WebHelpers2 and Unipath releases; WebHelpers looking for maintainer

[Mike Orr]

Released WebHelpers2 version 2.0b3 with most of the pending cleanups:

- Merge 'html.converters' submodule into 'html.tools'.

- Rename some helpers:

  del_quiet -> del_keys

  extract_keys -> split_dict

  format_paragraphs -> text_to_html

  render -> html_to_text

  convert_or_none -> convert

- Delete some helpers: get_many, format_number, required_legend, all, any, no.

  Delete the Stats and SimpleStats container classes (but not the function-based
  statistics).  Delete the sample CSS stylesheet.

Now it's about ready for the tests overhaul and Python 3 conversion.

Would anyone like to take over maintenance of WebHelpers? There's a patch to convert it to Python 3 but I got a bunch of errors with it. There are also a bunch of bug reports, mostly about large subpackages I've removed in WebHelpers2. I did make a couple small bugfixes in the repo. I'm not inclined to do more on this codebase, but people keep submitting patches and pull requests, so if somebody wants to maintain it, let me know.

I also released Unipath 1.0.  It's an object-oriented path library. The last development version was five years ago, but somebody contributed Python 3 support so I merged it.

There's a new PEP 428 (pathlib) now that may get into Python 3.4. It has a more modern API. However, Unipath is stable and well tested, while pathlib is still unstable and not widely used.

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Mike Orr <slugg...@gmail.com>

[Zak]

Maybe the best thing to do is set a **DEPRECIATED** header on the WebHelpers README with a link to WebHelpers2.

[Steve Piercy]

On 4/8/13 at 5:02 PM, zakd...@gmail.com (Zak) pronounced:

> Maybe the best thing to do is set a **DEPRECIATED** header on the
> WebHelpers README with a link to WebHelpers2.

Huh? Headers decline in monetary value?

--steve

--steve