[ANN] IPython 0.6.14.

[Mark Sargent]

Mark Sargent wrote:

>Fernando Perez wrote:
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>>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
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>>and downloads are at:
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>>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
>>-------------
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>>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.
>>
>> 
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>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.
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Hi All,

apologies...figured it out...cheers...p.s. thanx for such a cool tool, 
Fernando and friends..

Mark Sargent.