MiscUtils 1.1 Release Notes

MiscUtils version 1.1 released on 08/03/11

New Features

• Added the DateParser module for parsing strings to datetime values using python-dateutil, mxDateTime or strptime.
• Added the Funcs.localTimeDelta function to support setting cookie expiration as datetime without timezone.

Improvements and Refinements

• Simplified and modernized DataTable. Now using only native datetime classes instead of mxDateTime.

Minor API Changes

• Renamed the positive_id function to positiveId, using the Webware naming convention.
• The asclocaltime function has been from WebKit.Common to MiscUtils.
• Renamed the pickleVersion parameter to pickleProtocol since it's referred to as "protocol" in the pickle docs. If not specified, we always use the highest format available (i.e. 2 instead of 1 as before).

Deprecations

• The methods and objects which have been marked as deprecated in version 1.0 and modules that are now available in the standard library have been removed in Webware for Python 1.1, particularly BasicDateTime, pydoc and inspect.
• The NamedValueAccess "magic" was disposed since it has never been well documented and hardly anyone understood and used it. It also made things difficult to maintain, and the key bindings had already caused problems with garbage collection in the past which had been very hard to find. And now that properties and new-style classes exist, this whole approach can be considered outmoded. So the NamedValueAccess mix-in and wrapper classes and the UserDict monkey-patch are gone now. However, the valueForKey and valueForName functions are still available and can be useful in some cases (for instance for evaluating the ActivityLogColumns).