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Travis Vaught | 2 Jul 16:36

Enthought Python Distribution

Greetings,

We're pleased to announce the beta release of the Enthought Python  
Distribution for *Mac OS X*.

http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php

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  
major platforms (Windows, RedHat Linux (32 and 64 bit) and OS X). This  
is a _beta_ release, so install at your own risk.  Please provide any  
feedback to info <at> enthought.com.  See the included EPD Readme.txt for  
instructions and known issues.

About EPD
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The Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) is a "kitchen-sink-included"  
distribution of the Python™ Programming Language, including over 60  
additional tools and libraries. The EPD bundle includes the following  
major packages:

Python       Core Python
NumPy        Multidimensional arrays and fast numerics for Python
SciPy        Scientific Library for Python
Enthought Tool Suite (ETS)   A suite of tools including:
Traits       Manifest typing, validation, visualization, delegation,  
etc.
Mayavi       3D interactive data exploration environment.
Chaco        Advanced 2D plotting toolkit for interactive 2D
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Detlev Offenbach | 5 Jul 09:51
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ANN: eric 4.1.6 released

Hi,

this is to inform all of you about the immediate availability of eric
4.1.5. 
It is a bug fix release. As usual, it is available via

http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index.html.

Eric4 is a Python IDE written using PyQt4 and QScintilla2. It comes with
batteries included. For more details see the link above.

Regards,
Detlev
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Stuart Rackham | 6 Jul 07:29
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ANN: AsciiDoc 8.2.7 released

This release adds support for dblatex.
Other additions and changes are detailed in the changelog:
http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/CHANGELOG.html

What is it?
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AsciiDoc is an uncomplicated text document format for
writing articles, short documents, books and UNIX man pages.

AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML, XHTML and DocBook
(articles, books and refentry documents) using the
asciidoc(1) command. DocBook can be post-processed to
presentation formats such as HTML, PDF, DVI, roff, LaTeX and
Postscript using the a2x toolchain wrapper and readily
available Open Source tools.

AsciiDoc is configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file
syntax and the backend output markups (which can be almost
any type of SGML/XML markup) can be customized and extended
by user.

Requisites
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Python 2.4 or higher.

Obtaining AsciiDoc
------------------
The latest AsciiDoc version, examples and online
documentation can be downloaded from
http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
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Mike Müller | 7 Jul 07:25
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[ANN] Leipzig Python User Group - Meeting, July 8, 2008, 08:00pm

=== Leipzig Python User Group ===

We will meet on Tuesday, July 8 at 8:00 pm at the training
center of Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany
( http://www.python-academy.com/center/find.html ).

Food and soft drinks are provided. Please send a short
confirmation mail to info <at> python-academy.de, so we can prepare
appropriately.

Everybody who uses Python, plans to do so or is interested in
learning more about the language is encouraged to participate.

While the meeting language will be mainly German, we will provide
English translation if needed.

Current information about the meetings are at
http://www.python-academy.com/user-group .

Mike

== Leipzig Python User Group ===

Wir treffen uns am Dienstag, 08.07.2008 um 20:00 Uhr
im Schulungszentrum der Python Academy in Leipzig
( http://www.python-academy.de/Schulungszentrum/anfahrt.html ).

Für das leibliche Wohl wird gesorgt. Eine Anmeldung unter
info <at> python-academy.de wäre nett, damit wir genug Essen
besorgen können.
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Francesc Alted | 7 Jul 10:30

ANN: PyTables 2.0.4 available

===========================
 Announcing PyTables 2.0.4
===========================

PyTables is a library for managing hierarchical datasets and designed to
efficiently cope with extremely large amounts of data with support for
full 64-bit file addressing.  PyTables runs on top of the HDF5 library
and NumPy package for achieving maximum throughput and convenient use.

After some months without new versions (I have been busy for a while
doing things not related with PyTables, unfortunately), I'm happy to
announce the availability of PyTables 2.0.4.  It fixes some important
issues, and now it is possible to use table selections in threaded
environments.  Also, ``EArray.truncate(0)`` can be used so that you can
completely void existing EArrays (only enabled if you have a recent
version, i.e. >= 1.8.0, of the HDF5 library installed).  Besides, the
compatibility with native HDF5 files has been improved too.  Finally, 
the usage of recent versions of NumPy (1.1) and HDF5 (1.8.1) has been 
tested and, fortunately, they work just fine.

In case you want to know more in detail what has changed in this
version, have a look at ``RELEASE_NOTES.txt``.  Find the HTML version
for this document at:
http://www.pytables.org/moin/ReleaseNotes/Release_2.0.4

You can download a source package of the version 2.0.4 with
generated PDF and HTML docs and binaries for Windows from
http://www.pytables.org/download/stable/

For an on-line version of the manual, visit:
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Neil Schemenauer | 8 Jul 03:34

RELEASED: scgi 1.13

The SCGI protocol is a replacement for the Common Gateway Interface
(CGI) protocol.  It is similar to FastCGI but is designed to be easier
to implement.  The scgi package includes implementions of the SCGI
protocol for Python, Apache 1 and Apache 2.

