Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

#27753 closed Cleanup/optimization

Cleanups when no supported version of Django supports Python 2 anymore — at Version 6

Reported by: Aymeric Augustin Owned by: nobody
Component: Utilities Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Jon Dufresne Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by Aymeric Augustin)

Compatibility with Python 2 is currently being removed in master as part of the Django 2.0 development cycle: see #23919.

However third-party apps may want to remain compatible with all supported version of Django and the corresponding versions of Python, which includes Python 2.

To allow this, compatibility functions or modules aren't removed. They're still importable. They're usually just aliases or no-ops. Here's a list of things to deprecate and remove eventually:

  • django.utils.six
  • django.utils.lru_cache
  • django.utils._os.abspathu, upath, npath
  • django.utils.decorators.available_attrs
  • django.utils.encoding.python_2_unicode_compatible
  • django.utils.encoding.smart/force_text

Change History (6)

comment:1 by Simon Charette, 8 years ago

Should we revert the removal of eb0b921c29ace8643a5a4cd136c433727c53dead in this case?

comment:2 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedSomeday/Maybe

Those methods don't work on Python 3 (AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'iterkeys') so I don't think they have value for the use case described in the ticket description. A third-party app should use six.iterkeys() as the old test did (which uses keys() etc. on Python 3), or am I missing something?

comment:3 by Claude Paroz, 8 years ago

The question we discussed on IRC and GitHub with Tim is about deprecating or not deprecating those items.

I would be for a standard deprecation process as I don't see how this is different from any other deprecation. But I'm open to read about use cases which would push for a delayed deprecation process for items related to Python 2.

comment:4 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

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comment:5 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

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comment:6 by Aymeric Augustin, 8 years ago

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