[Biopython] Biopython 1.55 beta released (Peter)

[Christoph Gohlke]

> Dear Biopythoneers,
>
> We?ve just released a beta of Biopython 1.55 for user testing, as
> announced on the news server (which has RSS and atom feeds) and on
> twitter:
> http://news.open-bio.org/news/2010/08/biopython-1-55-beta-released/
> http://twitter.com/biopython
>
> Since Biopython 1.54 was released three months ago, we?ve made a good
> start on work for Python 3 support (via the 2to3 script), but as a
> side effect of this we?ve had to update quite a lot of the older parts
> of the library. Although the unit tests are all fine, there is a small
> but real chance that we?ve accidentally broken things ? which is why
> we?re doing this beta release.
>
> In terms of new features, the most noticeable highlight is that the
> command line tool application wrapper classes are now executable,
> which should make it much easier to call external tools. This is
> described in the updated documentation.
> http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html
> http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.pdf
>
> Note we are phasing out support for Python 2.4. We will continue to
> support it for at least one further release (i.e. Biopython 1.56).
> This could be delayed given feedback from our users (e.g. if this
> proves to be a problem in combination with other libraries or a
> popular Linux distribution).
>
> (At least) 10 people have contributed to this release (so far),
> including 5 new people - thank you all:
>
>      * Andres Colubri (first contribution)
>      * Carlos Rios Vera (first contribution)
>      * Claude Paroz (first contribution)
>      * Eric Talevich
>      * Frank Kauff
>      * Joao Rodrigues (first contribution)
>      * Konstantin Okonechnikov (first contribution)
>      * Michiel de Hoon
>      * Peter Cock
>      * Tiago Antao
>
> Source distributions and Windows installers are available from the
> downloads page on the Biopython website:
> http://www.biopython.org/wiki/Download
>
> Feedback is welcome through the mailing lists (or bugzilla),
> especially if you find something that doesn't work.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Peter
>


Looks good. There are no test failures for the 32/64 bit msvc9 builds 
for Python 2.6/2.7 and numpy 1.4.1/1.5b2.

--
Christoph