ANN: $500 prize for best Leo slideshows

[Edward K. Ream]

A prize of $500 prize is hereby offered to the person or persons who can
create the best slide shows (using Leo's slideshow plugin) that introduces
Leo to newbies.  What is Leo, you ask?

Home: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html
Tutorial: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/leo_TOC.html
FAQ: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/FAQ.html
Wiki: http://leo.zwiki.org/FrontPage

1. Prize fund

The total prize fund is $500.  Prizes will be awarded solely at the
discretion of Edward K. Ream.  The prize fund may be split among
contestants, and the total prize fund will be distributed only if the number
and quality of submissions warrant it.

2. Format of entries

Entries should be a *single* Leo outline.  This outline may contain multiple
slideshows. Multiple entries are allowed.  Entries must be accompanied by
your name, address and email address.

3. Ownership of entries

All entries become the property of Edward K. Ream and will be distributed
under the terms of Leo's Open Source license.

4. Criteria for awards

Prizes will be awarded on how useful the slideshow is in helping newbies
understand Leo.  To be considered for an award, an entry must show
substantial work.  I'll also consider creativity, originality, etc.  I'll
also look favorably on extensions to the slideshow plugin if such extensions
materially improve the presentation.

5. Duration of contest

The contest shall end December 11, 2006.  The contest may be extended at the
sole discretion of Edward K. Ream, but in no event shall the contest
continue past February 2, 2007.

Prizes will be awarded within one week of the close of the contest.  Winners
will be announced on Leo's Open Discussion Forum:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10226

Edward

Edward K. Ream   email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html


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ANN: Paste 1.0

[Ian Bicking]

I am happy to announce the release of Paste 1.0.  This release
includes all the major components: Paste (core), Paste Script, Paste
Deploy, and Paste WebKit.

Paste actually passed the 0.x stage a long time ago.  But now it's
official: Paste is really stable.  How stable?  A lot stable.

What Is Paste?
--

URL: http://pythonpaste.org
Install: easy_install Paste PasteScript PasteDeploy

Paste (core) is a set of WSGI components, each of which can be used in
isolation.  But used together they form an unstoppable force.  Team
WSGI, unite!

These components let you do things like create applications that proxy
to other websites, mount multiple applications under different
prefixes, catch exceptions and interactively inspect the environment,
and much more.

Paste Deploy is a configuration system for these components.  Paste
Script is a jack of all trades that builds new project file layouts,
runs WSGI server stacks, and does application deployment.

Acknowledgements


Thanks to all the people that have helped Paste get this far: Ben
Bangert, Clark Evans, James Gardner, Philip Jenvy, and to Imaginary
Landscape for their support during my time there, and to The Open
Planning Project for their ongoing support.



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ANN: wxPython 2.7.1.2 release

[Robin Dunn]

Announcing
--

The 2.7.1.2 release of wxPython is now available for download at
http://wxpython.org/download.php.  This release is a quick-turnaround
bugfix release designed to solve some problems found in the 2.7.1.1
release. Source and binaries are available for both Python 2.4 and 2.5
for Windows and Mac, as well some pacakges for varous Linux
distributions.  A summary of changes is listed below and also at
http://wxpython.org/recentchanges.php.


What is wxPython?
-

wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It
allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly
functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is
implemented as a Python extension module that wraps the GUI components
of the popular wxWidgets cross platform library, which is written in
C++.

wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program
will usually run on multiple platforms without modifications.
Currently supported platforms are 32-bit Microsoft Windows, most Linux
or other Unix-like systems using GTK2, and Mac OS X 10.3+, in most
cases the native widgets are used on each platform.


Changes in 2.7.1.2
--

Fixed a bug in the MaskedEdit controls caused by conflicting IsEmpty
methods.

Patch #1579280: Some mimetype optimizations on unix-like systems.

wxMac: Several wx.webkit.WebKitCtrl enhancements/fixes, including:

 - new methods for increasing/decreasing text size, getting
   selection, getting/setting scroll position, printing, enabling
   editing, and running JavaScripts on the page.

 - added new event (wx.webkit.WebKitBeforeLoadEvent) for catching, and
   possibly vetoing, load events before they occur.

 - wx.webkit.WebKitCtrl now fires mouse events for certain events
   that it was eating before. This improves wxSplitterWindow
   resizing behavior.

 - refactoring of the sizing logic to move the Cocoa view.  Tested
   with splitter windows, panels, notebooks and all position
   correctly with this.

Some improvements to the drawing code in CustomTreeCtrl.

Fixed refcount leak in wx.Window.GetChildren.


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Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org  Java give you jitters?  Relax with wxPython!

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[ANN] Movable IDLE 0.1.0

[Fuzzyman]

There is now an experimental version of **Movable IDLE** available,
this is an off-shoot of the `Movable Python
`_ project.

**Movable IDLE**, version 0.1.0 can be downloaded (free) from :

`Movable IDLE Download
`_

(Same place as the trial version of Movable Python.)

**Movable IDLE** is a portable distribution of IDLE, the Python IDE,
for Windows.

The homepage of Movable IDLE is :

   http://voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/movableidle.html

This can be run without installing, and at only fifteen megabytes
uncompressed it can be run from a USB stick or memory card.

It comes with the full Python standard library, and should be capable
of running almost any program that can be run with IDLE. Hopefully this
will be useful for educational and experimental purposes.


Limitations


**Movable IDLE** does not have all the clever trickery that **Movable
Python** does. This means that the `win32
`_ extensions, or any program
that uses ``imp.find_module`` are unlikely to work. It also won't work
with programs that have another event loop, like other GUI toolkits.

If you need these features, try `Movable Python`_.

On the other hand, if you do find bugs or restrictions, post them to
the `Movable Python Mailing List
`_ and it may be possible to fix
them. This is the right place to post feedback and suggestions as well.


License
==

**Movable IDLE** is copyright *Michael Foord*, 2006. It is free, but
not Open Source.

You are free to copy and distribute **Movable IDLE**, but not to charge
for it. It may not be included in any distribution which charges
directly or indirectly, without express permission.

The following sections of the `Movable Python License
`_ also apply :

* *Disclaimer*
* *Limitations*
* *Restricted Uses*

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