Version 5.1.0

Fixed:

• Fix mechanism of reseeding of the internal providers of Generic (See #1115).

Removed:

• Removed inappropriate words from mimesis.data.int.USERNAMES.

Version 5.0.0

Version 5.0.0

Note: This release is still under active development.
Warning: This release contains some breaking changes in API.

Renamed:

• Rename enums.UnitName to enums.MeasureUnit
• Rename enums.PrefixSign to enums.MetricPrefixSign
• Rename Business() to Finance()

Fixed:

• Fix inheritance issues for Generic, now it inherits BaseProvider instead of BaseDataProvider
• Fix locale-independent provider to make them accepts keyword-only arguments
• Fix DenmarkSpecProvider CPR to generate valid CPR numbers.
• Fix .cvv() to make it return string
• Fix .cid() to make it return string
• Fix .price() of Finance to make it return float.

Added:

• Added class Locale to mimesis.locales
• Added measure_unit() and .metric_prefix() methods for Science
• Added methods .iterator() and .loop() for schema.Schema
• Added methods .slug() and ip_v4_with_port() for Internet()
• Added incremental() method for Numbers()
• Added methods .stock_ticker(), .stock_name() and .stock_exchange() for Finance()
• Added BinaryFile data provider which provides binary data files, such as .mp3, .mp4, .png, etc.

Removed:

• Removed invalid names and surnames from person.json for ru locale
• Removed data provider UnitSystem(), use instead Science()
• Removed data provider Structure(), use instead schema.Schema
• Removed GermanySpecProvider
• Removed method copyright() of Finance()
• Removed method network_protocol() of Internet()
• Removed params with_port and port_range for .ip_v4() of Internet(). Use .ip_v4_with_port() instead
• Removed method .sexual_orientation(), .social_media_profile() and .avatar() of Person()
• Removed a bunch of useless custom exceptions and replaced them with FieldError
• Removed completely useless chemical_element and atomic_number methods of Science data provider and made it locale-independent

Version 4.1.3

Added:

• Added py.typed file to the package
• Added Python 3.9 support

Version 4.1.2

• Fixed #928

Version 4.1.1

Version 4.1.1

Fix:

• Fixed issue with non-unique uuid

Version 4.1.0

Added:

• Added method manufacturer() for class Transport()
• Added sk (Slovak) locale support
• Added new parameter unique for method Person().email()
• Added new parameter as_object for method Cryptographic().uuid()

Updated:

• Update parameter end for some methods of provider Datetime() (Fix #870)
• Update .price() to make it supported locales (Fix #875)

Rename:

• Renamed decorators.romanized to decorators.romanize
• Renamed Random.schoice to Random.generate_string
• Renamed BaseDataProvider.pull to BaseDataProvider._pull

Removed:

• Removed the deprecated download_image() function from the shortcuts module, use your own custom downloader instead.
• Removed parameter version for method Cryptographic().uuid()

Version 4.0.0

This release (4.0.0) contains some insignificant but breaking changes in API, please be careful.

Added:

• Added an alias .first_name(*args, **kwargs) for the method Person().name()
• Added an alias .sex(*args, **kwargs) for the method Person().gender()
• Added method randstr() for class Random()
• Added method complexes() for the provider Numbers()
• Added method matrix for the provider Numbers()
• Added method integer_number() for the provider Numbers()
• Added method float_number() for the provider Numbers()
• Added method complex_number() for the provider Numbers()
• Added method decimal_number() for the provider Numbers()
• Added method ip_v4_object() and ip_v6_object for the provider Internet(). Now you can generate IP objects, not just strings.
• Added new parameter port_range for method ip_v4()
• Added new parameter separator for method Cryptographic().mnemonic_phrase()

Fixed:

• Fixed issue with invalid email addresses on using custom domains without @ for Person().email()

Updated:

• Updated names and surnames for locale ru
• The floats() function in the Numbers provider now accepts arguments about the range of the generated float
  numbers and the rounding used. By default, it generates a list of n float numbers insted of a list of 10^n elements.
• The argument length of the function integers is renamed to n.

