BlazeUtils 0.3.8

A collection of python utility functions and classes.

Introduction

BlazeUtils is a library to hold common tools for the Blaze library family:

• BlazeWeb

• BaseBWA

• BlazeForm

Questions & Comments

Please visit: http://groups.google.com/group/blazelibs

Current Status

The code and API stay pretty stable.

The blazeutils tip is installable via easy_install with easy_install BlazeUtils==dev

Changelog

0.3.8 released 2012-03-22

• added rst.create_toc() to generate a table of contents from a reST document

• added some utility functions for reST processing with docutils

• added testing.FailLoader to help when testing failed imports

• ensure_datetime() now takes a time_part argument

• added HTMLAttributes to new containers module, moved LazyDict to containers but left reference in datastructures.

• make error_handling.raise_unexpected_import_error() more thorough and stop matching exceptions that shouldn’t have been matched

• add helpers.ensure_list() and ensure_tuple()

0.3.7 released 2011-12-15

• (BC BREAK) changed testing.raises() to regex escape by default. There is now a keyword arg to control regex escaping. Also switched it to be more lenient in its matching by using re.search() instead of re.match()

• added exc_emailer() decorator

• added testing.assert_equal_text()

• add retry() decorator for retrying a function call when exceptions occur

0.3.6 released 2011-08-19

• fix bug in sdist build

0.3.5 released 2011-08-18

• XlwtHelper can now use XFStyle instances directly.

0.3.4 released 2011-06-11

• deprecate error_handling.traceback_* functions

• deprecate datetime module, moved safe_strftime to dates module

• add decorators.deprecate() decorator

• add testing.emits_deprecation() decorator (only usable w/ python >= 2.6)

• add testing.raises() decorator

• add dates module and ensure_date(), ensure_datetime()

0.3.3 released 2011-05-19

• made moneyfmt/decimalfmt handle floats