x3pio 2.0.0

This release simplifies the reading API and reduces the cost of reading. It contains breaking changes.

Breaking changes

• Removed open and the typed reads (Surface.open and equivalents). x3pio.read(path_or_stream) replaces them and returns a Surface, Profile or PointCloud. X3pFile.loads(bytes) reads from memory.
• X3pFormatError now derives from ValueError.
• Removed DATA_TYPES, DataTypeInfo, get_data_type, encode_raw, decode_raw, validate_increment and validate_rotation from the top-level API. suggest_scale now takes a DataType.
• Layer stores its arrays as float64. Arrays of other dtypes are converted on assignment.
• Removed Layer.iter_points and Point. Use Layer.points(), or Layer.points()[layer.valid] for an (N, 3) array of the measured points.
• from_stacked is now private. Use from_array, from_layers or from_points.
• An unknown Revision text now raises X3pFormatError.
• info requires a path or a seekable stream. FileInfo.extensions is now a tuple of ExtensionFile (vendor ID, path, size) instead of the extension contents.

Additions and changes

• Added X3pFile.extensions_fit(revision), which reports whether the vendor extensions can be stored in the given revision.
• read needs less memory when it reads from a path.
• info no longer reads the coordinates or the vendor files.
• storage is validated on assignment.
• X3pFile, Layer and FileInfo have one-line reprs.
• Consolidated the examples into write, read, modify and plot.

v1.1.0

Add Profile.is_regular_grid, the counterpart of Surface.is_regular_grid.

v1.0.0

First release of x3pio: read and write ISO 25178-72 x3p files in Python.