Lingpy

This is a pre-release of LingPy 2.4, featuring some but not all of the new features which are planned to be available in LingPy 2.4.

This is a simple bugfix release. Some modifications have been added, but none of them was properly described in the documentation. More exciting stuff will hopefully come in the next release.

This is the first non-bug-fix release since the release of version 2.0. It contains many new features compared to the initial 2.0 version and will also hopefully be much more stable. Among the new features are:
- new testing schema that helps to minimize bugs
- full Windows support
- full Python2 support

In addition to earler versions in which we added a verbose-flag that allows the user to switch to verbose and debug output during a session, we now added a semi-verbose output which creates a dynamic progress bar when using time-consuming operations (alignments or cognate detection). This behaviour is loaded as a default. You can switch it off by typing:

python
>>> rc(progressbar=False)


or

python
>>> rc(semi_verbose=False)


In most cases, however, it will probably be useful to know that LingPy is currently working.

This is our first "official" release of LingPy in a version that supports both Python2 and Python3 and also runs on Windows.