CHANGES

  • [imageutils] Fix __str__ for QemuImgInfo

4.10.2

  • fix strutils password regex

4.10.1

  • Fix regex used to mask password

  • QemuImgInfo: Fix inconsistent value format of encrypted

  • Update TOX_CONSTRAINTS_FILE for stable/xena

  • Update .gitreview for stable/xena

4.10.0

  • Modify UUID sentinel to support keystone-like UUIDs

4.9.2

  • QemuImgInfo: Skip deprecation warning when output is not passed

  • Drop warnings enable filter

4.9.1

  • Remove references to ‘sys.version_info’

  • Deprecate the fnmatch module

  • Deprecate the human format on QemuImgInfo

  • Ussuri+ is python3 only and update python to python3

  • Dropping lower constraints testing

4.9.0

  • Drop lower-constraints

  • Move flake8 as a pre-commit local target

  • Add Python3 xena unit tests

  • Update master for stable/wallaby

4.8.0

  • Add a ``strict`` flag allowing users to restrict validation of IPv4 format

  • Address nits from six removal patch

  • Switch to collections.abc.*

  • Use TOX_CONSTRAINTS_FILE

  • Dropping lower constraints testing

  • strutils: Stop masking encryption_key_id

  • Use TOX_CONSTRAINTS_FILE

  • Use py3 as the default runtime for tox

  • Remove all usage of six library

4.7.0

  • Add function to encapsule md5 for FIPS systems

  • Add Python3 wallaby unit tests

  • Update master for stable/victoria

  • Adding pre-commit

4.6.0

  • [goal] Migrate testing to ubuntu focal

  • Add Python3 victoria unit tests

  • Fix is_same_callback() testing for python3.8

4.5.0

  • Add util methods for checking json and yaml formatted file

  • Bump bandit version

4.4.0

4.3.0

  • versionutils: switch from pkg_resources to packaging

  • New method in netutils: get_mac_addr_by_ipv6

4.2.2

  • Fix uuidsentinel to follow getattr protocol

4.2.1

  • Release greenthread when computing checksum

  • Fix pygments style

4.2.0

  • Stop to use the __future__ module

  • Fix hacking min version to 3.0.1

  • Switch to newer openstackdocstheme and reno versions

  • Remove the unused coding style modules

  • Remove translation sections from setup.cfg

  • Remove monotonic usage

  • Align contributing doc with oslo’s policy

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • Add release notes links to doc index

  • Update master for stable/ussuri

4.1.1

  • Update hacking for Python3

  • Use unittest.mock instead of third party mock

  • tox: Use upper-constraints for docs jobs

4.1.0

  • Add test to check scientific notation on disk virtual size

  • tests: Convert remaining tests to mock

  • Flatten test case

  • Fix regex to correctly recognize scientific notation with QemuImgInfo

  • imageutils: Report format specific details when using JSON output format

4.0.1

  • remove outdated header

  • Remove universal wheel configuration

  • reword releasenote for py27 support dropping

4.0.0

  • [ussuri][goal] Drop python 2.7 support and testing

  • tox: Trivial cleanup

  • Ignore releasenote cache within git untracked files

  • trivial: Move setup code into setUp helper

3.42.1

  • Verify the sanitize keys are lowered

  • Fix invalid escapes in regular expression strings

  • Ignore the .eggs directory

  • Make mask_dict_password case insensitive and add new patterns

  • Bump the openstackdocstheme extension to 1.20

3.42.0

  • Make mask_password case insensitive, and add new patterns

  • tox: Keeping going with docs

  • Switch to Ussuri jobs

  • Update the constraints url

  • Support “qemu-img info” virtual size in QEMU 4.1 and later

  • Update master for stable/train

3.41.1

  • Add digestmod when using hmac

  • Add Python 3 Train unit tests

  • Cap Bandit below 1.6.0 and update Sphinx requirement

  • Replace git.openstack.org URLs with opendev.org URLs

3.41.0

  • OpenDev Migration Patch

  • Dropping the py35 testing

  • Update master for stable/stein

3.40.3

  • add python 3.7 unit test job

  • Update hacking version

  • Mask encryption_key_id

  • eventletutils: Optimise EventletEvent.clear()

