NEWS.rst

v4.2.2

No significant changes.

v4.2.1

No significant changes.

v4.2.0

Features

• Add forward compatibility for functools cache in Python 3.8.

v4.1.0

Features

• Add py38.r_fix for remove-prefix/suffix.

v4.0.0

• Require Python 3.6. At this point, the module contains no functionality.

3.1

• Now collections.abc is a proper module, allowing for from py33compat.collections.abc import Iterable or similar.

3.0

• Drop support for Python 2.6.

2.2

• Added py33compat module with collections.api.

2.1

• Refreshed project metadata.

2.0

• Dropped compatibility modules for Python 2.5 and earlier.

1.4.1

• Dropped 2to3 invocation in setup. Fixes issue where wheels would be broken on Python 2.

1.4

• Update project skeleton, including automated deployments. Tests are now run on Travis-CI with tests largely passing on Python 3.

1.3

• Added py27compat.properties with simplemethod.

1.2

• Added py24compat.functools with wraps degenerate wrapper.

1.1

• Added py27compat.traceback with format_exc helper (consistently returns unicode results).

1.0

• Adding py26compat.subprocess.check_output.

0.9

• Added py31compat.collections.lru_cache which provides a backport of the Python 3.2 cache of the same name.

0.8

• Added py25compat.subprocess with term_proc and kill_proc which take Popen objects and terminate and kill them respectively.

0.7

• Added py31compat.functools, which provides wraps and update_wrapper that supply the Python 3.2 __wrapped__ attribute.
• Added py26compat.collections, which provides OrderedDict on Python 2.6 and earlier (via the ordereddict package).

0.6

• Added py26compat.total_seconds
• Added py24compat.partition

0.5

• Added py26compat with cmp_to_key.