From phd at phdru.name  Sun Feb  2 14:34:52 2014
From: phd at phdru.name (Oleg Broytman)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 14:34:52 +0100
Subject: mimedecode.py version 2.3.3
Message-ID: <20140202133452.GA10561@phdru.name>

Hello!

                                mimedecode.py

WHAT IS IT

   Mail users, especially in non-English countries, often find that mail
messages arrived in different formats, with different content types, in
different encodings and charsets. Usually this is good because it allows us to
use appropriate format/encoding/whatever. Sometimes, though, some unification
is desirable. For example, one may want to put mail messages into an archive,
make HTML indices, run search indexer, etc. In such situations converting
messages to text in one character set and skipping some binary attachments is
much desirable.

   Here is the solution - mimedecode.py.

   This is a program to decode MIME messages. The program expects one input
file (either on command line or on stdin) which is treated as an RFC822
message, and decodes to stdout or an output file. If the file is not an RFC822
message it is just copied to the output one-to-one. If the file is a simple
RFC822 message it is decoded as one part. If it is a MIME message with multiple
parts ("attachments") all parts are decoded. Decoding can be controlled by
command-line options.

WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.3 (2014-02-02)
   Forbid filtering from console. When the program runs with stdin
   connected to the console it shows usage help.

   Fix a bug - option -o and no parameters.

WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.2 (2014-02-01)
   Fix a bug - do not generate 'From ' headers in subparts.

   Add option --host.

   Add tests.

WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.1 (2014-01-31)
   Update documentation.

WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.0 (2014-01-30)
   Add option -o and output_file argument.

WHAT'S NEW in version 2.2.0 (2013-12-21)
   Rename __version__.py to mimedecode_version.py.

   Use setuptools.


WHERE TO GET
   Home page: http://phdru.name/Software/Python/#mimedecode
    git clone http://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git
    git clone  git://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git

   Requires: Python 2.2.2+

   Recommends: configured mailcap database.

   Documentation (also included in the package):
           http://phdru.name/Software/Python/mimedecode.txt


AUTHOR
   Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name>

COPYRIGHT
   Copyright (C) 2001-2014 PhiloSoft Design.

LICENSE
   GPL

Oleg.
-- 
     Oleg Broytman            http://phdru.name/            phd at phdru.name
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

From stagi.andrea at gmail.com  Sun Feb  2 17:39:34 2014
From: stagi.andrea at gmail.com (Andrea Stagi)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 17:39:34 +0100
Subject: ANN: autoflight 1.0.2 released
Message-ID: <CAAPQETs2J8zxJMwWwLg43iuRvFVAu6OR6rp3_wTH+ar2oT=gDg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone,

I'm pleased to announce you autoflight 1.0.2, a useful tool to upload a
given .apk or .ipa to TestFlight. This is an open source project, so if you
want to improve it please send us a pull request or open a bug and/or a
request.
You can find the source code at https://github.com/atooma/autoflight

Installing autoflight is simple, just type:

    # pip install autoflight

Then you can create your config file in your working directory using json
format

{
    "api_token": "4P1T0K3NF4K3",
    "team_token": "T34MT0K3NF4K3",
    "notify": true,
    "distribution_lists": "Internal,QA"
}

Then type

    $ autoflight /path/to/my_apk_or_ipa --config-file /path/to/config.json

Alternatively you can specify parameters from the command line, launch the
helper to see all the available options

    $ autoflight --help

-- 
Andrea Stagi (@4stagi) -  Software Engineer @ Atooma Inc.
Job profile: http://linkedin.com/in/andreastagi
Website: http://4spills.blogspot.it/
Github: http://github.com/astagi

From mmanns at gmx.net  Sun Feb  2 19:52:08 2014
From: mmanns at gmx.net (Martin Manns)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 19:52:08 +0100
Subject: [ANN] pyspread 0.2.6
Message-ID: <20140202195208.59a1e1f4@Fuddel>

==============
pyspread 0.2.6
==============


Pyspread 0.2.6 is released.

This update brings Excel xls file reading and prevents many
pyspread lock ups that were caused by misbehaving user code.


About pyspread
==============

Pyspread is a non-traditional spreadsheet application that is based on
and written in the programming language Python. 

The goal of pyspread is to be the most pythonic spreadsheet application.

Pyspread is free software. It is released under the GPL v3.

Project website: http://manns.github.com/pyspread/
Download page:   https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyspread


What is new in 0.2.6
====================

 + Reading support for Excel xls files (requires dependency xlrd)
 + Code execution timeout, i. e. buggy code such as infinite loops does
   not lock up pyspread any more.
   Note: The timeout does not work for C operations such as
         a ** <big number>
 + Macro dialog now provides an error message field
 + Multiple rows/columns can now be resized together when selected
 + Show frozen option added that changes background of frozen cells
 + The cell editor now is resized when the text grows too large
 + Cells are now always clipped
 + Example macro for in cell LaTeX equations added
 + Contour plots and Sankey charts added to chart dialog
 + Pie chart can now be rotated in the chart dialog
 + Chart fonts and ticks can now be changed in chart dialog
 + Some bug fixes

Known issues
============

 + Selection mode is disabled in Windows.
 + Sometimes, pressing redo when there is nothing left to redo has
   undesired effects such as redoing an operation again.
 + Pyspread with wxPython 3.x instead of 2.8.x may be slow and buggy
 + On some (not all) Windows system lockup prevention does not work


Enjoy

Martin



From andy at reportlab.com  Tue Feb  4 23:11:09 2014
From: andy at reportlab.com (Andy Robinson)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:11:09 +0000
Subject: ReportLab 3.0 alpha 1 available - Python 2.7 & 3.3 support
Message-ID: <CABjtApvWvc1F4xfUrGA6fKvB66gC4-DyAGvpr-vRDTSgC5fPaQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everybody,

At long last, our first pre-release version of ReportLab 3.0 is out.
This runs on Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4; hopefully, very little else has
changed.   Alpha and beta builds will be in our private pypi
repository:

   https://www.reportlab.com/pypi/

Currently we seem to be passing 100% of our (expanded) test suite with
the source versions, and with Windows installers (exe, msi and
wheels).  We would be most grateful if people could test by installing
in in a variety of environments.    The easiest way is to set up a
virtual environment and then run...

    pip install pillow
    pip install -i https://www.reportlab.com/pypi/ reportlab==3.0a1

You can then unzip a source copy, cd into 'tests/', and execute
'python runAll.py' with your installed reportlab.  We also welcome
tests where you swap out your existing reportlab for this one and see
if applications run normally.

At this stage our focus is on the packaging and 'installability'.   If
all goes well and there are few/no bugs found, we will declare beta in
a few days, then go to 3.0 once we have updated the documentation and
download pages.  Please report bugs on our users list.

Best Regards,




-- 
Andy Robinson
Managing Director
ReportLab Europe Ltd.
Thornton House, Thornton Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 4NG, UK
Tel +44-20-8405-6420

From bryanv at continuum.io  Wed Feb  5 02:46:54 2014
From: bryanv at continuum.io (Bryan Van de Ven)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 19:46:54 -0600
Subject: ANN: Bokeh 0.4 Release
Message-ID: <20AB7043-64A3-4037-B118-825347130F18@continuum.io>

I am pleased to announce the release of Bokeh version 0.4!

Bokeh is a Python library for visualizing large and realtime datasets on the web.  Its goal is to provide elegant, concise construction of novel graphics in the style of Protovis/D3, while delivering high-performance interactivity to thin clients.  Bokeh includes its own Javascript library (BokehJS) that implements a reactive scenegraph representation of the plot, and renders efficiently to HTML5 Canvas.  Bokeh works well with IPython Notebook, but can generate standalone graphics that embed into regular HTML.

Check out the full documentation and interactive gallery at

       http://bokeh.pydata.org

If you are using Anaconda, you can install with conda:

       conda install bokeh

Alternatively, you can install with pip:

       pip install bokeh

Some of the new features in this release include:

* Preliminary work on Matplotlib support: convert MPL figures to Bokeh plots
* Free public beta of Bokeh plot hosting at http://bokehplots.com
* Tool improvements:
- "always on" pan tool and wheel zoom tool (with shift key)
- box zoom tool
- viewport reset tool
* Enhanced datetime axis, with better performance and nicer ticking
* Expanded testing, including TravisCI integrations and static image output using PhantomJS
* RGBA and color mapped image plots now available from Python
* Python 3 supported
* Vastly improved documentation for glyphs, with inline examples and JSFiddle integration

Also, we've fixed lots of little bugs - see the CHANGELOG for full details.

Bokeh will be having a free "Office Hours" later this week! Join us this Thursday at 2pm CST on EngineHere athttps://www.enginehere.com/stream/437/bokeh-04-release/ for a live informational session about the latest release.  We'll be covering all the newest features and updates through a combination of live lecture, Q&A, and pair programming.  It's all free, just sign up to the EngineHere learning platform.

BokehJS is also available by CDN for use in standalone javascript applications:

       http://cdn.pydata.org/bokeh-0.4.js
       http://cdn.pydata.org/bokeh-0.4.css
       http://cdn.pydata.org/bokeh-0.4.min.js
       http://cdn.pydata.org/bokeh-0.4.min.css

Some examples of BokehJS use can be found on the Bokeh JSFiddle page:

       http://jsfiddle.net/user/bokeh/fiddles/

The release of Bokeh 0.5 is planned for late March. Some notable features we plan to include are:

* Abstract Rendering for semantically meaningful downsampling of large datasets
* Better grid-based layout system, using Cassowary.js
* Selection tools, tooltips, etc.

Issues, enhancement requests, and pull requests can be made on the Bokeh Github page: https://github.com/continuumio/bokeh

Questions can be directed to the Bokeh mailing list: bokeh at continuum.io

Special thanks to recent contributors: Janek Klawe, Samantha Hughes, Rebecca Paz, and Benedikt Sauer.

