Fixed a wrong apostrophe
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1 """Record of phased-in incompatible language changes.
3 Each line is of the form:
5 FeatureName = "_Feature(" OptionalRelease "," MandatoryRelease ","
6 CompilerFlag ")"
8 where, normally, OptionalRelease < MandatoryRelease, and both are 5-tuples
9 of the same form as sys.version_info:
11 (PY_MAJOR_VERSION, # the 2 in 2.1.0a3; an int
12 PY_MINOR_VERSION, # the 1; an int
13 PY_MICRO_VERSION, # the 0; an int
14 PY_RELEASE_LEVEL, # "alpha", "beta", "candidate" or "final"; string
15 PY_RELEASE_SERIAL # the 3; an int
18 OptionalRelease records the first release in which
20 from __future__ import FeatureName
22 was accepted.
24 In the case of MandatoryReleases that have not yet occurred,
25 MandatoryRelease predicts the release in which the feature will become part
26 of the language.
28 Else MandatoryRelease records when the feature became part of the language;
29 in releases at or after that, modules no longer need
31 from __future__ import FeatureName
33 to use the feature in question, but may continue to use such imports.
35 MandatoryRelease may also be None, meaning that a planned feature got
36 dropped.
38 Instances of class _Feature have two corresponding methods,
39 .getOptionalRelease() and .getMandatoryRelease().
41 CompilerFlag is the (bitfield) flag that should be passed in the fourth
42 argument to the builtin function compile() to enable the feature in
43 dynamically compiled code. This flag is stored in the .compiler_flag
44 attribute on _Future instances. These values must match the appropriate
45 #defines of CO_xxx flags in Include/compile.h.
47 No feature line is ever to be deleted from this file.
48 """
50 all_feature_names = [
51 "nested_scopes",
52 "generators",
53 "division",
54 "absolute_import",
55 "with_statement",
56 "print_function",
57 "unicode_literals",
60 __all__ = ["all_feature_names"] + all_feature_names
62 # The CO_xxx symbols are defined here under the same names used by
63 # compile.h, so that an editor search will find them here. However,
64 # they're not exported in __all__, because they don't really belong to
65 # this module.
66 CO_NESTED = 0x0010 # nested_scopes
67 CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED = 0 # generators (obsolete, was 0x1000)
68 CO_FUTURE_DIVISION = 0x2000 # division
69 CO_FUTURE_ABSOLUTE_IMPORT = 0x4000 # perform absolute imports by default
70 CO_FUTURE_WITH_STATEMENT = 0x8000 # with statement
71 CO_FUTURE_PRINT_FUNCTION = 0x10000 # print function
72 CO_FUTURE_UNICODE_LITERALS = 0x20000 # unicode string literals
74 class _Feature:
75 def __init__(self, optionalRelease, mandatoryRelease, compiler_flag):
76 self.optional = optionalRelease
77 self.mandatory = mandatoryRelease
78 self.compiler_flag = compiler_flag
80 def getOptionalRelease(self):
81 """Return first release in which this feature was recognized.
83 This is a 5-tuple, of the same form as sys.version_info.
84 """
86 return self.optional
88 def getMandatoryRelease(self):
89 """Return release in which this feature will become mandatory.
91 This is a 5-tuple, of the same form as sys.version_info, or, if
92 the feature was dropped, is None.
93 """
95 return self.mandatory
97 def __repr__(self):
98 return "_Feature" + repr((self.optional,
99 self.mandatory,
100 self.compiler_flag))
102 nested_scopes = _Feature((2, 1, 0, "beta", 1),
103 (2, 2, 0, "alpha", 0),
104 CO_NESTED)
106 generators = _Feature((2, 2, 0, "alpha", 1),
107 (2, 3, 0, "final", 0),
108 CO_GENERATOR_ALLOWED)
110 division = _Feature((2, 2, 0, "alpha", 2),
111 (3, 0, 0, "alpha", 0),
112 CO_FUTURE_DIVISION)
114 absolute_import = _Feature((2, 5, 0, "alpha", 1),
115 (2, 7, 0, "alpha", 0),
116 CO_FUTURE_ABSOLUTE_IMPORT)
118 with_statement = _Feature((2, 5, 0, "alpha", 1),
119 (2, 6, 0, "alpha", 0),
120 CO_FUTURE_WITH_STATEMENT)
122 print_function = _Feature((2, 6, 0, "alpha", 2),
123 (3, 0, 0, "alpha", 0),
124 CO_FUTURE_PRINT_FUNCTION)
126 unicode_literals = _Feature((2, 6, 0, "alpha", 2),
127 (3, 0, 0, "alpha", 0),
128 CO_FUTURE_UNICODE_LITERALS)