astropy v1.0.10 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-06-09 // almost 8 years ago
  • ๐Ÿ› Bug Fixes

    astropy.coordinates

    • SkyCoord objects created before a new frame which has frame attributes is created no longer raise AttributeError when the new attributes are accessed [#5021]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix some errors in the implementation of aberration for get_sun. [#4979]

    astropy.io.ascii ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix problem reading a zero-length ECSV table with a bool type column. [#5010]

    astropy.io.fits ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix convenience functions (getdata, getheader, append, update) to close files. [#4786]

    astropy.io.votable

    • โšก๏ธ The astropy.io.votable.validator.html module is updated to handle division by zero when generating validation report. [#4699]

    astropy.table ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a bug where pprint() sometimes raises UnicodeDecodeError in Python 2. [#4946]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix bug when doing outer join on multi-dimensional columns. [#4060]

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed bug where Tables created from existing Table objects were not inheriting the primary_key attribute. [#4672]

    โœ… astropy.tests ^

    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix coverage reporting in Python 3. [#4822]

    astropy.units ^

    • ๐Ÿšš Duplicates between long and short names are now removed in the names and aliases properties of units. [#5036]

    astropy.utils ^

    • The astropy.utils.xml.unescaper module now also unescapes '%2F' to '/' and '&&' to '&' in a given URL. [#4699]

    • Fix two problems related to the download cache: clear_download_cache() does not work in Python 2.7 and downloading in Python 2.7 and then Python 3 can result in an exception. [#4810]

    astropy.vo ^

    • Cache option now properly caches both downloaded JSON database and XML VO tables. [#4699]

    • โšก๏ธ The astropy.vo.validator.conf.conesearch_urls listing is updated to reflect external changes to some VizieR Cone Search services. [#4699]

    • VOSDatabase decodes byte-string to UTF-8 instead of ASCII to avoid UnicodeDecodeError for some rare cases. Fixed a Cone Search test that is failing as a side-effect of #4699. [#4757]

    Other Changes and Additions

    • โšก๏ธ Updated astropy.tests test runner code to work with Coverage v4.0 when generating test coverage reports. [#4176]