Version 4.5.0

Module changes

• Willie will now alert the owner at startup, and every 24 hours, when a new version is available
• .calc will now time out on excessively long calculations, and is less likely to error out
• .help now works properly for command aliases
• .help will now output multi-line help in multiple messages, rather than all at once
• A new .uptime command tells how long the bot has been running
• .length can now handle astronomical units
• Absolute vote counts are no longer shown in reddit output
• Using .setlocation without a location will no longer set your location to Italy
• Time units for .in are now case-insensitive
• .duck no longer gives a long, unrelated URL

Core changes

• Scheduled tasks now work properly under Python 3
• Willie no longer accepts partial matches for admin status

API changes

• Setting attributes on the bot object now works as expected
• The status code is now returned from web.get as _http_status in the headers
• web.get now attempts to decode based on headers, rather than assuming utf-8
• web.iri_to_uri is now available to decode internationalized domain names
• A willie.formatting module is now available to simplify IRC bold, underline and color formatting