natty doesn't work with jpype 0.7.0 onwards

[maxdh]

I only recently discovered natty and I think its great! Sadly as this module doesn't seem to be supported anymore I'm writing this more just a comment in case anyone else comes across natty and has the same issues getting it working that I did.

The most recent version of jpype is incompatible with natty and gives the following error:
AttributeError: 'com.joestelmach.natty.DateGroup' object has no attribute 'dates'

However it works fine if you specifically install jpype 0.6.3 (or earlier)

[Thrameos]

There appears to be a few things out of date with this package.

In particular,

• Accessing methods as fields was through the deprecated "beans" package. Simply changing the accesses to use "getDates" instead would correct that issue.
• Automatic string conversion is no longer the default so some of the calls require some conversion str() in places.
• Attaching a thread manually is likely to lead to shutdown issues and has been deprecated since 0.7.0. In Java shutdown is not performed until the last non-deamon thread is closed. So the attachThreadToJVM is likely going to cause a freeze on exit unless there is thread clean up routines.