Update PDF documentation to Stable version 0.12.0

[oscarvarto]

This seems to be a very common issue with Python projects (Numpy has the same issue).

If you try to download this:
http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/pandas.pdf
You'll get the documentation for version 0.11.0

Check the links for the pdf documentation at the main web page here:
http://pandas.pydata.org/
The same problem...

Here:
http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/
Again...

This might be a detail (maybe docs don't change too much), but I expect the pandas project to be of high quality!

Besides, there are a lot of people that don't have an internet connection available all the time (lots of my students don't). Therefore, being able to download a PDF to read it offline is good. Also some people prefer to read PDFs instead of a long web page...

[tomp]

I'd like to add a vote to get the file at http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/pandas.pdf updated to v0.12.0.

The link to the dev/pandas.pdf points to an old document, as well.

Thanks.

[jreback]

@changhiskhan just want to make sure these are updated on the site....thxs

[neirbowj]

v0.13.0 was tagged (a5410ed) two weeks ago. This is the only open issue associated with the release milestone. Is this issue blocking the announcement on the home page and release to pypi? What can I, or anybody, do to help?

[jreback]

waiting for @wesm or @changhiskhan to upload binaries to pypi / update pydata.org

[wesm]

PyPI is up to date now, I will have to update pandas.pydata.org tomorrow. Is there a small blurb I can put on the homepage for people to see?

[jreback]

v0.13.0 (January 15, 2014)
---------------------------

This is a major release from 0.12.0 and includes a number of API changes, several new features and
enhancements along with a large number of bug fixes.

Highlights include:

- support for a new index type ``Float64Index``, and other Indexing enhancements
- ``HDFStore`` has a new string based syntax for query specification
- support for new methods of interpolation
- updated ``timedelta`` operations
- a new string manipulation method ``extract``
- Nanosecond support for Offsets
- ``isin`` for DataFrames

Several experimental features are added, including:

- new ``eval/query`` methods for expression evaluation
- support for ``msgpack`` serialization
- an i/o interface to Google's ``BigQuery``

Their are several new or updated docs sections including:

- :ref:`Comparison with SQL<compare_with_sql>`, which should be useful for those familiar with SQL but still learning pandas.
- :ref:`Comparison with R<compare_with_r>`, idiom translations from R to pandas.
- :ref:`Enhancing Performance<enhancingperf>`, ways to enhance pandas performance with ``eval/query``.

Ideally if you can make those links to the stable docs (when they are migrated),
plus a link to whatsnew/v0.13.0 would be gr8

thxs!

I have pushed a fix which allows us to generate pdf docs again.
The pdf for 0.13.0 is now on GH releases, and will be up on the website eventually.

We'll try to make this a standard step in our release process in the future.

[khyox]

@y-p thanks for the link and for the update in http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/pandas.pdf but, I am afraid in both cases the doc index is bad generated. It seems the Chapter 6 "Pandas Tutorial" has been removed from the text but not from the index... so all the page and index links after this are mismatching. What is worse, the pdf search is also showing this problem with wrong sectioning names. I would really appreciate if you could solve this issue.

On the other hand, the PDF in http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/pandas.pdf is still the 0.11.0 release, as @oscarvarto pointed out.

I hope this helps.

Many thanks!

Thanks for reporting, I'll take a look at both issues.

[khyox]

@y-p thanks for the feedback!

Everything should be fixed now. The dev pdf should start updating nightly as well.
Let us know if there are further issues.

[khyox]

@y-p Thank you very much! Both pdf files are updated now with the index problem solved. The minor problem that is still present is that the link to the pdf doc in http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/index.html (first link on that page, named "pandas 0.13.0 documentation") is still pointing to the 0.11.0 release, that is, http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/pandas.pdf instead to the 0.13.0 release in http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.13.0/pandas.pdf .