ANN: PyGUI 2.5.3

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

ANN: PyGUI 2.5

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

ANN: SuPy 1.6 for Snow Leopard and Python 2.7

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

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

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

ANN: PyGUI 2.3.2

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

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

PyCon 2011 Call For Tutorials

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

pyArkansas 2010 Call For Papers

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

PyCon 2011 - Call for Tutorial 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://www.python.org/psf

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8.6

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

ANN: PyGUI 2.1.1

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

ANN: PyGUI 2.1

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

. 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

the 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.python.org/psf

ANN: Humerus 2.1

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

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

python-fedex 1.0 Released

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

ANN: Albow 2.1

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

PyCon 2010 - Call for Tutorials

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 Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf

python-colormath 1.0.2 Released

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

python-colormath 1.0.1 Released

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

ANN: SuPy 1.5

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: SuPy 1.6

. -- 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: Assembly Line 0.8.2

, the world leader in pixellated products. We give you product designs from our RD 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/mailman/listinfo

ANN: SuPy for Python 2.5 on Windows

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/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

PyCon 2009 (US) - Call for Tutorials

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 Foundation: http

ANN: Albow 2.0

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.

PyCon 2009 (US) - Call for Tutorials

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 Foundation: http

pyArkansas Set for October 4th

. 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 Lindstrom Python

PyCon 2009 (US) - Call for Tutorials

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 Support the Python

pyArkansas on October 4th

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 forward to a great day. Greg

pyArkansas Conference, Oct 4

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

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

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8.3

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

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? -- Pyrex

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8.1

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

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.8

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

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.7.1

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

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.7

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

ANN: Assembly Line 0.5

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

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.6.4

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

PyCon 2008 - Call for Tutorials

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

PyCon 2008 - Tutorial HowTo

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/python

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.6.2

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

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: 555-BOOM! version 0.6

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

ANN: Albow 1.1 and Humerus 1.0

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,

ANN: PROBE 1.0

, and 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

PyCon 2008 - Call for Tutorial Topics

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: Pyrex 0.9.5.1a

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

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.5.1

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

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: Plex 1.1.5 (Repost)

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

ANNOUNCE: Optik 1.5.3

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). -- Greg Ward [EMAIL

ANN: PyGUI 1.7.2

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

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

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

'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 (Giovanni Bajo). Greg -- Greg Ward

ANN: PyGUI 1.7

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

ANN: PyGUI 1.6.1

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 PyGUI

ANN: PyGUI 1.6

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

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.3.1

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