3.40.2

  • Avoid double-setting event

3.40.1

3.40.0

3.39.1

  • Avoid calling eventlet.event.Event.reset()

  • Use template for lower-constraints

3.39.0

  • Fix race condition in eventletutils Event

  • Don’t use monotonic on Python >=3.3

  • Update mailinglist from dev to discuss

  • Support non-dict mappings in mask_dict_password

3.38.0

  • Expose eventlet Event wrapper class

  • Clean up .gitignore references to personal tools

3.37.1

  • Fix exception raise at rpdb session

3.37.0

  • Fix docstring formatting nit in uuidsentinel

  • UUID sentinel

  • Remove moxstubout usage

  • add lib-forward-testing-python3 test job

  • add python 3.6 unit test job

  • import zuul job settings from project-config

  • Update reno for stable/rocky

  • Remove extra copy.deepcopy

3.36.4

  • Handle non-string keys appropriately

  • Switch to stestr

  • Add release notes link to README

3.36.3

  • fix tox python3 overrides

  • Fix exception with secretutils

3.36.2

  • Add private_key to the list of sanitized keys

  • Remove stale pip-missing-reqs tox test

  • Capitalize Oslo

3.36.1

  • Trivial: Update pypi url to new url

  • set default python to python3

  • eventletutils: Fix behavior discrepency when reusing Events

  • Fix project name in user docs

  • add lower-constraints job

  • Clean old output before new doc builds

  • Remove sphinx settings from setup.cfg

  • Add bindep.txt file to prevent fallback to generic list

  • Updated from global requirements

3.36.0

  • Add -W for document build

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • Update links in README

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • Fix breaking unit tests due to iso8601 changes

  • Document specs_matcher.py functions

  • Clean imports in code

  • Update reno for stable/queens

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Replace ‘assertFalse(a in b)’ with ‘assertNotIn(a, b)’

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

3.35.0

3.34.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Cleanup test-requirements

  • improve docstring for last_bytes()

  • Add method last_bytes in fileutils

  • Follow the new PTI for document build

  • Add missing information in docstring of validate_integer

3.33.0

3.32.0

  • Avoid tox_install.sh for constraints support

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Remove setting of version/release from releasenotes

  • Updated from global requirements

3.31.0

  • Add method to compute a file’s checksum to fileutils

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • Add method validate_integer

3.30.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Use six.binary_type to point to the right type

  • Add a mixed mode parser to string_to_bytes

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Fix some reST field lists in docstrings

3.29.0

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • Add method to escape ipv6 ip addresses

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Update reno for stable/pike

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Prevent deprecation error messages from pkg_resources

3.28.0

  • Update URLs in documents according to document migration

3.27.0

  • rearrange existing documentation to fit the new standard layout

  • switch from oslosphinx to openstackdocstheme

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

3.26.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

3.25.1

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Remove split conversion to tuple

  • Updated from global requirements

3.25.0

  • Remove log translations

3.24.0

  • Use Sphinx 1.5 warning-is-error

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Adding a check of string type for hmacs

3.23.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • [Fix gate]Update test requirement

  • Add missing documentation for secretutils

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Update reno for stable/ocata

3.22.0

  • Remove references to Python 3.4

  • Added the token ‘encrypted_key’ to mask_password list

  • Add Constraints support

3.21.0

  • Allow ‘get_all_class_names’ to pass kwargs

3.20.0

  • Add toggle ‘dashed’ to ‘generate_uuid’ function

  • Show team and repo badges on README

3.19.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Improve eventlet check when selecting Event backend

  • Updated from global requirements

3.18.0

  • Add option to not truncate built-ins

  • Create dictutils and add ‘flatten_dict_to_keypairs’

