[ANN] Autumn School "Advanced Scientific Programming in P ython" in Trento, Italy

2010-07-09 Thread Tiziano Zito
Advanced Scientific Programming in Python = an Autumn School by the G-Node, the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler Scientists spend more and more time writing, maintaining, and debugging software. While techniques for doing this

Kiwi PyCon 2010 Call for Participation

2010-07-09 Thread Tim Knapp - Emerge Technology
Hi, We have another Kiwi PyCon lined up, and we're all expecting it to be as good as last year's event. This year it will be staged in lovely Paihia/Waitangi in the sunny Bay of Islands. It is on the weekend 20-21 November. Find a link below to the "Call for Participation". We are encouraging e

ANN: winreg_unicode 0.5.0

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Stutzbach
I'm pleased to announce the release of winreg_unicode 0.5.0, the first release of winreg_unicode. The winreg_unicode package aims to be a drop-in replacement for Python 2's _winreg module. However, it returns unicode values where possible, similar to Python 3's winreg module. To illustrate the ne

Call for Applications - PSF Sponsored Sprints

2010-07-09 Thread Jesse Noller
The PSF is happy to open our first call for applications for sprint funding! Have you ever had a group of people together to hack towards a common goal? You've hosted a sprint! Have you ever wanted to get a group of like minded Pythonistas together to hack for a day? You're going to want to hold

ANN: ActivePython 2.6.5.14 is now available

2010-07-09 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
We are pleased to announce the availability of ActivePython 2.6.5.14. http://www.activestate.com/activepython This is a minor release with several bug fixes. As usual, it includes an updated Python Package Manager (PyPM) with updates to essential packages such as Distribute (a compatible fo

py.test 1.3.2: API and reporting refinements & fixes

2010-07-09 Thread holger krekel
The pylib/py.test 1.3.2 release brings many bug fixes and some new features. It was refined for and tested against the recently released Python2.7 and remains compatibile to the usual armada of interpreters (Python2.4 through to Python3.1.2, Jython and PyPy). Note that for using distributed test