New features Added a Taxonomy.copy() method as a shorthand for copy.deepcopy(Taxonomy) Added an inplace argument to Taxonomy methods filterRanks() and prune(), allowing chose whether to return a modified deepcopy of the instance od modifiy it in place Improvements Unit tests now use temporary directories to test IO methods The Taxonomy.filter() method will now return a ValueError when attempting to use root rank in the filtering instead of creating new root Nodes Pending deprecation Taxonomy.from_json will be removed in 3.0.0, it is replaced by read_json, a module level constructor. load will be removed in 3.0.0, it is replaced by read_json, a module level constructor. Taxonomy.from_taxdump will be removed in 3.0.0, it is replaced by read_taxdump, a module level constructor. load_ncbi will be removed in 3.0.0, it is replaced by read_ncbi, a better-named module level constructor. Bug Fix Taxonomy.listDescendant now does filter output based on the ranks parameter Repaired Node.node_info output to actually use newlines instead of printing '\n'