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This pull request holds three commits. Each commit maps to one issue.

  1. Python 3.10 floor. setup.py declares python_requires=">=3.10". The
    dead version_dependant_requirements branch is gone. The classifiers drop
    3.8 and 3.9. They add 3.13, 3.14, and Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only. tox.ini and the CI matrix list py310 to py314.
    requirements_test.txt drops the dead python_version markers.
    docs/intro.rst replaces the stale tox sample output.
  2. six removal. bmemcached/compat.py is deleted. No file in
    bmemcached/ or test/ imports six. The runtime code uses bytes and
    str. The tests use unittest.mock and self.assertCountEqual.
    setup.py drops six. requirements_test.txt drops mock. flake.nix
    drops both packages from the dev shell.
  3. Python 2 idiom removal. The urlparse and cPickle import fallbacks
    are gone. Every super() call uses the zero-argument form. No class
    declares an explicit object base. The u'...' prefixes and the coding
    header are gone.

Why

Python 3.8 ended support in October 2024. Python 3.9 ended support in October
2025. uhashring 2.5 declares Requires-Python: >=3.10. A lower floor forces
a permanent uhashring<2.5 pin. The package also carried six and
bmemcached/compat.py. Both exist only to support Python 2.

Verification

nix develop --command bash -c 'python -m compileall -q bmemcached test'

Result: pass.

nix develop --command bash -c 'pytest -q'

Result: 261 passed. This matches the baseline on main.

nix develop --command bash -c 'flake8'

Result: 0 errors.

Risks

Wire compatibility for the long flag needs a check. FLAGS['long'] stays at
bmemcached/protocol.py:95. The write branch was dead, because compat.long
is int on Python 3, so the isinstance(value, int) check always matched
first. That branch is deleted. The read branch stays and calls int(value).
An old client version can have written a value with that flag.

bmemcached/protocol.py deserialize now always returns
value.decode('utf8') for the plain text case. The Python 2 fallback that
returned raw bytes on a decode failure is gone. That fallback was unreachable
on Python 3.

Two sites outside the issue inventory also used six:
bmemcached/protocol.py:325 and bmemcached/protocol.py:1040 both tested
isinstance(x, text_type). Both now test isinstance(x, str).

flake.nix drops six and mock in this pull request. A stale flake.nix
breaks the dev shell for later work. flake.nix still lists flake8. A later
pull request replaces that with ruff.

Closes #265
Closes #266
Closes #267

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Compatibility

    • Support is now limited to Python 3.10–3.14.
    • Python 2, 3.8, and 3.9 are no longer supported.
  • Dependencies

    • The legacy compatibility dependency has been removed, simplifying installation and runtime requirements.
  • Documentation

    • Supported Python versions and testing examples now reflect the current support range.
  • Tests

    • Automated testing now covers Python 3.10 through 3.14.
    • Test configuration has been updated for modern pytest APIs.

Python 3.8 and 3.9 are past end of life. uhashring 2.5 declares
Requires-Python >=3.10. A lower floor forces a permanent uhashring pin.

setup.py now declares python_requires ">=3.10". The dead
version_dependant_requirements branch is gone. install_requires holds a
plain uhashring entry.

The classifiers drop 3.8 and 3.9. They add 3.13, 3.14, and the
"Python :: 3 :: Only" marker.

tox.ini and the CI matrix list py310 to py314. Every matrix version stays
in quotes. An unquoted 3.10 parses as the float 3.1.

requirements_test.txt drops the dead python_version markers. Each package
keeps one unconditional pin.

docs/intro.rst replaces the stale tox sample output.

Refs #265
six and bmemcached/compat.py exist only to support Python 2. The project
targets Python 3 only.

Runtime changes:

- bmemcached/utils.py uses bytes and str in place of six.binary_type and
  six.string_types.
- bmemcached/protocol.py imports pickle from the standard library. It uses
  bytes and str in place of the six aliases.
- bmemcached/client/mixin.py and bmemcached/client/distributed.py import
  pickle from the standard library.
- The Python 2 branch of deserialize is gone. The method returns
  value.decode('utf8').

Wire compatibility stays for the long flag. The write branch was dead,
because compat.long is int on Python 3. The int check always matched
first. The read branch stays and calls int(value). FLAGS['long'] stays.
An old client version can have written a value with that flag.

Test changes: each six.PY3 mock shim becomes "from unittest import mock".
Each six.assertCountEqual call becomes self.assertCountEqual.

setup.py drops six. requirements_test.txt drops mock. flake.nix drops both
packages from the dev shell.

Refs #266
Each idiom is dead on Python 3.

- bmemcached/protocol.py imports SplitResult from urllib.parse directly.
  The try/except ImportError fallback and its type-ignore comment are gone.
- test/test_pickler.py imports pickle directly. The cPickle fallback is gone.
- Every super() call uses the zero-argument form.
- No class declares an explicit object base.
- docs/conf.py drops the coding header and the u'' string prefixes.
- test/test_simple_functions.py drops the u'' string prefixes.

The logger.debug calls keep lazy % arguments. The logging module formats
these only when the level is on.