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Add reno for release notes management

  • Allow scoped ipv6 addresses

  • Trivial fixes to the usage doc

  • Add threading<->eventlet compatible Event

  • Updated from global requirements

  • [TrivialFix] Replace ‘assertEqual(None, …)’ with ‘assertIsNone(…)’

3.17.0

  • Add method is_valid_mac

  • Add __ne__ built-in function

  • Make method import_versioned_module work

  • Change assertTrue(isinstance()) by optimal assert

  • doc: Fix docstring of method bool_from_string

  • Change assertTrue(isinstance()) by optimal assert

  • Add method is_valid_boolstr

  • Add method is_valid_ipv6_cidr

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Add missing specs_matcher documentation

  • Update homepage with developer documentation page

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Add utils for validating and splitting quotes

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Extend specs matcher to support “>” and “<”

  • Remove discover from test-requirements

3.16.0

  • Fix mask_dict_password for non string/dict type key in dict

  • Restore <all-in> operator

  • More unit tests for specs matcher

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • Add Python 3.5 classifier and venv

  • Use an actual well defined parser for spec matching

  • Remove unused LOG to keep code clean

  • Updated from global requirements

3.15.0

  • Add basic docstrings to stopwatch has_started/stopped methods

  • Make mask_dict_password consistent with mask_password

  • Updated from global requirements

  • improve tests for mask_password and mask_dict_password

  • Simplify boolean expression in executils.py

3.14.0

  • Support json format output from qemu command

  • Fix flake8 issues

  • Use is_valid_ipv4 in get_ipv6_addr_by_EUI64

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

3.13.0

  • Allow assigning “0” to port

3.12.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Fix method split_path’s docstring ‘versionadded’

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Avoid catching generic exception

  • Remove method total_seconds in timeuitls

  • Fix is_valid_cidr raises TypeError

3.11.0

  • Trivial: ignore openstack/common in flake8 exclude list

  • Move method split_path into oslo.utils

3.10.0

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Move nova extra_specs_ops to oslo.utils

3.9.0

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • Provide single step check if eventlet is monkey_patched

  • Add method is_valid_cidr to netutils

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Add importutils.import_any method

  • Add excutils.exception_filter

  • Explicitly exclude tests from bandit scan

  • Add CHAPPASSWORD to list of sanitize keys

  • Enable bandit in gate

  • Updated from global requirements

3.7.0

  • Add method check_string_length

  • Add missing versionchanged for configdrive

3.6.0

3.5.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • Remove bandit.yaml in favor of defaults

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Narrow mock for getfilesystemencoding

  • Update translation setup

  • Revert “Use assertTrue/False instead of assertEqual(T/F)”

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Add excutils.save_and_reraise_exception force_reraise + capture

  • Add encodeutils.to_utf8() function

  • Create secretutils and include ‘constant_time_compare’ function

  • Fix coverage

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • Updated from global requirements

3.4.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Use assertTrue/False instead of assertEqual(T/F)

  • Add a mechanism to mask passwords in dictionaries

  • Add “configdrive” to the list of keys used by mask_password()

  • assertIsNone(val) instead of assertEqual(None,val)

3.3.0

  • Fix DeprecationWarning when call method delta_seconds

  • fix fnmatch.filter in non-posix system

  • fix fileutils ut code random failure

  • Add missing doc index for imageutils and fnmatch

  • re-implement thread safe fnmatch

  • Fix the bug of can’t get the desired image info

3.2.0

  • Revert “Move netifaces to extras”

  • Remove Babel from requirements

3.1.0

  • Remove duplicated profiles section from bandit.yaml

  • Allow get_class_name to accept bound method and class method

  • deprecate timeutils.total_seconds()

  • Move imageutils from oslo-incubator to oslo.utils

  • add comment explaining why we don’t want extra values passed to mask_password

  • networkutils: drop python 2.6 support

  • Remove ‘MANIFEST.in’

