Version 0.8 released
New features
- added a few functions to create charts (courtesy of matplotlib): bar, plot, pie, stackplot, boxplot and scatter. As with all other functions in liam2, they are available both during a simulation and in the interactive console. The charts can either be visualized directly or saved to a file. See the charts section for details.
- added a “view” command line option to LIAM2 to open ViTables (an hdf5 viewer) as well as a corresponding menu entry and keyboard shortcut (F9) in Notepad++. It is meant to be used when editing a model file, and it will open both the input dataset and the result file (if any).
- document boolean aggregate functions: all() and any() which were added in 0.7 but were not yet documented.
- added assertFalse assert function.
Miscellaneous improvements
- improved the first few demonstration models quite a bit. A recommended read for all users.
- added precisions in the documentation of align() based on Alexis Eidelman suggestions.
- made a few more error messages a bit more useful by displaying the line where the error occurred.
- sped up global[array_expr].
- give a hint to use assertNanEqual when it would make a failing assertEqual pass.
- implemented global[slice_expr] (eg. MINR[period: period+2]). When the slice bounds are arrays (different for each individual) and the slice length is not constant (not the same for all individals), it returns a special array with an extremely limited set of supported operations: only aggregates on axis=1 are implemented.
- include the documentation only in HTML Help format (.chm) in the bundle. .pdf and “normal” html are still available as separate downloads on the website.
- removed the predictor keyword support (it now raises an exception instead of a warning).
- adapted the release script since our move to git and converted it to Python.
Fixes
- fixed the “syntax upgrade” script by removing a special case for grpmin and grpmax as it was in fact not needed and caused problems when the expression being aggregated contained parentheses.
