Jay Fitzgerald

### Description of issue We should rename the "master" branch to "main". "main" is now essentially the industry standard. As part of the change, we will need to update references...

Repeated Capabilites documentation improvements

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- [X] This contribution adheres to [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/ni/nimi-python/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md). - [ ] ~I've updated [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/ni/nimi-python/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) if applicable.~ - [X] I've added tests applicable for this pull request ### What does this Pull...

### Description of issue Running the following code on CentOS 7.6 results in an unexpected traceback: ``` import niswitch import nidmm with nidmm.Session("PXI1Slot2", reset_device=True, options={ 'simulate': True, 'driver_setup': { 'Model':...

windows-1251 is hardcoded in our APIs as the encoding to use

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### Description of issue 'windows-1251' is hardcoded in our APIs as the encoding to use. We support Linux, as well, so this definitely doesn't seem right. ### System report None...

tox-travis 0.12 is incompatible with tox 4.0.0

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Details from https://github.com/ni/nimi-python/pull/1875 When using travis-tox with tox 4.0 in the nimi-python project, the following traceback was produced: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python3.10.4/bin/tox", line 8, in sys.exit(run())...

Internal Test Suites do not report results of example testing

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### Description of issue When we run `tox-system_tests.ini` in our internal suites, we don't see the results of the example tests. Only the results of the system tests are shown.

Upgrade tox dependency when tox-travis becomes compatible with tox 4.0 and later

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### Description of issue Due to https://github.com/tox-dev/tox-travis/issues/159, we have had to cap our version of tox at 3.*. See #1875 When tox-travis has a release available that is compatible with...

APIs allow repeated capabilities to access attributes and methods that don't support them

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### Description of issue As of nimi-python 1.4.7, the way repeated capabilities work is thus: 1. When a `_RepeatedCapabilities` object, such as `Session.channels`, is accessed, it returns a `_SessionBase` object...

Adopt use of Mend Renovate App to automatically update tooling and dependencies

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### Description of issue * We periodically have to update our use of GItHub actions in workflows due to deprecations * Sometimes a dependency for a tox command will break...

Github Actions Workflows should be updated to use Node.js 20

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### Description of issue Our nimibot [runner summaries are showing annotations](https://github.com/ni/nimi-python/actions/runs/7836439507): >[system_test (niscope)](https://github.com/ni/nimi-python/actions/runs/7836439507/job/21384097974) Node.js 16 actions are deprecated. Please update the following actions to use Node.js 20: actions/checkout@v3, codecov/codecov-action@v3. For...