PyCIFRW Version 5.0

This version has dropped all support for Python 2

Please see PyPI to download the files in this release.

New since 4.4.6

• New function ReadCifWithError may be used instead of ReadCif. It will not raise an Exception on a parse error, instead returning the partially populated CIF object and parse information.

• Similar to the above, when the CifFile constructor is called with new option 'allow_partial = True', parsing information is available by calling the get_parsing_result method on the returned CifFile object instead of raising an exception (thanks to Inigo Gabirondo
  for work on these two items).

• Dictionary merging and validation has been improved (Inigo Gabirondo)

• A helpful convert_to_canonical method is provided for CifFile objects. When called with a dictionary, data names are converted to canonical form (Inigo Gabirondo).

• Previously deprecated methods and classes are now gone: AddCifItem, AddToLoop, and ValidCifFile

Developer-visible changes

From version 5.0.0 noweb files (*.nw) for source have been removed. It was too much of a barrier for Windows-based developers to contribute. The .py files are now the canonical source, with the original literate programming sections converted to python comments.

New Contributors

• @igabirondo16 has improved validation and much else (see history)
• @merkys made their first contribution in #6
• @CPrescher made their first contribution in #10
• @MarDiehl made their first contribution in #11

Full Changelog: 4.4.6...5.0