🌐 Mailman 3 October 2007 - Python-announce-list - python.org

Help vote for Plone as a CMS Awards finalist
by Alexander Limi Oct. 1, 2007

Oct. 1, 2007

Hi all, Please take a minute to vote for Plone in Packt's Open Source CMS Award: http://www.packtpub.com/article/best-other-open-source-cms-award-final-plone You managed to bring Plone to the front page of DIgg.com with your earlier effort for the release of Plone 3.0, let your Python vote count — and make Plone be selected over the Java-based CMSes in their selection! (And if you haven't tried Plone 3.0, you should! :) Thanks! -- Alexander Limi · Plone Founder · http://limi.net

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Version 1.1 of mod_wsgi is now available.
by Graham Dumpleton Oct. 1, 2007

Oct. 1, 2007

Version 1.1 of mod_wsgi is now available. The software and documentation are both available from: http://www.modwsgi.org The mod_wsgi package consists of an Apache web server module designed and implemented specifically for hosting Python based web applications that support the WSGI interface specification. Examples of major Python web frameworks and applications which are known to work in conjunction with mod_wsgi include CherryPy, Django, MoinMoin, Pylons, Trac and TurboGears. This is a bug fix release only and no new features are included. Two main problems addressed are possibility of processes crashing when multiple threads hit race condition on sending log output via sys.stdout/sys.stderr, and conflict with the Apache mod_logio module which would result in mod_wsgi daemon processes crashing. A description of all changes in this version can be found in the change notes at: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ChangesInVersion0101 Updating to this version is recommended for all users. If you have any questions about mod_wsgi or wish to provide feedback, use the Google group for mod_wsgi found at: http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi Enjoy Graham Dumpleton

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Python in Action at USENIX LISA'07
by David Beazley Oct. 1, 2007

Oct. 1, 2007

All Python programmers already know that Python is a secret weapon for solving impossible problems while still giving you time to go on vacation, play in a band, and enjoy fine meals with your significant other. However, do your coworkers know the real reason why you are so well-adjusted and happy? Are they still skeptical curmudgeons? Perhaps they would be interested in the "Python in Action" tutorial being presented at the USENIX LISA'07 conference in Dallas, November 16th. Further details about this tutorial are available here: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa07/training/tutonefile.html#f4 Even if you already know Python, this tutorial is for you! Fully updated to Python 2.5, this tutorial will show you how to make effective use of modern Python features for all sorts of practical tasks related to data processing and systems programming. Special emphasis is placed on Python's very powerful support for iteration including list comprehensions, generator functions, and generator expressions. You will even see how to build a distributed data processing system using nothing but a single for-loop (well, okay, a few other things are in there, but it's mostly the for-loop). Presented in two parts, the tutorial starts with an introduction to Python with a special emphasis on tasks related to data processing. The second half of the tutorial takes you on a tour of systems programming in Python including topics related to files, the file system, systems interfaces, interprocess communication, concurrency, and networks. The class would be especially appropriate for programmers experienced in other programming languages who would like to know what Python programming is all about. Hope to see everyone in Dallas! Cheers, Dave Beazley

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ANN: PyPE 2.8.8
by Josiah Carlson Oct. 1, 2007

Oct. 1, 2007

=== What is PyPE? === PyPE (Python Programmers' Editor) was written in order to offer a lightweight but powerful editor for those who think emacs is too much and idle is too little. Syntax highlighting is included out of the box, as is multiple open documents via tabs. Beyond the basic functionality, PyPE offers an expandable source tree, filesystem browser, draggable document list, todo list, filterable function list, find and replace bars (no dialog to find or replace simple strings), recordable and programmable macros, spell checker, reconfigurable menu hotkeys, triggers, find in files, external process shells, and much more. === More Information === If you would like more information about PyPE, including screenshots, where to download the source or windows binaries, bug tracker, contact information, or a somewhat complete listing of PyPE's features, visit PyPE's home on the web: http://pype.sf.net/index.shtml If you have any questions about PyPE, please contact me, Josiah Carlson, aka the author of PyPE, at jcarlson at uci.edu (remember to include "PyPE" in the subject). PyPE 2.8.7 includes the following changes and bugfixes since release 2.8.5: #-------------------------------- PyPE 2.8.8 --------------------------------- (fixed) a bug related to realtime parsing of non-ascii Python source. #-------------------------------- PyPE 2.8.7 --------------------------------- (fixed) some bugs related to the parsers module movement. (fixed) ordering of user profile path discovery to not break when confronted with insane 'HOME' environment variable on Windows (will use USERPROFILE or HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH first). (fixed) unrepr mechansim can now handle negative value storage for disabled realtime options, etc. #-------------------------------- PyPE 2.8.6 --------------------------------- (fixed) a bug with "Wrap Try/Except" as per emailed bug report from Ian York. (added) ability to choose what port PyPE will listen on via --port= . (fixed) workspaces in wxPython 2.8+, patch thanks to Craig Mahaney. (added) explicit exclude dirs for find in files, patch thanks to Craig Mahaney. (added) paste and down mechanism to paste and move the cursor down, patch thanks to Craig Mahaney. (added) delete right mechanism to delete everything from the cursor to the end of the line, patch thanks to Craig Mahaney. (added) delete line mechanism to delete the current line, patch thanks to Craig Mahaney. (added) paste rectangle command for rectangular pasting, patch thanks to Craig Mahaney. (fixed) support for alternate background colors thanks to bug report from Craig Mahaney. (added) macro support to Craig Mahaney's added functionality. (added) implementation for regular expression replacements, possibly to be integrated as part of a 'replace in all open documents' in the future. (added) automatic spellcheck for text and tex documents of up to 200,000 byes in size. Will only spellcheck if the user has enabled "check syntax" in the "Realtime Options". (fixed) issue when trying to save language settings when cursor position is not to be saved. (added) support for \chapter section delimiter in *tex files. (fixed) issue that prevented the highest level source listing from being sorted in the Name and Line sorted source trees. (changed) rather than reading and executing a file for configuration loading, we now use a variant of the 'unrepr()' mechanism with support for True/False. (changed) find/replace bar now uses variant of 'unrepr()' rather than the compiler module directly. (changed) moved parsers.py to plugins and stopped using import * to get its contents.

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