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Python Backport

About

Python Backport main goal is to backport functionalities from newer python releases. It allows using its modules just as the original ones, with the only difference at the import.

Any backported (or experimental) functionality can be imported with the module py_back.

from py_back import enum


class Number(enum.IntEnum):
    """Enumeration using the original 'IntEnum' call"""
    ONE = enum.auto()
    TWO = 2


class Animal(enum.StrEnum):
    """Supported original 'StrEnum' for python versions < 3.11"""
    CAT = enum.auto()
    DOG = "dog"


class Color(enum.TupleEnum):
    """Experimental 'TupleEnum' class"""
    BLACK = (0, 0, 0)
    WHITE = (255, 255, 255)

Installation

PyBackport is published as a Python package in PyPI and can be installed via pip.

pip install PyBackport

with git

PyBackport can be directly used from GitHub by cloning the repository and installing locally. 

git clone https://github.com/Jtachan/PyBackport.git
pip install -e PyBackport

Alternatively, any pip-install-git command can be called over the repository.

pip install git+https://github.com/Jtachan/PyBackport.git

Latest unreleased changes are also installable by installing the develop branch. Before doing so, consider that they might be breaking changes.

pip install git+https://github.com/Jtachan/PyBackport.git@develop

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