PlasmaPy v0.2.0 (2019-05-31)

Version 0.2.0 is the second development release of PlasmaPy. Alongside a few new features, it brings plentiful refactoring, documentation and back stage improvements.

New Features

• Implement machinery for a Plasma class factory based on PLEP 6

• Create an openPMD Plasma subclass

• Create classes to represent ionization state distributions for one or more elements or isotopes.

• Add basic particle drifts to plasmapy.physics.drifts

• Turn most dependencies into optional, subpackage-specific ones

Bug Fixes

• Improve handling of NumPy arrays for plasma parameter and transport functions.

• Vendor the roman package so as to allow installation via Conda

• Decrease strictness of check_quantity to allow nan and inf by default

Changes to API

• Move plasmapy.transport from plasmapy.physics to its own subpackage.