History

v4.3.1

10 May 2025

Bugfixes

  • In safe_path, ensure the absolute path is also removed.

v4.3.0

09 May 2025

Features

  • Added py310.safe_path to honor PYTHONSAFEPATH.

v4.2.2

29 Aug 2024

No significant changes.

v4.2.1

08 Jul 2024

No significant changes.

v4.2.0

08 Jul 2024

Features

  • Add forward compatibility for functools cache in Python 3.8.

v4.1.0

14 Jun 2024

Features

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

v4.0.0

27 Nov 2020

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

3.1

27 May 2019

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

3.0

25 Apr 2019

  • Drop support for Python 2.6.

2.2

25 Apr 2019

  • Added py33compat module with collections.api.

2.1

01 Jan 2019

  • Refreshed project metadata.

2.0

25 Jan 2017

  • Dropped compatibility modules for Python 2.5 and earlier.

1.4.1

25 Jan 2017

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

1.4

23 Jan 2017

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

1.3

25 May 2015

  • Added py27compat.properties with simplemethod.

1.2

24 May 2013

  • Added py24compat.functools with wraps degenerate wrapper.

1.1

12 Apr 2013

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

1.0

20 Jan 2012

  • Adding py26compat.subprocess.check_output.

0.9

04 Jan 2012

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

0.8

14 Sep 2011

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

0.7

18 May 2011

  • 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

29 Apr 2011

  • Added py26compat.total_seconds

  • Added py24compat.partition

0.5

20 Dec 2010

  • Added py26compat with cmp_to_key.