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- switched to underscores in project name
- requiring seppl>=0.2.13 now
- added support for aliases
- added `discard-by-name` filter, which uses the `file` filed in the meta-data for its matching
- added placeholder support
- method `text_utils.empty_str_if_none` now handles bool/int/float as well
- CSV/TSV writers now have an `--encoding` option to use a specific encoding other than the default, e.g., UTF-8