Winpython 2015-06 (2015-08-09) 'Cleanups'

(soon on Sourceforge, later on Github)

Features:

• Highlight:
  • the compiler functionality is now packaged in a 'mingwpy' wheel
  • there is a PyQt5 branch: with PyQt5.5.0, without Qt4-only packages
  • WinPython Packet Manager uses directly pip to install tar.gz and .zip packages
  • cleanups in the graphic packages
• New packages:
  • data acquisition: twitter, pyaudio
  • data crunching: xray, netcdf4, blaze
  • data visualization: Bokeh, Holoviews
• Upgrades:
  • data crunching: scipy 0.16.0, numba 0.20.0, llvmlite 0.6.0, mingwpy 0.1.0b3, dask 0.6.0,
  • data visualization: IPython 3.2.1, seaborn 0.6.0, Pillow 2.9.0, PyQtGraph 0.9.10 of 2015-07-31
• Cleanups:
  • cleanup python3.3 specific code (no more WinPython for Python 3.3)
  • cleanup pre-mingwpy and pre-IPython3 code
• Removals:
  • data visualization: ggplot, mahotas, vispy, VPython
  • cleanup old code related to dropped compiler / IPython 2 / Python 3.3
  • there is no openblas wheel yet for the new compiler.

Specific Note about PyQt5.5 branch:

• it is NEW, so probably not totally mature,
• use Spyder 3.0.0dev github branch (of 2015-08-08)
• needed a small patch of PyQt5.5.0 QtDemo
• use PyQtGraph github branch (of 2015-07-31)
• loss of Qt4 only packages: PyQtdesignerplugins, PyQwt, formlayout, guidata, ViTables

Christoph Gohlke expertize was more than welcomed again, this time to create a Spyder 3.0.0 wheel.

Thank you, Christoph !

History of changes for WinPython 3.4.3.5

The following changes were made to WinPython distribution since version 3.4.3.4.

Tools

Removed packages:

• MinGW32 4.9.2 (C/C++ and Fortran compilers (Mingwpy static toolchain version))
• gettext 0.14.4 (GNU gettext Win32 porting - the GNU translation tool (useful tools for pygettext, a standard library module))

Python packages

New packages:

• Markdown 2.6.2 (Python implementation of Markdown.)
• PyAudio 0.2.8 (Bindings for PortAudio v19, the cross-platform audio input/output stream library.)
• blaze 0.8.2 (Blaze)
• bokeh 0.9.2 (Statistical and novel interactive HTML plots for Python)
• greenlet 0.4.7 (Lightweight in-process concurrent programming)
• holoviews 1.3.2 (Composable, declarative data structures for building complex visualizations easily.)
• locket.py 0.2.0 (File-based locks for Python for Linux and Windows)
• mingwpy 0.1.0b3 (the python friendly windows compiler toolchain)
• netCDF4 1.1.9 (python/numpy interface to netCDF library (versions 3 and 4))
• param 1.3.2 (Declarative Python programming using Parameters.)
• partd 0.3.2 (Appendable key-value storage)
• pystache 0.5.4 (Mustache for Python)
• twitter 1.17.0 (An API and command-line toolset for Twitter (twitter.com))
• xray 0.5.2 (N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python)

Upgraded packages:

• Keras 0.1.1 → 0.1.2 (Theano-based Deep Learning library)
• Pillow 2.8.2 → 2.9.0 (Python Imaging Library (fork))
• SQLAlchemy 1.0.5 → 1.0.8 (SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper)
• alabaster 0.7.4 → 0.7.6 (A configurable sidebar-enabled Sphinx theme)
• bcolz 0.9.0 → 0.10.0 (columnar and compressed data containers.)
• beautifulsoup4 4.3.2 → 4.4.0 (Screen-scraping library)
• click 4.0 → 4.1 (A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.)
• dask 0.5.0 → 0.6.1 (Minimal task scheduling abstraction)
• datashape 0.4.5 → 0.4.6 (A data description language)
• dill 0.2.2 → 0.2.3 (serialize all of python (almost))
• ipython 3.2.0 → 3.2.1 (Enhanced Python shell)
• llvmlite 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (lightweight wrapper around basic LLVM functionality)
• logilab_common 0.63.2 → 1.0.2 (Collection of low-level Python packages and modules used by Logilab projects (required for pylint))
• mistune 0.5.1 → 0.7 (The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.)
• multipledispatch 0.4.7 → 0.4.8 (A relatively sane approach to multiple dispatch in Python)
• nltk 3.0.2 → 3.0.4 (The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a Python package for natural language processing.)
• numba 0.19.2 → 0.20.0 (compiling Python code using LLVM)
• oct2py 3.2.0 → 3.3.0 (Python to GNU Octave bridge --> run m-files from python.)
• odo 0.3.2 → 0.3.3 (Data migration in Python)
• patsy 0.3.0 → 0.4.0 (Describing statistical models using symbolic formulas)
• pip 7.0.3 → 7.1.0 (A tool for installing and managing Python packages)
• psutil 3.0.0 → 3.1.1 (Provides an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way)
• pymongo 3.0.2 → 3.0.3 (Python driver for MongoDB http://www.mongodb.org)
• pyodbc 3.0.9 → 3.0.10 (DB API Module for ODBC)
• rpy2 2.6.0 → 2.6.1 (Python interface to the R language (embedded R))
• scipy 0.15.1 → 0.16.0 (SciPy: Scientific Library for Python (advanced math, signal processing, optimization, statistics, ...))
• seaborn 0.5.1 → 0.6.0 (statistical data visualization)
• simplejson 3.7.3 → 3.8.0 (Simple, fast, extensible JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder)
• tables 3.2.0 → 3.2.1 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data))
• tornado 4.2 → 4.2.1 (Scalable, non-blocking web server and tools (required for IPython notebook))
• xlrd 0.9.3 → 0.9.4 (Extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files)

Removed packages:

• VPython 5.74 (A free, open-source module for producing real-time 3D scenes with Python)
• ggplot 0.6.5 (ggplot for python)
• mahotas 1.2.4 (Computer Vision library)
• runipy 0.1.3 (Run IPython notebooks from the command line)
• vispy 0.4.0 (Interactive visualization in Python)