BlazeUtils 0.5.0

A collection of python utility functions and classes.

Introduction

BlazeUtils was originally developed as a library to hold common tools for the Blaze library family.

Over the years it has been expanded to be somewhat of a catch-all for tools commonly used by the Level 12 development team.

Questions & Comments

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

Current Status

The code and API stay pretty stable.

Development

Source code and issue tracker are on bitbucket.

Testing:

$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/blazelibs/blazeutils/src blazeutils-src
$ cd blazeutils-src
$ tox
...<snip>...
  clean: commands succeeded
  py27: commands succeeded
  py34: commands succeeded
  stats: commands succeeded
  congratulations :)

Recent Changelog

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

0.5.0 released 2015-03-24

• Added Python 3.4 compatibility.

• Remove blazeutils.xlrd. It had been deprecated and the objects moved to .spreadsheets.

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