Regards,

Bryan Van de Ven
Continuum Analytics
http://continuum.io

From s.feltman at gmail.com  Wed Feb  5 07:35:22 2014
From: s.feltman at gmail.com (Simon Feltman)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:35:22 -0800
Subject: PyGObject 3.11.5 Released
Message-ID: <CACc9j8bDXVTkhDK-pc==BCXQyWL7Xd+m75hYfP2YxqU8KhzPMw@mail.gmail.com>

I am pleased to announce version 3.11.5 of the Python bindings for
GObject. This is the fifth alpha release of the 3.11.x series for GNOME 3.12.

Notable in this release is a lots of internal refactoring and reorganizing of
modules. PyGObject has gone from building four shared libraries
(_gi.so, _gobject.so, _glib.so, and libpyglib-gi-2.0.so) down to one (_gi.so).
This eases internal code sharing and should making packaging for various
platforms a bit simpler.

Download
========
The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org:

https://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/3.11/pygobject-3.11.5.tar.xz (680K)
sha256sum: 26458b012e5d443d9b4a81d9eb9ad3207f5f050c962f5bd09f16aa034d284685

What's new in PyGObject 3.11.5
=================================
- cache refactoring: Move all cache marshalers into files based on type
  (Simon Feltman) (#709700)
- tests: Add test for an owned boxed struct passed in a callback
  (Mike Gorse) (#722899)
- build: Add --without-common configure option for package maintainers
  (Patrick Welche) (#721646)
- demo: Add TreeModel interface implementation demonstration
  (Simon Feltman)
- build: Set PLATFORM_VERSION again to 3.0 (Colin Walters)
- tests: Run PyFlakes and PEP8 only on SUBDIRS (Simon Feltman)
- Merge static PyGLib and PyGObject modules into PyGI
  (Simon Feltman) (#712197)
- Add test for callback user data arguments with following arguments
  (Martin Pitt) (#722104)

About PyGObject
===============
GObject is a object system used by GTK+, GStreamer and other libraries.

PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for use in Python programs when
accessing GObject libraries.

Like the GObject library itself PyGObject is licensed under the GNU
LGPL, so is suitable for use in both free software and proprietary
applications. It is already in use in many applications ranging from
small single purpose scripts up to large full featured applications.

PyGObject now dynamically accesses any GObject libraries that uses
GObject Introspection. It replaces the need for separate modules such as
PyGTK, GIO and python-gnome to build a full GNOME 3.0 application. Once
new functionality is added to gobject library it is instantly available
as a Python API without the need for intermediate Python glue.

From antonio.valentino at tiscali.it  Wed Feb  5 21:38:03 2014
From: antonio.valentino at tiscali.it (Antonio Valentino)
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:38:03 +0100
Subject: ANN: PyTables 3.1.0 released
Message-ID: <52F2A12B.9060009@tiscali.it>

===========================
 Announcing PyTables 3.1.0
===========================

We are happy to announce PyTables 3.1.0.

This is a feature release.  The upgrading is recommended for users that
are running PyTables in production environments.


What's new
==========

Probably the most relevant changes in this release are internal
improvements like the new node cache that is now compatible with the
upcoming Python 3.4 and the registry for open files has been deeply
reworked. The caching feature of file handlers has been completely
dropped so now PyTables is a little bit more "thread friendly".

New, user visible, features include:

- a new lossy filter for HDF5 datasets (EArray, CArray, VLArray and
  Table objects). The *quantization* filter truncates floating point
  data to a specified precision before writing to disk.
  This can significantly improve the performance of compressors
  (many thanks to Andreas Hilboll).
- support for the H5FD_SPLIT HDF5 driver (thanks to simleo)
- all new features introduced in the Blosc_ 1.3.x series, and in
  particular the ability to leverage different compressors within
  Blosc_ are now available in PyTables via the blosc filter (a big
  thank you to Francesc)
- the ability to save/restore the default value of :class:`EnumAtom`
  types

Also, installations of the HDF5 library that have a broken support for
the *long double* data type (see the `Issues with H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE`_
thread on the HFG5 forum) are detected by PyTables 3.1.0 and the
corresponding features are automatically disabled.

Users that need support for the *long double* data type should ensure to
build PyTables against an installation of the HDF5 library that is not
affected by the bug.

.. _`Issues with H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE`:

http://hdf-forum.184993.n3.nabble.com/Issues-with-H5T-NATIVE-LDOUBLE-tt4026450.html

As always, a large amount of bugs have been addressed and squashed as well.

In case you want to know more in detail what has changed in this
version, please refer to: http://pytables.github.io/release_notes.html

You can download a source package with generated PDF and HTML docs, as
well as binaries for Windows, from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytables/files/pytables/3.1.0

For an online version of the manual, visit:
http://pytables.github.io/usersguide/index.html


What it is?
===========

PyTables is a library for managing hierarchical datasets and
designed to efficiently cope with extremely large amounts of data with
support for full 64-bit file addressing.  PyTables runs on top of
the HDF5 library and NumPy package for achieving maximum throughput and
convenient use.  PyTables includes OPSI, a new indexing technology,
allowing to perform data lookups in tables exceeding 10 gigarows
(10**10 rows) in less than a tenth of a second.


Resources
=========

About PyTables: http://www.pytables.org

About the HDF5 library: http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/

About NumPy: http://numpy.scipy.org/


Acknowledgments
===============

Thanks to many users who provided feature improvements, patches, bug
reports, support and suggestions.  See the ``THANKS`` file in the
distribution package for a (incomplete) list of contributors.  Most
specially, a lot of kudos go to the HDF5 and NumPy makers.
Without them, PyTables simply would not exist.


Share your experience
=====================

Let us know of any bugs, suggestions, gripes, kudos, etc. you may have.


----

  **Enjoy data!**

  -- The PyTables Developers


From mmanns at gmx.net  Wed Feb  5 23:17:21 2014
From: mmanns at gmx.net (Martin Manns)
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 23:17:21 +0100
Subject: [ANN] pyspread 0.2.7
Message-ID: <20140205231721.5459473d@Fuddel>

==============
pyspread 0.2.7
==============


Pyspread 0.2.7 is released.

This is a bugfix release that fixes the chart dialog for Windows.


About pyspread
==============

Pyspread is a non-traditional spreadsheet application that is based on
and written in the programming language Python. 

The goal of pyspread is to be the most pythonic spreadsheet application.

Pyspread is free software. It is released under the GPL v3.

Project website: http://manns.github.com/pyspread/
Download page:   https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyspread


What is new in 0.2.7
====================

 + Chart dialog works again on Windows


Known issues
============

 + Selection mode is disabled in Windows.
 + Sometimes, pressing redo when there is nothing left to redo has
   undesired effects such as redoing an operation again.
 + Pyspread with wxPython 3.x instead of 2.8.x may be slow and buggy
 + On some (not all) Windows system lockup prevention does not work



Martin



From vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk  Thu Feb  6 21:53:59 2014
From: vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk (Vinay Sajip)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 20:53:59 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: ANN: A new version (0.3.6) of python-gnupg has been released.
Message-ID: <1391720039.68301.YahooMailBasic@web172403.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>

A new version of the Python module which wraps GnuPG has been
released.

What Changed?
=============
This is an enhancement and bug-fix release, but the bug-fixes
include some security improvements, so all users are encouraged
to upgrade. See the project website ( http://code.google.com/p/python-gnupg/ )
for more information. Summary:

Enabled fast random tests on gpg as well as gpg2.
Avoided deleting temporary file to preserve its permissions.
Avoided writing passphrase to log.
Added export-minimal and armor options when exporting keys.
Added verify_data() method to allow verification of signatures in memory.
Regularised end-of-line characters in ths source code.
Rectified problems with earlier fix for shell injection.

The current version passes all tests on Windows (CPython 2.4, 2.5,
2.6, 3.1, 2.7 and Jython 2.5.1) and Ubuntu (CPython 2.4, 2.5, 2.6,
2.7, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2). On Windows, GnuPG 1.4.11 has been used for the
tests.

What Does It Do?
================
The gnupg module allows Python programs to make use of the
functionality provided by the Gnu Privacy Guard (abbreviated GPG or
GnuPG). Using this module, Python programs can encrypt and decrypt
data, digitally sign documents and verify digital signatures, manage
(generate, list and delete) encryption keys, using proven Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI) encryption technology based on OpenPGP.

This module is expected to be used with Python versions >= 2.4, as it
makes use of the subprocess module which appeared in that version of
Python. This module is a newer version derived from earlier work by
Andrew Kuchling, Richard Jones and Steve Traugott.

A test suite using unittest is included with the source distribution.

Simple usage:

>>> import gnupg
>>> gpg = gnupg.GPG(gnupghome='/path/to/keyring/directory')
>>> gpg.list_keys()
[{
  ...
  'fingerprint': 'F819EE7705497D73E3CCEE65197D5DAC68F1AAB2',
  'keyid': '197D5DAC68F1AAB2',
  'length': '1024',
  'type': 'pub',
  'uids': ['', 'Gary Gross (A test user) <gary.gr... at gamma.com>']},
 {
  ...
  'fingerprint': '37F24DD4B918CC264D4F31D60C5FEFA7A921FC4A',
  'keyid': '0C5FEFA7A921FC4A',
  'length': '1024',
  ...
  'uids': ['', 'Danny Davis (A test user) <danny.da... at delta.com>']}]
>>> encrypted = gpg.encrypt("Hello, world!", ['0C5FEFA7A921FC4A'])
>>> str(encrypted)
'-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)\n
\nhQIOA/6NHMDTXUwcEAf
...
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----\n'
>>> decrypted = gpg.decrypt(str(encrypted), passphrase='secret')
>>> str(decrypted)
'Hello, world!'
>>> signed = gpg.sign("Goodbye, world!", passphrase='secret')
>>> verified = gpg.verify(str(signed))
>>> print "Verified" if verified else "Not verified"
'Verified'

For more information, visit http://code.google.com/p/python-gnupg/ -
as always, your feedback is most welcome (especially bug reports,
patches and suggestions for improvement). Enjoy!

