http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/ Posts for comp.lang.python.announce Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:08:13 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/ http://www.nnseek.com/img/64.png 64 64 NNSeek http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/wing_ide_for_python_v_3_1_4_released_163505978t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/wing_ide_for_python_v_3_1_4_released_163505978t.html
Wingware has released version 3.1.4 of Wing IDE. This bug fix release is
available for all three product levels of Wing IDE.

*Release Highlights*

This release includes the following:

* Debugger support for Python 2.6
* Support zope buildout directories not named "instance"
* Added highlighted keywords for caml, d, escript, lisp, ps, and yaml files
* Don't display message that save is unavailable before running pylint
* VI mode fix: After / de-select the search match once Enter is pressed
* About 20 other bug fixes: see the change log for details
http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/3.1.4/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 3.1.4 http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide/3.1

Wing IDE Personal 3.1.4 http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide-personal/3.1

Wing IDE 101 3.1.4 http://wingware.com/downloads/wingide-101/3.1

*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.

Wing IDE is available in three product levels: Wing IDE Professional is
the full-featured Python IDE, Wing IDE Personal offers a reduced feature
set at a low price, and Wing IDE 101 is a free simplified version designed
for teaching entry level programming courses with Python.

System requirements are Windows 2000 or later, OS X 10.3.9 or later for PPC or
Intel (requires X11 Server), or a recent Linux system (either 32 or 64 bit).
Wing IDE 3.1 supports Python versions 2.0.x through 2.5.x.

*New Features in Wing 3.1*

This release adds the following features not found in Wing 3.0.x:

* Support for zip archives
* Support for pkg_resources name spaces and eggs
* Support for doctest and nose style unit tests (*)
* Scan for sys.path changes such as those used in buildout
* How-To and support for Google App Engine
* Inline context appropriate templates/snippets integrated with autocompleter (*)
* Word list driven auto-completion in non-Python files (**)
* Quick navigation to files and symbols by typing a fragment (**)
* Improved support for Stackless Python
* Preference to strip trailing white space on save
* Display gi_running and gi_frame for generators
* Improved code analysis for Python 2.5
* Other minor features and bug fixes not found in Wing 3.0.x

(*)'d items are available in Wing IDE Professional only.
(**)'d items are available in Wing IDE Personal or Professional only.

Please see the change log for a detailed list of changes:
http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/3.1.4/CHANGELOG.txt

*Purchasing and Upgrading*

Wing 3.1 is a free upgrade for all Wing IDE 3.0 users. Any 2.x license sold
after May 2nd 2006 is free to upgrade; others cost 1/2 the normal price to
upgrade.

Upgrade a 2.x license: https://wingware.com/store/upgrade

Purchase a 3.x license: https://wingware.com/store/purchase

--

The Wingware Team
Wingware | Python IDE
Advancing Software Development

www.wingware.com

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]]> Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:08:13 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/ann_bbfreeze_0_96_5_163355194t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/ann_bbfreeze_0_96_5_163355194t.html
I uploaded bbfreeze 0.96.5 to the python package index.

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 features a new bdist_bbfreeze command, which integrates
bbfreeze into setup.py scripts (contributed by Hartmut Goebel,
thanks).

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

Regards,
- Ralf

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]]> Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:49:19 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/released_python_2_6rc2_and_3_0rc1_163304506t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/released_python_2_6rc2_and_3_0rc1_163304506t.html Hash: SHA1

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I
am happy to announce the second and final planned release candidate
for Python 2.6, as well as the first release candidate for Python 3.0.

These are release candidates, so while they are not suitable for
production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and
test them on your software. We expect only critical bugs to be fixed
between now and the final releases. Currently Python 2.6 is scheduled
for October 1st, 2008. Python 3.0 release candidate 2 is planned for
October 1st, with the final release planned for October 15, 2008.

If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit bug reports at

http://bugs.python.org

For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python
2.6 website:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and the Python 3.0 web site:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

See PEP 361 for release schedule details:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
- -Barry

Barry Warsaw
barry@python.org
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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]]> Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:40:18 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/pycon_2009_chicago_march_27_29_163304250t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/pycon_2009_chicago_march_27_29_163304250t.html Python community conference
Chicago, IL
March 27-29, 2009
http://us.pycon.org/

PyCon 2009, the seventh annual community conference for the Python
programming language, will take place March 27-29 at the Hyatt Regency
O'Hare Hotel in Chicago, IL.

The pre-conference tutorials have been expanded to two days (March
25-26), and the conference will be followed by four days of
development sprints (March 30 - April 2).

As Python usage has grown rapidly, PyCon has grown as well. PyCon
2008's attendance topped 1000, up from 410 just two years before.
Organizers expect this PyCon to be the biggest and most active ever.

