This week marks your last opportunity to submit proposals to present
at PyCon Australia 2012, the national conference for the Python
programming community, to be held on August 18 and 19 in Hobart,
Tasmania.
The deadline for proposal submission is Friday May 4, 2012, and more
information can be found at http://pycon-au.org/cfp
PyCon Australia is an excellent opportunity to share experience and
knowledge with like-minded Python developers from all walks of life --
we attract professional developers from industry, government, science
and education, along with enthusiast and student developers.
Presentations can be targeted at all skill levels, on any topic
related to Python programming.
If you're a first-time developer, don't be afraid to submit a
presentation -- we're a community-driven conference, and we have a
focus on building the next generation of Python programmers.
Don't know what to present about? PyCon Australia co-organiser,
Christopher Neugebauer recently listed the results of PyCon Australia
2012's Call for Topics on his blog [1]; we'd love it if you used these
suggestions to help shape your submission.
We can't wait to see your proposals.
[1] http://chris.neugebauer.id.au/2012/03/03/speak-at-pycon-australia-2012/
=== About PyCon Australia ===
PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming
Community. The third PyCon Australia will be held on August 18 and 19,
2012 in Hobart, Tasmania, bringing together professional, student and
enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon
Australia informs the country’s Python developers with presentations,
tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python,
as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on.
To find out more about PyCon Australia 2012, visit our website at
http://pycon-au.org or e-mail us at contact(a)pycon-au.org.
PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and
acknowledges the support of our Gold sponsor, Google Australia
(www.google.com.au); our Event partner, Secret Lab; and our Silver
sponsors, the Python Software Foundation, Anchor Systems, Red Hat,
ekit, and CSIRO.
--
--
--Christopher Neugebauer
Conference Coordinator and Sponsor Liaison
PyCon Australia: Hobart 2012 -- http://2012.pycon-au.org -- @pyconau
Call for Proposals now open! Closes May 4.
Early bird registration and accommodation deals now available! See our
website for details.
Jabber: chrisjrn(a)gmail.com -- IRC: chrisjrn on irc.freenode.net --
WWW: http://chris.neugebauer.id.au -- Twitter/Identi.ca: @chrisjrn
I am proud to announce a new release of Pogo, probably the simplest and
fastest audio player for Linux.
The tarball and an Ubuntu PPA are available at
http://launchpad.net/pogo
What is Pogo?
--------------------
Pogo plays your music. Nothing else. It is both fast and easy-to-use.
The clear interface uses the screen real-estate very efficiently. Other
features include: Fast search on the harddrive and in the playlist,
smart album grouping, cover display, desktop notifications and no music
library.
Pogo is a fork of Decibel Audio Player and supports most common audio
formats. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ and gstreamer.
What's new in
0.7 "It has a melody both happy and sad" (2012-04-27)
======================================================
* Search in home folder if we haven't found anything in the music
directories.
* Do not search in subdirectories if we already search in parent directory.
* Only show filename and at most one parent dir for each file in search
results.
* Convert GUI from libglade to gtkbuilder.
* Update translations.
Cheers,
Jendrik
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:12:24 PM UTC-7, anntz...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to announce the first public release of cmd2, an extension of the standard library's cmd with argument parsing, here: https://github.com/anntzer/cmd2.
>
Due to an already existing Cmd2 on PyPI, I have renamed the project to parsedcmd, which is also a better description of what the module does.
https://github.com/anntzer/parsedcmd
> Cmd2 is an extension built around the excellent cmd module of the standard
> library. Cmd allows one to build simple custom shells using ``do_*`` methods,
> taking care in particular of the REPL loop and the interactive help. However,
> no facility is given for parsing the argument line (do_* methods are passed the
> rest of the line as a single string argument).
>
> With Cmd2, ``do_*`` methods are type-annotated, either using Python 3's
> function annotation syntax, or with an ad-hoc ``annotate`` decorator, allowing
> the dispatcher to parse the argument list for them.
>
> Antony Lee
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NEWS
mxODBC 3.1.2 Update
-------------------
The 3.1.2 release of our mxODBC is the latest release of our popular
Python ODBC Interface.
