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[RELEASED] Python 3.3.0 release candidate 3
by Georg Brandl Sept. 24, 2012

Sept. 24, 2012

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I'm delighted to announce the third release candidate of Python 3.3.0. This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended in production settings. Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x. Major new features and changes in the 3.3 release series are: * PEP 380, syntax for delegating to a subgenerator ("yield from") * PEP 393, flexible string representation (doing away with the distinction between "wide" and "narrow" Unicode builds) * A C implementation of the "decimal" module, with up to 80x speedup for decimal-heavy applications * The import system (__import__) now based on importlib by default * The new "lzma" module with LZMA/XZ support * PEP 397, a Python launcher for Windows * PEP 405, virtual environment support in core * PEP 420, namespace package support * PEP 3151, reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy * PEP 3155, qualified name for classes and functions * PEP 409, suppressing exception context * PEP 414, explicit Unicode literals to help with porting * PEP 418, extended platform-independent clocks in the "time" module * PEP 412, a new key-sharing dictionary implementation that significantly saves memory for object-oriented code * PEP 362, the function-signature object * The new "faulthandler" module that helps diagnosing crashes * The new "unittest.mock" module * The new "ipaddress" module * The "sys.implementation" attribute * A policy framework for the email package, with a provisional (see PEP 411) policy that adds much improved unicode support for email header parsing * A "collections.ChainMap" class for linking mappings to a single unit * Wrappers for many more POSIX functions in the "os" and "signal" modules, as well as other useful functions such as "sendfile()" * Hash randomization, introduced in earlier bugfix releases, is now switched on by default In total, almost 500 API items are new or improved in Python 3.3. For a more extensive list of changes in 3.3.0, see http://docs.python.org/3.3/whatsnew/3.3.html To download Python 3.3.0 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.0/ Please consider trying Python 3.3.0 with your code and reporting any bugs you may notice to: http://bugs.python.org/ Enjoy! - -- Georg Brandl, Release Manager georg at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.3's contributors) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlBf+0cACgkQN9GcIYhpnLBqfgCglbN63XUr2m4Ya4ff8Hza1Axl SgMAniQZRJi8uYfeqltf5/G4QV/+SdWT =KXTo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.5 RC Released
by Dino Viehland Sept. 19, 2012

Sept. 19, 2012

We're pleased to announce the release of Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.5 RC<http://pytools.codeplex.com/releases/view/82130>. Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is an open-source plug-in for Visual Studio which supports programming with the Python language. PTVS supports a broad range of features including CPython/IronPython, Edit/Intellisense/Debug/Profile, Cloud, HPC, IPython, etc. support. The primary new feature for the 1.5 release is Django including Azure support! The http://www.djangoproject.com<http://www.djangoproject.com/> is a popular Python webframework/CMS which is used by many reputable companies and high-traffic websites. For Python on Azure support see: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/python. In this RC release, the following improvements have been made based on your requests & feedback: * VS2012 support! * A Live Debug REPL - YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erNx2NLu-t4&hd=1 * Project load time improvements * Kinect 1.5 support * New "New Project from Existing Code!" * Improved intellisense (iterator, PyQt, ...) * Python 3.3 language support * Azure Python Client Lib improvements for Windows, Linux & MacOS There were over 80 fixes/improvements in this release. Unfortunately because of Codeplex's Release Notes character limit (sad), we can't list the summary of bug fixes, so here's a link to the data: http://bit.ly/Ptvs15RcBugs We'd like to thank the following people who took the time to report the issues and feedback for this release (in reverse chronological order): Tmaslach, odwalla, jrade, michiya, timeisparallax, tachiorz, sourbox, tramsay, bahrep, lqbest127, hyh, mrpy, boomer_74, BigFreakinGobot, AngeloBast, ajp, mahpour, cecilphillip, dhabersat. We'd also like to thank Weidong for his wonderful test support during the past few months & welcome Hugues aboard the project!

