Changelog for six ================= This file lists the changes in each six version. 1.15.0 ------ - Pull request #331: Optimize `six.ensure_str` and `six.ensure_binary`. 1.14.0 ------ - Issue #288, pull request #289: Add `six.assertNotRegex`. - Issue #317: `six.moves._dummy_thread` now points to the `_thread` module on Python 3.9+. Python 3.7 and later requires threading and deprecated the `_dummy_thread` module. - Issue #308, pull request #314: Remove support for Python 2.6 and Python 3.2. - Issue #250, issue #165, pull request #251: `six.wraps` now ignores missing attributes. This follows the Python 3.2+ standard library behavior. 1.13.0 ------ - Issue #298, pull request #299: Add `six.moves.dbm_ndbm`. - Issue #155: Add `six.moves.collections_abc`, which aliases the `collections` module on Python 2-3.2 and the `collections.abc` on Python 3.3 and greater. - Pull request #304: Re-add distutils fallback in `setup.py`. - Pull request #305: On Python 3.7, `with_metaclass` supports classes using PEP 560 features. 1.12.0 ------ - Issue #259, pull request #260: `six.add_metaclass` now preserves `__qualname__` from the original class. - Pull request #204: Add `six.ensure_binary`, `six.ensure_text`, and `six.ensure_str`. 1.11.0 ------ - Pull request #178: `with_metaclass` now properly proxies `__prepare__` to the underlying metaclass. - Pull request #191: Allow `with_metaclass` to work with metaclasses implemented in C. - Pull request #203: Add parse_http_list and parse_keqv_list to moved urllib.request. - Pull request #172 and issue #171: Add unquote_to_bytes to moved urllib.parse. - Pull request #167: Add `six.moves.getoutput`. - Pull request #80: Add `six.moves.urllib_parse.splitvalue`. - Pull request #75: Add `six.moves.email_mime_image`. - Pull request #72: Avoid creating reference cycles through tracebacks in `reraise`. 1.10.0 ------ - Issue #122: Improve the performance of `six.int2byte` on Python 3. - Pull request #55 and issue #99: Don't add the `winreg` module to `six.moves` on non-Windows platforms. - Pull request #60 and issue #108: Add `six.moves.getcwd` and `six.moves.getcwdu`. - Pull request #64: Add `create_unbound_method` to create unbound methods. 1.9.0 ----- - Issue #106: Support the `flush` parameter to `six.print_`. - Pull request #48 and issue #15: Add the `python_2_unicode_compatible` decorator. - Pull request #57 and issue #50: Add several compatibility methods for unittest assertions that were renamed between Python 2 and 3. - Issue #105 and pull request #58: Ensure `six.wraps` respects the *updated* and *assigned* arguments. - Issue #102: Add `raise_from` to abstract out Python 3's raise from syntax. - Issue #97: Optimize `six.iterbytes` on Python 2. - Issue #98: Fix `six.moves` race condition in multi-threaded code. - Pull request #51: Add `six.view(keys|values|itmes)`, which provide dictionary views on Python 2.7+. - Issue #112: `six.moves.reload_module` now uses the importlib module on Python 3.4+. 1.8.0 ----- - Issue #90: Add `six.moves.shlex_quote`. - Issue #59: Add `six.moves.intern`. - Add `six.urllib.parse.uses_(fragment|netloc|params|query|relative)`. - Issue #88: Fix add_metaclass when the class has `__slots__` containing `__weakref__` or `__dict__`. - Issue #89: Make six use absolute imports. - Issue #85: Always accept *updated* and *assigned* arguments for `wraps()`. - Issue #86: In `reraise()`, instantiate the exception if the second argument is `None`. - Pull request #45: Add `six.moves.email_mime_nonmultipart`. - Issue #81: Add `six.urllib.request.splittag` mapping. - Issue #80: Add `six.urllib.request.splituser` mapping. 1.7.3 ----- - Issue #77: Fix import six on Python 3.4 with a custom loader. - Issue #74: `six.moves.xmlrpc_server` should map to `SimpleXMLRPCServer` on Python 2 as documented not `xmlrpclib`. 1.7.2 ----- - Issue #72: Fix installing on Python 2. 1.7.1 ----- - Issue #71: Make the six.moves meta path importer handle reloading of the six module gracefully. 1.7.0 ----- - Pull request #30: Implement six.moves with a PEP 302 meta path hook. - Pull request #32: Add six.wraps, which is like functools.wraps but always sets the __wrapped__ attribute. - Pull request #35: Improve add_metaclass, so that it doesn't end up inserting another class into the hierarchy. - Pull request #34: Add import mappings for dummy_thread. - Pull request #33: Add import mappings for UserDict and UserList. - Pull request #31: Select the implementations of dictionary iterator routines at import time for a 20% speed boost. 