Hi all,

I'm happy to announce that the December issue of Python Magazine was
released on Dec. 24. If you're already a subscriber, go download your
PDF! If you're a print subscriber, your issue should arrive in the
next few weeks. If you're *not* a subscriber, I hope you'll visit the
site to see what we're all about (http://www.pythonmagazine.com).
Also, go download the sample issue -->
http://pymag.phparch.com/c/issue/view/60

Also, if you're doing something cool with Python, please come write
for us! I've just updated a list of topic ideas that we'd like to see
covered in Python magazine
(http://www.protocolostomy.com/2007/12/30/python-magazines-article-wish-list/),
but if you're doing something interesting that's not on the list - all
the better! Drop us a line ->
http://pymag.phparch.com/c/contact/editorial

Thanks!
brian.

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

main changes since 0.9.4a4
--------------------------
for full details for 0.9.4b1 see the relevant CHANGELOG:
http://cssutils.googlecode.com/svn/tags/TAG_0.9.4b1/CHANGELOG.txt

0.9.4b1
- **FEATURE**: Added ``csscombine`` script which currently resolves
@import rules into the input sheet. No nested @imports are resolved yet
and @namespace rules do not work yet though!

+ **BUGFIX**: Serializing escape sequences add a single SPACE after
each escape. This was not present until now so a sequence like "\\74 a"
did come out as "\\000074a" which was not as intended. Also as a SPACE
is inserted in any case all escapes are not padded to 6 digits anymore
but are only as long as needed.

We've now begun posting talks from PyCon 2007, hosted at
<http://advocacy.python.org/podcasts/>.

You can subscribe to the RSS feed, download individual talks from the
feed, or listen to talks from your browser using a Flash-based MP3
player. You can also find the PyCon 2007 podcast on the iTunes store;
search for 'PyCon' to find it.

The currently posted talks include:

Studying Internet Censorship: A Python Case Study
What Every Open Source Developer Must Know About Intellectual Property
Becoming an Open Source Developer: Lessons from the Django Project
Python and wxPython for Experimental Economics
IronPython: Present and Future
PyDX: Mathematics Is Code
Web Frameworks Panel
Iterators in Action

New talks will be posted at least once per week.

Hello everybody,

Gluon 1.15 is out. This is a free open source framework for agile
development of secure database driven web applications, written in
Python, programmable in Python. Stable API and supported since
October 1st 2007.

http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu
http://www.vimeo.com/428474 (video tutorial)
http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/appliances (free plugin apps for gluon with
source)

Some features:

no installation (it is a single executable), no configuration files,
no shell commands, all development, deployment and maintenance is
done via a web interface

built-in ticketing system; if your app has a bug it is logged, the
user is notified and ticket is issued so that the administrator can
retrieve the event via the administrative interface.

Example of a COMPLETE working gluon app:

ANNOUNCING twill v0.9.

twill is a simple language for browsing the Web. It's designed for
automated testing of Web sites, but it can be used to interact with
Web sites in a variety of ways. In particular, twill supports form
submission, cookies, redirects, and HTTP authentication.

This release of twill is officially "Pretty Dang Stable".

A twill script to use the "I'm feeling lucky" button on Google looks
like this:

setlocal query "twill Python"

go http://www.google.com/

fv 1 q $query
submit btnI # use the "I'm feeling lucky" button

show

(Note that using this script abuses Google's Terms of Service. So don't.)

You can install the latest release of twill with easy_install,

easy_install twill

or download this release at

http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-0.9.tar.gz

Documentation is included in the .tar.gz and is also online at

QOTW: "However, inspection of a vast corpus of code might lead one to believe
that any commenting capability was completely unnecessary." - Jim B. Wilson

"The Python people also piped [up] to say 'everything's just fine here', but
then they always do; I really must learn that language." - Tim Bray

A variation on a classic problem: 5 Queens control an 8x8 board
without attacking themselves
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/151f57ac8dc.../

Copyright law may undermine our cultural heritage; thoughts by
Steven D'Aprano.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/f4ccf53b8da...?#5530b9eda7d4b7ee
specially:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/35490df9d4d6d4f1

The difference between sequences, iterables, iterators and generic
containers succintly explained by Terry Reedy:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c32908c0abc.../

How can an extension module use a non-standard memory manager?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ab35cf33666.../

Hi,

I'm happy to announce release 0.68.0 of Task Coach. This release makes
it possible to open a task from its reminder dialog, adds a command
line option to facilitate the PortableApps.com Task Coach
distribution, makes starting and stopping effort tracking quicker and
fixes a number of bugs.

Bugs fixed:

* Start and stop tracking effort is faster for tasks that have a large
number of associated effort records.
* Task Coach now gives an error message if the file that it tries to
open doesn't exist.
* When selecting all text in a text control with 'a', indeed
select all text and not all tasks (Max OSX only).
* Attempt to prevent crashes on Fedora 8 that sometimes happen when
adding top level tasks.

Features added:

* It is possible to open a task from its reminder dialog.
* Task Coach has a --ini command line option that can be used to
specify where the ini file is located.

Hello,

I would like to announce release 0.3 of PyCscope, a python script to
generate a cscope index from a Python source tree. PyCscope uses
Python's own parser and AST to generate the index, so it is a bit more
accurate than plain cscope.

PyCscope may be downloaded from the Cheeseshop
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycscope/0.3

!!Dean

I am pleased to announce GNUmed 0.2.8.0.

GNUmed is a comprehensive scalable software solution for electronic medical
practices with an emphasis on privacy protection, secure patient centric
record sharing, decision support, and ease of use. It is intended to become a
sophisticated decision support system that will elevate the quality of
medical care that can be delivered.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
A report generator to visualize query results with gnuplot has been added.
Exception handling has been improved. The Snellen Chart has been reactivated.
KVK handling has officially been included. More hooks and an improved example
hook script were added. Demographics handling has been extended to now really
support multiple names, addresses, comm channels, and external IDs.
Furthermore, there are lots of GUI-accessible configuration options that were
always there in the backend but didn't have a frontend to them. File format
handling in document management has seen improvements.

Information available at http://wiki.gnumed.de
packages are available for Debian, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE, Windows and Mac
packages will follow soon.

I am pleased to announce GNUmed 0.2.8.0.

GNUmed is a comprehensive scalable software solution for electronic medical
practices with an emphasis on privacy protection, secure patient centric
record sharing, decision support, and ease of use. It is intended to become a
sophisticated decision support system that will elevate the quality of
medical care that can be delivered.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
A report generator to visualize query results with gnuplot has been added.
Exception handling has been improved. The Snellen Chart has been reactivated.
KVK handling has officially been included. More hooks and an improved example
hook script were added. Demographics handling has been extended to now really
support multiple names, addresses, comm channels, and external IDs.
Furthermore, there are lots of GUI-accessible configuration options that were
always there in the backend but didn't have a frontend to them. File format
handling in document management has seen improvements.

Information available at http://wiki.gnumed.de
packages are available for Debian, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE, Windows and Mac
packages will follow soon.