Roundup Issue Tracker release 0.8 beta 2

2005-01-13 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release this 8th major feature release of Roundup. This is currently a DEVELOPMENT release, meaning it probably has bugs. If you want a STABLE release, use 0.7.x First up, big thanks go to alexander smishlajev who has done some really good work getting the i18n and new configuration

Roundup Issue Tracker release 0.8

2005-02-16 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release this 8th major feature release of Roundup. First up, big thanks go to alexander smishlajev who has done some really good work getting the i18n and new configuration components of this release going. Please note that Roundup now requires Python 2.3 or later. Please continue

Roundup Issue Tracker release 0.8.2

2005-03-03 Thread Richard Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry Track design competition. This 0.8.2 release adds one feature and

Roundup Issue Tracker release 0.8.3

2005-05-02 Thread Richard Jones
Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry Track design competition. This 0.8.3 release adds one feature and fixes some bugs: Feature: - chinese

Roundup Issue Tracker release 0.8.4

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Jones
Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry Track design competition. This 0.8.4 release fixes some bugs: Fixed: - extra CRs in CSV export files on

Roundup Issue Tracker releases 0.8.5 (stable) and 0.9.0b1 (development)

2005-10-07 Thread Richard Jones
Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry Track design competition. The 0.8.5 stable release includes an Argentinian Spanish translation by Ramiro Morales

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.0 (!!!)

2006-01-27 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release this, the 1.0 release of Roundup. Yes, finally after over 4 years and 8 major releases, the 1.0 release is here. Roundup 1.0 includes all the pre-1.0 goodness, and: - added full-text indexer using Xapian as the back end - Lithuanian translation by Aiste Kesminaite - Web

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.0.1

2006-02-03 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release this, the 1.0.1 release of Roundup. Features in this release: - scripts/import_sf.py will import a tracker from Sourceforge.NET - added hasRole('Role Name') to HTMLUser Fixed in this release: - SQL generation for sort/group by separate Link properties (sf bug 1417565) -

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.1.0

2006-02-10 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release this, the 1.1.0 release of Roundup. Feature: - trackers may configure custom stop-words for the full-text indexer - login may now be for a single session (and this is the default) - trackers may hide exceptions from web users (they will be mailed to the tracker admin)

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.1.1

2006-03-03 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release this, the 1.1.1 release of Roundup. Fixed in this release: - failure with browsers not sending Accept-Language header (sf bugs 1429646 and 1435335) - translate class name in required property not supplied error message (sf bug 1429669) - error in link property lookups

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.1.2

2006-04-27 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.1.2 of Roundup. Feature: - server-ctl script uses server configuration file (sf bug 1443805) Fixed: - indexing may be turned off for FileClass content now (content and type properties are now automatically included in the FileClass schema where previously

OSDC 2006 -- CFP closes in 2.5 weeks!

2006-06-27 Thread Richard Jones
http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/cfp06.html There are two and a half weeks to go to get your paper in for one of the best Australian conferences this year! The deadline for proposals is 12th July 2006. The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference designed for

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.2.1

2006-10-07 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.2.1 of Roundup. Bugs fixed in 1.2.1: - E-mail subject line prefix delimiter configuration was being ignored. - Password confirm field in user editing. New Features in 1.2.x: - supports Python 2.5, including the sqlite3 module - full timezone support (sf patch

OSDC 2006's fabulous keynotes

2006-10-17 Thread Richard Jones
information please visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/sponsors/index.html We look forward to sharing this great conference with you! Don't forget to register before 31st October to get a free conference t-shirt. http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html -- Richard Jones, OSDC 2006 Programme Chair http

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.3.2

2006-12-18 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.3.2 of Roundup. Fixed in 1.3.2: - relax rules for required fields in form_parser.py (sf bug 1599740) - documentation cleanup from Luke Ross (sf patch 1594860) - updated Spanish translation from Ramiro Morales (sf patch 1594718) - handle 8-bit untranslateable

PyWeek #4 in April!

