packaging 14.3

Core utilities for Python packages

Core utilities for Python packages

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Changelog

14.3 - 2014-11-19

• BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE Refactor specifier support so that it can sanely handle legacy specifiers as well as PEP 440 specifiers.

• BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE Move the specifier support out of packaging.version into packaging.specifiers.

14.2 - 2014-09-10

• Add prerelease support to Specifier.

• Remove the ability to do item in Specifier() and replace it with Specifier().contains(item) in order to allow flags that signal if a prerelease should be accepted or not.

• Add a method Specifier().filter() which will take an iterable and returns an iterable with items that do not match the specifier filtered out.

14.1 - 2014-09-08

• Allow LegacyVersion and Version to be sorted together.

• Add packaging.version.parse() to enable easily parsing a version string as either a Version or a LegacyVersion depending on it’s PEP 440 validity.

14.0 - 2014-09-05

• Initial release.