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@jreback jreback released this 09 Mar 14:47
v0.18.0rc2
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THIS IS NOT A PRODUCTION RELEASE

Compared to RC1, this includes the update to read_sas as well as fixes for float indexing.

This is a major release from 0.17.1 and includes a small number of API changes, several new features,
enhancements, and performance improvements along with a large number of bug fixes. We recommend that all
users upgrade to this version.

Highlights include:

  • pandas >= 0.18.0 will no longer support compatibility with Python version 2.6 GH11273 and 3.3 GH7718
  • Moving and expanding window functions are now methods on Series and DataFrame, similar to .groupby, see here.
  • Adding support for a RangeIndex as a specialized form of the Int64Index
    for memory savings, see here.
  • API breaking .resample changes to make it more .groupby like, see here
  • Removal of support for positional indexing with floats, which was deprecated since 0.14.0. This will now raise a TypeError, see here
  • The .to_xarray() function has been added for compatibility with the xarray package see here.
  • The read_sas() function has been enhanced to read sas7bdat files, see here
  • Addition of the .str.extractall() method, and API changes to the the .str.extract() method, and the.str.cat() method
  • pd.test() top-level nose test runner is available GH4327

See the Whatsnew for much more information. Please report any issues here

best way to get this is to install via conda from our development channel. Builds for osx-64,linux-64,win-64 for Python 2.7 and Python 3.5 are all available.

conda install pandas=v0.18.0rc2 -c pandas

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