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Changelog

All notable changes to the main branch of this project should be documented clearly in this file. In progress (or intended changes) can also be listed below under Unreleased.

The changelog format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project tries its very best to adhere to Semantic Versioning.

Latest

  • Date: 2025-11-11

Added

  • Merged pull request templates to create new one
  • Requirements and installation steps to README
  • Pre-commit hooks
  • Code owners file
  • More examples

Removed

  • contentsheet notices are removed (see this changelog for the notice in v1.1.0)

Changed

  • a11ytables renamed to aftables throughout
  • Updated README
  • Updated pull request template
  • Docs moved from readthedocs to mkdocs
  • Docs are restructured
  • Fixed auto column widths

v1.2.0

  • Date: 2025-01-07

Added

  • Column width customisation to cover sheet
  • Incorporated rich text functionaliy into the cover page by using List[dict, str] to format text in the intro, about, and contact sections.
  • Rich text format lists can now be of length 2.
  • gptables now supports python 3.11
  • Official disclaimer included at the bottom of the README and PyPI index
  • pyproject.toml is now used to manage the packaging
  • Bugfix to allow writing of tables containing only integers
  • New examples to more simply explain things to new users
  • Update documentation for additional formatting

Removed

  • CI for Python 3.6 - 3.8 on Linux, as no longer supported by GitHub action setup-python
  • Dataclasses as a dependency due to no longer supporting Python 3.6
  • setup.py as this has been replaced by the more modern pyproject.toml

Changed

  • Default theme now includes cover sheet text wrapping set to True
  • CI changed for trusted publishing

v1.1.0

  • Date: 2022-07-27

Added

  • New tests for gptables
  • Validation for tables with null or whitespace rows, cells or column names
  • Support for note references in GPTable.instructions attribute
  • Accessibility checklist based on Analysis Function guidance and a11ytables documentation
  • Contributers page in documentation

Changed

  • Validation of GPTable text attributes. Error will be raised if title or instructions is None, or if an entry in the subtitle or legend lists is None.
  • Running package tests now requires pytest 6.2.5+, to support Python 3.10
  • CI configuration to run tests on both Linux and Windows with Python 3.6-3.10 and calculate coverage based on core functionality and utilites
  • Restructure and rewording of changelog
  • Package author and maintainer information

Deprecated

  • contentsheet parameter of write_workbook will be removed in v2 of gptables. Please use contentsheet_label instead.
  • Ability to reference notes within GPTable.table.columns will be removed in v2 of gptables. Please use GPTable.table_notes to ensure references are correctly placed and ordered.

Fixed

  • contentsheet_label parameter added to write_workbook. Previously parameter was included in documentation but was misnamed in function.
  • auto_width now functions as expected for columns with links or rich text columns using Python 3.6 and 3.7, as well as for numeric columns using Python 3.6+
  • Trailing whitespace is no longer added when units or table_notes are added to column headers
  • Providing table_notes will no longer break additional formatting
  • Rich text in instructions property will no longer raise an error
  • Note order now takes into account custom description_order in Theme
  • Special character only cell validation now includes underscores
  • Image alt text appears when building user documentation
  • CI deploys documentation in full

v1.0.0

  • Date: 2022-06-04

Added

Cover:

  • links formatted using the markdown format of "[display text](link)" will be rendered with the display text showing and the link applying for the corresponding cell. Links must start with http://, https://, ftp://, mailto:, internal: or external:

Table of contents:

  • contents page added to workbook by default. Can be disabled or customised by supplying contentsheet_label and contentsheet_options parameters to produce_workbook or write_workbook.
  • links can be used in text elements passed to contentsheet_options, see above

Notes:

  • notes page added to workbook if notes_table is provided. Can be customised by supplying notesheet_label and notesheet_options parameters to produce_workbook or write_workbook.
  • links can be used in notes_table and text elements passed to notesheet_options, see above

Data tables:

  • GPTable.table will be marked up as a worksheet table in Excel
  • table_name property added to GPTable class. This must be provided for accessibility.
  • instructions property added to GPTable class. If this is not provided, a default value will be used.
  • table_notes property added to GPTable class. This allows note references to be added to the column header row. If used, they will be positioned below the column name and units.
  • validation for GPTable.table column names - all columns must be named and the names must be unique
  • links can be used in GPTable.table and text elements

Theme:

  • instructions_format added to Theme. This can be used to customise the format of the GPTable.instructions element.

