audformat 0.16.0

Version 0.16.0 (2023-01-12)

• Added: audformat.Attachment to store any kind of files/folders as part of the database

• Added: support for Python 3.10

• Added: support for Python 3.11

• Changed: require audeer>=1.19.0

• Changed: split API documentation into sub-pages for each function

• Fixed: support 'meta' as key in meta dictionaries like the one passed as meta argument to audformat.Database

Version 0.15.4 (2022-11-01)

• Fixed: avoid FutureWarning when setting values in place for a series in audformat.Column.set()

• Fixed: improve sketches in the specifications section of the documentation

Version 0.15.3 (2022-09-19)

• Changed: audformat.Column.set() now lists values not matching the scheme of the column in the corresponding error message

• Fixed: audformat.Column.set() checking of values for a scheme with minimum and/or maximum when input values are given as np.array and contain NaN or None

• Fixed: audformat.Column.set() checking of values for a scheme with minimum and/or maximum when minimum or maximum is 0

Version 0.15.2 (2022-08-17)

• Added: audformat.Table.map_files()

• Fixed: audformat.Database.load() for databases that contain a scheme with labels stored in a misc table that is using schemes for its columns. Before it could fail if the schemes were not loaded in the correct order

• Fixed: audformat.Table.drop_index() and audformat.MiscTable.drop_index() when the provided index to drop contains entries not present in the index of the table. Before it was extending the table by those entries besides dropping overlapping indices

Version 0.15.1 (2022-08-11)

• Added: audformat.Scheme.uses_table to indicate if the scheme uses a misc table to store its labels

• Added: usage example to docstring of audfromat.utils.to_segmented_index()

• Changed: forbid nesting of misc tables as scheme labels

• Fixed: support for pd.Index and pd.Series in audformat.utils.to_filewise_index()

• Fixed: description of audformat.Schemes.labels in API documentation

Version 0.15.0 (2022-08-05)

• Added: audformat.MiscTable which can store data not associated with media files

• Added: store scheme labels in a misc table

• Added: dictionary audformat.Database.misc_tables holding misc tables of a database

• Added: audformat.utils.difference() for finding index entries that are only part of a single index for a given sequence of indices

• Added: audformat.utils.is_index_alike() for checking if a sequence of indices has the same number of levels, level names, and matching dtypes

• Added: audformat.define.DataType.OBJECT

• Added: audformat.utils.set_index_dtypes() to change dtypes of an index

• Added: audformat.testing.add_misc_table()

• Added: audformat.Database.__iter__ iterates through all (misc) tables, e.g. a user can do list(db) to get a list of all (misc) tables

• Changed: audformat.Database.update() can now join schemes with different labels

• Changed: audformat.utils.union(), audformat.utils.intersect(), and audformat.utils.concat() now support any kind of index

• Changed: audformat.utils.intersect() no longer removes segments from a segmented index that are contained in a filewise index

• Changed: require pandas>=1.4.1

• Changed: use pandas dtype 'string' instead of 'object' for storing audformat dtype 'str' entries

• Changed: use a misc table to store the 'speaker' scheme labels in the emodb example in the documentation

• Changed: audformat.utils.join_labels() raises ValueError if labels are of different dtype

• Fixed: ensure column IDs are different from index level names

• Fixed: make sure audformat.Column.set() converts data to dtype of scheme before checking if values are in min-max-range of scheme

• Fixed: links to pandas API in the documentation

• Fixed: include methods to_dict(), from_dict(), dump(), and attributes description, meta in the documentation for the classes audformat.Column, audformat.Database, audformat.Media, audformat.Rater, audformat.Scheme, audformat.Split, audformat.Table

• Fixed: type hint of argument dtype in the documentation of audformat.Scheme

• Removed: support for Python 3.7

Version 0.14.3 (2022-06-01)

• Added: audformat.utils.map_country()

• Changed: improve speed of audformat.Table.drop_files() for segmented tables

Version 0.14.2 (2022-04-29)

• Added: audformat.utils.index_has_overlap()

• Added: audformat.utils.iter_index_by_file()

• Changed: store categories with integers as int64 instead of Int64

• Changed: require audeer>=1.18.0

• Changed: support pandas>=1.4.0

Version 0.14.1 (2022-03-03)

• Added: audformat.utils.map_file_path()

Version 0.14.0 (2022-02-24)

• Changed: ensure audformat.testing.create_database() uses Unix path separators

• Changed: don’t allow \ path entries in a portable database

• Changed: mark deprecated root argument of audformat.testing.create_audio_files() to be removed in version 1.0.0

Version 0.13.3 (2022-02-07)

• Fixed: conversion of pickle protocol 5 files to pickle protocol 4 in cache

Version 0.13.2 (2022-01-27)

• Fixed: reintroduce sorting the output of audformat.Database.files and audformat.Database.segments

Version 0.13.1 (2022-01-26)

• Fixed: changelog for 0.13.0

Version 0.13.0 (2022-01-26)

• Changed: audformat.utils.union() no longer sorts levels

• Changed: audformat.Table.save() forces pickle format 4

• Changed: clean up test requirements

• Changed: require pandas < 1.4.0

Version 0.12.4 (2022-01-12)

