The biggest change of this release is the fact that localization methods now return unicode strings in Python 2.7. This does not affect Python 3.4+.
Changes
format()
,diff_for_humans()
,in_words()
andto_xxx_string()
methods now return unicode strings for Python 2.7.- Improved performance of
now()
andutcnow()
. (Thanks to pganssle)
Fixes
- Fixed
from_format()
raising an error with the alternative formatter.