Changes in PyZMQ
This is a coarse summary of changes in pyzmq versions. For a real changelog, consult the
git log
2.2.0
Some effort has gone into refining the pyzmq API in this release to make it a model for
other language bindings. This is principally made in a few renames of objects and methods,
all of which leave the old name for backwards compatibility.
Note
As of this release, all code outside zmq.core is BSD licensed (where
possible), to allow more permissive use of less-critical code and utilities.
Name Changes
- The Message class has been renamed to Frame, to better match other
zmq bindings. The old Message name remains for backwards-compatibility. Wherever pyzmq
docs say “Message”, they should refer to a complete zmq atom of communication (one or
more Frames, connected by ZMQ_SNDMORE). Please report any remaining instances of
Message==MessagePart with an Issue (or better yet a Pull Request).
- All foo_unicode methods are now called foo_string (_unicode remains for
backwards compatibility). This is not only for cross-language consistency, but it makes
more sense in Python 3, where native strings are unicode, and the _unicode suffix
was wedded too much to Python 2.
Other Changes and Removals
- prefix removed as an unused keyword argument from send_multipart().
- ZMQStream send() default has been changed to copy=True, so it matches
Socket send().
- ZMQStream on_err() is deprecated, because it never did anything.
- Python 2.5 compatibility has been dropped, and some code has been cleaned up to reflect
no-longer-needed hacks.
- Some Cython files in zmq.core have been split, to reduce the amount of
Cython-compiled code. Much of the body of these files were pure Python, and thus did
not benefit from the increased compile time. This change also aims to ease maintaining
feature parity in other projects, such as
pyzmq-ctypes.
New Stuff
- Context objects can now set default options when they create a socket. These
are set and accessed as attributes to the context. Socket options that do not apply to a
socket (e.g. SUBSCRIBE on non-SUB sockets) will simply be ignored.
- on_recv_stream() has been added, which adds the stream itself as a
second argument to the callback, making it easier to use a single callback on multiple
streams.
- A more boolean attribute has been added to the Frame (née
Message) class, so that frames can be identified as terminal without extra queires of
rcvmore.
Experimental New Stuff
These features are marked ‘experimental’, which means that their APIs are not
set in stone, and may be removed or changed in incompatible ways in later releases.
- zmq.web added for load-balancing requests in a tornado webapp with zeromq.
2.1.11
remove support for LABEL prefixes. A major feature of libzmq-3.0, the LABEL
prefix, has been removed from libzmq, prior to the first stable libzmq 3.x release.
- The prefix argument to send_multipart() remains, but it continue to behave in
exactly the same way as it always has on 2.1.x, simply prepending message parts.
- recv_multipart() will always return a list, because prefixes are once
again indistinguishable from regular message parts.
add Socket.poll() method, for simple polling of events on a single socket.
no longer require monkeypatching tornado IOLoop. The ioloop.ZMQPoller class
is a poller implementation that matches tornado’s expectations, and pyzmq sockets can
be used with any tornado application just by specifying the use of this poller. The
pyzmq IOLoop implementation now only trivially differs from tornado’s.
It is still recommended to use ioloop.install(), which sets both the zmq and
tornado global IOLoop instances to the same object, but it is no longer necessary.
Warning
The most important part of this change is that the IOLoop.READ/WRITE/ERROR
constants now match tornado’s, rather than being mapped directly to the zmq
POLLIN/OUT/ERR. So applications that used the low-level IOLoop.add_handler()
code with POLLIN/OUT/ERR directly (used to work, but was incorrect), rather than
using the IOLoop class constants will no longer work. Fixing these to use the IOLoop
constants should be insensitive to the actual value of the constants.
2.1.10
Add support for libzmq-3.0 LABEL prefixes:
Warning
This feature has been removed from libzmq, and thus removed from future pyzmq
as well.
send a message with label-prefix with:
send_multipart([b'msg', b'parts'], prefix=[b'label', b'prefix'])
recv_multipart() returns a tuple of (prefix,msg) if a label prefix is detected
ZMQStreams and devices also respect the LABEL prefix
add czmq-style close&term as ctx.destroy(), so that ctx.term()
remains threadsafe and 1:1 with libzmq.
Socket.close() takes optional linger option, for setting linger prior
to closing.
add zmq_version_info() and
pyzmq_version_info() for getting libzmq and pyzmq versions as
tuples of numbers. This helps with the fact that version string comparison breaks down
once versions get into double-digits.
ioloop changes merged from upstream Tornado 2.1
2.1.9
- added zmq.ssh tools for tunneling socket connections, copied from IPython
- Expanded sockopt support to cover changes in libzmq-4.0 dev.
- Fixed an issue that prevented KeyboardInterrupts from being catchable.
- Added attribute-access for set/getsockopt. Setting/Getting attributes of Sockets
with the names of socket options is mapped to calls of set/getsockopt.
s.hwm = 10
s.identity = b'whoda'
s.linger
# -1
- Terminating a Context closes the sockets it created, matching the behavior in
czmq.
- ThreadDevices use Context.instance() to create sockets, so they can use
inproc connections to sockets in other threads.
- fixed units error on zmq.select(), where the poll timeout was 1000 times longer
than expected.
- Add missing DEALER/ROUTER socket type names (currently aliases, to be replacements for XREP/XREQ).
- base libzmq dependency raised to 2.1.4 (first stable release) from 2.1.0.
2.1.7.1
- bdist for 64b Windows only. This fixed a type mismatch on the ZMQ_FD sockopt
that only affected that platform.
2.1.4
- First version with binary distribution support
- Added instance() method for using a single Context throughout an application
without passing references around.
