ANN: Leo 4.6 rc1 released
Leo 4.6 rc1 is now available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458package_id=29106 Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html The highlights of Leo 4.6: -- - Cached external files *greatly* reduces the time to load .leo files. - Leo now features a modern Qt interface by default. Leo's legacy Tk interface can also be used. - New --config, --file and --gui command-line options. - Leo tests syntax of .py files when saving them. - Leo can now open any kind of file into @edit nodes. - @auto-rst nodes allow easy editing of reStructuredText files. - Properties of commanders, positions and nodes simplify programming. - Improved Leo's unit testing framework. - Leo now requires Python 2.5 or later. - Dozens of small improvements and bug fixes. Links: -- Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Forum:http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 Bzr: http://code.launchpad.net/leo-editor/ Quotes: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/testimonials.html Edward K. Ream email: edream...@yahoo.com Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
Scientific Computing with Python Webinar: June 19, 2009
Greetings! Enthought is pleased to begin our webinar series designed exclusively for subscribers to Enthought Python Distribution at the Basic or higher level. Webinars in this series will take place on the first Friday of each month, at 1:00 pm Central Time. The format will be a mixture of presentations and discussion. This format provides an opportunity for more freeform exchange than typical webinars. 5 June 2009, 1:00 pm CDT (UTC -5:00) * What's new in EPD: new features in EPD 4.3.0 (20 minutes) o EPD Lab o Whooshdoc o SciPy's new curve_fit function * Creating a mirror for your site: using update and roll-back (20 minutes) * QA (20 to 50 minutes) Please use the following link to register and reserve your seat. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/266207560 Forward email http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?m=1102424111856ea=python-announce-list%40python.orga=1102636686635 This email was sent to python-announce-list@python.org by amen...@enthought.com. Update Profile/Email Address http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?p=oov=001DFR05IDUFUXFQLppfBgsYTbLaf8ov-DidTKcJEBRR7Usx_4Ek7JZG96igtG9siEJ Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe(TM) http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?p=unv=001DFR05IDUFUXFQLppfBgsYTbLaf8ov-DidTKcJEBRR7Usx_4Ek7JZG96igtG9siEJ Privacy Policy: http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving/CCPrivacyPolicy.jsp Enthought, Inc. | 515 Congress Ave. | Suite 2100 | Austin | TX | 78701 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
Announcing the 9th Pyweek game programming challenge!
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 challenge, and must incorporate some theme chosen at the start of the challenge. REGISTRATION IS NOT YET OPEN -- Registration will open one month before the start date. See the competition timetable and rules: http://www.pyweek.org/9/ PLANNING FOR THE CHALLENGE -- Make sure you have working versions of the libraries you're going to use. The rules page has a list of libraries and other resources. Make sure you can build packages to submit as your final submission (if you're going to use py2exe, make sure you know how to use it and that it works). If you don't have access to Linux, Windows or a Mac to test on, contact friends, family or other competitors to find someone who is able to test for you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
Announcing freebase-python 1.0
freebase-python is a library for accessing the open data repository
stored at http://freebase.com. Freebase is huge, user-edited database
of over 100 million of facts about over 5 million topics, all under
the Creative Commons CC-BY license.
The freebase-python library 1.0 is now available! It introduces a new
syntax for accessing the freebase api, it updates the available
commands to reflect the entire web api, and it introduces some cool
schema manipulation utilities. It's backwards compatible with previous
versions of the library.
The new syntax makes it easy to start running with freebase:
import freebase
print freebase.mqlread({id : /en/the_beatles, name : None})
{u'id': u'/en/the_beatles', u'name': u'The Beatles'}
You can also access freebase.sandbox as easily:
import freebase.sandbox
print freebase.sandbox.mqlread(...)
freebase-python can now do all of the current api calls that the
website handles. For a full list of the api calls and examples, you
can refer to http://code.google.com/p/freebase-python/wiki/GettingStarted
.
The schema manipulation utilities introduced make it easy copy and
move types, properties, and objects. This means that you can save
bases to your computer so that their survive a sandbox refresh, keep
different versions of your bases and types on your own machine, or
move types between bases. There are a few recipes on the freebase-
python wiki that you can find here: http://code.google.com/p/freebase-python/w/list?can=2q=label%3ARecipe%2CSchema-Manipulation
freebase-python is also Google App Engine friendly. You can check out
how to write your own app at http://code.google.com/p/freebase-python/wiki/GoogleAppEngine
. You can also check out a sample app at http://freebase-images.appspot.com
.
There are also more test and more docs!
Installing is easy, if you have easy_install, just say
$ easy_install freebase
If you don't have easy_install, you can get it by running http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
.
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[ANN] Pyjamas 0.6pre1 ALPHA release of Pyjamas Widget Set
http://pyjs.org - Pyjamas is a port of GWT to Python that can run applications both on the Desktop (like python-gtk2) and in all major Web Browsers (as javascript). This is an alpha release - 0.6pre1 - of the Pyjamas Web Widget Set. It is a significant upgrade, incorporating Pyjamas Desktop which can now use Mozilla XULRunner as well as PyWebKitGtk as the browser engine. Significant enhancements have been made to the javascript compiler, which bring python strict features as well as a relaxed (and faster) compile-time option. The reason for the 0.6 pre-release is due to the number of features and improvements added. Many thanks to Kees, Lovely Systems, and all the people from EuroPython 2009 who have helped contribute and generally make Pyjamas fun to work with. Downloads are available from: http://code.google.com/p/pyjamas http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyjamas http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pyjamas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
ANN: SciPy 2009 early registration extended to July 17th
The early registration deadline for SciPy 2009 has been extended for one week to July 17, 2009. Please register ( http://conference.scipy.org/to_register ) by this date to take advantage of the reduced early registration rate. About the conference SciPy 2009, the 8th Python in Science conference, will be held from August 18-23, 2009 at Caltech in Pasadena, CA, USA. The conference starts with two days of tutorials to the scientific Python tools. There will be two tracks, one for introduction of the basic tools to beginners, and one for more advanced tools. The tutorials will be followed by two days of talks. Both days of talks will begin with a keynote address. The first day’s keynote will be given by Peter Norvig, the Director of Research at Google; while, the second keynote will be delivered by Jon Guyer, a Materials Scientist in the Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group at NIST. The program committee will select the remaining talks from submissions to our call for papers. All selected talks will be included in our conference proceedings edited by the program committee. After the talks each day we will provide several rooms for impromptu birds of a feather discussions. Finally, the last two days of the conference will be used for a number of coding sprints on the major software projects in our community. For the 8th consecutive year, the conference will bring together the developers and users of the open source software stack for scientific computing with Python. Attendees have the opportunity to review the available tools and how they apply to specific problems. By providing a forum for developers to share their Python expertise with the wider commercial, academic, and research communities, this conference fosters collaboration and facilitates the sharing of software components, techniques, and a vision for high level language use in scientific computing. For further information, please visit the conference homepage: http://conference.scipy.org. Important Dates --- * Friday, July 3: Abstracts Due * Wednesday, July 15: Announce accepted talks, post schedule * Friday, July 17: Early Registration ends * Tuesday-Wednesday, August 18-19: Tutorials * Thursday-Friday, August 20-21: Conference * Saturday-Sunday, August 22-23: Sprints * Friday, September 4: Papers for proceedings due Executive Committee --- * Jarrod Millman, UC Berkeley, USA (Conference Chair) * Gaël Varoquaux, INRIA Saclay, France (Program Co-Chair) * Stéfan van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (Program Co-Chair) * Fernando Pérez, UC Berkeley, USA (Tutorial Chair) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