  • Move netifaces to extras

3.0.0

  • Add a bandit target to tox.ini

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Remove python 2.6 classifier

  • Fix wrong bug tracking link

  • Remove python 2.6 and cleanup tox.ini

  • Refactor Port number validation

  • Add useful ‘time_it’ decorator

2.8.0

  • Fix get_class_name() on Python 3

  • Added ICMP ‘type’ and ‘code’ checking capability to ‘netutils’ module

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • comment in write_to_tempfile

  • Use versionadded and versionchanged in doc

2.7.0

  • Expose function signature fetching function

  • Allow ‘forever_retry_uncaught_exceptions’ to take in different defaults

  • Write document for each unit of oslo_utils.utils

  • Fix usage of “deprecated” markup in docstrings

  • Just use ‘exception_to_unicode’ to handle exception to string

  • Add ‘secret’ to sensitive keys

2.6.0

  • Fix coverage configuration and execution

  • Use a stopwatch in ‘forever_retry_uncaught_exceptions’

  • No need for Oslo Incubator Sync

  • Make forever_retry_uncaught_exceptions handle its own failures

  • Ensure stopwatch __enter__, __exit__ are in docs

  • Add some timeutils stop watch examples

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • Move ‘history’ -> release notes section

  • Fix bad acting classes and ‘is_bound_method’ check

  • Change ignore-errors to ignore_errors

  • Updated from global requirements

  • If ‘bool_from_string’ provided a boolean just return it

  • Imported Translations from Zanata

  • only capture the ImportError when importing

  • Add ‘token’ to list of fields to be santized by mask_password

2.5.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

2.4.0

2.3.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Update docstring on stop watch to reflect monotonic lib. usage

  • Updated from global requirements

  • flake8 - remove unused rules

  • Bump monotonic to 0.3 to remove exception catching on import

  • Provide a common exception caused by base class

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Allow access to reflection ‘get_members’

  • Updated from global requirements

2.2.0

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Updated from global requirements

2.1.0

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Adding checking around the monotonic import

2.0.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Add oslo.config to test requirements

  • Remove oslo namespace package

  • Updated from global requirements

1.9.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • versionutils: add version convert helper methods

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Add write_to_tempfile back to fileutils

  • Use monotonic library to avoid finding monotonic time function

  • Fix exception_to_unicode() for oslo_i18n Message

1.8.0

  • Add fileutils to oslo_utils

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Add tox target to find missing requirements

1.7.0

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Switch badges from ‘pypip.in’ to ‘shields.io’

  • timeutils: fix newer/older comparison with TZ aware datetime

  • Replace parse_strtime with parse_isotime in older/newer

1.6.0

  • Add pytz to requirements

  • Deprecate strtime

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • timeutils: utcnow() can return a value with a timezone

  • Add ‘raise_with_cause’ chaining helper to excutils

  • timeutils: deprecate isotime()

  • timeutils: make marshall timezone aware

  • Advertise support for Python3.4 / Remove support for Python 3.3

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Add exception_to_unicode() function

  • Remove run_cross_tests.sh

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Move versionutils into place and remove deprecation tools

  • Denote monotonic import ordering + usage

1.5.0

  • Add liberty release name to versionutils

  • Expose opts entry point for version_utils

  • Switch from oslo.config to oslo_config

  • Remove oslo.log code and clean up versionutils API

  • Remove code that moved to oslo.i18n

  • Enhance versionutils.deprecated to work with classes

  • Add Kilo release name to versionutils

  • Allow deprecated decorator to specify no plan for removal

  • Uncap library requirements for liberty

  • Add JUNO as a target to versionutils module

  • Add missing reflection + uuidutils docs

  • timeutils: avoid passing leap second to datetime

  • Add pypi download + version badges

  • Cleanup README.rst and setup.cfg

  • pep8: fixed multiple violations

  • Use oslotest instead of common test module

  • Use hacking import_exceptions for gettextutils._

  • fixed typos

  • Fix violations of H302:import only modules

  • Adds decorator to deprecate functions and methods

  • Remove vim header

  • Add `versionutils` for version compatibility checks

  • Update hacking setting

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Clean up TestIsIPv6Enabled

  • Fix test_netutils: stop patches

  • Add a new string to the list of masked patterns

  • Provide common `fetch_current_thread_functor` function

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

1.4.0

  • Add a stopwatch + split for duration(s)

