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ANN: pandas v0.15.1
by Jeff Reback Nov. 8, 2014

Nov. 8, 2014

Hello, We are proud to announce v0.15.1 of pandas, a minor release from 0.15.0. This release includes a small number of API changes, several new features, enhancements, and performance improvements along with a large number of bug fixes. This was a short release of 3 weeks with 59 commits by 20 authors encompassing 87 issues. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version. For a more a full description of Whatsnew for v0.15.1 here: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew.html *What is it:* *pandas* is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with “relational” or “labeled” data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has the broader goal of becoming the most powerful and flexible open source data analysis / manipulation tool available in any language. Documentation: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/ Source tarballs, windows binaries are available on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas windows binaries are courtesy of Christoph Gohlke and are built on Numpy 1.8 macosx wheels will be available soon, courtesy of Matthew Brett Please report any issues here: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues Thanks The Pandas Development Team Contributors to the 0.15.1 release - - Aaron Staple - Andrew Rosenfeld - Anton I. Sipos - Artemy Kolchinsky - Bill Letson - Dave Hughes - David Stephens - Guillaume Horel - Jeff Reback - Joris Van den Bossche - Kevin Sheppard - Nick Stahl - Sanghee Kim - Stephan Hoyer - TomAugspurger - WANG Aiyong - behzad nouri - immerrr - jnmclarty - jreback - pallav-fdsi - unutbu

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rCSSmin 1.0.5
by André Malo Nov. 8, 2014

Nov. 8, 2014

Hello World, I'm pleased to announce version 1.0.5 of rCSSmin. About rCSSmin ============= rCSSmin is a CSS minifier written in python based on the semantics of the YUI compressor, which itself is based on the rule list by Isaac Schlueter. This module is a re-implementation aiming for speed instead of maximum compression, so it can be used at runtime (rather than during a preprocessing step). RCSSmin does syntactical compression only (removing spaces, comments and possibly semicolons). It does not provide semantic compression (like removing empty blocks, collapsing redundant properties etc). It does, however, support various CSS hacks (by keeping them working as intended): - IE7 hack (``>/**/``) - Mac-IE5 hack (``/*\*/.../**/``) - The boxmodelhack is supported naturally because it relies on valid CSS2 strings - Between ``:first-line`` and the following comma or curly brace a space is inserted. (apparently it's needed for IE6) - Same for ``:first-letter`` Comments starting with an exclamation mark (``!``) can be kept optionally. About Release 1.0.5 =================== This release mainly fixes a locale-dependent installation issue with Python 3. Supported Python Versions ========================= * Python 2.4 - 2.7 * Python 3.1 - 3.4 * PyPy 1.9, 2.0, 2.2 * Jython 2.5, 2.7 (Python only) License ======= rCSSmin is available under the terms and conditions of the "Apache License, Version 2.0." Links ===== * Homepage + Documentation: http://opensource.perlig.de/rcssmin/ * PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rcssmin * Github: https://github.com/ndparker/rcssmin * License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 André "nd" Malo

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rJSmin 1.0.10
by André Malo Nov. 7, 2014

Nov. 7, 2014

Hello World, I'm pleased to announce version 1.0.10 of rJSmin. About rJSmin ============ rJSmin is a javascript minifier written in python. The minifier is based on the semantics of jsmin.c by Douglas Crockford. The module is a re-implementation aiming for speed, so it can be used at runtime (rather than during a preprocessing step). Usually it produces the same results as the original jsmin.c. It differs in the following ways: - there is no error detection: unterminated string, regex and comment literals are treated as regular javascript code and minified as such. - Control characters inside string and regex literals are left untouched; they are not converted to spaces (nor to \n) - Newline characters are not allowed inside string and regex literals, except for line continuations in string literals (ECMA-5). - "return /regex/" is recognized correctly. - "+ +" and "- -" sequences are not collapsed to "++" or "--" - Newlines before ! operators are removed more sensibly - Comments starting with an exclamation mark ('!') can be kept optionally - rJSmin does not handle streams, but only complete strings. (However, the module provides a "streamy" interface). About Release 1.0.10 ==================== This release mainly fixes a locale-dependent installation issue with Python 3. Supported Python Versions ========================= * Python 2.4 - 2.7 * Python 3.1 - 3.4 * PyPy 1.9, 2.0, 2.2 * Jython 2.5, 2.7 (Python only) License ======= rJSmin is available under the terms and conditions of the "Apache License, Version 2.0." Links ===== * Homepage + Documentation: http://opensource.perlig.de/rjsmin/ * PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rjsmin * Github: https://github.com/ndparker/rjsmin * License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 André "nd" Malo