Refs #267
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Remove runtime compatibility layer
bmemcached/compat.py, bmemcached/protocol.py, bmemcached/client/*, bmemcached/utils.py
Removed six, compatibility imports, Python 2 fallbacks, and explicit object bases. Runtime code now uses Python 3 types and standard-library imports. Legacy long-flag deserialization remains supported through int.
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setup.py, requirements_test.txt, flake.nix, tox.ini, .github/workflows/*
Set the minimum Python version to 3.10. Updated package classifiers, dependencies, test requirements, tox environments, and the CI matrix for Python 3.10–3.14.
Migrate tests to Python 3
test/*
Replaced conditional mock imports, compatibility types, and six.assertCountEqual calls with Python 3 equivalents. Updated long-flag tests to call Protocol.deserialize directly.
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docs/*, AGENTS.md, test/conftest.py, test/test_tls.py
Removed Python 2 string and encoding syntax, removed deleted compatibility-module documentation, updated the tox example, and replaced pytest.yield_fixture with pytest.fixture.

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jaysonsantos and others added 2 commits September 9, 2026 06:40
The tests (3.14) job failed at pytest start up. pytest 6.2 reads
`ast.Str`, and Python 3.14 removed that attribute.

Move the pins to release lines that support Python 3.14:
flake8 7.3, pytest 9.1, pytest-cov 7.1 and trustme 1.2.

pytest 7.0 removed `pytest.yield_fixture`. Replace each use with
`pytest.fixture`, which has the same behaviour for generator fixtures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove the `bmemcached.compat` section from `docs/bmemcached.rst`.
This commit series deletes that module, so Sphinx reported an import
failure and wrote a broken section.

Restore the legacy long flag coverage in the two `testGetLong` methods.
`Protocol.serialize` marks every non-boolean `int` with
`FLAGS['integer']`, so both tests repeated `testGetInteger`. Each test
now calls `Protocol.deserialize` with `FLAGS['long']` directly.

Update the Python range in `AGENTS.md` to 3.10 through 3.14. The range
must agree with `setup.py`, `tox.ini` and the CI matrix.

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…e path (#286)

> **Base branch:** `modernize/python-310-floor` (#278). Review that pull
request
> first. The diff here is incremental, and it is nine lines.

## What changed

`bmemcached/protocol.py` gains a module-level `FLAGS_UNPACKER =
struct.Struct('!L')`.
`get` and `get_multi` use it to read the 4 byte flags field, then slice
the
rest of the body. Neither builds a format string any more.

The `bytes()` copy in `_read_socket` stays. The reason is below, with
numbers.

## Why

Commit 72d2aaf precompiled the request packers, but that work covered
the send
path only. The receive path still built a format string on every call:

```python
struct.unpack('!L%ds' % (bodylen - 4), ...)                      # get
struct.unpack('!L%ds%ds' % (keylen, bodylen - keylen - 4), ...)  # get_multi
```

CPython caches compiled struct formats in an LRU cache, 100 entries by
default. Because these formats embed the per-call value length, a
workload
with more than 100 distinct value sizes evicts entries and recompiles on
every
call. This is the same pattern 72d2aaf removed on the send side.

A `struct.Struct` for `'!L%ds' % n` is specific to one length `n`, so
precompiling one per length does not help. A fixed-format read plus a
slice
compiles nothing at all.

## Verification

```
nix develop --command bash -c 'pytest -q'
```

Result: `261 passed`. This matches the baseline on `main`.

```
nix develop --command bash -c 'flake8'
```

Result: 0 errors.

### Benchmark

The benchmark runs the parse step only. No socket and no server are
involved,
because the change is about format compilation. Python 3.12, `timeit`.

| Case | Before | After | Speedup |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `get`, 500 distinct value lengths (past the LRU cache) | 0.418 us |
0.137 us | 3.05x |
| `get`, 20 distinct value lengths (inside the cache) | 0.227 us | 0.129
us | 1.77x |
| `get`, one repeated length (best case for the cache) | 0.227 us |
0.121 us | 1.87x |
| `get_multi`, 500 distinct value lengths | 0.495 us | 0.187 us | 2.65x
|
| `get_multi`, one repeated length | 0.292 us | 0.173 us | 1.69x |

The gain is largest past the cache, as expected. It is still real inside
the
cache, because a `%` format and a lookup cost more than a slice.

### The `_read_socket` copy: measured, and kept

The issue asked for a measurement, not a theory. Here it is.

The copy is real. `bytes(bytearray)` costs 0.073 us at 64 bytes, 0.111
us at
1 KB, 1.80 us at 16 KB, and 17.4 us at 256 KB. At large value sizes it
dominates the parse step this pull request just made faster.

It still stays, because removing it changes public return types. A
bytearray
slice is a bytearray, not bytes:

- `deserialize` returns the raw buffer for a value carrying the `binary`
flag.
  `get` would return a `bytearray` in place of `bytes`.
- `get_multi` uses the response key as a dict key. A `bytearray` is
  unhashable, so this raises `TypeError`.
- `stats()` tests `isinstance(key, bytes)` and would stop decoding the
key. It
  would then use an unhashable `bytearray` as a dict key.
- The error paths format `extra_content` into an exception message. The
text
  changes from `b'...'` to `bytearray(b'...')`.

