2009-??-?? 0.4.0:

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Porting to Python 3.x (Roland Puntaier)

tobytes, frombytes introduced

Updated development status

Added sieve prime number example

2009-04-06 0.3.5:

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Fixed reference counts bugs. Added possibility to slice assign to True

or False, e.g. a[::3] = True will set every third element to True

2009-01-15 0.3.4:

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Made C code less ambiguous, such that the package

compiles on Visual Studio, will all tests passing.

2008-12-14 0.3.3:

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Made changes to the C code to allow compilation with more compilers.

Compiles on Visual Studio, although there are still a few tests failing.

2008-10-19 0.3.2:

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Added sequential search method. The special method __contains__ now

also takes advantage of the sequential search.

2008-10-12 0.3.1:

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Simplified state information for pickling. Argument for count is now

optional, defaults to True. Fixed typos.

2008-09-30 0.3.0:

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Fixed a severe bug for 64bit machines. Implemented all methods in C,

improved tests. Removed deprecated methods from01 and fromlist.

2008-09-23 0.2.5:

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Added section in README about prefix codes. Implemented _multiply method

for faster __mul__ and __imul__. Fixed some typos.

2008-09-22 0.2.4:

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Implemented encode and decode method (in C) for variable-length prefix

codes. Added more examples, wrote README for the examples.

Added more tests, fixed some typos.

2008-09-16 0.2.3:

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Fixed a memory leak, implemented a number of methods in C. These include

__getitem__, __setitem__, __delitem__, pop, remove, insert. The methods

implemented on the Python level is very limit now. Implemented bitwise

operations.

2008-09-09 0.2.2:

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Rewrote parts of the README, implemented memory efficient algorithm for the

reverse method. Fixed typos, added a few tests, more C refactoring.

2008-09-07 0.2.1:

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Improved tests, in particular added checking for memory leaks. Refactored

many things on the C level. Implemented a few more methods.

2008-09-02 0.2.0:

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Added bit endianness property to the bitarray object, also added the

examples to the release package.

2008-08-17 0.1.0:

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First official release; put project to

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bitarray/

May 2008:

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Wrote the initial code, and put it on my personal web-site:

http://ilan.schnell-web.net/prog/