Change history¶

PyEPR 0.6.1 (26/04/2012)¶

fix compatibility with cython 0.16
added a new option to the setup script (--epr-api-src) to build PyEPR using the EPR-API C sources

full support for Python 3
improved code highligh in the documentation
depend from cython >= 0.13 instead of cython >= 0.14.1. Cythonizing epr.pyx with Python 3 requires cython >= 0.15

stop using PyFile_AsFile() that is no more available in Python 3
now documentation uses intersphinx capabilities
code examples added to documentation
tutorials added to documentation
the LICENSE.txt file is now included in the source distribution
the cython construct with nogil is now used instead of calling Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS() and Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS() directly
dropped old versions of cython; now cython 0.14.1 or newer is required
suppressed several constness related warnings

fixed a bug in the epr.Product.__str__(), Dataset.__str__() and erp.Band.__repr__() methods (bad formatting)
fixed epr.Field.get_elems() method for char and uchar data types
implemented epr.Product.read_bitmask_raster(), now the epr.Product API is complete
fixed segfault in epr.Field.get_unit() method when the field has no unit
a smaller dataset is now used for unit tests
a new tutorial section has been added to the user documentation

version string of the EPR C API is now exposed as module attribute epr.EPR_C_API_VERSION
implemented __repr__, __str__, __eq__, __ne__ and __iter__ special methods
added utility methods (not included in the C API) like:
fixed a logic error that caused empty messages in custom EPR exceptions

sphinx documentation added
added docstrings to all method and classes
renamed some method and parameter in order to avoid redundancies and have a more pythonic API
in case of null pointers a epr.EPRValueError is raised
improved C library shutdown management
introduced some utility methods to epr.Product and epr.Record classes

Initial release