Mark Sargent wrote: >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. > > Hi All,
apologies...figured it out...cheers...p.s. thanx for such a cool tool, Fernando and friends.. Mark Sargent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
