[Python-porting] [RELEASED] six 1.5.0

[Benjamin Peterson]

Note I've just released six 1.5.1, which fixes a problem with the Django
autoreloader.

-- 
Regards,
Benjamin

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014, at 05:08 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> I'm happy to announce the immediate release of six 1.5.0. six is a
> Python 2/3 compatibility library designed to aid the same-source
> migration path. The new release can be downloaded on PyPI:
> 
>     https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six
> 
> six.moves has been improved to act more like real modules. You should be
> able to import directly classes and functions from six.moves Python 2.4
> support has been dropped as of this release. This is because py.test
> stopped supporting 2.4.
> 
> I'd particularly like to thank Marc Abramowitz and Alexander Lukanin for
> contributing patches.
> 
> Report bugs to
> 
>     https://bitbucket.org/gutworth/six
> 
> Here is the complete changelog:
> 
> - 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.)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Benjamin
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