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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Hello Pythonistas,</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I just uploaded eric 21.2. It fixes some bugs and adds these new features.</p>
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<li>General </li>
<ul>
<li>added support for PyQt6 </li>
<li>added support for PySide6 </li>
</ul>
<li>Code Style Checker </li>
<ul>
<li>added a commented code whitelist patterns to the Miscellaneous Checker </li>
<li>added support for the '@yield' and '@ytype' tags </li>
</ul>
<li>Debugger </li>
<ul>
<li>added support for debugging multiprocess scripts using these methods </li>
<ul>
<li>QProcess.start(), QProcess.startDetached() </li>
<li>subprocess.Popen() </li>
<li>multiprocessing.Process() </li>
<li>os.spawnl...(), os.spawnv...(), os.posix_spawn...(), os.fork(),
os.fork_exec() </li>
<li>_winapi.CreateProcess(), _subprocess.CreateProcess() </li>
</ul>
<li>added support for debugging code strings (-c, --code) or script modules
(-m, --module) </li>
<li>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 </li>
</ul>
<li>Documentation Generator </li>
<ul>
<li>added support for the '@yield' and '@ytype' tags to document generators </li>
</ul>
<li>Editor </li>
<ul>
<li>added code to enclose the current selection by entering ", ' or a bracket
( (, ), [, ], {, }, <, > ) characters </li>
<li>extended the exporters to support sub-styles </li>
<li>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 </li>
</ul>
<li>Find File Dialog </li>
<ul>
<li>added option to exclude hidden files and directories </li>
<li>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 </li>
</ul>
<li>User Interface </li>
<ul>
<li>added capability to show Qt6 documentation (configurable) </li>
</ul>
<li>VirtualEnv Manager </li>
<ul>
<li>improved the handling of virtual environments slightly </li>
</ul>
<li>Web-Browser </li>
<ul>
<li>added an error page for not supported eric: URLs </li>
</ul>
<li>Third Party packages </li>
<ul>
<li>updated eradicate.py to 2.0.0 </li>
<li>updated chardet to 4.0.0 </li>
<li>updated coverage.py to 5.3.1 </li>
<li>updated editorconfig to 0.12.3 </li>
<li>updated Pygments to 2.7.4
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">It is available via the eric web site or PyPI.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/index.html" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#2980b9;">https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/index.html</span></a></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="https://pypi.org/project/eric-ide/" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#2980b9;">https://pypi.org/project/eric-ide/</span></a></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Regards,</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Detlev</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-weight:600;">Detlev Offenbach</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="mailto:detlev@die-offenbachs.de" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#2980b9;">detlev@die-offenbachs.de</span></a> </p>
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