After working with my own library for some time, it became clear to me that there may be scenarios in which a window can be undesirable in an effort to conserve time and memory. Thus, a decision to split the View class of version 1.0.0 was made - and with it, comes some reorganization.
The abstract base class, SequenceView, has been renamed to SequenceViewLike.
A new type of sequence view, SequenceView, has been added. It's almost identical to the SequenceView class of the more-itertools library, except that it produces a windowed view for slice indices.
The windowed sequence viewer, View, has been renamed to SequenceWindow, and derives from SequenceView. Its behavior remains mostly the same.
- Enhanced backwards compatibility for Python 3.9.
SequenceViewLike(formerly,SequenceView) is now slotted - this was an unintentional omission in version 1.0.0.SequenceWindow(formerly,View) may now compare equal with instances ofSequenceViewdue to its new inheritance structure.- Misc. changes to class/function docstrings throughout.
You may safely replace the following names in your code:
SequenceView -> SequenceViewLikeView -> SequenceWindow
That's it!
If you need a view on a whole sequence (that is, without the omission of any elements), using an instance of the new SequenceView class is recommended. This class conserves much more time and memory over its SequenceWindow relative.
First official version of Views-Py.