Hi all, I'm glad to announce the release of IPython 0.6.6. IPython's homepage is at:
http://ipython.scipy.org and downloads are at: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist I've provided RPMs (Py2.2 and 2.3), plus source downloads (.tar.gz and .zip). 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. Release notes ------------- This release was made to fix a few crashes recently found by users, and also to keep compatibility with matplotlib, whose internal namespace structure was recently changed. * Adapt to matplotlib's new name convention, where the matlab-compatible module is called pylab instead of matlab. The change should be transparent to all users, so ipython 0.6.6 will work both with existing matplotlib versions (which use the matlab name) and the new versions (which will use pylab instead). * Don't crash if pylab users have a non-threaded pygtk and they attempt to use the GTK backends. Instead, print a decent error message and suggest a few alternatives. * Improved printing of docstrings for classes and instances. Now, class, constructor and instance-specific docstrings are properly distinguished and all printed. This should provide better functionality for matplotlib.pylab users, since matplotlib relies heavily on class/instance docstrings for end-user information. * New timing functionality added to %run. '%run -t prog' will time the execution of prog.py. Not as fancy as python's timeit.py, but quick and easy to use. You can optionally ask for multiple runs. * Improved (and faster) verbose exeptions, with proper reporting of dotted variable names (this had been broken since ipython's beginnings). * The IPython.genutils.timing() interface changed, now the repetition number is not a parameter anymore, fixed to 1 (the most common case). timings() remains unchanged for multiple repetitions. * Added ipalias() similar to ipmagic(), and simplified their interface. They now take a single string argument, identical to what you'd type at the ipython command line. These provide access to aliases and magics through a python function call, for use in nested python code (the special alias/magic syntax only works on single lines of input). * Fix an obscure crash with recursively embedded ipythons at the command line. * Other minor fixes and cleanups, both to code and documentation. The NEWS file can be found at http://ipython.scipy.org/NEWS, and the full ChangeLog at http://ipython.scipy.org/ChangeLog. Enjoy, and as usual please report any problems. Regards, Fernando. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
