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@lubomir lubomir commented Jan 8, 2020

The array methods fromstring/tostring have been deprecated since Python 3.2. Python 3.9 removes them completely.

This was discovered when trying to build gitdb package for Fedora 33.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788660

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# read stream to array, convert to tuple
a = array.array('I') # 4 byte unsigned int, long are 8 byte on 64 bit it appears
a.fromstring(buffer(self._cursor.map(), self._pack_offset, self._pack_64_offset - self._pack_offset))
_frombytes(a, buffer(self._cursor.map(), self._pack_offset, self._pack_64_offset - self._pack_offset))

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It can be simpler:

a = array.array('I', buffer(self._cursor.map(), self._pack_offset, self._pack_64_offset - self._pack_offset))

Or maybe even use memoryview(self._cursor.map())[self._pack_offset : self._pack_64_offset] instead of buffer(...) (not tested).

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Thanks a lot for your contribution, it's very much appreciated.

I have left a few comments and will merge as soon as Python 2 compatibility is removed.

The array methods fromstring/tostring have been deprecated since Python
3.2. Python 3.9 removes them completely.

This was discovered when trying to build gitdb package for Fedora 33.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788660
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lubomir commented Feb 13, 2020

I updated the code to drop Python 2 compatibility.

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@Byron Byron merged commit f891e24 into gitpython-developers:master Feb 15, 2020
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Byron commented Feb 15, 2020

Thanks a lot for your contribution! I will cut release v3.0 soon!

@lubomir lubomir deleted the py39-deprecations branch February 17, 2020 09:05
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