Deprecated Names#
The original naming convention for methods and properties has been “camelCase”. Since its creation around 2013, a tremendous increase of functionality has happened in PyMuPDF – and with it a corresponding increase in classes, methods and properties. In too many cases, this has led to non-intuitive, illogical and ugly names, difficult to memorize or guess.
A few versions ago, I therefore decided to shift gears and switch to a “snake_cased” naming standard. This was a major effort, which needed a step-wise approach. I think am done with it now (version 1.18.14).
The following list maps deprecated names to their new versions. For example, property pageCount became page_count in the Document class. There also are less obvious name changes, e.g. method getPNGdata was renamed to tobytes in the Pixmap class.
Names of classes (camel case) and package-wide constants (the majority is upper case) remain untouched.
Old names will remain available as deprecated aliases through MuPDF version 1.19.0 and be removed in the version that follows it - probably version 1.20.0, but this depends on upstream decisions (MuPDF).
Starting with version 1.19.0, we will issue deprecation warnings on sys.stderr like Deprecation: 'newPage' removed from class 'Document' after v1.19.0 - use 'new_page'. when aliased methods are being used. Using a deprecated property will not cause this type of warning.
Starting immediately, all deprecated objects (methods and properties) will show a copy of the original’s docstring, prefixed with the deprecation message, for example:
>>> print(fitz.Document.pageCount.__doc__)
*** Deprecated and removed in version following 1.19.0 - use 'page_count'. ***
Number of pages.
>>> print(fitz.Document.newPage.__doc__)
*** Deprecated and removed in version following 1.19.0 - use 'new_page'. ***
Create and return a new page object.
Args:
pno: (int) insert before this page. Default: after last page.
width: (float) page width in points. Default: 595 (ISO A4 width).
height: (float) page height in points. Default 842 (ISO A4 height).
Returns:
A Page object.
There is a utility script alias-changer.py which can be used to do mass-renames in your scripts. It accepts either a single file or a folder as argument. If a folder is supplied, all its Python files and those of its subfolders are changed. Optionally, backups of the scripts can be taken.
