[ase-users] ASE-3.13 release candidate

[Jens Jørgen Mortensen]

On 01/23/2017 10:57 AM, Ask Hjorth Larsen wrote:
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> El 23 ene. 2017 9:34 a. m., "Jens Jørgen Mortensen" 
> <jensj at fysik.dtu.dk <mailto:jensj at fysik.dtu.dk>> escribió:
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>     On 01/21/2017 03:02 AM, Ask Hjorth Larsen wrote:
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>         Hi
>
>         I noticed an error with isinstance(..., str) which would be
>         triggered
>         when writing an eps from ase-gui in text mode (and probably
>         also from
>         the actual GUI).  A fix has been pushed.  However there could
>         be many
>         cases of bugginess because there are many isinstance calls on
>         strings:
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>         http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~askhl/files/strings-isinstance.txt
>         <http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/%7Easkhl/files/strings-isinstance.txt>
>
>         I can perhaps look at this one of these days, but now it is
>         very late.
>
>
>     That would be great.  Please use "isinstance(..., basestring)" and
>     "from ase.utils import basestring" and not "hasattr(..., ''swapcase").
>
>
> Maybe define isstring(obj)? If we need to add an import it might as 
> well do the whole job.

We have standardized on "isinstance(..., basestring)" which is easy to 
change to "isinstance(..., str)" once we drop support for legacy Python 
(Python 2).

Jens Jørgen

>
> Best regards
> Ask
>
>
>
>     Jens Jørgen
>
>
>         Best regards
>         Ask
>
>         2017-01-17 11:22 GMT+01:00 Jens Jørgen Mortensen via ase-users
>         <ase-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk
>         <mailto:ase-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk>>:
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>             Hi!
>
>             I've just uploaded ase-3.13.0rc1 to PyPI.  I would love as
>             many of you to
>             install it and try it out on some of the things you use
>             ASE for:
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>                  $ pip install ase --pre --user
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>             or
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>                  $ pip3 install ase --pre --user
>
>             See (incomplete) list of changes since 3.12 here:
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>             https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/ase/releasenotes.html#git-master-branch
>             <https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/ase/releasenotes.html#git-master-branch>
>
>             Jens Jørgen
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