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PyCon Finland 2012 registration is open
by Jyrki Pulliainen Sept. 19, 2012

Sept. 19, 2012

Ladies and gentlemen, We are excited to announce the opening of Pycon Finland 2012 registration. http://fi.pycon.org/2012/#registration The conference will take place in Otaniemi (Helsinki) in Finland on Monday 22.10. - Tuesday 23.10.2012. There will be a pre-conference event on Sunday evening for the early arrivers. This year we have Python talks ranging from hardcore Python development, visualization and data processing to choosing Python as the language of education and extending Python to support static typing. If you want to present your own thing we will have 5 minute lightning talks where anybody can come up the stage to share the latest hacker adventures. On the second conference day we organize Python sprints. Those who would like to be involved in Python core development have now the opportunity to learn how to become a contributor. You can also get involved in Robot framework to build your human-friendly acceptance test cases. Our kind sponsor Google has travel grants for students. Please see the registration page for further details. Non-students can participate to the social dinner event. But don’t worry... we have evening activities organized for the students too! Please note that the speakers list is still not final and we will announce more speakers later. Also more information about the venue and travelling to Helsinki is coming. This year you will also get a real Finnish sauna. We also thank our fabulous sponsor Anders Inno for the most exciting PyCon Finland site design thus far. Yours sincerely, Jyrki Pulliainen Chairman of Python Finland

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pytest-timeout 0.3: py.test plugin to abort long-running tests
by Floris Bruynooghe Sept. 19, 2012

Sept. 19, 2012

Hello all, I am pleased to announce the release of pytest-timeout 0.3. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-timeout/0.3 pytest-timeout is a plugin for py.test which allows you to abort tests after a specific timeout. This is useful to e.g. handle hanging tests on a continuous integration server. When tests are aborted you will get stack dumps of all threads in the python process to help you debug why the test hung. All feedback is welcome. Please use the bug tracker on bitbucket to report any issues: https://bitbucket.org/flub/pytest-timeout/ Changelog since 0.2: * Added the PYTEST_TIMEOUT environment variable as a way of specifying the timeout (closes issue #2). * More flexible marker argument parsing: you can now specify the method using a positional argument. * The plugin is now enabled by default. There is no longer a need to specify ``timeout=0`` in the configuration file or on the command line simply so that a marker would work. Regards, Floris

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PyCon Argentina 2012: Schedule, Early Bird Registration and more...
by Mariano Reingart Sept. 18, 2012