The highlights of this release:

    * Ensure that PATH_INFO is correct even with mod_rewrite is used.

    * Remove duplicated text from Apache error messages.

    * Send Content-Length provided by client, rather than r->remaining.

The source package can be downloaded by visiting:

    http://python.ca/scgi/
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Trent Mick | 9 Jul 01:07
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ActiveState Code: the new Python Cookbook site

Hello all,

I'm happy to announce the beta of ActiveState Code:

	http://code.activestate.com/

the eventual replacement of the ASPN Python Cookbook 
(http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python) and the other 
cookbooks there.

Just Python recipes:
	http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/

What the site offers over the ASPN Cookbooks:

* a complete visual refresh (long overdue)
* full tagging support of recipes
* support for many many more languages (the ASPN Cookbooks were 
restricted to Python, PHP, Tcl and XSLT recipes)

The Python Cookbook is by far the most popular of the ASPN Cookbooks, so 
I wanted to get the Python community's feedback on the new site. What do 
you think? What works? What doesn't? I'll try to answer feedback on 
python-list or on the site's feedback form:

	http://code.activestate.com/help/feedback/

The new site provides a solid foundation for doing other improvements to 
the site. What specific things could the site do to make the Python 
Cookbook more useful?
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Stefan Behnel | 9 Jul 16:27
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lxml 2.1 released

Hi all,

lxml 2.1 has been released to PyPI. This is the first official lxml release
that builds and works on Python 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 (beta) and 3.0 (beta).

http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/2.1

Install with

    easy_install lxml==2.1

What is lxml?

"""
In short: lxml is the most feature-rich and easy-to-use library for working
with XML and HTML in the Python language.

lxml is a Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It is unique
in that it combines the speed and feature completeness of these libraries with
the simplicity of a native Python API.
"""

Feedback is very much appreciated, especially on new features like the
namespace cleanup function and on Python 2.6/3.0 support.

Have fun,
Stefan
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Christof Hoeke | 9 Jul 15:40
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ANN: cssutils 0.9.5rc1

what is it
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A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. (Not a 
renderer  though!)

As there have been quite a few bugfixes and also some minor changes this 
is a release candidate and not the final release yet.

main changes
------------
0.9.5rc1 080709
     - **API CHANGE/FEATURE**: ``The cssutils.log`` may be partly used 
like a standard logging log. The following methods are available: 
('setLevel', 'getEffectiveLevel', 'addHandler', 'removeHandler') as well 
as all "messaging" calls like 'error', 'warning' etc.

       Therefor ``cssutils.log.setloglevel`` has been *DEPRECATED* and 
should be used via ``cssutils.log.setLevel``. The old method is still 
available though.

       ``cssutils.log.setlog`` has been renamed to 
``cssutils.log.setLog`` but is still available but *DEPRECATED* too.

     - **FEATURE**: All three decoders in the codec now have an 
additional ``force`` argument. If ``force`` is false, the encoding from 
the input will only by used if is is detected explicitely via BOM or 
@charset rule.

     - **FEATURE**: ``cssparse`` script has new option ``-m --minify`` 
which results in the parsed CSS to be serialized minified
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Nagappan A | 9 Jul 06:45
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Announce: Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 1.2.0 released

Hello all,
  We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 1.2.0. This release features number of important breakthroughs in LDTP as well as in the field of Test Automation. This release note covers a brief introduction on LDTP followed by the list of new features and major bug fixes which makes this new version of LDTP the best of the breed. Useful references have been included at the end of this article for those who wish to hack / use LDTP.

About LDTP
==========

Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework (C / Python) and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the Accessibility libraries to poke through the application's user interface. The framework also has tools to record test-cases based on user events in the interface of the application which is under testing. We strive to help in building a quality desktop.

Whats new in this release...
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* Performance fix, which improves the LDTP exeuction time drastically
* 3 crasher fixes
* LDTP editor bug fixes reported by Shreyank Gupta
* Added 2 new API required for VMware Workstation automation
* API manual is updated
* Moved from CVS to GIT - Thanks to FreeDesktop administrators
* Thanks to Ubuntu automation team for using / evaluating LDTP

Download source tarball - http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/1.x/1.2.x/ldtp-1.2.0.tar.gz

LDTP news
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* LDTP is being evaluated by the project Open Source based Desktop Benchmark [1] of the Linux Solutions Group e.V. (LiSoG) in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. - http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/ldtp-dev/2008-June/000625.html


References
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For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org

For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html

To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list

IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net

For suggestions to improve this newsletter, please write to nagappan at gmail.com

Thanks
Nagappan

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