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News:

New Release: 1.3.19

Major highlights:

• Eclipse 3.2: Interactive console working
• Eclipse 3.4: Hyperlinks working
• Eclipse 3.4: Move / rename working
• raw_input() and input(): functions are now changed when a program is launched from eclipse to consider a trailing '\r'
• Ctr+/: Changed to toggle comment (instead of only comment) -- patch from Christoph Pickl
• Pydev package explorer: Link working with compare editor
• Auto-indent: Fixed problem when smart indent was turned off
• Debugger: Better inspection of internal variables for dict, list, tuple, set and frozenset
• Console: When a parenthesis is entered, the text to the end of the line is no longer deleted
• Code Formatter: can deal with operators (+, -, *, etc)
• Code Formatter: can handle '=' differently inside function calls / keyword args
• Problem while navigating pydev package explorer fixed
• Race condition fixed in PythonNatureStore/PythonNature (thanks to Radim Kubacki)
• Halt fixed while having multiple editors with the same file (with the spell service on)
• Pythonpath is no longer lost on closed/imported projects
• Applying a template uses the correct line delimiter
• NPE fixed when creating editor with no interpreter configured
• Hyperlink works in the same way that F3 (saves file before search)

Previous: 1.3.18

• Executing external programs: Using Runtime.exec(String[] cmdargs) instead of a string with the generated command (fixes problems regarding having spaces in the installation).
• Organize Imports (ctrl+shift+O): Imports can be grouped.
• Cygwin: sys.executable in cygwin was not returning '.exe' in the end of the executable as it should.
• Additional paths for PYTHONPATH (Patch from Eric Wittmann): extension point allows plugins to contribute paths to the PYTHONPATH.
• Code-completion: typing '.' won't apply the selected completion, but will still request a new one with the current contents.
• Pydev Package Explorer: Problem while trying to show active editor on the pydev package explorer.

Previous: 1.3.17

• Pydev Package Explorer: projects that had the project folder in the pythonpath did not show children items correctly.
• Debugger: Disable all works. Patch from: Oldrich Jedlicka
• Debugger: Problem when making a step return / step over
• Code-completion: Working for attributes found in a superclass imported with a relative import
Patches from Felix Schwarz:
• Allow to configure an interpreter even if the workspace path name contains spaces
• Completion server does not work when the eclipse directory contains spaces
• Fix deletion of resources in pydev package explorer for Eclipse 3.4

Previous: 1.3.16

• Interactive console: help() works
• Interactive console: context information showing in completions
• Interactive console: backspace will also delete the selected text
• Interactive console: ESC does not close the console when in floating mode anymore
• Code completion: calltips context info correctly made 'bold'
• Code completion: variables starting with '_' do not come in import *
• Code completion: can be requested for external files (containing system info)
• Code completion: fixed recursion condition
• Code completion: egg file distributed with dll that has a source module with the same name only with a __bootstrap__ method now loads the dll instead of the source module (e.g.: numpy egg)
• Debugger: Step over/Step return can now execute with untraced frames (much faster)
• Debugger: Problem when handling thread that had no context traced and was directly removed.
• Launching: F9 will reuse an existing launch instead of creating a new one every time
• Launching: The default launch with Ctrl+F11 will not ask again for the launch associated with a file (for new launches -- old launches should be deleted)
• Project Explorer: fixed integration problems with CDT (and others)
• Launch: console encoding passed as environment variable (no longer written to the install location)
• More templates for "surround with" (Ctrl+1)
• Previous/next method could match 'class' and 'def' on invalid location
• Outline: Assign with multiple targets is recognized
• Bug fix for pydev package explorer when refreshed element parent was null

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Two screencasts demonstrating pydev and pydev extensions have been created. They are hosted at ShowMeDo.com.

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