Cheers

Vinay Sajip
Red Dove Consultants Ltd.


From opossumnano at gmail.com  Thu Feb  6 13:52:53 2014
From: opossumnano at gmail.com (Tiziano Zito)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:52:53 +0100
Subject: [ANN] Summer School "Advanced Scientific Programming in Python" in
 Split, Croatia
Message-ID: <20140206125253.GF5464@bio230.biologie.hu-berlin.de>

Advanced Scientific Programming in Python
=========================================
a Summer School by the G-Node and the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FESB),
University of Split

Scientists spend more and more time writing, maintaining, and
debugging software. While techniques for doing this efficiently have
evolved, only few scientists have been trained to use them. As
a result, instead of doing their research, they spend far too much
time writing deficient code and reinventing the wheel. In this
course we will present a selection of advanced programming
techniques, incorporating theoretical lectures and practical
exercises tailored to the needs of a programming scientist. New
skills will be tested in a real programming project: we will team up
to develop an entertaining scientific computer game.

We use the Python programming language for the entire course. Python
works as a simple programming language for beginners, but more
importantly, it also works great in scientific simulations and data
analysis. We show how clean language design, ease of extensibility,
and the great wealth of open source libraries for scientific
computing and data visualization are driving Python to become
a standard tool for the programming scientist.

This school is targeted at Master or PhD students and Post-docs from
all areas of science. Competence in Python or in another language
such as Java, C/C++, MATLAB, or Mathematica is absolutely required.
Basic knowledge of Python is assumed. Participants without any prior
experience with Python should work through the proposed introductory
materials before the course.

Date and Location
=================
September 8?13, 2014. Split, Croatia

Preliminary Program
===================
Day 0 (Mon Sept 8) ? Best Programming Practices
  ? Best Practices for Scientific Computing
  ? Version control with git and how to contribute to Open
    Source with github
  ? Object-oriented programming & design patterns
Day 1 (Tue Sept 9) ? Software Carpentry
  ? Test-driven development, unit testing & quality assurance
  ? Debugging, profiling and benchmarking techniques
  ? Advanced Python I: idioms, useful built-in data structures,
    generators
Day 2 (Wed Sept 10) ? Scientific Tools for Python
  ? Advanced NumPy
  ? The Quest for Speed (intro): Interfacing to C with Cython
  ? Programming in teams
Day 3 (Thu Sept 11) ? The Quest for Speed
  ? Writing parallel applications in Python
  ? Python 3: why should I care
  ? Programming project
Day 4 (Fri Sept 12) ? Efficient Memory Management
  ? When parallelization does not help:
    the starving CPUs problem
  ? Advanced Python II: decorators and context managers
  ? Programming project
Day 5 (Sat Sept 13) ? Practical Software Development
  ? Programming project
  ? The Pelita Tournament

Every evening we will have the tutors' consultation hour: Tutors
will answer your questions and give suggestions for your own
projects.

Applications
============
You can apply on-line at http://python.g-node.org

Applications must be submitted before 23:59 UTC, May 1, 2014. 
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June 1, 2014.

No fee is charged but participants should take care of travel,
living, and accommodation expenses. Candidates will be selected on
the basis of their profile. Places are limited: acceptance rate is
usually around 20%. Prerequisites: You are supposed to know the
basics of Python to participate in the lectures. You are encouraged
to go through the introductory material available on the website.

Faculty
=======
 ? Francesc Alted, Continuum Analytics Inc., USA
 ? Pietro Berkes, Enthought Inc., UK
 ? Kathryn D. Huff, Department of Nuclear Engineering, 
   University of California - Berkeley, USA
 ? Zbigniew J?drzejewski-Szmek, Krasnow Institute, 
   George Mason University, USA
 ? Eilif Muller, Blue Brain Project, ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de
   Lausanne, Switzerland
 ? Rike-Benjamin Schuppner, Technologit GbR, Germany
 ? Nelle Varoquaux, Centre for Computational Biology Mines ParisTech,
   Institut Curie, U900 INSERM, Paris, France
 ? St?fan van der Walt, Applied Mathematics, Stellenbosch University,
   South Africa
 ? Niko Wilbert, TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, Germany
 ? Tiziano Zito, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universit?t
   zu Berlin, Germany

Organized by Tiziano Zito (head) and Zbigniew J?drzejewski-Szmek for
the German Neuroinformatics Node of the INCF (Germany), Lana Peri?a
for the Numerical and applied mathematics group, FESB, University of
Split (Croatia), Ivana Kaji? from the Bernstein Center for
Computational Neuroscience Berlin (Germany), Ivana Bala?evi? from
the Technical University Berlin (Germany), and Filip Petkovski from
IN2 Ltd. Skopje (Macedonia).

Website: http://python.g-node.org
Contact: python-info at g-node.org



From nd at perlig.de  Sat Feb  8 00:34:14 2014
From: nd at perlig.de (=?iso-8859-1?q?Andr=E9_Malo?=)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 00:34:14 +0100
Subject: rJSmin 1.0.8
Message-ID: <201402080034.14234@news.perlig.de>

Hello World,

I'm pleased to announce version 1.0.8 of rJSmin.


About rJSmin
============

rJSmin is a javascript minifier written in python. The minifier is based
on the semantics of jsmin.c by Douglas Crockford.

The module is a re-implementation aiming for speed, so it can be used at
runtime (rather than during a preprocessing step). Usually it produces
the same results as the original jsmin.c. It differs in the following
ways:

- there is no error detection: unterminated string, regex and comment
  literals are treated as regular javascript code and minified as such.
- Control characters inside string and regex literals are left
  untouched; they are not converted to spaces (nor to \n)
- Newline characters are not allowed inside string and regex literals,
  except for line continuations in string literals (ECMA-5).
- "return /regex/" is recognized correctly.
- "+ +" and "- -" sequences are not collapsed to "++" or "--"
- Newlines before ! operators are removed more sensibly
- Comments starting with an exclamation mark ('!') can be kept optionally
- rJSmin does not handle streams, but only complete strings. (However,
  the module provides a "streamy" interface).


About Release 1.0.8
===================

This release adds the capability to keep comments starting with an 
exclamation mark (/*! bang comments */). Support for Python 3.4 was added. 
The benchmarks were updated.


Supported Python Versions
=========================

* Python 2.4 - 2.7
* Python 3.1 - 3.4
* PyPy 1.9, 2.0
* Jython 2.5, 2.7 (Python only)


License
=======

rJSmin is available under the terms and conditions of the "Apache License,
Version 2.0."


Links
=====

* Homepage + Documentation: http://opensource.perlig.de/rjsmin/
* PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rjsmin
* Github: https://github.com/ndparker/rjsmin
* License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0


Andr? "nd" Malo

From ian at excess.org  Mon Feb 10 01:39:48 2014
From: ian at excess.org (Ian Ward)
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 19:39:48 -0500
Subject: ANN: Urwid 1.2.0
Message-ID: <CAA3rUNfRrePtSb-R5wUNn+yaH6-MeqCMXEnyubL=N1Ph_kcbAA@mail.gmail.com>

Announcing Urwid 1.2.0
----------------------

Urwid home page:
  http://urwid.org/


About this release:
===================

This is a major feature release for Urwid.

Urwid now works with PyPy. TwistedEventLoop, GlibEventLoop and the
new TornadoEventLoop now work with Python 3.2+.

New weakly referenced signal handler argments make signals more
useful and help prevent memory leaks. Signals will likely be used
more widely across the library in the future.

Source control, issue tracking and wikis have moved to github.
The urwid home page, examples and all other documentation is now
generated completely with sphinx.


New in 1.2.0:
=============

 * Add support for PyPy, drop support for Python 2.4, 2.5

 * Signals now support using weakly referenced arguments to help
   avoid leaking objects when a signal consumer is no longer
   referenced (by Matthijs Kooijman)

 * Add TornadoEventLoop class (by Alexander Glyzov)

 * Update GlibEventLoop to use python-gi for Python3 compatibility
   (by Israel Garcia)

 * Automate testing with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 and PyPy using
   travis-ci

 * New container method get_focus_widgets() (by Matthijs Kooijman)

 * Add support for double and triple click mouse events
   (by Igor Kotrasi?ski)

 * Allow disabling and re-enabling of mouse tracking
   (by Jim Garrison)

 * Create section in docs for example program screenshots generated
   as images like the tutorial examples

 * Add suggested basic color combination images to manual

 * Fall back to 80x24 if screen size detection fails

 * Fix screen.stop(), screen.start() disabling mouse events

 * Fix to make GridFlow v_sep argument behave as documented

 * Fix for registering high palette entries in the form "hX" where
   X > 15 so that basic colors are applied in 88-color mode

 * Fix for raw_display clear-right escape not working with
   standout attribute on some terminals

 * Fix for Terminal widget select loop: retry when interrupted


About Urwid
===========

Urwid is a console UI library for Python. It features fluid interface
resizing, Unicode support, multiple text layouts, simple attribute
markup, powerful scrolling list boxes and flexible interface design.

Urwid is released under the GNU LGPL.

From georg at python.org  Mon Feb 10 21:55:40 2014
From: georg at python.org (Georg Brandl)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:55:40 +0100
Subject: [RELEASED] Python 3.3.4
Message-ID: <52F93CCC.70304@python.org>

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On behalf of the Python development team, I'm very happy to announce
the release of Python 3.3.4.

