BlazeUtils 0.4.4

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

Recent Changelog

This is the most recent activity. See changelog-archive.rst in the source distribution for older changelog notes.

0.4.4 released 2014-12-25

• changed how the version string is determined in __init__.py

• archive old changelog notes

0.4.3 released 2014-12-16

• add xlsx_to_strio() and WriterX.mwrite()

0.4.2 released 2014-12-08

• fix wrong dates for 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 releases in changelog

• add roundsecs argument to dates.trim_mils

• updates to spreadsheets module including .xlsx file support

  • xlsx_to_reader(): converts xlsxwriter.Workbook instance to xlrd reader

  • WriterX: like Writer but for xlsxwriter Worksheets, API is slightly different and won’t have any faculties for style management like Writer does.

  • Reader: gets a .from_xlsx() method

  • http_headers(): utility function to help when sending files as HTTP response

0.4.1 released 2014-05-17

• fix packaging issue

0.4.0 released 2014-05-17

• testing.raises() gets support for custom exception validators, docstring updated w/ usage

• decorators.curry() use a different approach so multiple curried functions can be used

• add decorators.hybrid_method() ala SQLAlchemy

• add decorators.memoize() primarily for SQLAlchemy method caching

• BC break: .decorators now uses ‘wrapt’ so that is a new dependency