pyArkansas 2011 - Saturday, October 22

2011-10-17 Thread Greg Lindstrom
rnard Chen, UCA - Sphinx II, Brandon Craig Rhodes - Using Python with Blender II, Gordon Fisher - Cloud Apps/Virtualenv, Mystery Speaker - Introduction to Django, Wade Austin - SQLite – The database you didn’t know you had, Greg Lindstrom - Introduction to Blender 3D, Gordon F

ANN: PyGUI 2.5.3

2011-07-16 Thread Greg Ewing
PyGUI 2.5.3 is available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ Clipboard access now implemented on MacOSX, plus a few bug fixes. What is PyGUI? -- PyGUI is a cross-platform GUI toolkit designed to be lightweight and have a highly Pythonic API. -- Gregory Ewin

ANN: PyGUI 2.5

2011-06-17 Thread Greg Ewing
PyGUI 2.5 is available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ Lots of new stuff in this version. Highlights include: - Improved facilities for customising the standard menus. - Functions for creating PyGUI Images from PIL images and numpy arrays. - ListButton - a pop

ANN: SuPy 1.6 for Snow Leopard and Python 2.7

2011-04-24 Thread Greg Ewing
for the Sketchup 3D modelling application that lets you script it in Python. -- Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/

ANN: PyGUI 2.4

2011-03-19 Thread Greg Ewing
PyGUI 2.4 is available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ Highlights of this release: * Python 3 Compatible on MacOSX and Windows. * ScrollableView has been overhauled on Windows and should now work with all builds of pywin32 as far as I know. What is PyGUI? ---

ANN: PyGUI 2.3.3

2010-12-19 Thread Greg Ewing
PyGUI 2.3.3 is available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ Minor update to fix a problem with the previous release on some versions of MacOSX. What is PyGUI? -- PyGUI is a cross-platform GUI toolkit designed to be lightweight and have a highly Pythonic API

ANN: PyGUI 2.3.2

2010-12-16 Thread Greg Ewing
PyGUI 2.3.2 is available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ This version fixes a problem in Cocoa whereby the coordinate system for drawing in a Pixmap was upside down, and corrects a slight mistake in the Canvas documentation. What is PyGUI? -- PyGUI is a

ANN: PyGUI 2.3.1

2010-11-19 Thread Greg Ewing
PyGUI 2.3.1 is available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ This version incorporates a modification that I hope will improve the behaviour of ScrollableViews on Windows with pywin32 builds later than 212. (There are still problems with it, though. If the Scrollable View

PyCon 2011 Call For Tutorials

2010-10-04 Thread Greg Lindstrom
PyCon 2011 will be held March 9th through the 17th, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Home of some of the best southern food you can possibly find on Earth!) The PyCon conference days will be March 11-13, preceded by two tutorial days (March 9-10), and followed by four days of development sprints (March 1

pyArkansas 2010 Call For Papers

2010-08-22 Thread Greg Lindstrom
The 3rd annual pyArkansas conference, a gathering of Python programming enthusiasts, will be held on Saturday, October 16th, on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas (Conway) and we would like you to present a talk. We are accepting proposals for 30 or 60 minute talks (25 and 55 minutes

PyCon 2011 - Call for Tutorial Volunteers

2010-02-26 Thread Greg Lindstrom
group of volunteers. Interested? Please drop a note at pycon-tutori...@python.org and let us know. Thanks, Greg Lindstrom Tutorial Coordinator, PyCon 2011 (Atlanta) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http:

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8.6

2010-02-24 Thread Greg Ewing
Pyrex 0.9.8.6 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ Numerous bug fixes and a few improvements. See the CHANGES page on the web site for details. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely m

ANN: PyGUI 2.2

2010-02-06 Thread Greg Ewing
PyGUI 2.2 is available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ Highlights of this version: - TextEditor component with tabs, scrolling and word wrap - Classes for laying out components in rows, colums and grids - Printing support What is PyGUI? -

