Our regularly scheduled MichiPUG meeting is coming on Thursday,
October 2nd. The meeting will be at its usual time (7 PM) and at the
usual place (SRT Solutions [1]).
This month meeting topic is Python 2.6. A few months ago, we discussed
Python 3.0 and all the new features that had to offer. It seems to
make more sense to focus on Python 2.6, because it's a release that we
can likely use sometime soon. Coincidentally, Python 2.6 final is due
out tomorrow [2].
So check out what's new in Python 2.6 [3] and come to the meeting with
your choices of favorite new features.
[1]: http://groups.google.com/group/michipug/web/SRT%20Solutions
[2]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
[3]: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html
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Hi all,
I have just released Shed Skin 0.0.29, with the following changes.
Thanks to those mentioned for helping out!
- datetime implementation (Karel Heyse, Pavel Vinogradov, FFAO, David Marek)
- ConfigParser implementation (suggested by Albert Hofkamp)
- staticmethod and property decorator support (Seo Sanghyeon)
- GCC 4.3 fixes (Seo Sanghyeon, Winterknight)
- FreeBSD, OpenSolaris and 64-bit support
- support for mapping keys('%(key)x' % some_dict)
- improvements to the import mechanism for nested modules (e.g. os.path)
- __init__ is now less of a special case
- many fixes for calling ancestor methods (e.g. __init__)
- all example programs now compile to extension modules
- avoid stack overflows for highly recursive/dynamic types
- re.sub now accepts a replacement function
- remove tuple hash caching (as CPython does not do this)
- many, many bugfixes
This has been a significant release, with many important improvements.
Please see my latest blog entry with more details:
http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/
I would really like to receive more bug reports. Please try out the
new release, and file issues at the project homepage:
http://shedskin.googlecode.com
More coding help is also always welcome. One important feature I'd
really like to have for a 0.1 release is custom class support in
extension modules..
Thanks!
Mark.
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"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code"
- Ken Thompson
Announcing
----------
The 2.8.9.1 release of wxPython is now available for download at
http://wxpython.org/download.php. This release adds a quick fix for a
compatibility problem with Python 2.4.
Source code is available, as well as binaries for Python 2.3, 2.4 and
2.5, for Windows and Mac, as well some packages for various Linux
distributions. A summary of changes is listed below and also at
http://wxpython.org/recentchanges.php.
What is wxPython?
-----------------
wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It
allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly
functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is
implemented as a Python extension module that wraps the GUI components
of the popular wxWidgets cross platform library, which is written in
C++.
wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program
will usually run on multiple platforms without modifications.
Currently supported platforms are 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows,
most Linux or other Unix-like systems using GTK2, and Mac OS X 10.4+.
In most cases the native widgets are used on each platform to provide
a 100% native look and feel for the application.
--
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!
Dear Elisa users,
The Elisa team is happy to announce the release of Elisa Media Center
0.5.12, code-named "Hibo".
This release fixes a handful of bugs and enhances the current user
experience with the following new features:
- the Flickr plugin has been improved in very important ways adding
notably allowing the user to login and access his, her personal content,
contact list and friends' photos
- an animated buffering bar was introduced in the player user interface
giving better feedback and a slicked look and feel
- a more appropriate, nicer looking volume bar is now part of the player
user interface
- plugins can now be branded in the user interface to provide the user
with a more immersive experience; only the Flickr plugin has been
updated so far
Unfortunately YouTube servers have changed the way they work and it is
very likely, depending on the country you live in, that playing back
videos from YouTube from within Elisa does not work anymore. Reference:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+bug/275976
A complete list of the new features and bugs fixed by this release is
available at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+milestone/0.5.12
Installers and sources can be downloaded from
http://elisa.fluendo.com/download/
Bug reports and feature requests are welcome at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/elisa/+filebug
Have a nice evening,
The Elisa team
Announcing
----------
The 2.8.9.0 release of wxPython is now available for download at
http://wxpython.org/download.php. This release adds support for using
Cairo for drawing on wx windows, adds a Win64 build, and various other
fixes and enhancements.
Source code is available, as well as binaries for Python 2.3, 2.4 and
2.5, for Windows and Mac, as well some packages for various Linux
distributions. A summary of changes is listed below and also at
http://wxpython.org/recentchanges.php.
What is wxPython?
-----------------
wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It
allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly
functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is
implemented as a Python extension module that wraps the GUI components
of the popular wxWidgets cross platform library, which is written in
C++.
wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program
will usually run on multiple platforms without modifications.
