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Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Oct 6)

2008-10-06T12:03:24Z

QOTW: ".. as the problem grows in complexity, C++ accumulates too much of
its own bloat." - sturlamolden, on Python as a *faster* language than C++

Python 2.6 final has been released:
[link]

Why the `del` statement canNOT be used with sets (for example, in

ANN: M2Crypto 0.19

2008-10-06T04:43:12Z

I am happy to announce the M2Crypto 0.19 release!
M2Crypto is the most complete Python wrapper for OpenSSL featuring RSA,
DSA, DH, HMACs, message digests, symmetric ciphers (including AES); SSL
functionality to implement clients and servers; HTTPS extensions to
Python's httplib, urllib, and xmlrpclib; unforgeable HMAC'ing

ANN: Albow 2.0

2008-10-05T08:03:29Z

ALBOW - A Little Bit of Widgetry for PyGame
Version 2.0 is now available.
This version incorporates substantial additions and improvements.
New widgets include TabPanel, TableView, CheckBox, RadioButton and
an enhanced set of TextField-based controls.
[link]

[ANN] PyYAML-3.06: YAML parser and emitter for Python

2008-10-03T19:28:12Z

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Announcing PyYAML-3.06
========================
A new bug fix release of PyYAML is now available:
[link]
Changes
=======
* setup.py checks whether LibYAML is installed and if so, builds
and installs LibYAML bindings. To force or disable installation

ANN: Veusz 1.1

2008-10-03T08:47:47Z

Veusz 1.1
---------
Velvet Ember Under Sky Zenith
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[link]
Veusz is Copyright (C) 2003-2008 Jeremy Sanders <jer...@jeremysanders.net>
Licenced under the GPL (version 2 or greater).
Veusz is a scientific plotting package written in Python, using PyQt4
for display and user-interfaces, and numpy for handling the numeric

Pydev 1.3.22 Released

2008-10-03T00:56:41Z

Hi All,
Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.3.22 have been released
Details on Pydev Extensions: [link]
Details on Pydev: [link]
Details on its development: [link]
Release Highlights in Pydev Extensions:
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Re: RELEASED Python 2.6 final

2008-10-02T19:27:10Z

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Due to a minor snafu in our build scripts, the source tgz and tar.bz2
files contained some extra cruft. I have created and uploaded new
tarballs but I have /not/ bumped the Python version number since they
were made from exactly the same Subversion tag. The new tarballs are

Pyjamas 0.3 Release: python-to-javascript compiler and AJAX library

2008-10-02T14:21:31Z

Pyjamas 0.3
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Pyjamas is a python-to-javascript compiler and an AJAX-based
Widget toolkit for Web Development (for the sister project,
running pyjamas-based apps on the desktop, see
[link] which is based on [link]).
Pyjamas Applications are written in python, yet run in all

RELEASED Python 2.6 final

2008-10-02T03:46:45Z

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On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I
am happy to announce the release of Python 2.6 final. This is the
production-ready version of the latest in the Python 2 series.
There are many new features and modules, improvements, bug fixes, and

ANN: eGenix mxODBC Connect Database Interface for Python 0.9.2 (beta)

2008-10-01T17:50:11Z

______________________________ ______________________________ ____________
ANNOUNCING
eGenix.com mxODBC Connect
Database Interface for Python
Version 0.9.2 (beta)
Our new client-server product for connecting Python applications
to relational databases - from all major platforms

MichiPUG October meeting: Python 2.6

2008-09-30T22:53:47Z

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

Texas Python Regional Unconference Reminders

2008-10-01T14:36:54Z

Greetings,
The Texas Python Regional Unconference is coming up this weekend
(October 4-5) and I wanted to send out some more details of the
meeting. The web page for the meeting is here:
[link]
The meeting is _absolutely free_, so please add yourself to the
Attendees page if you're able to make it. Also, if you're planning to

OSDC 2008 Earlybird Registration is now open!

2008-09-30T12:06:27Z

Earlybird Registration for The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 is now
open. OSDC 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers
and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a range
of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes,

Shed Skin (restricted) Python-to-C++ compiler 0.0.29

2008-09-30T10:19:17Z

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)

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 30)

2008-09-30T09:06:22Z

QOTW: "AFAICT, _everybody_ is bad at programming C++.
One begins to suspect it's not the fault of the programmers." - Grant Edwards

Mixing integer, float, Decimal and Fraction objects when comparing may
yield unexpected results:
[link]