I'm pleased to announce svg-chart 1.1, the first public release of a
library for generating Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) charts.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/py-svg

This library is currently just a port of the Ruby library, SVG::Graph.

The project is still under development, but it currently renders
reference charts as a Plot, Vertical Bar, Pie, and TimeSeries plots.

Contribution is welcome.

What is svg-chart?
----------------------

svg-chart is intended to be a general purpose library for generating
SVG charts in Python.

Ported from Sean E. Russel's SVG::Graph
<http://www.germane-software.com/software/SVG/SVG::Graph/>.

:Author: Jason R. Coombs jaraco.com>
:Copyright: MIT License
:Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/py-svg/

Pyrex 0.9.8.2 is now available:

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

A block of external functions can now be declared nogil at once.

cdef extern from "somewhere.h" nogil:
...

Also some minor nogil-related bugs have been fixed.

What is Pyrex?

working to a new 0.8.1 release we make a BETA available to be tested
by interested users.

new features:

* ssl connections are now supported
* third party software included into gozerbot:
o feedparser (used by RSS) .. makes atom feeds possible
o simplejson (used by COLLECTIVE)
o BeautifulSoup (used to parse webpages)
* renewed RSS plugin
* renewed collective plugin
* renewed webserver plugin .. new webserver API
* tcp.py notification plugin as well as a totcp.py client program

if you are using one of these features please test this BETA.

the BETA can be downloaded from http://gozerbot.org and problems with
it can be reported on http://dev.gozerbot.org or email me at
bthate@gmail.com

about gozerbot:

Requirements

At last, registration for EuroPython 2008 (the European conference for the
communities around Python) is now open! Take a look at the registration page
on the EuroPython Web site for full details:

http://www.europython.org/Registration

The usual generous discount on fees is offered for registrations made up until
31st May. Don’t forget to check the calendar for other important deadlines:

http://www.europython.org/Calendar

Meanwhile, the deadline for talk and activity proposals is fast approaching.
If you have something to show off that might interest the Python community,
now is the time to start putting together a proposal for a talk. Remember
that you don’t need to have the talk ready now - just a reasonable idea of
what you’ll be presenting.

Take a look at the Call for Participation on the EuroPython Web site for
details:

http://www.europython.org/CallForParticipation

And remember that the EuroPython organisers and community are always ready to
answer any questions about talks and other matters on the mailing lists:

http://www.europython.org/Mailing_Lists

We look forward to seeing your proposals *and* seeing you in Vilnius!

I'm pleased to announce origo-submit 0.0.1, a tool for summitting
releases to the Origo software development platform.

http://origo-submit.origo.ethz.ch/download/

This is teh first working version. Is able to upload files, create a
release and list releases. Enjoy.

Download
---------------

:Quick Installation:
easy_install -U origo-submit

:Tarballs:
http://origo-submit.origo.ethz.ch/download/

What is origo-submit?
----------------------

origo-submit is a script that supports automated creation of releases
at the Origo software development platform via its XML-RPC interface.
It is intended for use in project release scripts.

Inspired by Eric S Raymond's freshmeat-submit
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/freshmeat-submit/>.

Pyrex 0.9.8.1 is now available:

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

Base classes no longer need to be specified in a forward
declaration of an extension type, or in the implementation
part of an extension type defined in a .pxd file.

Also, I've come up with an even better way of handling
circular cimports involving structs, unions and extension
types. You can now say things like

from spam import struct Foo, union Blarg, class Ham

This simultaneously imports the name and forward-declares
it in the other module.

What is Pyrex?

Hi,
I'm pleased to announce release 0.4.0 of Python FTP Server library
(pyftpdlib).
http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/

=== About ===

Python FTP server library provides an high-level portable interface to
easily write asynchronous FTP servers with Python. Based on asyncore
framework pyftpdlib is currently the most complete RFC-959 FTP server
implementation available for Python programming language.

=== Major changes ===

This new version, aside from fixing some bugs, includes two new
features:

- IPv6 support (as described in RFC-2428).
- The possibility to assume the id of real users when using system
dependent authorizers.

A complete list of changes including enhancements, bug fixes and
instructions for using the new functionalities is available here:
http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/wiki/ReleaseNotes04

=== More links: ===

I'm pleased to announce pdfposter 0.4, a tool to scale and tile PDF
images/pages to print on multiple pages.

http://pdfposter.origo.ethz.ch/download/

Download
---------------

:Quick Installation:
easy_install -U pdfposter

:Tarballs:
http://pdfposter.origo.ethz.ch/download/

What is pdfposter?
--------------------

Scale and tile PDF images/pages to print on multiple pages.

``Pdfposter`` can be used to create a large poster by building it from
multple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a
PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a
PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the
poster.
The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size.

Dear Pythonistas,
we are proud to announce release 2.3 of the Modular toolkit for Data Processing
(MDP): a Python data processing framework. The base of readily available
algorithms includes Principal Component Analysis (PCA and NIPALS), four flavors
of Independent Component Analysis (CuBICA, FastICA, TDSEP, and JADE), Slow
Feature Analysis, Independent Slow Feature Analysis, Gaussian Classifiers,
Growing Neural Gas, Fisher Discriminant Analysis, Factor Analysis, Restricted
Boltzmann Machine, and many more.

What's new in version 2.3?
--------------------------

Pyrex 0.9.8 is now available:

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

This version has a number of new features:

* In-place operators (+= etc.) are now supported.

* The Pyrex compiler now has built-in facilities for
automatically tracking down and compiling all the
modules a given module depends on, and for only
compiling modules whose source has changed.

* Some restrictions on nogil functions have been relaxed.
In particular, it's now possible to declare a C method
as nogil.

* A feature has been added that makes it easier to manage
circular imports between .pxd files. It's now possible
to declare two extension types in different .pxd files
that refer to each other.

What is Pyrex?
--------------