ANN: PyGUI 2.1.1

2009-11-19 Thread Greg Ewing
PyGUI 2.1.1 is available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ This is an emergency bugfix release to repair some major breakage in the gtk version. Also corrects some other problems. What is PyGUI? -- PyGUI is a cross-platform GUI toolkit designed to be light

ANN: PyGUI 2.1

2009-11-14 Thread Greg Ewing
PyGUI 2.1 is available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/ Highlights of this version: * Win32: Fixed bug preventing PyGUI apps from working under pythonw Fixed incorrect mouse coordinates in ScrollableView Added more standard cursors * MacOSX:

pyArkansas - November 14th

2009-10-16 Thread Greg Lindstrom
. Jacobs) - Python and Blender (Gordon Fisher) - Advanced Django (Jacob Kaplan-Moss) There are 3 45-minute slots left for talks as well. Come join us, if you can. More information at http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/Schedule Greg Lindstrom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

PyCon 2010 US - Call For Tutorials Ending Soon

2009-10-13 Thread Greg Lindstrom
conference ("Tutorial Days"). An example proposal (and a blank template) can be found at http://us.pycon.org/2010/tutorials/proposals/ . Thanks! Greg Lindstrom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.

ANN: Humerus 2.1

2009-10-02 Thread Greg Ewing
Humerus 2.1 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Albow/Humerus-2.1.0.zip Online documentation: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Albow/Humerus-2.1.0/doc/ In this version, the code for handling levels has been separated out into a new pair

python-colormath 1.0.5 Released

2009-09-29 Thread Greg Taylor
An error in the CIE2000 Delta E equation has been found and corrected, necessitating the immediate release of python-colormath 1.0.5. All users of the 1.x series are encouraged to upgrade to avoid this mathematical error. What new in 1.0.5? === * The examples and unit tests may be ran

ANN: Albow 2.1

2009-09-25 Thread Greg Ewing
ALBOW - A Little Bit of Widgetry for PyGame Version 2.1 is now available. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Albow/ Highlights of this version: * OpenGL faciliites * Music facilities * Drop-down menus and menu bars What is Albow? Albow is a library for creating GUIs u

python-fedex 1.0 Released

2009-09-25 Thread Greg Taylor
python-fedex 1.0 has been released. This GPLv3 module is a very light wrapper around the excellent suds SOAP module and FedEx's Web Services WSDLs. The purpose of this module is to prepare the WSDL objects for the user to populate and manipulate as needed, as well as handling sending and light proc

PyCon 2010 (Atlanta) Call For Tutorials

2009-09-18 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Source project. Any topic relating to Python is eligible. Tutorial teachers are paid $1,000.00 per class for their efforts. Interested (we hope so!)? More information is available at http://us.pycon.org/2010/tutorials/proposals/ or write us at pycon-tutori...@python.org. We look forward to hea

PyCon 2010 - Call for Tutorials

2009-09-05 Thread Greg Lindstrom
More information, including a sample proposal and blank template, are at http://us.pycon.org/2010/tutorials/proposals/. Questions? Email us at pycon-tutori...@python.org. Greg Lindstrom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Sof

PyCon 2010 - Call for Tutorials

2009-08-25 Thread Greg Lindstrom
stions? You can contact us at the PyCon Email Listand we will get back with you. We look forward to hearing from you! Greg Lindstrom Tutorial Coordinator PyCon 2010 (Atlanta) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http:

pyArkansas 2009

2009-06-30 Thread Greg Lindstrom
pyArkansas 2009 is set for Saturday, November 14 and is once again being hosted by our friends in the Computer Science Department at the University of Central Arkansas. This year we are planning classes GIS, Image Processing using Jython, Introduction to Python and Django. More details will be an

python-colormath 1.0.2 Released

2009-06-10 Thread Greg Taylor
Greetings, python-colormath 1.0.2 has been released, which addresses an issue with chromatic adaptations. What is python-colormath? python-colormath is a developer-oriented module that abstracts a number of color math operations behind a small set of classes representing colo

python-colormath 1.0.1 Released

2009-06-05 Thread Greg Taylor
Greetings, After much testing and refinement in an industrial setting, python-colormath has been released to the public under the GPLv3. What is python-colormath? python-colormath is a developer-oriented module that abstracts a number of color math operations behind a small s

