Python 101 - the book kickstarter
I am writing a beginner / intermediate book for Python and would like to announce the Kickstarter project in support of the book: http://kck.st/1kX98BB Thanks! Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
Sphinx 1.2.2 released
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm delighted to announce the release of Sphinx 1.2.2, now available on the Python package index at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx. It includes about 12 bug fixes for the 1.2 release series, among them a regression in 1.2.1. 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). Website: http://sphinx-doc.org/ IRC: #sphinx-doc on irc.freenode.net What's new in 1.2 (very short version)? === - - Dropped Python 2.4 support - - Added Python 3.3 support - - Improvement of internationalization - - Improvement of builders: html, texinfo, latex and gettext. - - Added builders: xml and pseudoxml - - Added sphinx.ext.linkcode extension - - Added more non-ASCII code point characters path support - - Added theme plugin mechanism - - Added and update 10 locales - - Added experimental support for parallel building with a new -j option - - Added docs: detailed Installing Sphinx and Sphinx Developer's Guide For the full changelog, go to http://sphinx-doc.org/changes.html. Thanks to all collaborators and contributors! cheers, Georg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlMS4x8ACgkQN9GcIYhpnLAS6wCeNQgU9l7QrYrLhxX7OgiMVLuY fIAAoI+/BMhDyw2dzAv0TCRrRbxW/uFU =7IYV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
ANN: Python Job Board - Call for volunteers
[Please help spread the word by forwarding to other relevant mailing lists, user groups, etc. world-wide; thanks :-)] Dear Python Community, for many years, the Python Job board (http://legacy.python.org/community/jobs/) was run by volunteers - most of the time by just one volunteer at a time until they moved on to spend their time on other things. We've now reached such a point again. In these years, the volume on the job board has significantly increased, as it got more and more popular. It is now at around 2-5 postings per day and most of those positions get filled quickly - which is an indication of how useful this service is to the Python community. To scale up and revive the job board, the PSF would now like to setup a *team of volunteers* to run the job board and this is our call for help. How does the job board work ? - At the moment, the job board is maintained on the legacy site (http://legacy.python.org/community/jobs/), but since we've launched our brand new website (http://www.python.org/), we'd like to move the job board over to that site. Instead of the repository based approach used on the old site, the new site has database support to aid in more easily processing and filing job listings. There's a job board mailing list which helps coordinate the task of reviewing and filing job offers. Currently, all job submissions get sent to this mailing list, but with the job board app, the submission process can be moved over to the website's database. What does it take to run the job board ? You have to review the job postings, request changes if they are too long, don't clearly state the need for Python skills, or have quality issues. After review, the job board app will then allow posting the jobs on the website by simply setting the status to published. Communication with the submitters is usually done by email and via the mailing list, so all team members can see the communication and help out if necessary. Please note: This is just a high level overview. The details need to be hashed out by the new team. Does the job board app work already ? - It does, but is disabled at the moment due to lack of volunteers. Since the site just launched there may also well be some issues with the job board app. On the positive side there's a lot happening around the site at the moment, so if you have change requests, these will usually be implemented quickly - or you can jump in, hack on the job board app and submit a pull request yourself: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/tree/master/jobs These are exciting times and this is your chance to make a difference ! Ok, I like new challenges - where do I sign up ? Great :-) Please write to j...@python.org I have a question... If you have questions, you can write me or the PSF board at p...@python.org. Many thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Director Python Software Foundation http://www.python.org/psf/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
Re: asyncio 0.4.1 released
With the help of Paul Moore there is now also a 64-bit Windows wheel file on the site: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?name=asyncioversion=0.4.1:action=display On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote: *** NOTE: Python 3.3 only! This module is in the stdlib in Python 3.4. *** On the heels of Python 3.4.0rc2, I've put a new version of the asyncio package for Python 3.3 on PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asyncio/0.4.1 There's a source distro and a 32-bit Windows wheel. (For 64-bit Windows I could use some help.) About asyncio: it's a new stdlib module for asynchronous I/O based on the yield from statement that was added to Python 3.3. It was inspired by Twisted and the async support in Tornado (amongst other influences). The original code name for the project is Tulip and this is where the latest developments happen: http://code.google.com/p/tulip/. Also check out PEP 3156: http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/. For Python 2 and 3.2, Victor Stinner has created a backport named Trollius: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/trollius/0.1.5 -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
[RELEASED] Python 3.3.5 release candidate 2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 3.3.5, release candidate 2. Python 3.3.5 includes a fix for a regression in zipimport in 3.3.4 (see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621) and a few other bugs. Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x. In total, almost 500 API items are new or improved in Python 3.3. For a more extensive list of changes in the 3.3 series, see http://docs.python.org/3.3/whatsnew/3.3.html To download Python 3.3.5 visit: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.5/ This is a preview release, please report any bugs to http://bugs.python.org/ The final release is scheduled one week from now. Enjoy! - -- Georg Brandl, Release Manager georg at python.org (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.3's contributors) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlMUUKoACgkQN9GcIYhpnLD5OACfTpRkcM9aXUx2XbiXoZtIgSE7 BqwAnjwpAuqc9lKJ0O3XOw5qDvDPYsNb =EGuB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
