Revision

Contributers:T. Coutinho Last Update:November 04, 2013

History of modifications:

Date	Revision	Description	Author
18/07/03	1.0	Initial Version	M. Ounsy
06/10/03	2.0	Extension of the “Getting Started” paragraph	A. Buteau/M. Ounsy
14/10/03	3.0	Added Exception Handling paragraph	M. Ounsy
13/06/05	4.0	Ported to Latex, added events, AttributeProxy and ApiUtil	V. Forchì
13/06/05	4.1	fixed bug with python 2.5 and and state events new Database constructor	V. Forchì
15/01/06	5.0	Added Device Server classes	E.Taurel
15/03/07	6.0	Added AttrInfoEx, AttributeConfig events, 64bits, write_attribute	T. Coutinho
21/03/07	6.1	Added groups	T. Coutinho
15/06/07	6.2	Added dynamic attributes doc	E. Taurel
06/05/08	7.0	Update to Tango 6.1. Added DB methods, version info	T. Coutinho
10/07/09	8.0	Update to Tango 7. Major refactoring. Migrated doc	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
24/07/09	8.1	Added migration info, added missing API doc	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
21/09/09	8.2	Added migration info, release of 7.0.0beta2	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
12/11/09	8.3	Update to Tango 7.1.	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
??/12/09	8.4	Update to PyTango 7.1.0 rc1	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
19/02/10	8.5	Update to PyTango 7.1.1	T. Coutinho/R. Suñe
06/08/10	8.6	Update to PyTango 7.1.2	T. Coutinho
05/11/10	8.7	Update to PyTango 7.1.3	T. Coutinho
08/04/11	8.8	Update to PyTango 7.1.4	T. Coutinho
13/04/11	8.9	Update to PyTango 7.1.5	T. Coutinho
14/04/11	8.10	Update to PyTango 7.1.6	T. Coutinho
15/04/11	8.11	Update to PyTango 7.2.0	T. Coutinho
12/12/11	8.12	Update to PyTango 7.2.2	T. Coutinho
24/04/12	8.13	Update to PyTango 7.2.3	T. Coutinho
21/09/12	8.14	Update to PyTango 8.0.0	T. Coutinho
10/10/12	8.15	Update to PyTango 8.0.2	T. Coutinho
20/05/13	8.16	Update to PyTango 8.0.3	T. Coutinho
09/07/13	8.17	Update to PyTango 8.0.4	T. Coutinho

