pylegacy

This library aims to provide backports from Python newer versions into abandoned Python versions.

The pylegacy package tree structure resembles that of the Python standard libraries, i.e. pylegacy consists of pylegacy.abc, pylegacy.builtins, pylegacy.os, and so on. If a backport is available for a piece of missing functionality, it can be used by importing the functionality from the pylegacy namespace.

For example, os.makedirs in Python 2.7 lacks the exist_ok argument, first introduced in Python 3.2. To enable this functionality, one would replace the following failing code snippet:

import os
os.makedirs("example_folder", exist_ok=True)
# Traceback (most recent call last):
#   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
# TypeError: makedirs() got an unexpected keyword argument 'exist_ok'

with the following working code snippet:

from pylegacy import os
os.makedirs("example_folder", exist_ok=True)

License

The pylegacy package is released under the MIT license (see the LICENSE file):

Copyright (c) 2021-2023 Víctor Molina García

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Significant portions of the pylegacy package are derivative work of the Python standard libraries. The Python source code is released under the terms of the PSF-2.0 license and is Copyright (c) 2001-2022 Python Software Foundation, All rights reserved. A copy of the PSF-2.0 license can be found in the LICENSE.PSF-2.0 file.