bzr 2.2.0 released!

The Bazaar team is happy to announce availability of a new release of the bzr adaptive version control system. Bazaar is part of the GNU system <http://gnu.org/>. Thanks to everyone who contributed patches, suggestions, and feedback. Bazaar is now available for download from https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.2/2.2.0 as a source tarball or packaged for various systems. This release marks the start of another long-term-stable series. From here, we will only make bugfix releases on the 2.2 series (2.2.1, etc), while 2.3 will become our new development series. The 2.0 and 2.1 series wil

pyCologne Python User Group Cologne - Meeting, September 08, 2010, 6.30pm

Hello, The next meeting of pyCologne will take place: Wednesday, September, 8th starting about 6.30 pm - 6.45 pm at Room 0.14, Benutzerrechenzentrum (RRZK-B) University of Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 Köln, Germany Agenda: - Cooking Eggs - A distutils & setuptools recipe book (Christopher Arndt) - Lightning Talks Further discussion topics, news, book-presentations etc. are welcome on each of our meetings! At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant. Further information including directions how to get to th

ride tab editor 2.03 has been released

Ride Tab Editor 2.03 has been released. New in this version are some minor graphics fixes, a new customizable tool menu for users code is alpha (not quite working yet). http://dexrowem.blogspot.com/search?q=ride+tab+editor

Lupa 0.13.1 released (Lua in Python)

Hi all, Lupa 0.13.1 was released to fix a major distribution bug in 0.13. Updating is recommended. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lupa/0.13.1 What is Lupa? ------------- Lupa integrates the LuaJIT2 runtime into CPython. It is a partial rewrite of LunaticPython in Cython with some additional features such as proper coroutine support. Why use it? ------------ It complements Python very well. Lua is a language as dynamic as Python, but LuaJIT compiles it to very fast machine code, sometimes faster than many other compiled languages. The language runtime is extremely sma

pc.py 0.0.3, process control -- easy fork-exec and pipe with I/O redirection

I'd like to announce an early release of pc.py. pc.py is a layer on top of subprocess. The subprocess module supports a rich API but is clumsy for many common use cases, namely sync/async fork-exec, command substitution and pipelining, all of which is trivial to do on system shells. The goal is to make Python a sane alternative to non-trivial shell scripts. Features: * Easy to fork-exec commands, wait or no wait * Easy to capture stdout/stderr of children (command substitution) * Easy to express I/O redirections * Easy to construct pipelines * Use short names for e

pyArkansas 2010 Call For Papers

The 3rd annual pyArkansas conference, a gathering of Python programming enthusiasts, will be held on Saturday, October 16th, on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas (Conway) and we would like you to present a talk. We are accepting proposals for 30 or 60 minute talks (25 and 55 minutes, actually) on anything Python. Do you want to present on a particular topic (Python 3? Web? Database? Objects? Packages? Images? GIS? Sphinx?)? How about telling us about that cool program you just wrote? This is a conference run by enthusiasts for enthusiasts; you will never find a better

BetterBatch 1.0.0 released - multiline and Nested code blocks, various clean-ups and more tests

Hi, The 1.0.0 release of BetterBatch is now available. BetterBatch is designed as a middle ground between batch files and more powerful languages (Python, shell scripting, etc). The project is hosted on code.google.com: http://code.google.com/p/betterbatch/ Download from http://code.google.com/p/betterbatch/downloads/list Or discuss at http://groups.google.com/group/betterbatch-discuss/topics Here is the list of changes from the last release: 1.0.0 multiline and Nested code blocks, various clean-ups and more tests ----------------------------------------------------------

[ANN] RedNotebook 1.1

RedNotebook 1.1 has been released. You can get the tarball and the Windows installer at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rednotebook/files/ For links to distribution packages head to the RedNotebook homepage http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net What is RedNotebook? -------------------- RedNotebook is a **graphical journal** and diary helping you keep track of notes and thoughts. It includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and word clouds. You can also format, tag and search your entries. RedNotebook is available in the repositories of mos

