[ANN] IPython 0.6.14.

[Mark Sargent]

Fernando Perez wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I've just made the 0.6.14 release of IPython, mostly to fix the
>inevitable bugs reported after the .13 one (though one big improvement
>sneaked by).
>
>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 and 2.4, built under Fedora Core 3),
>plus source downloads (.tar.gz).  Fedora users should note that IPython
>is now officially part of the Extras repository, so they can get the
>update from there as well (though it may lag by a few days).
>
>There is also a native win32 installer which should work correctly for
>both Python 2.3 and 2.4.
>
>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.
>
>I'd like to add a special thanks to Denis Rivière, Yann Cointepas and
>Benjamin Thyreau for their hard work on the Qt improvements, and for
>their overall hospitality.  Python really seems to have a remarkably
>friendly community, worldwide!
>
>
>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
>highlights of this release follow.
>
>This is mainly a bugfix release, to clean up the problems reported in
>0.6.13.  As I said at the time, I intend to start new development now
>(more details on that in a separate email).  As always, however, a few
>new goodies managed to sneak by.
>
>* A new -qthread option to support controlling Qt apps from within
>ipython, similar to what -gthread and -wthread do for GTK/WX.  This was
>contributed by Denis Rivière <nudz-AT-free.fr>, Yann Cointepas
><yann-AT-sapetnioc.org> and Benjamin Thyreau <Benji2-AT-decideur.info>.
>   Many thanks to them!  The lack of Qt support was a glaring omission of
>ipython's gui features, so I'm extremely happy to have their contribution.
>
>    For those of you who may be matplotlib users as well, I should note
>that as of mpl 0.81 (the next release, or use current CVS), the -pylab
>option will also support interactive matplotlib use with the Qt backend.
>   This is also thanks to work done by Denis, Yann and Benjamin against
>the matplotlib Qt backend, in conjunction with the IPython improvements.
>
>* New -e option to %run to suppress tracebacks from sys.exit() calls.
>This can be very useful to silence all the noise generated when running
>unittests from within ipython.
>
>* New ';' escape to autoquote a line without splitting:
>
>In [6]: ,foo a b c
>------> foo("a", "b", "c")
>
>In [7]: ;foo a b c
>------> foo("a b c")
>
>In the process, I fixed ',' quoting, which I'd broken in .13.
>
>* Fix -wthread to work with WXPython 2.6 (this also impacts matplotlib
>users who run the WX backend).
>
>* Added new matcher (it goes at the end of the priority list) to do
>tab-completion on named function arguments.  Submitted by George Sakkis
><gsakkis-AT-eden.rutgers.edu>.  See the thread at
>
>http://www.scipy.net/pipermail/ipython-dev/2005-April/000436.html
>
>for more details.
>
>* Various other fixes for obscure bugs, but all of which caused reported
>IPython crashes.  Details in Changelog.
>
>
>Enjoy, and as usual please report any problems.
>
>Regards,
>
>Fernando.
>
>  
>
Hi All,

Fernando, if I may ask, as I'm a Fedora3 user. You mention that there 
are RPMs for FC3, for Python2.3, 2.4. I'm new to Python. Is IPython 
built into FC3s Python or is it a stand-alone program.? Sorry for 
troubling you with this. Cheers.

Mark Sargent.