ANN: SuPy 1.6

2009-02-23 Thread Greg Ewing
. -- Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

ANN: SuPy 1.5

2009-02-23 Thread Greg Ewing
What is SuPy? - SuPy is a plugin for the Sketchup 3D modelling application that lets you script it in Python. -- Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http

ANN: Assembly Line 0.8.2

2009-02-16 Thread Greg Ewing
uring, the world leader in pixellated products. We give you product designs from our R&D department, and you design and build factories to manufacture them as efficiently possible. Make a good profit and you'll earn big bonuses and a huge salary! -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/ma

ANN: SuPy 1.4

2009-02-15 Thread Greg Ewing
sequences to arrays. - X_AXIS, Y_AXIS, Z_AXIS constants. - Unit conversion constants (feet, yard, etc.) e.g. 5 * feet What is SuPy? - SuPy is a plugin for the Sketchup 3D modelling application that lets you script it in Python. -- Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.

ANN: SuPy 1.3

2009-02-15 Thread Greg Ewing
that lets you script it in Python. -- Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

ANN: SuPy 1.2

2009-02-14 Thread Greg Ewing
-passing mechanism. What is SuPy? - SuPy is a plugin for the Sketchup 3D modelling application that lets you script it in Python. -- Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation

ANN: Supy 1.1

2009-02-13 Thread Greg Ewing
;body'. What is SuPy? - SuPy is a plugin for the Sketchup 3D modelling application that lets you script it in Python. -- Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

ANN: SuPy for Python 2.5 on Windows

2009-02-11 Thread Greg Ewing
highly experimental. Let me know if it works for you and whether you have any problems. -- Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

ANN: SuPy 1.0 for Windows

2009-02-09 Thread Greg Ewing
SuPy is a plugin for the Sketchup 3D modelling application that lets you script it in Python. This is a first version and is highly experimental. Let me know if it works for you and whether you have any problems. -- Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

ANN: SuPy - Script Sketchup with Python

2009-02-06 Thread greg
SuPy 1.0 SuPy is a plugin for the Sketchup 3D modelling application that lets you script it in Python. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/SuPy/ This is a first version and is highly experimental. Let me know if it works for you and whether you have any problems. -- Greg Ewing greg.ew

PyCon 2009 (US) - Call for tutorials Extended to 11/3

2008-10-30 Thread Greg Lindstrom
We have had requests to extend the deadline for submitting Tutorial Proposals for PyCon 2009 (US) through the weekend and are willing to do so. We will accept tutorial proposals through Monday, November 3. --greg == The period for submitting tutorial proposals

PyCon 2009 - Call for tutorials nearing the end

2008-10-29 Thread Greg Lindstrom
l selections will be announced in early December to give you time to prepare your class and PyCon will compensate instructors US$1,500 per tutorial. If you have any questions, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Lindstrom Tutorial Coordinator, PyCon 2009 (US) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

PyCon 2009 (US) - Call for Tutorials

2008-10-18 Thread Greg Lindstrom
epare your class and PyCon will compensate instructors US$1,500 per tutorial. If you have any questions, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Lindstrom Tutorial Coordinator, PyCon 2009 (US) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foun

ANN: Humerus 2.0

2008-10-12 Thread Greg Ewing
Humerus 2.0 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Albow/Humerus-2.0.0.tar.gz Online documentation: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Albow/Humerus-2.0.0/doc/ This version of Humerus has been extensively revised from the previous one. Instea

ANN: Albow 2.0

2008-10-05 Thread greg
ALBOW - A Little Bit of Widgetry for PyGame Version 2.0 is now available. This version incorporates substantial additions and improvements. New widgets include TabPanel, TableView, CheckBox, RadioButton and an enhanced set of TextField-based controls. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewi

