PyPE Changelog

What's new in PyPE 2.9.4

Aug 13, 2012

Closing PyPE after minimize on Windows no longer saves the position of the PyPE window as -32000,-32000.
(fixed) Fast-running programs run from PyPE would sometimes not see any output due to a missed poll.
(fixed) A variety of dialogs stopped being positioned correctly, so we stopped
positioning them explicitly.
Should fix most of the dialog positioning issues on all platforms.

New in PyPE 2.9 (Jan 14, 2010)

(fixed) another bug related to realtime parsing.
(fixed) typo in stc-styles.rc.cfg that is shipped with PyPE that can cause
PyPE to fail to load on some platforms, thank you to Rob McMullen, the writer
of Peppy, for pointing out the error.
(fixed) bug with OS X disabling undo/redo cut/copy.
(changed) main documents tab to use AuiNotebook to deal with the broken native
notebook control on OS X. Seems to work as far as I can tell, though
sometimes when you click the "scroll" button repeatedly, it doesn't work for
every click.
(changed) all tabs now use AuiNotebook for internal consistency, and because it
just works better than the native control on OS X.
(changed) the behavior of the search tab (find in files) to fully use a
secondary thread for parsing, only putting results/events into the wxPython
layer to update things. This significantly reduces the thread creation churn
(I have no idea why I used a repeated callback semantic; maybe because it
would guarantee a few things about starting/stopping, I don't know), which on
OS X, allows you to search and edit documents at the same time, something that
other platforms have been enjoying for years ;) .
(changed) made the ReplaceAll functionality incrementally increase the number
of replacements before updating the GUI. It used to be 20 replacements at a
time. Now it will start at 30, then multiply that number by 1.5 each block, up
to a maximum of 1000 replacements before updating the GUI. This should
significantly increase the speed of large replacements, though there will be a
longer delay between screen updates.
(fixed) PyPE will now actually not close down on OS X if when prompted to save
an unsaved document you say "cancel". The benefit of not losing data on other
platforms has now come to OS X!
(noticed) OS X screen updates are disgustingly slow. It's not PyPE's fault,
it's the drawing method that Scinitlla uses on OS X.
(fixed) module browser (the Name and Line tools) to work when confronted with
function decorators. We will have to wait a bit for Python 2.6 before we can
support class decorators.
(fixed) moved file modification check to a secondary thread, which keeps the
GUI from stalling when files are on slow volumes (remote mounts, etc.), and
reduced check frequency from *every* time the application receives focus to
at most once every 60 seconds (it is still signaled when PyPE gets application
focus).
(changed) switched to using a secondary thread + sched module variant for
handling delayed calls, etc.
(changed) switched to using a single wx.Timer instance + sched module variant
for handling delayed calls, etc., in order to fix shutdown issues and to
improve latencies for immediate calls.
(fixed) unrepr for strings so that find/replace of ' ', etc., work again. I
never tested my str_unrepr() stuff :/ .
(cleaned) out some older code that is no longer necessary.
(tweaked) file modification checker to ignore the results of the modification
check if it took more than 30 seconds to complete.
(fixed) bug where if you try to open a file and it fails due to a unicode
decoding error, you could get an unsightly box in the corner.
(fixed) the ugly flashing in the upper-left corner when opening documents.
(fixed) the fast longest common subsequence algorithm (character doublings
were effectively ignored, so search terms of 'hello' were the same as 'helo').
(added) tool to the "Documents" tab to allow you to search a set of known
paths for files to open (this also includes recently open files). It scores
the subsequence search to pull "better" matches to the top.
(fixed) when pasting multiple lines in files with tab indentation, an extra
blank line will no longer be added before the pasted lines.
(fixed) description text for spaces to tabs transform.
(changed) rather than displaying every "file deleted" or "file modified" in
it's own dialog (which gets bothersome when you lose a network mount), you now
get one dialog for "file deleted" and one dialog for "file modified".
(added) the ability to automatically detect the dominant tab/indent settings
used per file, and use that as the default (which is quite useful if you have
recently switched indent styles, and/or if you have to use a different indent
style for work and not work).
(fixed) autocomplete breakage due to the parsers module movement.
(added) new parser and parser backend to replace the old Python parser with
one based on compiler.ast . It's a little slower than the previous parser,
and uses a bit more memory to start, but it offers much more opportunities for
improving PyPE for 2.9 and beyond. In the process, I discovered a bug with
the old parser.suite-based parser that I had borrowed from Synopsis (in
addition to the decorator bug that I'd already fixed for 2.9), which was that
it doesn't know about functions or classes that are in try/except/finally or
even if/whatever clauses. Uck.
(changed) tweaked some small color display options for latex (subsections are
now colored green, they used to be blue).
(added) crappy parser for cheetah and spitfire templates (.tmpl and .spt),
they only pull #block and #def for now, but they understand block nesting.
(added) True, False, as, and with as Python keywords
(cleaned) up some repeated os.listdir() calls that weren't necessary for
keeping the macro list updated. It now just updates when the window gets
focus.
(added) lexical scope traversal for Python to discover methods and locals.
(added) the pulling of self/cls/klass attribute assignments for Python
instance/class variables.
(added) optional global filter for all parsed documents.
(added) scoring method for filter tables (better matches float to the top of
the listing).
(fixed) long-standing issue with PyPE signaling a syntax error on the last
line in some situations.
(added) _ast-based parser for Python 2.5 and later (compiler.ast is deprecated
in 2.6, and removed in 3.0). The new parser is a bit faster on large files
(1.2 seconds vs. 1.4 seconds to parse pype.py on my machine), and should be
future-proof.
(changed) switched to using .png files for images, closing bug 1750959.
(fixed) opening of utf8 files that lack a coding directive or a BOM.
(fixed) sorting of line count in when using the new parser.
(added) currently open documents to the quick browse area on the documents
tab.
(added) different background color for recently opened documents and currently
open documents in the quick browse section on the documents tab.
(fixed) PyPE will now check for tab/indent preferences properly when opening a
file not in it's history.
(added) listing of currently open files to the quick browse section on the
documents tab.
(fixed) dialog opening on multi-monitor Windows configurations.
(tweaked) indent discovery code.
(fixed) label handling in some situations with the new AST-based parser.
(removed) duplicate entries in the quick browse section of the documents tab.
(added) the ability to remove items from history in the quick browse section
of the documents tab.
(added) drag and drop along the notebook tab list.
(fixed) accidental document list borkage.

PyPE Changelog

What's new in PyPE 2.9.4

New in PyPE 2.9 (Jan 14, 2010)

New in PyPE 2.8.8 (Dec 28, 2007)