what is it
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A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. (Not a
renderer though!)
about this release
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0.9.7b1 is a beta release but quite stable now I guess...
main changes
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0.9.7b1 optimizes handling speed of CSSVariables *a lot*...
changes
+ **API CHANGE**: Child objects like the ``cssRules`` of a
``CSSStyleSheet`` or ``CSSMediaRule`` are no longer kept after resetting
the complete contents of an object (setting ``cssText``). This should
not be expected anyway but if you relied on something like the following
please beware::
sheet = cssutils.parseString('a { color: red}')
initial_rules = sheet.cssRules
sheet.cssText = 'b { color: green}'
# true until 0.9.6a6: assert sheet.cssRules ==
initial_rules, but now:
assert sheet.cssRules != initial_rules
+ **IMPROVEMENT**: Massive speed improvement of handling of
CSSVariables of a stylesheet which due to naive implementation was
unbelievable slow when using a lot of vars... Should now scale a lot
better, about factor 5-20 depending of amount of variables used.
+ IMPROVEMENT: Fair amount of refactoring resulting in a bit speed
improvement generally too
+ CHANGE: If a CSS variable should be resolved
(``cssutils.ser.prefs.resolveVariables == true``) but no value can be
found a WARNING is logged now. Should be an ERROR actually but as
currently lots of "fake" errors are reported would probably hurt more
than help. A future release might improve this.
+ BUGFIX: Syntax of value of CSS Fonts Module Level 3 ``src``
property now validates if local font name is given with a quoted name,
e.g.: ``src: local('Yanone Kaffeesatz')``
license
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cssutils is published under the LGPL version 3 or later, see
http://cthedot.de/cssutils/
If you have other licensing needs please let me know.
download
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For download options see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/
cssutils needs Python 2.4 or higher or Jython 2.5 and higher (tested
with Python 2.6.5(x64), 2.5.4(x32), 2.4.4(x32) and Jython 2.5.1 on Win7
64 only)
Bug reports (via Google code), comments, etc are very much appreciated!
Thanks.
Christof
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