ANN: shm and shm_wrapper 1.2

2008-01-29 Thread Nikita the Spider
Hi all, Versions 1.2 of shm and shm_wrapper -- two modules which enable IPC (shared memory and sempahores) via Python -- are now available. The former is Vladimir Marangozov's old shm module with some bug fixes, the latter is my wrapper which I find more Pythonic. Changes from version 1.1 include

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 28)

2008-01-29 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: "The nice thing with Pyrex is that you can use the Python interpreter, or not use it, more or less depending on your way to declare things and your way to code. So, in a way, you have full control over the compromise between speed and facility. The temptation is always strong to use Python

Pydev 1.3.12 Released

2008-01-29 Thread Fabio Zadrozny
Hi All, Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.3.12 have been released Details on Pydev Extensions: http://www.fabioz.com/pydev Details on Pydev: http://pydev.sf.net Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com Release Highlights in Pydev Extensions: --

Storm 0.12 is out!

2008-01-29 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
On behalf of the Storm development team, I'm proud to announce that the release 0.12 is out! This is a very exciting release, as it brings several fixes and quite a few new features. Thank you very much to everyone who contributed. Storm is available at: https://storm.canonical.com Improvemen

[ANN] gheat: heatmap tile server for Google Maps

2008-01-29 Thread Chad Whitacre
Greetings, program! I've just released a map tile server that adds a heatmap layer to a Google Map: http://code.google.com/p/gheat/ Knock yourself out. chad http://www.zetadev.com/software/ http://blag.whit537.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Announcing the Python core sprint at PyCon 2008

2008-01-29 Thread Brett Cannon
As has occurred since the inception of PyCon, there will be a sprint on the Python core at this year's conference! If you will be attending PyCon (or will be in Chicago during the dates of the sprints), attending the sprint is a great way to give back to Python. Working on Python itself tends to d