Version 0.6.8

What's new?

Small fixes and improvements:

• Add option to allow missing setup group (both saving and validation) b35e6d0
• Better handle input for array fields (e.g. detectors_specs) in a variety of formats (tuple, list, array with ndim=0, array with ndim=1): 1ad5ca9 and e07ddba.
• Runtime error fix: d7fff76
• Documentation improvements

Version 0.6.7

What's new?

• tcspc_range in nanotimes_specs is now optional
• matplotlib is now only an optional dependency
• More validity tests on Photon-HDF5 files
• More input normalization (for YAML) for data_dict argument in save_photon_hdf5()
• Tests validity of input data_dict
• Update versioneer

Version 0.6.6

What's new?

• Fix always-True assertion when loading SPC files

Version 0.6.5

What's new?

• Documentation improvement and new API docs: http://phconvert.readthedocs.org/
• Add notebook to write Photon-HDF5 files from scratch: Writing Photon-HDF5 files
• save_photon_hdf5() improvements:
  • Restore input dict sanitization (it was mistakenly disabled)
  • Cast bools to ints for improved compatibility
  • Auto-compute acquisition_duration for single-spot data
  • When not provided, create and populate identity group
  • Improve Photon-HDF5 validity test (852242c)

Version 0.6.4

What's new?

• Fix a bug causing file validation to fail (fd0a278)

Version 0.6.3

What's new?

• Rewrite of validation function: now they validates a HDF5 file, not an in-memory representation. This makes easier to test if a file is Photon-HDF5 compliant, regardless if it has been created by phconvert or not.
• Added more tests during validation
• Fixed error that caused authors and other identity fields not being saved

Previous changes (from version 0.6):

• Fix donor/acceptor assignment in conversion notebooks
• Fix a string encoding issue (4a95505)
• Simplify saving custom metadata

Version 0.6

What's new?

A few important changes:

• Automatically convert input of "scalar" fields to scalar if they are arrays or sequences of length == 1. See #5.
• Check conformance with the specs in save_photon_hdf5() removing the need to call assert_valid_photon_hdf5() separately.
• Remove time_reversed field in nanotimes_specs. Now we use the simpler convention that nanotimes has a time axis direction correctly oriented. See #6.

Version 0.5.8

What's new?

• Updated the descriptions (TITLE attributes) for various fields.

Version 0.5.7

What's new?

• Try to address h5labview issue with empty strings by saving a single-space string in empty descriptions. See #4.

Version 0.5.6

What's new?

Backward-incompatible changes:

• Change dye_names from array of string to a single string containing CSV text (8421904). Closes #2.

Other changes:

• Docs improvements