8. NEWS¶

8.1. bitmath-1.1.0-1 ¶

bitmath-1.1.0-1 was published on 2014-12-20.

Added Functionality

New bitmath command-line tool added. Provides CLI access to basic unit conversion functions
New utility function bitmath.parse_string for parsing a human-readable string into a bitmath object. Patch submitted by new contributor tonycpsu.

bitmath-1.0.8-1 was published on 2014-08-14.

bitmath has a proper documentation website up now on Read the Docs, check it out: bitmath.readthedocs.org
bitmath is now Python 3.x compatible
bitmath is now included in the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux EPEL6 and EPEL7 repositories
merged 6 pull requests from 3 contributors

Added Functionality

best-prefix guessing: automatic best human-readable unit selection
support for bitwise operations
formatting customization methods (including plural/singular selection)
exposed many more instance attributes (all instance attributes are usable in custom formatting)
a context manager for applying formatting to an entire block of code
utility functions for sizing files and directories
add instance properties equivalent to instance.to_THING() methods

Tests

Test suite is now implemented using Python virtualenv’s for consistency across across platforms
Test suite now contains 150 unit tests. This is 110 more tests than the previous major release (1.0.4-1)
Test suite now runs on EPEL6 and EPEL7
Code coverage is stable around 95-100%

This is the first release of bitmath. bitmath-1.0.4-1 was published on 2014-03-20.

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bitmath had been under development for 12 days when the 1.0.4-1 release was made available.