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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-03-02 02:53:08 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-03-02 02:53:08 (GMT)
commitd74bc432b2964599d8261aa367c9591080d623d3 (patch)
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Make names in __future__.py bind to class instances instead of 2-tuples.
Suggested on c.l.py by William Tanksley, and I like it.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
-rw-r--r--Lib/__future__.py39
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test___future__.py5
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/__future__.py b/Lib/__future__.py
index 2c263b7..3008f22 100644
--- a/Lib/__future__.py
+++ b/Lib/__future__.py
@@ -2,11 +2,7 @@
Each line is of the form:
- FeatureName = ReleaseInfo
-
-ReleaseInfo is a pair of the form:
-
- (OptionalRelease, MandatoryRelease)
+ FeatureName = "_Feature(" OptionalRelease "," MandatoryRelease) ")"
where, normally, OptionalRelease < MandatoryRelease, and both are 5-tuples
of the same form as sys.version_info:
@@ -38,7 +34,36 @@ to use the feature in question, but may continue to use such imports.
MandatoryRelease may also be None, meaning that a planned feature got
dropped.
-No line is ever to be deleted from this file.
+Instances of class _Feature have two corresponding methods,
+.getOptionalRelease() and .getMandatoryRelease().
+
+No feature line is ever to be deleted from this file.
"""
-nested_scopes = (2, 1, 0, "beta", 1), (2, 2, 0, "final", 0)
+class _Feature:
+ def __init__(self, optionalRelease, mandatoryRelease):
+ self.optional = optionalRelease
+ self.mandatory = mandatoryRelease
+
+ def getOptionalRelease(self):
+ """Return first release in which this feature was recognized.
+
+ This is a 5-tuple, of the same form as sys.version_info.
+ """
+
+ return self.optional
+
+ def getMandatoryRelease(self):
+ """Return release in which this feature will become mandatory.
+
+ This is a 5-tuple, of the same form as sys.version_info, or, if
+ the feature was dropped, is None.
+ """
+
+ return self.mandatory
+
+ def __repr__(self):
+ return "Feature(" + `self.getOptionalRelease()` + ", " + \
+ `self.getMandatoryRelease()` + ")"
+
+nested_scopes = _Feature((2, 1, 0, "beta", 1), (2, 2, 0, "final", 0))
diff --git a/Lib/test/test___future__.py b/Lib/test/test___future__.py
index 3ae1cf1..b8ef120 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test___future__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test___future__.py
@@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ for feature in features:
value = getattr(__future__, feature)
if verbose:
print "Checking __future__ ", feature, "value", value
- verify(type(value) is TupleType, "feature value isn't tuple")
- verify(len(value) == 2, "feature value isn't 2-tuple")
- optional, mandatory = value
+ optional = value.getOptionalRelease()
+ mandatory = value.getMandatoryRelease()
verify(type(optional) is TupleType, "optional isn't tuple")
verify(len(optional) == 5, "optional isn't 5-tuple")