  • Allow providing a logger to save_and_reraise_exception

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Utility API to generate EUI-64 IPv6 address

1.3.0

  • Add a eventlet utils helper module

  • Add microsecond support to iso8601_from_timestamp

  • add dependency warning to requirements.txt

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Update Oslo imports to remove namespace package

  • Add TimeFixture

  • Add microsecond support to timeutils.utcnow_ts()

  • Make setup.cfg packages include oslo.utils

1.2.1

  • Return LOCALHOST if no default interface

  • fix link to bug tracker in README

1.2.0

  • Improve performance of strutils.mask_password

  • Move files out of the namespace package

  • Add method is_valid_port in netutils

  • Support non-lowercase uuids in is_uuid_like

  • Add ‘secret_uuid’ in _SANITIZE_KEYS for strutils

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Workflow documentation is now in infra-manual

1.1.0

  • Improve error reporting in _get_my_ipv4_address()

  • Add get_my_ip()

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Add ‘auth_password’ in _SANITIZE_KEYS for strutils

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Activate pep8 check that _ is imported

  • Add uuidutils to oslo.utils

  • Add pbr to installation requirements

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Add is_int_like() function

  • Hide auth_token and new_pass

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Add history/changelog to docs

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Support building wheels (PEP-427)

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Improve docstrings for IP verification functions

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Add ip address validation

  • Fix how it appears we need to use mock_anything to avoid ‘self’ errors

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Move over a reflection module that taskflow uses

  • Make safe_encode func case-insensitive

  • Enable mask_password to handle byte code strings

  • Updated from global requirements

1.0.0

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

  • Add the ability to extract the query params from a urlsplit

  • Work toward Python 3.4 support and testing

  • warn against sorting requirements

  • Remove unused dependency on oslo.config

  • Updated from global requirements

  • Just use int(BOOL) to convert to 1 or 0

  • Re-enable _import* hidden methods in import_utils

0.2.0

  • Make strutils.mask_password more secure

  • New public API for mask_password ported from incubator

  • Imported Translations from Transifex

0.1.1

  • Make return type from urlsplit private

  • Add API docs and clean up other docs

  • Make the i18n integration module private

  • Cleaning up index.rst file

  • export only try_import in __all__

  • Switch to oslo.i18n and remove any dependency on oslo-incubator

  • Move units into oslo.utils

  • Switch to standard python logging

  • Setup for translation

  • Split strutils into 2 different modules

  • Rename network_utils into netutils

  • get pep8 working

  • Get the tox tests working

  • exported from oslo-incubator by graduate.sh

  • Fixed a new pep8 error and a small typo

  • Set pbr ‘warnerrors’ option for doc build

  • fixed typos found by RETF rules

  • Use moxstubout and mockpatch from oslotest

  • Remove ValueError when accessing sys.modules

  • Enable configuring tcp keepalive

  • Avoid raising index error when no host

  • Remove str() from LOG.* and exceptions

  • Remove import workaround of SplitResult

  • Use oslotest instead of common test module

  • Partial fix of test_strutils.py on Python 3

  • Fix safe_encode(): return bytes on Python 3

  • urlsplit issues with IPv6 addresses in python26

  • save_and_reraise_exception: make logging respect the reraise parameter

  • strutils: Allow safe_{encode,decode} to take bytes as input

  • Fix import order in test_excutils

  • Update oslo log messages with translation domains

  • Implements SI/IEC unit system conversion to bytes

  • Add basic Python 3 tests

  • py3kcompat: remove

  • Deleted duplicated method in cliutils

  • strutils bool_from_string, allow specified default

  • Utilizes assertIsNone and assertIsNotNone

  • Fix spelling errors in comments

  • Use hacking import_exceptions for gettextutils._

  • Correct invalid docstrings

  • Fix a bug in safe_encode where it returns a bytes object in py3

  • Fix typo in parameter documentation (timeutils)

