WinPython 2016-01 (2016-02-09)

Features:

• Highlight:
  • Jupyter Notebook 4.1 / Ipython 4.1.1 ('Search & replace' and 'run_all' options), bokeh 0.11.0
  • numpy 1.10.4 and numba 0.23.1 now allows usage of '@' multiplicator for WinPython 3.5
  • two icons change:
    • "Spyder (reset)" replaces "Spyder (light)",
    • "IDLEX" superseds "IDLE"
  • WinPython3.5 now exists also in 32 bit
• New packages:
  • data visualization: ptpython, IDLEX
  • data acquisition: pyreadline
• Upgrades:
  • data visualization: matplotlib 1.5.1, Holoviews 1.4.1+
  • data crunching: scipy 0.17.0, Pulp for WinPython 3.5
  • data acquisition: pep 8.0.2 / setuptools 19.6.2
• Cleanups:
  • reorganization of documentation Notebooks: be more "run all" and "beginner" friendly
  • improved pip compatibility
• Removals:
  • Scite
  • no more mid-size WinPython "slim" ("uninstall" from WinPython full size is the suggested workaround)
• Specific Notes:
  • users wanting 'R' in their WinPython can look at the included R_installation notebook
  • still no mingwpy for python 3.5, but ongoing progress: https://mingwpy.github.io
  • still older numba 0.20.0 in WinPython 3.4, to spare users the "vs 2015 runtime"
  • Windows 7/8/8.1 users wanting WinPython3.5 may have to install:
    • KB2999226 of Microsoft (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226),
    • or, better, Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49984)

Many thanks to Steve Dower, Christoph Gohlke, Carl Kleffner, Pierre Raybaut, Jupyter/SciPy/Pypa/Mingwpy/Continuum/Spyder/Holoviews teams for their continual efforts to improve Python experience on Windows.

Binaries (on sourceforge, soon uploading on github)

(complement of February 13th)

History of changes for WinPython 3.4.4.1

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.3.7.

Tools

New packages:

• Pandoc 1.13.1 (a universal document converter)

Removed packages:

• SciTE 3.3.7 (SCIntilla based Text Editor - Multilanguage, powerful and light-weight text editor)

Python packages

New packages:

• cloudpickle 0.1.1 (Extended pickling support for Python objects)
• flask-cors 2.1.2 (A Flask extension adding a decorator for CORS support)
• geopy 1.11.0 (Python Geocoding Toolbox)
• idlex 1.13 (IDLE Extensions for Python)
• ptpython 0.28 (Python REPL build on top of prompt_toolkit)
• pyreadline 2.1 (IPython needs this module to display color text in Windows command window)
• xarray 0.7.0 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

Upgraded packages:

