This is a fork of the Python CouchDB Library. The old library is no longer fully compatible with the current version of couchdb. This was intended as a major "Remodeling" of the library so to speak, though I never actually finished it. Like the original author before me, I decided maintining this fork was no longer woth the effort and switched to the python-cloudant library, available on PyPi. That library has official support for connecting to CouchDB servers, not just Cloudant servers. It's not a drop-in replacement by any means, but the APIs are actually quite similar for most tasks, so conversion is fairly straitforward.

Unlike the original, which encompasses a range of tools and utilities, this library focuses only on being a CouchDB client for Python. Much or the functionality from the original library is available in Fauxton, and that which isn't (Such as the Python view server) I feel would be better as a serperate project.

We also modernize the library, dropping support for Python 2 and legacy versions of CouchDB

1. Remove legacy code for Python 2.x (Mostly Done)
2. Migrate code to uses the Requests library rather than having its own HTTP Client (Mostly Done)

1. Use type hinting on all public methods (Better usage in IDEs)
2. Update documentation
3. Update automated tests
4. Redo packaging for PyPi (Likely this will be a new library rather than a new version of the old one)
5. Low priority, but eventually I will update and re-incorperate the Design Doc and Index management capabilities from the original
6. Once the above is done and everything is working well, I'd maybe like to implement some local caching

Areas where I could use someone to pitch in if you're interested:

1. Testing & Bug Fixing
2. Fix packaging for PyPi
3. Updating Documentation and Tests