importlib_resources NEWS

v3.3.1

  • Minor cleanup.

v3.3.0

  • #107: Drop support for Python 3.5. Now requires Python 2.7 or 3.6+.

v3.2.1

  • #200: Minor fixes and improved tests for namespace package support.

v3.2.0

  • #68: Resources in PEP 420 Namespace packages are now supported.

v3.1.1

  • bpo-41490: contents is now also more aggressive about consuming any iterator from the Reader.

v3.1.0

  • #110 and bpo-41490: path method is more aggressive about releasing handles to zipfile objects early, enabling use-cases like certifi to leave the context open but delete the underlying zip file.

v3.0.0

  • Package no longer exposes importlib_resources.__version__. Users that wish to inspect the version of importlib_resources should instead invoke .version('importlib_resources') from importlib-metadata ( stdlib or backport) directly. This change eliminates the dependency on importlib_metadata. Closes #100.
  • Package now always includes its data. Closes #93.
  • Declare hidden imports for PyInstaller. Closes #101.

v2.0.1

v2.0.0

  • Loaders are no longer expected to implement the abc.TraversableResources interface, but are instead expected to return TraversableResources from their get_resource_reader method.

v1.5.0

  • Traversable is now a Protocol instead of an Abstract Base Class (Python 2.7 and Python 3.8+).
  • Traversable objects now require a .name property.

v1.4.0

  • #79: Temporary files created will now reflect the filename of their origin.

v1.3.1

  • For improved compatibility, importlib_resources.trees is now imported implicitly. Closes #88.

v1.3.0

  • Add extensibility support for non-standard loaders to supply Traversable resources. Introduces a new abstract base class abc.TraversableResources that supersedes (but implements for compatibility) abc.ResourceReader. Any loader that implements (implicitly or explicitly) the TraversableResources.files method will be capable of supplying resources with subdirectory support. Closes #77.
  • Preferred way to access as_file is now from top-level module. importlib_resources.trees.as_file is deprecated and discouraged. Closes #86.
  • Moved Traversable abc to abc module. Closes #87.

v1.2.0

  • Traversable now requires an open method. Closes #81.
  • Fixed error on Python 3.5.{0,3}. Closes #83.
  • Updated packaging to resolve version from package metadata. Closes #82.

v1.1.0

  • Add support for retrieving resources from subdirectories of packages through the new files() function, which returns a Traversable object with joinpath and read_* interfaces matching those of pathlib.Path objects. This new function supersedes all of the previous functionality as it provides a more general-purpose access to a package’s resources.

    With this function, subdirectories are supported (Closes #58).

    The documentation has been updated to reflect that this function is now the preferred interface for loading package resources. It does not, however, support resources from arbitrary loaders. It currently only supports resources from file system path and zipfile packages (a consequence of the ResourceReader interface only operating on Python packages).

1.0.2

  • Fix setup_requires and install_requires metadata in setup.cfg. Given by Anthony Sottile.

1.0.1

  • Update Trove classifiers. Closes #63

1.0

  • Backport fix for test isolation from Python 3.8/3.7. Closes #61

0.8

  • Strip importlib_resources.__version__. Closes #56
  • Fix a metadata problem with older setuptools. Closes #57
  • Add an __all__ to importlib_resources. Closes #59

0.7

  • Fix setup.cfg metadata bug. Closes #55

0.6

  • Move everything from pyproject.toml to setup.cfg, with the added benefit of fixing the PyPI metadata. Closes #54
  • Turn off mypy’s strict_optional setting for now.

0.5

  • Resynchronize with Python 3.7; changes the return type of contents() to be an Iterable. Closes #52

0.4

  • Correctly find resources in subpackages inside a zip file. Closes #51

0.3

  • The API, implementation, and documentation is synchronized with the Python 3.7 standard library. Closes #47
  • When run under Python 3.7 this API shadows the stdlib versions. Closes #50

0.2

  • Backward incompatible change. Split the open() and read() calls into separate binary and text versions, i.e. open_binary(), open_text(), read_binary(), and read_text(). Closes #41
  • Fix a bug where unrelated resources could be returned from contents(). Closes #44
  • Correctly prevent namespace packages from containing resources. Closes #20

0.1

  • Initial release.