I am pleased to announce version 2.14.2 of the Python bindings for GObject.

The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors
as soon as its synced correctly:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.14/

What's new since PyGObject 2.14.1:
- Allow gobject.property work with subclasses. (#523352, Tomeu Vizoso)
- Unbreak Source.prepare (#523075, Bryan Silverthorn)
- Never override customly set 'tp_new' and 'tp_alloc' (Paul Pogonyshev)
- Don't link against libffi if we cannot find libffi
on the system. (#496006, Ed Catmur)
- Dist .m4 files. (#496011, Ed Catmur)
- Don't return NULL after warning of enum comparsion
(#519631, Paul Pogonyshev)

Blurb:

GObject is a object system library used by GTK+ and GStreamer.

PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject+ library for use
in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as
managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyGTK, PyORBit and
gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications.

Hi,

This is to announce a Mayavi sprint between 2nd July to 9th July, 2008.
The sprint will be held at the Enthought Office, Austin Texas.
Here are the details:

Dates: 2nd July 2008 to 9th July 2008
Location: Enthought Office at Austin, TX

Please do join us -- even if it is only for a few days. Both Gaël
Varoquaux and myself will be at the sprint on all days and there will be
developers from Enthought joining us as well. Enthought is graciously
hosting the sprint at their office.

The agenda for the sprint is yet to be decided. Please contact me
off-list if you plan on attending. Thanks!

About Mayavi
------------

On behalf of Phil Hassey, I would like to announce that tinypy 1.1 is
released.

Tinypy is a small Python (subset) VM.

Download: http://tinypy.googlecode.com/files/tinypy-1.1.tar.gz
Main Site: http://www.tinypy.org/
Code site: http://code.google.com/p/tinypy/
Group & mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/tinypy
Author's blog: http://www.philhassey.com/blog/category/tinypy/

Hi,

Wingware has released version 3.1.1 of Wing IDE. This bug fix release is
available for all three product levels of Wing IDE.

*Release Highlights*

This release includes the following:

* Template tool properly supports 2nd+ like-named fields
* Several VI mode improvements
* Replace in selection fixes
* Maintain caret position when auto-strip trailing white space
* Avoid trying to use unsupported Python versions
* About 20 other bug fixes: see the change log for details:
http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/3.1.1/CHANGELOG.txt

*Downloads*

Wing IDE Professional and Wing IDE Personal are commercial software and
require a license to run. A free trial license can be obtained directly from
the product when launched.

Wing IDE Pro 3.1.1 http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide/3.1

Wing IDE Personal 3.1.1 http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide-personal/3.1

Wing IDE 101 3.1.1 http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide-101/3.1

Hi All,

I apologize for the length of and the cross posting of this announcement
in advance but I believe it will be of value to you if you have ANY
interest in the healthcare IT field. Even if you do not have interest
now; you may well after you realize the staggering growth that is
occurring in this sector.

The healthcare sector is a very complex information management space.
Healthcare IT applications are notorious for their lack of real
interoperability. This of course increases the overall healthcare costs
due to lost and/or missing information.

While the rate of adoption of IT in direct patient care scenarios has
been slow in the past; it is expected to increase dramatically over the
next few years. A recent study shows that there will be a demand for an
additional 40,000+ healthcare information technology workers IN THE US
alone: http://medir.ohsu.edu/~hersh/hit-workforce-hersh.pdf

I would like to announce release 0.7 of PyODB. This release fixes a problem
with Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 (64bit). When running an ODBC query using FreeTDS with
a connection to MS SQL 2005 caused the fetch from a column containing a string
value to return an empty (null) result.

Many thanks to Jaco Du Toit for supplying this fix.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119175

Regards,
Neil Moses.

Hey everyone,
I was hoping to see some people out on the python list that are
familiar with MDP (Modular Toolkit for Data Processing -
http://mdp-toolkit.sourceforge.net/)?

I am wanting to develop a very simple feed forward network. This
network would consist of a few input neurons, some hidden neurons, and
a few output neurons. There is no learning involved. This network is
being used as a gene selection network in a genetic simulator where we
are evolving the weights and connectivity.

There are many different types of nodes listed as being supported,
but i can't figure out the best one to use for this case. In this
situation, we only want to iterate through the network X times. (In
the simples version, with no cycles, this would mean that once the
output nodes are calculated there would be no additional calculations
since the system would be stable and non-learning). Node types are
listed at the bottom here: http://mdp-toolkit.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html#quick-start

QOTW: "IIRC the idea was so that managers could write programs in English.
It failed because nobody could write a parser that would handle something
like 'The bottom line is that the stakeholder group requires the situation
going forward to be such as to facilitate the variable known as x to provide
the same outcome when stimulated by dereferencing as the variable known as
y'." - John Machin
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/aefcc0ca19f6d9b3,
from his oral history of COBOL

A problem with async_chat.push and why it works that way:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/491027.html

How to remove dictionary entries when iterating over it:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/491739.html

Classmethods: why do they exist, and its behavior compared with metaclass
methods:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/491280.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/491793.html

Free PDFs of *Python Magazine* available:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/advocacy/2008-May/000587.html

Triangle (NC) Zope and Python Users Group (TriZPUG) is proud to open
registration for our fourth annual ultra-low cost Plone and Python
training camps, BootCampArama 2008:

http://trizpug.org/boot-camp/2008/

Registration is now open for:

PyCamp: Python Boot Camp, August 4 - 8

Plone Boot Camp: Customizing Plone, July 28 - August 1

Advanced Plone Boot Camp: Plone 3 Techniques, August 4 - 8

All of these take place on the campus of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in state of the art high tech classrooms, with
free mass transit, low-cost accommodations with free wireless, and
convenient dining options.

Plone Boot Camp is taught by Joel Burton, twice chair of the Plone
Foundation. Joel has logged more the 200 days at the head of Plone
classrooms on four continents. See plonebootcamps.com for dozens of
testimonials from Joel's students.

Announcing Urwid 0.9.8.2
------------------------

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

Tarball:
http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.9.8.2.tar.gz

RSS:
http://excess.org/feeds/tag/urwid/

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

This is a maintenance release that fixes a number of bugs that have been
found in 0.9.8.1.

New in this release:
====================

* Fixed incompatibilities with Python 2.3

* Fixed Pile cursor pref_col bug, WidgetWrap rows caching bug, Button
mouse_event with no callback bug, Filler body bug triggered by the
tutorial and a LineBox lline parameter typo.