On Dec 19, 4:49 am, Fernando Perez <fperez....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > on behalf of the IPython development team, I'm thrilled to announce, after > an intense 4 1/2 months of work, the official release of IPython 0.12. > > This is a very important release for IPython, for several reasons. First > and foremost, we have a major new feature, our interactive web-based > notebook, that has been in our sights for a very long time. We tried to > build one years ago (with WX) as a Google SoC project in 2005, had other > prototypes later on, but things never quite worked. Finally the > refactoring effort started two years ago, the communications architecture > we built in 2010, and the advances of modern browsers, gave us all the > necessary pieces. > > With this foundation in place, while part of the team worked on the 0.11 > release, Brian Granger had already started quietly building the web > notebook, which we demoed in early-alpha mode at the SciPy 2011 conference > (http://www.archive.org/details/Wednesday-203-6- > IpythonANewArchitectureForInteractiveAndParallel). By the EuroScipy > conference in August we had merged Brian's amazing effort into our master > branch, and after that multiple people (old and new) jumped in to make all > kinds of improvements, leaving us today with something that is an > excellent foundation. It's still the first release of the notebook, and > as such we know it has a number of rough edges, but several of us have > been using it as a daily research tool for the last few months. Do not > hesitate to file issues for any problems you encounter with it, and we > even have an 'open issue' for general discussion of ideas and features for > the notebook at:https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/977. > > Furthermore, it is clear that our big refactoring work, combined with the > amazing facilities at Github, are paying off. The 0.11 series was a major > amount of work, with 511 issues closed over almost two years. But that > pales in comparison to this cycle: in only 4 1/2 months we closed 515 > issues, with 50% being Pull Requests. And very importantly, our list of > contributors includes many new faces (see the credits section in our > release notes for full details), which is the best thing that can happen > to an open source project. > > We hope you will find the new features (the notebook isn't the only one! > see below) compelling, and that many more will not only use IPython but > will join the project; there's plenty to do and now there are tasks for > many different skill sets (web, javascript, gui work, low-level > networking, parallel machinery, console apps, etc). > > *Downloads* > > Download links and instructions are at:http://ipython.org/download.html > And IPython is also on PyPI:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython > > Those contain a built version of the HTML docs; if you want pure source > downloads with no docs, those are available on github: > > Tarball:https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tarball/rel-0.12 > Zipball:https://github.com/ipython/ipython/zipball/rel-0.12 > > * Features * > Here is a quick listing of the major new features: > > - An interactive browser-based Notebook with rich media support > - Two-process terminal console > - Tabbed QtConsole > - Full Python 3 compatibility > - Standalone Kernel > - PyPy support > > And many more... > > We closed over 500 tickets, merged over 200 pull requests, and more than > 45 people contributed commits for the final release. > > Please see our release notes for the full details on everything about this > release:http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/whatsnew/version0.12.html > > * IPython tutorial at PyCon 2012 * > > Those of you attending (or planning on it) PyCon 2012 in Santa Clara, CA, > may be interested in attending a hands-on tutorial we will be presenting > on the many faces of IPython. Seehttps://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/ > presentation/121/ for full details. > > * Errata * > This was caught by Matthias Bussionnier's (one of our great new > contributors) sharp eyes while I was writing these release notes: In the > example notebook called display_protocol, the first cell starts with: > > from IPython.lib.pylabtools import print_figure > > which should instead be: > > from IPython.core.pylabtools import print_figure > > This has already been fixed on master, but since the final 0.12 files have > been uploaded to github and PyPI, we'll let them be. > > As usual, if you find any other problem, please file a ticket --or even > better, a pull request fixing it-- on our github issues site (https:// > github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/). > > Many thanks to all who contributed! > > Fernando, on behalf of the IPython development team. > > http://ipython.org
Doesn't work for me. I installed it over my IPython 0.11 which did work for me. I get the following complaint. Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python27\scripts\ipython.py", line 26, in (module) import Ipython.Shell File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\Ipython\Shell.py", line 38 in (module) from Ipython.Magic import Magic File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\Ipython\Magic.py", line 536, in Magic @testdec.skip_doctest AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'skip_doctest' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
