PyGObject 3.1.92 released

I just released a new pygobject version 3.1.92, for this week’s GNOME 3.3.92. This was my first-ever GNOME release (yay!), so please bear with me.

One highlight of this release is the new pygtkcompat module, contributed by Johan Dahlin. It provides backwards compatibility to pygtk far beyond to what the Gtk overrrides do, and also includes some shims for the old static webkit, gudev, and other modules. You can, and have to, enable them individually:

import gi.pygtkcompat

# enable "gobject" and "glib" modules
gi.pygtkcompat.enable()
gi.pygtkcompat.enable_gtk(version='3.0')

import glib
import gtk

Now you can use gtk.Window(), glib.timeout_add() etc. as before, and these will be transparently be converted into their modern GI counterparts. Please note that this is still in its infancy, and also mostly meant to ease the porting to GI. It’s not something we’ll keep forever.

Thanks to Michel Dänzer this release now also works properly on big-endian machines.

I mostly worked on fixing the calls of methods which take a list of GValues as arguments, such as Gtk.ListStore.insert_with_valuesv() and similar functions, and made the override API for tree models (append() etc. with providing row data) atomic wrt. the signals it sends out.

I want to thank Johan and Paolo for the nice teamwork with reviewing each other’s patches. That’s open source at its best!

Complete list of changes:

  • Correct Gtk.TreePath.__iter__ to work with Python 3 (Johan Dahlin)
  • Fix test_everything.TestSignals.test_object_param_signal test case (Martin Pitt)
  • Add a PyGTK compatibility layer (Johan Dahlin)
  • pygtkcompat: Remove first argument for get_origin() (Johan Dahlin)
  • Fix pygtkcompat.py to work with Python 3 (Martin Pitt)
  • GtkViewport: Add a default values for the adjustment constructor parameters (Johan Dahlin)
  • GtkIconSet: Add a default value for the pixbuf constructor parameter (Johan Dahlin)
  • PangoLayout: Add a default value for set_markup() (Johan Dahlin)
  • Gtk[HV]Scrollbar: Add a default value for the adjustment constructor parameter (Johan Dahlin)
  • GtkToolButton: Add a default value for the stock_id constructor parameter (Johan Dahlin)
  • GtkIconView: Add a default value for the model constructor parameter (Johan Dahlin)
  • Add a default value for column in Gtk.TreeView.get_cell_area() (Johan Dahlin)
  • Atomic inserts in Gtk.{List,Tree}Store overrides (Martin Pitt)
  • Fix Gtk.Button constructor to accept use_stock parameter (Martin Pitt)
  • Correct bad rebase, remove duplicate Window (Johan Dahlin)
  • Add bw-compatible arguments to Gtk.Adjustment (Johan Dahlin)
  • GtkTreePath: make it iterable (Johan Dahlin)
  • Add a default argument to TreeModelFilter.set_visible_func() (Johan Dahlin)
  • Add a default argument to Gtk.TreeView.set_cursor (Johan Dahlin)
  • Add a default argument to Pango.Context.get_metrics() (Johan Dahlin)
  • Fix double-freeing GValues in arrays (Martin Pitt)
  • Renamed “property” class to “Property” (Simon Feltman)
  • Fix Python to C marshalling of GValue arrays (Martin Pitt)
  • Correct the Gtk.Window hierarchy (Johan Dahlin)
  • Renamed getter/setter instance attributes to fget/fset respectively. (Simon Feltman)
  • Add Gtk.Arrow/Gtk.Window constructor override (Johan Dahlin)
  • Fix marshalling to/from Python to work on big endian machines. (Michel Dänzer)
  • Use gi_cclosure_marshal_generic instead of duplicating it. (Michel Dänzer)
  • Override Gtk.TreeView.get_visible_range to fix return (René Stadler)
  • Plug memory leak in _is_union_member (Paolo Borelli)
  • tests: Split TestInterfaces into separate tests (Sebastian Pölsterl)
  • README: Update current maintainers (Martin Pitt)
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