Python 3.3.4 includes several security fixes and over 120 bug fixes
compared to the Python 3.3.3 release.

This release fully supports OS X 10.9 Mavericks.  In particular, this
release fixes an issue that could cause previous versions of Python to
crash when typing in interactive mode on OS X 10.9.

Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well
as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x.  In total, almost 500 API items
are new or improved in Python 3.3.  For a more extensive list of
changes in the 3.3 series, see

    http://docs.python.org/3.3/whatsnew/3.3.html

To download Python 3.3.4 visit:

    http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.4/


This is a production release, please report any bugs to

     http://bugs.python.org/


Enjoy!

- --
Georg Brandl, Release Manager
georg at python.org
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.3's contributors)
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From larry at hastings.org  Tue Feb 11 08:43:15 2014
From: larry at hastings.org (Larry Hastings)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:43:15 -0800
Subject: [RELEASED] Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1
Message-ID: <52F9D493.6090100@hastings.org>


On behalf of the Python development team, I'm delighted to announce
the first release candidate of Python 3.4.

This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended for
production settings.

Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including
hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes.  Major new features and
changes in the 3.4 release series include:

* PEP 428, a "pathlib" module providing object-oriented filesystem paths
* PEP 435, a standardized "enum" module
* PEP 436, a build enhancement that will help generate introspection
            information for builtins
* PEP 442, improved semantics for object finalization
* PEP 443, adding single-dispatch generic functions to the standard library
* PEP 445, a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators
* PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default
            in subprocesses
* PEP 450, a new "statistics" module
* PEP 451, standardizing module metadata for Python's module import system
* PEP 453, a bundled installer for the *pip* package manager
* PEP 454, a new "tracemalloc" module for tracing Python memory allocations
* PEP 456, a new hash algorithm for Python strings and binary data
* PEP 3154, a new and improved protocol for pickled objects
* PEP 3156, a new "asyncio" module, a new framework for asynchronous I/O

Python 3.4 is now in "feature freeze", meaning that no new features will be
added.  The final release is projected for mid-March 2014.


To download Python 3.4.0rc1 visit:

     http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.4.0/


Please consider trying Python 3.4.0rc1 with your code and reporting any
new issues you notice to:

      http://bugs.python.org/


Enjoy!

--
Larry Hastings, Release Manager
larry at hastings.org
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.4's contributors)

From mal at python.org  Tue Feb 11 17:19:00 2014
From: mal at python.org (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:19:00 +0100
Subject: ANN: PSF Python Marketing Brochure - Last call for Ad Sponsors
Message-ID: <52FA4D74.90202@python.org>

[Please help spread the word by forwarding to other relevant mailing lists,
 user groups, etc. world-wide; thanks :-)]

________________________________________________________________________
ANNOUNCING

       PSF Python Marketing Brochure - Last call for Ad Sponsors


     Please support the PSF in providing the Python community with
                 free high quality marketing material
                        to promote Python

________________________________________________________________________
INTRODUCTION

Over the last few years, the Python brochure team has worked on and
created a high-quality brochure to help user groups, conferences and
companies using Python to promote and spread the word about Python.

The brochure will be printed in a first edition of 10,000 copies
which the PSF will then distribute to user groups, Python conferences
and educational institutions on request and free of charge.

With the Python brochure, we hope to reach out to an audience which
is not easy to address and convince using electronic and mostly
developer oriented media.

________________________________________________________________________
PREVIEW

Please take a look at our preview PDF version of the brochure to see
for yourself:

    http://brochure.getpython.info/preview.pdf

________________________________________________________________________
SEEKING YOUR HELP

The team set out to create and print the brochure without introducing
extra costs for the PSF. Our aim is to fully finance the brochure
production, printing and shipment to interested parties using money
from sponsors.

          To make this happen, we are seeking your help !

=> We have already signed up sponsors for 6 half page ads, but still
   need another *5 half page ad sponsors* to sign up.

=> There are also *6 smaller reference entry sponsorships* left to
   be sold.

If you are affiliated with or know a company investing into Python
and looking for ways to reach out to a large audience of interested
Python users, students, developers - and people in key decision making
positions, please reach out to us and help make the project
a success.

The deadline for ad and reference entry signups is *Feb 28* - in just
under three weeks.

You can find all the details about the available sponsorship
options on this page:

    http://brochure.getpython.info/sponsorship

Orders can be placed directly with the production company, Evenios
Publishing on the website. All sponsors will receive a box of about
120 free copies of the brochure as Thank You gift.

________________________________________________________________________
ORDERING EXTRA COPIES

Companies who are interested in receiving extra copies can pre-order
additional boxes which will then be printed in addition to the
initial 10.000 copy batch:

    http://brochure.getpython.info/mediadata/subscription-order-procedure

It is also possible to donate such extra boxes to educational
institutions:

    http://brochure.getpython.info/mediadata/education-sponsorship

If you have special requirements, please contact the team at
brochure at getpython.info for more information. We're very flexible
in addressing your needs.

________________________________________________________________________
MORE INFORMATION

More information on the brochure, the idea behind it, media data
and ordering links are available on our project page:

    http://brochure.getpython.info/


Thanks for your help,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Director
Python Software Foundation
http://www.python.org/psf/

From info at egenix.com  Wed Feb 12 10:28:20 2014
From: info at egenix.com (eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:28:20 +0100
Subject: ANN: eGenix mxODBC Connect 2.0.4 - Python ODBC Database Interface
Message-ID: <52FB3EB4.4060904@egenix.com>

________________________________________________________________________

ANNOUNCING
                      eGenix.com mxODBC Connect

                    Python ODBC Database Interface

                            Version 2.0.4


 mxODBC Connect is our commercially supported client-server product for
       connecting Python applications to relational databases
                 in a truly platform independent way.


This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading:
http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Connect-2.0.4-GA.html

________________________________________________________________________

INTRODUCTION

The mxODBC Connect Database Interface for Python allows users to
easily connect Python applications to all major databases on the
market today in a highly portable, convenient and secure way.

Python Database Connectivity the Easy Way
-----------------------------------------

Unlike our mxODBC Python extension, mxODBC Connect is designed as
client-server application, so you no longer need to find production
quality ODBC drivers for all the platforms you target with your Python
application.

Instead you use an easy to install royalty-free Python client library
which connects directly to the mxODBC Connect database server over the
network.

This makes mxODBC Connect a great basis for writing cross-platform
multi-tier database applications and utilities in Python, especially
if you run applications that need to communicate with databases such
as MS SQL Server and MS Access, Oracle Database, IBM DB2 and Informix,
Sybase ASE and Sybase Anywhere, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SAP MaxDB and many
more, that run on Windows or Linux machines.

Ideal for Database Driven Client Applications
---------------------------------------------

By removing the need to install and configure ODBC drivers on the
client side and dealing with complicated network setups for each set
of drivers, mxODBC Connect greatly simplifies deployment of database
driven client applications, while at the same time making the network
communication between client and database server more efficient and
more secure.

For more information, please have a look at the mxODBC Connect product
page, in particular, the full list of available features.

For more information, please see the product page:

    http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBCConnect/

________________________________________________________________________

NEWS

The 2.0.4 release of mxODBC Connect includes the following
enhancements and fixes:

Security Enhancements
---------------------

 * Upgraded client and server to the most recent eGenix pyOpenSSL
   Distribution 0.13.3.1.0.1.6. See http://egenix.com/go52 for
   details.

 * Authentication errors are now reported with the SYSTEM_ERROR log
   level, making them visible using the default server side log level
   setting.

Server Enhancements
-------------------

 * Updated the server to use eGenix mxODBC 3.2.3 for database
   connectivity. See http://egenix.com/go45 for details.

 * Added new server connection configuration setting
   connection_cursortype which allows modifying the default cursor
   type (using the new connection.cursortype attribute value; see
   http://egenix.com/go42) without having to modify the client side
   applications. The setting can be applied on a per connection basis
   for enhanced flexibility.

 * The mxODBC DataDirect subpackage is now built against the current
   DataDirect ODBC manager version 7.1.2.

Client Enhancements
-------------------

 * Fixed a problem with the .warningformat attribute not working as
   expected on cursors and connections.

Performance Enhancements
------------------------

 * MS SQL Server performance can be much enhanced, and increased to
   levels beyond that of mxODBC Connect 2.0.2 and previous releases,
   by adjusting the default cursor type to forward-only cursors
   instead of static cursors.

   mxODBC Connect 2.0.4 makes this possible without having to change
   client side applications by modifying the server-config.ini file as
   follows:

    [Connection_Example]
    ...
    # Use the faster forward-only cursors on this connection
    connection_cursortype = SQL.CURSOR_FORWARD_ONLY

   The performance increase compared to mxODBC Connect 2.0.2 is
   enormous: from 2-3x faster executes/fetches for average queries, up
   to 300x faster for simple cases.

   In mxODBC Connect 2.1, we will switch to using forward-only cursors
   per default for all database backends.

 * IBM DB2 can benefit from the same performance enhancements using
   forward-only cursors.

   The effect is a lot smaller, but still noticeable: up to 2x faster
   executes/fetches with forward-only cursors, compared to mxODBC
   Connect 2.0.2.

For the full set of changes, please check the mxODBC Connect
change log:

    http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBCConnect/changelog.html


mxODBC Connect 2.0 Highlights
-----------------------------

mxODBC Connect 2.0 was released on 2012-08-20. These are the most
important highlights:

 * mxODBC Connect Server now uses mxODBC 3.2 internally and makes its
   API available in the mxODBC Connect Client. This is a major step
   forward from the mxODBC 3.0 version used in mxODBC Connect Server
   1.0.

 * We've added native Windows x64 builds.

