Greetings,
Just a reminder: the abstracts for the EuroSciPy Conference in Leipzig
are due by midnight tonight (CST, US [UTC -6]) April, 30. If you'd
like to present, please submit your abstract as a PDF, MS Word or
plain text file to euroabstracts(a)scipy.org.
For more information on the EuroSciPy Conference, please see:
http://www.scipy.org/EuroSciPy2008
Hallo,
The next berlin python user group meeting is Wednesday, 7th of may, 7pm
Place: new thinking store, Tucholskystr. 48, 10117 Berlin
Further information can be found at http://wiki.python.de/User_Group_Berlin
See you there
Stephan
CodeInvestigator version 0.10.0 was released on April 28.
This release fixes 2 bugs:
Exceptions were not handled correctly.
Recursive programs were not handled correctly.
Thank you Sze Meng for reporting these!
A usability change was made:
Until now you could only go to a specific iteration by clicking
the '>>' tab.
This becomes a nuisance when there are many iterations.
Now, when there are many iterations to choose from, you can click
a selection tab that allows you to jump.
CodeInvestigator is a tracing tool for Python programs.
Running a program through CodeInvestigator creates a recording.
Program flow, function calls, variable values and conditions are all
stored for every line the program executes.
The recording is then viewed with an interface consisting of the
code. The code can be clicked: A clicked variable displays its value,
a clicked loop displays its iterations.
You read code, and have at your disposal all the run time details of
that code. A computerized desk check tool and another way to learn
about your program.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=183942
On behalf of the VIFF Development Team, I am very happy to announce the
release of VIFF 0.5:
Tar/GZ: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.5.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.5.tar.bz2
Zip: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.5.zip
Exe: http://viff.dk/release/viff-0.5.win32.exe
Changes since version 0.4:
Added preliminary support for preprocessing and an efficient
multiplication protocol which is secure against active adversaries.
The Runtime class has been split into several parts and two new mixin
classes provide different comparison protocols. Several coercion
problems were fixed. The Runtime.callback method was renamed to
Runtime.schedule_callback. VIFF was tested on Python 2.6 and some
small problems were fixed. If python-gnutls is unavailable, players
now automatically fallback to TCP connections. The installation guide
was updated for Windows Vista. A new example program was added and the
documentation was updated. Changed license to LGPL.
About VIFF:
Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework is a framework for creating
efficient and secure multi-party computations (SMPC). Players, who do
not trust each other, participate in a joint computation based on
their private inputs. The computation is done using a cryptographic
protocol which allows them to obtain a correct answer without
revealing their inputs. Operations supported include addition,
multiplication, and comparison, all with Shamir secret shared outputs.
--
Martin Geisler
VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multi-Party Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
Hi,
Wingware has released version 3.1 beta3 of Wing IDE, an integrated development
environment for the Python programming language. It is available from:
http://wingware.com/wingide/beta
This release includes the following changes:
* How-To and improvements for using Wing IDE with Google App Engine
* Scan for sys.path changes in main debug file (e.g. for Zope buildouts)
* Preference to auto-strip trailing white space on save
* Many vi mode improvements
* Testing tool enhancements, including better support for test names
that are not method names
* Sped up stepping in the debugger
* Set encoding for stdin/out/err in debug processes for better handling
of non-ascii input and output
* Fixed problems with debugging stackless tasklets
* Python Shell allows spawned threads to run, rather than stopping all threads
* Improved support for debugging code invoked by execfile()
* Better autocompletion support for an x defined by 'import x.y.z'
* More bug fixes, including also all those found in Wing 3.0.5
Please see the change log for a detailed list of changes:
http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/prerelease/3.1.0-b3/CHANGELOG.txt
Version 3.1 introduces a number of new features and includes bug fixes not
found in the 3.0 series, as follows:
* Files within .zip or .egg files can be displayed in the editor
* Support for pkg_resources based namespace packages
* Support for doctest and nose unit test frameworks (**)
* Updated code analysis support for Python 2.5 constructs
* Improved support for tasklets in Stackless Python
* In-line argument entry of code templates/snippets (tab and back tab to
traverse fields; arrow keys to change template indent, Esc to exit data
entry mode) (**)
* Include templates by name in autocompleter (**)
* Simple word list driven auto-completion when working in non-Python files (*)
* Open from Project for quick selection of files from the Project by
typing a fragment (*)
* Find Symbol for quick Goto-Definition for symbols in the current Python
file by typing a fragment (*)
* Show gi_running and gi_frame in Stack Data for generators
* Sort menus and lists using more natural sorting so x2.py comes before x10.py
* Preference to strip trailing white space on save
* Scan for straightforward sys.path changes in main debug file
* How-To and improvements for using Wing IDE with Google App Engine
* Many bug fixes not in Wing 3.0.x
(*)'d items are available in Wing IDE Personal or Professional only.
(**)'d items are available in Wing IDE Professional only.
*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 scaled back 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).
*Purchasing & Upgrading*
Wing IDE Professional & Wing IDE Personal are commercial software and require
a license to run. 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.
To upgrade a 2.x license or purchase a new 3.x license:
Upgrade https://wingware.com/store/upgrade
Purchase https://wingware.com/store/purchase
--
The Wingware Team
Wingware | Python IDE
Advancing Software Development
www.wingware.com
Hi,
We're happy to announce version 3.0.5 of Wing IDE, an integrated development
environment for the Python programming language. It is available from:
http://wingware.com/downloads
Version 3.0.5 is a bug fix release that adds many vi mode improvements,
improves stability, and fixes other usability bugs.
