Release Notes¶

Accretive 2.0 (2024-11-10)¶

Add missing alias for reclassify_modules to the qualified aliases module (qaliases) as reclassify_modules_as_accretive. (#12)

Add ValidatorDictionary and ProducerValidatorDictionary classes. Validator dictionaries allow a validation function to be supplied, which can inspect the key and value of a proposed dictionary entry to determine if it should be accepted or not. Producer dictionaries are like defaultdict from the standard Python collections module. (#10)
Add py.typed file to package to let typecheckers know that it has a full set of type annotations. (#11)
Dictionary classes now accept type annonations for key and value. (#14)
Accept a decorators argument with all of the metaclasses to produce classes which have a sequence of class decorators applied before class attribute accretion is enforced. Some class decorators are compatible with accretion but some are not; this gives a way to ensure that they are applied without attribute enforcement. Advanced cases, such as dataclasses.dataclass( slots = True ), which produces a replacement class, are correctly supported by this machinery on CPython.
Add ProtocolClass metaclass to produce accretive protocol classes.

Add support for CPython 3.13.
Drop support for CPython 3.8 (past end-of-life).
Drop support for CPython 3.9 (skipping to 3.10, which is the next baseline LTS version for major OS distributions).
Drop support for PyPy 3.9, which is no longer maintained upstream.

Remove complete, concealment, and protection subpackages to focus on core value of package: accretive data structures. Users can easily make their own syntheses as necessary. (#13)

Initial release. Includes accretive dictionaries, namespaces, modules, objects, and classes.