1Changelog for six
2=================
3
4This file lists the changes in each six version.
5
61.16.0
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8
9- Pull request #343, issue #341, pull request #349: Port _SixMetaPathImporter to
10  Python 3.10.
11
121.15.0
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14
15- Pull request #331: Optimize `six.ensure_str` and `six.ensure_binary`.
16
171.14.0
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19
20- Issue #288, pull request #289: Add `six.assertNotRegex`.
21
22- Issue #317: `six.moves._dummy_thread` now points to the `_thread` module on
23  Python 3.9+. Python 3.7 and later requires threading and deprecated the
24  `_dummy_thread` module.
25
26- Issue #308, pull request #314: Remove support for Python 2.6 and Python 3.2.
27
28- Issue #250, issue #165, pull request #251: `six.wraps` now ignores missing
29  attributes. This follows the Python 3.2+ standard library behavior.
30
311.13.0
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33
34- Issue #298, pull request #299: Add `six.moves.dbm_ndbm`.
35
36- Issue #155: Add `six.moves.collections_abc`, which aliases the `collections`
37  module on Python 2-3.2 and the `collections.abc` on Python 3.3 and greater.
38
39- Pull request #304: Re-add distutils fallback in `setup.py`.
40
41- Pull request #305: On Python 3.7, `with_metaclass` supports classes using PEP
42  560 features.
43
441.12.0
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46
47- Issue #259, pull request #260: `six.add_metaclass` now preserves
48  `__qualname__` from the original class.
49
50- Pull request #204: Add `six.ensure_binary`, `six.ensure_text`, and
51  `six.ensure_str`.
52
531.11.0
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55
56- Pull request #178: `with_metaclass` now properly proxies `__prepare__` to the
57  underlying metaclass.
58
59- Pull request #191: Allow `with_metaclass` to work with metaclasses implemented
60  in C.
61
62- Pull request #203: Add parse_http_list and parse_keqv_list to moved
63  urllib.request.
64
65- Pull request #172 and issue #171: Add unquote_to_bytes to moved urllib.parse.
66
67- Pull request #167: Add `six.moves.getoutput`.
68
69- Pull request #80: Add `six.moves.urllib_parse.splitvalue`.
70
71- Pull request #75: Add `six.moves.email_mime_image`.
72
73- Pull request #72: Avoid creating reference cycles through tracebacks in
74  `reraise`.
75
761.10.0
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78
79- Issue #122: Improve the performance of `six.int2byte` on Python 3.
80
81- Pull request #55 and issue #99: Don't add the `winreg` module to `six.moves`
82  on non-Windows platforms.
83
84- Pull request #60 and issue #108: Add `six.moves.getcwd` and
85  `six.moves.getcwdu`.
86
87- Pull request #64: Add `create_unbound_method` to create unbound methods.
88
891.9.0
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91
92- Issue #106: Support the `flush` parameter to `six.print_`.
93
94- Pull request #48 and issue #15: Add the `python_2_unicode_compatible`
95  decorator.
96
97- Pull request #57 and issue #50: Add several compatibility methods for unittest
98  assertions that were renamed between Python 2 and 3.
99
100- Issue #105 and pull request #58: Ensure `six.wraps` respects the *updated* and
101  *assigned* arguments.
102
103- Issue #102: Add `raise_from` to abstract out Python 3's raise from syntax.
104
105- Issue #97: Optimize `six.iterbytes` on Python 2.
106
107- Issue #98: Fix `six.moves` race condition in multi-threaded code.
108
109- Pull request #51: Add `six.view(keys|values|items)`, which provide dictionary
110  views on Python 2.7+.
111
112- Issue #112: `six.moves.reload_module` now uses the importlib module on
113  Python 3.4+.
114
1151.8.0
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117
118- Issue #90: Add `six.moves.shlex_quote`.
119
120- Issue #59: Add `six.moves.intern`.
121
122- Add `six.urllib.parse.uses_(fragment|netloc|params|query|relative)`.
123
124- Issue #88: Fix add_metaclass when the class has `__slots__` containing
125  `__weakref__` or `__dict__`.
126
127- Issue #89: Make six use absolute imports.
128
129- Issue #85: Always accept *updated* and *assigned* arguments for `wraps()`.
130
131- Issue #86: In `reraise()`, instantiate the exception if the second argument is
132  `None`.
133
134- Pull request #45: Add `six.moves.email_mime_nonmultipart`.
135
136- Issue #81: Add `six.urllib.request.splittag` mapping.
137
138- Issue #80: Add `six.urllib.request.splituser` mapping.
139
1401.7.3
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142
143- Issue #77: Fix import six on Python 3.4 with a custom loader.
144
145- Issue #74: `six.moves.xmlrpc_server` should map to `SimpleXMLRPCServer` on Python
146  2 as documented not `xmlrpclib`.
147
1481.7.2
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150
151- Issue #72: Fix installing on Python 2.
152
1531.7.1
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155
156- Issue #71: Make the six.moves meta path importer handle reloading of the six
157  module gracefully.
158
1591.7.0
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161
162- Pull request #30: Implement six.moves with a PEP 302 meta path hook.
163
164- Pull request #32: Add six.wraps, which is like functools.wraps but always sets
165  the __wrapped__ attribute.