Version history

version	Changes
8.0.4	Bug fixes: 598: [pytango][8.0.3] failed to build from source on s390
8.0.3	Features: from sourceforge: 88: Implement Util::server_set_event_loop method in python Bug fixes: from sourceforge: 3576353: [pytango] segfault on ‘RestartServer’ 3579062: [pytango] Attribute missing methods 3586337: [pytango] Some DeviceClass methods are not python safe 3598514: DeviceProxy.__setattr__ break python’s descriptors 3607779: [pytango] IPython 0.10 error 598: Import DLL by PyTango failed on windows 605: [pytango] use distutils.version module
8.0.2	Bug fixes: from sourceforge: 3570970: [pytango] problem during the python3 building 3570971: [pytango] itango does not work without qtconsole 3570972: [pytango] warning/error when building 8.0.0 3570975: [pytango] problem during use of python3 version 3574099: [pytango] compile error with gcc < 4.5
8.0.1	SKIPPED
8.0.0	Features: Implemented tango C++ 8.0 API Python 3k compatible Bug fixes: from sourceforge: 3023857: DevEncoded write attribute not supported 3521545: [pytango] problem with tango profile 3530535: PyTango group writting fails 3564959: EncodedAttribute.encode_xxx() methods don’t accept bytearray
7.2.3	Features: from sourceforge: 3495607: DeviceClass.device_name_factory is missing Bug fixes: from sourceforge: 3103588: documentation of PyTango.Attribute.Group 3458336: Problem with pytango 7.2.2 3463377: PyTango memory leak in read encoded attribute 3487930: [pytango] wrong python dependency 3511509: Attribute.set_value_date_quality for encoded does not work 3514457: [pytango] TANGO_HOST multi-host support 3520739: command_history(...) in PyTango
7.2.2	Features: from sourceforge: 3305251: DS dynamic attributes discards some Attr properties 3365792: DeviceProxy.<cmd_name> could be documented 3386079: add support for ipython 0.11 3437654: throw python exception as tango exception 3447477: spock profile installation Bug fixes: from sourceforge: 3372371: write attribute of DevEncoded doesn’t work 3374026: [pytango] pyflakes warning 3404771: PyTango.MultiAttribute.get_attribute_list missing 3405580: PyTango.MultiClassAttribute missing
7.2.1	SKIPPED
7.2.0	Features: from sourceforge: 3286678: Add missing EncodedAttribute JPEG methods
7.1.6	Bug fixes: 7.1.5 distribution is missing some files
7.1.5	Bug fixes: from sourceforge: 3284174: 7.1.4 does not build with gcc 4.5 and tango 7.2.6 3284265: [pytango][7.1.4] a few files without licence and copyright 3284318: copyleft vs copyright 3284434: [pytango][doc] few ERROR during the doc generation 3284435: [pytango][doc] few warning during the doc generation 3284440: [pytango][spock] the profile can’t be installed 3285185: PyTango Device Server does not load Class Properties values 3286055: PyTango 7.1.x DS using Tango C++ 7.2.x seg faults on exit
7.1.4	Features: from sourceforge: 3274309: Generic Callback for events Bug fixes: from sourceforge: 3011775: Seg Faults due to removed dynamic attributes 3105169: PyTango 7.1.3 does not compile with Tango 7.2.X 3107243: spock profile does not work with python 2.5 3124427: PyTango.WAttribute.set_max_value() changes min value 3170399: Missing documentation about is_<attr>_allowed method 3189082: Missing get_properties() for Attribute class 3196068: delete_device() not called after server_admin.Kill() 3257286: Binding crashes when reading a WRITE string attribute 3267628: DP.read_attribute(, extract=List/tuple) write value is wrong 3274262: Database.is_multi_tango_host missing 3274319: EncodedAttribute is missing in PyTango (<= 7.1.3) 3277269: read_attribute(DevEncoded) is not numpy as expected 3278946: DeviceAttribute copy constructor is not working Documentation: Added The Utilities API chapter Added The Tango Encoded Python API chapter Improved The Tango Device Server Python API chapter
7.1.3	Features: tango logging with print statement tango logging with decorators from sourceforge: 3060380: ApiUtil should be exported to PyTango Bug fixes: added licence header to all source code files spock didn’t work without TANGO_HOST env. variable (it didn’t recognize tangorc) spock should give a proper message if it tries to be initialized outside ipython from sourceforge: 3048798: licence issue GPL != LGPL 3073378: DeviceImpl.signal_handler raising exception crashes DS 3088031: Python DS unable to read DevVarBooleanArray property 3102776: PyTango 7.1.2 does not work with python 2.4 & boost 1.33.0 3102778: Fix compilation warnings in linux
7.1.2	Features: from sourceforge: 2995964: Dynamic device creation 3010399: The DeviceClass.get_device_list that exists in C++ is missing 3023686: Missing DeviceProxy.<attribute name> 3025396: DeviceImpl is missing some CORBA methods 3032005: IPython extension for PyTango 3033476: Make client objects pickable 3039902: PyTango.Util.add_class would be useful Bug fixes: from sourceforge: 2975940: DS command with DevVarCharArray return type fails 3000467: DeviceProxy.unlock is LOCKING instead of unlocking! 3010395: Util.get_device_* methods don’t work 3010425: Database.dev_name does not work 3016949: command_inout_asynch callback does not work 3020300: PyTango does not compile with gcc 4.1.x 3030399: Database put(delete)_attribute_alias generates segfault
7.1.1	Features: Improved setup script Interfaced with PyPI Cleaned build script warnings due to unclean python C++ macro definitions from sourceforge: 2985993: PyTango numpy command support 2971217: PyTango.GroupAttrReplyList slicing Bug fixes: from sourceforge: 2983299: Database.put_property() deletes the property 2953689: can not write_attribute scalar/spectrum/image 2953030: PyTango doc installation
7.1.0	Features: from sourceforge: 2908176: read_*, write_* and is_*_allowed() methods can now be defined 2941036: TimeVal conversion to time and datetime added str representation on Attr, Attribute, DeviceImpl and DeviceClass Bug fixes: from sourceforge: 2903755: get_device_properties() bug reading DevString properties 2909927: PyTango.Group.read_attribute() return values 2914194: DevEncoded does not work 2916397: PyTango.DeviceAttribute copy constructor does not work 2936173: PyTango.Group.read_attributes() fails 2949099: Missing PyTango.Except.print_error_stack
7.1.0rc1	Features: v = image_attribute.get_write_value() returns square sequences (arrays of arrays, or numpy objects) now instead of flat lists. Also for spectrum attributes a numpy is returned by default now instead. image_attribute.set_value(v) accepts numpy arrays now or square sequences instead of just flat lists. So, dim_x and dim_y are useless now. Also the numpy path is faster. new enum AttrSerialModel Attribute new methods: set(get)_attr_serial_model, set_change_event, set_archive_event, is_change_event, is_check_change_event, is_archive_criteria, is_check_archive_criteria, remove_configuration added support for numpy scalars in tango operations like write_attribute (ex: now a DEV_LONG attribute can receive a numpy.int32 argument in a write_attribute method call) Bug fixes: DeviceImpl.set_value for scalar attributes DeviceImpl.push_***_event server commands with DevVar***StringArray as parameter or as return type in windows,a bug in PyTango.Util prevented servers from starting up DeviceImpl.get_device_properties for string properties assigns only first character of string to object member instead of entire string added missing methods to Util exported SubDevDiag class error in read/events of attributes of type DevBoolean READ_WRITE error in automatic unsubscribe events of DeviceProxy when the object disapears (happens only on some compilers with some optimization flags) fix possible bug when comparing attribute names in DeviceProxy pretty print of DevFailed -> fix deprecation warning in python 2.6 device class properties where not properly fetched when there is no property value defined memory leak when converting DevFailed exceptions from C++ to python python device server file without extension does not start Documentation: Improved FAQ Improved compilation chapter Improved migration information