TkinterTreectrl v.1.0 released

Hello, there is an updated version of the Tkinter wrapper of the tktreectrl widget available at : http://klappnase.bubble.org/TkinterTreectrl/index.html The treectrl widget allows to create fancy things like sortable multi column listboxes and hierarchical tree views. An impressive set of screenshots of things you can do with treectrl can be found at the treectrl project page : http://tktreectrl.sourceforge.net . The TkinterTreectrl package makes this functionality available for Python/Tkinter. Best regards Michael

pyCologne Python User Group Cologne - Meeting, August 11, 2010, 6.30pm

Hello, The next meeting of pyCologne will take place: Wednesday, August, 11th starting about 6.30 pm - 6.45 pm at Room 0.14, Benutzerrechenzentrum (RRZK-B) University of Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 K=F6ln, Germany Agenda: - adm6 - ip6tables-, pf.conf- and ipf scripts with Python (Johannes Hubertz) - Python libraries for accessing Excel files (Sophia Raab) Further discussion topics, news, book-presentations etc. are welcome on each of our meetings! At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant. Further informat

pyvm 3.0

We are humble to announce that pyvm has reached milestone version 3.0. The URL is: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyvm-3.0/ The pyvm project explores an alternative direction in the use of dynamic languages (based on the python model) for the construction of a full userspace system. It might be worth to note that it does not have an conflict of interests with Python since this is an unstable experimental VM where new features are constantly added, revised or removed based on the needs of the codebase. On the contrary, it is more proof that python-based systems are not s

execnet-1.0.8 and a green experiment

I just released execnet-1.0.8, see the Changelog for details, below. What is execnet? --------------------- execnet is a small pure python library that manages distributed code execution across Python versions and host boundaries. It provides a self-bootstrapping share-nothing model with channels to send/receive data messages. It also helps with managing a cluster of (local or remote) processes and comes with tons of examples and API docs: http://codespeak.net/execnet green version of execnet -------------------------------- For those interested i hacked up a g

bitstring 2.0 released

I'm pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of the bitstring module. What is it? ----------- bitstring helps to make creating, manipulating and deconstructing binary data as easy as possible. It allows arbitrary (and very large) bit patterns to be used without worrying about bit shifting and masking operations. The comprehensive API covers packing, reading, searching, replacing and slicing as well as bit setting and checking, a host of different binary interpretations and all the standard bit-wise operators. The module is pure Python and is available for Python 2.6

[Python Ireland presents] August Talks at The Science Gallery (Wed 11th Aug, 19:00)

Hi All, When: Wed 11th Aug, 19:00 Where: The Science Gallery, Pearse Street. What: Distributed profiling using Redis (Michael Twomey) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mick moved his Redis talk from PyCon Ireland main tracks, so he decided to give a talk one of our regular meetups. Redis is a shared data structure server which offers an interesting opportunity to collect distributed profiling data from multiple Python processes. The Python cProfile module can be used to profile individual function calls. Combine the profiler and Redis to

cx_Oracle 5.0.4

What is cx_Oracle? cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a few exceptions. Where do I get it? http://cx-oracle.sourceforge.net What's new? 1) Added support for Python 2.7. 2) Added support for new parameter (port) for subscription() call which allows the client to specify the listening port for callback notifications from the database server. Thanks to Geoffrey Weber for the initial patch. 3) Fixed compilation under Oracle 9i. 4) Fixed a few error messages.

ANN: PiCloud's Python Platform is now open to the Public!

After 5 months in private beta, PiCloud, a cloud computing platform for the Python Programming Language, is now open to the general public. PiCloud enables Python users to leverage the power of an on-demand, high performance, and auto scaling compute cluster with as few as two lines of code! No server management necessary. All new users receive 5 free compute hours of computation. You can find out more here: http://www.picloud.com Full service description: PiCloud is a cloud computing platform that integrates into the Python Programming Language. It enables you to leverage the comput

[ANN] Lupa 0.6 - Lua in Python

Hi all, I'm happy to announce the release of Lupa 0.6. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lupa/0.6 What is Lupa? -------------- Lupa integrates the LuaJIT2 runtime [1] into CPython. It is a rewrite of LunaticPython in Cython. Features --------- * separate Lua runtime states through a LuaRuntime class * frees the GIL and supports threading in separate runtimes when calling into Lua * proper encoding and decoding of strings (configurable, UTF-8 by default) * supports Python 2.x and 3.x, potentially starting with Python 2.3 (currently untested) * written for Lua

Announcing IronPython 2.7 Alpha 1

Hello Python Community, We're pleased to announce the Alpha release of IronPython 2.7 which can be = downloaded at http://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/42434. This is = a major new version of IronPython with a number of significant updates. Be= cause this is an Alpha release it is not yet feature complete nor fully com= patible with CPython 2.7. Changes thus far include: * Updates the language to be compatible with CPython 2.7 * Adds integrated Visual Studio support (IronPython Tools for Visua= l Studio) * Extends CPython 2.7's documentation

[ANN] inflect.py: generate plurals, ordinals, numbers to words...