The new patch-level version includes a few important fixes:
* Fixed a compatibility problem with Python 2.7's distutils that was
introduced in Python 2.7.3
* Improved compatibility of the mxODBC native Unicode string format
handling with Unix ODBC drivers when running UCS4 builds of Python.
Licenses for mxODBC 3.1.x remain valid for mxODBC 3.1.2 as well.
Support for MS SQL Server Native Client for Linux
-------------------------------------------------
The above changes allows using the NVARCHAR and NCHAR types of SQL
Server with the *new MS SQL Server Native Client for Linux* with UCS4
Python builds. UCS2 Python builds don't exhibit this issue. The new
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Windows x64 and eGenix mx Base 3.2
----------------------------------
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-----------------------------
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------------------
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-------------------
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About Python (http://www.python.org/):
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clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity and rapid
application design, Python establishes an ideal programming
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I'm pleased to announce the release of pyNVML 3.295: Python Bindings for the NVIDIA Management Library.
pyNVML provides programmatic access to static information and monitoring data for NVIDIA GPUs, as well as management capabilities. It exposes the functionality of the NVML library. See http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-management-library-nvml for more information about NVML.
The pyNVML download package and its documentation can be found at:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nvidia-ml-py/http://packages.python.org/nvidia-ml-py/
pyNVML is currently used to report GPU information in Ganglia. Check it out at http://developer.nvidia.com/ganglia-monitoring-system
Requires Python 2.5, or an earlier version with the ctypes module. Released under the BSD license.
Robert Alexander
NVIDIA CUDA Tools Software Engineer
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tl;dr: PyCon Australia early bird registrations are now open! Find out
more at http://2012.pycon-au.org/register/prices, including details of
our accommodation programme.
PyCon Australia is excited to announce that early bird conference
registrations are now available for our 2012 conference, to be held on
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 August in Hobart, Tasmania. Early bird
registration will be extended to the first 60 confirmed conference
registrations, or until Friday 1 June, whichever comes first.
PyCon Australia is the national conference for students, enthusiasts
and professionals working with the Python programming language; it
represents a unique opportunity for Python developers to meet fellow
developers, and gain knowledge from experts and core Python developers
from around Australia and the world. Securing your registration during
the early bird period ensures your place at all of the events that
PyCon Australia has to offer.
Early bird registration comes with a substantial discount for tickets
at our "Enthusiast" and "Professional" rates. Early bird tickets at
both the "Enthusiast" and "Professional" level are guaranteed a seat
at our conference dinner. All tickets include access to the CodeWars
event on Friday 17 August, and the post-conference sprints on Monday
20 and Tuesday 21 August.
Early bird registration starts at $44 for full-time students; $168 for
enthusiasts and $420 for professionals.
PyCon Australia has been working closely with our venue to provide a
great conference experience; we're very pleased to be able to offer
accommodation to delegates for the duration of the conference. We've
secured an allocation of rooms within the Wrest Point complex, many of
which are in the same building as the conference venue. Rooms
available to delegates start at $124 per night; rooms inside the
conference building start at $146 per night.
Information on conference registration, including details on how to
book delegate accommodation through our preferred provider can be
found at the PyCon Australia website (http://2012.pycon-au.org).
Our conference Call for Proposals is still open, and will close on Friday 4 May.
We can't wait to see you in Hobart in August!
About PyCon Australia
PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming
Community. The third PyCon Australia will be held on August 18 and 19,
2012 in Hobart, Tasmania, bringing together professional, student and
enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon
Australia informs the country’s Python developers with presentations,
tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python,
as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on.
To find out more about PyCon Australia 2012, visit our website at
http://pycon-au.org or e-mail us at contact(a)pycon-au.org.
PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and
acknowledges the support of our Gold sponsor, Google Australia
(www.google.com.au).
--
--Christopher Neugebauer
Conference Coordinator and Sponsor Liaison
PyCon Australia: Hobart 2012 -- http://2012.pycon-au.org -- @pyconau
Call for Proposals now open! Closes May 4.
