Version 1.0 of Pottymouth, a Python module for HTML processsing has just been released. The tool helps sanitize user input from websites.

Version 0.9.5 of Mercurial, a distributed version control system has just been released. The new version improves performance, adds new features and fixes bugs.

A Red Hat update has just been released to close various vulnerabilities in the Xen virtualization solution, one of which was caused by an error in a Python script.

The Jython project has released version 2.2 of its Java-based interpreter for the Python scripting language.

Collaboration with Novell on virtualization and Web service management, and quality of interaction between Windows and Samba are the next topics that Microsoft's Linux developer, Tom Hanrahan, will be focusing on.

Save time and trouble with these expert techniques for building custom Python tools.

A number of useful development environments are available for Python in Linux. We’ll show you around some popular Python IDEs that are more than just text editors.