Python(x, y) 2.7.10.0 Released!

Hi All,

I'm happy to announce that Python(x, y) 2.7.10.0 is available for immediate download.from any of the mirrors. The full change log can be viewed here. Please post your comments and suggestions to the mailing list.

Work on the Python 3.x 64 bit version will resume once Visual Studio 2015 RTM is released.

What's new in general:

• All packages have been updated to their latest versions. Numpy, Scipy etc.
• ipython has been held back at 2.4.1 to avoid potential compatibility issues.
• OpenCV has been help back at 2.4.11 to avoid potential compatibility issues.

New noteworthy packages:

• yappi - Yet Another Python Profiler.
• libnacl - A ctypes wrapper around libsodium.

Have fun!

-Gabi Davar

Python(x, y) 2.7.9.0 Released!

Hi All,

I'm happy to announce that Python(x, y) 2.7.9.0 is available for immediate download.from any of the mirrors. The full change log can be viewed here. Please post your comments and suggestions to the mailing list.

Work on the 64 bit & 3.x versions progresses slowly but surely. They will happen eventually :)

What's new in general:

• The official Visual C++ for python 2.7 has replaced MinGW as the bundled compiler. Finally everyone can enjoy native python binary extenions for win32. MinGW is still available as an additional plugin.
• Console2 has been replaced with ConsoleZ - an actively developed fork. Which adds split views and many other improvements.
• Maintaining 2/3 code base is much easier with the inclusion of python-modernize. Also all backports have been updated and expanded with unittest2.
• All packages updated to their latest versions (at the time) - IPython, GDAL, SciPy, ITK, VTK. sqlalchemy, Astropy, SWIG etc. 
• User Local install support has been revived - it is still experimental though.
• Numpy has been held back at 1.8.2 to avoid potential compatibility issues.

New noteworthy packages:

• cvxpy- A domain-specific language for modeling convex optimization problems in Python.
• grin - Utility which searches directories of source code better than grep or find.

Have fun!

-Gabi Davar

Python(x, y) 2.7.6.1 Released!

Hi All,

I'm happy to announce that Python(x, y) 2.6.6.1 is available for immediate download.from any of the mirrors. The full change log can be viewed here. Please post your comments and suggestions to the mailing list.

Looking forward - actual work on a Python 2.7 64bit version is underway. A Python 3.4.x version is next in line - this is based on current perceived users input. Help would be much appreciated - it will make the 3.4.x happen sooner.

Please note that WindowsXP is no longer tested or officially supported - It has officially followed Windows 2000 into retirement.

What's new in general:

• The NTUA mirror is temporary unlisted until a FALSE malware issue is resolved with Chrome.
• The installer was enhanced to support more command line arguments for easier unattended install -  See Advanced Install .
• pip is modified to provide more information in the 'show' command:

• MinGW was finally updated 4.8.1 as Python 2.7.6+ was fixed to support it.
• All packages updated to their latest versions (at the time) - IPython, GDAL, OpenCV, Numpy, SciPy, ITK, sqlalchemy, Astropy, SWIG etc.
• Support libraries version updated - libpng, webp, turbojpeg, openjpeg2000.
• Packaging Bug fixes (OpenCV, console uninstall, etc).
• PycURL now include the relevant curl executable.

New noteworthy packages:

• ffnet - Feed-forward neural network solution for python.
• PyMC - Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.
• seaborn - a Python visualization library based on matplotlib.
• PyAudio - Python bindings for PortAudio, the cross-platform audio I/O library.
• pyOpenSSL - Python interface to the OpenSSL library
• requests - a HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.

Have fun!

-Gabi Davar

Python(x, y) 2.7.5.2 Released!

Hi All,

I'm happy to announce that Python(x, y) 2.7.5.2 is available for immediate download.

The last two releases focused on:

• Getting out of DLL hell.
• Eliminate all duplicate versions of libraries (JPEG, PNG, HDF5 etc).
• Eliminate usage of any Microsoft Runtime but msvcrt90 and any instabilities caused by it.
• Providing all optional dependencies of the core plugins.

