Kitchen 1.1.0 release

As mentioned last week a new kitchen release went out today. Since last week some small changes were made to the documentation and a few changes to make building kitchen easier were implemented but nothing has changed in the code. Here’s the text of the release announcement:

== Kitchen 1.1.0 has been released ==

Kitchen is a python library that brings together small snippets of code that you might otherwise find yourself reimplementing via cut and paste. Each little bit is useful and important but they usually feel too small and too trivial to create a whole module just for that one little function. However, experience has shown that any code implemented by copying will inevitably be shown to have bugs. And when you fix those bugs, you’ll wish you had created the module so you could fix the bug in one place rather than two (or five.. or ten…). Kitchen aims to be that one place.

Kitchen currently has code for easily setting up gettext so it won’t throw UnicodeErrors in corner cases, compatibility modules for different python2 stdlib versions (2.4, 2.5, 2.7), a little bit of iterators, and a whole lot of code for unicode-byte string conversion. In addition to the code, kitchen contains documentation that explains some of the common problems that arise when dealing with unicode in python2 and how to fix them through changes in coding practices and/or making use of functions from kitchen.

The 1.1.0 release enhances the gettext portion of kitchen. The major enhancements are:

• get_translation_object can now be used as a drop in replacement for the stdlib’s gettext.translations() function.
• If get_translation_object finds multiple message catalogs for the domain, it will setup the additional catalogs as fallbacks in case the message isn’t found in the first one.
• The gettext and lgettext functions were reworked so that they guarantee that the string they return is both a byte str (this was present in previous kitchen releases) and is a valid sequence of bytes in the selected output_charset. This should prevent tracebacks if your code decodes and reencodes a value returned from the gettext and lgettext family of functions.
• Several fixes to the way fallback message catalogs interacted with input and output charsets.

For the complete set of changes, see the NEWS file.

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