Examples:

  • example added to demonstrate the use of a custom theme YAML

Changed

API functions:

  • auto_width property of produce_workbook and write_workbook now defaults to True rather than False

Notes:

  • notes are now numbered according to position in workbook, starting from cell A1 of the first data sheet. Previously, notes were ordered independently for each worksheet
  • note references in text elements are moved to the end of the text. This is to make them more accessible and avoid disrupting the text.

Data tables:

  • units are now written on a new line with the the corresponding column heading cell, instead of above the table
  • units property of GPTable is now optional, and should be provided as dict (str no longer supported)
  • scope property of GPTable is now optional, as this information may be included in title or subtitles
  • source property of GPTable is now optional, as this information should be included in cover sheet if it is the same across sheets
  • legend property as GPTable is now optional

Theme:

  • default theme changed to be more accessible, inparticular, font sizes increased to at least 12pt and font colour set to automatic. Note: compatibility issues with LibreOffice and automatic font colour
  • footer_order property of Theme replaced by description_order, as corresponding metadata have been moved from below to above table. Valid elements are now instructions, source, legend and scope.

Examples:

  • examples updated to reflect new functionality

Removed

API functions:

  • quick_and_dirty function removed, as it is inaccessible and does not demonstrate good practice
  • disable_footer_parentheses removed, as footer is inaccessible and parenetheses not good practice

Cover:

  • additional_elements property removed from Cover class. This is because table of contents is now generated on contentsheet not cover.

Notes:

  • notes and annotations properties removed from GPTable class. Notes are no longer displayed on data worksheets

Data tables:

  • include_index_column_headings property removed from GPTable class, index column headers now always written, for accessibility

Theme:

  • annotations_format and notes_format options removed from Theme, as annotations and notes no longer written to data worksheets
  • missing_value option removed from Theme. Unavailable or white-space table entries are now written as blank cells, and the user is invited to consider the GSS guidance on symbols and shorthand in spreadsheets

Fixed

  • incorrect version numbers in changelog
  • minor typos in docs

v0.4.0

  • Date: 2021-01-30

Fixed

  • bug where setting a GPTable’s scope to None resulted in the units also not being displayed
  • depreciation warning when running tests

Added

  • include_index_column_headings option to GPTable, so that users can display index column headers if they wish. Defaults to False for backwards compatibility.

v0.3.2

  • Date: 2020-08-24

Fixed

  • bug in Cover post_init where additional_elements is None (it’s default value…)
  • more minor typos in docs
  • incorrect version numbers in changelog

v0.3.1

  • Date: 2020-08-24

Fixed

  • incorrect if __name__ == "__main__" in example files
  • minor typos in docs

v0.3.0

  • Date: 2020-08-24

Added

  • Cover dataclass, to provide text elements for cover pages. Provided via cover parameter of API functions.
  • write_cover and associated GPWorksheet methods, for writing a cover page as the first sheet in a GPWorkbook
  • additional Theme attributes for Cover text elements
  • documentation for Cover class and example usage

Fixed

  • loads of typos in documentation
  • broken CI deployment of docs - code includes were not working

v0.2.0

  • Date: 2020-07-10

Fixed

  • stacking of parentheses around footer elements when a GPTable was used more than once
  • duplication of missing_value in legend when multiple missing values were present
  • rst syntax in docs and readme (some bits of Markdown were hanging around)

Added

  • “quick and dirty” API function, for when you just want tables and you want them now
  • functionality to automatically determine column widths - available via auto_width parameter in API functions
  • ability to disable addition of parenetheses to footer element text

Changed

  • removed num_format property from data element of default theme
  • Updated documentation of examples
  • Completely updated online documentation, so that the package might actually be usable

v0.1.3

  • Date: 2020-03-06

Fixed

  • missing files in binary distribution. v0.1.1 and v0.1.2 will be deleted from PyPI to prevent use of broken distributions.

Added

  • this changelog to the documentation!

Changed

  • README to reflect description of package. Dropped developer install instructions.

v0.1.1

  • Date: 2020-03-05

Added

  • gptables package - see README and documentation for usage
  • build and deployment of documentation
  • deployment to PyPI