 * mxODBC Connect Client now integrates directly with gevent, allowing
   client applications to run asynchronous tasks while performing
   remote database queries.

Please see the release announcement for full details:
http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Connect-2.0.0-GA.html

________________________________________________________________________

UPGRADING

You are encouraged to upgrade to this latest mxODBC Connect release.
When upgrading, please always upgrade both the server and the client
installations to the same version - even for patch level releases.

Customers who have purchased mxODBC Connect 2.0 licenses can continue
to use their licenses with this patch level release.

Customers who have purchased mxODBC Connect 1.x licenses can request
20% discount coupons for upgrade purchases. Please contact the
eGenix.com Sales Team (sales at egenix.com) with your existing license
serials for details.

Users of our stand-alone mxODBC product will have to purchase new
licenses from our online shop in order to use mxODBC Connect.

You can request 30-day evaluation licenses by visiting our web-site
or writing to sales at egenix.com, stating your name (or the name of the
company) and the number of eval licenses that you need.

    http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBCConnect/#Evaluation

________________________________________________________________________

DOWNLOADS

The download archives as well as instructions for installation and
configuration of the product can be found on the product page:

    http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBCConnect/

If you want to try the package, jump straight to the download
instructions:

    https://cms.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBCConnect/#Download

Fully functional evaluation licenses for the mxODBC Connect Server are
available free of charge:

    http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxODBCConnect/#Evaluation

mxODBC Connect Client is always free of charge.

_______________________________________________________________________

SUPPORT

Commercial support for this product is available from eGenix.com.

Please see

    http://www.egenix.com/services/support/

for details about our support offerings.

_______________________________________________________________________

INFORMATION

About Python (http://www.python.org/):

    Python is an object-oriented Open Source programming language
    which runs on all modern platforms. By integrating ease-of-use,
    clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid
    application design, Python establishes an ideal programming
    platform for today's IT challenges.

About eGenix (http://www.egenix.com/):

    eGenix is a software project, consulting and product company
    focusing on expert project services and professional quality
    products for companies, Python users and developers.

Enjoy,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

Professional Python Services directly from the Source  (#1, Feb 12 2014)
>>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ...   http://www.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ...       http://zope.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ...        http://python.egenix.com/
________________________________________________________________________

::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! ::::::

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    D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg
           Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611
               http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

From nd at perlig.de  Wed Feb 12 21:33:16 2014
From: nd at perlig.de (=?iso-8859-1?q?Andr=E9_Malo?=)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:33:16 +0100
Subject: rJSmin 1.0.8
Message-ID: <201402122133.16679@news.perlig.de>

Hello World,

I'm pleased to announce version 1.0.8 of rJSmin.


About rJSmin
============

rJSmin is a javascript minifier written in python. The minifier is based
on the semantics of jsmin.c by Douglas Crockford.

The module is a re-implementation aiming for speed, so it can be used at
runtime (rather than during a preprocessing step). Usually it produces
the same results as the original jsmin.c. It differs in the following
ways:

- there is no error detection: unterminated string, regex and comment
  literals are treated as regular javascript code and minified as such.
- Control characters inside string and regex literals are left
  untouched; they are not converted to spaces (nor to \n)
- Newline characters are not allowed inside string and regex literals,
  except for line continuations in string literals (ECMA-5).
- "return /regex/" is recognized correctly.
- "+ +" and "- -" sequences are not collapsed to "++" or "--"
- Newlines before ! operators are removed more sensibly
- Comments starting with an exclamation mark ('!') can be kept optionally
- rJSmin does not handle streams, but only complete strings. (However,
  the module provides a "streamy" interface).


About Release 1.0.8
===================

This release adds the capability to keep comments starting with an 
exclamation mark (/*! bang comments */). Support for Python 3.4 was added. 
The benchmarks were updated.


Supported Python Versions
=========================

* Python 2.4 - 2.7
* Python 3.1 - 3.4
* PyPy 1.9, 2.0
* Jython 2.5, 2.7 (Python only)


License
=======

rJSmin is available under the terms and conditions of the "Apache License,
Version 2.0."


Links
=====

* Homepage + Documentation: http://opensource.perlig.de/rjsmin/
* PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rjsmin
* Github: https://github.com/ndparker/rjsmin
* License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0


Andr? "nd" Malo

From info at wingware.com  Thu Feb 13 15:52:57 2014
From: info at wingware.com (Wingware)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:52:57 -0500
Subject: Wing IDE 5.0.3 released
Message-ID: <52FCDC49.6020103@wingware.com>

Hi,

Wingware has released version 5.0.3 of Wing IDE, our cross-platform 
integrated
development environment for the Python programming language.

Wing IDE includes a professional quality code editor with vi, emacs, 
visual studio,
and other key bindings, auto-completion, call tips, goto-definition, 
find uses, refactoring,
context-aware auto-editing, a powerful graphical debugger, version 
control, unit testing,
search, and many other features.  For details see http://wingware.com/

Changes in this minor release include:

* Support for Python 3.4rc1
* Fix debugging matplotlib code with MacOSX backend
* Fix hanging on large Perforce repositories
* Fix debugging Django 1.6 templates
* Fix problems starting QThreads in Python 3.x
* Improve auto-spacing
* Fix multi-line typing
* Fix potential for CPU intensive hanging on Linux
* Report recursion exceptions correctly under Python 3.x
* 30 other bug fixes

For details see http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/5.0.3/CHANGELOG.txt

A summary of new features in Wing 5:

* Redesigned GUI based on Qt and PySide
* Native GUI on OS X (and better overall OS-native look and feel)
* Tools and editors can be dragged around
* Toolbar and editor and Project context menus are configurable
* Optional mode that opens different sets of files in each editor split
* Sharable color palettes and syntax highlighting configurations
* Auto-editing is on by default (except some operations that have a 
learning curve)
* Named file sets
* Sharable launch configurations
* Named entry points
* More control over unit testing environment
* Lockable editor splits
* Initial preferences dialog for new users
* Support for Python 3.4
* Support for Django 1.6
* Support for matplotlib on Anaconda and with MacOSX backend

For more information on what's new in Wing 5, see 
http://wingware.com/wingide/whatsnew

Free trial: http://wingware.com/wingide/trial
Downloads: http://wingware.com/downloads
Feature list: http://wingware.com/wingide/features
Sales: http://wingware.com/store/purchase
Upgrades: https://wingware.com/store/upgrade

Questions?  Don't hesitate to email us at support at wingware.com.

Thanks,

-- 

Stephan Deibel
Wingware | Python IDE

The Intelligent Development Environment for Python Programmers

wingware.com

From nd at perlig.de  Fri Feb 14 00:12:09 2014
From: nd at perlig.de (=?iso-8859-1?q?Andr=E9_Malo?=)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:12:09 +0100
Subject: rCSSmin 1.0.3
Message-ID: <201402140012.09444@news.perlig.de>

Hello World,

I'm pleased to announce version 1.0.3 of rCSSmin.


About rCSSmin
=============

rCSSmin is a CSS minifier written in python based on the semantics of
the YUI compressor, which itself is based on the rule list by Isaac
Schlueter.

This module is a re-implementation aiming for speed instead of maximum
compression, so it can be used at runtime (rather than during a
preprocessing step). RCSSmin does syntactical compression only (removing
spaces, comments and possibly semicolons). It does not provide semantic
compression (like removing empty blocks, collapsing redundant properties
etc). It does, however, support various CSS hacks (by keeping them
working as intended):

  - IE7 hack (``>/**/``)
  - Mac-IE5 hack (``/*\*/.../**/``)
  - The boxmodelhack is supported naturally because it relies on valid
    CSS2 strings
  - Between ``:first-line`` and the following comma or curly brace a
    space is inserted. (apparently it's needed for IE6)
  - Same for ``:first-letter``
  
Comments starting with an exclamation mark (``!``) can be kept optionally.


About Release 1.0.3
===================

- Support for more CSS @-groups was added (@supports, @document, @keyframes)
- Python support was extended to Python 3.4 and Jython 2.7. 


Supported Python Versions
=========================

* Python 2.4 - 2.7
* Python 3.1 - 3.4
* PyPy 1.9, 2.0
* Jython 2.5, 2.7 (Python only)


License
=======

rCSSmin is available under the terms and conditions of the "Apache License,
Version 2.0."


Links
=====

* Homepage + Documentation: http://opensource.perlig.de/rcssmin/
* PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rcssmin
* Github: https://github.com/ndparker/rcssmin
* License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0


Andr? "nd" Malo

From andy at reportlab.com  Fri Feb 14 16:14:01 2014
From: andy at reportlab.com (Andy Robinson)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:14:01 +0000
Subject: ReportLab 3.0 release - Python 2.7 / 3.3+ compatible
Message-ID: <CABjtApuM1WaKeffwkNu1eNY7m8e+=v+=H3oyFwQqw8YonDWzmQ@mail.gmail.com>

I am happy to announce the release of ReportLab 3.0.

This is an extensive internal rewrite which runs under Python 2.7 and
Python 3.3+.  However, we believe we have preserved the API, so that
applications should not need changing.

Packages are available on http://pypi.python.org/ in all popular
formats:  source, Windows .exe and .msi and wheel.  Take your pick
from the usual installation methods...

   pip install reportlab
   easy_install reportlab
   python setup.py install

More details are available on our web page:
    https://www.reportlab.com/software/documentation/relnotes/30/


We normally release our commercial package, rlextra, at the same time.
 On this occasion we will be waiting a few more weeks; a preview
release of rlextra is available to clients on request.  We are likely
to ship a combined release of reportlab + rlextra 3.1 when it is
better tested.   We aim to make it far easier than before to install
and try out the commercial package.

Many thanks to Robin Becker who has done the vast majority of the work
alone on this extremely complex port.

