Hi all,

For those interested in helping affect the outcome of Plone Conference 2008
in Washington, DC, USA please take the planning survey located at:
http://tinyurl.com/4hxr8o
The Zope/Python Users Group of DC would appreciate your help!

Thanks,

Greetings,

Just a reminder: the abstracts for the EuroSciPy Conference in Leipzig
are due by midnight tonight (CST, US [UTC -6]) April, 30. If you'd
like to present, please submit your abstract as a PDF, MS Word or
plain text file to euroabstracts@scipy.org.

For more information on the EuroSciPy Conference, please see:

http://www.scipy.org/EuroSciPy2008

Hallo,

The next berlin python user group meeting is Wednesday, 7th of may, 7pm
Place: new thinking store, Tucholskystr. 48, 10117 Berlin
Further information can be found at http://wiki.python.de/User_Group_Berlin

See you there

Stephan

Greetings, program!

I have released a new version of Gheat, heatmaps for Google Maps.
Announcement with promo screencast here:

http://blag.whit537.org/2008/04/gheat-02-pygame-pretty-colors.html

Project homepage here:

http://code.google.com/p/gheat/

chad

CodeInvestigator version 0.10.0 was released on April 28.

This release fixes 2 bugs:

Exceptions were not handled correctly.
Recursive programs were not handled correctly.

Thank you Sze Meng for reporting these!

A usability change was made:

Until now you could only go to a specific iteration by clicking
the '>>' tab.
This becomes a nuisance when there are many iterations.
Now, when there are many iterations to choose from, you can click
a selection tab that allows you to jump.

CodeInvestigator is a tracing tool for Python programs.

QOTW: "Posting to comp.lang.python is pair programming with the entire
internet ;-)" - Nick Craig-Wood
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/6f13cfca8a92c1a2

"When it got to the point where managers were asking, 'Why didn't you use
the config check tool?', it was a done deal." - Roy Smith, on Python adoption
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/advocacy/2008-April/000575.html

Ideas to design a Python client/server application involving many
aynchronous queries and real-time display of data:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/5e46184e940.../

Explicit variable declaration for functions:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6c4a508edd2.../

An example showing the difference between inheritance and composition:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/44612866d4d.../

Lists: item and slice assignment are confusing for a novice Python
programmer:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d00b0c848a3.../

Converting xhtml to html isn't as trivial as one might expect:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/4bbbcecf896.../

On behalf of the VIFF Development Team, I am very happy to announce the
release of VIFF 0.5:

Tar/GZ: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.5.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.5.tar.bz2
Zip: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.5.zip
Exe: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.5.win32.exe

Changes since version 0.4:

Added preliminary support for preprocessing and an efficient
multiplication protocol which is secure against active adversaries.
The Runtime class has been split into several parts and two new mixin
classes provide different comparison protocols. Several coercion
problems were fixed. The Runtime.callback method was renamed to
Runtime.schedule_callback. VIFF was tested on Python 2.6 and some
small problems were fixed. If python-gnutls is unavailable, players
now automatically fallback to TCP connections. The installation guide
was updated for Windows Vista. A new example program was added and the
documentation was updated. Changed license to LGPL.

About VIFF:

Hi,

Wingware has released version 3.1 beta3 of Wing IDE, an integrated development
environment for the Python programming language. It is available from:

http://wingware.com/wingide/beta

This release includes the following changes:

* How-To and improvements for using Wing IDE with Google App Engine
* Scan for sys.path changes in main debug file (e.g. for Zope buildouts)
* Preference to auto-strip trailing white space on save
* Many vi mode improvements
* Testing tool enhancements, including better support for test names
that are not method names
* Sped up stepping in the debugger
* Set encoding for stdin/out/err in debug processes for better handling
of non-ascii input and output
* Fixed problems with debugging stackless tasklets
* Python Shell allows spawned threads to run, rather than stopping all threads
* Improved support for debugging code invoked by execfile()
* Better autocompletion support for an x defined by 'import x.y.z'
* More bug fixes, including also all those found in Wing 3.0.5

Hi,

We're happy to announce version 3.0.5 of Wing IDE, an integrated development
environment for the Python programming language. It is available from:

http://wingware.com/downloads

Version 3.0.5 is a bug fix release that adds many vi mode improvements,
improves stability, and fixes other usability bugs.

See the change log at http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/3.0.5/CHANGELOG.txt
for details.

It is a free upgrade for all Wing 3.0 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:

I'm pleased to announce the release 0.2 of Sphinx, the Python documentation
generation tool. There were some intermediate smaller releases in the 0.1
series, but for 0.2 there are quite a lot new features and fixes.

What is it?
===========

Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful
documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of
multiple reStructuredText source files).

Its website is at <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/>.

Partial list of changes
=======================
(full list at http://sphinx.pocoo.org/changes.html)