Sept. 18, 2012

PyCon Argentina 2012, the 4th National Spanish-speaking Python Conference will be held from November 12th to 17th, in Buenos Aires at the main venue of the National University of Quilmes (Bernal City, in the Great Buenos Aires metropolitan area), Urban Station and EducacionIT (Buenos Aires City downtown). http://ar.pycon.org/2012?lang=en The detailed conference program schedule is available at: http://ar.pycon.org/2012/schedule Admittance is free of charge (web registration is required as venue capacity is limited). To get a conference T-shirt, promotional items and catering, early bird registration is open up to September 30th, 2012 (30% off). Speakers are eligible for a 50% special discount. Additional donations are accepted thorough the payment process (fundraising). First time attendees, students and general public can also opt to register at the "gratis" rate (free, no cost) to get their badge and program guide. Details in: http://ar.pycon.org/2012/conference/registration?lang=en Sessions will include two days of talks from local and international renowned experts, with inaugural Science Track and “extreme” talks, preceded of one day of tutorial/workshops and three days of sprints meetings. Exhibition hall will include posters and community booths (SOLAR free software civil association, FACTTIC federation of IT cooperatives, Mozilla-Ar, Ubuntu-Ar, PostgreSQL, Hacklabs and “Programming with robots” project from LINTI UNLP). Educational activities ongoing are a Student Works Contest and a Programming Challenge “Learning to program with Robots and Python”, with important awards (including a robot as first prize!). This PyCon Argentina 2012 edition will be held in parallel with two special events: "PgDay Argentina 2012" (3rd. intensive one-day PostgreSQL mini conference: http://www.pyday.com.ar/buenosaires2012?lang=en ) and a SugarLabs Day (Education and OLPC), sharing speakers and participants. Finally, there will be open social events to network with speakers, sponsors and attendees: PyCon Reception: "buffet pizza-party" at the University Campus, on Friday November 16th evening PyCon Closing Party: beer & appetizers at Quilmes Brewery Park on Saturday November 17th night Tourist Tour: "asado" bbq at a rowing club in an island of Tigre, Parana's delta near Buenos Aires, on Sunday November 18th Please contact us if you're interested to attend to the social events (specially the tourist tour), as restrictions apply. Financial Aid would be reopened soon. Accomodation special room rate is also available upon request. Topics: ---------- Web frameworks (django, web2py, plone, etc.) and “Visual” GUI toolkits Engineering and Scientific Computing (numeric processing and 2D/3D visualization) Python in Education (OLPC, robots, videogames and intro to programming) Databases: realtional, NoSQL and “Cloud” applications Multiprocessing, performance and Python 3 Distinguished international speakers: ------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Massimo Di Pierro - De Paul University (EEUU): web2py web framework, FermiLab QCD, supercomputers Dr. Brett Cannon - Google (EEUU): python core development Mg. Andrea Gavana - Maersk Oil (Dinamarca): wxPython (GUI visual) and 2D/3D Visualization of oil fields Christophe Pettus - PostgreSQL Experts (EEUU): Django web framework and ORMs Craig Kerstiens - Heroku (EEUU): Django web framework and cloud services Shahrokh Mortazavi y Dino Viehland - Microsoft (EEUU): Python Tools for Visual Studio, Azure, PyKinect Erico Andrei - Simples Consultoria (Brasil): Plone CMS - PythonBrasil 10+ additional speakers from U.S.A., Chile, Perú, Brasil, Spain, Cuba and more than 50 presenters from Argentina completes the schedule. Full speaker list is available at: http://ar.pycon.org/2012/activity/speakers There are more than 100+ accepted activities (50+ talks, 20+ posters, 10 sprint projects, 4 tutorials and 7 workshops, 4 plenary sessions, open spaces and special events): http://ar.pycon.org/2012/activity/accepted About PyCon Argentina: ----------------------------------- PyCon Argentina is currently the largest gathering of users and developers of the Spanish-speaking Python Community. With already more than 430 registered participants from around 14 countries including EE.UU., Chile, Peru, Brasil, Uruguay, Colombia, Spain, Paraguay, Mexico, Ecuador, Dinamarca, Cuba y Canada, we expect to exceed 500 attendees (entrepreneurs, professionals, teachers, students and enthusiasts). The event is possible thanks to the generous support of the following sponsors: Grupo MSA, Machinalis, UrbanStation, Microsoft, Lambda Sistemas, Onapsis, Core Security, Grupo 42, Dattatec, Sistemas Ágiles, Thymbra, Liricus, WingWare, EducacionIT y RobotGroup, with special tanks to the Python Software Foundation, PostgreSQL, Google Inc., Maersk Oil, 10Gen, Heroku, Packt Publishing, Python Brasil and Simples Consultoria. PyCon Argentina 2012 is a non-profit community conference, organized by volunteers and underwritten by SOLAR Civil Association and the National University of Quilmes. Contact: ------------ Mariano Reingart PyCon Argentina 2012 Conference Chair +54 (11) 4450-0716 http://ar.pycon.org/2012 pyconar2012(a)gmail.com

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ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter 2.1.0
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg Sept. 18, 2012