Best Regards

-- 
Andy Robinson
Managing Director
ReportLab Europe Ltd.
Thornton House, Thornton Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 4NG, UK
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From tundra at tundraware.com  Thu Feb 13 16:17:12 2014
From: tundra at tundraware.com (Tim Daneliuk)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:17:12 -0600
Subject: [ANN] tdir 1.71 Released And Available
Message-ID: <o84vsa-64i.ln1@ozzie.tundraware.com>

'tdir' Version 1.71 is released and available at:

   http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tdir

A FreeBSD port update has also been submitted.

The last public release was 1.69.


What's New
----------

On Unix-like systems, the program now automatically defaults
to the width of the window in which it was invoked.  As before,
this can be overridden with the -w command line option.

On Windows systems, the width defaults to 80 as in previous versions.


What Is 'tdir'?
---------------

'tdir' is an advanced directory display utility written in pure Python,
and runs on both *nix and Win32 systems.  'tdir' is patterned after the
the old 'xdir' CP/M utility from Ancient Times.

With 'tdir' you can display directories sorted by file "extension",
display directory trees, and separate directories from files in the
output listing.



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From pierre.quentel at gmail.com  Fri Feb 14 21:38:20 2014
From: pierre.quentel at gmail.com (pierre.quentel at gmail.com)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:38:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Brython 2.0 (Python in the browser)
Message-ID: <395a8a65-0cc0-4ffc-8b73-289ead069703@googlegroups.com>

Hi,

Brython (Browser Python) is an implementation of Python 3 in the browser. Its goal is to be able to write client-side programs in Python instead of Javascript, with code inside tags <script type="text/python>...</script>. As opposed to solutions such as Pyjamas or Py2JS, the translation from Python to Javascript is done in the browser, it doesn't require a precompilation by a Python program

Launched late 2012, Brython is attracting a growing community of Python developers. Version 2.0 supports most of the CPython syntax and improves the interaction with Javascript libraries. The complete changelog is detailed below

The main entry point is the Brython site at http://www.brython.info, with an online editor and demos
Development is hosted by Bitbucket : https://bitbucket.org/olemis/brython/src
Join us on the Google group : https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/brython

- Pierre


Changes in Brython version 2.0-20140209-164925
==============================================

Backwards-incompatible change
=============================
For the sake of namespace isolation, by default, the name of functions and classes defined in Brython are no more available in Javascript global namespace. As a consequence, functions can't be called as event callbacks from HTML tags. For instance, if a function echo() is defined in a Brython script, the following inline code :

    <button onclick="echo()">

will result in a Javascript error such as "name echo is not defined" when the button is clicked

The solution is to define the event callback inside Brython code. The button must have an id :

    <button id="echo">

and the Brython code must include the line

    doc["echo"].bind("click",echo)

Alternatively, to force the name "echo" into the global Javascript namespace, add it as an attribute of the window object :

    from browser import window
    window.echo = echo

Features
========
- namespace isolation : in previous versions, the names defined in Brython core scripts were included in the global Javascript namespace, raising risks of conflict with names defined in Javascript programs or libraries. In this version, the only names included in the global Javascript namespace are __BRYTHON__ (used internally) and brython(), the function called on page load
- implement sys.implementation with values adapted for Brython
- allow syntax del (x, y, z)
- use Dan McDougall's pyminifier to reduce size of py_VFS.js
- make_dist generates a script brython_dist.js that can be used as a standalone distribution on a centralised server.

Demos
=====
- add drop files demo (by Glenn Linderman) and French Python course (using module slideshow) to the gallery

Imports
=======
- improved version of py_VFS.js by Billy Earney. py_VFS compiles the standard library to make imports faster. Now packs Python source with JSON instead of base64

Built-in modules
================
- browser : add attributes "window" and "document" as alias of respectively "win" and "doc"
- add a module browser/slideshow for PowerPoint-like slideshows in Brython, using a custom file format

Bug fixes
=========
- issue #174 : string format character % has wrong precedence
- issue #175 : Functions should return None by default
- issue #183 : re.findall() broken
- issue #198 : operator precedence not defined for << and >>
- issue #206 : add <noscript> in case Javascript is disabled
- issue #208 : bug with try / else
- issue #209 : bug in ternary operator
- function definions must be evaluated only once, upon function definition
- bug with del a[:]
- bug with dir() called without arguments
- bug in map()
- bug with "func(x=1,)" ; "return +x" ; "func(10*-x)"
- bug in divmod and round
- bug in local_storage method keys()
- add attribute __doc__ to class and instance methods

Documentation
=============
- updated with the changes introduced in this version
- add documentation for the built-in module javascript
- translation in Spanish updated by Kiko Correoso


From pierre.quentel at gmail.com  Sat Feb 15 11:25:52 2014
From: pierre.quentel at gmail.com (pierre.quentel at gmail.com)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 02:25:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Brython 2.0 released
Message-ID: <123aa3fb-fdb2-4ef2-94ef-c47077601904@googlegroups.com>

Hi,

Brython (Browser Python) is an implementation of Python 3 in the browser, with an interface to the DOM elements and events. Its goal is to be able to write client-side programs in Python as easily as in Javascript, inside <script type="text/python">...</script>

Launched late 2012, Brython is supported by a growing community. Release 2.0 covers most of the Python syntax, many CPython built-in modules, and fixes issues related to the interaction with Javascript libraries

The Brython site (http://www.brython.info) presents documentation and demos
Development is hosted by Bitbucket : https://bitbucket.org/olemis/brython/src
Join us on the forum : https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/brython

- Pierre

From doug at doughellmann.com  Sun Feb 16 15:57:25 2014
From: doug at doughellmann.com (Doug Hellmann)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:57:25 -0500
Subject: whatthewhat 1.0
Message-ID: <726C32AE-52D1-45E7-B7FF-CFB92D5F6074@doughellmann.com>

whatthewhat 1.0

   [1]whatthewhat is a tool for launching a Google search for exceptions
   from Python apps. It was inspired by some comments [2]Lynn Root made
   about teaching new developers that it is OK to search for error
   messages as part of learning about Python and programming in general.

References

   1. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/whatthewhat
   2. https://twitter.com/roguelynn


From doug at doughellmann.com  Sun Feb 16 15:58:48 2014
From: doug at doughellmann.com (Doug Hellmann)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:58:48 -0500
Subject: sphinxcontrib.spelling 2.1
Message-ID: <46674691-E1DA-434B-B35D-E1715AC4749A@doughellmann.com>

What is sphinxcontrib.spelling?

   [1]sphinxcontrib.spelling is a spelling checker for [2]Sphinx. It uses
   [3]PyEnchant to produce a report showing misspelled words.

What's New in This Release?

     * Fix unicode error in PythonBuiltinsFilter.
     * Make error output useful in emacs compiler mode
     * Only show the words being added to a local dictionary if debugging
       is enabled.

Installing

   Please see the [4]documentation for details.

References

   1. https://bitbucket.org/dhellmann/sphinxcontrib-spelling/overview
   2. http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
   3. http://www.rfk.id.au/software/pyenchant/
   4. http://sphinxcontrib-spelling.readthedocs.org/en/latest/


From phd at phdru.name  Wed Feb 19 20:08:34 2014
From: phd at phdru.name (Oleg Broytman)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:08:34 +0100
Subject: mimedecode.py version 2.3.6
Message-ID: <20140219190834.GA2892@phdru.name>

Hello!

                                mimedecode.py

WHAT IS IT

   Mail users, especially in non-English countries, often find that mail
messages arrived in different formats, with different content types, in
different encodings and charsets. Usually this is good because it allows us to
use appropriate format/encoding/whatever. Sometimes, though, some unification
is desirable. For example, one may want to put mail messages into an archive,
make HTML indices, run search indexer, etc. In such situations converting
messages to text in one character set and skipping some binary attachments is
much desirable.

   Here is the solution - mimedecode.py.

   This is a program to decode MIME messages. The program expects one input
file (either on command line or on stdin) which is treated as an RFC822
message, and decodes to stdout or an output file. If the file is not an RFC822
message it is just copied to the output one-to-one. If the file is a simple
RFC822 message it is decoded as one part. If it is a MIME message with multiple
parts ("attachments") all parts are decoded. Decoding can be controlled by
command-line options.

WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.6 (2014-02-19)

   Decode "To", "Cc", "Reply-To" and "Mail-Followup-To" headers by default.

   Report test progress and success.

   Add tests for headers and parameters decoding.

   Add tests for passing (-b) and skipping (-i) message bodies.

WHAT'S NEW in version 2.3.4 (2014-02-11)

   Optimize recursive decoding.

   Fix a bug - decode message/rfc822 subparts.


WHERE TO GET
   Home page: http://phdru.name/Software/Python/#mimedecode
    git clone http://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git
    git clone  git://git.phdru.name/mimedecode.git

   Requires: Python 2.2.2+, m_lib 2.0+.

   Recommends: configured mailcap database.

   Documentation (also included in the package):
           http://phdru.name/Software/Python/mimedecode.txt


AUTHOR
   Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name>

COPYRIGHT
   Copyright (C) 2001-2014 PhiloSoft Design.

LICENSE
   GPL

Oleg.
-- 
     Oleg Broytman            http://phdru.name/            phd at phdru.name
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

From felix.antoine.fortin at gmail.com  Thu Feb 20 18:19:23 2014
From: felix.antoine.fortin at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=E9lix=2DAntoine_Fortin?=)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:19:23 -0800 (PST)
Subject: DEAP release 1.0.0: Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python
Message-ID: <448eb19b-8950-4b83-8872-d6a949d291d5@googlegroups.com>

After more than 4 years of development, we are proud to announce the 
release of DEAP 1.0.0. You can download a copy of this release at the 
following web page. 

