Changelog

0.21.0 (July 20, 2016)

• Deprecate use of Device object as mapping from udev property names to values.

• Add a Properties class and a Device.properties() method for udev properties.

• Fix places where Device object was incorrectly used in a boolean context.

• Return an empty string, not None, if the property value is an empty string.

• Exceptions re-raised from libudev calls now have a message string.

• Insert a warning about using a Device in a boolean context in docs.

• Infrastructure for vagrant tests is removed.

• Various internal refactorings.

• Extensive test improvements.

• Numerous documentation fixes.

0.20.0 (April 29, 2016)

• Remove parsing code added in previous release.

• No longer do CI for Python 2.6.

• Eliminate all wildcard imports and __all__ statements.

• No longer use deprecated Device.from_sys_path() method.

• Minor pylint induced changes.

• Documentation fixes.

0.19.0 (Feb 3, 2016)

• Restore raising KeyError by Attributes.as* methods when attribute not found.

• Explicitly require six module.

• Never raise a DeviceNotFoundError when iterating over a device enumeration.

• Device.subsystem() now returns None if device has no subsystem.

• Add DeprecationWarnings to deprecated Device methods.

• Replace “/” with “!” in Device.from_name() sys_name parameter.

• Add some unstable classes for parsing some kinds of values.

• Make version info more like Python’s including micro numbers and levels.

• Refactor some internal modules into subdirectories.

• Work on tests and reproducers.

0.18 (Dec 1, 2015)

• DeviceNotFoundError is no longer a subtype of LookupError

• Added support for pyqt5 monitor observer

• Added discover module, which looks up a device on limited information

• Attributes class no longer extends Mapping, extends object instead

• Attributes class no longer inherits [] operator, Mapping methods

• Attributes class objects are no longer iterable

• Attributes.available_attributes property added

• Attributes.get() method, with usual semantics, defined

• Device.from_* methods are deprecated, uses Devices.from_* methods instead

• Device.from_device_file() now raises DeviceNotFoundByFileError

• Device.from_device_number() now raises DeviceNotFoundByNumberError

• Devices.from_interface_index() method added

• Devices.from_kernel_device() method added

• Numerous testing infrastructure changes

0.17 (Aug 26, 2015)

• #52: Remove global libudev object

• #57: Really start the monitor on pyudev.Monitor.poll()

• #60: Do not use select.select() to avoid hitting its file descriptor limit

• #58: Force non-blocking IO in pyudev.Monitor to avoid blocking on receiving the device

• #63: Set proper flags on pipe fds.

• #65: Handle irregular polling events properly.

• #50: Add pyudev.wx.MonitorObserver and deprecate pyudev.wx.WxUDevMonitorObserver

• #50: Add pyudev.glib.MonitorObserver and deprecate pyudev.glib.GUDevMonitorObserver

• #50: Add pyudev.pyqt4.MonitorObserver and deprecate pyudev.pyqt4.QUDevMonitorObserver

• #50: Add pyudev.pyside.MonitorObserver and deprecate pyudev.pyside.QUDevMonitorObserver

• Add a wrapper function to retry interruptible system calls.

0.16.1 (Aug 02, 2012)

• #53: Fix source distribution

• #54: Fix typo in test

0.16 (Jul 25, 2012)

• Remove pyudev.Monitor.from_socket().

• Deprecate pyudev.Device.traverse() in favor of pyudev.Device.ancestors.

• #47: Deprecate pyudev.Monitor.receive_device() in favor of pyudev.Monitor.poll.

• #47: Deprecate pyudev.Monitor.enable_receiving in favor of pyudev.Monitor.start.

• #47: Deprecate pyudev.Monitor.__iter__ in favor of explicit looping or pyudev.MonitorObserver.

• #49: Deprecate event_handler to pyudev.MonitorObserver in favour of callback argument.

• #46: Continuously test pyudev on Travis-CI.

• Add pyudev.Device.ancestors.

• Add pyudev.Device.action.

• #10: Add pyudev.Device.sequence_number.

• #47: Add pyudev.Monitor.poll().

• #47: Add pyudev.Monitor.started.

• #49: Add callback argument to pyudev.Monitor.

• pyudev.Monitor.start() can be called repeatedly.

• #45: Get rid of 2to3

• #43: Fix test failures on Python 2.6

• Fix signature in declaration of udev_monitor_set_receive_buffer_size.

• #44: Test wrapped signatures with help of gccxml.

• Fix compatibility with udev 183 and newer in pyudev.Context.

• pyudev.MonitorObserver.stop() can be called from the observer thread.

0.15 (Mar 1, 2012)

• #20: Add remove_filter().

• #40: Add user guide to the documentation.

• #39: Add pyudev.Device.from_device_file().

• errno.EINVAL from underlying libudev functions causes ValueError instead of EnvironmentError.

• pyudev.MonitorObserver calls pyudev.Monitor.enable_receiving() when started.

• #20: pyudev.Monitor.filter_by() and pyudev.Monitor.filter_by_tag() can be called after pyudev.Monitor.enable_receiving().

