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See pyTooling Release Pages for detail release notes on every release.

Version 8.x (2025)

Version 7.x (2024)

Version 6.x (2024)

Version 5.x (2023)

Version 4.x (2023)

Version 3.x (2023)

Jan. 2023 - Graph enhancements

  • Improved exceptions.

  • Added ConvertToTree method to Vertex.

  • Added Render method to Node.

Nov. 2023 - Graph implementation

  • Added an object-oriented graph implementation.

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Attributes

Jan. 2024 - Direct integration into pyTooling

  • The standalone package pyAttributes v2.5.1 has been integrated as pyTooling.Attributes into pyTooling v6.0.0.

Nov. 2021 - Moved to pyTooling

  • Changed repository location from Paebbels/pyAttributes to pyTooling/pyAttributes.

Jan. 2020 - Enhancements

  • GetMethods and GetAttributes adhere to method resolution order (MRO) to find attributes annotated to methods from base-classes.

  • An AttributeHelperMixinclass to ease the usage of attributes on a class’ methods.

Dec. 2019 - Merge from IPCMI

  • Merged latest implementation updates from pyIPCMI.

Oct. 2019 - Initial Release

  • Basic attribute class.

  • Attribute helper classes.

  • Package for handling Python’s argparse as declarative code.

CallByRef

xxx. 20XX - Direct integration into pyTooling

  • The namespace package pyTooling.CallByRef v1.2.1 has been integrated as pyTooling.CallByRef into pyTooling vX.X.X.

Sep. 2020 - Bug Fixes

  • Some bugfixes.

Dec. 2019 - Initial Release

  • Call-by-reference implementation for Python.

CLIAbstraction

Jan. 2024 - Direct integration into pyTooling

  • The namespace package pyTooling.CLIAbstraction v0.4.1 has been integrated as pyTooling.CLIAbstraction into pyTooling v6.0.0.

Feb. 2022 - Major Update

  • Reworked names of Argument classes.

  • Added missing argument formats like PathArgument.

  • Added more unit tests and improved code-coverage.

  • Added doc-strings and extended documentation pages.

Dec. 2021 - Extracted CLIAbstraction from pyIPCMI

  • The CLI abstraction has been extracted from pyIPCMI.

CommonClasses

xxx. 20XX - Direct integration into pyTooling

  • The namespace package pyTooling.CommonClasses v0.2.3 has been integrated as pyTooling.CommonClasses into pyTooling vX.X.X.

Feb. 2021 - Initial Release

  • Added Version class.

Exceptions

xxx. 20XX - Direct integration into pyTooling

  • The namespace package pyTooling.Exceptions v1.1.1 has been integrated as pyTooling.Exceptions into pyTooling vX.X.X.

Sep. 2020 - Unit tests

  • Added unit tests.

Oct. 2019 - Initial Release

  • An initial set of exceptions has been extracted from pyIPCMI.

GenericPath

xxx. 20XX - Direct integration into pyTooling

  • The namespace package pyTooling.GenericPath v0.2.5 has been integrated as pyTooling.GenericPath into pyTooling vX.X.X.

Dec. 2021 - Namespace package

Oct. 2019 - Initial Release

  • An initial set of exceptions has been extracted from pyIPCMI.

MetaClasses

xxx. 20XX - Direct integration into pyTooling

  • The namespace package pyTooling.MetaClasses v1.3.1 has been integrated as pyTooling.MetaClasses into pyTooling vX.X.X.

Aug. 2020 - Overloading

  • First implementation of method overloading via a meta-class.

Dec. 2019 - Initial Release

  • First singleton metaclass to implement the singleton pattern in Python.

Packaging

Dec. 2021 - Direct integration into pyTooling

  • The namespace package pyTooling.Packaging v0.5.0 has been integrated as pyTooling.Packaging into pyTooling vX.X.X.

Nov. 2021 - Major enhancements

  • Reading package information from Python source code via Python’s AST.

  • Support more licenses.

Nov. 2021 - Initial Release

  • Abstract setuptools.setup to ease handling of Python package descriptions.

  • Read long description from README.md

  • Read package dependencies from requirements.txt

  • Construct classifiers

  • Construct URLs for packages hosted on GitHub.

TerminalUI

xxx. 20XX - Direct integration into pyTooling

  • The namespace package pyTooling.TerminalUI v1.5.9 has been integrated as pyTooling.TerminalUI into pyTooling vX.X.X.

Nov. 2021 - Namespace package

Aug. 2020 - Enhancements

  • New ExitOnPrevious*** methods.

Dec. 2019 - Initial Release

  • TerminalUI has been extracted from pyIPCMI.

  • Basic functionality to use a text based application in a terminal window.