ANN: Passlib 1.7.0 released

[Eli Collins]

Hi All - 

I'm happy to announce Passlib 1.7.0 has been released.

This version has been a while in coming, and has a lot of great improvements.

* Argon2 & Scrypt hash support
* TOTP support
* PBKDF2 now has faster builtin backend, and utilizes other backends where 
available
* Lots of API cleanups and internal refactoring
* HtpasswdFile reader is now more flexible, and with improved security options.
* Refreshed documentation

See the release notes 
 for details!

- Eli Collins
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[RELEASE] Python 3.6.0b4 is now available

[Ned Deily]

On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.6 release
team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Python 3.6.0b4. 3.6.0b4
is the last planned beta release of Python 3.6, the next major release of
Python.

Among the new major new features in Python 3.6 are:

* PEP 468 - Preserving the order of **kwargs in a function
* PEP 487 - Simpler customization of class creation
* PEP 495 - Local Time Disambiguation
* PEP 498 - Literal String Formatting
* PEP 506 - Adding A Secrets Module To The Standard Library
* PEP 509 - Add a private version to dict
* PEP 515 - Underscores in Numeric Literals
* PEP 519 - Adding a file system path protocol
* PEP 520 - Preserving Class Attribute Definition Order
* PEP 523 - Adding a frame evaluation API to CPython
* PEP 524 - Make os.urandom() blocking on Linux (during system startup)
* PEP 525 - Asynchronous Generators (provisional)
* PEP 526 - Syntax for Variable Annotations (provisional)
* PEP 528 - Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8
* PEP 529 - Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8
* PEP 530 - Asynchronous Comprehensions

Please see "What’s New In Python 3.6" for more information:

https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/3.6.html

You can find Python 3.6.0b4 here:

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-360b4/

Beta releases are intended to give the wider community the opportunity
to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to
support the new feature release. We strongly encourage maintainers of
third-party Python projects to test with 3.6 during the beta phase and
report issues found to bugs.python.org as soon as possible. While the
release is feature complete entering the beta phase, it is possible that
features may be modified or, in rare cases, deleted up until the start
of the release candidate phase (2016-12-05). Our goal is have no changes
after rc1. To achieve that, it will be extremely important to get as
much exposure for 3.6 as possible during the beta phase. Please keep in
mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for
production environments

The next pre-release of Python 3.6 will be 3.6.0rc1, the release candidate,
currently scheduled for 2016-12-05. The official release of Python 3.6.0
is currently scheduled for 2016-12-16.  More information about the release
schedule can be found here:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/

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ANN: eGenix PyRun - One file Python Runtime 2.2.3

[eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg]

ANNOUNCING

eGenix PyRun - One file Python Runtime

Version 2.2.3


   An easy-to-use single file relocatable Python run-time -
  available for Linux, Mac OS X and Unix platforms,
  with support for Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4 and
* also for Python 3.5 *


This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading:
http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-PyRun-2.2.3-GA.html



INTRODUCTION

eGenix PyRun is our open source, one file, no installation version of
Python, making the distribution of a Python interpreter to run based
scripts and applications to Unix based systems as simple as copying a
single file.

eGenix PyRun's executable only needs 11MB for Python 2 and 13MB for
Python 3, but still supports most Python application and scripts - and
it can be compressed to just 3-4MB using upx, if needed.

Compared to a regular Python installation of typically 100MB on disk,
eGenix PyRun is ideal for applications and scripts that need to be
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It makes "installing" Python on a Unix based system as simple as
copying a single file.

eGenix has been using eGenix PyRun internally in the mxODBC Connect
Server product since 2008 with great success and decided to make it
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We provide both the source archive to build your own eGenix PyRun, as
well as pre-compiled binaries for Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, as 32-
and 64-bit versions. The binaries can be downloaded manually, or you
can let our automatic install script install-pyrun take care of the
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Please see the product page for more details:

http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/



NEWS

This minor level release of eGenix PyRun comes with the following
enhancements:

Enhancements / Changes
--

 * Removed lzma module from PyRun for Python 3.x again, since this
   caused too many issues with incompatible/missing libzma.so
   references. The module is still being built as optional add-on and
   can be used if the necessary libs are available, but it will no
   longer prevent PyRun from working altogether.

install-pyrun Quick Install Enhancements
-

eGenix PyRun includes a shell script called install-pyrun, which
greatly simplifies installation of PyRun. It works much like the
virtualenv shell script used for creating new virtual environments
(except that there's nothing virtual about PyRun environments).

https://downloads.egenix.com/python/install-pyrun

With the script, an eGenix PyRun installation is as simple as running:

./install-pyrun targetdir

This will automatically detect the platform, download and install the
right pyrun version into targetdir.

We have updated this script since the last release:

 * Updated install-pyrun to default to eGenix PyRun 2.2.3 and its
   feature set.

For a complete list of changes, please see the eGenix PyRun Changelog:

http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/changelog.html



LICENSE

eGenix PyRun is distributed under the eGenix.com Public License 1.1.0
which is an Open Source license similar to the Python license. You can
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Please see our license page for more details:

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The package comes with full source code.



DOWNLOADS

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As always, we are providing pre-built binaries for all common
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OS X 32/64-bit. Source code archives are available for installation on
other platforms, such as Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc.

___

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Commercial support for this product is available from eGenix.com.
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MORE INFORMATION

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About eGenix (http://www.egenix.com/):

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