Early bird registration and accommodation deals now available! See our
website for details.
Jabber: chrisjrn(a)gmail.com -- IRC: chrisjrn on irc.freenode.net --
WWW: http://chris.neugebauer.id.au -- Twitter/Identi.ca: @chrisjrn
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ANNOUNCING
eGenix.com mx Base Distribution
Version 3.2.4 for Python 2.4 - 2.7
Open Source Python extensions providing
important and useful services
for Python programmers.
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The eGenix.com mx Base Distribution for Python is a collection of
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The tools have a proven record of being portable across many Unix and
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Contents of the distribution:
* mxDateTime - Easy to use Date/Time Library for Python
* mxTextTools - Fast Text Parsing and Processing Tools for Python
* mxProxy - Object Access Control for Python
* mxBeeBase - On-disk B+Tree Based Database Kit for Python
* mxURL - Flexible URL Data-Type for Python
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* mxTools - Fast Everyday Helpers for Python
The package also include a number of helpful smaller modules in the
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The 3.2.4 release of the eGenix mx Base Distribution is the latest
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The new patch-level version includes a few important fixes:
* Fixed a compatibility problem with Python 2.7's distutils that was
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* mxDateTime: Fixed a possible double deallocation in the mxDateTime
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For a full list of changes, please refer to the eGenix mx Base Distribution
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and the change logs of the various included Python packages.
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________________________________________________________________________
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knife is a powerful Python multitool loosely inspired by underscore.js
but remixed for maximum pythonicity. knife concentrates power normally
found dispersed across the universe of Python packages in one
convenient shrink-wrapped package.
knife works with Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2.
knife documentation can be found at http://readthedocs.org/docs/knife/en/latest/
or http://packages.python.org/knife/
3 second knife
---------------------
Things go in:
>>> gauntlet = __(5, 4, 3, 2, 1)
Things get knifed:
>>> gauntlet.initial().rest().slice(1, 2).last()
Things come out:
>>> gauntlet.get()
3
Slightly More
-------------------
knife features over 40 methods that can be chained into pipelines:
>>> from knife import __
>>> __(5, 4, 3, 2, 1).initial().rest().slice(1, 2).last().get()
3
Or object-oriented style:
>>> from knife import knife
>>> oo = knife(('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3))
>>> oo.wrap(dict)
>>> oo.map()
>>> oo.get()
{'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}
knife knives can roll thing in its pipeline back to the results of
the immediately preceding steps, a baseline snapshot, or even the
original
arguments.
>>> undone = __(1, 2, 3).prepend(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
>>> undone.peek()
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3]
>>> undone.append(1).undo().peek()
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3]
>>> undone.append(1, 2).undo(2).peek()
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 1]
undone.snapshot().append(1, 2).baseline().peek()
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 1]
undone.original().peek()
[1, 2, 3]
>>> one.original().minmax().pipe(two).merge().back().max().get()
1000
>>> one.original().minmax().pipe(two).merge().back().sum().get()
1002
Installation
----------------
knife can be installed the usual ways from:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/knife/
Development
-------------------
* Public repository: https://bitbucket.org/lcrees/knife.
* Mirror: https://github.com/kwarterthieves/knife/
* Issue tracker: https://bitbucket.org/lcrees/knife/issues
* License: BSD
I'm pleased to announce sqlparse 0.1.4.
This is a bug fix release.
sqlparse is a non-validating SQL parser module for Python.
Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlparse/0.1.4
Development: https://github.com/andialbrecht/sqlparse
Online demo: http://sqlformat.appspot.com
Bug fixes in this release
* Avoid "stair case" effects when identifiers, functions,
placeholders or keywords are mixed in identifier lists (issue45,
issue49, issue52) and when asterisks are used as operators
(issue58).
* Make keyword detection more restrict (issue47).
* Improve handling of CASE statements (issue46).
* Fix statement splitting when parsing recursive statements (issue57,
thanks to piranna).
* Fix for negative numbers (issue56, thanks to kevinjqiu).
* Pretty format comments in identifier lists (issue59).
* Several minor bug fixes and improvements.
Best regards,
Andi