Sept. 18, 2012

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter Version 2.1.0 for Zope and the Plone CMS Available for Plone 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2, Zope 2.12 and 2.13, on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.1.0-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The eGenix mxODBC Zope DA allows you to easily connect your Zope or Plone CMS installation to just about any database backend on the market today, giving you the reliability of the commercially supported eGenix product mxODBC and the flexibility of the ODBC standard as middle-tier architecture. The mxODBC Zope Database Adapter is highly portable, just like Zope itself and provides a high performance interface to all your ODBC data sources, using a single well-supported interface on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms. This makes it ideal for deployment in ZEO Clusters and Zope hosting environments where stability and high performance are a top priority, establishing an excellent basis and scalable solution for your Plone CMS. Product page: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS We are pleased to announce a new version 2.1.0 of our mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter product. Updated Plone Support --------------------- In this new release, we have focused on a simplified zc.buildout deployment as used in Plone 4.x and the latest Zope 2.13 releases. The mxODBC Zope DA is now again compatible with all recent Plone versions. Please see the mxODBC Zope DA documentation for details on how to install the product for use in Plone. For the full list of features, please see the mxODBC Zope DA feature list: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/#Features Enhanced ODBC Driver Support ---------------------------- We have also updated the integrated mxODBC Python Extension to the latest 3.2 release, which includes a number of important new features and ODBC driver compatibility enhancements: * Added support for the DataDirect ODBC manager on Linux which is used by several data warehouse database backends * Added MS SQL Server ODBC Driver 1.0 for Linux support * Added Teradata support * Added Netezza support * Switched to unixODBC 2.3.1+ API for better 64-bit support on Linux * Enhanced Oracle Instance Client support * Enhanced IBM DB2 driver support * Enhanced Sybase ASE driver support * Enhanced FreeTDS ODBC driver support * Enhanced PostgreSQL driver support * Enhanced generic support for many other ODBC compatible databases Please see the mxODBC 3.2 release announcement for a complete set of changes available in the underlying mxODBC 3.2 package used in mxODBC Zope/Plone DA 2.1: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-3.2.0-GA.html Lowered Overall Licensing Costs ------------------------------- Starting with version 2.1, we have also simplified our license terms to clarify the situation on multi-core and virtual machines. In most cases, you no longer need to purchase more than one license per Zope/Plone instance, if you are running on a multi-core processor or virtual machine, scaling down the overall license costs significantly compared to earlier mxODBC Zope DA releases. Minor other changes ------------------- * Error screens have been changed to plain text after the recent hot fix which disabled showing HTML in error messages * The "Security" tab now also works in Zope 2.13 ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING Users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest mxODBC Zope/Plone DA release to benefit from the new features and updated ODBC driver support. We have taken special care not to introduce backwards incompatible changes, making the upgrade experience as smooth as possible. For upgrade purchases, we will give out 20% discount coupons going from mxODBC Zope DA 1.x to 2.1 and 50% coupons for upgrades from mxODBC 2.x to 2.1. After upgrade, use of the original license from which you upgraded is no longer permitted. Please contact the eGenix.com Sales Team with your existing license serials for details for an upgrade discount coupon. If you want to try the new release before purchace, you can request 30-day evaluation licenses by visiting our web-site or writing to sales(a)egenix.com, stating your name (or the name of the company) and the number of eval licenses that you need. ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information on the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ You can buy mxODBC Zope DA licenses online from the eGenix.com shop at: http://shop.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ Thank you, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 18 2012) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2012-10-29: PyCon DE 2012, Leipzig, Germany ... 41 days to go 2012-10-23: Python Meeting Duesseldorf ... 35 days to go 2012-08-28: Released mxODBC 3.2.0 ... http://egenix.com/go31 2012-08-20: Released mxODBC.Connect 2.0.0 ... http://egenix.com/go30 eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. 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[ANN] python-blosc 1.0.5 released
by Francesc Alted Sept. 16, 2012