• Changed: the API documentation on the language argument of audformat.Database is more verbose now

• Changed: the difference between audformat.define.DataType.TIME and audformat.define.DataType.DATE is now discussed in the API documentation

• Fixed: saving a not loaded table to CSV when a PKL file is present

• Fixed: pandas deprecation warnings

Version 0.12.3 (2022-01-03)

• Removed: Python 3.6 support

Version 0.12.2 (2021-11-18)

• Added: audformat.assert_no_duplicates()

• Changed: audformat.assert_index() no longer checks for duplicates

Version 0.12.1 (2021-11-17)

• Added: audformat.utils.hash()

• Added: audformat.utils.expand_file_path()

• Added: audformat.utils.replace_file_extension()

• Changed: use yaml.CLoader for faster header reading

Version 0.12.0 (2021-11-10)

• Added: as_segmented, allow_nat, root, num_workers arguments to audformat.Table.get()

• Added: as_segmented, allow_nat, root, num_workers arguments to audformat.Column.get()

• Added: files_duration argument to audformat.utils.to_segmented_index()

• Added: audformat.Database.files_duration()

• Changed: changed default value of load_data argument in audformat.Database.load() to False

• Changed: speed up audformat.Database.files and audformat.Database.segments

• Fixed: re-add support for pandas>=1.3

Version 0.11.6 (2021-08-20)

• Added: support for Python 3.9

• Fixed: speed up audformat.utils.union()

• Fixed: audformat.Column.set() with pd.Series and np.array for a scheme with fixed labels and containing NaN values

Version 0.11.5 (2021-08-09)

• Removed: duration scheme and column from conventions and emodb example

Version 0.11.4 (2021-08-05)

• Added: custom BadKeyError when key is not found

• Changed: limit to pandas <1.3 until it works again for newer pandas versions

• Changed: remove the <1.0.0 limit for audiofile as a stable release is available and the API has not changed

Version 0.11.3 (2021-06-10)

• Added: audformat.utils.duration

• Fixed: description of audformat.Database.is_portable in documentation

Version 0.11.2 (2021-05-12)

• Added: audformat.utils.join_schemes

Version 0.11.1 (2021-05-11)

• Added: Database.is_portable

• Added: copy_media argument to Database.update()

• Changed: remove root argument from testing.create_audio_files() and instead use Database.root

• Fixed: utils.concat() converts to nullable dtype

• Fixed: utils.concat() returns DataFrame if input contains at least one DataFrame

Version 0.11.0 (2021-05-06)

Note: tables stored from this version upwards cannot be loaded with older versions

• Added: Database.root

• Added: utils.join_labels()

• Added: Scheme.replace_labels()

• Changed: set dependency to pandas>=1.1.5

• Changed: do not compress pickled table files

Version 0.10.2 (2021-04-22)

• Changed: allow_nat argument to utils.to_segmented_index()

Version 0.10.1 (2021-03-31)

• Fixed: audformat.assert_index() checks for correct dtypes

Version 0.10.0 (2021-03-18)

• Added: audformat.Database.update()

• Added: audformat.Table.update()

• Added: overwrite argument to audformat.utils.concat()

• Changed: result of audformat.Table.__add__() is no longer assigned to a audformat.Database

Version 0.9.8 (2021-02-23)

• Added: audformat.Database.license

• Added: audformat.Database.license_url

• Added: audformat.Database.author

• Added: audformat.Database.organization

• Added: audformat.utils.intersect() for index objects

• Added: audformat.utils.union() for index objects

• Changed: Database.load() raises error if table file missing

• Changed: forbid duplicates in audformat conform indices

• Fixed: audformat.Table.__add__() returned wrong values for some index combinations

Version 0.9.7 (2021-02-01)

• Added: update_other_formats argument to audformat.Table.save() to make sure existing files in other formats are updated as well

• Changed: use round_trip argument when loading CSV files to ensure dataframes are equal after storing and loading again

Version 0.9.6 (2021-01-28)

• Fixed: implemented audformat.Database.__eq__ and return True for identical databases

Version 0.9.5 (2021-01-14)

• Changed: use nullable Pandas’ type 'boolean' for bool schemes

• Fixed: Scheme.draw() generates boolean values if scheme is bool

Version 0.9.4 (2021-01-11)

• Changed: add arguments num_workers and verbose to audformat.Database.load()

Version 0.9.3 (2021-01-07)

• Fixed: avoid sphinx syntax in CHANGELOG

Version 0.9.2 (2021-01-07)

• Changed: add arguments num_workers and verbose to audformat.Database.drop_files(), audformat.Database.map_files(), audformat.Database.pick_files(), audformat.Database.save()

• Changed: audformat.segmented_index() support int and float, which will be interpreted as seconds

• Fixed: audformat.utils.to_segmented_index() returns correct index type for NaT

Version 0.9.1 (2020-12-21)

• Fixed: add column name to HTML Series output in docs

• Fixed: removed mentioning of NotConformToUnifiedFormat error and RedundantArgumentError error

• Fixed: add missing errors to docstring of audformat.Table.set() and audformat.Column.set()

Version 0.9.0 (2020-12-18)

• Added: initial release public release