happybase 0.3

HappyBase
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**HappyBase** is a developer-friendly `Python <http://python.org/>`_ library to
interact with `Apache HBase <http://hbase.apache.org/>`_.

The source code is available from https://github.com/wbolster/happybase.

Documentation for HappyBase is in the `doc/` directory. Run `make doc` to
generate the HTML documentation, then browse to `doc/build/html/index.html`.
Alternatively, you can view the docs online at
http://happybase.readthedocs.org/, but keep in mind that this may be an
outdated version.


Version history
===============

.. py:currentmodule:: happybase

HappyBase 0.3
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Release date: 2012-05-25

New features:

* Improved compatibility with HBase 0.90.x

* In earlier versions, using :py:meth:`Table.scan` in combination with HBase
0.90.x often resulted in crashes, caused by incompatibilities the
underlying Thrift protocol.
* A new `compat` flag to the :py:class:`Connection` constructor has been
added to enable compatibility with HBase 0.90.x.
* Note that the :py:meth:`Table.scan` API has a few limitations when used
with HBase 0.90.x.

* The `row_prefix` argument to :py:meth:`Table.scan` can now be used together
with `filter` and `timestamp` arguments.

Other changes:

* Lower Thrift dependency to 0.6
* The `setup.py` script no longer installs the tests
* Documentation improvements


HappyBase 0.2
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Release date: 2012-05-22

* Fix package installation, so that ``pip install happybase`` works as expected
* Various small documentation improvements


HappyBase 0.1
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Release date: 2012-05-20

* Initial release