Ofunctions

Features

network

- Added IPv4 / IPv6 preference selector function set_ip_version()
- Make Nuitka compiler and pylint happy about the way we call into urllib

Misc

- New replace_in_iterable() function which can iter over a composite dict/list struct and replace values
- Retains original struct type
- Can also run a callable to replace values
- New DotDict() object which is basically a dict that can be accessed with dot notation, ie dict.my.value

Platform

- Improve os_arch() function to work with various arm platforms

Random

- Add new password_gen() function which allows to select alpha/numeric/special_chars & non ambiguous chars

Others

- Removed Python 2.7 from the test matrix since Github doesn't support it anymore
- Linters are now using Python 3.11

Features

requestor
- Initial upload of REST API class

platform
- os_arch() and python_arch() now also check for arm & arm64 platforms

Features

platform
- Added os_arch() function which returns current OS arch regardless of python arch

process
- Make kill_childs() function verbose by default

Fixes

misc
- Fixed BytesConverter class conversion failures for null values

Features

misc
- Improved BytesConverter class in order to deal with human and IEC notations
- Added convert_time_to_seconds() function allowing converting HHH:MM:SS to seconds

Others

- Remove Python 3.5 and 3.6 from linux test matrix since Github actions don't propose them anymore
- Update github actions to v3

Features

checksums
- Added sha256sum_data() function

srtring handling
- Added filename_sanitize() function so a string becomes a windows/linux compatible filename

file_utils
- file_utils.remove_files_on_timestamp_delta() and check_file_timestamp_delta() now accept optional alternative timestamp

misc
- Added deep_dict_update() function in order to update nested dictionaries with other nested dictionaries
- Added BytesConverter class which handles conversion between bytes/bits and their binary prefixes

network
- New IOCounters class that returns periodic network interface statistics
- probe_mtu and ping functions now allow to specify source
- added get_public_hostname() function

platform
- Added get_distro() function which returns distro flavor and version (only works on RHEL so far, help welcome)

string_handling
- Added sanitize_filename() function to clean filenames in order to work on most filesystems (win/linux/macos)

threading
- Added a simple threaded decorator for Python 2.7

Fixes

file_utils
- Fixed remove_files_on_timestamp_delta() did not properly walk directories

Generic
- Improved Python 2.7 unit tests for logger_utils and string_handling