Announcing www.python-excel.org

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, Google unfortunately has a knack of presenting prospective Python users who need to work with Excel files with information that is now really rather out of date. To try and help with this, I've setup a small website at: http://www.python-excel.org ...to try and list the latest

Tutorial on working with Excel files in Python (without COM and cross platform!) at EuroPython 2009

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, Too many people in the Python community *still* think the only way to work with Excel files in Python is using COM on Windows. To try and correct this, I'm giving a tutorial at this year's EuroPython conference in Birmingham, UK on Monday, 29th June that will cover working with

xlutils 1.3.2 released!

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, I'm pleased to announce a new release of xlutils. This is a small collection of utilities that make use of both xlrd and xlwt to process Microsoft Excel files. The list of utilities included in this release are: xlutils.copy Tools for copying xlrd.Book objects to xlwt.Workbook

TestFixtures 1.6.0 released!

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, I'm pleased to announce the first advertised release of TestFixtures. This is a collection of helpers and mock objects that are useful when writing unit tests or doc tests. The modules currently included are: *Comparison* This class lets you instantiate placeholders that can be

PSF Community Awards go to Stephan Deibel Sean Reifschneider

2009-06-19 Thread David Goodger
[Also posted to the PSF blog: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2009/06/second-quarter-community-service-awards.html] The Foundation tries to recognize those whose assistance has been significant in its growth and development as well as its day-to-day operations. This quarter's Community Service Award

Python Essential Reference, 4th Edition

2009-06-19 Thread David Beazley
* * Python Essential Reference, 4th Edition * * by David Beazley I'm pleased to announce the release of the Python Essential Reference, 4th edition, soon to be appearing at a bookstore near you. More than a year in development, this edition covers Python

MailingLogger 3.3.0 Released!

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Withers
I'm pleased to announce a new release of Mailinglogger. Mailinglogger provides two handlers for the standard python logging framework that enable log entries to be emailed either as the entries are logged or as a summary at the end of the running process. The handlers have the following

ErrorHandler 1.0.0 Released!

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Withers
I'm pleased to finally get around to announcing the release of ErrorHandler. This is a handler for the python standard logging framework that can be used to tell whether messages have been logged at or above a certain level. This can be useful when wanting to ensure that no errors have been