v1.7.5

Changes

• Added Decimal to numeric types #573
• Add support for ignore_workbook_corruption parameter in xls #571
• Add support for generators in the petl.fromdicts #569
• Add function to support fromdb, todb, appenddb via clickhouse_driver #566

Fixes

• fromdicts header does not raise #555

Caveats

• Publishing to PyPI, conda-forge and petl.readthedocs.org currently broken.

v1.7.4

Changes

• Use python 3.6 instead of 2.7 for deploy on travis-ci. No python changes.
• Skip doctest with python3.9 for now

v1.7.3

Changes

#545 Fixed SQLAlchemy 1.4 removed the Engine.contextual_connect method
#542 document how to use convert with custom function and reference row

v1.7.2

Enhancements

• #541: Allow aggregation over the entire table (without a key).
• #370: Allow specifying output field name for simple aggregation.

Fixes

• #536: Bumped version of package dependency on lxml from 4.4.0 to 4.6.2, due to security issues.

v1.7.1

Changes

• Fixing conda packaging failures. #534
• No changes in functionality.

v1.7.0

Changes

• Added toxml() as convenience wrapper over totext() on #529.
• Document behavior of multi-field convert-with-row on #532.
• Allow user-defined sources from fsspec for remote I/O. on #533.

v1.6.8

Channges

• Allow using a custom/restricted xml parser in fromxml() on #527.
• Fixed the CVE-2020-29128.

v1.6.7

Changes

• Reduced memory footprint for JSONL files, huge improvement on #523.

v1.6.6

Changes

• Fixed #487: compatibility with python3.8 in petl.timings.clock().
• Added json lines support in #521
• Added testing petl with python3.8 in CI. #517 also prepares for testing with python3.9.

v1.6.5

Changes

• Fixed #514: fromxlsx() with read_only=True crashes.