Hieroglyph 0.5.5

As I mentioned last month , there were a few improvements to Hieroglyph sitting in the master branch, awaiting a release. Now that PyCon is over, I’ve cut the Hieroglyph 0.5.5 release. This is primarily a bug fix release, and it feels good to fix a bunch of issues that I discovered as I used Hieroglyph to develop and present Effective Django .

In addition to fixing half a dozen bugs, I also reviewed and revised almost all of the documentation for this release. Asheesh used Hieroglyph for his talk on web scraping at PyCon last week, and it was really interesting to get feedback from him about what worked and what was confusing. As a result, there’s a new Getting Started guide. There’s still work to be done, in particular in the Advanced Usage document; hopefully that will get rewritten and expanded soon.

Asheesh’s feedback demonstrated to me how little I know about why people use (or don’t) use Hieroglyph, and what’s difficult or confusing to them that I take for granted. If you’ve used Hieroglyph, thought about it and rejected it, or tried it and been frustrated, I’d like to hear about your experience. You can email me at nathan@yergler.net, or ping me on Identi.ca or Twitter : @nyergler