geopy v1.23.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-06-27 // almost 4 years ago
  • ๐Ÿš€ This is the last feature release for the 1.x series, as geopy 2.0 has been
    ๐Ÿ›  released. The 1.x series will not receive any new features or bugfixes
    unless explicitly asked on the issue tracker.

    โž• ADDED: Units Conversion docs section.

    โž• ADDED: Docs now explicitly clarify that geocoding services
    don't consider altitudes. (#165)

    โž• ADDED: Point.format_unicode method. It was always present as
    __unicode__ magic for Python 2.7, and now it can be accessed
    as a public method.

    ๐Ÿ”– ADDED: geopy. __version_info__ tuple which can be used to dynamically
    compare geopy version.

    โž• ADDED: pytest --skip-tests-requiring-internet switch (might be useful
    ๐Ÿ“ฆ for downstream package maintainers). (#413)

    ๐Ÿ”„ CHANGED: Points with different altitudes now emit a warning
    โš  in distance computations. In geopy 2.0 the warning would become
    ๐Ÿ‘ป an exception. (#387)

    ๐Ÿ”„ CHANGED: Improved Point docs: added missing public methods,
    โž• added more examples.

    ๐Ÿ”„ CHANGED: Nominatim started emitting warnings for a number of sample
    user agents mentioned in the docs, such as specify_your_app_name_here.

    ๐Ÿ›  FIXED: IGNFrance ignored proxies with username + password auth. (#289)