PyDev 2.8.0 Released

[Fabio Zadrozny]

Hi All,

PyDev 2.8.0 has been released

Details on PyDev: http://pydev.org
Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com

Release Highlights:
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* Type Inference now works with docstrings (Sphinx or Epydoc). See:
http://pydev.org/manual_adv_type_hints.html

* Fixed debugger to work on Google App Engine

* Patch by Edward Catmur

* Interactive console supports running with the Qt and Gtk event loops

* Patches by Andrew Ferrazzutti

* Multiple main modules/packages may be selected in the unittest run
configuration

* Properly handling unittest errors caused by setUpClass/setUpModule
exceptions

* It's possible to select the Working Set configuration in the New
PyDev Project wizard

* Patches by Christoph Zwerschke

* It's possible to specify PyLint settings per project by passing
--rcfile=.pylintrc (it's now run relative to the project directory)

* PyLint now accepts an executable so that it does not have to rely on
the configured interpreter.

* Fixed OutOfMemoryError when large file was found in the workspace.

* Editor startup is now faster due to improvements in Jython scripts.

* Improved the way that the interpreter location is shown on the pydev
package explorer.

* PyDev Package Explorer icon no longer missing when top level elements is
set to Working Sets

* Other minor bugfixes

Note: PyDev is now signed with a new (self-signed) certificate (see
http://pydev.org/manual_101_install.html for the new certificate) .



What is PyDev?
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PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python, Jython and
IronPython development -- making Eclipse a first class Python IDE -- It
comes with many goodies such as code completion, syntax highlighting,
syntax analysis, refactor, debug and many others.


Cheers,

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Fabio Zadrozny
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Software Developer

PyDev - Python Development Environment for Eclipse
http://pydev.org
http://pydev.blogspot.com