There were two problems with detection and handling of class methods as call targets in Python 3:
* Methods no longer define `im_self` -- this is now only `__self__`
* The `types` module no longer defines a `ClassType`
The universally-compatible (v2.6+) solution was to switch to using the `inspect` module -- whose interface has been stable -- and to checking the method attribute `__self__`.
(It doesn't hurt that `inspect` checks are more brief and we now no longer need the `types` module here.)
* ansible: use unicode_literals everywhere since it only needs to be
compatible back to 2.6.
* compat/collections.py: delete this entirely and rip out the parts of
functools that require it.
* Introduce serializable Kwargs dict subclass that translates keys to
Unicode on instantiation.
* enable_debug_logging() must set _v/_vv globals.
* cStringIO does not exist in 3.x.
* Treat IOLogger and LogForwarder input as latin-1.
* Avoid ResourceWarnings in first stage by explicitly closing fps.
* Fix preamble_size.py syntax errors.
This change blocks off 2 common scenarios where a race condition is
upgraded to a hang, when the library could internally do better.
* Since we don't know whether the receiver of a `reply_to` is expecting
a raw or pickled message, and since in the case of a raw reply, there
is no way to signal "dead" to the receiver, override the reply_to
field to explicitly mark a message as dead using a special handle.
This replaces the serialized _DEAD sentinel value with a slightly
neater interface, in the form of the reserved IS_DEAD handle, and
enables an important subsequent change: when a context cannot route a
message, it can send a generic 'dead' reply back towards the message
source, ensuring any sleeping thread is woken with ChannelError.
The use of this field could potentially be extended later on if
additional flags are needed, but for now this seems to suffice.
* Teach Router._invoke() to reply with a dead message when it receives a
message for an invalid local handle.
* Teach Router._async_route() to reply with a dead message when it
receives an unroutable message.
e.g. assert x == y -> self.assertEqual(x, y);
self.assertTrue(isinstance(x, y)) -> self.assertIsInstance(x, y)
These specific methods give more useful errors in the case of a test
failure.
Now there is a separate SHUTDOWN message that relies only on being
received by the broker thread, the main thread can be hung horribly and
the process will still eventually receive a SIGTERM.
* Support passing Context() objects in function calls and return values.
Now the fakessh demo from the documentation index would work
correctly.
* Since slaves can communicate with each other now, they should also use
the same approach to unpickling as the master already used. Collapse
away all the unpickle extension crap and hard-wire just the 3 types
that support unpickling.
Alex Willmer