We are proud to announce the release of Resolver One, version 1.2 -
the largest IronPython application in the world, we think, at 38,000
lines of production code backed up by 150,000 lines of unit and
functional tests.

Resolver One is a Rapid Application Development tool for analysing and
presenting business data, using a familiar spreadsheet interface
combined with a powerful IronPython-based scripting capability that
allows you to insert your own code directly into the recalculation
loop.

For version 1.2, we have on big headline feature; a new function
called
RunWorkbook that allows you to "call" one spreadsheet from another,
passing in parameters and pulling out results - just like functions,
but
without having to code the function by hand. This allows you to mix
spreadsheet-based and code-based logic, using the best paradigm for
the job in hand.

I'm proud to release version 1.4.5 of Roundup.

1.4.5.1 has one new feature:

- Add use of username/password stored in ~/.netrc in mailgw (sf patch
#1912105)

It is otherwise mostly a bugfix release:

- 'Make a Copy' failed with more than one person in nosy list (sf #1906147)
- xml-rpc security checks and tests across all backends (sf #1907211)
- Send a Precedence header in email so (well-written) autoresponders...

Dear Elisa users,

The Elisa team is happy to announce the release of Elisa Media Center
0.5.6 codenamed "Perks".

A very important and long awaited improvement of this release is the
introduction of DVD playback including DVD menus support. It is
elegantly integrated in the user interface making it easy and natural
to use. A well deserved big thanks goes to the GStreamer hackers who
made that possible to happen.

A considerable number of bugs were also fixed during this cycle (25
bugs) mainly related to device hotplugging and to the media scanner.

On top of these bug fixes, this release also introduces the following
new features:

- Contextual actions now available in all view modes (list with preview, grid,
coverflow).
- First support for contextual actions in the pictures section.
- DVD playback with support of menus.

Installers and sources can be downloaded from
http://elisa.fluendo.com/download/

I am very pleased to announce that version 0.6.1 of Elixir
(http://elixir.ematia.de) is now available. As always, feedback is
very welcome, preferably on Elixir mailing list.

This is a minor release featuring some bug fixes (one of them to
handle a late rename in SQLAlchemy's 0.5 beta cycle), a new, slighty
nicer, syntax for providing custom arguments to the column(s) needed
for ManyToOne relationships and some exception messages improvements.

The full list of changes can be seen at:
http://elixir.ematia.de/trac/browser/elixir/tags/0.6.1/CHANGES

What is Elixir?
---------------------

Elixir is a declarative layer on top of the SQLAlchemy library. It is
a fairly thin wrapper, which provides the ability to create simple
Python classes that map directly to relational database tables (this
pattern is often referred to as the Active Record design pattern),
providing many of the benefits of traditional databases without losing
the convenience of Python objects.

Dear all,

This is (again) an announcement for a tool that has existed for some
time but hasn't been listed here before. The current release has only a
couple of minor bugfixes to version 1.4 but as TextTest (previous
message) depends on it I tend to release both at about the same time.

Regards,
Geoff Bache

About PyUseCase (See also
http://www.texttest.org/index.php?page=concepts&n=xusecase):
=============

PyUseCase is a record/replay layer for Python GUIs. It consists of two
modules: usecase.py, which is a generic framework for all Python GUIs
(or even non-GUI programs) and gtkusecase.py, which is specific to PyGTK
GUIs. See www.pygtk.org for more info on PyGTK.

The aim is only to simulate the interactive actions of a user, not to
verify correctness of a program. Essentially it allows an interactive
program to be run in batch mode. Another tool is needed for verification
of behaviour, for example TextTest, also available from SourceForge.

Dear all,

This is an announcement for a tool that has existed since 2003 but whose
releases haven't featured on this list before. For users it isn't
strictly python-specific as it will test programs written in any
language, but it is written in Python and also functions as an
extensible python framework for functional testing. So I'm going to
announce releases
here in future unless anyone objects...

Its position is that it is entirely free, entirely open source (LGPL)
but also has corporate funding behind it (from Jeppesen) so it's a less
risky investment than some open source tools.

For anyone that already knows the tool, release 3.12 includes major
improvements to both initial creation of application config files, and
the functionality to reconnect to previous runs. There is a completely
new information window for test runs that provides an overview of
exactly what has been run. There is also a new plugin for Bugzilla
version 3. On Windows, you now need at least Python 2.5.1. The tests for
itself will now run out of the box with no setup. There are many more
minor enhancements and bug fixes.

QOTW: "COMP.LANG.PYTHON. We're so efficent, we deliver the answer before
you can ask the question." - Travis Beaty
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/0a976f29ec9f43e0

Named tuples, exec, closures, and why the old taxonomy of languages is
no more relevant:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/988b296652f.../

Some ideas to process a fixed-width text file:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/51297421621.../

Redirecting standard output from a C library using ctypes:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/92dfd4e7ca4.../

A program that hit the limits: 20 nested for statements or 100
indentation levels!
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1b423087f85.../

Comparing different methods for replacing several strings:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a1903b9a796.../

type, object, and their incestuous relationship:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/251bf0e41ad.../

Nested classes and scoping rules:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/42d80445b06.../

Hi all,

I uploaded bbfreeze 0.96.3 to python's cheeseshop.
bbfreeze creates standalone executables from python scripts (similar to py2exe).
bbfreeze works on windows and unix-like operating systems (no OS X
unfortunately).
bbfreeze is able to freeze multiple scripts, handle egg files and
track binary dependencies.

This release fixes an issue with some packages wrongly being recognized as
"development eggs".

More information can be found in the package index:
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/ bbfreeze/

The development repository (mercurial) can be found here:
http://systemexit.de/repo/bbfreeze

I've also setup a google group for discussion:
It's homepage is http://groups.google.com/group/bbfreeze-users.
You can subscribe by sending email to bbfreeze-users-subscribe@googlegroups.com
or ask questions by sending email to bbfreeze-users@googlegroups.com

Regards,
- Ralf

I'm pleased to announce the 0.6 alpha release of Lepton, a
high-performance, pluggable particle engine and API for Python.
Although it is still under development, a critical mass of features
are completed and I think it is ready for wider consumption. Note that
this is an alpha release, so expect the API to change somewhat in
future releases. New features are also under development.

The engine is designed to be very flexible and does not rely on any
other libraries directly. You can use it either with OpenGL (via
pyglet or PyOpenGL), or with pygame by selecting the appropriate
renderer. Examples are provided using pyglet and pygame.

The project page is here:

http://code.google.com/p/py-lepton/

You can also get it via pypi here:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lepton/

One of the missing pieces right now is a native binary installer for
Windows. It can be compiled using cygwin or MinGW, but we could use
some help getting it working with MSVC. If anyone would like to
contribute their Visual Studio expertise, it would be greatly
appreciated.

Hi,

I'm happy to announce release 0.70.3 of Task Coach. This release fixes
a few bugs introduced in the previous release.

Bugs fixed:

* wxPython 2.8.8.1 generates images in a new, backwards incompatible
way, even when told not to do that. This bug affects users that have
an older version of wxPython installed and use one of the Linux
packages. Fixed by adding the relevant pieces from wxPython 2.8.8.1 to
the Task Coach sources.
* Opening a new task viewer didn't work.
* Closing effort viewers causes exceptions.

What is Task Coach?

Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical
tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and is
developed using Python and wxPython. You can download Task Coach from:

http://www.taskcoach.org

In addition to the source distribution, packaged distributions are
available for Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux (Debian and RPM
format).