# RCSB_UTILS_IO HISTORY

25-Aug-2018  - Split off from py-rcsb_db
26-Aug-2018  - V0.11 Tweak testing configuration
 6-Oct-2018  - V0.12 Add convenience methods to IoUtils()
10-Oct-2018  - V0.12 Change default encoding for list files to utf-8
12-Oct-2018  - V0.13 Adjustments for Py27 encoding compatibility
13-Oct-2018  - V0.14 Simplify list serialization to avoid Py2-3 encodiing differences
13-Oct-2018  - V0.15 Overhaul Py2-3 encoding for lists.
25-Oct-2018  - V0.16 Update testing environment and dependencies
26-Oct-2018  - V0.17 Add additonal JSON encodings for YAML mapping data types
25-Nov-2018  - V0.18 Add support for FASTA format
 1-Dec-2018  - V0.19 Add support for CSV and related delimited row formats
11-Dec-2018  - V0.20 Add comment filtering on input for CSV files
 6-Feb-2019  - V0.21 Add support for gzip compression as part of serializing mmCIF files,
                     add vrpt-xml-to-cif option and supporting method __deserializeVrptToCif()
 6-Mar-2019  - V0.22 Update installation dependencies and documentation
 9-Mar-2019  - V0.23 Add implementations for stubbed out remote access.
 9-Mar-2019  - V0.24 Add URL locator test and import fix to resolve PY27 compatibility issue.
10-Mar-2019  - V0.25 Add FileUtils.exists() method
16-Mar-2019  - V0.26 Add class UrlRequestUtil() with general wrappers for common get and post
                     methods and associated tests.
17-Mar-2019  - V0.27 Return HTTP response codes in UrlRequestUtil() methods.
24-Mar-2019  - V0.28 Suppress error message on missing validation report file.
25-Mar-2019  - V0.29 Expose comment processing for csv/tdd files as keyword argument
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