Changes in Functionality

This topic describes changes in functionality in version 1.0 of the Spotfire Service for Python.

Version 1.0.1

The SPK builder now filters out the following packages, which are provided with the Python interpreter in your installation, and the "brand" written to the requirements.txt no longer lists these packages or their versions.
Included packages
Package Version
bitstring 3.1.7
numpy 1.19.1
pandas 1.1.1
pip 20.2.2
python-dateutil 2.8.1
pytz 2020.1
setuptools 50.0.3
six 1.15.0
wheel 0.0.35.1

This filtering can result in package compatibility issues in cases where your custom SPK contains Python packages with a strict dependency on a different release version of any of the filtered packages.

For more information about the included packages, see the Included Packages topic in the documentation.

The version number of the Python interpreter "spotfire" package bundle that is included with Spotfire Service for Python (and that is generated with the command-line package builder) now encodes the version of the Spotfire Service for Python, along with a monotonically-increasing number (in addition to the version of the Python interpreter). This change makes it is easier to update the packages on the Spotfire Server. Just specify the fourth component of the package version number with a command-line option to the package builder.
Note: Use values 1000 or higher to avoid having TIBCO-provided packages from overwriting custom interpreter packages.