Release History

v1.21.0 (2024-08-20)

Features

  • Automatically timeout and closes hutch-python sessions after the user has been idle for a certain number of hours. The number of hours can be set in conf.yml for each hutch. If no value is set the default timeout duration is 48 hours.

Maintenance

  • Document some first-pass efforts at running hutch-python in jupyter notebooks.

  • Fix an issue where an upstream numpy 2 incompatibilty was breaking the pypi builds.

Contributors

  • janeliu-slac

  • zllentz

v1.20.0 (2024-04-19)

Features

  • Allow per-session separate ipython histories via --hist-file command-line argument. If omitted, default ipython behavior is used. When --hist-file is included with no argument, the history file will be written a local operator console hard drive, if available. An argument can be provided to use any file as the history.sqlite file.

Contributors

  • zllentz

v1.19.0 (2024-04-15)

Features

  • Updates EpicsArch script, adding several debug/testin flags and ensuring information is up-to-date. Includes:

    • update_file: feature that updates EpicsArch based on current questionnaire

    • --softlink: point arch file to new experiment via symbolic link

    • --level: specify a debug level

    • --cds-items: displays questionnaire data for a given run and experiment

    • --link-path: allows user to provide custom filepath for softlinks

  • Adds load_level conf.yaml key for choosing the method used to gather happi devices

Contributors

  • c-tsoi

  • tangkong

v1.18.5 (2023-09-14)

Maintenance

  • Strips whitespace from PVs gathered during cam_load routine.

Contributors

  • tangkong

v1.18.4 (2023-07-26)

Maintenance

  • Unpin strict pyqt pin, we now just require pyqt5 of any flavor.

  • Fix a bug where non-conda installs and non-standard conda installs (like mambabuild intermediates) would be unable to use the hutch-python --create cookiecutter tool.

  • Add send and recv methods to the fake zmq socket because newer versions of the lcls2 daq code are expecting recv.

  • Fix pyproject.toml typo docs -> doc.

  • Update requirements.txt for accuracy now that psdaq-control-minimal is available on pypi.

  • Include docs-versions-menu for the sphinx docs builds.

Contributors

  • klauer

  • zllentz

v1.18.3 (2023-04-11)

Maintenance

  • Set the package name back to hutch-python for conda builds for consistency’s sake.

Contributors

  • klauer

  • zllentz

v1.18.2 (2023-04-11)

Maintenance

  • Fix an issue where the test suite would not run with the latest lightpath. This was a test-suite only bug, not a runtime function bug.

  • Fix an issue where pypi/conda upload builds would not have proper authentication.

Contributors

  • zllentz

v1.18.1 (2023-04-04)

Bugfixes

  • Fix an edge case where all hutch devices may be skipped in the load if all of them are missing from lightpath.

Maintenance

  • hutch-python no longer uses Travis CI and has migrated to GitHub Actions for continuous integration, testing, and documentation deployment.

  • hutch-python has been migrated to use setuptools-scm, replacing versioneer, as its version-string management tool of choice.

  • hutch-python has been migrated to use the modern pyproject.toml, replacing setup.py and related files.

  • Older language features and syntax found in the repository have been updated to Python 3.9+ standards by way of pyupgrade.

  • Sphinx 6.0 is now supported for documentation building. docs-versions-menu replaces doctr-versions-menu and doctr usage for documentation deployment on GitHub Actions. The deployment key is now no longer required.

  • pyupgrade was used to update annotations, and pycln was used to clean up imports.

Contributors

  • klauer

  • zllentz

v1.18.0 (2022-10-25)

Features

  • Updates database loading to utilize updated lightpath (v1.0.0) for loading devices. This makes the newer, reworked version of lightpath available in the session instead of the old version.

Maintenance

  • Fix issues with running tests offline on LCLS servers.

