Wing IDE 2.1 released
We're happy to announce the release of Wing IDE version 2.1, an advanced development environment for the Python programming language. This is a free upgrade for Wing IDE 2.0 users. The release can be downloaded from: http://wingware.com/downloads Wing IDE provides powerful debugging, editing, code intelligence, and search capabilities that reduce development and debugging time, cut down on coding errors, and make it easier to understand and navigate Python code. Highlights of the 2.1 release include: * Visual Studio, VI/Vim, and Brief key bindings * Subversion and Perforce support (+) * Improved performance on Windows * Redesigned and improved search tools * Named bookmarks (+) * Breakpoint manager (+) and call stack as list * Evaluate file or selection in Python Shell * Support for Intel Macs (+) These are available in Wing IDE Pro only A list of major changes since Wing 2.0 can be found here: http://wingware.com/news/2006-06-19 This release is available for Windows (2000+), Linux, and Mac OS X (10.3+ with X11 installed) and can be compiled from sources on *BSD, Solaris, and other Posix operating systems. For more information see: Product Info: http://wingware.com/products Sales: http://wingware.com/store/purchase Sincerely, The Wingware Team -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
SciPy 2006 Tutorials
All, As part of this year's SciPy 2006 Conference, we've planned Coding Sprints on Monday and Tuesday (August 14-15) and a Tutorial Day Wednesday (August 16)--the normal conference presentations follow on Thursday and Friday (August 17-18). For this year at least, the Tutorials (and Sprints) are no additional charge (you're on your own for food on those days, though). With regard to Tutorial topics, we've settled on the following: 3D visualization in Python using tvtk and MayaVi Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization using IPython and Matplotlib. Building Scientific Applications using the Enthought Tool Suite (Envisage, Traits, Chaco, etc.) NumPy (migration from Numarray Numeric, overview of NumPy) These will be in two tracks with two three hour sessions in each track. If you plan to attend, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the two sessions you'd most like to hear and we'll build the schedule with a minimum of conflict. We'll post the schedule of the tracks on the Wiki here: http://www.scipy.org/SciPy2006/TutorialSessions Also, if you haven't registered already, the deadline for early registration is July 14. The abstract submission deadline is July 7. More information is here: http://www.scipy.org/SciPy2006 Thanks, Travis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
RELEASED Python 2.5 (beta 1)
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the first BETA release of Python 2.5. This is an *beta* release of Python 2.5. As such, it is not suitable for a production environment. It is being released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, as well as allowing you to determine how changes in 2.5 might impact you. If you find things broken or incorrect, please log a bug on Sourceforge. I'd like to really encourage you to try out this version and check that your code still works - if not, and you think it's a bug, please log a bug. Hopefully this will make it easier for you to upgrade once the final release of Python 2.5 is done. Please note that changes to improve Python's support for 64 bit systems might require authors of C extensions to change their code. See the website for more, including a link to a posting discussing this issue in particular. More information on the release (as well as source distributions and Windows and Mac OSX installers) are available from the 2.5 website: http://www.python.org/2.5/ Since the alpha releases, a slew of bug fixes and smaller new features have been added. See the release notes (available from the 2.5 webpage) for more. The first beta also includes the results of the Iceland NeedForSpeed sprint, resulting in some significant speedups. As of this release, Python 2.5 is now in *feature freeze*. No new features are planned - only bugfixes for the code already in the codebase. The plan from here is for one more beta release followed by one or more release candidates as needed, leading to a 2.5 final release early August. PEP 356 includes the schedule and will be updated as the schedule evolves. The new features in Python 2.5 are described in Andrew Kuchling's What's New In Python 2.5. It's available from the 2.5 web page. Amongst the language features added include conditional expressions, the with statement, the merge of try/except and try/finally into try/except/finally, enhancements to generators to produce a coroutine kind of functionality, and a brand new AST-based compiler implementation. New modules added include hashlib, ElementTree, sqlite3, wsgiref and ctypes. We also have a new profiling module cProfile. Enjoy this new release (another step on the path to Python 2.5 final) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team) pgpYfjqJg0XxR.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