Off course the scientific and system aspects were not neglected:

• All packages updated to their latest versions.
• Numpy/Scipy now use Intel MKL.
• GDAL was updated to the latest version and uses the up to date system libraries.
• Astropy - an astronomy oriented plugin was added.
• PyZMQ was updated to 14.0.1 and built with PGM and ZMQ_CURVE security support.
• NetCDF4 was rebuilt and now includes support OpenDAP and HDF4.

Several new and interesting plugins were introduced:

• fabric - A simple, pythonic remote execution and deployment tool.
• enaml - A Declarative DSL for building rich user interfaces in Python. Upgraded to core plugin.
• pygame - A set of python modules designed for writing games
• pytest - A mature full-featured alternative to nose. This plugin comes packed with many additional plugins (pep8, cov, flakes etc).
• Python 3.x compatibility helpers were added to the python_base plugin - enum34, faulthandler and mock.

Please note that WindowsXP is no longer tested or officially supported. It's EOL is getting closed (April 2014) and the resources to support it are not available.

As always this release can be downloaded from any of the mirrors. The full change log can be viewed here. Please post your comments and suggestions to the mailing list.

Have fun!

-Gabi Davar

Python(x, y) 2.7.5.0 Released!

Hi All,

I'm happy to announce that Python(x, y) 2.7.5.0 is available for immediate download. It has been over 6 months since the previous release. Hopefully the amount of changes and updates offsets the long wait.

As always this release can be downloaded from any of the mirrors.

Major Changes

• A dozen new plugins were added - mahotas, cffi, lxml, paramiko, Babel, PycURL and others. 
• Eliminated most duplicate dependencies between packages - HDF5, zlib, bzip2, libpng, jpeg, tiff etc. These are part of their respective python wrappers or grouped under base_libraries.
• base_python plugin created to host numerous infrastructure, python3 compatibility and utility packages (six, decorator, curses, pep8 etc).
• Image manipulation was greatly improved with the addition of FreeImage python wrappers and replacing PIL with pillow.
• WindowsXP is no longer officially supported. HDF5 cannot be compiled to be thread safe on it.

Notable Plugin Changes:

• Sypder - updated to 2.2.0
• ETS updated to 4.3.0.
• VTK - updated to 5.10.1, Enabled: TextAnalysis, QVTK, WrapSIP, Oggrtheora,
• ITK - updated to v4.4.0, Enabled: VTKGlue.
• NetCDF4 - Enabled support for DAP and HDF4.
• lxml - libxml & libxslt rebuilt with iconv, ICU, zlib and LZMA.
• Numpy, Scipy and IPython updated.

The full change log can be viewed here.

Please post your comments and suggestions to the mailing list.

-Gabi Davar

Python(x, y) 2.7.3.1 Released!

Hi All,

We are happy to announce that Python(x, y) 2.7.3.1 is available for immediate download. We should all thank the diligent people of McAfee for flagging autoconsole.exe as a virus - that was the last of the old AutoIt binaries.

Some notable changes:

• SQLAlchemy has been re-packaged - it was completely unusable.
• The main installation was tweaked so that the uninstaller will erase _all_ possible locations of Python(x, y) registry keys. This should finally rid of those annoying install issues.
• uncertenties joined Python(x, y) as a core plugin.
• Numerous additional plugin were updated (visvis now comes with ffmpeg and freetype).

There are several major enhancements which are on the table:

1. Make Python itself a plugin - allowing for a non admin install.
2. 64 bit version.
3. Fix and expand the installer command line to allow setting: all/user install, target paths, package selection etc.
4. Add support for installation and updates of XY plugins and PyPi packages from the web.
5. Add support for virtualenv creation and management.
6. Eliminate duplicate dependencies between packages - have just once instance of each (Zlib, bzip2, libpng, etc).

Please post your opinions to the mailing list.

As this release can be downloaded from any of the mirrors and an update is available as well.