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Python @ FOSDEM 2015 - Call For Proposals
by Stéphane Wirtel Nov. 7, 2014

Nov. 7, 2014

* Please forward this CfP to anyone who may be interested in participating. * Hi all, This is the official call for sessions for the `Python Devroom` at `FOSDEM 2015` . FOSDEM is the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, a free and non-commercial two-day week-end that offers open source contributors a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It's the biggest event in Europe with +5000 hackers, +400 speakers. For this edition, Python will be represented by its Community. If you want to discuss with a lot of Python Users, it's the place to be ! Like every year, `FOSDEM 2015` will take place on 31st January and 1st February in Brussels (Belgium). We will have a room in the K building (80 seats) of the University Libre of Brussels, with a VGA video project and Wireless Internet. This devroom will be open all day Saturday, 31st January. Call for Proposals is open until 1st December 2014. You can watch the talks from the last edition 2014: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUgTyq9ZstaI3t2XKhPjvnm-QBJTQySjD Important dates =============== * Submission deadlines: 2014-12-01 * Acceptance notifications: 2014-12-15 Pratical ======== * The duration for talks will be 30 minutes, including presentations and questions & answers. * Presentations can be recorded and streamed, sending your proposal implies giving permission to be recorded. * A mailing list for the Python devroom is available for discussions about devroom organisation. You can register at this address: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/python-devroom How to submit ============= All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the 'Python devroom' as the 'Track'. Of course, If you already have an account, please reuse it. Questions & Volunteers ====================== Any questions, and volunteers, please mail to info(a)python-fosdem.org. Thank you for submitting your sessions and see you soon in Brussels to talk Python and/or have some nice Belgian Beers. For this edition, there will be organized a dinner with the Python Community. If you want to keep informed for this edition, you can follow our twitter account @PythonFOSDEM . FOSDEM 2015: http://fosdem.org/2015 Python Devroom: http://python-fosdem.org Thank you, Best regards, The Team Python @ FOSDEM -- Stéphane Wirtel - http://wirtel.be - @matrixise

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Python @ FOSDEM 2015 - Call For Proposals
by Stéphane Wirtel Nov. 7, 2014

Nov. 7, 2014

* Please forward this CfP to anyone who may be interested in participating. * Hi all, This is the official call for sessions for the `Python Devroom` at `FOSDEM 2015` . FOSDEM is the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, a free and non-commercial two-day week-end that offers open source contributors a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It's the biggest event in Europe with +5000 hackers, +400 speakers. For this edition, Python will be represented by its Community. If you want to discuss with a lot of Python Users, it's the place to be ! Like every year, `FOSDEM 2015` will take place on 31st January and 1st February in Brussels (Belgium). We will have a room in the K building (80 seats) of the University Libre of Brussels, with a VGA video project and Wireless Internet. This devroom will be open all day Saturday, 31st January. Call for Proposals is open until 1st December 2014. You can watch the talks from the last edition 2014: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUgTyq9ZstaI3t2XKhPjvnm-QBJTQySjD Important dates =============== * Submission deadlines: 2014-12-01 * Acceptance notifications: 2014-12-15 Pratical ======== * The duration for talks will be 30 minutes, including presentations and questions & answers. * Presentations can be recorded and streamed, sending your proposal implies giving permission to be recorded. * A mailing list for the Python devroom is available for discussions about devroom organisation. You can register at this address: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/python-devroom How to submit ============= All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the 'Python devroom' as the 'Track'. Of course, If you already have an account, please reuse it. Questions & Volunteers ====================== Any questions, and volunteers, please mail to info(a)python-fosdem.org. Thank you for submitting your sessions and see you soon in Brussels to talk Python and/or have some nice Belgian Beers. For this edition, there will be organized a dinner with the Python Community. If you want to keep informed for this edition, you can follow our twitter account @PythonFOSDEM . FOSDEM 2015: http://fosdem.org/2015 Python Devroom: http://python-fosdem.org Thank you, Best regards, The Team Python @ FOSDEM -- Stéphane Wirtel - http://wirtel.be - @matrixise

