Jorgen’s Weblog: Elpy 1.8.0 released

I just released version 1.8.0 of Elpy, the Emacs Python Development Environment. This is a feature release.

Elpy is an Emacs package to bring powerful Python editing to Emacs. It combines a number of other packages, both written in Emacs Lisp as well as Python.

Quick Installation

Evaluate this:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("elpy" .
               "http://jorgenschaefer.github.io/packages/"))

Then run M-x package-install RET elpy RET.

Finally, run the following (and add them to your .emacs):

(package-initialize)
(elpy-enable)

Changes in 1.8.0

Emacs 24.5 is now officially supported
The new configuration option elpy-rpc-ignored-buffer-size defines a maximum buffer size to be handle completion in, to avoid laggy interaction in unusually large files
Indentation block movement was replaced with code that just moves the marked block or the current line; this should be a lot less magical and more predictable
Running the test at point now correctly ignores any inner methods
Jedi docstrings now show the full name of the object
The RPC interpreter is now chosen correctly on cygwin
elpy-shell-send-region-or-buffer now warns of tabs in the data being sent
Elpy now binds stdout and stderr to /dev/null to avoid being confused by spurious output from other libraries
RPC buffers (and processes) are removed after some time to avoid them piling up endlessly
It is not possibly anymore to use customize alone to use ipython, because of some bad interaction between custom options in Elpy and python.el
And lots of bugfixes (50 issues closed!)