2007-03-09 Thread Richard Jones
PyWeek #4 will run in the first week of April: Start: 00:00UTC Sunday 1st April Finish: 00:00UTC Sunday 8th April REGISTRATION IS OPEN Visit the PyWeek website for more information: http://pyweek.org/ THE PYWEEK CHALLENGE: - Invites all Python programmers to write a game in one week

Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane - Call for Papers

2007-05-29 Thread Richard Jones
Call for Papers --- Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane, Australia Success in Development Business OSDC is a grass-roots conference providing Open Source developers with an opportunity to meet, share, learn, and of course show-off. OSDC focuses on Open Source

Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane - Call for Papers

2007-06-16 Thread Richard Jones
Call for Papers Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane Australia Success in Development Business OSDC is an Australian grass-roots conference providing Open Source developers with an opportunity to meet, share, learn, and of course show-off. OSDC focuses on Open Source developers

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.4.0

2007-11-04 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.0 of Roundup. The metakit backend has been removed due to lack of maintenance and presence of good alternatives (in particular sqlite built into Python 2.5) New Features in 1.4.0: - Roundup has a new xmlrpc frontend that gives access to a tracker using XMLRPC.

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.4.2

2008-02-10 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.2 of Roundup. If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the Software Upgrade guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. New Features in 1.4.2: - New config option in mail section: ignore_alternatives allows to ignore

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.4.4 (SECURITY FIX)

2008-03-01 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.4 of Roundup. 1.4.4 is a security fix release. All installations of Roundup are strongly encouraged to update. If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the Software Upgrade guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup

Bruce the Presentation Tool version 2.0beta1

2008-03-02 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 2.0beta1 of Bruce the Presentation Tool. Bruce is for programmers who are tired of fighting with presentation tools. In its basic form it allows text, code or image pages and even interactive Python sessions. It uses pyglet and is easily extensible to add new page

Roundup Issue Tracker version 1.4.5.1 released

2008-08-19 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.5 of Roundup. 1.4.5.1 has one new feature: - Add use of username/password stored in ~/.netrc in mailgw (sf patch #1912105) It is otherwise mostly a bugfix release: - 'Make a Copy' failed with more than one person in nosy list (sf #1906147) - xml-rpc security

Roundup Issue Tracker version 1.4.6 released

2008-09-01 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.6 of Roundup. 1.4.6 is a bugfix release: - Fix bug introduced in 1.4.5 in RDBMS full-text indexing - Make URL matching code less matchy If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the Software Upgrade guidelines given in the

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.4.7

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.7 of Roundup. 1.4.7 is primarily a bugfix release which contains important security fixes: - a number of security issues were discovered by Daniel Diniz - EditCSV and ExportCSV altered to include permission checks - HTTP POST required on actions which alter data

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.4.8

2009-03-18 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.8 of Roundup. This release fixes some regressions: - bug introduced into hyperdb filter (issue 2550505) - bug introduced into CVS export and view (issue 2550529) - bugs introduced in the migration to the email package (issue 2550531) And adds a couple of other

Announcing the 9th Pyweek game programming challenge!

2009-07-11 Thread Richard Jones
The date for the ninth PyWeek challenge has been set: Sunday 30th August to Sunday 6th September (00:00UTC to 00:00UTC) The PyWeek challenge invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team. Entries must be developed in Python, during the

Next meeting: Tuesday 11th August

2009-07-28 Thread Richard Jones
The next meeting of the Melbourne Python Users Group will be on Tuesday the 11th of August starting at 6:30pm. We'll be meeting at Horse Bazaar again but this time we'll have use of their projector. We'll have time for several short presentations or lightning talks. Meeting details,

Roundup Issue Tracker 1.4.9 released

2009-08-10 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.9 of Roundup which fixes some bugs: - fixed action taken in response to invalid GET request - fixed classic tracker template to submit POST requests when appropriate - fix problems with french and german locale files (issue 2550546) - Run each message of the

Roundup Issue Tracker 1.4.12 released

2010-02-09 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.12 of Roundup which fixes a number bugs. This release includes fixes for some potential security holes. Please see the upgrading documentation for details of what you might need to do in your tracker. If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you

PyCon Australia Call For Proposals

2010-04-07 Thread Richard Jones
. See you in Sydney in June! Richard Jones PyCon AU Program Chair -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/

PyCon Australia 2010 update

2010-04-22 Thread Richard Jones
sponsors for helping make the event a reality. Richard Jones PyCon Australia 2010 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/

PyCon Australia CFP: One Day Left!

