[RELEASE] Python 3.6.2rc2 is now available for testing

On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.6 release team, I would like to announce the availability of Python 3.6.2rc2. 3.6.2rc2 is the second release candidate for Python 3.6.2, the next maintenance release of Python 3.6. 3.6.2rc2 includes fixes for three security-related issu

ANN: pandas v0.20.3 released

Hi all, I'm happy to announce pandas 0.20.3 has been released. This is a minor bug-fix release in the 0.20.x series and includes some small regression fixes and bug fixes. We recommend that all users upgrade to this version. See the v0.20.3 Whatsnew

ANN: TEXTCOMBINE-SP

An estimate of entropy of English texts is 1.34 bits per letter [1]. This implies that, if the letters are coded into 5 bits, one needs to appropriately combine 4 text files in order to obtain bit sequences of full entropy, since 4*1.34 = 5.36 > 5. The method used in our software is to sum (mod

ANN: Astropy v2.0 released

Dear colleagues, We are very happy to announce the v2.0 release of the Astropy package, a core Python package for Astronomy: http://www.astropy.org Astropy is a community-driven Python package intended to contain much of the core functionality and common tools needed for astronomy and astrophysi