PyCon 2009 (US) - Call for Tutorials

2008-10-01 Thread Greg Lindstrom
epare your class and PyCon will compensate instructors US$1,500 per tutorial. If you have any questions, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Lindstrom Tutorial Coordinator, PyCon 2009 (US) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foun

pyArkansas Set for October 4th

2008-09-22 Thread Greg Lindstrom
This is a *FREE* event (we have GREAT sponsors), so all you need to bring is yourself. We have over 45 people -- from 4 States -- registered and tons of great swag and giveaways lined up. See our wiki (http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/HomePage) for more details and registration info. Greg Lindst

PyCon 2009 (US) - Call for Tutorials

2008-09-18 Thread Greg Lindstrom
ed in early December to give you time to prepare your class. PyCon will compensate instructors US$1,500 per tutorial. If you have any questions, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Lindstrom Tutorial Coordinator, PyCon 2009 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list

pyArkansas on October 4th

2008-09-02 Thread Greg Lindstrom
d swag. Due to limitations of physical space we must close registration at 100 participants (in honor of my first OS, SunOS, we may go to 110). Check out our wiki at http://pycamp.python.org/Arkansas/HomePage. There's no registration fee, so if you're in the area stop on by...we are looking forw

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8.5

2008-08-27 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.8.5 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ Various minor bug fixes and improvements. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix operations on Python and C data, with all Python

pyArkansas Conference, Oct 4

2008-08-14 Thread Greg Lindstrom
The Arkansas Python Users Group announces a 1-day Python conference to be held on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas (www.uca.edu) on October 4. We plan a 3-hour "Introduction to Python" class as well as talks on text/file processing, Python standard library, Django, pyGame, OLPC and

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8.4

2008-06-11 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.8.4 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ This version fixes a bug introduced by the last change to unsigned integer indexing. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix opera

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8.3

2008-06-08 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.8.3 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ Compiling multiple .pyx files in one go works properly now, and can be substantially faster if you have a lot of modules that cimport from each other. I had to rearrange various things to make this work,

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8.2

2008-05-18 Thread Greg Ewing
Pyrex 0.9.8.2 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ A block of external functions can now be declared nogil at once. cdef extern from "somewhere.h" nogil: ... Also some minor nogil-related bugs have been fixed. What is Pyrex? -- Pyre

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8.1

2008-05-17 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.8.1 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ Base classes no longer need to be specified in a forward declaration of an extension type, or in the implementation part of an extension type defined in a .pxd file. Also, I've come up with an even bette

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8

2008-05-15 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.8 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ This version has a number of new features: * In-place operators (+= etc.) are now supported. * The Pyrex compiler now has built-in facilities for automatically tracking down and compiling all the modu

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.7.2

2008-05-14 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.7.2 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ Seems I didn't quite eradicate all of the integer indexing bugs. Here's a fix for the other half. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you free

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.7.1

2008-05-13 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.7.1 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ This version fixes a bug in the new integer indexing optimisation which causes indexing of a non-sequence type with a C int to fail with a TypeError. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language fo

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.7

2008-05-09 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.7 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ Highlights of this version: * I have streamlined the integer for-loop syntax. Instead of the loop variable redundantly appearing in two places, it's now just for x < i < y: ... * If you dec

ANN: Assembly Line 0.5

2008-05-08 Thread Greg Ewing
hat the Phunky Phrisbee, Mojo Mallet and Supa Slice can be manufactured and sold at a profit, but I don't know about the others yet. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

Tutorials at PyCon 2008 (US)

2008-01-08 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Hello Everyone- I'd like to announce the tutorials sessions for PyCon 2008 (US). As you may know, this year PyCon is being held in Chicago, Illinois March 14-16 with the Thursday before (the 13th) being "Tutorial Thursday". We are expecting nearly 600 Python enthusiasts to meet up for the confer

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.6.4

2007-12-01 Thread Greg Ewing
Pyrex 0.9.6.4 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ Mostly just bug fixes in this release; see CHANGES.txt on the web site for details. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix operat

New Python User Group (Arkansas, USA)

