<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hello,</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><i><br></i></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">We are proud to announce v0.16.2 of pandas, a minor release from 0.16.1. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">This release includes a small number of API changes, several new features,<br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">enhancements, and performance improvements along with a large number of bug fixes. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">This was a release of 4 weeks with 105 commits by 32 authors encompassing 48 issues and 71 pull-requests.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">We recommend that all users upgrade to this version.</font><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></div></div></div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><u style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">What is it:</u><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>pandas</i> is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data<br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:arial,sans-serif">structures designed to make working with “relational” or “labeled” data both</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:arial,sans-serif">easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:arial,sans-serif">doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has the</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:arial,sans-serif">broader goal of becoming the most powerful and flexible open source data</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:arial,sans-serif">analysis / manipulation tool available in any language.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Highlights of this release include:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><ul><li></li><li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17px">A new <i>pipe</i> method, see <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew.html#whatsnew-0162-enhancements-pipe" target="_blank">here</a></span></font></li><li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:17px">Documentation on how to use <a href="http://numba.pydata.org" target="_blank">numba</a> with <i>pandas</i>, see <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/enhancingperf.html#enhancingperf-numba" target="_blank">here</a></span></font></li></ul></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">See the <a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew.html" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204)" target="_blank">Whatsnew in v0.16.2</a></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></div></div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Documentation:</font><br><a href="http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204)" target="_blank">http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/</a></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Source tarballs, windows binaries are available on PyPI:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204)" target="_blank">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">windows binaries are courtesy of </font><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span>Christoph Gohlke and are built on Numpy 1.9</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">macosx wheels are courtesy of Matthew Brett</div></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Please report any issues here:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues" rel="nofollow" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204)" target="_blank">https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues</a><br><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"></p><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Thanks</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Pandas Development Team</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br>Contributors to the 0.16.2 release</p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Andrew Rosenfeld</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Artemy Kolchinsky</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Bernard Willers</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Christer van der Meeren</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Christian Hudon</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Constantine Glen Evans</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Daniel Julius Lasiman</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Evan Wright</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Francesco Brundu</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Gaëtan de Menten</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Jake VanderPlas</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">James Hiebert</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Ari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