2006-mar-13

• Python modules pysic and pygreg are now provided to users. Importing one of them into a Python script launches the SIC (resp. GreG) process and imports its variables into the Python __main__.
• Sic.localspaces: to prevent overwriting a variable when a deeper-level one is created in SIC with the same name, a saving and unsaving automatic mechanism of the SicVar and SicStructure instances into a 10-dimensional array (one per level) is now available. To achieve this, the SicVar and SicStructure instances now have a __siclevel__ attribute.
• Sic.warnings logical flag activates/deactivates PygildasWarning's.
• Improvement of the Numeric 24.2 retrocompatibility.
• Enforced variable write-protection (if any) by setting the `writeable' flag of the numpy.ndarray's. For compatibility with Numeric, read-and-write or read-only status in SIC is still checked each time array elements are attempted to be modified.
• define() command can now be passed a second optional boolean argument which describes if the variable will be global or not. By default it is not, e.g. it is local to the current execution level.
• Images are now automatically imported into Python at creation time. The get() command is now also able to import images, thus the getimage() command is not available anymore for users.
• pexecfile() function is provided to user. It does the same as the execfile() Python function (execute a Python script in current name space), but also prints the commands during execution.
• SIC$\backslash$PYTHON PythonCommandLine and SIC$\backslash$PYTHON PythonProcedureName.py functionalities now print or not the command lines depending on the SIC%VERIFY flag value.
• SIC$\backslash$PYTHON PythonProcedureName.py functionality now allows to be passed arguments. They can be retrieved in the 'sys.argv' list from Python. Arguments are parsed by SIC before calling the script. SIC now also searches in the MACRO#DIR: directories to find the Python script. Logical names are parsed if any.
• Exit behavior is now the same whatever is the master process. To quit both SIC and Python, use CTRL-D (or exit()) from Python, or EXIT from SIC. As a consequence, use PYTHON (from SIC) and Sic() (from Python) to switch to the other command-line interpreter.
• 64 bits support.