads a team that automates insights from data and narrates these as visual data stories. You can find him on Twitter: @sanand0 Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1304020252271849472 -- Abhishek Mishra On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/

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PyCon India 2020 Keynote: James Powell
by ABHISHEK MISHRA 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Hi everyone, We are pleased to announce James Powell as the third Keynote Speaker of PyCon India 2020. About James ----------- James Powell is a professional Python programmer and enthusiast. He started working with Python in the finance industry building reporting and analysis systems for prop trading front offices. He currently works as a consultant building data engineering and scientific computing platforms for a wide-range of clients using cutting-edge open source tools like Python and React. He also offers a variety of corporate training courses and coaching sessions in all areas of Python. In his spare time, he serves on the board of NumFOCUS as co-Chairman and Vice President. NumFOCUS is the 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports all the major tools in the Python data analysis ecosystem (incl. pandas, numpy, jupyter, matplotlib, and others.) At NumFOCUS, he helps build global open source communities for data scientists, data engineers, and business analysis. He helps NumFOCUS run the PyData conference series and has sat on speaker selection and organizing committees for over two dozen conferences. James is also a prolific speaker: since 2013, he has given over seventy conference talks at over fifty Python events worldwide. You can find him on Twitter @dontusethiscode. Please retweet the announcement to reach to all the interested parties https://twitter.com/pyconindia/status/1303657849688530944 -- Abhishek Mishra On behalf of PyCon India 2020 Team https://in.pycon.org/2020/

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ANN: python-blosc 1.9.2 released!
by Francesc Alted 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

============================= Announcing python-blosc 1.9.2 ============================= What is new? ============ This is a maintenance release to better support recent versions of Python (3.8 and 3.9). Also, and due to the evolution of modern CPUs, the number of default threads has been raised to 8 (from 4). Finally, zero-copy decompression is now supported by allowing bytes-like input. Thanks to Lehman Garrison. For more info, you can have a look at the release notes in: https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.rst More docs and examples are available in the documentation site: http://python-blosc.blosc.org What is it? =========== Blosc (http://www.blosc.org) is a high performance compressor optimized for binary data. It has been designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch approach via a memcpy() OS call. Blosc works well for compressing numerical arrays that contain data with relatively low entropy, like sparse data, time series, grids with regular-spaced values, etc. python-blosc (http://python-blosc.blosc.org/) is the Python wrapper for the Blosc compression library, with added functions (`compress_ptr()` and `pack_array()`) for efficiently compressing NumPy arrays, minimizing the number of memory copies during the process. python-blosc can be used to compress in-memory data buffers for transmission to other machines, persistence or just as a compressed cache. There is also a handy tool built on top of python-blosc called Bloscpack (https://github.com/Blosc/bloscpack). It features a command line interface that allows you to compress large binary data files on-disk. It also comes with a Python API that has built-in support for serializing and deserializing Numpy arrays both on-disk and in-memory at speeds that are competitive with regular Pickle/cPickle machinery. Sources repository ================== The sources and documentation are managed through github services at: http://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc ---- **Enjoy data!** -- The Blosc Development Team

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