See the change log at http://wingware.com/pub/wingide/3.0.5/CHANGELOG.txt
for details.
It is a free upgrade for all Wing 3.0 users.
*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.
New features added in Wing 3.0 include:
* Multi-threaded debugger
* Debug value tooltips in editor, debug probe, and interactive shell
* Autocompletion and call tips in debug probe and interactive shell
* Automatically updating project directories
* Testing tool, currently supporting unittest derived tests (*)
* OS Commands tool for executing and interacting with external commands (*)
* Rewritten indentation analysis and conversion (*)
* Introduction of Wing IDE 101, a free edition for beginning programmers
* Available as a .deb package for Debian and Ubuntu
* Support for Stackless Python
* Support for 64 bit Python on Windows and Linux
(*)'d items are available in Wing IDE Professional only.
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).
*Purchasing and Upgrading*
Wing IDE Professional & Wing IDE Personal are commercial software and require
a license to run. To upgrade a 2.x license or purchase a new 3.x license:
Upgrade https://wingware.com/store/upgrade
Purchase https://wingware.com/store/purchase
Any 2.x license sold after May 2nd 2006 is free to upgrade; others cost
1/2 the normal price to upgrade.
--
The Wingware Team
Wingware | Python IDE
Advancing Software Development
www.wingware.com
I'm pleased to announce the release 0.2 of Sphinx, the Python documentation
generation tool. There were some intermediate smaller releases in the 0.1
series, but for 0.2 there are quite a lot new features and fixes.
What is it?
===========
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful
documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of
multiple reStructuredText source files).
Its website is at <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/>.
Partial list of changes
=======================
(full list at http://sphinx.pocoo.org/changes.html)
* Support a new extension method, ``add_crossref_type``. It works like
``add_description_unit`` but the directive will only create a target
and no output.
* Support a new extension method, ``add_transform``. It takes a standard
docutils ``Transform`` subclass which is then applied by Sphinx' reader on
parsing reST document trees.
* Add support for other template engines than Jinja, by adding an
abstraction called a "template bridge".
* The config file itself can be an extension (if it provides a ``setup()``
function).
* New directive, ``currentmodule``. It can be used to indicate the module
name of the following documented things without creating index entries.
* Allow giving a different title to documents in the toctree.
* Allow giving multiple options and long options in a ``cmdoption`` directive.
* Fix display of class members without explicit class name given.
* There's a new config value, ``html_title``, that controls the overall
"title" of the set of Sphinx docs. It is used instead everywhere instead of
"Projectname vX.Y documentation" now.
* All references to "documentation" in the templates have been removed, so
that it is now easier to use Sphinx for non-documentation documents with
the default templates.
* You can now create an OpenSearch description file with the
``html_use_opensearch`` config value.
* You can now quickly include a logo in the sidebar, using the ``html_logo``
config value.
* You can include a logo in the title page with the ``latex_logo`` config
value.
* You can define the link colors and a border and background color for
verbatim environments.
Enjoy!
Georg
Hi,
this might be of interest for people who are look for practical
information on
doing real-time signal processing, possibly using multiple CPUs, and
wonder
whether it's possible to use Python for audio-type worst case
latencies (around 25 ms).
I've done that in my PhD work, both with real-time requirements on
dual-CPU
64 bit platforms, and with very complex algorithms running on
multicomputers.
What I found is that numerical Python is a great environment for such
tasks. I've used it as well for massively parallel algorithms
(particle filters) for simulations of auditory scene analysis. What is
a very
special advantage is that if you get faster hardware, you can simply
copy your algorithms to a new system and compile - even if
it has a different CPU!
I've documented the approach in my PhD thesis, in Appendix A,
starting with some thoughts on developments in signal processing
in the last years. This piece is available online. Title and abstract
of that
chapter read as follows:
--------------------------------------------------------------
A real-time, script-based, multiprocessing Solution for experimental
Development of Signal Processing Algorithms
Evaluation of audio signal processing algorithms on real-time
platforms has
unique advantages. However, such environments also used to have the
disadvantage
of requiring expensive hardware, and tedious work to set them up,
while providing only a short useful life. This report proposes to
exploit advances
in hardware and software development by integrating real-time
processing
with script-based explorative development and use of multiprocessing
hardware.
The concept was implemented based on standard hardware and open
source software, and its realization and characteristics are presented
here. Applications
of the system for algorithm development and evaluation are described
briefly.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Here is the download link for several paper formats:
http://medi.uni-oldenburg.de/members/jnix/index.html#thesisdownload
Alternatively, for ISO A4 paper, use one of these two URLs:
http://medi.uni-oldenburg.de/download/paper/Nix,Johannes-PhDthesis-2005-ISO…http://docserver.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/publikationen/dissertation/2006/nixlo…
(for that paper size, this are the PDF pages 155 - 163)
If you want to cite the chapter, e.g. when doing advocacy for
scientific
computing using SciPy, please do this as follows:
Nix, Johannes (2005), "A real-time, script-based, multiprocessing
Solution for experimental
Development of Signal Processing Algorithms", in: Localization and
Separation of Concurrent Talkers Based on Principles of Auditory Scene
Analysis and Multi-Dimensional Statistical Methods, Appendix A, Ph.D.
thesis, Universität Oldenburg, Germany.
Also, I am currently looking for interesting further work
opportunities
or contracts in the domain of scientific computing and statistical
estimation.
If you know some interesting position, don't hesistate to contact me.
Kind regards,
Johannes
--
Dr. Johannes Nix
Energy & Meteo Systems GmbH
Research & Development of windpower forecasts
Bremen, Germany
Phone: + 49 421 8963914
