News
01 February 2021
eric 21.2 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these
new features.
- General
- added support for PyQt6
- added support for PySide6
- Code Style Checker
- added a commented code whitelist patterns to the Miscellaneous Checker
- added support for the '@yield' and '@ytype' tags
- Debugger
- added support for debugging multiprocess scripts using these methods
- QProcess.start(), QProcess.startDetached()
- subprocess.Popen()
- multiprocessing.Process()
- os.spawnl...(), os.spawnv...(), os.posix_spawn...(), os.fork(),
os.fork_exec()
- _winapi.CreateProcess(), _subprocess.CreateProcess()
- added support for debugging code strings (-c, --code) or script modules
(-m, --module)
- added support for the "Continue Until" action execution code until the
current cursor line (if it is greater than the current line) or until
returning from the current frame
- Documentation Generator
- added support for the '@yield' and '@ytype' tags to document
generators
- Editor
- added code to enclose the current selection by entering ", ' or a
bracket ( (, ), [, ], {, }, <, > ) characters
- extended the exporters to support sub-styles
- added functionality to insert docstring templates via the context menu
(cursor placed on first line of function definition), after entering
the docstring start string (e.g. """ for Python) or via a keyboard
shortcut (default: Ctrl+Alt+D) when cursor is either placed on the
function definition line or after the end of the function definition
- Find File Dialog
- added option to exclude hidden files and directories
- changed directory tree search logic to derive the file patterns from
the project file type associations, if the directory to be searched
is a sub-directory of the project
- User Interface
- added capability to show Qt6 documentation (configurable)
- VirtualEnv Manager
- improved the handling of virtual environments slightly
- Web-Browser
- added an error page for not supported eric: URLs
- Third Party packages
- updated eradicate.py to 2.0.0
- updated chardet to 4.0.0
- updated coverage.py to 5.3.1
- updated editorconfig to 0.12.3
- updated Pygments to 2.7.4
02 January 2021
eric 21.1 has been released. It fixes just a few bugs.
01 January 2021
The eric team wishes everybody a 'Happy New Year'.