cx_Oracle 4.3.1
What is cx_Oracle? cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle and conforms to the Python database API 2.0 specifications with a few exceptions. Where do I get it? http://starship.python.net/crew/atuining What's new? 1) Ensure that if the client buffer size exceeds 4000 bytes that the server buffer size does not as strings may only contain 4000 bytes; this allows handling of multibyte character sets on the server as well as the client. 2) Added support for using buffer objects to populate binary data and made the Binary() constructor the buffer type as requested by Ken Mason. 3) Fix potential crash when using full optimization with some compilers. Thanks to Aris Motas for noticing this and providing the initial patch and to Amaury Forgeot d'Arc for providing an even simpler solution. 4) Pass the correct charset form in to the write call in order to support writing to national character set LOB values properly. Thanks to Ian Kelly for noticing this discrepancy. Anthony Tuininga -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
ANN: SciPy 2007 Conference
Greetings, The *SciPy 2007 Conference* has been scheduled for mid-August at CalTech. http://www.scipy.org/SciPy2007 Here's the rough schedule: Tutorials: August 14-15 (Tuesday and Wednesday) Conference: August 16-17 (Thursday and Friday) Sprints: August 18(Saturday) Exciting things are happening in the Python community, and the SciPy 2007 Conference is an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas, learn techniques, contribute code and affect the direction of scientific computing (or just to learn what all the fuss is about). Last year's conference saw a near-doubling of attendance to 138, and we're looking forward to continued gains in participation. We'll be announcing the Keynote Speaker and providing a detailed schedule in the coming weeks. Registration: - Registration is now open. You may register online at https://www.enthought.com/scipy07. Early registration for the conference is $150.00 and includes breakfast and lunch Thursday & Friday and a very nice dinner Thursday night. Tutorial registration is an additional $75.00. After July 15, 2007, conference registration will increase to $200.00 (tutorial registration will remain the same at $75.00). Call for Presenters --- If you are interested in presenting at the conference, you may submit an abstract in Plain Text, PDF or MS Word formats to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- the deadline for abstract submission is July 6, 2007. Papers and/or presentation slides are acceptable and are due by August 3, 2007. Tutorial Sessions - Last year's conference saw an overwhelming turnout for our first-ever tutorial sessions. In order to better accommodate the community interest in tutorials, we've expanded them to 2 days and are providing food (requiring us to charge a modest fee for tutorials this year). A tentative list of topics for tutorials includes: - Wrapping Code with Python (extension module development) - Building Rich Scientific Applications with Python - Using SciPy for Statistical Analysis - Using SciPy for Signal Processing and Image Processing - Using Python as a Scientific IDE/Workbench - Others... This is a preliminary list; topics will change and be extended. If you'd like to present a tutorial, or are interested in a particular topic for a tutorial, please email the SciPy users mailing list (link below). A current list will be maintained here: http://www.scipy.org/SciPy2007/Tutorials Coding Sprints -- We've dedicated the Saturday after the conference for a Coding Sprint. Please include any ideas for Sprint topics on the Sprints wiki page here: http://www.scipy.org/SciPy2007/Sprints We're looking forward to another great conference! Best, Travis - Links to various SciPy and NumPy mailing lists may be found here: http://www.scipy.org/Mailing_Lists -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
pyIDL 0.5 released
updated Python bindings for IDL http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns/software.html # Version 0.5: 04/18/07 fixed support for python2.5 (Thanks to several of you kicking me in the butt... especially N. Pirzkal) --- Mike McKerns California Institute of Technology http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mmckerns -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
RELEASED Python 2.5.1, FINAL
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.5.1 (FINAL) This is the first bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. According to the release notes, over 150 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5, including a fair number in the new AST compiler (an internal implementation detail of the Python interpreter). This is a production release of Python, and should be a painless upgrade from 2.5. Since the release candidate, we have backed out a couple of small changes that caused 2.5.1 to behave differently to 2.5. See the release notes for more. For more information on Python 2.5.1, including download links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.5.1/ Highlights of this new release include: Bug fixes. According to the release notes, at least 150 have been fixed. Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.5) are available from the Python 2.5 page, at http://www.python.org/2.5/highlights.html Enjoy this release, Anthony Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgp06hjbDDPkH.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