0.14 (Feb 10, 2012)

• Host documentation at http://pyudev.readthedocs.org (thanks to the readthedocs.org team for this service)

• #37: Add pyudev.wx.WxUDevMonitorObserver for wxPython (thanks to Tobias Eberle).

• Add pyudev.MonitorObserver.

• Add pyudev.glib.GUDevMonitorObserver.enabled, pyudev.pyqt4.QUDevMonitorObserver.enabled and pyudev.pyside.QUDevMonitorObserver.enabled.

0.13 (Nov 4, 2011)

• #36: Add pyudev.Monitor.set_receive_buffer_size() (thanks to Rémi Rérolle).

• Add pyudev.Enumerator.match_parent().

• Add parent keyword argument to pyudev.Enumerator.match().

• #31: Add pyudev.Enumerator.match_attribute().

• Add nomatch argument to pyudev.Enumerator.match_subsystem() and pyudev.Enumerator.match_attribute().

• Remove pyudev.Enumerator.match_children() in favour of pyudev.Enumerator.match_parent().

• #34: pyudev.Device.tags returns a pyudev.Tags object.

• pyudev.Device.children requires udev version 172 now

0.12 (Aug 31, 2011)

• #32: Fix memory leak.

• #33: Fix Python 3 support for pyudev.glib.

• Fix license header in pyudev._compat.

0.11 (Jun 26, 2011)

• #30: Add pyudev.Device.sys_number.

• #29: Add pyudev.Device.from_device_number()

• #29: Add pyudev.Device.device_number.

• Support PyPy.

0.10 (Apr 20, 2011)

• Add pyudev.__version_info__

• Add pyudev.Device.device_type

• pyudev.Context, pyudev.Enumerator, pyudev.Device and pyudev.Monitor can directly be passed to ctypes-wrapped functions.

• #24: Add pyudev.Context.run_path.

0.9 (Mar 09, 2011)

• #21: Add pyudev.Device.find_parent().

• #22: Add pyudev.Monitor.filter_by_tag().

• Add pyudev.Context.log_priority.

• Improve error reporting, if libudev is missing.

0.8 (Jan 08, 2011)

• #16: Add pyudev.Enumerator.match().

• Add keyword arguments to pyudev.Context.list_devices().

• #19: Add pyudev.Enumerator.match_sys_name().

• #18: Add pyudev.udev_version().

• #17: Add pyudev.Device.is_initialized.

• #17: Add pyudev.Device.time_since_initialized.

• #17: Add pyudev.Enumerator.match_is_initialized()

• Fix support for earlier releases of udev.

• Document minimum udev version for all affected attributes.

0.7 (Nov 15, 2010)

• #15: Add pyudev.glib.GUDevMonitorObserver.

0.6 (Oct 03, 2010)

• #8: Add pyudev.Device.tags.

• #8: Add pyudev.Enumerator.match_tag().

• #11: Add pyudev.Device.from_environment()

• #5: Add pyudev.pyside

• #14: Remove apipkg dependency.

• #14: Require explicit import of pyudev.pyqt4.

• Fix licence headers in source files.

0.5 (Sep 06, 2010)

• Support Python 3.

• #6: Add pyudev.Device.attributes (thanks to Daniel Lazzari).

• #6: Add pyudev.Attributes (thanks to Daniel Lazzari).

• #7: pyudev.Device.context and pyudev.Monitor.context are part of the public API.

• #9: Add pyudev.Device.driver.

• #12: Add pyudev.Device.from_name().

• Rename pyudev.NoSuchDeviceError to pyudev.DeviceNotFoundError.

• pyudev.Device.from_sys_path() raises pyudev.DeviceNotFoundAtPathError.

• #13: Fix AttributeError in pyudev.Device.device_node.

• Improve and extend documentation.

• Add more tests.

0.4 (Aug 23, 2010)

API changes

• #3: Rename udev to pyudev.

• #3: Rename qudev to pyudev.pyqt4.

• Add pyudev.Device.from_path().

• pyudev.Device.from_sys_path() raises pyudev.NoSuchDeviceError.

• pyudev.Monitor.receive_device() raises EnvironmentError.

• errno, strerror and filename attributes of EnvironmentError exceptions have meaningful content.

• Fix NameError in pyudev.Monitor.from_socket()

• subsystem argument to pyudev.Monitor.filter_by() is mandatory.

• Delete underlying C objects if pyudev.Device is garbage-collected.

• Fix broken signal emitting in pyudev.pyqt4.QUDevMonitorObserver.

0.3 (Jul 28, 2010)

• #1: Fix documentation to reflect the actual behaviour of the underlying API

• Raise TypeError if udev.Device are compared with >, >=, < or <=.

• Add udev.Enumerator.match_children().

• Add udev.Device.children.

• Add qudev.QUDevMonitorObserver.deviceChanged().

• Add qudev.QUDevMonitorObserver.deviceMoved().

0.2 (Jun 28, 2010)

• Add udev.Monitor.

• Add udev.Device.asbool().

• Add udev.Device.asint().

• Remove type magic in udev.Device.__getitem__().

• Add qudev.

0.1 (May 03, 2010)

• Initial release.

• Add udev.Context.

• Add udev.Device.

• Add udev.Enumerator.