Contributors

  • tangkong

  • zllentz

v1.17.0 (2022-07-27)

Features

  • In the facility logger, show the source of the exception in the facility log message summary. This will make it easier to understand the cause of uncaught exceptions that get sent to the facility logger.

v1.16.0 (2022-06-03)

Features

  • Add the obj_config key to the conf.yml configuration file. This allows the user to pass in the path to a file that contains object reconfiguration information. Currently, tab completion whitelists/blacklists and ophyd component kind configuration are supported.

  • Switch the best effort callback instance bec to use the BECOptionsPerRun callback from nabs instead of the previous BestEffortCallback from bluesky. This new class is a subclass of BestEffortCallback that allows us to configure its options on a per-scan basis by setting metadata keys. This means we can do things like disabling plots on scans where it makes no sense, and perhaps more features in the future.

Contributors

  • tangkong

v1.15.0 (2022-05-02)

Features

  • Add automatic ELOG post configuration to the run engine.

  • Add a much more helpful startup banner that calls out specific helpful objects in the namespace.

Fixes

  • Make the dev package identifier very robust.

Maintenance

  • Configure and satisfy pre-commit checks.

  • Rework and clean up the post-IPython initialization.

Contributors

  • tangkong

v1.14.0 (2022-03-31)

Features

  • Ctrl+C now aborts the current run, returning the RunEngine to a ready / idle state. The old pause functionality has been moved to Ctrl+\.

  • Include per-device load times for devices loaded from happi.

  • Load a run-engine wrapped namespace (lowercase re) as a replacement for the proliferation of roll-your-own wrappers, and also add wrapped daq scan functions to the daq object.

  • Add plan wrappers to all plans to make it clear which are plans and which are functions.

  • Show the environment information at startup so the user knows what version of the software they are running.

Contributors

  • klauer

  • tangkong

  • zllentz

v1.13.2 (2022-02-11)

Fixes and Maintenance

Configure IPython to disable black input reformatting, for three reasons:

  1. Throws errors in our terminal after the first input

  2. Conflicts with advice in the black github issues that assert that black is not ready to be used as an import.

  3. I don’t think it’s a good fit for the scientific computing and expect that it will be annoying in practice.

Contributors

  • zllentz

v1.13.1 (2022-02-07)

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Noisy logger detection is now configured but disabled by default.

  • Noisy logger detection is split between the file and the console.

  • Allow both QtAgg and Qt5Agg as valid matplolib backends for the loaded environment.

  • Include daq_type and daq_host in the list of valid keys for the purpose of warning the user about a malformed config. These have been valid, but produce an incorrect warning.

  • Expand the default LCLS2 DAQ timeout from 1 second to 10 seconds to fix an issue where we would time out on expected long operations.

Contributors

  • klauer

  • zllentz

v1.13.0 (2021-11-10)

Features

  • Noisy loggers will automatically be filtered based on message rate metrics as to not disturb the user.

  • Warnings will be redirected to the logging stream, making them show up in the log files.

  • Warnings will only be shown once each per session per warning source, rather than after every IPython line, via demoting them to DEBUG level in the console, as to not disturb the user.

  • Callback exception log messages will be demoted to DEBUG level in the console as to not disturb the user.

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Add documentation about the log namespace.

  • Fix an issue where certain helpful namespaces inside of helpful namespaces in specific situations would not render properly.

  • Fix various issues with the CI and move it to Python 3.9 only.

  • Remove no longer needed inflection dependency

v1.12.0 (2021-09-28)

Features

  • Add functionality for specifying parameters for and automatically instantiating the LCLS2 DAQ object (BlueskyScan) via an optional psdaq.control dependency and configuration keys.

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Restore the CI pypi build to running.

  • Properly setup lightpath, psdm_qs_cli, and elog as optional dependencies.

  • Clean up the documentation about the configuration file.

v1.11.2 (2021-08-09)

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Fix order of message logging in the IPython input logger. Previously, the In log message wouldn’t happen until after the command had already finished. Now, the In message is logged, then any normal log messages are logged, and then finally the Out message is logged, all neatly in order.

