[python-control-announce] python-control 0.7.0 now available

[Richard M. <mu...@cd...>]

Version 0.7.0 of the python-control toolbox is now available for download on SourceForge, as well as via pip and conda.  This version was completed by in April 2015 (sorry for the delays in posting!).  A short list of changes is appended to the bottom of this message.

Mac users can now install slycot (and python-control) without needing a FORTRAN compiler, simply using

  pip install slycot
  pip install control

This also works on linux, but it builds from source => you still need a FORTRAN compiler. To install in a user directory, use 'pip install —user …’.

Both slycot and python-control can also be installed with conda, again without needing a fortran compiler:

  conda config --add channels http://conda.binstar.org/cwrowley
  conda install slycot
  conda install control

The conda install works on both Mac and Linux.

Documentation is now available at

  http://python-control.readthedocs.org/

Thanks to Clancy Rowley, Rene van Paassen, James Goppert, Scott Livingston and others who contributed to this release.

-richard

Changes since previous release (0.6d):

* Fixes to docstrings and examples (multiple)
* Bug fix to gain margin calculation for phase crossing through zero
* c2d functionality added for MIMO state-space systems
* Faster versions of freqresp for transfer functions and state space models
* Fixed bug in dare so that it returns stabilizing solution
* Faster version of force_response (lsim)
* Installation via pip and conda
* Gain vector now optional in root_locus

A full list of changes is available on https://github.com/python-control/python-control/commits/master.