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For- and backwards compatibility layer for Django 1.4, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, and 1.11

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django-compat
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Forward and backwards compatibility layer for Django ~~1.4~~, ~~1.7~~, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11

~~Consider [django-compat](https://github.com/arteria/django-compat) as an experiment based on the discussion [on reddit](http://redd.it/2jrr4l). Let's see where it goes.~~

What started as an experiment based on [this discussion on reddit](http://redd.it/2jrr4l) has proven to be true in real life.

django-compat is under active development. To learn about other features, bug fixes, and changes, please refer to the [changelog](https://github.com/arteria/django-compat#changelog).

# Who uses django-compat

Two popular examples of open source reusable app that uses django-compat are [django-hijack](https://github.com/arteria/django-hijack/) and [django-background-tasks](https://github.com/arteria/django-background-tasks).
Want to have yours listed here? Send us a PR.

# Why use django-compat

* Be able to use the LTS versions of Django and support newer versions in your app
* Use features from newer Django versions in an old one
* Manage and master the gap between different framework versions

# How to use django-compat

Install compat from the [PyPI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-compat) or download and install manually. All relevant releases are listed [here under releases](https://github.com/arteria/django-compat/releases).

Using one of the compatible objects is easy. For example

from compat import patterns, url

urlpatterns = patterns('ABC.views',
url(r'^abc/$', 'abc', name='abc-link'),
...

See a full example [here](https://github.com/arteria/django-hijack/blob/4966d8865e7e829a562ff2724771628c6590f841/hijack/urls.py#L1).


| django-compat is free software. If you find it useful and would like to give back, please consider to make a donation using [Bitcoin](https://blockchain.info/payment_request?address=1AJkbQdcNkrHzxi91mB1kkPxh4t4BJ4hu4) or [PayPal](https://www.paypal.me/arteriagmbh). Thank you! |
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# Compatible objects

|Compatible object|Specifically tested|1.8|1.9|1.10|1.11|Notes|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|`BytesIO`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`DjangoJSONEncoder`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`EmailValidator`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`GenericForeignKey`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:x:|:x:|:x:||
|`models.GenericForeignKey`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`HttpResponseBase`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`JsonResponse`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`LocaleRegexProvider`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`LocaleRegexURLResolver`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`NoReverseMatch`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`RegexURLPattern`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`RegexURLResolver`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`Resolver404`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`ResolverMatch`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`SortedDict`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`StringIO`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`URLValidator`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`VariableNode`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`View`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`add_to_builtins`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:x:|:x:|:x:||
|`admin_utils`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`atomic`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`clean_manytomany_helptext`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`clear_url_caches`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`close_connection`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`commit`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`commit_on_success`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|`:heavy_check_mark:|`commit_on_success` replaced by `atomic` in Django >= 1.8|
|`force_text`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`format_html`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_callable`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_current_site`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_ident`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_mod_func`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_model`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_model_name`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_ns_resolver`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_resolver`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_script_prefix`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_template_loaders`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_urlconf`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_user_model`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`get_username_field`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`handler404`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`handler500`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`import_module`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`import_string`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`include`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`is_valid_path`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`parse_qs`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`patterns`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:x:|:x:||
|`python_2_unicode_compatible`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`render_to_string`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|The new function signature (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/releases/1.8/#dictionary-and-context-instance-arguments-of-rendering-functions) is backported to pre-1.8.|
|`resolve`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`resolve_url`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:warning:|:warning:|1.10: Reversing by dotted path has been removed|
|`reverse`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`reverse_lazy`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`rollback`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|Transaction savepoint (sid) is required for Django < 1.8|
|`set_script_prefix`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`set_urlconf`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`simplejson`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`slugify`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`smart_text`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`unquote_plus`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`url`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_multiplication_x:|Function used in `urlpatterns`|
|`tempat.url`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|Templatetag; import with `{% load url from compat %}`|
|`uravy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`urlparse`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`urlresolvers`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`urlunparse`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`user_model_label`|:heavy_multiplication_x:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:||
|`templatetags.compat.verbatim`|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|:heavy_check_mark:|Templatetag; import with `{% load verbatim from compat %}`. 1.4: Does not allow specific closing tags, e.g. `{% endverbatim myblock %}`, and does not preserve whitespace inside tags.|

# Resources and references

## Resources
* https://github.com/ubernostrum/django-compat-lint
* https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/misc/api-stability/
* https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/python3/
* http://andrewsforge.com/presentation/upgrading-django-to-17/

## compat.py

Bits and bites of the following projects were re-used to build [django-compat](https://github.com/arteria/django-compat).

- [x] https://github.com/lukaszb/django-guardian/blob/devel/guardian/compat.py
- [X] https://github.com/evonove/django-oauth-toolkit/blob/master/oauth2_provider/compat.py
- [X] https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie/blob/master/tastypie/compat.py
- [X] https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/blob/master/rest_framework/compat.py
- [ ] TODO: MinValueValidator, MaxValueValidator et al. (other relevant bits are included) Django 1.8
- [X] https://gist.github.com/theskumar/ff8de60ff6a33bdacaa8
- [X] https://github.com/evonove/django-oauth-toolkit/blob/master/oauth2_provider/templatetags/compat.py
- [ ] https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/requests/compat.py
- [ ] https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/blob/master/jinja2/_compat.py
- [ ] https://github.com/jaraco/setuptools/blob/master/setuptools/compat.py
- [ ] https://github.com/mariocesar/sorl-thumbnail/blob/master/sorl/thumbnail/compat.py


# Changelog

### 2017/04/07
* Update existing patches for Django 1.10

### 2016/08/02
* Update existing patches for Django 1.10

### 2016/06/01
* Add ``get_current_site`` and ``admin_utils``

### 2016/05/11
* Fix error when installing package under python 3.4

### 2015/11/12
* Backport new render_to_string function signature to Django < 1.8
* Backport verbatim tag to Django 1.4
* Add get_template_loaders
* Add close_connection
* Improve JsonResponse backport to Django 1.4
* Add tests for import_module, get_model and add_to_builtins
* Anticipate renaming of django.core.urlresolvers to django.urls in 1.10
* Avoid warnings in setup.py

### 2015/11/11

* 1.9 compatibility for existing objects with the following changes:
* ``add_to_builtins`` was removed for Django >= 1.9
* ``GenericForeignKey` was moved to ``compat.models`` for Django >= 1.9

### 2015/07/15

* ``add_to_builtins`` was added

### 2015/07/08
* ``get_query_set``/``get_queryset`` support was dropped again (see [#29](https://github.com/arteria/django-compat/issues/29))

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