IPython 0.12 is out!

[Wanderer]

On Dec 19, 12:12 pm, Wanderer <wande... at dialup4less.com> wrote:
> On Dec 19, 4:49 am, Fernando Perez <fperez.... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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).
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> > *Downloads*
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> > Download links and instructions are at:http://ipython.org/download.html
> > And IPython is also on PyPI:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython
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> > Those contain a built version of the HTML docs; if you want pure source
> > downloads with no docs, those are available on github:
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> > Tarball:https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tarball/rel-0.12
> > Zipball:https://github.com/ipython/ipython/zipball/rel-0.12
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> > * Features *
> > Here is a quick listing of the major new features:
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> > - An interactive browser-based Notebook with rich media support
> > - Two-process terminal console
> > - Tabbed QtConsole
> > - Full Python 3 compatibility
> > - Standalone Kernel
> > - PyPy support
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> > And many more...
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> > We closed over 500 tickets, merged over 200 pull requests, and more than
> > 45 people contributed commits for the final release.
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> > Please see our release notes for the full details on everything about this
> > release:http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/whatsnew/version0.12.html
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> > * IPython tutorial at PyCon 2012 *
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> > 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.
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> > * 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:
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> > from IPython.lib.pylabtools import print_figure
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> > which should instead be:
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> > from IPython.core.pylabtools import print_figure
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> > 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.
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> > 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/).
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> > Many thanks to all who contributed!
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> > Fernando, on behalf of the IPython development team.
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> >http://ipython.org
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> Doesn't work for me. I installed it over my IPython 0.11 which did
> work for me. I get the following complaint.
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> 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'

The windows installer didn't work but installing from the tar file
did. But installing from the tar file doesn't install Ipython in the
site-packages directory. It installs it wherever you untar the tar
file. I don't remember ever having to deal with this before. Most
things just install in the site-packages directory without me having
to do anything special.