-Gabi Davar

Version 2.7.3.1 (12/30/2012)

Added

• uncertainties - Transparently handles calculations with numbers with uncertainties (like 3.1+-0.01)

Updated

• SQLAlchemy 0.7.9-2
• PyQt? 4.9.5-2
• QtHelp? 4.8.3-1
• PyQwt? 5.2.1-5
• guidata 1.5.1-1
• Cython 0.17.2-2
• guiqwt 2.2.1-1
• Console 2.0.148-8
• xy 1.2.16-1
• Distribute 0.6.32-2
• virtualenv 1.8.4-2
• cx_Freeze 4.3.1-1
• Torando 2.4.1-1
• VPython 5.74-1
• pandas 0.9.1-2
• uncertainties 1.9-1
• mx 3.2.5-1

Python(x, y) 2.7.3.0 Released!

Hi All,

We are happy to announce that Python(x, y) 2.7.3.0 is available for immediate download. Almost all plugins were updated as well several new ones were added. The most notable are:

• The long awaited update of IPython to v0.13.1 (with ipdb extension).
• ITK/VTK (with VTKGlue restored).
• The Enthought Tool Suite (with enaml).
• Numpy.
• SciPy.
• and many scikits* packages.

As always all packages come as feature complete as possible with up to date documentation, examples and bug fixes.

The next major milestone is the much requested 64-bit support based on Python v2.7.3. Although Python v3.3.0 is promising, too many must have packages are not available for it (Scipy).

Please head over to the download page for download links. There is no update available as the Python distribution was updated.

- Gabi Davar

Version 2.7.3.0 (10/30/2012)

Added

• virtualenv - Creates isolated Python environments.
• SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
• pyzmq - Python bindings for ØMQ. ØMQ is a lightweight and fast messaging implementation. A dependency of IPython>=0.12
• Tornado - An open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed?. A dependency of IPython>=0.12
• ply upgraded to standard plagin status. It is a dependency of Enthought's enaml.

Updated

• NumPy? 1.6.2
• Spyder 2.1.11
• SWIG 2.0.8
• PyQt? 4.9.4
• PyQwt? 5.2.1.4
• QtHelp? 4.8.2
• xlrd 0.8.0
• docutils 0.9.1
• SciTE 3.2.2-1
• psutils 0.6.1
• rst2pdf 0.92
• IPython 0.13.1-1
• GDAL 1.9.2-2
• PP 1.6.2
• OpenCV 2.4.2
• Matplotlib 1.1.1
• statsmodels 0.4.3
• scikits.image 0.7.2-1
• NetworkX 1.7
• pandas 0.9.0-1
• PyFITS 3.1
• Console 2.0.148.7
• MinGW 4.5.2.3
• gettext 0.14.4.3
• Cython 0.17.1
• xy 1.2.15
• ETS 4.2.0-1
• cx_Freeze 4.3
• simplejson 2.6.2-1
• Distribute 0.6.30-1
• Veusz 1.16
• pyzmq 2.2.0.1-1
• VTK 5.10.0
• pylint 0.26-1
• guidata 1.5.0
• guiqwt 2.2.0
• Pip 1.2.1
• PyWavelets? 0.2.2
• PyOpenGL 3.0.2-1
• PyTables? 2.4.0
• scikits-learn 0.12.1-1
• Torando 2.4
• ITK 4.2.0
• nose 1.2.1
• SciPy? 0.11.0
• MDP 3.3.0.1
• netcdf4 1.0.1
• ReportLab? 2.6
• h5py 2.1.0
• Pywin32 218-1
• SymPy? 0.7.2-1
• SQLAlchemy 0.7.9-1
• virtualenv 1.8.2-1
• pydicom 0.9.7-1
• openpyxl 1.6.1-1

Fixed

•  Issue 49 : problem on the help system
•  Issue 470 : Environment Variables Were not cleaned up on uninstall
•  Issue 380 : Please re-include itkVtkGlue in itk 3.20.0 python package
•  Issue 471 : Silent Uninstall doesn't remove the uninstaller and the directory
•  Issue 477 : AutoIt? binaries detected as malware
•  Issue 542 : ctraits missing in mayavi