version: cut 1.9.0

CHANGES

@@ -2,10 +2,29 @@ PyVISA Changelog
 ================
 
 
-1.9 (unreleased)
+1.9 (2017-02-25)
 ----------------
 
-- Nothing changed yet.
+- Drop support for Python 2.6, 3.2 and 3.3 PR #300
+- add the missing read_binary_values and read_ascii_values (PR #301)
+- deprecate old methods in MessageBased (ask, read_values, query_values,
+  write_values, ask_delay) (PR #301)
+- add support for hp headers in binary data (PR #301)
+- fix encoding issue in write_ascii_values (PR #301)
+- use import to load backend rather than pkgutil.iter_modules. This allows
+  PyVISA to support PyInstaller PR #307
+- improvements to the visa shell: attributes type conversion (PR #299),
+  termchar command (PR #285), timeout command (PR #284),
+  support for non-default backend (PR #283), console script pyvisa-shell
+  (PR #286)
+- improve speed for large data transfer by using bytearray instead of bytes
+  (PR #282)
+- make Resource a context manager closing it. (PR #255)
+- add 64 bits version of registry based functions (PR #278)
+- make exceptions pickable (PR #249)
+- add resource_name to the output of parse_resource_extended (PR #238)
+- fix wait_on_event behavior in case of timeout (PR #234)
+- allow selecting the backend using the PYVISA_LIBRARY env var (PR #195)
 
 
 1.8 (2015-08-24)
@@ -104,7 +123,7 @@ PyVISA Changelog
 - Better debug info for binary libraries.
 - Fixed exceptions formatting
   (thanks Matthew94)
-  
+
 
 
 1.6 (2014-09-28)

setup.py

@@ -15,11 +15,9 @@
     sys.exit(1)
 
 
-import codecs
-
-
 def read(filename):
-    return codecs.open(filename, encoding='utf-8').read()
+    with open(filename, 'r') as f:
+        return f.read()
 
 
 long_description = '\n\n'.join([read('README'),
@@ -33,8 +31,8 @@ def read(filename):
     requirements.append('enum34')
 
 setup(name='PyVISA',
-      description='Python VISA bindings for GPIB, RS232, and USB instruments',
-      version='1.9.dev0',
+      description='Python VISA bindings for GPIB, RS232, TCPIP and USB instruments',
+      version='1.9.0',
       long_description=long_description,
       author='Torsten Bronger, Gregor Thalhammer',
       author_email='bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de',