166
167- Pull request #35: Improve add_metaclass, so that it doesn't end up inserting
168  another class into the hierarchy.
169
170- Pull request #34: Add import mappings for dummy_thread.
171
172- Pull request #33: Add import mappings for UserDict and UserList.
173
174- Pull request #31: Select the implementations of dictionary iterator routines
175  at import time for a 20% speed boost.
176
1771.6.1
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179
180- Raise an AttributeError for six.moves.X when X is a module not available in
181  the current interpreter.
182
1831.6.0
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185
186- Raise an AttributeError for every attribute of unimportable modules.
187
188- Issue #56: Make the fake modules six.moves puts into sys.modules appear not to
189  have a __path__ unless they are loaded.
190
191- Pull request #28: Add support for SplitResult.
192
193- Issue #55: Add move mapping for xmlrpc.server.
194
195- Pull request #29: Add move for urllib.parse.splitquery.
196
1971.5.2
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199
200- Issue #53: Make the fake modules six.moves puts into sys.modules appear not to
201  have a __name__ unless they are loaded.
202
2031.5.1
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205
206- Issue #51: Hack around the Django autoreloader after recent six.moves changes.
207
2081.5.0
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210
211- Removed support for Python 2.4. This is because py.test no longer supports
212  2.4.
213
214- Fix various import problems including issues #19 and #41. six.moves modules
215  are now lazy wrappers over the underlying modules instead of the actual
216  modules themselves.
217
218- Issue #49: Add six.moves mapping for tkinter.ttk.
219
220- Pull request #24: Add __dir__ special method to six.moves modules.
221
222- Issue #47: Fix add_metaclass on classes with a string for the __slots__
223  variable.
224
225- Issue #44: Fix interpretation of backslashes on Python 2 in the u() function.
226
227- Pull request #21: Add import mapping for urllib's proxy_bypass function.
228
229- Issue #43: Add import mapping for the Python 2 xmlrpclib module.
230
231- Issue #39: Add import mapping for the Python 2 thread module.
232
233- Issue #40: Add import mapping for the Python 2 gdbm module.
234
235- Issue #35: On Python versions less than 2.7, print_ now encodes unicode
236  strings when outputting to standard streams. (Python 2.7 handles this
237  automatically.)
238
2391.4.1
240-----
241
242- Issue #32: urllib module wrappings don't work when six is not a toplevel file.
243
2441.4.0
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246
247- Issue #31: Add six.moves mapping for UserString.
248
249- Pull request #12: Add six.add_metaclass, a decorator for adding a metaclass to
250  a class.
251
252- Add six.moves.zip_longest and six.moves.filterfalse, which correspond
253  respectively to itertools.izip_longest and itertools.ifilterfalse on Python 2
254  and itertools.zip_longest and itertools.filterfalse on Python 3.
255
256- Issue #25: Add the unichr function, which returns a string for a Unicode
257  codepoint.
258
259- Issue #26: Add byte2int function, which complements int2byte.
260
261- Add a PY2 constant with obvious semantics.
262
263- Add helpers for indexing and iterating over bytes: iterbytes and indexbytes.
264
265- Add create_bound_method() wrapper.
266
267- Issue #23: Allow multiple base classes to be passed to with_metaclass.
268
269- Issue #24: Add six.moves.range alias. This exactly the same as the current
270  xrange alias.
271
272- Pull request #5: Create six.moves.urllib, which contains abstractions for a
273  bunch of things which are in urllib in Python 3 and spread out across urllib,
274  urllib2, and urlparse in Python 2.
275
2761.3.0
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278
279- Issue #21: Add methods to access the closure and globals of a function.
280
281- In six.iter(items/keys/values/lists), passed keyword arguments through to the
282  underlying method.
283
284- Add six.iterlists().
285
286- Issue #20: Fix tests if tkinter is not available.
287
288- Issue #17: Define callable to be builtin callable when it is available again
289  in Python 3.2+.
290
291- Issue #16: Rename Python 2 exec_'s arguments, so casually calling exec_ with
292  keyword arguments will raise.
293
294- Issue #14: Put the six.moves package in sys.modules based on the name six is
295  imported under.
296
297- Fix Jython detection.
298
299- Pull request #4: Add email_mime_multipart, email_mime_text, and
300  email_mime_base to six.moves.
301
3021.2.0
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304
305- Issue #13: Make iterkeys/itervalues/iteritems return iterators on Python 3
306  instead of iterables.
307
308- Issue #11: Fix maxsize support on Jython.
309
310- Add six.next() as an alias for six.advance_iterator().
311
312- Use the builtin next() function for advance_iterator() where is available
313  (2.6+), not just Python 3.
314
315- Add the Iterator class for writing portable iterators.
316
3171.1.0
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319
320- Add the int2byte function.
321
322- Add compatibility mappings for iterators over the keys, values, and items of a
323  dictionary.
324
325- Fix six.MAXSIZE on platforms where sizeof(long) != sizeof(Py_ssize_t).
326
327- Issue #3: Add six.moves mappings for filter, map, and zip.
328
3291.0.0
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331
332- Issue #2: u() on Python 2.x now resolves unicode escapes.
333
334- Expose an API for adding mappings to six.moves.
335
3361.0 beta 1
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338
339- Reworked six into one .py file.  This breaks imports.  Please tell me if you
340  are interested in an import compatibility layer.
341