Each of those needs its own `bytes()` call. That puts the copy back for
the
binary path and widens the change well past this issue. The acceptance
criteria allow the copy to stay with a stated reason, so it stays.

The copy is worth its own issue, together with a decision about whether
returning `bytes` for binary values is a contract this project wants to
keep.
I have not opened that issue, because the answer is a design call for
you, not
a defect. Say the word and I will open it.

## Risks

A reviewer must check two points.

1. **The slice arithmetic must match the old format strings.** For
`get`, the
old format read 4 bytes of flags then `bodylen - 4` bytes of value, so
the
value is `extra_content[4:]`. For `get_multi`, the old format read 4
bytes
of flags, then `keylen` bytes of key, then `bodylen - keylen - 4` bytes
of
   value, so the key is `extra_content[4:4 + keylen]` and the value is
`extra_content[4 + keylen:]`. `extra_content` is exactly `bodylen` bytes
   long, which is what makes the open-ended slices correct.
2. **Return types are unchanged.** `_read_socket` still returns `bytes`,
so
every slice is `bytes`, exactly as `struct.unpack` produced before. This
is
   the direct consequence of keeping the copy.

`struct.unpack` raised `struct.error` on a body whose length did not
match the
header. A slice does not. A short body now yields a short value in place
of an
exception. No test covered that path, and the header check that #273
adds
catches the desynchronized-stream case that produces it.

Closes #276

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> request write access.

## What changed

`.github/workflows/tests-and-lint.yml` is rewritten. It uses
`actions/checkout@v7` and `actions/setup-python@v7` at every call site.
It adds
a `concurrency` group, a top-level `permissions: contents: read` block,
`timeout-minutes` on both jobs, and `cache: pip` on both `setup-python`
steps.
The matrix reads `["3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13", "3.14"]` with
`fail-fast: false`. The tests job writes `coverage.xml` and uploads it
as an
artifact.

`.ci-before-script.sh`, `.ci-runs-tests.sh`, and `.travis.yml` are
deleted. The
workflow holds their steps inline. The Travis badge in `docs/intro.rst`
now
points at the GitHub Actions badge.

`renovate.json` is new. It groups patch, minor, and digest updates into
one
pull request named `all non-major updates`. Each major update gets its
own
pull request and waits for approval on the dependency dashboard.

## Why

Four action call sites held three different major versions, and no
update bot
config existed, so nothing bumped them. The `STEP` indirection came from
Travis, which needed an environment variable to branch a build matrix.
GitHub
Actions has two native jobs already, and the indirection cost real
things:
`pip install -e .` ran twice, `env` printed the whole environment to a
public
log, and the `memcached` install had no `-y` flag. `.travis.yml` called
two
scripts that do not exist in this repository.

## Verification

The workflow itself runs on this pull request. That is the real check.

Local checks:

```
nix develop --command bash -c 'pytest -q'
```

Result: `261 passed`.

```
nix develop --command bash -c 'ruff check .'
nix develop --command bash -c 'ruff format --check .'
```

Result: `All checks passed!` and `23 files already formatted`.

The workflow YAML, `renovate.json`, and `.pre-commit-config.yaml` all
parse.
Each action tag was checked against its upstream release list:
`actions/checkout` is at `v7.0.1`, `actions/setup-python` at `v7.0.0`,
and
`actions/upload-artifact` at `v7.0.1`.

## Risks

A reviewer must check four points.

1. **Renovate needs the GitHub App.** See the note at the top. Without
it,
   `renovate.json` does nothing.
2. **`actions/upload-artifact` is pinned at `v4`,** as the issue text
specifies. The current release is `v7.0.1`. `v4` still works. Renovate
will
   propose the major bump on the dependency dashboard once it runs.
3. **Two `renovate.json` settings need your preference.** `timezone` is
   `Europe/Berlin`. `schedule` runs once per week, before 6am on Monday.
   Change either one if it is wrong.
4. **Python 3.13 and 3.14 are new matrix legs.** This pull request runs
them
   for the first time. Check that both legs pass before you merge.

The `pip_requirements` manager is out of `enabledManagers`. #270 deleted
`requirements_test.txt`, so nothing is left for that manager to read.

Closes #271


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Chores**
- Updated automated testing and linting workflows with clearer time
limits, improved dependency installation, Python 3.12 lint coverage, and
enhanced workflow permissions.
  - Added coverage report uploads for test runs.
- Improved workflow reliability by canceling outdated runs when newer
runs start.
- Expanded automated dependency update scheduling and grouping, with
support for additional project configuration files.
- Simplified CI execution by consolidating testing and linting steps
into the workflow configuration.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

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Co-authored-by: Cursor Agent <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Remove the remaining Python 2 idioms Remove the six dependency and delete bmemcached/compat.py Set the minimum supported Python version to 3.10

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