Release Notes

Version 4.0.3

Released 2021-09-15

  • Fixed the setup.cfg

Version 4.0.1

Released 2021-09-10

  • Switched documentation host to ReadTheDocs because sphinx_upload stopped working.

Version 4.0.0

Released 2021-09-10

  • Removed Python 2.7 support since 2to3 support is removed from recent setuptools.

Version 3.3.2

Released 2017-06-20

  • Fixed bug in remove and pop attempting to delete an ngram multiple times.

  • Add DeprecationWarning for use of iconv param, ngrams method, ngrams_pad method.

  • Fixed csvjoin_test to run on Windows.

  • Fixed doctests to support dictionary random iteration order.

Version 3.3.0

Released 2012-06-29

NEW FEATURES

  • Correct support for remaining set methods: pop, clear, union, intersection, difference, symmetric_difference

  • Can provide alternate items to the copy method

IMPROVEMENTS

  • Update license from LGPL to LGPL version 3

  • Revised readme to work with GitHub, PyPI and generated docs.

  • Tox to run all doctests, pass under 2.7 and 3.2

BUG FIXES

  • Fix unused threshold param in searchitem method

  • Fix intersection_update to accept multiple other iterables

Version 3.2.1

Released 2012-06-28

  • Fix bug in symmetric_difference_update method

  • Update release notes / changelog

  • Update tutorial

Version 3.2.0

Released 2012-06-25

NEW FEATURES

  • “csvjoin” script performs SQL-like join between CSV tables based on string similarity.

  • NGram instances can now be pickled/unpickled (added __reduce__)

  • Add searchitem method to search by item (search method takes a string)

  • Add find and finditem methods to return 1 result instead of a list.

BREAKING CHANGES

  • iconv parameter is now the “key” parameter (matches the sorted() builtin)

  • qconv parameter no longer exists: use searchitem method to query by item

  • the ngrams_pad method is deprecated for new split and splititem methods

  • the ngrams method is deprecated (equivalent _split is for internal use)

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

  • Converted Mercurial repo to Git

  • Corrected indentation from 3 to 4 spaces

  • Added tox to run tests on Python 2.7 and 3.2

Version 3.1.0

Released 2009-12-07

NEW FEATURES

  • Python 3 support via 2to3

  • Sphinx documentation generation

  • Tutorial documentation

BREAKING CHANGES

  • str_item and str_query params are now iconv and qconv

BUG FIXES

  • Integer division bug (e.g. arises when warp is 2 not 2.0)

MINOR CHANGES

  • Setuptools replaced by Distribute (for Python 3)

  • Docstrings now reStructuredText for Sphinx

Version 3.0.0

Released 2009-07-03.

This was a major refactoring without back-compatibility.

NEW FEATURES

  • Accepts any hashable item - no longer limited to strings.

  • Re-written as subclass of set, gaining all set operations.

  • Docstrings added. Using Epydoc API doc generator.

IMPROVEMENTS

  • Eliminated innermost level of dictionaries, reducing memory usage.

  • Revised to use Python 2.6 idioms. Losing Python 2.2 compatibility.

  • Renamed things to follow PEP 8

  • Refactored the NGram class (new method decomposition)

Version 2.0.0b2

Released 2007-10-23.

This was the code committed to Subversion by Exhuma.