Follow-up work on top of the initial Python 2.x removal: it finishes the
removal and fixes several issues found while reviewing the change.
Correctness fixes:
- pyrun.swg: SwigPyPacked_str passed the type name straight to
PyUnicode_FromFormat as its format string, so a type name containing a
'%' would be misinterpreted. Use PyUnicode_FromString instead.
- Doc/Manual/Varargs.html: the (...) varargs freearg typemap example lost
its free() loop when the surrounding Python 2 guard was removed, leaking
the memory the in typemap allocates. Restore the loop, now unconditional.
- Doc/Manual/Typemaps.html: the PyInt_Check to PyLong_Check substitution
left two typecheck excerpts reading PyLong_Check || PyLong_Check; collapse
each back to a single check.
Code generator (Source/Modules/python.cxx):
- Emit the native class X(..., metaclass=_SwigNonDynamicMeta) form for
nondynamic classes in all three base-list branches (object, Exception and
explicit bases), and drop the Python 2 _swig_add_metaclass helper.
- Emit a plain import builtins as __builtin__ instead of the Python 2
try/except import fallback.
- Update a stale Python 2.x comment.
Remove the deprecated embed.i library (it only ever worked with Python 2):
- Delete Lib/python/embed.i and the Lib/python/Makefile.in reference to it.
- Remove the python_static and python_static_cpp targets from
Examples/Makefile.in and the now-orphaned static: targets that used them
from the Examples/python example Makefiles.
- Remove the embed.i section from the manual.
Python test suite (Examples/test-suite/python):
- profiletest_runme.py: convert the Python 2 print statements to print().
- doxygen_constructors_runme.py: drop the dead sys.version_info < (3, 0)
branch, keeping the Python 3 super().__init__() form.
- li_cdata_bytes_runme.py and li_cdata_bytes_cpp_runme.py: drop the dead
exit-on-Python-2 version guard.
- file_test_runme.py and python_abstractbase_runme.py: drop the now-unused
import sys left behind by guard removal.
Documentation (Doc/Manual/Python.html):
- Drop the embed.i and SWIG_PYTHON_STRICT_UNICODE_WCHAR sections; the latter
macro was Python 2 only and no longer exists, wide strings are unicode-only
by default.
- De-duplicate the %pythonabc example and drop a stale collections.abc
compatibility note.
- Update the version support statement and other stale Python 2 mentions.
Other cleanups:
- Tools/mkdist.py: raise the minimum Python version check to Python 3.
- Reword stale Python 2 comments in pyrun.swg, pyiterators.swg and
pycontainer.swg, and fix a PyString_FromFormat left in a pyclasses.swg
doc comment.
- CHANGES.current: record that Python 2 support has been dropped.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (Opus 4.8)
With the one-byte overflow fixed, the li_cdata_bytes tests no longer
corrupt the heap, so the macOS skips - added because free() crashed
"occasionally" - can be removed.
- Remove the Darwin skips from the Perl, Python and Ruby li_cdata_bytes
runme files; the Ruby skip was also pinned to one exact Ruby version.
- Python runme: skip via an early sys.exit() on Python 2 rather than
wrapping the whole body in a conditional, which previously made the
test pass without running anything.
- Few other minor cleanups.
Fix guile cdata.
Add SWIG_BINSTR flag
- Add SWIG_FromBinCharPtrAndSize with the new flag
To add languages that use Lib/cdata.i.
- python use binary string by using the new SWIG_BINSTR
in SWIG_AsCharPtrAndSize and SWIG_FromBinCharPtrAndSize.
Languages that were changed to uses list
- Tcl use list of integers.
- scilab use list of uint8.
And support passing list of numbers to C.
Add support to JavaScript
- use Uint8Array instead of strings.
- Add li_cdata_carrays. tests.
- Add li_cdata_bytes tests.
- Use Debian node-addon-api package location.
- napi folder location to Examples/test-suite/javascript/Makefile.in.
- Update documentation.
Update cdata.i documentation
This new cdata test focus on:
- Ensure we can receive proper data from C and pass proper data back to C.
- Use all possoble byte values , i.e. the full range of 0 to 255
and ensure values 128 to 255 do not pass Unicode transformation (UTF-8/16).
- Ensure zero is a valid value and not a string null termination
nor a modified UTF-8 which transform U+0000 to 0xC0 0x80.
- Check mutability of the cdata object.
Signed-off-by: Erez Geva <ErezGeva2@gmail.com>
William S Fulton