mciutil 0.7.1

MasterCard file utilities

Set of command line utilities to work with various MasterCard files.

• Free software: BSD license

• Documentation: https://mciutil.readthedocs.org.

Warning

THIS PACKAGE HAS BEEN DEPRECATED AND WILL NOT BE UPDATED GOING FORWARD

This package was created when I first started learning python. I have learned a lot over the last 4 years and I now see the error in my ways.

Some of the issues with this module that prompted me to rewrite it:

• memory efficiency - loads entire file into memory for processing. Very ineffient and not very scalable

• programming interface - mciutil did not consider the developer experience. You have to hack to use the logic elsewhere

• dependencies - Too many third party modules, with ones that required a compilation. New version is compile free

• bloat - I used a cookie cutter template when I started and it has stuff I don’t like, value or use.

• just mastercard - The old module was for mastercard only but I think it makes sense to have a library for all card utils

• python 2 guff - mciutil works on py2 and 3. There is a lot of gunk in the code to make this work. We live in a py3 world now!

The replacement module is cardutil - see https://cardutil.readthedocs.io It addresses all of the above issues.

why not just update mciutil?

Thats a good question. I think because the new codebase as developed from scratch rather than via changes to the existing one (there is some borrowed code from mciutil). If I just released a new version, anyone leaning on the internal API’s would definetly be in trouble as they are not the same.

Features

Provides the following command line utilities:

• paramconv: Utility for working with MasterCard MPE parameter extract files

• mideu: Utility for working with MasterCard IPM files

History

0.6.0 (2018-10-01)

• Removed dependency on bitarray (no binary wheels)

• Added details on installation for non-python users

• 2 years almost since last update!

0.5.0 (2016-10-03)

• Fixed version display in release version.

• Removed support for mongo extract

0.4.8 (2016-10-02)

• added support for latin1 encoding of csv extract

• fixes to setup process so that mideu.yml file is installed

• fixed de43 split to allow more formats for different countries

0.4.6 (2016-08-09)

• added --no1014blocking option to allow processing of VBS structure files.

0.4.5 (2016-08-06)

• check that all of message consumed by fields otherwise raise exception

• get rid of a heap of debugging prints that were clogging the output

• allow freestyle de43 fields with the de43 processor enabled. Use regex rather than string splits

0.4.4-0.4.3 (2016-08-03)

• Fix issue with mideu when no parameters passed (stack trace)

• Some more debugging messages provided with -d switch

• signed the release with key for 0.4.4. need to publish my pub key somewhere..

0.4.2 (2016-03-13)

• Complete data elements added to default config.

• Added versioneer support for easier package versions

0.4.1 (2015-12-16)

• Additional data elements added to default config file.

0.4.0 (2015-10-05)

• Now supporting python 2.6 (for all those still using RHEL 6)

• Headers rows in mideu csv extracts don’t work in 2.6

0.3.0 (2015-10-03)

• added sub commands for mideu

• mideu now supports IPM encoding conversion between ascii and ebcdic

• Now faster using list comps instead of slow loops

0.2.0 (2015-08-28)

• Support for config override for mideu - see usage doco

• Progress bar while using mideu.. it takes a while

• Now supports python 3.4, 3.5 and 2.7. Upgrade if you are using 2.6

• New usage documentation

0.1.0 (2015-08-20)

• First release.