six

Advance version to 1.15.0.

• 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.

Bump version to 1.13.0.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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|items), which provide dictionary views on Python 2.7+.

• Issue #112: six.moves.reload_module now uses the importlib module on Python 3.4+.

• 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.

• 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.

• Issue #72: Fix installing on Python 2.

• Issue #71: Make the six.moves meta path importer handle reloading of the six module gracefully.

• 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.

• Raise an AttributeError for six.moves.X when X is a module not available in the current interpreter.

• 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.

• Issue #53: Make the fake modules six.moves puts into sys.modules appear not to have a name unless they are loaded.

• Issue #51: Hack around the Django autoreloader after recent six.moves changes.

• 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 outputting to standard streams. (Python 2.7 handles this automatically.)

• Issue #32: urllib module wrappings don't work when six is not a toplevel file.

• 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 is 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.

• 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.

• 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 it is available (2.6+), not just Python 3.

• Add the Iterator class for writing portable iterators.

• 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.

• Issue #2: u() on Python 2.x now resolves unicode escapes.

• Expose an API for adding mappings to six.moves.