All community members are invited to help make PyCon great. Supply
input to the planning process by joining the pycon-organizers mailing
list:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-organizers
Volunteers are needed at all levels of skill and time commitment for
the program committee (talk selection), conference committee, and a
variety of offices:
http://us.pycon.org/2009/helping/

See you in Chicago,
- Catherine Devlin, PyCon publicity chair

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]]> Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:12:58 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/elisa_media_center_0_5_10_release_163095098t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/elisa_media_center_0_5_10_release_163095098t.html Dear Elisa users,

The Elisa team is happy to announce the release of Elisa Media Center
0.5.10 codenamed "Fallout".

A very important and long awaited improvement of this release is the
rewrite from scratch of the video, audio and slideshow players user
interface. The team is proud to present a brand new look with a strong
focus on aesthetics and extensibility; it is fully pluggable and new
controls can easily be added via plugins.

A fair number of bugs were also fixed during this cycle (14
bugs).

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

- Scanning of media now indexes videos and generates sensible automatic
playlists such as Unwatched Videos, Recently Added Videos, Recently
Watched,
etc.
- Window control buttons: iconify, maximize, close
- Visual display of the source of media (Local Network, Computer,
Web Service,etc.)
- New D-Bus API to navigate automatically to specific sections of Elisa
- Removal of media from the library (optional via configuration option)


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

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug


Have a nice evening,

The Elisa team


Elisa 0.5.10 "Fallout"
======================

This is Elisa 0.5.10, tenth release of the 0.5 branch.

New features since 0.5.9:

- A brand new video, audio and slideshow player user interface with a strong
focus on aestetics and extensibility; it is fully pluggable and new controls
can easily be added via plugins
- Scanning of media now indexes videos and generates sensible automatic
playlists such as Unwatched Videos, Recently Added Videos, Recently Watched,
etc.
- Window control buttons: iconify, maximize, close
- Visual display of the source of media (Local Network, Computer,
Web Service,etc.)
- New D-Bus API to navigate automatically to specific sections of Elisa
- Removal of media from the library (optional via configuration option)

Bugs fixed since 0.5.9:

- 259427: Pictures section display also music pictures
- 262210: [linux] Prevent launching multiple instances of Elisa
- 268238: install error packages ubuntu
- 245496: player OSD aspect wrong on a 4:3 screen
- 267752: Add a dbus service file to start elisa
- 268500: Youtube video thumbnails not downloaded anymore
- 269144: corrupted display of search results
- 270837: Photo library: browse by date is broken
- 253009: Elisa behind a transparent HTTP proxy
- 264059: dbus errors when playing flickr and shoutcast stuff
- 264658: dbus_service uri bug
- 267713: [Win32] Pigment must show a message if there's no proper 3D support
- 267729: Update Pictures -> Your History icon
- 249386: [aesthetics] The seek bar and volume bar have a black background


Download

You can find source releases of Elisa on the download page:
http://elisa.fluendo.com/download


Elisa Homepage

More details can be found on the project's website: http://elisa.fluendo.com


Support and Bugs

We use Launchpad for bug reports and feature requests:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug


Developers

All code is in a Bazaar branch and can be checked out from there.
It is hosted on Launchpad: https://code.launchpad.net/elisa


Contributors to this release:

- Alessandro Decina
- Benjamin Kampmann
- David McLeod
- Florian Boucault
- Guido Amoruso
- Guillaume Emont
- Gunnar Holmberg
- Jesús Corrius
- Joshua Eichen
- Lionel Martin
- Olivier Tilloy
- Philippe Normand

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]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:27:01 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/released_the_python_replybot_5_0_163023930t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/released_the_python_replybot_5_0_163023930t.html Hash: SHA1

I'm happy to announce the release of the Python Replybot 5.0. This is
the latest incarnation of my software to send auto-replies to email
messages based on various criteria, with whitelisting and grace
periods. It responds in the most RFC and de-facto standards friendly
way possible, conforming to email best practices.

Download the code from the Cheeseshop: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/replybot

The project (including bug reports and publicly available code
branches) is managed in Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/replybot

The Python Replybot is released under the terms of the GPLv3.

