I am pleased to announce the release of *ycecrean* 1.3.5. Do you ever use `print()` or `log()` to debug your code? If so, *ycecream*, or `y` for short, will make printing debug information a lot sweeter. And on top of that, you get some basic benchmarking functionality. *Ycecream* is available on GitHub: www.github.com/salabim/ycecream and on PyPI. For this who know the *icecream* package, here's an overview of the differences: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- characteristic ycecream IceCream ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- colourize no yes (can be disabled) platform Python 2.7, >=3.6, PyPy Python 2.7,

=3.5, PyPy default name y ic dependencies none many number of files 1 several usable without installation yes no can be used as a decorator yes no can be used as a context manager yes no PEP8 (Pythonic) API yes no sorts dicts no by default, optional yes supports compact, indent and depth parameters of pprint yes no use from a REPL limited functionality no external configuration via json file no observes line_length correctly yes no indentation 4 blanks (overridable) dependent on length of prefix forking and cloning yes no test script pytest unittest

Recent changes: version 1.3.5 2021-04-20 ========================= New functionality (0) --------------------- The attribute delta can now be used as an ordinary attribute, including propagation and initialization from json. New tests (0) ------------- Tests for propagation of attributes added. Tests for delta setting/reading added. Bugfix (0) ---------- The recently introduced show_traceback facility didn't work under Python 2.7. Fixed. version 1.3.4 2021-04-16 ========================= New functionality (0) --------------------- Introduced a new attribute: show_traceback / st . When show_traceback is True, the ordinary output of y() will be followed by a printout of the traceback, similar to an error traceback. from ycecream import y y.show_traceback=True def x(): y() x() x() prints y| #4 in x() Traceback (most recent call last) File "c:\Users\Ruud\Dropbox (Personal)\Apps\Python Ruud\ycecream\x.py", line 6, in <module> x() File "c:\Users\Ruud\Dropbox (Personal)\Apps\Python Ruud\ycecream\x.py", line 4, in x y() y| #4 in x() Traceback (most recent call last) File "c:\Users\Ruud\Dropbox (Personal)\Apps\Python Ruud\ycecream\x.py", line 7, in <module> x() File "c:\Users\Ruud\Dropbox (Personal)\Apps\Python Ruud\ycecream\x.py", line 4, in x y() The show_traceback functionality is also available when y is used as a decorator or context manager. Documentation change (0) ------------------------ The description of ycecream on PyPI is now (nearly) the same as the readme.md file. version 1.3.3 2021-04-14 ========================= New functionality (0) --------------------- Introduced a new attribute: enforce_line_length / ell . If True, all output lines will be truncated to the current line_length. This holds for all output lines, including as_str output. Example: y.configure(enforce_line_length=True, line_length=15) s = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" y(s) y(show_time=True) prints something like |y| | s: 'abcdefg |y| #35 @ 08:14: New functionality (0) --------------------- New shorthand alternatives: sdi for sort_dicts i for indent de for depth wi for wrap_indent ell for enforce_line_length version 1.3.2 2021-04-07 ========================= New functionality (0) --------------------- y.new() has a new parameter ignore_json that makes it possible to ignore the ycecream.json file. Thus, if you don't want to use any attributes that are overridden by an ycecream.json file: y = y.new(ignore_json=True) Internal changes (0) -------------------- The PY2/PY3 specific code is clustered now to make maintenance easier. In the pprint 3.8 module, the PrettyPrinter class is not even created for PY2, so no more need to disable specifically several dispatch calls. version 1.3.1 2021-04-02 ========================= New functionality (0) --------------------- The ycecream.json file may now also contain shorthand names, like p for prefix. New functionality (1) --------------------- The attribute compact now has a shorthand name: c So, y(d, compact=True) is equivalent to y(d, c=1) Changes in install ycecream.py (0) ---------------------------------- install ycecream.py will now also copy ycecream.json to site-packages, if present. Older versions of Python support (0) ------------------------------------ Ycecream now runs also under Python 2.7. The implementation required a lot of changes, most notably phasing out pathlib, f-strings, some syntax incompatibilities and function signatures. Under Python 2.7, the compact and sort_dicts attributes are ignored as the 2.7 version of pprint.pformat (which is imported) does not support these parameters. Also, the test script needed a lot of changes to be compatible with Python 2.7 and Python 3.x Under Python 2.7, the scripts install ycecream.py and install ycecream from github.py require pathlib to be installed. It is most likely that ycecream will run under Python 3.4 and 3.5, but that has not been tested (yet).