Hello IronPython community, We?ve just released the newest version of IronPython ? 0.9.6. This is most likely the last Alpha version of IronPython before the end of the year when we play to release IronPython 1.0 Beta 1. This build includes many bug fixes for issues reported to us by the community as well as support for many new modules. We are continuing to drive completeness of the Python and support for interoperability between .NET and IronPython. Here are the highlights of the 0.9.6 release, the full list of changes is included at the end of the mail:
All missing dictionary methods are now implemented Parser changes for tools integration Weak reference support Itertools module is now implemented Improved debugger sequence point generation, parser & tokenizer improvements Python equality/hashing and CLR equality/hashing separated Unhandled exceptions are no longer passed to the OS Exceptions have better stack traces in the interactive environment locals() support for most common usage scenarios (but not execfile or eval yet) Regular expression improvements: Implement missing methods, support Python named groups, fix match implementation when matching in the middle of a string, We?d also like to thank everyone in the community for your bug reports and suggestions that helped make this a better release: Mike Hostetler, Nicholas Jacobson, Davy Mitchell, Alexei Bocharov, Rosenkrantz, Jacques de Hooge, Anthony Tarlano, diaphanein, pchasco, Koly, Sumit Basu, Shon Shah, Angelo Xu, Boris Capitanu, carlostekken, Flexibal, glchapman, Luis M. Gonzalez, reportlabrobin, spencermah You can download the IronPython 0.9.6 release from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e73fad51-6566-4f4a-a42c-33bb5b89b4e8&displaylang=en Thanks and keep in touch, The IronPython team Full list of changes and bug fixes: =================================== Duplicate parameters & fancy kw args fixed Kw-arg property assignment fixed Module on old class moved into dictionary Improved syntax errors for null expressions Exec supports multi-line expressions Dict now has copy, and update supports user defined dictionaries == will call user defined __cmp__ function Improved error reporting for parser Duplicate named parameters detected by parser & reported Integer performance improvements & possible correctness improvements Bitwise operators implemented for bool IronPython compiles warning free Kw args & default params work better together __hash__ is called for user defined types when hashing All old style classes are of type instance Code gen no longer produced duplicate parameter names Tab at end of file no longer produces parser error Throwing strings is supported Backwards slices (m<n) are now handled correctly Non-closure methods in function w/ closure defined fixed x [] now correctly generates a syntax error IgnoreSymbolStoreSequencePoints now applied to generated assemblies for improved debugging & performance Implement hexversion in sys module Last statement in a file no longer gets an extra sequence point Calling __init__ on inherited in winforms w/ kw-args from subclass supported Inheritance of methods from built-in overridden in subclass now propagate to additional subclasses of the subclass. Exceptions on another thread no longer rip process (only for threads created through thread module) Unicode with no args no longer throws type error String formatting now throws when not all arguments are converted Apply function implemented in builtins Coerce function implemented in builtins New execfile overloads (but no locals support here yet) Filter implemented for strings, tuples, and subclasses thereof Improved support for inheriting from string Floating point modulo code correctness fixes Frame object matches Python?s behavior of when updating locals or globals Locals in frame can be any mapping object Can now override __xxx__ methods on Tuple Lambda expression sequence points fixed Dead code cleanup in PythonEngine code object support (only allows getting argument names so far) new sys._getframe overload (but not implemented) improved handling for passing None to reg-ex methods static event handlers can now be hooked from IronPython Conversion from double to integer Unichr now returns the correct type Integer parsing now accepts Arabic-Indic digits Hash(None) no longer throws Hex and oct fixes to throw correct error when object is missing Sys.maxunicode added Improved error handling in integer parsing Start of cStringIO implementation Updated tutorial to be compatible with Avalon for .NET 2.0 return <value> on module level generates invalid program exception rather than SyntaxError Equals between boxed bool and Python bool now returns True String manipulation produces incorrect results - bug fixed _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com