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ANN: eGenix ThreadLock Distribution 2.13.0.1
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg Nov. 6, 2014

Nov. 6, 2014

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING eGenix.com ThreadLock Distribution Version 2.13.0.1 eGenix is making a ThreadLock binary distribution available to simplify the setup for users of our mxODBC Plone/Zope database adapter. This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-ThreadLock-Distribution-2.13.0.1.… ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION Several people have approached us about a problem they are facing with installing our mxODBC database adapter for Plone and Zope: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ The adapter product has dependencies on * ThreadLock * Products.ZSQLMethods The Products.ZSQLMethods package is a pure Python package, so it installs fine on all platforms. ThreadLock comes with a Python C extension, so buildout needs to either find egg files for the platforms or have a compiler installed to build the C extensions. On Unix platforms, installing a compiler is fairly straight forward, but on Windows setting up compilers for Python is difficult and the ThreadLock entry on PyPI only comes with egg files for Python 2.6 on Windows. ________________________________________________________________________ SOLUTION To overcome this problem, we have taken the ThreadLock package and created an internal setup to have it compiled by our build farm. You can now use these buildout configuration settings to pull the egg files from our indexes. For UCS2 Python builds (16-bit Unicode on Unix, Python for Windows): -------------------------------------------------------------------- [buildout] ... find-links = ... https://downloads.egenix.com/python/index/ucs2/ eggs = ... ThreadLock [versions] ... ThreadLock = 2.13.0.1 For UCS4 Python builds (32-bit Unicode on Unix): -------------------------------------------------------------------- [buildout] ... find-links = ... https://downloads.egenix.com/python/index/ucs4/ eggs = ... ThreadLock [versions] ... ThreadLock = 2.13.0.1 Available binaries ------------------ We provide egg files for Linux x86 and x64, Windows x86 and x64 as well as the source package as fallback solution. The binaries were compiled with Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7. Version number -------------- Note that we have added a build number to the package version. This allows us to issue updates to the package builds should these be necessary and also makes sure that your buildout will use the packages from our indexes instead of PyPI or other indexes. ________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE EGENIX MXODBC PLONE/ZOPE DATABASE ADAPTER 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/ ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information on the eGenix ThreadLock distribution, the eGenix mxODBC Zope DA, licensing and download instructions, please write to sales(a)egenix.com. Enjoy, -- -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 06 2014) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2014-10-24: Released eGenix pyOpenSSL 0.13.5 ... http://egenix.com/go63 ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

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[ANN] CFP: SciPy India 2014: Dec 5 - 7, IIT Bombay
by Prabhu Ramachandran Nov. 5, 2014

Nov. 5, 2014

Hello, The CFP and registration for SciPy India 2014 (http://scipy.in) is open. SciPy India 2014 will be held in IIT Bombay between December 5th to December 7th, 2014. Please spread the word! SciPy India is an annual conference on using Python for science and engineering research and education. The conference is currently in its sixth year and provides an opportunity to learn and implement Python in education and research. Call for Papers ================ We look forward to your submissions on the use of Python for scientific computing and education. This includes pedagogy, exploration, modeling and analysis from both applied and developmental perspectives. We welcome contributions from academia as well as industry. For details on the paper submission please see here: http://scipy.in/2014/call-for-proposals/ Important Dates ================ - Call for proposals end: 9th November 2014 We look forward to seeing you at SciPy India. Regards, Prabhu Ramachandran and Jarrod Millman

