Bump version to 1.2.0 (#128)

* Bump version to 1.2.0

* Make changelog more specific

* Update the pip upload steps link

Author: shifucun

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.2.0
+
+**Date** - 06/04/2020
+
+**Release Tag** - [v1.2.0](https://github.com/datacommonsorg/api-python/releases/tag/v1.2.0)
+
+**Release Status** - Current head of branch [`master`](https://github.com/datacommonsorg/api-python/tree/master)
+
+New features added to the Python Client API
+
+-   Add get_stats API to get observations given a StatisticalVariable and place dcids.
+
+Bugs fixed in new release
+
+-   Check Null and empty data in REST API response field to avoid KeyError.
+
+
 ## 1.1.0
 
 **Date** - 04/10/2020

README.md

@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ $ bazel build //...
 $ bazel test //...
 ```
 
+## Release
+
+- Update "VERSION" in setup.py
+- Update CHANGELOG.md for a new version
+- Upload a new package using steps for [generating distribution archives](https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#generating-distribution-archives) and [uploading the distribution archives](https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#uploading-the-distribution-archives)
+
 ## Support
 
 For general questions or issues about the API, please open an issue on our

setup.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 EMAIL = '[email protected]'
 AUTHOR = 'datacommons.org'
 REQUIRES_PYTHON = '>=2.7'
-VERSION = '1.1.0'
+VERSION = '1.2.0'
 
 REQUIRED = [
     'six',