2007-11-10 Thread Greg Lindstrom
live in or near Arkansas, we invite you to join our mailing list at http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyar2 and look for meetings to start early next year. --greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http

PyCon 2008 - Call for Tutorials

2007-11-09 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Development - Anything Else (just about) Anything is up for consideration. Pop on over to http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/proposals/ for more information or submit your idea to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! Greg Lindstrom Tutorial Coordinator, PyCon 2008 (Chicago) -- http://mail.python.or

PyCon 2008 - Tutorial HowTo

2007-10-31 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Thinking about presenting a tutorial at PyCon 2008? Here's a link with everything you would ever want to know. http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/proposals/ PyCon simply would not exist without volunteers like YOU. Get involved today! --greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

PyCon 2008 - Call for Tutorials

2007-10-31 Thread Greg Lindstrom
ail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and let us know what you would like to present as a tutorial. Thanks, --greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.6.3

2007-10-17 Thread Greg Ewing
Pyrex 0.9.6.3 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ Main features of this release: * The C API now uses just one name in the module namespace, instead of a name per C function. * The 'cdef' keyword and following extern/public/api

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.6.2

2007-10-10 Thread Greg Ewing
Pyrex 0.9.6.2 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ Another couple of minor fixes. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix operations on Python and C data, with all Python reference

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.6.1

2007-10-08 Thread Greg Ewing
Pyrex 0.9.6.1 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ This version fixes a few minor problems that turned up in the initial 0.9.6 release. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix operations

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.6

2007-10-07 Thread Greg Ewing
Pyrex 0.9.6 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ There is a *lot* of new stuff in this version, too much to fit into this announcement. Read all about it here: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/changes-0.9.6.html What is Pyrex

ANN: Albow 1.1 and Humerus 1.0

2007-09-25 Thread Greg Ewing
I have released an updated version of my Albow gui library for PyGame, incorporating improvements made to it for my PyWeek 5 entry, and also Humerus, a skeleton game framework built on Albow. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Albow/ What is it? Albow is a rather basic, no-fri

ANN: 555-BOOM! version 0.6

2007-09-25 Thread Greg Ewing
I have released a post-competition version of my PyWeek 5 game competition entry, 555-BOOM!. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/PyWeek5/index.html This version has been tidied up in various ways, and a few more levels added. I have made a number of improvements to the level edit

PyCon 2008 - Call for Tutorial Topics

2007-09-01 Thread Greg Lindstrom
e to present a class). Let me know what class would entice you to attend the tutorials. Greg Lindstrom Tutorial Coordinator, PyCon 2008 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

ANN: PROBE 1.0

2007-09-01 Thread greg
can actually be played in a deliberate way now instead of just trial and error like the first one. Currently available here: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/PyWeek4/Probe-1.0.zip -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python

ANN: Snobol 1.0

2007-07-22 Thread greg
ry.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Snobol.tar.gz There's no manual yet, but there's a fairly complete set of docstrings and some test cases to figure it out from. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation:

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.5.1a

2007-02-01 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.5.1a is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ This is a glitch-fix nanorelease to correct a problem with the setup.py file. The list of packages to install is now calculate dynamically, so that it will work with or without the testing files. What is

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.5.1

2007-01-30 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.5.1 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ This is a minor release to fix a few bugs introduced in 0.9.5. See the CHANGES for details. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix

ANN: Plex 1.1.5 (Repost)

2007-01-27 Thread greg
for lexical analysis that provides similar functionality to Lex and Flex. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

ANN: Plex 1.1.5

2007-01-27 Thread greg
I have released a small update to Plex to fix the problem of assignment to None causing syntax warnings or errors in Python 2.3 and later. What is Plex? Plex is a Python module for lexical analysis that provides similar functionality to Lex and Flex. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.5

2007-01-27 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.5 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ Warning Elimination Extensive changes have been made in this version in an effort to eliminate most of the C compiler warnings that used to occur when compiling with distutils. There are also numerous other