• alabaster 0.7.6 → 0.7.7 (A configurable sidebar-enabled Sphinx theme)
• astroid 1.4.1 → 1.4.4 (Rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's ast (required for pylint))
• babel 2.1.1 → 2.2.0 (Internationalization utilities)
• blaze 0.8.3 → 0.9.1 (Blaze)
• bokeh 0.10.0 → 0.11.1 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)
• bqplot 0.5.0 → 0.5.1 (Interactive plotting for the Jupyter notebook, using d3.js and ipywidgets.)
• cffi 1.3.1 → 1.5.0 (Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.)
• colorama 0.3.3 → 0.3.5 (Cross-platform colored terminal text)
• dask 0.7.5 → 0.7.6 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)
• datashape 0.5.0 → 0.5.1 (A data description language)
• guidata 1.7.4 → 1.7.5 (Automatically generated graphical user interfaces for easy data set edition and display)
• guiqwt 3.0.1 → 3.0.2 (Efficient curve/image plotting and other GUI tools for scientific data processing software development)
• holoviews 1.4.0 → 1.4.1 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• ipykernel 4.2.1 → 4.2.2 (IPython Kernel for Jupyter)
• ipyparallel 4.1.0 → 5.0.0 (Interactive Parallel Computing with IPython)
• ipython 4.0.1 → 4.1.1 (Enhanced Python shell)
• jedi 0.8.1 → 0.9.0 (An autocompletion tool for Python that can be used for text editors)
• joblib 0.9.3 → 0.9.4 (Lightweight pipelining: using Python functions as pipeline jobs.)
• jupyter-console 4.0.3 → 4.1.0 (Jupyter metapackage. Install all the Jupyter components in one go.)
• keras 0.3.0 → 0.3.1 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• matplotlib 1.5.0 → 1.5.1 (2D plotting library (embeddable in GUIs created with PyQt))
• netcdf4 1.2.1 → 1.2.2 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))
• notebook 4.0.6 → 4.1.0 (# Jupyter Notebook)
• numpy 1.9.3 → 1.10.4 (NumPy: multidimensional array processing for numbers, strings, records and objects (SciPy''s core module))
• oct2py 3.3.3 → 3.4.0 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)
• odo 0.3.4 → 0.4.1 (Data migration in Python)
• pep8 1.6.2 → 1.7.0 (Python style guide checker)
• pickleshare 0.5 → 0.6 (Tiny 'shelve'-like database with concurrency support)
• pillow 3.0.0 → 3.1.1 (Python Imaging Library (fork))
• pip 7.1.2 → 8.0.2 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• prompt-toolkit 0.54 → 0.57 (Library for building powerful interactive command lines in Python)
• psutil 3.3.0 → 3.4.2 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• pulp 1.5.9 → 1.6.1 (PuLP is an LP modeler written in python. PuLP can generate MPS or LP files and call GLPK, COIN CLP/CBC, CPLEX, and GUROBI to solve linear problems)
• pygments 2.0.2 → 2.1 (Generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software)
• pylint 1.5.1 → 1.5.4 (Logilab code analysis module: analyzes Python source code looking for bugs and signs of poor quality)
• pymongo 3.1.1 → 3.2 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyparsing 2.0.6 → 2.0.7 (A Python Parsing Module)
• pyserial 2.7 → 3.0.1 (Library encapsulating the access for the serial port)
• pytest 2.8.4 → 2.8.5 (pytest: simple powerful testing with Python)
• Python 3.4.3 → 3.4.4 (Python programming language with standard library)
• pythonqwt 0.5.3 → 0.5.5 (Qt plotting widgets for Python)
• pywin32 219 → 220 (Python library for Windows)
• pyzmq 15.1.0 → 15.2.0 (Lightweight and super-fast messaging based on ZeroMQ library (required for IPython Qt console))
• qtpy 0.1.2 → 0.1.3 (Provides an abstraction layer on top of the various Qt bindings (PyQt5, PyQt4 and PySide) and additional custom QWidgets.)
• requests 2.8.1 → 2.9.1 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)
• requests-toolbelt 0.5.0 → 0.5.1 (Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.)
• rpy2 2.7.4 → 2.7.8 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))
• scipy 0.16.1 → 0.17.0 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))
• seaborn 0.7.0.dev0 → 0.7.0 (statistical data visualization)
• setuptools 18.7.1 → 19.6.2 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily)
• snowballstemmer 1.2.0 → 1.2.1 (This package provides 16 stemmer algorithms (15 + Poerter English stemmer) generated from Snowball algorithms.)
• sphinx 1.3.3 → 1.3.5 (Tool for generating documentation which uses reStructuredText as its markup language)
• sqlalchemy 1.0.9 → 1.0.11 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
• traitlets 4.0.0 → 4.1.0 (Traitlets Python config system)
• twine 1.6.4 → 1.6.5 (Collection of utilities for interacting with PyPI)
• wcwidth 0.1.5 → 0.1.6 (Measures number of Terminal column cells of wide-character codes)
• werkzeug 0.11.2 → 0.11.3 (The Swiss Army knife of Python web development)
• wrapt 1.10.5 → 1.10.6 (A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.)
• xlsxwriter 0.7.7 → 0.8.4 (A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.)

Removed packages:

• xray 0.6.1 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)