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/deap

DEAP (Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python) is a novel evolutionary 
computation framework for rapid prototyping and testing of ideas. Its design 
departs from most other existing frameworks in that it seeks to make algorithms 
explicit and data structures transparent, as opposed to the more common black 
box type of frameworks.

To get to know more about DEAP and the current release, we invite you
to read the most recent article on DEAP published in SIGEvolution volume 6, 
issue 2, pp. 17-26.

http://sigevolution.org/

An IPython notebook version of the article is also available.

https://github.com/DEAP/notebooks

This release includes:
    - Major overhaul of statistics computing and logging;
    - Ability to do Object Oriented Genetic Programming (OOGP);
    - Symbolic regression benchmarks for GP;
    - New tutorials and better documentation;
    - Several new examples from diverse fields;
    - and several other changes.

Every changes of this release are detailed in the documentation.

http://deap.gel.ulaval.ca/doc/default/releases.html

To help users translate code from 0.9.x to 1.0.0, we have also written
a new porting guide that details every change required to use DEAP 1.0.

http://deap.gel.ulaval.ca/doc/default/porting.html

Your feedback and comments are welcome at http://goo.gl/LZkdi4 or 
deap-users at googlegroups dot com. You can also follow us on Twitter @deapdev, 
and on our blog http://deapdev.wordpress.com/.

Best,

Fran?ois-Michel De Rainville
F?lix-Antoine Fortin
Marc-Andr? Gardner
Christian Gagn?
Marc Parizeau

Laboratoire de vision et syst?mes num?riques
D?partement de g?nie ?lectrique et g?nie informatique
Universit? Laval
Quebec City (Quebec), Canada

From facundobatista at gmail.com  Fri Feb 21 03:07:21 2014
From: facundobatista at gmail.com (Facundo Batista)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:07:21 -0300
Subject: Yet Another SWF Parser
Message-ID: <CAM09pzTmxttjXJFaK0doyYeTJ6E00Z_xzeBa6jHYKs=rHTXZEg@mail.gmail.com>

I'm very proud to present Yet Another SWF Parser: "yaswfp", you can
pronounce whatever you like :)

    https://github.com/facundobatista/yaswfp


You can use it as command line program or as a module, for example
(slightly truncated for readability):

>>> swf = swfparser.parsefile(<yourSWFfile>)
>>> swf.header
Header(name=Header, FileLength=4228, ...)
>>> len(swf.tags)
365
>>> swf.tags[3]
PlaceObject2(name=PlaceObject2, CharacterId=1, ...)


Any doubt, question, suggestion, or whatever, feel free to open an
issue in github, mail me, or find me in IRC (I'm facundobatista in
Freenode).

Regards,

-- 
.    Facundo

Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/
PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/
Twitter: @facundobatista

From exarkun at twistedmatrix.com  Sun Feb 23 14:56:40 2014
From: exarkun at twistedmatrix.com (exarkun at twistedmatrix.com)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:56:40 -0000
Subject: [ANN] pyOpenSSL 0.14
Message-ID: <20140223135640.6218.615676796.divmod.xquotient.17@top>

Greetings fellow Pythoneers,

I'm happy to announce that pyOpenSSL 0.14 is now available.

pyOpenSSL is a set of Python bindings for OpenSSL.  It includes some 
low-level cryptography APIs but is primarily focused on providing an API 
for using the TLS protocol from Python.

Check out the PyPI page (<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyOpenSSL>) for 
downloads.

This release of pyOpenSSL adds:

* Support for TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2

* First-class support for PyPy

* New flags, such as MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS and OP_NO_COMPRESSION

* Some APIs to access to the SSL session cache

* A variety of bug fixes for error handling cases

Additionally, there are three major changes to the project:

First, the documentation has been converted from LaTeX (CPython's 
previous documentation system) to Sphinx (CPython's "new" documentation 
system ;).  You can find the new documentation on the PyPI documentation 
site (<https://pythonhosted.org/pyOpenSSL/>) or 
<https://pyopenssl.readthedocs.org/>).

Second, pyOpenSSL is no longer implemented in C as a collection of 
extension modules using the Python/C API. Instead, pyOpenSSL is now a 
pure-Python project with a dependency on a new project, cryptography 
(<https://github.com/pyca/cryptography>), which provides (among other 
things) a cffi-based interface to OpenSSL.

This change means that pyOpenSSL development is now more accessible to 
Python programmers with little or no experience with C. This is also how 
pyOpenSSL is now able to support PyPy.

Finally, the project's code hosting has moved from Launchpad to Github. 
Many branches remain only on Launchpad along with their associated bug 
reports. Over the coming releases I hope that the fixes and features in 
these branches will be ported to Python and incorporated into the 
pyOpenSSL master development branch. Bug tracking has been disabled on 
Launchpad so that the amount of useful information hosted there can 
gradually dwindle to nothing. Please use Github 
(<https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl>) for further development and bug 
reporting.

Thanks and enjoy,
Jean-Paul

From georg at python.org  Sun Feb 23 17:25:21 2014
From: georg at python.org (Georg Brandl)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:25:21 +0100
Subject: [RELEASED] Python 3.3.5 release candidate 1
Message-ID: <530A20F1.3030400@python.org>

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On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce
the release of Python 3.3.5, release candidate 1.

Python 3.3.5 includes a fix for a regression in zipimport in 3.3.4
(see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) and a few other bugs.

Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well
as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x.  In total, almost 500 API items
are new or improved in Python 3.3.  For a more extensive list of
changes in the 3.3 series, see

    http://docs.python.org/3.3/whatsnew/3.3.html

To download Python 3.3.5 visit:

    http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.5/


This is a preview release, please report any bugs to

     http://bugs.python.org/

The final release is scheduled one week from now.


Enjoy!

- -- 
Georg Brandl, Release Manager
georg at python.org
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.3's contributors)
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From nd at perlig.de  Sun Feb 23 22:41:56 2014
From: nd at perlig.de (=?iso-8859-1?q?Andr=E9_Malo?=)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:41:56 +0100
Subject: rJSmin 1.0.9
Message-ID: <201402232241.56864@news.perlig.de>

Hello World,

I'm pleased to announce version 1.0.9 of rJSmin.


About rJSmin
============

rJSmin is a javascript minifier written in python. The minifier is based
on the semantics of jsmin.c by Douglas Crockford.

The module is a re-implementation aiming for speed, so it can be used at
runtime (rather than during a preprocessing step). Usually it produces
the same results as the original jsmin.c. It differs in the following
ways:

- there is no error detection: unterminated string, regex and comment
  literals are treated as regular javascript code and minified as such.
- Control characters inside string and regex literals are left
  untouched; they are not converted to spaces (nor to \n)
- Newline characters are not allowed inside string and regex literals,
  except for line continuations in string literals (ECMA-5).
- "return /regex/" is recognized correctly.
- "+ +" and "- -" sequences are not collapsed to "++" or "--"
- Newlines before ! operators are removed more sensibly
- Comments starting with an exclamation mark ('!') can be kept optionally
- rJSmin does not handle streams, but only complete strings. (However,
  the module provides a "streamy" interface).


About Release 1.0.9
===================

This is a cosmetic release fixing documentation issues and updating 
benchmarks.


Supported Python Versions
=========================

* Python 2.4 - 2.7
* Python 3.1 - 3.4
* PyPy 1.9, 2.0
* Jython 2.5, 2.7 (Python only)


License
=======

rJSmin is available under the terms and conditions of the "Apache License,
Version 2.0."


Links
=====

* Homepage + Documentation: http://opensource.perlig.de/rjsmin/
* PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rjsmin
* Github: https://github.com/ndparker/rjsmin
* License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0


Andr? "nd" Malo

From nd at perlig.de  Sun Feb 23 22:43:58 2014
From: nd at perlig.de (=?iso-8859-1?q?Andr=E9_Malo?=)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:43:58 +0100
Subject: rCSSmin 1.0.4
Message-ID: <201402232243.58357@news.perlig.de>

Hello World,

I'm pleased to announce version 1.0.4 of rCSSmin.


About rCSSmin
=============

rCSSmin is a CSS minifier written in python based on the semantics of
the YUI compressor, which itself is based on the rule list by Isaac
Schlueter.

This module is a re-implementation aiming for speed instead of maximum
compression, so it can be used at runtime (rather than during a
preprocessing step). RCSSmin does syntactical compression only (removing
spaces, comments and possibly semicolons). It does not provide semantic
compression (like removing empty blocks, collapsing redundant properties
etc). It does, however, support various CSS hacks (by keeping them
working as intended):

  - IE7 hack (``>/**/``)
  - Mac-IE5 hack (``/*\*/.../**/``)
  - The boxmodelhack is supported naturally because it relies on valid
    CSS2 strings
  - Between ``:first-line`` and the following comma or curly brace a
    space is inserted. (apparently it's needed for IE6)
  - Same for ``:first-letter``
  
Comments starting with an exclamation mark (``!``) can be kept optionally.


About Release 1.0.4
===================

This is a cosmetic release fixing documentation issues and adding
benchmarks.


Supported Python Versions
=========================

* Python 2.4 - 2.7
* Python 3.1 - 3.4
* PyPy 1.9, 2.0
* Jython 2.5, 2.7 (Python only)


License
=======

rCSSmin is available under the terms and conditions of the "Apache License,
Version 2.0."


Links
=====

* Homepage + Documentation: http://opensource.perlig.de/rcssmin/
* PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rcssmin
* Github: https://github.com/ndparker/rcssmin
* License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0


Andr? "nd" Malo

From larry at hastings.org  Mon Feb 24 05:01:20 2014
From: larry at hastings.org (Larry Hastings)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:01:20 -0600
Subject: [RELEASED] Python 3.4.0 release candidate 2 is now available
Message-ID: <530AC410.4020600@hastings.org>



On behalf of the Python development team, I'm delighted to announce
the second and final release candidate of Python 3.4.

