Updated readme and reformatted news.

.bzrignore

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 ./.git
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 ./venv
+./python.bat
+./NEWS.html

.gitignore

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MANIFEST.in

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-include AUTHORS.txt
+include AUTHORS.rst
 include LICENSE.txt
-include News.txt
-include Readme.rst
+include NEWS.rst
+include README.rst

Makefile

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 	@echo Available targets:
 	@echo  clean   - clean build directory
 	@echo  test    - run unittest
-	@echo  epydoc  - run epydoc to create API documentation
+	@echo  epydoc  - run epydoc to create API documentation (python 2)
 	@echo  wininst - Windows installer for Python
 	@echo  docs    - build docs with ReST and Sphinx
 	@echo  wheel   - build python wheel binary archive

NEWS.rst

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+*****************
+IntelHex releases
+*****************
+
+2.2 (2018-01-28)
+----------------
+* API changes: ``IntelHex.write_hex_file`` method: added support for new
+  parameter: ``eolstyle = native | CRLF``. (Alexander Belchenko)
+* API changes: ``IntelHex.write_hex_file()`` method gets new optional 
+  parameter ``byte_count`` to specify how many bytes should be written
+  to each data record in output file. Default value is 16.
+  (patch from GitHub user erki1993)
+* Unit tests: Fixed xrange overflow test for Python 2.7 on 64-bit platforms.
+  Use ``sys.maxint`` to ensure we trigger an exception. (Masayuki Takeda)
+* Script ``hexinfo.py``: Python 3 compatibility for processing start address
+  dict keys. (patch from GitHub user mentaal)
+* Added ``get_memory_size()`` method: approx memory footprint of IntelHex object
+  plus data. (Alexander Belchenko)
+* Better compatibility with Python 3. (Alexander Belchenko)
+
+2.1 (2016-03-31)
+----------------
+* API changes: added ``IntelHex.segments()`` method that returns
+  a list of ordered tuple objects, representing contiguous occupied data 
+  addresses. (Andrew Fernandes)
+* New command-line script ``hexinfo.py`` to print summary about hex files
+  contents (file name, start address, address ranges covered by the data)
+  in YAML format. (Andrew Fernandes)
+* Better Python 3 compatibility when ``hex2bin.py`` and ``bin2hex.py``
+  scripts are trying to read/write binary data from stdin or to stdout.
+  (GitHub issue https://github.com/bialix/intelhex/issues/4)
+* The main activity of the IntelHex project slowly drifting towards
+  GitHub - the main social network for OSS developers.
+  I'd really like to get some help from additional maintainer though.
+* API changes: ``IntelHex.dump()`` method gets new optional parameters:
+  ``width``, ``withpadding`` to control generation of output text.
+  (patch from GitHub user durexyl)
+* Script ``hex2dump.py`` gets new option ``--width`` to support
+  corresponding parameter in ``IntelHex.dump()`` method.
+
+2.0 (2015-04-12)
+----------------
+* The same codebase can be run on both Python 2 (2.4-2.7) 
+  and Python 3 (3.2+). No need to use 2to3.
+* ``compat.py``: provide more helper functions and aliases to reduce changes
+  required to convert python 2 compatible sources to python 3. 
+  The code becomes quite ugly, but such compatibility has its price.
+* Python 3 compatibility: tobinstr should return bytes not unicode string
+  (Bug #1212698).
+* Python 2: better support for long int addresses (over 2GB)
+  (Bug #1408934)
+
+1.5 (2013-08-02)
+----------------
+* API changes: Functions tobinarray/tobinstr/tobinfile:
+  pad parameter is deprecated and will be removed in
+  future releases. Use IntelHex.padding attribute instead,
