News

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

Version 8.x (2025/2026)

v8.0.0 - 09.11.2024

Reworked semantic and calendar version classes:
- Moved common implementations to Version base-type.
  - Moved major, minor, micro, build, post, dev, release level, release number, hash, prefix, postfix parts to the base-type.
  - Moved implementations of comparison operators to the base-type: __eq__, __ne__, __lt__, __le__, __gt__, __ge__.
  - Implemented minimum comparison operator using __rshift__ (>>) for PIP’s ~= operator.
  - Implemented a formatting helper method _format.
- Reworked SemanticVersion.
  - Additionally allow comparisons with string and integer types.
  - Enhanced SemanticVersion.Parse() class-method:
    - Raise exceptions on invalid inputs.
    - Use a regular expression to check and split the input.
- Implemented CalendarVersion (previously a dummy).
  - Added CalendarVersion.Parse() class-method: raise exceptions on invalid inputs.
  - Implemented comparison operators.
- Added validator classes WordSizeValidator and MaxValueValidator.
- Added doc-strings.
- Improved __str__() method to return only used version parts.
- Added __format__() for user defined formatting specifications.

Version 7.x (2024)

Version 6.x (2024)

Version 5.x (2023)

v5.0.0 - 02.07.2023

New ExtendedType features:
- Added support for mixin-classes and delayed creation of slots.
- Added automatic initializers for annotated fields (previously causing an exception due to slots).
- Added automatic initializers for annotated class fields (previously causing an exception due to slots).
Added new decorators: @slotted, @mixin, @singleton, @readonly, and @notimplemented.
Added JSON support for pyTooling.Configuration.
New Platform features:
- Added PythonVersion to Platform to distinguish Python versions.
- Added PythonImplementation to Platform to distinguish CPython and PyPy.
New graph features:
- GetVertexByID
- GetVertexByValue
- New vertex operations: IterateAllOutboundPathsAsVertexList, Delete (itself), DeleteEdgeTo, DeleteEdgeFrom, DeleteLinkTo, DeleteLinkFrom.
- New edge operations: Delete (itself)
- New link operations: Delete (itself)
pyToolong.StateMachine package (alpha version).

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.

Archive

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

Renamed pyGenericPath to pyTooling.GenericPath.

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

Renamed pyTerminalUI to pyTooling.TerminalUI.

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.