  • Adjust exception handling output for log files and for centralized logger.

  • Log exceptions in threads

  • Only log to the centralized PCDS logger when on a PCDS host

  • Support stacklevel for centralized logging on Python 3.8+

  • Make elog and lightpath optional dependencies for pip

v1.11.1 (2021-07-09)

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Fix issues related to matplotlib setup in headless mode. This means that it will no longer crash the session when used without x-forwarding.

v1.11.0 (2021-06-04)

Features

  • Added ability to opt-in to specific Ophyd Object instance DEBUG logs. Call logs.log_objects(obj1, obj2) to configure it for obj1 and obj2, for example, and clear it by way of logs.log_objects_off().

  • Added a new logs object in the IPython namespace, offering easy access to common log-related tools.

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Refactored logging setup to be more modular and slightly better documented. The ophyd logger is no longer “hushed”, but is now filtered through the new ObjectFilter mechanism.

v1.10.1 (2021-06-03)

Bugfixes

  • Fix an issue where ophyd signals were configured to wait “forever” for their write timeouts. By default, this is now a 5 second timeout instead of no timeout. This unfortunate default resulted in some cases where PVs would get “stuck” in a “set_and_wait” that would never end. In ophyd, this default is intentionally left to infinite to satisfy the common case where signals don’t update to the final value for a long period of time. These cases are very uncommon at the LCLS.

v1.10.0 (2021-04-15)

Features

  • IterableNamespace has been upgraded to be HelpfulNamespace, while maintaining a backward-compatible import name. This class supports the IPython “pretty repr” and HTML repr hooks to provide user-friendly tables of items available in the namespace, as well as direct keyword-access to elements of the namespace.

  • All objects loaded in load_conf have been annotated with what they are used for in the Python session. These annotations are available when viewing the HelpfulNamespace pretty and HTML reprs.

Bugfixes

  • Fix an issue where the get_current_hutch scripts were using a deprecated and removed argument structure.

v1.9.1 (2021-02-10)

Bugfixes

  • Display small values in scientific notation during scans, rather than as 0.000000. Similarly handle very large values.

  • Include the BestEffortCallback that we are using in the hutch’s namespace for easy access.

v1.9.0 (2020-12-22)

Features

  • Add epicsarch-qs script that will handle creating epicsArch files from the LCLS questionnaire.

  • Include plans from nabs in the default namespaces.

  • Include calcs from pcdsdevices in the default namespaces.

Bugfixes

  • Fix issue where tab completion filters would not work due to IPython quirks in cases where jedi is disabled.

  • Fix issue where devices with negative z would not load from happi.

Maintenance

  • Update the hutch environment templates.

v1.8.0 (2020-10-23)

Features

  • Include the beam_stats and lcls objects in every hutch python session.

  • Enable scan PVs for all consumers (instead of starting as disabled).

Bugfixes

  • Fix load order so that beamline and experiment files happen as late as possible.

v1.7.0 (2020-10-21)

Features

  • Alert and show the user the full traceback when there are issues loading user files like beamline and experiment files.

  • Ask the user if it is okay to proceed with the user file loading failure, which typically renders the session useless, rather than just passing over the issue.

v1.6.1 (2020-10-07)

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Re-tag of v1.6.0 to trigger the anaconda upload.

v1.6.0 (2020-10-07)

Features

  • Expand motors group to have all positioners.

  • Add detectors (d) namespace for ami detectors.

  • Time safe_load and report duration.

  • Add a few simulated motors by default in a sim namespace.

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Pass hutch name to daq to avoid calling get_hutch_name, which can be slow.

  • Disable tree namespace until issues are resolved.

v1.5.1 (2020-10-02)

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Remove jedi tab completion again, again.

v1.5.0 (2020-09-18)

Features

  • Send uncaught exceptions to the centrally configured logstash

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Fix issues related to LivePlot segmentation faults

  • Remove jedi tab completion, again

  • Fix and standardize the CI configuration

v1.4.0 (2020-08-18)

Features

  • Load hutch-python with engineering mode disabled to optimize interactive use.