2010-04-27 Thread Richard Jones
/cfp As always, please pass this message on to people you feel will find it interesting. Richard Jones PyCon Australia 2010 http://pycon-au.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org

Next Melbourne PUG meeting 6:30pm Monday 10th of May @ Horse Bazaar

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Jones
Meeting details, location and talks list are at: http://wiki.python.org/moin/MelbournePUG It looks like we've got a few cool talks lined up: 15 minute talks - None yet... suggest one! 5 minute talks - Load-balancing xmlrpclib/jsonrpclib for robust distributed applications (Andreux Fort) ...

PyCon Australia 2010 registration deadline reminder

2010-06-08 Thread Richard Jones
registrations do not include a seat at the conference dinner. Additional seats at the conference dinner may be purchased for $77 each. All prices include GST. Information about the registration process is on the PyCon Australia website. Richard Jones PyCon Australia 2010 -- http

PyCon Australia 2010 Registration Closes Tomorrow

2010-06-20 Thread Richard Jones
registrations at the door. We will NOT be accepting money at the door. If you're registered and haven't paid by tomorrow you will not have a seat at the conference dinner. Richard Jones PyCon Australia 2010 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support

Roundup Issue Tracker 1.4.14 released

2010-07-01 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.14 of Roundup which includes a security fix and some other fixes: Features: - Preparations for getting 2to3 work, not completed yet. (Richard Jones) Fixed: - User input not escaped when a bad template name is supplied (thanks Benjamin Pollack) - The email

ANN: Roundup Issue Tracker 1.4.16 released

2010-10-08 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.16 of Roundup which introduces some minor features and, as usual, fixes some bugs: Features: - allow trackers to override the classes used to render properties in templating per issue2550659 (thanks Ezio Melotti) - new mailgw configuration item

Python Game Programming Challenge 12 (April 2011) is coming!

2011-02-08 Thread Richard Jones
The 12th Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) is coming. It'll run from the 3rd to the 10th of April. The PyWeek challenge: - Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team, - Is intended to be challenging and fun, - Will hopefully increase

PyCon Australia 2011: 20th 21st August, Sydney Masonic Center

2011-02-08 Thread Richard Jones
following the conference proper. International guests should note that Kiwi PyCon is to run on the following weekend, making it a great opportunity to attend a couple of awesome Down Under conferences and hopefully do some sprinting with the locals. Richard Jones http://pycon-au.org

PyCon Australia 2011 - Call for Participation

2011-02-20 Thread Richard Jones
more go to the official Call for Proposals page here: http://pycon-au.org/2011/conference/proposals/ The deadline for proposal submission is the 2nd of May. See you in Sydney in August! Richard Jones PyCon AU Program Chair -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce

PyWeek 12 (April 2011) is registration is open!

2011-03-07 Thread Richard Jones
/ Richard Jones http://pyweek.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/

Python Game Programming Challenge 13 (September 2011) is coming!

2011-07-22 Thread Richard Jones
The 13th Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) is coming. It'll run from the 11th to the 18th of September. The PyWeek challenge: - Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team, - Is intended to be challenging and fun, - Will hopefully

Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) #15 is coming!

