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Enthought Python Distribution

tra...@enthought.com (Travis Vaught) — Wed, 07 Jul 2008 14:36:53 UT

Greetings,
We're pleased to announce the beta release of the Enthought Python
Distribution for *Mac OS X*.
[link]
This release should safely install alongside other existing Python
installations on your Mac. With the Mac OS X platform support, EPD
now provides a consistent scientific application tool set across three

[ANN] Release 0.70.1 of Task Coach

fr...@niessink.com (Frank Niessink) — Sun, 06 Jun 2008 18:46:50 UT

Hi,
I'm happy to announce release 0.70.1 of Task Coach. This release
optionally brings back the tabbed user interface that was removed in the
previous release and fixes a few bugs.
Bugs fixed:
* The search control in the toolbar did not maintain state correctly for
different viewers. Task Coach viewers now each have their own toolbar

[ANN] Update on Python-based Second Life client library (pyogp)

lengli...@cox.net (Lawson English) — Sat, 06 Jun 2008 20:59:20 UT

Pyogp is the Python-based library being developed by Linden Lab, makers
of Second Life, and the programming community of the users of Second
Life under the auspices of the SL Architecture Working Group, in order
to test and implement open protocols designed to allow anyone to create
their own virtual world servers and clients compatible enough with

ANN: ConfigObj 4.5.3 Released

fuzzy...@gmail.com (Fuzzyman) — Sat, 06 Jun 2008 16:58:22 UT

A new version of ConfigObj is now available, version 4.5.3.
This version is a minor bugfix release. It fixes a relatively obscure
bug, where an exception could be raised when validating a config file
with 'copy=True' and '__many__' sections.
* Home Page: [link]

OSCON discount code

a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) — Sat, 06 Jun 2008 19:10:11 UT

If you're going to OSCON and haven't yet registered, you may use the
following code to receive a 15% discount:
os08pgm
OSCON will be in Portland, Oregon 7/21-25. For more info:
[link]

ANN: RPyC 3.00 RC1

tomerfil...@gmail.com (sebulba) — Sat, 06 Jun 2008 16:45:42 UT

RPyC, the transparent RPC library for python, has reached 3.00 RC1.
homepage: [link]
download: [link]
final released expected within 3-4 weeks.
-tomer

ANN: Leo 4.5 b1 released

edream...@charter.net (Edward K Ream) — Sat, 06 Jun 2008 14:41:14 UT

Leo 4.5 beta 1 is now available at:
[link]
Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See:
[link]
The highlights of Leo 4.5:
--------------------------
- A major revision of Leo's node structures, compatible with so-called

SciPy Conference Updates

tra...@enthought.com (Travis Vaught) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:04:23 UT

Greetings,
The SciPy Conference is not too far away. I thought I'd summarize
some recent news about the conference in case some of you missed it:
- Accommodations (news!): We've negotiated a group rate with a nearby
Marriott hotel, for those that would like to take advantage of it.
The hotel has set up a web site for our event here:

Docutils 0.5 released

grub...@users.sourceforge.net — Thu, 06 Jun 2008 07:10:09 UT

Short list of changes
* Python2.1 support was dropped, as are Netscape0.4 compromises in the
HTML writer.
* Enhanced citation support and literal-block parametrization for
LaTeX2e writer.
* The PEP writer supports new python.org website structure
and pep2pyramid.py.
* New OO API for directives. Hebrew (and possibly

pg/python release

james....@gmail.com — Thu, 06 Jun 2008 03:44:04 UT

pg/python release
=================
Date
``Sun Jun 22 15:57:42 MST 2008``
Summary
``Bug Fixes``
Changes
-------
pg_proboscis-1.0.2:
- Fix cursor-identifier based ``cursor`` creation.
- Fix DB-API 2.0 connect() showstopper. (sigh)
- Detect errno.ECONNRESET and properly mark the connection as 'LOST'

ANN: wxPython 2.8.8.0

ro...@alldunn.com (Robin Dunn) — Wed, 06 Jun 2008 19:20:20 UT

Announcing
----------
The 2.8.8.0 release of wxPython is now available for download at
[link]. This release has had a number of
further refinements and enhancements on the stable 2.8 source tree
since the previous release. On Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) the Python
2.5 binaries of wxPython are able to be used with either Apple's

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 24)

python-...@phaseit.net (Gabriel Genellina) — Tue, 06 Jun 2008 17:47:13 UT

QOTW: "I find that eloquent Python speakers often tend to write a for loop
when mere good ones will try to stick a list comprehension in!" - Arnaud
Delobelle
[link]

The first beta release of Python 3.0 is out (jointly with 2.6b1):

ANN: Komodo IDE 4.4 & Komodo Edit 4.4 released

tre...@activestate.com (Trent Mick) — Tue, 06 Jun 2008 17:33:13 UT

Komodo IDE 4.4.0 and Komodo Edit 4.4.0 have been released. Installers
for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are available here:
[link]
[link]
Or, if you have Komodo 4.3 installed, auto-update should provide the
update for you automatically sometime today.

Sphinx 0.4 released

ge...@python.org (Georg Brandl) — Mon, 06 Jun 2008 12:30:20 UT

I'm pleased to announce the next minor version of Sphinx, the Python
documentation generation tool.
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).

ANN: gmpy v1.03 is released

cas...@gmail.com (casevh) — Mon, 06 Jun 2008 00:43:15 UT

Hi everyone,
I'm happy to announce that GMPY v1.03 has been released.
It is available at: [link]
What is GMPY?
==================
GMPY is a C-coded Python extension module that wraps the GMP library
to
provide to Python code fast multiprecision arithmetic (integer,
rational,
and float), random number generation, advanced number-theoretical