1.6.1 ----- - Raise an AttributeError for six.moves.X when X is a module not available in the current interpreter. 1.6.0 ----- - Raise an AttributeError for every attribute of unimportable modules. - Issue #56: Make the fake modules six.moves puts into sys.modules appear not to have a __path__ unless they are loaded. - Pull request #28: Add support for SplitResult. - Issue #55: Add move mapping for xmlrpc.server. - Pull request #29: Add move for urllib.parse.splitquery. 1.5.2 ----- - Issue #53: Make the fake modules six.moves puts into sys.modules appear not to have a __name__ unless they are loaded. 1.5.1 ----- - Issue #51: Hack around the Django autoreloader after recent six.moves changes. 1.5.0 ----- - Removed support for Python 2.4. This is because py.test no longer supports 2.4. - Fix various import problems including issues #19 and #41. six.moves modules are now lazy wrappers over the underlying modules instead of the actual modules themselves. - Issue #49: Add six.moves mapping for tkinter.ttk. - Pull request #24: Add __dir__ special method to six.moves modules. - Issue #47: Fix add_metaclass on classes with a string for the __slots__ variable. - Issue #44: Fix interpretation of backslashes on Python 2 in the u() function. - Pull request #21: Add import mapping for urllib's proxy_bypass function. - Issue #43: Add import mapping for the Python 2 xmlrpclib module. - Issue #39: Add import mapping for the Python 2 thread module. - Issue #40: Add import mapping for the Python 2 gdbm module. - Issue #35: On Python versions less than 2.7, print_ now encodes unicode strings when outputing to standard streams. (Python 2.7 handles this automatically.) 1.4.1 ----- - Issue #32: urllib module wrappings don't work when six is not a toplevel file. 1.4.0 ----- - Issue #31: Add six.moves mapping for UserString. - Pull request #12: Add six.add_metaclass, a decorator for adding a metaclass to a class. - Add six.moves.zip_longest and six.moves.filterfalse, which correspond respectively to itertools.izip_longest and itertools.ifilterfalse on Python 2 and itertools.zip_longest and itertools.filterfalse on Python 3. - Issue #25: Add the unichr function, which returns a string for a Unicode codepoint. - Issue #26: Add byte2int function, which complements int2byte. - Add a PY2 constant with obvious semantics. - Add helpers for indexing and iterating over bytes: iterbytes and indexbytes. - Add create_bound_method() wrapper. - Issue #23: Allow multiple base classes to be passed to with_metaclass. - Issue #24: Add six.moves.range alias. This exactly the same as the current xrange alias. - Pull request #5: Create six.moves.urllib, which contains abstractions for a bunch of things which are in urllib in Python 3 and spread out across urllib, urllib2, and urlparse in Python 2. 1.3.0 ----- - Issue #21: Add methods to access the closure and globals of a function. - In six.iter(items/keys/values/lists), passed keyword arguments through to the underlying method. - Add six.iterlists(). - Issue #20: Fix tests if tkinter is not available. - Issue #17: Define callable to be builtin callable when it is available again in Python 3.2+. - Issue #16: Rename Python 2 exec_'s arguments, so casually calling exec_ with keyword arguments will raise. - Issue #14: Put the six.moves package in sys.modules based on the name six is imported under. - Fix Jython detection. - Pull request #4: Add email_mime_multipart, email_mime_text, and email_mime_base to six.moves. 1.2.0 ----- - Issue #13: Make iterkeys/itervalues/iteritems return iterators on Python 3 instead of iterables. - Issue #11: Fix maxsize support on Jython. - Add six.next() as an alias for six.advance_iterator(). - Use the builtin next() function for advance_iterator() where is available (2.6+), not just Python 3. - Add the Iterator class for writing portable iterators. 1.1.0 ----- - Add the int2byte function. - Add compatibility mappings for iterators over the keys, values, and items of a dictionary. - Fix six.MAXSIZE on platforms where sizeof(long) != sizeof(Py_ssize_t). - Issue #3: Add six.moves mappings for filter, map, and zip. 1.0.0 ----- - Issue #2: u() on Python 2.x now resolves unicode escapes. - Expose an API for adding mappings to six.moves. 1.0 beta 1 ---------- - Reworked six into one .py file. This breaks imports. Please tell me if you are interested in an import compatibility layer.