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greg | 1 Sep 02:15
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ANN: PROBE 1.0

I have released an updated version of my PyWeek4
game competition entry, PROBE.

In PROBE, you get to plan and execute space probe
missions to other planets, using a fairly realistic
(except for a couple of things) simulation of the
physics involved.

This version has been greatly expanded, and can
actually be played in a deliberate way now instead
of just trial and error like the first one.

Currently available here:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/PyWeek4/Probe-1.0.zip

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buchuki | 2 Sep 06:12
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Announce: Pallavi 0.5 Text Editor

Hey all,

I've just released version 0.5 of a text editor I've been quietly
developing off and on for two years: Pallavi 0.5. It utilizes Python
(of course) and the wxPython toolkit. This text editor differs from
most in that it is designed from the ground up to be as customizable
as possible. It has a very small core with a growing selection of
plugins that allow it to resemble anything from a simple notepad to a
complex IDE, depending on your needs. The idea is that you should only
have to load exactly those features you want (contrary to most
"everything and the kitchen sink" bloated IDEs) without having to give
up those features you really use (as occurs with most "simple" text
editors).

Pallavi is configured and extended in Python. Not LISP. Not vimrc
format. Not Beanshell. Not XML.

My long-term vision is to see a community of developers grow around
Pallavi contributing new plugins that extend or adapt it in different
ways, working together with other plugins to allow an endless variety
of editors to be created. Indeed, much of my inspiration comes from
JEdit, although I am aiming for a much smaller, simpler core, and a
better programming language.

Current Status: Pallavi currently has most of the features common to
simple editors. I use it for all my daily editing (6-8 hours of
coding) and it works very well for me under Linux. I have tested it
under Windows, but not in an extensive usage environment. I feel this
editor fills a niche in the text editing community.
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Greg Lindstrom | 2 Sep 04:01
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PyCon 2008 - Call for Tutorial Topics

Hello All,

We are still soliciting ideas for tutorials to put on at PyCon in Chicago next spring.  PyCon is all about our community; under the direction of the PSF, planned, organized and run by volunteers just like you.  We are asking for topics that you want to see covered on the tutorial day (the day preceding the "official" conference).  There is an additional charge for these classes but they are taught by instructors who really know their topics.  The following ideas have been requested (nothing has been scheduled, yet):

  • Testing strategies
  • Intermediate Python
  • Database
  • How to "think" in Python 3000
  • Using Cheeseshop
  • SOAP/.Net (Iron Python?)
  • Programming Contest
We need more ideas before we start putting things together.  What do *you* want to see?  This is your chance to learn from the experts (or, maybe, *you* would like to present a class).

Let me know what class would entice you to attend the tutorials.

Greg Lindstrom
Tutorial Coordinator, PyCon 2008
 
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Atul | 2 Sep 16:53
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Announcing a Bugfix update of YaMA, the meeting assistant

Hi,

Yet Another Meeting Assistant (YaMA), will help you with the Agenda
and Minutes of a Meeting. If you are the assigned minute taker at any
meeting, this tool is for you.

Checkout http://yama.sourceforge.net/

YaMA is written in Python and Tkinter, is open source software
released under GPL, and is hosted by SourceForge (www.sourceforge.net)

Whats New:

1. Usability enhancements
2. Minor Bug Fixes

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Jeff Rush | 3 Sep 10:41

ShowMeDo.com Announces Winner of Most-Video-Plays of the Month

ShowMeDo.com, a website offering over 361 instructional screencasts about
topics both Python and non-Python, has announced their first winner of the
month for the most-played video.  And the winner is:

     "Learn Django: Create a Wiki in 20 minutes"

by Siddharta Govindaraj, founder of Silver Stripe Software, with 1851 views in
August, far outpacing the second-place entry.  The prize is a £20 (UK) voucher
to Amazon.  Congratulations, Siddhi!  You can watch it at:

  http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=1100000&fromSeriesID=110

Siddhi is also helping Doug Napoleone with PyCon this year, providing a
program for generating attendee badges and working to integrate it into the
Django-based conference site.

You can find Siddhi at:

    http://siddhi.blogspot.com/
    http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/

So who will win this month?  It could be you!  How about a screencast
showcasing a different web framework like TurboGears or Twisted Web?  Or
something about databases, either relational or object.

Jeff Rush
Python Advocacy Coordinator

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Jeff Rush | 3 Sep 11:16

The Texas Python Unconference is Almost Here!

The first regional Python unconference is coming to Houston on September 15-16
(Sat-Sun).  Being held at the Texas Learning & Computing Center on the
University of Houston main campus, this is a FREE event for Pythoneers from
all over the Texas region.

    http://pycamp.python.org/Texas/

And being an unconference, participation by those who attend is welcome and
greatly sought.  The topics to be presented are purely up to the attendees.

Details about the facility and a sign-up registration list is available on the
wiki.  Please add your name if you think you might attend, so that we can have
some estimate of who is coming.

Also add to the wiki topics on which you are coming prepared to present, or
that you would like to see.  Often people can present on many topics but don't
know what others are interested in.

And a big thanks go out to Robin Friedrich and those in Houston for hosting
us.  Let's roll up our sleeves and help them out!  Involvement is key to
making an unconference successful.

For those not familiar with unconferences, check out this description:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

See you all there...

Jeff Rush
Python Advocacy Coordinator

P.S. Please repost this to other Texas Python organizations.
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lutz | 3 Sep 23:25

Colorado Python training in October

Python author and trainer Mark Lutz will be teaching another
3-day Python class at a conference center in Longmont, Colorado,
on October 23-25, 2007.

