* Added `from __future__ import unicode_literals` to every file so
now all strings in code are forced to be unicode strings unless
marked as byte string `b'str'` or encoded to byte string `'str'.encode('utf-8')`.
This is a large change but we have been working towards the goal of unicode
strings passed in the code so decoding external input and encoding
output as byte strings (where applicable).
Note that in Python 2 the `str` type still refers to byte strings.
* Replaced the use of `str` for `basestring` in isinstance comparison as
this was the original intention but breaks code when encoutering unicode strings.
* Marked byte strings in gtkui as the conversion to utf8 is not always handled, mostly
related to gobject signal names.
* A rather disruptive change but for a few reasons such as easier to read,
easier type, keep consistent and javascript code uses single quotes.
* There are a few exceptions for the automated process:
* Any double quotes in comments
* Triple double quotes for docstrings
* Strings containing single quotes are left e.g. "they're"
* To deal with merge conflicts from feature branches it is best to follow
these steps for each commit:
* Create a patch: `git format-patch -1 <sha1>`
* Edit the patch and replace double quotes with single except those in
comments or strings containing an unescaped apostrophe.
* Check the patch `git apply --check <patchfile>` and fix any remaining
issues if it outputs an error.
* Apply the patch `git am < <patchfile>`
To make the code more Python 3 compatible, I've made a few changes to how we handle keys() or iterkeys() calls on dictionaries. All functionality should remain the same.
* Remove the use of .keys() or .iterkeys() when iterating through a dictionary.
* Remove the use of .keys() when checking if key exists in dictionary.
* Replace dict.keys() with list(dict) to obtain a list of dictionary keys. In Python 3 dict.keys() returns a dict_keys object, not a list.
This should fix problems with errors occuring when failing to
enable plugins. Errors in plugin handling are handled better
and properly logged.
WebUI plugin in particular had issues when being enabled and disabled
multiple times because it was trying to create DelugeWeb component
each time it was enabled. If deluge-web is already listening on
the same port, enabling the WebUI plugin will fail, and the checkbox
will not be checked.
There are still some issues when enabling/disabling plugins by
clicking fast multiple times on the checkbox.
* Fix for pluginmanager multiple inheritance which in this case is using super incorrectly.
* Explicitly disable pylint 'pointless-except' and 'super-on-old-class' that prospector
tool somehow runs.
* Make __all__ a tuple to supress pep257 warning.
* Add a noqa for older versions of pyflakes.
Selected Warning messages disabled in pylintrc:
* unused-argument: Quite a large and disruptive change if enabled.
* broad-except: Most required in-depth investigation to determine type.
* fixme: Not important
* protected-access: Complicated to fix
* import-error: Too many false-positives
* unidiomatic-typecheck: Should be fixed in the next round of checks.
* unused-variable: Again large and disruptive changes.
* global-statement: Most usage is required.
* attribute-defined-outside-init: Should be fixed in next round of checks.
* arguments-differ: Possible false-positives, needs revisited.
* no-init, non-parent-init-called, super-init-not-called: False-positives?
* signature-differs: False-positives?
Passing `-r` to the cli's while also passing `-l` will make the logfile rotate when reaching 5Mb in size. Three backups will be kept at all times.
All deluge's code is now using this new style logging along with the git hosted plugins. For other plugins not hosted by deluge, which still imports `LOG` as the logger, a deprecation warning will be shown explaining the required changes needed to use the new style logging. New plugins created by the `create_plugin` script will use the new logging facilities.