2012-08-13 Thread Richard Jones
The 15th Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) is coming. It'll run from the 9th to the 16th of September: http://pyweek.org/ The PyWeek challenge: 1. Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team, 2. Is intended to be challenging and fun,

[ANN] PyWeek 17 will run in the first week of September (1st to 8th) - write a game in Python in a week

2013-07-29 Thread Richard Jones
Hi all, The Python Game Programming Challenge http://pyweek.org/ will run its 17th challenge during the first week of September, from the 1st to the 8th. The PyWeek challenge: 1. Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team, 2. Is intended to be

[ANN] PyWeek 18 will run in May (11th to 18th)

2014-03-17 Thread Richard Jones
Hi all, The Python Game Programming Challenge http://pyweek.org/ will run its 18th challenge from the 11th to the 18th of May. The PyWeek challenge: 1. Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team, 2. Is intended to be challenging and fun, 3.

OSDC 2005 Registration

2005-10-23 Thread Richard Jones
G'day folks, This is a quick note to let you know that registrations for Australia's second Open Source Developers' Conference are now open. Last year's conference was a huge hit with 60 high quality talks running in three streams over three days. If you weren't able to join us last year make

PyWeek Challenge #2: write a game in a week

2006-01-24 Thread Richard Jones
The date for the second PyWeek challenge has been set: Sunday 26th March to Sunday 2nd April (00:00UTC to 00:00UTC). The PyWeek challenge invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team. Entries must be developed in Python, during the challenge, and

Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 1)

2005-03-02 Thread Richard Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:50 am, Cameron Laird wrote: Also, has anyone indexed Python bloggers (that is, webloggers of things Pythonic)? My page http://mechanicalcat.net/pyblagg.html (from the wiki

Re: Question about PyPI and 'easy_install'

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Jones
makoto kuwata wrote: Is it required to set registered name (Tenjin) and package name (pyTenjin) into same name? Yes. How did you upload those files with a different name to that pypi package? Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Question about PyPI and 'easy_install'

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Jones
makoto kuwata wrote: Your patch shows that both project name (Tenjin) and package name (pyTenjin) should be the same name. And, I'm afraid that your patch seems to require user to install setuptools. I want Tenjin to be install not only with easy_install but also without setuptools. You

Re: Building a safe python?

2008-03-28 Thread Richard Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm making a game where you'll be able to make your own mods and I want to be able to write these mods in python. Check out tinypy: http://www.philhassey.com/blog/category/tinypy/ Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.4.7

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.7 of Roundup. 1.4.7 is primarily a bugfix release which contains important security fixes: - a number of security issues were discovered by Daniel Diniz - EditCSV and ExportCSV altered to include permission checks - HTTP POST required on actions which alter data

Re: [Roundup-users] Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.4.7

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Jones
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Richard Jones richardjo...@optushome.com.au wrote: I'm proud to release version 1.4.7 of Roundup. I would like to also specially thank Stefan Seefeld who is responsible for the new features and a lot of the bugfixes in this release. Richard -- http

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.4.8

2009-03-17 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.8 of Roundup. This release fixes some regressions: - bug introduced into hyperdb filter (issue 2550505) - bug introduced into CVS export and view (issue 2550529) - bugs introduced in the migration to the email package (issue 2550531) And adds a couple of other

Registration is open for the 5th Python game challenge!

2007-08-04 Thread Richard Jones
The fifth PyWeek is only a month away. Come along and join the fun: write a video game in a week! There's some really interesting new libraries that have popped up recently. Have a gander on the pyweek message board for more info. REGISTRATION IS OPEN Visit the PyWeek website for more

Re: Querying Graphics Card Name

2007-08-09 Thread Richard Jones
Benjamin Goldenberg wrote: I would like to find out the name of the graphics card of the machine my program is running on. I have looked into the pyopengl module, and using them to query the card, but it seems like there ought to be a simpler way to find this out without setting up a

Re: Adventure-Engines in Python

2007-08-13 Thread Richard Jones
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: Are there any? An adventure game was written for one of the PyWeek challenges: http://www.pyweek.org/e/aerunthar/ You might be able to use that as a starting point. Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to setup pyOpenGL3.0.a6 for window xp?

