Version 0.6.0 (November 25, 2011)

New features

  • Added melt function to pandas.core.reshape

  • Added level parameter to group by level in Series and DataFrame descriptive statistics (GH313)

  • Added head and tail methods to Series, analogous to DataFrame (GH296)

  • Added Series.isin function which checks if each value is contained in a passed sequence (GH289)

  • Added float_format option to Series.to_string

  • Added skip_footer (GH291) and converters (GH343) options to read_csv and read_table

  • Added drop_duplicates and duplicated functions for removing duplicate DataFrame rows and checking for duplicate rows, respectively (GH319)

  • Implemented operators ‘&’, ‘|’, ‘^’, ‘-‘ on DataFrame (GH347)

  • Added Series.mad, mean absolute deviation

  • Added QuarterEnd DateOffset (GH321)

  • Added dot to DataFrame (GH65)

  • Added orient option to Panel.from_dict (GH359, GH301)

  • Added orient option to DataFrame.from_dict

  • Added passing list of tuples or list of lists to DataFrame.from_records (GH357)

  • Added multiple levels to groupby (GH103)

  • Allow multiple columns in by argument of DataFrame.sort_index (GH92, GH362)

  • Added fast get_value and put_value methods to DataFrame (GH360)

  • Added cov instance methods to Series and DataFrame (GH194, GH362)

  • Added kind='bar' option to DataFrame.plot (GH348)

  • Added idxmin and idxmax to Series and DataFrame (GH286)

  • Added read_clipboard function to parse DataFrame from clipboard (GH300)

  • Added nunique function to Series for counting unique elements (GH297)

  • Made DataFrame constructor use Series name if no columns passed (GH373)

  • Support regular expressions in read_table/read_csv (GH364)

  • Added DataFrame.to_html for writing DataFrame to HTML (GH387)

  • Added support for MaskedArray data in DataFrame, masked values converted to NaN (GH396)

  • Added DataFrame.boxplot function (GH368)

  • Can pass extra args, kwds to DataFrame.apply (GH376)

  • Implement DataFrame.join with vector on argument (GH312)

  • Added legend boolean flag to DataFrame.plot (GH324)

  • Can pass multiple levels to stack and unstack (GH370)

  • Can pass multiple values columns to pivot_table (GH381)

  • Use Series name in GroupBy for result index (GH363)

  • Added raw option to DataFrame.apply for performance if only need ndarray (GH309)

  • Added proper, tested weighted least squares to standard and panel OLS (GH303)

Performance enhancements

  • VBENCH Cythonized cache_readonly, resulting in substantial micro-performance enhancements throughout the code base (GH361)

  • VBENCH Special Cython matrix iterator for applying arbitrary reduction operations with 3-5x better performance than np.apply_along_axis (GH309)

  • VBENCH Improved performance of MultiIndex.from_tuples

  • VBENCH Special Cython matrix iterator for applying arbitrary reduction operations

  • VBENCH + DOCUMENT Add raw option to DataFrame.apply for getting better performance when

  • VBENCH Faster cythonized count by level in Series and DataFrame (GH341)

  • VBENCH? Significant GroupBy performance enhancement with multiple keys with many “empty” combinations

  • VBENCH New Cython vectorized function map_infer speeds up Series.apply and Series.map significantly when passed elementwise Python function, motivated by (GH355)

  • VBENCH Significantly improved performance of Series.order, which also makes np.unique called on a Series faster (GH327)

  • VBENCH Vastly improved performance of GroupBy on axes with a MultiIndex (GH299)

Contributors

A total of 8 people contributed patches to this release. People with a “+” by their names contributed a patch for the first time.

  • Adam Klein +

  • Chang She +

  • Dieter Vandenbussche

  • Jeff Hammerbacher +

  • Nathan Pinger +

  • Thomas Kluyver

  • Wes McKinney

  • Wouter Overmeire +

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