NEWS

.. :changelog:

History
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1.5.2 (2019-08-NN)
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*   The value of ``data`` within the printable representation of a selector
    (``repr(selector)``) now ends in ``...`` when truncated, to make the
    truncation obvious.

*   Minor documentation improvements.


1.5.1 (2018-10-25)
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* ``has-class`` XPath function handles newlines and other separators
  in class names properly;
* fixed parsing of HTML documents with null bytes;
* documentation improvements;
* Python 3.7 tests are run on CI; other test improvements.


1.5.0 (2018-07-04)
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* New ``Selector.attrib`` and ``SelectorList.attrib`` properties which make
  it easier to get attributes of HTML elements.
* CSS selectors became faster: compilation results are cached
  (LRU cache is used for ``css2xpath``), so there is
  less overhead when the same CSS expression is used several times.
* ``.get()`` and ``.getall()`` selector methods are documented and recommended
  over ``.extract_first()`` and ``.extract()``.
* Various documentation tweaks and improvements.

One more change is that ``.extract()`` and  ``.extract_first()`` methods
are now implemented using ``.get()`` and ``.getall()``, not the other
way around, and instead of calling ``Selector.extract`` all other methods
now call ``Selector.get`` internally. It can be **backwards incompatible**
in case of custom Selector subclasses which override ``Selector.extract``
without doing the same for ``Selector.get``. If you have such Selector
subclass, make sure ``get`` method is also overridden. For example, this::

    class MySelector(parsel.Selector):
        def extract(self):
            return super().extract() + " foo"

should be changed to this::

    class MySelector(parsel.Selector):
        def get(self):
            return super().get() + " foo"
        extract = get


1.4.0 (2018-02-08)
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* ``Selector`` and ``SelectorList`` can't be pickled because
  pickling/unpickling doesn't work for ``lxml.html.HtmlElement``;
  parsel now raises TypeError explicitly instead of allowing pickle to
  silently produce wrong output. This is technically backwards-incompatible
  if you're using Python < 3.6.


1.3.1 (2017-12-28)
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* Fix artifact uploads to pypi.


1.3.0 (2017-12-28)
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* ``has-class`` XPath extension function;
* ``parsel.xpathfuncs.set_xpathfunc`` is a simplified way to register
  XPath extensions;
* ``Selector.remove_namespaces`` now removes namespace declarations;
* Python 3.3 support is dropped;
* ``make htmlview`` command for easier Parsel docs development.
* CI: PyPy installation is fixed; parsel now runs tests for PyPy3 as well.


1.2.0 (2017-05-17)
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* Add ``SelectorList.get`` and ``SelectorList.getall``
  methods as aliases for ``SelectorList.extract_first``
  and ``SelectorList.extract`` respectively
* Add default value parameter to ``SelectorList.re_first`` method
* Add ``Selector.re_first`` method
* Add ``replace_entities`` argument on ``.re()`` and ``.re_first()``
  to turn off replacing of character entity references
* Bug fix: detect ``None`` result from lxml parsing and fallback with an empty document
* Rearrange XML/HTML examples in the selectors usage docs
* Travis CI:

  * Test against Python 3.6
  * Test against PyPy using "Portable PyPy for Linux" distribution


1.1.0 (2016-11-22)
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* Change default HTML parser to `lxml.html.HTMLParser <http://lxml.de/api/lxml.html.HTMLParser-class.html>`_,
  which makes easier to use some HTML specific features
* Add css2xpath function to translate CSS to XPath
* Add support for ad-hoc namespaces declarations
* Add support for XPath variables
* Documentation improvements and updates


1.0.3 (2016-07-29)
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* Add BSD-3-Clause license file
* Re-enable PyPy tests
* Integrate py.test runs with setuptools (needed for Debian packaging)
* Changelog is now called ``NEWS``


1.0.2 (2016-04-26)
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* Fix bug in exception handling causing original traceback to be lost
* Added docstrings and other doc fixes


1.0.1 (2015-08-24)
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* Updated PyPI classifiers
* Added docstrings for csstranslator module and other doc fixes


1.0.0 (2015-08-22)
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* Documentation fixes


0.9.6 (2015-08-14)
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* Updated documentation
* Extended test coverage


0.9.5 (2015-08-11)
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* Support for extending SelectorList


0.9.4 (2015-08-10)
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* Try workaround for travis-ci/dpl#253


0.9.3 (2015-08-07)
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* Add base_url argument


0.9.2 (2015-08-07)
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* Rename module unified -> selector and promoted root attribute
* Add create_root_node function


0.9.1 (2015-08-04)
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* Setup Sphinx build and docs structure
* Build universal wheels
* Rename some leftovers from package extraction


0.9.0 (2015-07-30)
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* First release on PyPI.