2007-08-19 Thread Richard Jones
Gary Herron wrote: Jason wrote: On Aug 17, 6:42 pm, Carl Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows comes with OpenGL libraries. However, before you can use OpenGL you'll need a package that can provide an OpenGL context, which PyOpenGL doesn't do (easily). PyGame is the typical choice for

Re: TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007!

2008-01-07 Thread Richard Jones
Berco Beute wrote: What I would like to know is what it was that boosted Python's popularity in 2004 (see http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/Python.html). Equally interesting is the question why it dropped shortly after. They explain the discontinuity on the index page in the FAQ. Richard

Re: python for game programming

2008-02-03 Thread Richard Jones
t3chn0n3rd wrote: Is Python program language popular for game programming? http://www.pyweek.org/ Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Roundup Issue Tracker version 1.4.5.1 released

2008-08-18 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.5 of Roundup. 1.4.5.1 has one new feature: - Add use of username/password stored in ~/.netrc in mailgw (sf patch #1912105) It is otherwise mostly a bugfix release: - 'Make a Copy' failed with more than one person in nosy list (sf #1906147) - xml-rpc security

Roundup Issue Tracker version 1.4.6 released

2008-08-31 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release version 1.4.6 of Roundup. 1.4.6 is a bugfix release: - Fix bug introduced in 1.4.5 in RDBMS full-text indexing - Make URL matching code less matchy If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the Software Upgrade guidelines given in the

Re: Why did no one tell me about import antigravity?

2007-12-05 Thread Richard Jones
Ant wrote: http://xkcd.com/353/ I laughed :) Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a Python person's experience with Ruby

2007-12-08 Thread Richard Jones
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: class A(object): @apply def a(): def fget(self): return self._a def fset(self, val): self._a = val return property(**locals()) def __init__(self): self.a = foo That property setup seems overly complicated. As far as I

Roundup Issue Tracker release 1.1.1

2006-03-02 Thread Richard Jones
I'm proud to release this, the 1.1.1 release of Roundup. Fixed in this release: - failure with browsers not sending Accept-Language header (sf bugs 1429646 and 1435335) - translate class name in required property not supplied error message (sf bug 1429669) - error in link property lookups

Re: CP4E revival

2007-05-24 Thread Richard Jones
Michael Tobis wrote: http://tinyurl.com/yr62r3 seems to short-circuit some pointless hoop-jumping to get you to the article. Hoop-jumping implemented to prevent just this kind of direct linking (and thus not saving of the PDF to local disk to view, and thus increasing the load on the

Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane - Call for Papers

2007-05-29 Thread Richard Jones
Call for Papers --- Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane, Australia Success in Development Business OSDC is a grass-roots conference providing Open Source developers with an opportunity to meet, share, learn, and of course show-off. OSDC focuses on Open Source

Re: Bragging about Python

2007-06-08 Thread Richard Jones
Steve Howell wrote: --- Szabolcs Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually i don't like when a tutorial uses over complicated cute names if the context is obvious (fibonacci) then we don't need to add 'parent_rabbits' and such identifiers I still prefer the use of rabbits, but I don't mind

Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane - Call for Papers

2007-06-15 Thread Richard Jones
Call for Papers Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane Australia Success in Development Business OSDC is an Australian grass-roots conference providing Open Source developers with an opportunity to meet, share, learn, and of course show-off. OSDC focuses on Open Source developers

Re: using Mac OS X CoreGraphics via ctypes

2007-06-18 Thread Richard Jones
Daniel wrote: Thanks Diez. I'll try that if I decide to keep going with ctypes. I got a bit further but had some problems with memory management (i.e. retaining and releasing object references). It seemed like Python/ ctypes was accessing referenced objects after I had released them, which

5 DAYS TO GO: pygame.draw challenge

2006-06-20 Thread Richard Jones
http://media.pyweek.org/static/pygame.draw-0606.html THE CHALLENGE: Create a game in up to 64kbytes of source code using only pygame (and python stdlib). No additional libraries, no external files (even ones loaded from a network). That means no PyOpenGL, no PNGs, no OGGs, etc. Feel free to

Re: Pygame.draw challenge is over!