Enjoy,
- -Barry

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]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:52:46 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/python_url_weekly_python_news_and_links_sep_16_163023674t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/python_url_weekly_python_news_and_links_sep_16_163023674t.html software." - Niklaus Wirth
http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt52.htm


The first Release Candidate for Python 2.6 is out:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/bdf34952860.../

Abstract base classes, pros and cons:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ecffaa82798.../

Converting dictionary accesses from Perl to Python:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/c70e09497db.../

Naming style: should a library wrapping foreign code keep the original
names or follow PEP8?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/42f6a6c097f.../

Profiles of sum() and reduce():
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/78a31fe094f.../


========================================================================
Everything Python-related you want is probably one or two clicks away in
these pages:

Python.org's Python Language Website is the traditional
center of Pythonia
http://www.python.org
Notice especially the master FAQ
http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

PythonWare complements the digest you're reading with the
marvelous daily python url
http://www.pythonware.com/daily

Just beginning with Python? This page is a great place to start:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers

The Python Papers aims to publish "the efforts of Python enthusiats":
http://pythonpapers.org/
The Python Magazine is a technical monthly devoted to Python:
http://pythonmagazine.com

Readers have recommended the "Planet" sites:
http://planetpython.org
http://planet.python.org

comp.lang.python.announce announces new Python software. Be
sure to scan this newsgroup weekly.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/topics

Python411 indexes "podcasts ... to help people learn Python ..."
Updates appear more-than-weekly:
http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html

The Python Package Index catalogues packages.
http://www.python.org/pypi/

The somewhat older Vaults of Parnassus ambitiously collects references
to all sorts of Python resources.
http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/

Much of Python's real work takes place on Special-Interest Group
mailing lists
http://www.python.org/sigs/

Python Success Stories--from air-traffic control to on-line
match-making--can inspire you or decision-makers to whom you're
subject with a vision of what the language makes practical.
http://www.pythonology.com/success

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has replaced the Python
Consortium as an independent nexus of activity. It has official
responsibility for Python's development and maintenance.
http://www.python.org/psf/
Among the ways you can support PSF is with a donation.
http://www.python.org/psf/donations/

The Summary of Python Tracker Issues is an automatically generated
report summarizing new bugs, closed ones, and patch submissions.
http://search.gmane.org/?author=status%%40bugs.python.org&group=gmane.comp.python...

Although unmaintained since 2002, the Cetus collection of Python
hyperlinks retains a few gems.
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html

Python FAQTS
http://python.faqts.com/

The Cookbook is a collaborative effort to capture useful and
interesting recipes.
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/

Many Python conferences around the world are in preparation.
Watch this space for links to them.

Among several Python-oriented RSS/RDF feeds available, see:
http://www.python.org/channews.rdf
For more, see:
http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?ShowMatch=python&ShowStatus=all
The old Python "To-Do List" now lives principally in a
SourceForge reincarnation.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=355470&group_id=5470&func=browse
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0042/

del.icio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Python intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/python

*Py: the Journal of the Python Language*
http://www.pyzine.com

Dr.Dobb's Portal is another source of Python news and articles:
http://www.ddj.com/TechSearch/searchResults.jhtml?queryText=python
and Python articles regularly appear at IBM DeveloperWorks:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/search/searchResults.jsp?searchSite=dW&searchScope...

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://search.gmane.org/?query=python+URL+weekly+news+links&group=gmane.comp.python...
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=Python-URL!+group%%3Acomp.lang.python&start=0&scoring=d&
http://lwn.net/Search/DoSearch?words=python-url&ctype3=yes&cat_25=yes

There is *not* an RSS for "Python-URL!"--at least not yet. Arguments
for and against are occasionally entertained.


Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
E-mail to phaseit.net> should get through.

To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday morning
(approximately), ask phaseit.net> to subscribe. Mention
"Python-URL!". Write to the same address to unsubscribe.


-- The Python-URL! Team--

Phaseit, Inc. (http://phaseit.net) is pleased to participate in and
sponsor the "Python-URL!" project. Watch this space for upcoming
news about posting archives.

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]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:43:58 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/gozerbot_0_8_2_beta_released_163023418t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/gozerbot_0_8_2_beta_released_163023418t.html the world to test. This time the change is rather big as most plugins
are removed from the core and put into there own tarball. So if you
want to try out 0.8.2-BETA for us and report any problems with it on
http://dev.gozerbot.org/ or in our channel #dunkbots on IRCnet we
would very much appreciate it. You can also contact me at
bthate@gmail.com. Download can be done from our website http://gozerbot.org/

new features:

* most plugins removed from core .. this keeps the base of the bot
as small as possible
* missing plugins can be installed via internet or via tarball
* rewritten core .. callbacks and commands when not threaded are
not executed in the main loop anymore but instead in what are called
“runners”, threads that do the jobs. this limits the threads that are
launched
* new debug mode that enables more verbose logging (stacktrace)
* a REST server and client have been added to the core .. the
cloud plugin uses these to communicate between bots. data is
transfered in json format
* new plugins are added to the plugin collection
o powernick (core) .. a plugin to relay the log file to an
OPER via DCC CHAT
o throttle (core) .. throttle users to max number of
commands per minute
o cloud (myplugs) .. connect gozerbots together
o traclog (myplugs) .. log channel in a format suitable for
integration with trac
o register (myplugs) .. enables users to register themselves
with the bot
o anon (myplugs) .. register users on channel join
* config changes are now written to the config file instead of a
pickle

TAKE NOTE: most of the plugins are removed from the core bot .. you
can use the !install-defaultplugs command to get most of these
plugins .. otherwise see !install-list of plugins that can be
installed

About gozerbot:

Requirements

* a shell
* python 2.4 or higher
* if you want to remotely install plugins: the gnupg module
* if you want mysql support: the py-MySQLdb module
* if you want jabber support: the xmpppy module

Why gozerbot?