This is a public training session open to individual enrollments, 
and covers the same topics as the 3-day onsite sessions that Mark
teaches, with hands-on lab work.

For more information on this class, please visit this web page:

http://home.earthlink.net/~python-training/longmont-public-classes.htm

Thanks for your interest.
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O.R.Senthil Kumaran | 3 Sep 20:42
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ShowMeDo.com Announces Winner of Most-Video-Plays of the Month

> ShowMeDo.com, a website offering over 361 instructional screencasts about
> topics both Python and non-Python, has announced their first winner of the
> month for the most-played video.  And the winner is:
> 
>      "Learn Django: Create a Wiki in 20 minutes"
> 
> by Siddharta Govindaraj, founder of Silver Stripe Software, with 1851 views in
> August, far outpacing the second-place entry.  The prize is a £20 (UK) voucher
> to Amazon.  Congratulations, Siddhi!  You can watch it at:
> 
>   http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=1100000&fromSeriesID=110
> 
> Siddhi is also helping Doug Napoleone with PyCon this year, providing a
> program for generating attendee badges and working to integrate it into the
> Django-based conference site.
> 
> You can find Siddhi at:
> 
>     http://siddhi.blogspot.com/
>     http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/
> 
> So who will win this month?  It could be you!  How about a screencast
> showcasing a different web framework like TurboGears or Twisted Web?  Or
> something about databases, either relational or object.
> 
> Jeff Rush
> Python Advocacy Coordinator
> 
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Iñigo Serna | 4 Sep 00:02
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ANN: lfm 2.0

Hi out there,

After a few years working silently I'm very pleased to announce here the
so much awaited new version of 'lfm'.

Last File Manager is a simple but powerful file manager for the
UNIX console. It's written in Python, using curses module.
Licensed under GNU Public License version 3.

Some of the features you could find in lfm:
- console-based file manager for UNIX platforms
- 1-pane or 2-pane view
- bookmarks
- vfs for compressed files
- dialogs with entry completion
- fast access to a shell
- direct integration of find/grep, df and other tools
- tabs per pane
- color files by extension [Andrey Skvortsov]
- fast file viewer with text and binary modes
- ...and many others

Download it from:

http://www.terra.es/personal7/inigoserna/lfm

or if it doesn't show last version (crap of ISP reverse proxy), try this
low-bandwidth home server:

http://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm

Of course, all comments, suggestions etc. are welcome.

Changes since previous version:

Version 2.0 ("Nine 1/2 weeks... ok, ok, and 3 years") - 2007/09/03:

  + tabs implemented
  + color files by extension [Andrey Skvortsov]
  + new IPC code and API; more flexible, powerful and stable
  + new un/compress vfs API, added support for .zip and .rar files
  + make sort mode per tab, not globally
  + support locale [Andrey Skvortsov]
  + speed up loading directory contents
  + speed cursor movement, don't waste much CPU
  + use logging module in lfm and pyview for debugging
  + overwrite_all_none: yes, all, no  => new options: "none", 
    "skip all""
  + rewrite/refactor most of code to make lfm more robust and clean
  + preferences:
    - change file name preferences.py => config.py
    - use ConfigParser
  + use tempfile secure versions mkdtemp() and mkstemp()
  + added man pages [Sebastien Bacher]
  + use reST for documentation
  + check for python version 2.3 or higher in lfm and pyview
  + updated to GPL v3 license
  + and fixed lot of bugs, some of them:
    - general:
      . delete garbage if user stops action
      . run 'do_special_view_file' as dettached from lfm window
      . path expand in bookmarks ("~/") [Andrey Skvortsov]
      . an ugly traceback crash appears when user starts "lfm path" and 
	has no permissions to enter. Show error message and default to
	current directory
      . lfm crashes when filename is not encoded with same codec than
        g_encoding utils.{decode|encode}. Needs curses module linked
	against ncursesw to work properly
      . sort_mix_cases = 1 performance degrades on larger dirs.
        Reported by Andrey Skvortsov
      . escape filenames with chars $ ". Reported by Andrey Skvortsov
    - user interface:
      . maximize/minimize window don't crash lfm anymore
      . dialogs appear at bad position after terminal is resized
      . handle window resize in Tree mode
      . refresh display after canceling completion dialog
      . "the size of the right pane does not fill the last column in
        terminal if their number is odd" [Andrey Skvortsov]
      . fix crash when "df" shows entries in two different lines (device
        name is too large, f.e. in linux lvm2 volumes)
      . if you try to enter a directory with insufficient permissions,
	after the error message is closed the cursorline refreshes to
	the first line
    - compress:
      . added -i flag (--ignore-zeros) flag to tar [Andrey Skvortsov]
      . standard tar needs - for flags
    - vfs:
      . vfs.py: regenerate_file, if user stops process, tempfile can't
	be deleted
    - find/grep:
      . escape special chars (- \ ( ) [ ]) in patterns
      . don't crash when find/grep returns no results
      . bug when matches occur in binary files
    - pyview:
      . goto line 0 in pyview showed a blank screen
      . crash in file info if filename is too long

Version 1.0 was never released in public

Best regards,
Iñigo Serna

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Kevin Dangoor | 4 Sep 13:47
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MichiPUG meeting Thursday, September 6

The September meeting (our 2nd anniversary!) of the Michigan Python
Users Group (MichiPUG) is coming up on Thursday!

This month's meeting topic is Python 3.0, and I'll be giving some
demos to show off what's new in 3.0a1.

The meeting is at 7PM at the office of SRT Solutions in downtown Ann
Arbor. The meetings are free!

http://groups.google.com/group/michipug/web/index-2

Hope to see you there!

Kevin
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