2006-06-25 Thread Richard Jones
spiffy wrote: Congrats to Seth Yastrov for 'gravity.py' ... THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKED! I did test that they all worked on my machine before putting them online... What issues are you having? What OS? What version of Python and PyGame? I've added this to the README.txt that comes with the files:

OSDC 2006 -- CFP closes in 2.5 weeks!

2006-06-26 Thread Richard Jones
http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/cfp06.html There are two and a half weeks to go to get your paper in for one of the best Australian conferences this year! The deadline for proposals is 12th July 2006. The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference designed for

Python Game Programming Challenge #4 -- theme voting has started!

2007-03-24 Thread Richard Jones
The next PyWeek game programming challenge starts next Sunday at 00:00UTC. If you're interested, there's definitely still time to sign up to the challenge. http://www.pyweek.org/ Theme voting has started. You may now log into (or sign up to ;) the PyWeek website to lodge your vote for theme.

Re: Cheeseshop needs mirrors

2007-03-30 Thread Richard Jones
Paul Boddie wrote: On 30 Mar, 09:05, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If something as widely used as eggs is going to have a single point of failure like the Cheeseshop, we can't have it going down. I'm sure there are other solutions, but my suggestion is simply to have mirrors. It works for

Re: Cheeseshop needs mirrors

2007-03-30 Thread Richard Jones
Paul Boddie wrote: Richard Jones wrote: And of course I'll reiterate the same line I always do: the Cheese Shop was set up by a volunteer, enhanced by some other volunteers and exactly nothing more will get done unless more volunteers offer their time. Sure. I wasn't criticising the Cheese

Re: File DB instead of real database?

2007-04-13 Thread Richard Jones
Jia Lu wrote: I donot want to use a real DB like MySQL ... But I need something to save about more than 1000 articles. Is there any good ways? import anydbm Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Future Python Gui?

2007-04-18 Thread Richard Jones
kirkjobsluder wrote: I'd say that the best bet is to learn swig and similar bridging, expanding, and embedding mechanisms. For GUI programming this would seem overkill. Pick a GUI toolkit and it's almost guaranteed to be wrapped for use in Python already. Richard --

Another Python Game Programming Challenge concludes

2007-04-21 Thread Richard Jones
, the next challenge will be in 6 months. There is no a date set. Richard Jones (the PyWeek guy ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Another Python Game Programming Challenge concludes

2007-04-25 Thread Richard Jones
Terry Reedy wrote: ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | The fourth Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) has now concluded | with | judges (PyWeek being peer-judged) declaring the winners: | | Individual: Which way is up? by Hectigo |

Re: Another Python Game Programming Challenge concludes

2007-04-25 Thread Richard Jones
Richard Jones wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | The fourth Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) has now concluded | with | judges (PyWeek being peer-judged) declaring the winners: | | Individual: Which way is up

Re: Python proficiency test

2006-07-22 Thread Richard Jones
Kent Johnson wrote: I recently helped create an on-line Python proficiency test. The publisher of the test is looking for beta testers to try the test and give feedback. If you are interested, here is an announcement from the publisher: Had a look. In between my browser blocking a popup on

Re: Which field is Python suitable to do some tasks?

2006-08-18 Thread Richard Jones
many_years_after wrote: hello , members: I have basic knowledge of python programming. But i don't know what to do next step. I don't know in which field I should learn more about python and finally finish some tasks. Can you give me some ideas? http://www.pyweek.org/ Richard

Re: What are decorated functions?

2006-08-22 Thread Richard Jones
Gabriel Genellina wrote: At Tuesday 22/8/2006 17:19, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: I'm just reading the python language reference and came around the term decorated functions, but I have no idea, for what they could be used. A decorator takes a function/method/callable, decorates (modifies) it

Re: Best Practices for Python Script Development?

2006-08-24 Thread Richard Jones
metaperl wrote: Searching cheeseshop.python.org/pypi for getopt modules does not work very well by the way. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-getopt.html Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Call for advice on how to start PyOpenGL!

