ANN: IPython 0.6.1 is officially out
[Please forgive the cross-post, but since I know many scipy/numpy users are
also ipython users, and this is a fairly significant update, I decided it was
worth doing it.]
Hi all,
I've just uplodaded officially IPython 0.6.1. Many thanks to all who
contributed comments, bug reports, ideas and patches. I'd like in particular
to thank Ville Vainio, who helped a lot with many of the features for pysh,
and was willing to put code in front of his ideas.
As always, a big Thank You goes to Enthought and the Scipy crowd for hosting
ipython and all its attending support services (bug tracker, mailing lists,
website and downloads, etc).
The download location, as usual, is:
http://ipython.scipy.org/dist
A detailed NEWS file can be found here: http://ipython.scipy.org/NEWS, so I
won't repeat it. I will only mention the highlights of this released compared
to 0.6.0:
* BACKWARDS-INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: Users will need to update their ipythonrc
files and replace '%n' with '\D' in their prompt_in2 settings everywhere.
Sorry, but there's otherwise no clean way to get all prompts to properly
align. The ipythonrc shipped with IPython has been updated.
* 'pysh' profile, which allows you to use ipython as a system shell. This
includes mechanisms for easily capturing shell output into python strings and
lists, and for expanding python variables back to the shell. It is started,
like all profiles, with 'ipython -p pysh'. The following is a brief example
of the possibilities:
planck[~/test]|3> $$a=ls *.py
planck[~/test]|4> type(a)
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Fernando Perez