This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended for
production settings.

Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including
hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes.  Major new features and
changes in the 3.4 release series include:

* PEP 428, a "pathlib" module providing object-oriented filesystem paths
* PEP 435, a standardized "enum" module
* PEP 436, a build enhancement that will help generate introspection
            information for builtins
* PEP 442, improved semantics for object finalization
* PEP 443, adding single-dispatch generic functions to the standard library
* PEP 445, a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators
* PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default
            in subprocesses
* PEP 450, a new "statistics" module
* PEP 451, standardizing module metadata for Python's module import system
* PEP 453, a bundled installer for the *pip* package manager
* PEP 454, a new "tracemalloc" module for tracing Python memory allocations
* PEP 456, a new hash algorithm for Python strings and binary data
* PEP 3154, a new and improved protocol for pickled objects
* PEP 3156, a new "asyncio" module, a new framework for asynchronous I/O

Python 3.4 is now in "feature freeze", meaning that no new features will be
added.  The final release is projected for mid-March 2014.


The python.org web site has recently been updated to something 
completely new, and I'm having some difficulty updating it.  For now 
I've made Python 3.4.0rc2 available on the legacy web site:

     http://legacy.python.org/download/releases/3.4.0/

Once I can update the new web site, Python 3.4.0rc2 will be available here:

    http://python.org/download/releases/

(I'm not sure what the final URL will be, but you'll see it listed on 
that page.)


Please consider trying Python 3.4.0rc2 with your code and reporting any
new issues you notice to:

      http://bugs.python.org/


Enjoy!

--
Larry Hastings, Release Manager
larry at hastings.org
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.4's contributors)

From guido at python.org  Mon Feb 24 20:01:18 2014
From: guido at python.org (Guido van Rossum)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:01:18 -0800
Subject: asyncio 0.4.1 released
Message-ID: <CAP7+vJLDVmRZwukqx-jVFkNMJu4kMH3Uktv6nounxRN5TJEpyg@mail.gmail.com>

*** NOTE: Python 3.3 only! This module is in the stdlib in Python 3.4. ***

On the heels of Python 3.4.0rc2, I've put a new version of the asyncio
package for Python 3.3 on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asyncio/0.4.1

There's a source distro and a 32-bit Windows wheel. (For 64-bit Windows I
could use some help.)

About asyncio: it's a new stdlib module for asynchronous I/O based on the
"yield from" statement that was added to Python 3.3. It was inspired by
Twisted and the async support in Tornado (amongst other influences). The
original code name for the project is Tulip and this is where the latest
developments happen: http://code.google.com/p/tulip/. Also check out PEP
3156: http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/.

For Python 2 and 3.2, Victor Stinner has created a backport named Trollius:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/trollius/0.1.5

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

From cimrman3 at ntc.zcu.cz  Tue Feb 25 14:57:15 2014
From: cimrman3 at ntc.zcu.cz (Robert Cimrman)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:57:15 +0100
Subject: ANN: SfePy 2014.1
Message-ID: <530CA13B.7050807@ntc.zcu.cz>

I am pleased to announce release 2014.1 of SfePy.

Description
-----------
SfePy (simple finite elements in Python) is a software for solving
systems of coupled partial differential equations by the finite element
method. The code is based on NumPy and SciPy packages. It is distributed
under the new BSD license.

Home page: http://sfepy.org
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/sfepy-devel
Git (source) repository, issue tracker, wiki: http://github.com/sfepy

Highlights of this release
--------------------------
- sfepy.fem was split to separate FEM-specific and general modules
- lower memory usage by creating active DOF connectivities directly from field
   connectivities
- new handling of field and variable shapes
- clean up: many obsolete modules were removed, all module names follow naming
   conventions

For full release notes see http://docs.sfepy.org/doc/release_notes.html#id1
(rather long and technical).

Best regards,
Robert Cimrman and Contributors (*)

(*) Contributors to this release (alphabetical order):

Vladim?r Luke?, Maty?? Nov?k, Jaroslav Vond?ejc

From jyrki at dywypi.org  Tue Feb 18 09:16:32 2014
From: jyrki at dywypi.org (Jyrki Pulliainen)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:16:32 +0100
Subject: PyCon Sweden 2014, May 20-21
Message-ID: <CAM0Q7WBmx+Jd-rRvX5o=LPXdXgp9hkDEBz_PFVfLB0OJO8BWoA@mail.gmail.com>

PyCon Sweden in Stockholm, May 20-21 2014

We are pleased to announce the first national Python conference in Sweden,
and to invite you to submit your talk proposals.

PyCon Sweden will be held this May in beautiful Stockholm, and will be a
two-day, two-track conference. Talk proposals are due on March 16th.

For more information and to submit your talk, refer to our homepage at
www.pycon.se

Best Regards,
Jyrki Pulliainen
On behalf of Python Sverige

From mmueller at python-academy.de  Sun Feb 16 20:54:54 2014
From: mmueller at python-academy.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Mike_M=FCller?=)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:54:54 +0100
Subject: Course: Cython in Depth, Leipzig, Germany, March 20 - 21, 2014
Message-ID: <5301178E.8030409@python-academy.de>

Cython in Depth
===============

Date: March 20 - 21, 2014
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Language: English
Link: http://www.python-academy.com/courses/specialtopics/python_course_cython.html
Instructor: Dr. Stefan Behnel

This intensive, hands-on training gives you the opportunity to
learn Cython from one of its core developers. You will experience
how to get the most out of Cython.

Cython can help to add C features step-by-step to a Python program.
You can virtually see the effect of every single line of code you
change. Cython allows seamless integration of Python and C.
It greatly simplifies wrapping of existing C/C++ code and you can
focus on giving your extensions a pythonic interface.


---
Our next courses:

20.03.-21.03.2014 (Leipzig) Cython in Depth (English)
09.04.2014        (Montr?al) Descriptors and Metaclasses Tutorial at PyCon 2014
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10.04.2014        (Montr?al) Optimization Tutorial at PyCon 2014 (English)
02.06.-04.06.2014 (Freiburg) Professional Testing with Python (English)
13.06.2014        (Leipzig) SQLAlchemy Course (English)
16.06.-20.06.2014 (Leipzig) High-Performance Computing with Python (English)
29.06.-02.07.2014 (Leipzig) Python f?r Nichtprogrammierer (German)
30.06.-02.07.2014 (Leipzig) Python f?r Programmierer (German)
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19.09.2014        (Herentals) SQLAlchemy Course (English)
20.09.2014        (Herentals) Camelot Course (English)
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25.09.-27.09.2014 (Leipzig) Python for Scientists and Engineers (English)
29.09.2014        (Leipzig) SQLAlchemy Course (English)
30.09.2014        (Leipzig) Camelot Course (English)
16.10.-17.10.2014 (Leipzig) Cython in Depth (English)
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From mike at pythonlibrary.org  Wed Feb 19 16:53:48 2014
From: mike at pythonlibrary.org (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:53:48 -0600
Subject: Python 101 - the book kickstarter
Message-ID: <CAO4gEAsfHxL0AxoXwDMv9f5CN=-pbyTTrBWRy9m0NUEkzW6qRw@mail.gmail.com>

I am writing a beginner / intermediate book for Python and would like to
announce the Kickstarter project in support of the book:

http://kck.st/1kX98BB

Thanks!
Mike

From mal at python.org  Thu Feb 27 15:59:39 2014
From: mal at python.org (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:59:39 +0100
Subject: ANN: Python Job Board - Call for volunteers
Message-ID: <530F52DB.9030708@python.org>

[Please help spread the word by forwarding to other relevant mailing lists,
 user groups, etc. world-wide; thanks :-)]

Dear Python Community,

for many years, the Python Job board (http://legacy.python.org/community/jobs/)
was run by volunteers - most of the time by just one volunteer at a
time until they moved on to spend their time on other things.
We've now reached such a point again.

In these years, the volume on the job board has significantly
increased, as it got more and more popular. It is now at around
2-5 postings per day and most of those positions get filled quickly
- which is an indication of how useful this service is to the
Python community.

To scale up and revive the job board, the PSF would now like to setup
a *team of volunteers* to run the job board and this is our call for
help.


How does the job board work ?
-----------------------------

At the moment, the job board is maintained on the legacy site
(http://legacy.python.org/community/jobs/), but since we've
launched our brand new website (http://www.python.org/), we'd like
to move the job board over to that site.

Instead of the repository based approach used on the old site,
the new site has database support to aid in more easily processing
and filing job listings.

There's a job board mailing list which helps coordinate the
task of reviewing and filing job offers. Currently, all job
submissions get sent to this mailing list, but with the job board
app, the submission process can be moved over to the website's
database.


What does it take to run the job board ?
----------------------------------------

You have to review the job postings, request changes if they are too
long, don't clearly state the need for Python skills, or have quality
issues.

After review, the job board app will then allow posting the jobs
on the website by simply setting the status to published.

Communication with the submitters is usually done by email
and via the mailing list, so all team members can see the
communication and help out if necessary.

Please note: This is just a high level overview. The details
need to be hashed out by the new team.


Does the job board app work already ?
-------------------------------------

It does, but is disabled at the moment due to lack of volunteers.

Since the site just launched there may also well be some issues
with the job board app.

On the positive side there's a lot happening around the site at the
moment, so if you have change requests, these will usually be
implemented quickly - or you can jump in, hack on the
job board app and submit a pull request yourself:

https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/tree/master/jobs

These are exciting times and this is your chance to make a
difference !


Ok, I like new challenges - where do I sign up ?
------------------------------------------------

Great :-) Please write to jobs at python.org


I have a question...
--------------------

If you have questions, you can write me or the PSF board
at psf at python.org.


Many thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
Director
Python Software Foundation
http://www.python.org/psf/