  • Avoid TypeError in is_older_than, is_newer_than

  • Remove vim header

  • Use py3kcompat urlutils functions instead of urlparse

  • Add helper method total_seconds in timeutils.py

  • Do not name variables as builtins

  • Use six.text_type instead of unicode function in tests

  • Fix typos in oslo

  • Adjust import order according to PEP8 imports rule

  • python3: use six.text_types for unicode()

  • Don’t shadow str

  • Fix timeutils.set_override_time not defaulting to current wall time

  • Fix misused assertTrue in unit tests

  • Optimize timeutils.utcnow_ts()

  • excutils: replace unicode by six.u

  • excutils: use six.reraise to re-raise

  • Replace using tests.utils part2

  • Bump hacking to 0.7.0

  • Replace using tests.utils with openstack.common.test

  • BaseException.message is deprecated since Python 2.6

  • Enable H302 hacking check

  • Add conditional exception reraise

  • python3: Add python3 compatibility

  • Make AMQP based RPC consumer threads more robust

  • Add network_utils.urlsplit

  • Remove useless logging in networks_utils

  • python3: Fix traceback while running python3

  • Refactors to_bytes

  • Add slugify to strutils

  • Enable hacking H404 test

  • Added common code into fileutils and strutils

  • Enable hacking H402 test

  • Enable hacking H403 test

  • Enable hacking H201 test

  • Add ‘t’, ‘y’, and `strict` to `bool_from_string`

  • Handle ints passed to `boolean_from_string`

  • Removes leading zeros on integers in test_timeutils

  • Convert unicode strings for python3 portability

  • Do not import openstack.common.log in strutils

  • Improve Python 3.x compatibility

  • Replaces standard logging with common logging

  • Removes unused imports in the tests module

  • Fix Copyright Headers - Rename LLC to Foundation

  • support ISO 8601 micro-second precision

  • Decode / Encode string utils for openstack

  • timeutils: considers that now is soon

  • Replace direct use of testtools BaseTestCase

  • Use testtools as test base class

  • Import timeutils.is_soon from keystoneclient

  • UTC ISO8601 from timestamp

  • Implement importutils.try_import

  • Use basestring instead of str for type check

  • Make time comparison functions accept strings

  • Fix timezone handling in timeutils tests

  • Rename utils.py to strutils.py

  • Provide i18n to those messages without _()

  • Make project pyflakes clean

  • Account for tasks duration in LoopingCall delay

  • Convenience wrapper for datetime.timedelta.total_seconds()

  • Added is_newer_than function

  • Extracted parse_host_port into network_utils

  • Normalize_time() always return naive object

  • Use pep8 v1.3.3

  • Don’t trap then re-raise ImportError

  • Fix spelling typos

  • Support for marshalling datetime while preserving microseconds

  • Remove unused imports

  • fix bug lp:1019348,update openstack-common to support pep8 1.3

  • Use strtime() in to_primitive() for datetime objs

  • Improve exception from importutils.import_class()

  • Update common code to support pep 1.3. bug 1014216

  • add import_object_ns function

  • add more realistic unit tests for importutils

  • Fix utcnow_ts to return UTC timestamp

  • Add nova time util functions to timeutils

  • Replace datetime.utcnow with timeutils.utcnow

  • Remove common.exception from common.importutils

  • Add save_and_reraise_exception()

  • Update exception from importutils.import_class()

  • Change behavior in utils.import_object()

  • Create openstack.common.timeutils

  • Initial skeleton project