XanaduAI/blackbird v0.4.0

Release 0.4.0

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Improvements

• Remove support for Python 3.5. (#38)

• Add support for Python 3.8 and 3.9. (#40)

• Add public method to retrieve Blackbird program variables via prog.variables. (#47)

• Improve match_template to automatically return matched parameters with their array values,
  rather than their array names (p0, p1, etc.) (#47)

• Remove p-type parameters from prog.parameters since they're only needed there internally and
  are otherwise stored in prog.variables. This also changes TDM programs to not be templates
  (prog.is_template now returns False). (#47)

Bug fixes

• Fix bool or string objects in for-loop iterators not working correctly. (#41)

• Update the NumPy scalar types in the Blackbird listener due to being deprecated in NumPy 1.20. (#43)

• Add access to the symbolic expression used when creating a RegRefTransform,
  as a class attribute. (#46)

Contributors

This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):

Theodor Isacsson