Sept. 16, 2012

============================= Announcing python-blosc 1.0.5 ============================= What is it? =========== A Python wrapper for the Blosc compression library. Blosc (http://blosc.pytables.org) is a high performance compressor optimized for binary data. It has been designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch approach via a memcpy() OS call. Blosc works well for compressing numerical arrays that contains data with relatively low entropy, like sparse data, time series, grids with regular-spaced values, etc. What is new? ============ - Upgraded to latest Blosc 1.1.4. - Better handling of condition errors, and improved memory releasing in case of errors (thanks to Valentin Haenel and Han Genuit). - Better handling of types (should compile without warning now, at least with GCC). For more info, you can see the release notes in: https://github.com/FrancescAlted/python-blosc/wiki/Release-notes More docs and examples are available in the Quick User's Guide wiki page: https://github.com/FrancescAlted/python-blosc/wiki/Quick-User's-Guide Download sources ================ Go to: http://github.com/FrancescAlted/python-blosc and download the most recent release from there. Blosc is distributed using the MIT license, see LICENSES/BLOSC.txt for details. Mailing list ============ There is an official mailing list for Blosc at: blosc(a)googlegroups.com http://groups.google.es/group/blosc -- Francesc Alted

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WSME 0.4b1 released
by Christophe de Vienne Sept. 14, 2012

Sept. 14, 2012

About WSME ---------- WSME (Web Service Made Easy) is a very easy way to implement webservices in your python web application (or standalone). What's New ? ------------ This release brings new features like a Base class for complex types, a File type for transferring files, more restful rest protocols with the use of the http method... A new extension, WSME-SQLAlchemy, provides tools to build an api on top of SQLAlchemy mapped classes. The WSME-ExtDirect extension uses this extension to build almost instantly ExtJS DirectStores and Model from SQLAlchemy mapped classes. Main Changes ------------ * Now supports Python 3.2 (except for wsme-soap). * String types handling is clearer. * New wsme.types.File type. * Supports cross-referenced types. * Various bugfixes. * Tests code coverage is now over 95%. * RESTful protocol can now use the http method. * UserTypes can now be given a name that will be used in the documentation. * Complex types can inherit wsme.types.Base. They will have a default constructor and be registered automatically. * Removed the wsme.wsgi.adapt function if favor of wsme.WSRoot.wsgiapp() Extensions changes ------------------ WSME-Soap ~~~~~~~~~ * Function names now starts with a lowercase letter. * Fixed issues with arrays (issue #3). * Fixed empty array handling. WSME-SQLAlchemy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This new extension makes it easy to create webservices on top of a SQLAlchemy set of mapped classes. WSME-ExtDirect ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Implements server-side DataStore * Add Store and Model javascript definition auto-generation * Add Store server-side based on SQLAlchemy mapped classes. Documentation ------------- http://packages.python.org/WSME/ Download -------- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/WSME/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/WSME-Soap/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/WSME-SQLAlchemy/ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/WSME-ExtDirect/ Cheers, Christophe de Vienne

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Karlsruhe (Germany) Python User Group, September 21st 2012, 7pm
by Jürgen A. Erhard Sept. 14, 2012

Sept. 14, 2012

The Karlsruhe Python User Group (KaPy) meets again. Friday, 2012-09-21 (September 21st) at 19:00 (7pm) in the rooms of Entropia eV (the local affiliate of the CCC). See http://entropia.de/wiki/Anfahrt on how to get there. For your calendars: meetings are held monthly, on the 3rd Friday. There's also a mailing list at https://lists.bl0rg.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kapy.

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ANN: SfePy 2012.3
by Robert Cimrman Sept. 12, 2012

Sept. 12, 2012

I am pleased to announce release 2012.3 of SfePy. Description ----------- SfePy (simple finite elements in Python) is a software for solving systems of coupled partial differential equations by the finite element method. The code is based on NumPy and SciPy packages. It is distributed under the new BSD license. Home page: http://sfepy.org Downloads, mailing list, wiki: http://code.google.com/p/sfepy/ Git (source) repository, issue tracker: http://github.com/sfepy Highlights of this release -------------------------- - several new terms - material parameters can be defined per region using region names - base function values can be defined per element - support for global options For full release notes see http://docs.sfepy.org/doc/release_notes.html#id1 (rather long and technical). Best regards, Robert Cimrman and Contributors (*) (*) Contributors to this release (alphabetical order): Alec Kalinin, Vladimír Lukeš

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