2007-08-20 Thread Richard Jones
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: math2life wrote: I work with python for two years, are familiar with image processing, but beginner on PyOpenGL and OpenGL. Any advice appreciated! You should check out the pyweek (http://www.pyweek.org/). There you find pygame OpenGL-based games, of a

Re: New UI Toolkit

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Jones
Gerdus van Zyl wrote: I am halfway to a first release of a new GUI library for python. It will be cross platform and follows the Swing philosophy of user experience and interface fidelity above but it doesn't look like windows! (aside: neither does office 2007 or windowsmediaplayer). The

Re: include myVar

2007-09-08 Thread Richard Jones
Ricardo Aráoz wrote: Is there a way to import a module whose name is in a variable (read from a configuration file for example)? pydoc __import__ Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Registration for OSDC 2007 is open

2007-09-24 Thread Richard Jones
OSDC 2007 is in Brisbane this year on 27-29 November (with a tutorial day on the 26th). $275 early bid registration closes October 14th. Just follow the instructions at the top of http://osdc.com.au/registration/ to 1. register and 2. pay. (If you are going to pay by credit card/PayPal you

Re: Python 3.0 migration plans?

2007-09-27 Thread Richard Jones
Steve Holden wrote: I wondered if a straw poll could get some idea of readers' thoughts about when they will be migrating to 3.0 on, so I used the new widget on Blogger to add a poll for that. I'd appreciate if if you would go to http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/ and register your vote

Re: Python 3.0 migration plans?

2007-09-28 Thread Richard Jones
John Nagle wrote: Insofar as Python has an organization, it's not adequately managing extension modules. Each extension module has its own infrastructure, with its own build procedures, its own bug list, and its own maintainers. There's not even an archive. Unlike CPAN, Cheese Shop is

OSDC 2007 earlybird registration now open!

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Jones
[and now with more information] The Open Source Developers' Conference is designed by open source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, licensing, and

Re: code for the graphics window?

2006-08-31 Thread Richard Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm new to Python . . .very new. I was just wondering, once I've written a program that opens the graphics window and I've got some things going on in the grahics window, how do I display text in the grahics window? I need to be able to display changeable text, so

Re: What's more pythonic?

2006-09-12 Thread Richard Jones
Paul Rubin wrote: Dan Stromberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: def __cmp__(self, other): if self.a other.a: return -1 elif self.a other.a: return 1 else: return 0 I think I'd have written return cmp(self.a, other.a) /me agrees --

Re: [ANN] IronPython Community Edition 1.0r1

2006-09-14 Thread Richard Jones
Sanghyeon Seo wrote: I am happy to announce IronPython Community Edition (IPCE for short) 1.0 revision 1, based on IronPython 1.0, to the world. Is there any word on ctypes for IronPython? The last I can find out on the tubes is a promising message dated back in June:

Re: mp3 libs and programs

2006-09-15 Thread Richard Jones
Jay wrote: I'm writing a python script that involves playing mp3 files. I've previously successfully used the Python interface for MAD: http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ which was trivial to use in combination with libao's python interface (and throw in ogg.vorbis from xiph.org and

Re: Cheese Shop Registration error

2006-09-17 Thread Richard Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to register on the Python Cheese Shop, but I constatnly get a GPG key ID is invalid error. I made a new GPG key using kgpg, exported the public key to the key server, and copy/pasted the Key ID into the registration form... But it doesn't work. And the key

Re: Cheese Shop Registration error

2006-09-18 Thread Richard Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Key ID that the kgpg shows. I tried to paste the key returned by the quiery on the keyserver. but it also doesn't work. I tried everything that has any connection with the key, but everything fails. By the way the key is: 6A61E3AD Here is the code that could

Re: Cheese Shop Registration error

2006-09-19 Thread Richard Jones
John Machin wrote: | int(6A61E3AD) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 6A61E3AD | int(6A61E3AD, 16) 1784800173 What am I missing? Ah, thankyou! I, on the other hand, looked at that code several times and saw nothing ;)

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