ANN: numexpr 2.5.1 released

2016-03-31 Thread Francesc Alted
= Announcing Numexpr 2.5.1 = Numexpr is a fast numerical expression evaluator for NumPy. With it, expressions that operate on arrays (like "3*a+4*b") are accelerated and use less memory than doing the same calculation in Python. It wears multi-thr

ANN: nose2pytest 1.0

2016-03-31 Thread oliver
Announcing a project hosted on GitHub called nose2pytest ( https://github.com/schollii/nose2pytest). This project helps migrate a test suite that was written for Nose to work with pure pytest. It converts nose.tools.assert_ functions into raw assert statements so you can better (IMO) leverage pytes

ANN: make_stub_files 0.1

2016-03-31 Thread Edward K. Ream
m ​ake_stub_files.py ​ 0.1 is now available here . This script eliminates much of the drudgery of creating python stub (.pyi) from python source files. This script should encourage more people to u

ANN: python_to_coffeescript 0.1

2016-03-31 Thread Edward K. Ream
py2cs.py 0.1 is now available on github . This script makes a coffeescript (.coffee) file in the output directory for each source file listed on the command line (wildcard file names are supported). This script never c

ANN: bcolz 1.0.0 RC2 is out!

2016-03-31 Thread Francesc Alted
== Announcing bcolz 1.0.0 RC2 == What's new == Yeah, 1.0.0 is finally here. We are not introducing any exciting new feature (just some optimizations and bug fixes), but bcolz is already 6 years old and it implements most of the capabilities

ANN: python-blosc 1.3.0 released

2016-03-31 Thread Francesc Alted
= Announcing python-blosc 1.3.0 = What is new? There is support for newest C-Blosc. As such, C-Blosc 1.8.0 is being distributed internally. Support for the new `BITSHUFFLE` filter, allowing for more compression ratios in many

The next major Python version will be Python 8

2016-03-31 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, Python 3 becomes more and more popular and is close to a dangerous point where it can become popular that Python 2. The PSF decided that it's time to elaborate a new secret plan to ensure that Python users suffer again with a new major release breaking all their legacy code. The PSF is happy