Removed:

• Removed the rating() method from the Numbers provider. It can be replaced with float_number().
• Removed the primes() method from the Numbers provider.
• Removed the digit() method from the Numbers provider. Use integer_number() instead.
• Removed the between() method from the Numbers provider. Use integer_number() instead.
• Removed the math_formula() method from the Science provider.
• Removed the rounding argument from floats(). Now it's precision.

Version v3.3.0

Fixed:

• country() from the Address() provider now by default returns the country name of the current locale.
• Separated Europe and Asia continents in Italian locale.

Removed:

• Removed duplicated names in the countries of et locale.

Version 3.2.0

Added:

• Added built-in provider DenmarkSpecProvider()
• Added built-in provider ItalianSpecProvider()
• Added meta classes for providers for internal usage (see #621)
• Added support for custom templates in Person().username()

Fixed:

• Support of seed for custom providers
• currency_iso_code from the Business() provider now by default returns the currency code of the current locale.

Removed:

• Removed multiple_choice() in the random module because it was unused and it could be replaced with random.choices.
• Removed legacy method child_count() from provider Person()

Version 3.1.0

Fixed:

• Fixed UnsupportedField on using field choice (#619)

Version 3.0.0

Warning: This release (3.0.0) contains some breaking changes in API.
Warning: In this release (3.0.0) we've reject support of Python 3.5.

Added:

• Added provider Choice()
• Added method formatted_time() for Datetime() provider
• Added method formatted_date() for Datetime() provider
• Added method formatted_datetime() for Datetime() provider
• Added support of timezones (optional) for Datetime().datetime()
• Added method to bulk create datetime objects:
  Datetime().bulk_create_datetimes()
• Added kpp for RussiaSpecProvider
• Added PolandSpecProvider builtin data provider
• Added context manager to temporarily overriding locale -
  BaseDataProvider.override_locale()
• Added method token_urlsafe() for Cryptographic provider
• Added 6k+ username words

Updated:

• Updated documentation
• Updated data for pl and fr
• Updated SNILS algorithm for RussiaSpecProvider
• Updated method Datetime().time() to return only datetime.time
  object
• Updated method Datetime().date() to return only datetime.date
  object
• Completely annotated all functions
• Locale independent providers inherit BaseProvider instead of
  BaseDataProvider (it's mean that locale independent providers does
  not support parameter locale anymore)
• Now you can add to Generic only providers which are subclasses of
  BaseProvider to ensure a single instance of random.Random() for
  all providers

Renamed:

• Renamed provider ClothingSizes to Clothing, so now it can
  contain any data related to clothing, not sizes only
• Renamed Science().dna() to Science().dna_sequence()
• Renamed Science().rna() to Science().rna_sequence()
• Renamed module helpers.py to random.py
• Renamed module config.py to locales.py
• Renamed module utils.py to shortcuts.py
• Renamed Cryptographic().bytes() to Cryptographic.token_bytes()
• Renamed Cryptographic().token() to Cryptographic.token_hex()

Removed:

• Removed deprecated argument fmt for Datetime().date(), use Datetime().formatted_date() instead
• Removed deprecated argument fmt for Datetime().time(), use Datetime().formatted_time() instead
• Removed deprecated argument humanize for Datetime().datetime(), use Datetime().formatted_datetime() instead
• Removed deprecated method Science.scientific_article()
• Removed deprecated providers Games
• Removed deprecated method Structure().json(), use schema.Schema() and schema.Field instead
• Removed deprecated and useless method: Development().backend()
• Removed deprecated and useless method: Development().frontend()
• Removed deprecated and useless method:Development().version_control_system()
• Removed deprecated and useless method: Development().container()
• Removed deprecated and useless method: Development().database()