Release Notes¶

Version 0.6.0 (TBD)¶

New Features:

Changes:

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Documentation:

New Features:

Adds visualize function and Dagman.visualize method for graph visualization. (See PR #122)

Changes:

Updates default values of the universe, getenv, and notification parameters for Job objects to None. Now, unless explicitly given, the system defaults will be used. (See PR #115)

Bug Fixes:

Switch to using os.sep instead of '/' as a path separator. (See PR #107)
Fixed Windows-compability bug in Job.submit_job and Dagman.submit_dag. (See PR #110)
Removes outdated reference to dagman_progress in entry_points of setup.py. (See PR #113)
Resolves a ResourceWarning and DeprecationWarning raised while running the tests. (See PR #116)
Properly handles bytes arrays in get_condor_version. (See PR #119)
Fixed a string formatting bug in Dagman.submit_dag and Job.submit_job. (See PR #120)

Documentation:

New Features:

Adds the option to initialize a Job with an arguments parameter. (See PR #90 and PR #102)
Adds the option to initialize a Job with a retry parameter, which sets the default number of retries for all arguments of the Job if given. (See PR #90)

Changes:

Adds FutureWarning about changing the default values of the universe, getenv, and notification parameters for Job objects to None. (See PR #98)
Removes check that a Job executable path must exist locally when the Job is being built. (See PR #96)
Adds informative error message when Job.submit_job is called on a machine where the condor_submit command isn’t available. (See PR #83)
Removes deprecated maxjobs and kwargs parameters for the Job.submit_job, Job.build_submit, Dagman.submit_dag, and Dagman.build_submit methods. Also removes the deprecated dagman_progress command. (See PR #84)

Bug Fixes:

Fixes typo in pycondor monitor that was still referencing the old dagman_progress command. (See PR #81)

New Features:

Added dag parameter to Job and Dagman object initializations. (See PR #67)
Added submit_options parameter to Job.submit_job and Dagman.submit_dag methods. kwargs and maxjobs parameters for these methods are deprecated in favor of submit_options. (See PR #71)
Adds pycondor submit command. Also adds replaces dagman_progress command with pycondor monitor. (See PR #73)

Changes:

Added a check for illegal characters in Dagman submit file node names when running HTCondor version 8.7.2 or newer. (See PR #66)

Bug Fixes:

Fixed bug so that BaseNode objects set their submit attribute to the current working directory if not provided directly or set via an environment variable. (See PR #75)

New Features:

Added dagman_progress command line tool for displaying a progress bar for Dagman jobs. (See PR #45 and PR #52)
Added environment variable option for setting submit, error, log, and output directories. (See PR #50)

Bug Fixes:

Fixed bug where the queue parameter for a Job was not written to the job submit file when the Job was built by a Dagman. (See PR #42)
Fixed bug that caused a filename mismatch between a Job submit file and the error/log/output files when a named argument is added to a Job, and the Job is built with fancyname=True. (See PR #48)
Fixed the Dagman submit file build procedure to include the name of Job named arguments in the Dagman node name (See PR #53)

Changes:

Fixes bug where Jobs that have no arguments, when submitted from a Dagman, were not included in the dag submit file. (See Issue #33)

Changes:

Adds subdag support. Now Dagman objects can be added to other Dagman object with the new add_subdag class method.

Changes:

Adds retry option to the Job add_arg method. This allows the user to specify the number of times to re-submit this node in the Job if the node fails.
Adds name option to the Job add_arg method. If a name is specified, then a separate set of log, output, and error files will be generated specifically for that node.
Adds tests directory in pycondor!

Changes:

Adds use_unique_id option when creating a Job object. This will then create a separate error, log, and output file for each of the arguments in the Job args list.
Adds extra_lines option when creating a Dagman object (similar to the Job object).
Replaces all occurances of os.system() with subprocess.Popen(). This won’t affect anything the user touches, just modernizing under-the-hood stuff.

Changes:

Adds request_cpus attribute to Job object to make it easier to request a specified number of CPUs.
Adds pycondor.get_queue() feature to get condor_q information.
Job and Dagman object methods now return self.
Fixed typo in logger formatting.