ANN: Albow - A simple widget library for Pygame

2006-12-06 Thread greg
ALBOW - A Little Bit of Widgetry for PyGame --- Version 1.0 This is a very basic, no-frills widget set for creating a GUI using PyGame. It was originally developed for my PyWeek 3 competition entry, Sneak. I am documenting and releasing it as a separate pac

ANN: Quest for the Holy Grail (a PyGame game)

2006-07-31 Thread Greg Ewing
age: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/grailquest/index.html It requires Python 2.3 or later and PyGame with SDL_image and SDL_ttf support. That's all! Comments, suggestions and amusing gameplay anecdotes are welcome. Have fun, -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Ch

ANNOUNCE: Optik 1.5.3

2006-07-24 Thread Greg Ward
47026 from Python svn repository: fix unit test so it doesn't screw up other tests in the Python test suite. 1.5.2 (22 Jul 2006) --- * Minor documentation tweaks. * SF bug #1498146: handle Unicode help strings (affects option help, description, and epilog).

ANN: PyGUI 1.7.2-1

2006-06-10 Thread greg
I have uploaded a new PyGUI 1.7.2 package to correct a couple of errors in the setup.py file. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/ - What is PyGUI? -- PyGUI is an experimental highly-Pythonic cross-platform GUI API

ANN: PyGUI 1.7.2

2006-06-10 Thread greg
PyGUI 1.7.2 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/ This version adds support for multiple mouse buttons, mouse enter and leave events, enhancements to the BlobEdit example application, and a big pile of other enhancements and bug fixes. See the CHANGES.txt file

ANN: PyGUI 1.7.1

2006-05-05 Thread greg
PyGUI 1.7.1 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/ New features: - Slider control. - run() convenience function, equivalent to application().run(). - Geometry.rects_intersect() function. Enhancements: - Files given on the command

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.4.1

2006-04-21 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.4.1 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ This is a very minor update to correct a tab/space problem in the distutils extension. What is Pyrex? -- Pyrex is a language for writing Python extension modules. It lets you freely mix

ANNOUNCE: Optik 1.5.1

2006-04-19 Thread Greg Ward
ector. * SF feature #988126: add 'epilog' attribute to OptionParser (and constructor arg): paragraph of text to print after the main option help. * Corrected French translation (po/optik/fr.po) (Laurent Laporte). * Beefed up reference guide. * Backported to Python 2.0/2.1

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.4 - LValue Casts are Dead!

2006-04-16 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.4 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ Highlights of this version: No more lvalue casts I have redesigned the code generator to eliminate the need for lvalue casting. This means that Pyrex-generated code should now be gcc4

ANN: PyGUI 1.7

2006-04-01 Thread greg
PyGUI 1.7 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/ New features: * GL.DisplayList class for managing OpenGL display lists in a similar way to the GL.Texture class introduced in 1.6. * Facilites for displaying a chosen cursor when the mouse is

ANN: PyGUI 1.6.1

2006-03-07 Thread greg
PyGUI 1.6.1 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/ Bug fixes: - Mouse down event in a GLView caused a crash. - Canvas methods fill_poly() and stroke_poly() didn't work. Added a test for these. What is

ANN: PyGUI 1.6

2006-02-12 Thread greg
PyGUI 1.6 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/ The major change in this version is that the Mac version is based on Cocoa instead of Carbon. This should provide a much better base for future development, but it does mean that MacOSX will now be required. (This

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.3.1

2005-09-16 Thread Greg Ewing
Giovanni Bajo has put together a Pyrex release incorporating patches to address the Python 2.4 distutils compatibility problem and the GCC 4 lvalue cast problem. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ Thanks to Giovanni for filling a gap until I can get back to working on Pyrex

ANNOUNCE: Optik 1.5

2004-12-07 Thread Greg Ward
a FutureWarning in __repr__() when using id() with "%x" (1.5a2). * SF #1048725: fix typo in Values.__eq__() introduced in 1.5a1. * Fix test script so it plays nice when being run with other test scripts (as in the Python test suite) (1.5a2). -- Greg Ward <[EMAIL