Changes

• Add a new get_entities method that returns a generator over all entity IDs.

esper 3.4-3.6

Performance-focused release with major internal optimizations.

Changes

• Optimized get_components to iterate over the smallest set of entities, drastically speeding up queries with rare components.
• Implemented lazy cache invalidation to reduce overhead from frequent entity modifications.
• Sped up get_processor and remove_processor to be constant time (O(1)) operations.
• Minor performance improvements to entity creation and deletion routines.
• Expanded Benchmarks.
• Add a new try_remove_component function as a convenience instead of (has_component + remove_component).
• Start migrating type hints to the modern syntax.
• esper.remove_handler should use a reference instead of direct object comparison. (#107)

Maintenance release

Changes

• Fix unreadable esper.current_world property. (#100)
• Minor typing configuration updates.
• Remove outdated pyglet example. (Another one already exists).

Maintenance release

Changes

• Add esper.current_world property to easily check the current World context.
• Made some minor docstring corrections, and added some programmer notes.

Changes

• Removing all Components from an Entity will no longer automatically delete the Entity.
• Typing fixes and additions.
• Entity DB check and creation is done once when Entity is created, not when adding Components.

Changes

• Minor typing changes, and docstring improvement.
• Equality comparison changes.

Changes

• Fix incomplete docstrings for event functions.
• Typing and docstring cleanups and rewording.

Changes

• Fix bug when adding a function as an event handler.
• Add some event handler unit tests.

• Add a simple event system, for registering and dispatching events.
• Replace usage of the lru_cache module with internal cache.
• To help with type checking, esper has been converted to a package.

Maintenance release

Changes

• Update documentation with notes about dataclass decorator usage.
• Add Python 3.9 to Continuous Integration testing.