- Adds a new class, ``LabelArray``, which is a subclass of np.ndarray.
LabelArray is conceptually similar to pandas.Categorical, in that it
stores data with many duplicate values as indices into an array of
unique values. For string data with many duplicates (e.g. time-series
of tickers or or industry classifications), this provides multiple
orders of magnitude of improvement when doing string operations,
especially string comparison/matching operations.
- Adds a new generic object "specialization" for `AdjustedArrayWindow`,
and a corresponding ObjectOverwrite adjustment.
- Adds a new ``postprocess`` method to ``zipline.pipeline.term.Term``.
This method is called on the final result of any pipeline expression
after screen filtering has occurred. The default implementation of
``postprocess`` is identity, but Classifier overrides it to coerce
string columns into pandas.Categoricals before presenting them to the
user.
Replace it by distinguishing between "Loadable" and "Computable".
This is useful because it's now possible to write computable terms that
don't require any inputs (e.g. an `Always` filter or an `Everything`
classifier).
Rather than a list that's ordered the same as the received columns.
Most nontrivial loaders were constructing dicts internally and then
converting back to lists, only to have the engine convert **back again**
into a dict. This cuts out the middleman, and prevents bugs due to
incorrect ordering of the output arrays.
dmichalowicz