Currently supported platforms are 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows,
most Linux or other Unix-like systems using GTK2, and Mac OS X 10.4+.
In most cases the native widgets are used on each platform to provide
a 100% native look and feel for the application.
Changes in 2.8.9.0
------------------
Many minor bug fixes throughout wxWidgets and wxPython.
Fixed wx.lib.embeddedimage to work with Python 2.3.
Fixed PseudoDC hit testing when pure white or pure black are used.
Added support for a 64-bit Windows build for the AMD64 architecture,
(a.k.a. x64.) This is for Python 2.5 only and is available only as a
Unicode build.
Added the wx.EmptyBitmapRGBA factory function.
Added the wx.lib.wxcairo module which allows the pycairo package to be
used for drawing on wx window or memory DCs. In addition it is able
to convert from a native wx.Font to a cairo.FontFace, and it also
provides functions for converting to/from wx.Bitmap and
cairo.ImageSurface objects. In order to use this module you will need
to have the Cairo library and its dependencies installed, as well as
the pycairo Python package. For Linux and other unix-like systems you
most likely have what you need installed already, or can easily do so
from your package manager application. See the wx.lib.wxcairo
module's docstring for notes on where to get what you need for Windows
or Mac. This module uses ctypes, and depending on platform it may
need to find and load additional dynamic libraries at runtime in
addition to cairo. The pycairo package used needs to be new enough to
export the CAPI structure in the package namespace. I believe that
started sometime in the 1.4.x release series.
Added the wx.lib.graphics module, which is an implementation of the
wx.GraphicsContext API using Cairo (via wx.lib.wxcairo). This allows
us to be totally consistent across platforms, and also use Cairo to
implement some things that are missing from the GraphicsContext API.
It's not 100% compatible with the GraphicsContext API, but probably
close enough to be able to share code between them if desired, plus it
can do a few things more.
Updated wx.Bitmap.CopyFromBuffer to be a bit more flexible. You can
now specify the format of the buffer, and the CopyFromBufferRGBA is
now just a wrapper around CopyFromBuffer that specifies a different
format than the default. Also added the complement method,
CopyToBuffer. See the docstring for CopyFromBuffer for details on the
currently allowed buffer formats. The existing wx.BitmapFromBuffer
factory functions are also now implemented using the same underlying
code as CopyFromBuffer.
Add wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.ListRowHighlighter for automatic highlighting
of rows in a wx.ListCtrl.
--
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!
Hi,
I'm happy to announce release 0.70.4 of Task Coach. This release fixes
some bugs:
Bugs fixed:
* Allow Task Coach to be installed on Ubuntu 7.10.
* Task Coach wasn't notifying users of new versions.
* When merging, merge notes too.
* When the notes feature is turned off, hide the 'Create new note'
menu item in the category pop up menu.
* Fixed a translation bug.
* Hide/show the main window with one click on the task bar icon
instead of a double click (Linux only).
* The Task Coach main window would get a very small size if it was
started minimized and had not been restored in the previous session.
What is Task Coach?
Task Coach is a simple task manager that allows for hierarchical
tasks, i.e. tasks in tasks. Task Coach is open source (GPL) and is
developed using Python and wxPython. You can download Task Coach from:
http://www.taskcoach.org
In addition to the source distribution, packaged distributions are
available for Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux (Debian and RPM
format).
Note that Task Coach is alpha software, meaning that it is wise to
back up your task file regularly, and especially when upgrading to a
new release.
Cheers, Frank
python-graph
release 1.3.0
http://code.google.com/p/python-graph/
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python-graph is a library for working with graphs in Python.
This software provides a suitable data structure for representing
graphs and a whole set of important algorithms.
The code is appropriately documented and API reference is generated
automatically by epydoc.
Provided features and algorithms:
* Support for directed, undirected, weighted and non-weighted graphs
* Support for hypergraphs
* Canonical operations
* XML import and export
* DOT-Language output (for usage with Graphviz)
* Random graph generation
* Accessibility (transitive closure)
* Breadth-first search
* Cut-vertex and cut-edge identification
* Depth-first search
* Identification of connected components
* Minimum spanning tree (Prim's algorithm)
* Mutual-accessibility (strongly connected components)
* Shortest path (Dijkstra's algorithm)
Changes in this release:
* Traversals
* Faster node insertion
* Some API changes
Download: http://code.google.com/p/python-graph/downloads/list
