xpressinsight 1.6.0

FICO Xpress - Insight Python package

FICO^® Xpress Insight Python Package

The 'xpressinsight' Python package can be used to develop Python^® based web applications for Xpress Insight.

Documentation

• FICO Xpress Insight 4 Python Package Reference Manual
• FICO Xpress Insight 4 Developers Guide For Python
• FICO Xpress Insight 5 Python Package Reference Manual
• FICO Xpress Insight 5 Developers Guide For Python

Release Notes

v 1.6.0 (Insight 5.6.0)

• Resolved an error when a script declares multiple app classes with a shared superclass.
• Added attribute default to the xi.Column class.
• Use of the old syntax for annotating entities (e.g. xi.Scalar instead of xi.types.Scalar) will cause a warning message when the app is built or executed in Python 3.11. This syntax has been deprecated and will not be usable at all in Python 3.12+.
• New function get_insight_context returns information about the Insight server and the DMP solution.

v 1.5.0 (Insight 5.5.0)

• Allow an Index entity to be referenced multiple times within a single Series or DataFrame - e.g. Distance: xi.types.Series(index=['City', 'City'], dtype=xi.real).
• Support multiprocessing package.

v 1.4.0 (Insight 5.4.0 and 4.59.2)

• New syntax for annotating entities, xi.types.Scalar/Param/Index/Series/DataFrame instead of xi.Scalar/Param/Index/Series/DataFrame.
  • The new syntax is compatible with forward annotations (from __future__ import annotations).
  • The old syntax will continue to work in Python 3.7-3.10 but will not be usable in Python 3.11+, so we recommend existing apps are migrated from the old to the new syntax.
  • When the new syntax is used, entities may also be declared in a parent class of the Insight application class.

v 1.3.0

• Support for Insight 5 custom progress notifications:
  • Added functions send_progress_update, get_messages and put_messages to Insight application interface (AppInterface).
  • Added the send_progress attribute the ExecMode, ExecModeLoad, and ExecModeRun decorators.
  • Added the update_progress attribute to the entity type annotations.
• RHEL 8 support.
• Python 3.10 support
  • At time of writing the ‘default’ Anaconda channel does not have all the dependencies required by the xpressinsight package for this Python version. We recommend conda users to stick with Python 3.9, or use a different distribution of Python 3.10 until this is resolved.
• Fixed an issue that caused a failure if the path to the temporary directory contained a space.

v 1.2.3

• Added the threads attribute to the ExecMode, ExecModeLoad, and ExecModeRun decorators.

v 1.2.2

• Fixed an issue that could cause a type check exception when the user created empty (null) fields in a DataFrame column in the Insight UI.

v 1.2.1

• Added test mode functions add_item_info and clear_item_infos to Insight application interface.
• Added function scenario_parent_path to Insight application interface.
• Added RepositoryPath class for building and parsing of repository paths.

v 1.2.0

• Added scenario types property (scen_types) to application configuration (AppConfig).
• Added repository functions get_item_info and get_item_infos to Insight application interface (AppInterface).

v 1.1.3

• Performance improvements.
• Python 3.9 support.

v 1.1.2

• Fixed an exception that could occur when an empty MultiIndex DataFrame has been assigned to an Insight entity.
• Updated documentation describing how to set up Anaconda.

v 1.1.1

• Improve error message when Insight cannot start Python because of security restrictions.
• Update documentation and update VDL version number in examples.

v 1.1.0

• Additional factory function create_app initializes and configures standard test environment.
• Some performance issues with executing a Python based scenario have been addressed.
• Maximum length of a string in an Index, Series, or DataFrame has been changed from 1,000,000 bytes to 250,000 characters.
• Default name of the temporary Insight working directory has been changed from "insight" to "work_dir/insight".

v 1.0.2

• The functions update and reset_progress have been added to the Insight Python interface.
• Changed Python standard output to unbuffered mode to improve responsiveness of output messages.

Licensing

The Xpress software is governed by the Xpress Shrinkwrap License Agreement. When downloading or using the package, you accept the license terms. After installation, a copy of the Xpress Shrinkwrap License will be stored in the LICENSE.txt file in the site-packages/xpressinsight-*.dist-info directory. In Anaconda, a copy of the license file will be stored in the pkgs/xpressinsight-*/info/licenses directory.

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