I'm pleased to announce the release of inflect.py v0.1.8, a module that correctly generates: * the plural of singular nouns and verbs * the singular of plural nouns * ordinals * indefinite articles * present participles * and converts numbers to words Examples: >>> import inflect >>> p = inflect.engine() >>> p.pl('cat') 'cats' >>> p.pl('sheep') 'sheep' >>> p.pl('bacterium') 'bacteria' plural of singular verbs: it walks -> they walk >>> p.pl('walks') 'walk' singular of plural nouns: >>> p.sinoun('bacteria') 'bacterium' >>> p.sinoun('knives') 'knife' ordin

pyCologne Python User Group Cologne - Meeting, July 14, 2010, 6.30pm

Hello, The next meeting of pyCologne will take place: Wednesday, July, 14th starting about 6.30 pm - 6.45 pm at Room 0.14, Benutzerrechenzentrum (RRZK-B) University of Cologne, Berrenrather Str. 136, 50937 K=F6ln, Germany Agenda: - Text Indexing and Searching with PyLucene (Thomas Koch) Further discussion topics, news, book-presentations etc. are welcome on each of our meetings! At about 8.30 pm we will as usual enjoy the rest of the evening in a nearby restaurant. Further information including directions how to get to the location can be found at: http://www.pyco

tox, a new generic virtualenv/test management tool

I have been talking about it with various people lately and am now happy announce the first release of "tox". tox aims to automate tedious Python related test activities driven from a simple ``tox.ini`` file, including: * creation and management of virtualenv environments * installing your Python package into each of them * run your test tool of choice (nose, py.test, unittests, you name it) * testing packages against each other without needing to upload to PyPI tox runs well on Python2.4 up until Python3.1 and integrates well with Continous Integration servers like Hudson. T

Kiwi PyCon 2010 Call for Participation

Hi, We have another Kiwi PyCon lined up, and we're all expecting it to be as good as last year's event. This year it will be staged in lovely Paihia/Waitangi in the sunny Bay of Islands. It is on the weekend 20-21 November. Find a link below to the "Call for Participation". We are encouraging everybody to come and to participate. Do not feel intimidated, this is a community conference, and we are hosting talks and sessions for all knowledge levels. Be it a tiny demo or show and tell (by doing a 5 minute Lightning Talk), or up to running an hour long tutorial. Or are you interes

]ANN] Selenium Python bindings dev-9231

Hello All, The latest version of Selenium Python bindings (dev-9231 on PyPI) includes the "native" Firefox driver. You can now can do: from selenium import get_driver, FIREFOX driver = get_driver(FIREFOX) driver.get("http://www.google.com") ... To get the latest version, just run "easy_install -U selenium". Happy testing, -- Miki

Python Ireland's pre-PyCon drinks - Wed, 14th July @ Trinity Capital Hotel

Hi All, Join us for drinks and a chat (a warm-up session to PyCon Ireland ;-) ). When: Wed 14th July, from 7pm Where: Trinity Capital Hotel More details at: http://www.python.ie/meetup/2010/python_ireland_meetup_-_july_2010/ Cheers, /// Vicky ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://irishbornchinese.com ~~ ~~ http://www.python.ie ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Pyvm - Continuous python integration

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Pyvm beta =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D This project provides binary builds for the python 2.x subversion = snapshots each installable under the /opt/opt-python-svnXXXXX tree. The benefits are: 1) multiple revisions installable at the same time 2) no need to alter the system wide python intepreter to test against = different python revisions. 3) Automated support for testing (unittest based) The binaries provided are for (both x86 and x86_64): =3D CentOS_5 =3D Fedora 10, 11 and 12 =3D Mandriva 2008, 2009, 2009.1, 2010 =3D OpenSuSE 11