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Fernando Perez
Hi all,
I'm glad to announce the release of IPython 0.6.10. IPython's homepage is at:
http://ipython.scipy.org
and downloads are at:
http://ipython.scipy.org/dist
I've provided RPMs (for Python 2.3, built under Fedora Core 3), plus source
downloads (.tar.gz). We now also have a native win32 installer.
Debian, Fink and BSD packages for this version should be coming soon, as the
respective maintainers (many thanks to Jack Moffit, Andrea Riciputi and Dryice
Liu) have the time to follow their packaging procedures.
Many thanks to Enthought for their continued hosting support for IPython, and
to all the users who contributed ideas, fixes and reports.
What is IPython?
----------------
1. An interactive shell superior to Python's default. IPython has many
features for object introspection, system shell access, and its own special
command system for adding functionality when working interactively.
2. An embeddable, ready to use interpreter for your own programs. IPython can
be started with a single call from inside another program, providing access to
the current namespace.
3. A flexible framework which can be used as the base environment for other
systems with Python as the underlying language.
Release notes
-------------
As always, the NEWS file can be found at http://ipython.scipy.org/NEWS, and
the full ChangeLog at http://ipython.scipy.org/ChangeLog.
* The major highlight of this release is vastly improved support for Windows
users. Thanks to a lot of help from Viktor Ransmayr (installer work) and Gary
Bishop (coloring problems), now Windows users finally should have an ipython
with all the functionality available under Unix.
There is now a true win32 executable installer:
http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.6.10.win32.exe
This can be double-clicked and it will do a real windows installation,
allowing later de-installation via the Control Panel. It will also warn if it
detects that ctypes and/or readline are missing (needed for coloring/tab
support).
Full source syntax highlighting had always been broken under win32, and the
bug turned out to be in ipython's formatting code. Thanks to Gary's debugging
help, this problem is now fixed. You can test it by typing in ipython:
import code
code??
You should see properly highligted sources, as shown in this (new) screenshot:
http://ipython.scipy.org/screenshots/snapshot6.png
Under Win32, ipython will now honor (if it exists) the $HOME environment
variable and it will put your .ipython/ directory there. This should be more
consistent for Win32 users who have a unix-like setup. If $HOME is not
defined, the previous behavior remains (HOMEDRIVE\HOMEPATH).
I also fixed a crash for pylab users under win32 with multithreaded backends
(GTK/WX).
I would appreciate reports of any problems from Win32 users.
* (X)Emacs users: I incorporated Alex Schmolck's recent fixes and improvements
to ipython.el. Since the python-mode project still hasn't made a release with
the changes which IPython needs, I've temporarily copied today's CVS snapshot
(v 4.70) of python-mode.el here:
http://ipython.scipy.org/tmp/python-mode.el
Once they make an official release, I'll remove this.
* Small cleanups and improvements to numutils, including new amin/amax and
empty_like utility functions. The deprecated spike/spike_odd functions have
been removed.
* Fix issue 24 from the bug tracker: spurious attribute access on assignment
(foo.x=1 would trigger a __getattr__ call on foo).
* Fix reporting of compound names in verbose exception reporting mode. This
had been broken since the beginning of ipython (the tokenization logic was a
bit tricky).
* Fix gtk deprecation warnings (A. Straw patch).
* Fix crash when inspecting instances without an __init__ method (reported by
N. Nemenc).
* Fix quote stripping bug in shell access (P. Ramachandran report).
* Other minor fixes and cleanups, both to code and documentation.
Enjoy, and as usual please report any problems.
Regards,
Fernando.
I'm glad to announce the release of IPython 0.6.10. IPython's homepage is at:
http://ipython.scipy.org
and downloads are at:
http://ipython.scipy.org/dist
I've provided RPMs (for Python 2.3, built under Fedora Core 3), plus source
downloads (.tar.gz). We now also have a native win32 installer.
Debian, Fink and BSD packages for this version should be coming soon, as the
respective maintainers (many thanks to Jack Moffit, Andrea Riciputi and Dryice
Liu) have the time to follow their packaging procedures.
Many thanks to Enthought for their continued hosting support for IPython, and
to all the users who contributed ideas, fixes and reports.
What is IPython?
----------------
1. An interactive shell superior to Python's default. IPython has many
features for object introspection, system shell access, and its own special
command system for adding functionality when working interactively.
2. An embeddable, ready to use interpreter for your own programs. IPython can
be started with a single call from inside another program, providing access to
the current namespace.
3. A flexible framework which can be used as the base environment for other
systems with Python as the underlying language.
Release notes
-------------
As always, the NEWS file can be found at http://ipython.scipy.org/NEWS, and
the full ChangeLog at http://ipython.scipy.org/ChangeLog.
* The major highlight of this release is vastly improved support for Windows
users. Thanks to a lot of help from Viktor Ransmayr (installer work) and Gary
Bishop (coloring problems), now Windows users finally should have an ipython
with all the functionality available under Unix.
There is now a true win32 executable installer:
http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.6.10.win32.exe
This can be double-clicked and it will do a real windows installation,
allowing later de-installation via the Control Panel. It will also warn if it
detects that ctypes and/or readline are missing (needed for coloring/tab
support).
Full source syntax highlighting had always been broken under win32, and the
bug turned out to be in ipython's formatting code. Thanks to Gary's debugging
help, this problem is now fixed. You can test it by typing in ipython:
import code
code??
You should see properly highligted sources, as shown in this (new) screenshot:
http://ipython.scipy.org/screenshots/snapshot6.png
Under Win32, ipython will now honor (if it exists) the $HOME environment
variable and it will put your .ipython/ directory there. This should be more
consistent for Win32 users who have a unix-like setup. If $HOME is not
defined, the previous behavior remains (HOMEDRIVE\HOMEPATH).
I also fixed a crash for pylab users under win32 with multithreaded backends
(GTK/WX).
I would appreciate reports of any problems from Win32 users.
* (X)Emacs users: I incorporated Alex Schmolck's recent fixes and improvements
to ipython.el. Since the python-mode project still hasn't made a release with
the changes which IPython needs, I've temporarily copied today's CVS snapshot
(v 4.70) of python-mode.el here:
http://ipython.scipy.org/tmp/python-mode.el
Once they make an official release, I'll remove this.
* Small cleanups and improvements to numutils, including new amin/amax and
empty_like utility functions. The deprecated spike/spike_odd functions have
been removed.
* Fix issue 24 from the bug tracker: spurious attribute access on assignment
(foo.x=1 would trigger a __getattr__ call on foo).
* Fix reporting of compound names in verbose exception reporting mode. This
had been broken since the beginning of ipython (the tokenization logic was a
bit tricky).
* Fix gtk deprecation warnings (A. Straw patch).
* Fix crash when inspecting instances without an __init__ method (reported by
N. Nemenc).
* Fix quote stripping bug in shell access (P. Ramachandran report).
* Other minor fixes and cleanups, both to code and documentation.
Enjoy, and as usual please report any problems.
Regards,
Fernando.