[Python-modules-team] Bug#673790: Broken API on new version

[Florent Fourcot]

Package: python-prettytable
Version: 0.6-1
Severity: grave

The new version of python-prettytable use an other API than the 0.5.
Extract of the changelog: 
* Replaced all setter methods with managed attributes

The new API breaks old script and has border effect on other applications
like weboob (http://packages.debian.org/sid/weboob). The example script is 
broken too:

$ python /usr/share/doc/python-prettytable/examples/prettytable-example.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/doc/python-prettytable/examples/prettytable-example.py", line 20, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/doc/python-prettytable/examples/prettytable-example.py", line 9, in main
    x.set_field_align("City name", "l") # Left align city names
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/prettytable.py", line 163, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError(name)
AttributeError: set_field_align

Please consider to warn users about changes, or to provide compatibility with old 
versions. Upstream doesn't provide release note to help the upgrade.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-prettytable depends on:
ii  python          2.7.2-10
ii  python-support  1.0.14

python-prettytable recommends no packages.

python-prettytable suggests no packages.

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