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Fix bad log message handler in test suite

v1.3.1 (2020-07-27)

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Test suite update for compatibility with lightpath v0.6.5

v1.3.0 (2020-07-01)

Features

  • Pack camviewer config into a camviewer namespace for ease of access and to avoid name collisions with other data sources.

v1.2.3 (2020-05-29)

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Fix issue with tests freezing

v1.2.2 (2020-05-21)

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Fix issue with generated area detectors having the wrong prefix

v1.2.1 (2020-05-21)

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Fix issue preventing conda upload on tag

v1.2.0 (2020-05-21)

Features

  • Configure the logstash logger using pcdsutils

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Adjust for latest happi API

  • Add documentation about logstash logging

  • Hush the noisiest loggers that are spamming the terminal sessions

v1.1.1 (2020-02-05)

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Make tests compatible with ophyd v1.1.1

  • Small adjustments to remove some warnings

  • Small updates to hutch directory generator

v1.1.0 (2020-01-10)

Features

  • Add archapp support. Check out the archive object in the hutch python namespace for access to the archiver appliance data.

v1.0.1 (2019-03-08)

Fixes and Maintenance

  • Clean up code for the hutch-python launcher

  • Fix issues with the test suite

  • Fix issues with automatically loading ipython profiles

v1.0.0 (2018-10-12)

API Breaks

  • Swap to the newer psdm_qs_cli API for experiment loading that is compatible with commissioning experiment names.

v0.7.0 (2018-08-06)

Features

  • Add a ScanVars class for the legacy scan pvs tie-in.

  • Automatically load all cameras defined in the camviewer config file.

  • Add the --exp arg for forcing the active experiment for the duration of a session.

Bugfixes

  • Exclude having a beampath when there are no devices on the path. This is because the resulting empty path causes issues in the environment. This will most commonly occur when calling hutch-python with no arguments.

Misc

  • Fix a few typos

v0.6.0 (2018-05-27)

Features

  • Provide well-curated namespaces for bluesky plans. These are in the shell as bp (bluesky plans) for normal plans, bps (bluesky plan stubs) for plans that are not complete on their own, and bpp (bluesky plan preprocessors) for plans that modify other plans.

Bugfixes

  • Show a correct error message when there is an ImportError in an experiment file. This previously assumed the ImportError was from a missing experiment file. (#126)

  • Prevent duplicate names in tree_namespace from breaking the tree. Show a relevant warning message. (#128)

  • Do not configure the matplotlib backend for IPython if a user does not have a valid $DISPLAY environment variable. The most common case of this is if X-Forwarding is disabled. (#132)

v0.5.0 (2018-05-08)

Bugfixes

  • fix issue where importing hutchname.db could break under certain conditions

  • fix issue where autocompleting a SimpleNamespace subclass would always have an extra mro() method, even though this is a class method not shared with instances.

  • add logs folder to the hutch-python directory creator

API Changes

v0.4.0 (2018-04-23)

Features

  • elog object and posting

  • load devices upstream from the hutch along the light path

Bugfixes

  • Allow posting bug reports to github from the control room machines through the proxy

  • Optimize the namespaces for faster loads and avoid a critical slowdown bug

  • Make hutch banner as early as possible to avoid errant log messages in front of the banner

  • Make cxi’s banner red, as was intended

  • hutch template automatically picks the latest environment, instead of hard-coding it

v0.3.0 (2018-04-06)

Features

  • In-terminal bug reporting

  • Port of the old python presets system

  • Objects from the questionnaire are included in the experiment object

  • Experiment object is always included

Bugfixes

  • No longer create 1-item metadata objects

  • db.txt is created in all-write mode

API Changes

  • Daq platform map is no longer stored in the module, this now must be configured through conf.yml for nonzero platforms.

Minor Changes

  • qs.cfg renamed to web.cfg, with backwards compatibility