Regular Toronto-Area Python User's Group this Tuesday
We'll be having our regular Toronto Area Python User's Group (PyGTA) this upcoming Tuesday (April 15th) at 19:00 at Linux Caffe, on the corner of Grace and Harbord. At the moment it seems the topic will be a quick introduction to using the Selenium Web Testing framework for testing your Web sites. Have fun all, Mike http://www.pygta.org/ -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
[ANN] EuroSciPy – Call for papers and registration
This is a reminder that the deadline for the EuroSciPy conference is approaching fast. It’s April 30, 2008. Also registration is open. Take advantage of the early bird rate and register soon. The Conference: --- The EuroSciPy 2008 Conference is to be held in Leipzig, Germany on July 26-27, 2008. http://www.scipy.org/EuroSciPy2008 We are very excited to create a venue for the European community of users of the Python programming language in science. This conference will bring the presentations and collaboration that we've enjoyed at Caltech each year closer to home for many users of SciPy, NumPy and Python generally--with a similar focus and schedule. Call for Participation: -- If you are a scientist using Python for your computational work, we'd love to have you formally present your results, methods or experiences. To apply to present a talk at this year's EuroSciPy, please submit an abstract of your talk as a PDF, MS Word or plain text file to euroabstracts scipy.org. The deadline for abstract submission is April 30, 2008. Papers and/or presentation slides are acceptable and are due by June 15, 2008. Presentations will be allotted 30 minutes. Registration: Registration is open (http://www.python-academy.com/euroscipy/registration.html). The registration fee is 100.00€ for early registrants and will increase to 150.00€ for late registration after June 15, 2008. Registration includes breakfast, snacks and lunch for Saturday and Sunday. Volunteers Welcome: -- If you're interested in volunteering to help organize things, please email us at info scipy.org. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
Pydev 1.3.15 Released
Hi All, Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.3.15 have been released Details on Pydev Extensions: http://www.fabioz.com/pydev Details on Pydev: http://pydev.sf.net Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com Release Highlights in Pydev Extensions: - * Globals Browser: Was not correctly showing definition on a case with multiple projects when one did not have the python nature configured. * Code Analysis: False positive: Classes defined within a class context are correctly found when later accessed in the parent context. * Interactive console integration o Context insensitive completions with auto-import in console o Ctrl+Alt+Enter: can be used to: + Create console if no console exists + Send selected text to console + Make execfile for current file if there's no selected text Release Highlights in Pydev: -- * Files without extension: If a file that does not have an extension is found in the root of the pythonpath, code-completion and breakpoints work with it. * Extract method: comma not removed when found after a tuple and before a keyword argument. * Console Encoding: print u"\xF6" works (console encoding correctly customized in python -- see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1580766&group_id=85796&atid=577329 for details). * Debugger: Context of breakpoint correctly defined when comments are present in the end of the module. * from __future__ import (xxx, with_statement): works. * Interactive Console View, featuring: o Code Completion + Context sensitive with shell completions + Qualifier matches as case insensitive + Templates + Repeating the activation changes from templates to default completions o Console Configurations + Initial commands for starting the console + Colors for the console + Vmargs can be specified for jython o Auto-indent o Auto-edits o Context info on hover o Up / Down Arrows cycles through the history (and uses the current text to match for the start of the history command) o Page Up: shows dialog with console history (where lines to be re-executed can be selected) o Esc: clears current line o ctrl+1 works for assign quick-assist o Hyperlinks addedd to tracebacks in the console o Paste added directly to the command line o Cut will only cut from the command line o Copy does not get the prompt chars o Home goes to: first text char / prompt end / line start (and cycles again) o Cursor automatically moved to command line on key events o Multiple views of the same console can be created o Limitation: Output is not asynchonous (stdout and stderr are only shown after a new command is sent to the console) What is PyDev? --- PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python and Jython development -- making Eclipse a first class Python IDE -- It comes with many goodies such as code completion, syntax highlighting, syntax analysis, refactor, debug and many others. Cheers, -- Fabio Zadrozny -- Software Developer ESSS - Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software http://www.esss.com.br Pydev Extensions http://www.fabioz.com/pydev Pydev - Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse http://pydev.sf.net http://pydev.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
ANN: ActivePython 2.5.2.2 and 2.4.5.14 are now available
I'm happy to announce that ActivePython 2.5.2.2 and 2.4.5.14 are now
available for download from:
http://www.activestate.com/products/activepython/
These are patch releases that update ActivePython to core Python 2.5.2
and 2.4.5.
What is ActivePython?
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ActivePython is ActiveState's binary distribution of Python. Builds for
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, HP-UX and AIX are made freely available.
ActivePython includes the Python core and the many core extensions:
zlib and bzip2 for data compression, the Berkeley DB (bsddb) and
SQLite (sqlite3, ActivePython 2.5 only) database libraries, OpenSSL
bindings for HTTPS support, the Tix GUI widgets for Tkinter,
ElementTree for XML processing (ActivePython 2.5 only), ctypes (on
supported platforms, ActivePython 2.5 only) for low-level library
access, and others. The Windows distribution ships with PyWin32 -- a
suite of Windows tools developed by Mark Hammond, including bindings
to the Win32 API and Windows COM. See this page for full details:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.5/whatsincluded.html
As well, ActivePython ships with a wealth of documentation for both new
and experienced Python programmers. In addition to the core Python docs,
ActivePython includes the "What's New in Python" series, "Dive into
Python", the Python FAQs & HOWTOs, and the Python Enhancement Proposals
(PEPs).
An online version of the docs can be found here:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.5/welcome.html
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/welcome.html
We would welcome any and all feedback to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please file bugs against ActivePython at:
http://bugs.activestate.com/query.cgi?product=ActivePython
On what platforms does ActivePython run?
ActivePython includes installers for the following platforms:
- Windows/x86
- Mac OS X
- Linux/x86
- Solaris/SPARC
- Solaris/x86
- Windows/x64 ("x64" is also known as "AMD64")
- Linux/x86_64 ("x86_64" is also known as "AMD64")
- HP-UX/PA-RISC
- AIX/PowerPC
Extra Bits
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ActivePython releases also include the following:
- ActivePython24.chm, ActivePython25.chm: An MS compiled help collection
of the full ActivePython documentation set. Linux users of
applications such as xCHM might find this useful. This package is
installed by default on Windows.
Extra bits are available from:
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePython/etc/
Apologies for the delay. I was crazy-busy getting the Komodo 4.3 release
out. Check it out:
http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo/
Thanks, and enjoy!
Trent, Python Tech Lead
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Trent Mick
trentm at activestate.com
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list
Support the Python Software Foundation:
http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