+  and don't pass pad as None explicitly please.
+  If you need to use size parameter, then use syntax like that:
+  ``ih.tobinarray(start=xxx, size=yyy)``
+* API changes: Functions tobinarray/tobinstr/tobinfile:
+  default value of pad is None now (was ``0xFF``) 
+  to allow using value of ``IntelHex.padding``
+  if no explicit pad specified.
+* Fixed bug: wrong ``getopt`` error handling in some scripts.
+  (Thanks to Andy Mozhevilov for bug report)
+* PEP-8 style improvements. (Thanks to Stefan Schmitt)
+* ``IntelHex16bit.tobinarray`` method returns array of unsigned short
+  (words) values. (Feature request from Stefan Schmitt)
+* Improved Python 3 compatibility (don't use old file() function).
+  (Thanks to Luis Panadero Guardeño for bug report)
+
+1.4 (2012-04-25)
+----------------
+* New feature: compare 2 hex files using hex dump
+  as string representation. Feature available as
+  worker function diff_dumps() and as command-line
+  utility hexdiff.py (#627924).
+* Changes in the codebase suggested by 2to3 tool to provide
+  compatibility with Python3. Now sources can be successfully
+  converted to Python3 with 2to3 utility. 
+  See Python 3 notes in README.txt and documentation.
+  (Thanks to Bernhard Leiner for his help)
+* Fixed bug #988148: ``IntelHex16bit`` should copy all public attributes
+  from source IntelHex 8-bit object. (Thanks to Morgan McClure)
+
+1.3 (2010-11-24)
+----------------
+* ``hex2dump``: show 0x7F character as dot for better compatibility 
+  with GNU less utility.
+* tobinarray, tobinfile, tobinstr: added size parameter. (Bug #408748)
+* fixed error in ``hexmerge.py`` script. (#676023)
+
+1.2 (2009-08-04)
+----------------
+* Fixed bug 372620: tobinarray on empty file should return pad bytes 
+  when address range explicitly specified.
+* Improved docstrings: explicitly say that ``end`` param of to-* methods 
+  is always inclusive. (see bug #372625 for details).
+* Improved documentation on ``ih.dump(tofile)``.
+
+1.1 (2009-03-12)
+----------------
+* Fixed bug in writing hex files with small chains of bytes
+* Improved Python 2.6 compatibility
+
+1.0 (2009-01-01)
+----------------
+* Improved API, better performance
+* New User Manual (Zachary Clifford)
+
+0.9 (2007-06-16)
+----------------
+New API release.
+
+* New API
+* Performance improvements: read hex file now ~45% faster
+
+0.8.6 (2007-04-27)
+------------------
+Bug fixes and performance improvements.
+
+* ``IntelHex`` is able to read/write start address records
+  (HEX record type ``03`` and ``05``). (fix bug #109872)
+* Backport (from 0.9 branch) of performance improvements 
+  for reading hex files
+
+0.8.5 (2007-02-26)
+------------------
+BugFix Release.
+
+Performance improvements for writing big hex files
+when starting address is far from 0. Patch from Heiko Henkelmann.
+
+0.8.4 (2007-02-26)
+------------------
+License added.
+
+The code is actually licensed under BSD, but there was 
+no LICENSE file in sources archive. Added license file
+and explicit declaration in the source code.
+
+0.8.3 (2006-09-05)
+------------------
+BugFix Release.
+
+Fix writing hex files with extended linear records
+(when address overlaps 64K boundary). Patch from Henrik Maier.
+
+0.8.2 (2006-04-11)
+------------------
+Major improvements release.
+
+* Introduced new class ``IntelHex16bit`` for manipulate data as 16-bit values
+* You can manipulate data using dictionary-like interface
+  (i.e. syntax like: ``ih[addr] = value``)
+* Added new method ``writefile(file)`` for writing data to hex file
+* Using unittest for testing functionality
+
+0.6 (2006-03)
+-------------
+Convertor engine ``hex2bin`` extracted to stand-alone function
+for using by external clients of intelhex.
+
+0.5 (2005)
+----------
+First public release.