add clear task method and made close an alias - #1000
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What does this Pull Request accomplish?
I had some customer feedback that
cleartask was more familiar for people coming from other DAQmx APIs, which I agree with. In practice, tasks should almost always be used with Python context managers, but in the rare cases where they aren't, this method could be useful.Why should this Pull Request be merged?
Simple rename of an existing method with an alias to the old name to not break compatibility.
What testing has been done?
Added a unit test, and ran all the existing ones. griffe says:
Their documentation says: