Release Notes¶

2.0.0¶

Minimum Python version is now 2.7.
ColorBase.convert_to() is no more. Use colormath.color_conversions.convert_color() instead. API isn’t as spiffy looking, but it’s a lot less magical now.
Completely re-worked RGB handling. Each RGB space now has its own class, inheriting from BaseRGBColor. Consequently, RGBColor is no more. In most cases, you can substitute RGBColor with sRGBColor during your upgrade.
RGB channels are now [0..1] instead of [1..255]. Can use BaseRGBColor.get_upscaled_value_tuple() to get the upscaled values.
BaseRGBColor.set_from_rgb_hex() was replaced with a BaseRGBColor.new_from_rgb_hex(), which returns a properly formed sRGBColor object.
BaseRGBColor no longer accepts observer or illuminant kwargs.
HSL no longer accepts observer, illuminant or rgb_type kwargs.
HSV no longer accepts observer, illuminant or rgb_type kwargs.
CMY no longer accepts observer, illuminant or rgb_type kwargs.
CMYK no longer accepts observer, illuminant or rgb_type kwargs.
Removed ‘debug’ kwargs in favor of Python’s logging.
Completely re-worked exception list. Eliminated some redundant exceptions, re-named basically everything else.

Python 3.3 support added.
Added tox.ini with supported environments.
Removed the old custom test runner in favor of nose.
Replacing simplified RGB->XYZ conversions with Bruce Lindbloom’s.
A round of PEP8 work.
Added a BaseColorConversionTest test class with some greatly improved color comparison. Much more useful in tracking down breakages.
Eliminated non-matrix delta E computations in favor of the matrix equivalents. No need to maintain duplicate code, and the matrix stuff is faster for bulk operations.

Corrected delta_e CMC example error. Should now run correctly.
color_diff_matrix.delta_e_cie2000 had an edge case where certain angles would result in an incorrect delta E.
Un-hardcoded XYZColor.apply_adaptation()’s adaptation and observer angles.

Added an optional vectorized deltaE function. This uses NumPy array/matrix math for a very large speed boost. (Eddie Bell)
Added this changelog.