Re: [stan-users] PyStan 2.8.0.2 released

[Bob Carpenter]

[moved to dev list]

Thanks so much for keeping up on this. I'm really glad to hear
that Python's getting easier to interface with C++!

- Bob

> On Nov 6, 2015, at 5:58 AM, Allen B. Riddell <a...@ariddell.org> wrote:
>
> PyStan 2.8.0.2 is available on PyPI. This releases contains a variety of
> minor improvements. The Stan library used remains the same (2.8.0).
>
> Highlights:
>
> - Compiler optimization is turned on for model compilation.
> - Specifying a subset of parameters (via the `pars` keyword) in sampling
> now works as expected.
> - Python 3.5 support.
>
> One important note about this release: PyStan 2.8.0.2 requires Cython
> 0.22 or higher (previously 0.19 or higher had been required). Cython's
> support for interfacing with C++ code has improved tremendously in the
> past year. Many bugs have been fixed. Requiring Cython 0.22 means that
> there need to be fewer bug workarounds in PyStan. Newer versions of
> Python (3.5+) already require a higher version of Cython.
>
> Download the latest version at
>
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pystan
>
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[Allen B. Riddell]

Sure! No problem.

And now that Python 3.5 is out I have no excuse not to attempt to
support Windows (since it's a lot easier). (details:
http://stevedower.id.au/blog/building-for-python-3-5/)

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