* provide both IRC and Jabber support
* user management by userhost .. bot will not respond if it
doesn't know you (see /docs/USER/)
* fleet .. use more than one bot in a program (list of bots) (see /
docs/plugins/FLEET/)
* use the bot through dcc chat
* fetch rss feeds (see /docs/plugins/RSS/)
* remember items
* relaying between bots (see /docs/plugins/RELAY/)
* program your own plugins (see /docs/PROGRAMPLUGIN/)
* run the builtin webserver (see /docs/plugins/WEBSERVER/)
* query other bots webserver via irc (see /docs/plugins/
COLLECTIVE/)
* serve as a udp <-> irc or jabber notification bot (see /docs/
plugins/UDP)
* mysql and sqlite support

the gozerbot development team

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]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:00:02 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/bacon_pig_new_python_interest_group_in_maryland_ready_163022906t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/bacon_pig_new_python_interest_group_in_maryland_ready_163022906t.html "The time has come", the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes -- and ships -- and sealing-wax --
Of cabbages -- and kings --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
And whether pigs have wings."

Well, *this* PIG's about to get wings! :)

This is the [re-]announcement of a new Python Interest Group:
the Baltimore/Annapolis/Columbia/and-Other-Northern-dc-suburbs Python
Interest Group (BACON-PIG). The BACON-PIG's launch was somewhat
delayed by system-administrational vicissitudes at Pan Galactic
Enterprises (which hosts the mailing list) but is now imminent!

Although there is a good and venerable group in Washington, DC
(the ZPUG-DC or Zope/Python Users of DC, <http://www.zpugdc.org/>),
some of us Maryland Pythonistas are too lazy (me :) or unable
for whatever reason to schlep ourselves down into DC or Northern
Virginia for after-work meetings -- hence the motivation for a
group that meets in Maryland.

In deference to ZPUG-DC, the BACON-PIG will make every effort to have
its meetings on dates that are at least 2 weeks away from ZPUG-DC
meetings (which currently appear to be on the first Tuesday of the
month), and the BACON-PIG will also focus on topics other than Zope
and/or Plone, since those are addressed quite thoroughly by ZPUG-DC.
Of course, attendance at both groups' meetings is encouraged!

The inaugural meeting of the BACON-PIG will be Thursday, October 23,
5:30 - 7:30 PM, at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Visitor
Center in Greenbelt, Maryland:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/visitor/home/index.html

A map and directions are available at that site. The first meeting
will include at least some recaps of PyCon 2008 and SciPy 2008 from
attendees of those events. At some BACON-PIG meeting in the near
future (maybe this one??) Barry Warsaw has promised to lead a Python
3.0 love-fest! Tune in to the bacon-pig list for all the news:

<https://pangalactic.us/mailman/listinfo/bacon-pig>

Cheers,
Steve Waterbury

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]]> Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:00:50 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/ets_3_0_2_released_163023162t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.lang.python.announce/ets_3_0_2_released_163023162t.html 3.0.2 has
just been tagged and released!

Source distributions (.tar.gz) have been pushed to PyPi. Window's
binaries will be built and uploaded to PyPi over the next 24 hours or so.

You can update to ETS 3.0.2 like so:
easy_install -U ets>=3.0.2



Changes
-----------

ETS 3.0.2 is an update to ETS 3.0.1 that includes the following changes:
* Update of Enable to fix problems doing 'setup.py install'.
* Update of ETSProjectTools to fix bugs and improve the help messages.
* Update of Mayavi to fix bugs found during the SciPy conference.
* Update of Traits, TraitsGUI, and TraitsBackend* to fix a number of
issues (see
https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/query?milestone=Traits+3.0.2)



What is ETS?
------------------
The Enthought Tool Suite (ETS) is a collection of components developed
by Enthought and our partners, which we use every day to construct
custom scientific applications. It includes a wide variety of
components, including:

* an extensible application framework
* application building blocks
* 2-D and 3-D graphics libraries
* scientific and math libraries
* developer tools

The cornerstone on which these tools rest is the Traits package, which
provides explicit type declarations in Python; its features include
initialization, validation, delegation, notification, and visualization
of typed attributes.

More information is available for all these packages from the Enthought
Tool Suite development home page:
http://code.enthought.com/projects/tool-suite.php


-- Dave

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