New books: Learning Python, Python Pocket Reference 4th Eds

2009-09-26 Thread lutz
I'm happy to announce new, 4th editions of the O'Reilly books Learning Python and Python Pocket Reference. These new editions have been thoroughly updated and expanded to cover both Python 3.1 and 2.6, and fully present features that appear in each Python line. Whether you're using Python 2.X,

[ANN] python-daemon 1.5.1

2009-09-26 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, I'm pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.1 of ‘python-daemon’. What is python-daemon = The ‘python-daemon’ library is the reference implementation of PEP 3143 URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3143/, “Standard daemon process library”. The source

ANN: agenda2pdf v1.0

2009-09-26 Thread Iñigo Serna
Hi, I'm proud to present you agenda2pdf. This is a simple script which generates a book agenda file in PDF format, ready to be printed or loaded on an ebook reader. You can choose among different sections. Each section have pdf links to other parts of the agenda. I've created it for using with

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 26)

2009-09-26 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: Forget ethical. We can do his homework for him, we can perhaps pass exams for him, maybe graduate for him, and then with our luck, he'll get a job in our office and we get to do his work for him. - Mel http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/8f7c1fa393c23476

Distribute 0.6.2 released

2009-09-26 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hello On behalf of the Distribute team, I am very proud to announce the release of Distribute 0.6.2. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute/0.6.2 This release is the first release that is compatible with Python 3, kudos to Martin von Löwis, Lennart Regebro and Alex Grönholm and the ones I am

Jython 2.5.1 Final is out!

2009-09-26 Thread Frank Wierzbicki
On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that Jython 2.5.1 final is available for download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jython/files/jython/2.5.1/jython_installer-2.5.1.jar/download - See the http://wiki.python.org/jython/InstallationInstructions for installation

[ANNOUNCE] PyPoppler 0.12.0

2009-09-26 Thread Gian Mario Tagliaretti
I am pleased to announce version 0.12.0 of the Python bindings for Poppler. It is available at: http://launchpad.net/poppler-python/trunk/development/+download/pypoppler-0.12.0.tar.gz md5: 78e9655067b8da2c8ad2565b2620e2f9 PyPoppler 0.12.0 (Sep 26 2009) ==

LAST CHANCE: PyCon 2010: Call for Proposals

2009-09-26 Thread Aahz
Just four more days to propose a presentation! Call for proposals -- PyCon 2010 -- http://us.pycon.org/2010/ === Due date: October 1st, 2009 Want to showcase your skills as a Python Hacker? Want to have hundreds of people see your talk