zope.copy 6.0

Pluggable object copying mechanism

zope.copy

This package provides a pluggable mechanism for copying persistent objects.

Documentation is hosted at https://zopecopy.readthedocs.io/

Changes

6.0 (2025-09-12)

• Replace pkg_resources namespace with PEP 420 native namespace.

• Drop support for Python 3.8.

5.0 (2024-10-25)

• Add support for Python 3.12, 3.13.

• Depend on zodbpickle instead of Python’s pickle, to be able to support Python 3.13 properly.

• Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7.

4.3 (2022-11-29)

• Add support for Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11.

• Drop support for Python 3.4.

4.2 (2018-10-04)

• Use the latest and fastest protocol when pickling and unpickling and object during the clone operation

• Add support for Python 3.7.

4.1.0 (2017-07-31)

• Drop support for Python 2.6, 3.2 and 3.3.

• Add support for Python 3.5 and 3.6.

• Restore zope.component as a testing requirement for running doctests.

4.0.3 (2014-12-26)

• Add support for PyPy3.

4.0.2 (2014-03-19)

• Add support for Python 3.3 and 3.4.

• Update boostrap.py to version 2.2.

4.0.1 (2012-12-31)

• Flesh out PyPI Trove classifiers.

4.0.0 (2012-06-13)

• Add support for Python 3.2.

• Drop zope.component as a testing requirement. Instead, register explicit (dummy) adapter hooks where needed.

• Add PyPy support.

• 100% unit test coverage.

• Add support for continuous integration using tox and jenkins.

• Add Sphinx documentation: moved doctest examples to API reference.

• Add ‘setup.py docs’ alias (installs Sphinx and dependencies).

• Add ‘setup.py dev’ alias (runs setup.py develop plus installs nose, coverage, and testing dependencies).

• Drop support for Python 2.4 and 2.5.

• Include tests of the LocationCopyHook from zope.location.

3.5.0 (2009-02-09)

• Initial release. The functionality was extracted from zc.copy to provide a generic object copying mechanism with minimal dependencies.