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A package could import/run encrypted python scripts
by Jondy Zhao Nov. 3, 2014

Nov. 3, 2014

Hello everyone, I'm glad to announce a python package: pyarmor. <P><A HREF="http://dashingsoft.com/products/pyarmor.html">Pyarmor 1.7.3</A> - A python package could import/run encrypted python scripts. (03-11-14) Some python developer may be not want to distribute the literal python scripts to his customer or other people. So they can use Pyarmor to encrypt python scripts and run/import encrypted python scripts. Pyarmor is published under Shareware license. author: jondy.zhao(a)gmail.com -- Regards Jondy

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Nikola v7.2.0 is out!
by Chris Warrick Nov. 2, 2014

Nov. 2, 2014

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.2.0. It features many bugfixes, and also some new useful features. What is Nikola? =============== Nikola is a static site and blog generator, written in Python. It can use Mako and Jinja2 templates, and input in many popular markup formats, such as reStructuredText and Markdown — and can even turn IPython Notebooks into blog posts! It also supports image galleries, and is multilingual. Nikola is flexible, and page builds are extremely fast, courtesy of doit (which is rebuilding only what has been changed). Find out more at the website: http://getnikola.com/ Downloads ========= Get it on GitHub and PyPI: https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/releases/tag/v7.2.0 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Nikola Changes ======= Features -------- * Added support for fancy dates via moment.js (Issue #1256) * Updates: jQuery v1.11.1, Bootstrap v3.3.0 * Allow presets usage with ``nikola deploy`` — ``DEPLOY_COMMANDS`` is now a dict of {preset: commands} (Issue #1452) * New ``GLOBAL_CONTEXT_FILLER`` setting, functions listed there will be called with the local context and the template name before template rendering. (Issue #1451) * New ``USE_CDN_WARNING`` setting to block warnings about potential ``USE_CDN`` misuse (defaults to True) * ``nikola check -l`` will warn about mixed-security (HTTP on HTTPS) * New ``ConfigPlugin`` category (without any specific behavior by default) * New meta property “previewimage” for use with Open Graph (Issue #1421) * Expose publishing date, tags, and more in Open Graph * XSL Transform RSS into pretty and helpful webpages when opened in browsers (Issue #1411) Bugfixes -------- * Don’t pull by default in ``github_deploy`` (Issue #1464) * disabled hyphenation for paragraphs with inline math (Issue #1461) * Support filters for all tasks (Issue #1459) * Don’t check cache/ in ``nikola check -l`` (Issue #1447) * Fix new_post for pandoc format (Issue #1445) * Fix STORY_INDEX generation (Issue #1444) * Fix bootswatch creation version check (Issue #1441) * Never rebase while pulling in ``github_deploy`` * Handle better ``new_post --format=pandoc`` when pandoc is not defined (Issue #1422) * Open Graph properly uses latest RDFa in HTML – fixes validation * Fix sitemap generation (Issue #1397 via #1032) * Use destination folder names as titles for titleless listings * Fixed problems with installation from .tar.gz under Windows (Issue #1417) * Fixed encoding problems in WordPress urlmap writer (Issue #1416) * Added back atom:link in RSS feeds * Fixed Nikola-based page redirects in Python 2 (Issue #1414) * Fixed files/\*.php (skip post/story-specific filters) (Issue #1403) * Warn about missing / in BASE_URL differently (explicit request to fix the config file) * Fix broken ``auto -b`` option (Issue #1437) -- Chris Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16

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ANN: eric 5.5.0 released
by Detlev Offenbach Nov. 1, 2014

Nov. 1, 2014

Hi, This week eric 5.5.0 was released. This is a major upgrade and replaces the eric4 product line. Starting with this release eric is usable with both Python 3 and Python 2. Thanks to Tobias Rzepka for implementing the Python 2 support. As usual it is available via the eric web site. http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/index.html Please note that eric4 is no longer supported. What is eric? ============= eric is an IDE for programming in Python. It comes with 'batteries included'. More details may be found at the eric web site (see link above). Regards, Detlev -- Detlev Offenbach detlev(a)die-offenbachs.de

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