{"categories":[{"label":"Software Development","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development/7"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides backports of abstract base classes (Generator, Coroutine, Awaitable) and related inspect functions from collections.abc for older Python versions that lack them.","skillfed_tags":["python-2-compat","legacy-support"],"use_cases":["Maintaining a library that must support Python 2.7 while using Coroutine or Generator type hints.","Patching collections.abc in Python 3.2 environments to provide missing abstract base classes.","Conditional imports in compatibility layers that need to work across Python 2, 3.2, and 3.3+."],"what_it_does":"backports_abc fills a gap for developers maintaining code that must run on Python 2.x or Python 3.2, where abstract base classes like Coroutine, Generator, and Awaitable did not yet exist in the standard library. Starting in Python 3.3, these classes moved into collections.abc as part of the standard library. This package provides those classes as a fallback import for older interpreters, and includes a patch() function that can inject them into the collections or collections.abc module namespace to make them available through the standard import path.\n\nThe package has no runtime dependencies and installs with low friction. However, it has been abandoned since 2016 and is only relevant for legacy Python 2 or Python 3.2 codebases. Modern Python versions render it unnecessary.","worth_installing":"No, unless you are actively maintaining Python 2.x or Python 3.2 codebases. For any modern Python project (3.3+), these classes are built-in and this package is unnecessary. The package is abandoned and will not receive updates or security patches. If you do need it for legacy support, installation is safe and frictionless, but consider whether the legacy Python version itself is still worth supporting."},"id":"backports-abc","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/backports-abc","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/backports-abc.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/backports-abc/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2016-11-12","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"backports_abc","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"A backport of recent additions to the 'collections.abc' module."},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":576451,"position":5930,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.5"}