Appendix

Known Issues

  • The version of libexempi that comes via Macports refuses to load via ctypes. As a workaround, you should compile libexempi from source.

Glossary

XMP

eXtensible Metadata Platform

TODO list

Todo

Make get_array_item optionally return keywords describing array item’s options

(The original entry is located in /builddir/build/BUILD/python-xmp-toolkit-2.0.1/libxmp/core.py:docstring of libxmp.core.XMPMeta.get_array_item, line 16.)

Todo

Make get_property optionally return keywords describing property’s options

(The original entry is located in /builddir/build/BUILD/python-xmp-toolkit-2.0.1/libxmp/core.py:docstring of libxmp.core.XMPMeta.get_property, line 18.)

Todo

Make get_property_bool optionally return keywords describing property’s options

(The original entry is located in /builddir/build/BUILD/python-xmp-toolkit-2.0.1/libxmp/core.py:docstring of libxmp.core.XMPMeta.get_property_bool, line 13.)

Todo

Make get_property_float optionally return keywords describing property’s options

(The original entry is located in /builddir/build/BUILD/python-xmp-toolkit-2.0.1/libxmp/core.py:docstring of libxmp.core.XMPMeta.get_property_float, line 13.)

Todo

Make get_property_int optionally return keywords describing property’s options

(The original entry is located in /builddir/build/BUILD/python-xmp-toolkit-2.0.1/libxmp/core.py:docstring of libxmp.core.XMPMeta.get_property_int, line 13.)

Todo

Make get_property_int optionally return keywords describing property’s options

(The original entry is located in /builddir/build/BUILD/python-xmp-toolkit-2.0.1/libxmp/core.py:docstring of libxmp.core.XMPMeta.get_property_long, line 13.)

Todo

Suppress this in sphinx docs

(The original entry is located in /builddir/build/BUILD/python-xmp-toolkit-2.0.1/libxmp/core.py:docstring of libxmp.core.XMPIterator.next, line 3.)

Todo

Documentation

(The original entry is located in /builddir/build/BUILD/python-xmp-toolkit-2.0.1/libxmp/files.py:docstring of libxmp.files.XMPFiles, line 15.)

Todo

Change signature into using kwargs to set option flag

(The original entry is located in /builddir/build/BUILD/python-xmp-toolkit-2.0.1/libxmp/files.py:docstring of libxmp.files.XMPFiles.close_file, line 7.)

Todo

Change signature into using kwargs to set option flag

(The original entry is located in /builddir/build/BUILD/python-xmp-toolkit-2.0.1/libxmp/files.py:docstring of libxmp.files.XMPFiles.open_file, line 7.)

License

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Changes

Release 2.0.0 ( January 17, 2013 )

  • Added support for Python 3.3, dropped support for 2.5.

  • All string outputs in 2.6 and 2.7 are unicode objects with UTF-8 encoding.

  • Added exempi module, a low-level ctypes interface to exempi library.

  • Most XMPMeta methods that formerly returned bool now raise exceptions in case of failure, except for “does_property_exist”, “does_array_item_exist”.

  • Added timezone support for datetime routines.

  • Added delete_localized_text method to XMPMeta

Release 1.0.2 ( June 21, 2011 )

  • Fixed python 2.5 issue (ctypes.c_bool are not available in 2.5, so it was changed to ctypes.c_int).

Release 1.0.1 ( April 11, 2011 )

  • Fixed issue on 32-bit systems.

Release 1.0 ( March 31, 2011 )

  • Known issue #7 documented - issue with TIFF smart handler.

  • Fixed issue #15 - 64-bit issues on Linux and Mac.

  • Fixed issue #11 - Typo in does_property_exist.

  • Thanks to marialaura.clemente for bug reports and patches.

Release 1.0rc2 (Feburary 16, 2010)

  • Fixed issue #4, #5 and related to XMPIterator, file_to_dict and object_to_dict.

  • Fixed issue in file_to_dict which didn’t pass parameters to XMPFiles.open_file() properly.

  • Fixed issue #9 file_to_dict now raises IOError instead of returning an empty dictionary for non-existing files. (backward incompatible)

  • Fixed issue #8 - spelling mistake in function call in XMPMeta.append_array_items

  • Based on Exempi 2.1.1 and Adobe XMP Toolkit 4.4.2

  • Thanks to olsenpk, pitymushroom, rmarianski, cfarrell1980 for bug reports and patches

Release 1.0rc1 (March 6, 2009)

  • Backwards incompatible with previous releases.

  • Based on Exempi 2.1.0 and Adobe XMP Toolkit 4.4.2

  • Initialise and Terminate should no longer be called before usage.

Release 1.0beta1 (July 6, 2008)

  • First public release.