2. Compatibility¶
Pyslet requires Python 2.6 or Python 2.7, with Python 2.7 being preferred.
2.4. Python 2.6¶
When run under Python 2.6 Pyslet will patch some modules to make them more compatible with Python 2.7 code. For details see:
Earlier versions of Python 2.6 have typically been built with a version of sqlite3 that does not support validation of foreign key constraints, the unittests have been designed to skip these tests when such a version is encountered.
Note
When run under Python 2.6, Pyslet may not support certificate validation of HTTP connections properly, this seems to depend on the version of OpenSSL that Python is linked to. If you have successfully used pip to install Pyslet then your Python is probably unaffected though.
Please be aware of the following bug in Python 2.6: http://bugs.python.org/issue2531 this problem caused a number of Pyslet’s tests to fail initially and remains a potential source of problems if you are using Decimal types in OData models.
2.5. Python 3¶
Pyslet is not currently compatible with Python 3, though some work has been done towards a Python 3 version and the unittests are regularly run with the -3 flag to check for issues. Try running your own code that uses Pyslet with python options -3Wd to expose any issues that you are likely to need to fix on any future transition.
Work has now started on porting the core modules to be compatible with Python 3.3 (Pyslet may require use of the ‘u’ on unicode strings for some time so compatibility with Python 3 versions earlier than 3.3 is unlikely). Rather than just fix up the existing code using a module like six Pyslet now includes it’s own module containing compatibility definitions that target the particular idioms I’ve used in the package.
Although the package can’t be built for distribution or installed using setup.py, if you include the source locally you can successfully import the following modules in Python 3 (in addition to compatibility modules described elsewhere on this page):
pyslet.info
pyslet.iso8601
pyslet.rfc2396
pyslet.unicode5
pyslet.vfs
2.6. PEP-8¶
The code is not currently PEP-8 compliant but it is slowly being refactored for compliance as modules are touched during development. Where critical, methods are renamed from CamelCase to PEP-8 compliant lower_case_form then the old names are defined as wrappers which raise deprecation warnings.
For more information see: