what is it
----------
A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets.

main changes since 0.9.4a3
--------------------------
for full details for 0.9.4a4 see the relevant README and CHANGELOG:
http://cssutils.googlecode.com/svn/tags/TAG_0.9.4a4/README.txt
and
http://cssutils.googlecode.com/svn/tags/TAG_0.9.4a4/CHANGELOG.txt

- **FEATURE**: Implemented ``css.CSSFontFaceRule``.

- **FEATURE**: Added ``css.CSSStyleSheet.encoding`` which reflects the
encoding of an explicit @charset rule. Setting the property to ``None``
removes an @charset rule if present and sets the encoding to the default
value 'utf-8'. Setting a value of ``utf-8`` sets the encoding to the
default value too but the @charset rule is explicitly added.

Effectively this removes the need to use ``css.CSSCharsetRule``
directly as using this new property is easier and simpler.

Pyrex 0.9.6.4 is now available:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/

Mostly just bug fixes in this release; see CHANGES.txt on
the web site for details.

What is Pyrex?

Hi all,

The second version of alsaseq, bindings to the ALSA sequencer has been
released. Fixed some bugs in alsaseq.c, added id() function. Added
funtions in alsamidi.py, and a class to read and write ALSA events into
a CSV file.

alsaseq is a Python module that allows to interact with ALSA sequencer
clients. It can create an ALSA client, connect to other clients, send
and receive ALSA events immediately or at a scheduled time using a
sequencer queue. It provides a subset of the ALSA sequencer
capabilities in a simplified model.

It is implemented in C language and licensed under the Gnu GPL license
version 2 or later.

Home
http://pp.com.mx/python/alsaseq

Download
http://pp.com.mx/python/alsaseq/alsaseq-0.2.tar.gz

Regards,
Patricio Páez pp at pp.com.mx

The second version of Underscode, the Python identifier-like encoding,
has been released. The only change from 0.1.0 is that underscores are
encoded as 0x5f and spaces as __, which makes most encoded strings a lot
more readable. I know this breaks backwards compatibility, but at this
stage of the project I think that not many people (if any) are affected
by the change. So toy'n'enjoy!

==============
Underscode
==============

-------------------------------------
A Python identifier-like encoding
-------------------------------------

:Author: `Ivan Vilata i Balaguer selidor.net>`__
:URL: http://underscode.selidor.net/

About Underscode
================

You can get it from:
http://sf.net/projects/rope/files

Ropemacs is an emacs mode that uses rope_ library to provide features
like refactorings and code-assists. You should install rope_ library
and Pymacs before using ropemacs.

.. _`rope`: http://rope.sf.net/

Dear Python community,

I'm happy to announce that the Python Software Foundation is part of a
new Google Open Source program, the Highly Open Participation Contest.
This contest is an effort by Google to engage pre-college students in
open source programming: Google is offering prizes and awards for
completing a variety of tasks for several organizations.

You can read the official announcement of the PSF's involvement over on
the Python Software Foundation blog, at

http://pyfound.blogspot.com/

or read about the overall Google Highly Open Participation Contest on
the GHOP page itself,

http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8

Python's project page is:

http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-psf/

There are several ways that the community can help; please check out the
MentorPage,

http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-psf/wiki/MentorPage

for more information. We could use more mentors, and there's room for
~40 more tasks -- why not write one up on your own project?

Hi,

We're happy to announce version 3.0.2 of Wing IDE, an advanced development
environment for the Python programming language. It is available from:

http://wingware.com/downloads

This release focuses on fixing usability issues found in Wing 3.0.1, including
missed Search in Project matches, failure to offer auto-completion for code
in extension modules, and about 25 other bugs.

See the change log for details:

http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/3.0.2/CHANGELOG.txt

It is a free upgrade for all Wing 3.x users.

*About Wing IDE*

Wing IDE is an integrated development environment for the Python programming
language. It provides powerful debugging, editing, code intelligence,
testing, and search capabilities that reduce development and debugging
time, cut down on coding errors, and make it easier to understand
and navigate Python code.

New features added in Wing 3.0 include:

QOTW: ""Given that C++ has pointers and typecasts, it's really hard to have
a serious conversation about type safety with a C++ programmer and keep a
straight face. It's kind of like having a guy who juggles chainsaws wearing
body armor arguing with a guy who juggles rubber chickens wearing a T-shirt
about who's in more danger." - Roy Smith, c.l.py, 2004.05.23

"[R]esumable functions are a honking great idea." - Alan Kennedy

Making all equal instances the same (so "a==b" implies "a is b"):
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c82c7d1cfb4...

A good way of organizing packages and project layout:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8a064827f4d...

Enumerating all the running processes (cross-platform):
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f9f0c6726f6...

Numerical tricks from number-crunching people:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f67b7c777c0...

How to obtain the "next" floating point number:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/0d992d01db3...

Python "variables" and what they mean:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/26e4fe70c85...

Hi everyone,

We at Carabos are happy to announce the simultaneous release of the new
2.0.2 versions of both PyTables and PyTables Pro. They are mainly
bugfix releases, and users of previous versions are encouraged to
upgrade.

And now the official announce:

============================================
Announcing PyTables and PyTables Pro 2.0.2
============================================

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 Pro adds OPSI, a powerful indexing engine for executing
very fast queries in large tables.