v0.15.0 final
This is a major release from 0.14.1 and includes a number of API changes, several new features, enhancements, and performance improvements along with a large number of bug fixes.
Highlights include:
- Drop support for numpy < 1.7.0
- The
Categorical
type was integrated as a first-class pandas type - New scalar type
Timedelta
, and a new index typeTimedeltaIndex
- New DataFrame default display for
df.info()
to include memory usage - New datetimelike properties accessor
.dt
for Series - Split indexing documentation into
Indexing and Selecting Data
andMultiIndex / Advanced Indexing
- Split out string methods documentation into
Working with Text Data
read_csv
will now by default ignore blank lines when parsing- API change in using Indexes in set operations
- Internal refactoring of the
Index
class to no longer sub-classndarray
- dropping support for
PyTables
less than version 3.0.0, andnumexpr
less than version 2.1
See the Whatsnew for much more information. Please report any issues here