Forward and backwards compatibility layer for Django 1.4, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11

Consider django-compat as an experiment based on the discussion on reddit. Let's see where it goes.

What started as an experiment based on this discussion on reddit has proven to be true in real life.

django-compat is under active development. To learn about other features, bug fixes, and changes, please refer to the changelog.

Two popular examples of open source reusable app that uses django-compat are django-hijack and django-background-tasks.
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• Be able to use the LTS versions of Django and support newer versions in your app
• Use features from newer Django versions in an old one
• Manage and master the gap between different framework versions

Install compat from the PyPI or download and install manually. All relevant releases are listed here under releases.

Using one of the compatible objects is easy. For example

from compat import patterns, url

urlpatterns = patterns('ABC.views',
		url(r'^abc/$', 'abc', name='abc-link'),
...

See a full example here.

• https://github.com/ubernostrum/django-compat-lint
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/misc/api-stability/
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/python3/
• http://andrewsforge.com/presentation/upgrading-django-to-17/

Bits and bites of the following projects were re-used to build django-compat.

• https://github.com/lukaszb/django-guardian/blob/devel/guardian/compat.py
• https://github.com/evonove/django-oauth-toolkit/blob/master/oauth2_provider/compat.py
• https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie/blob/master/tastypie/compat.py
• https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/blob/master/rest_framework/compat.py
  • TODO: MinValueValidator, MaxValueValidator et al. (other relevant bits are included) Django 1.8
• https://gist.github.com/theskumar/ff8de60ff6a33bdacaa8
• https://github.com/evonove/django-oauth-toolkit/blob/master/oauth2_provider/templatetags/compat.py
• https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/requests/compat.py
• https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/blob/master/jinja2/_compat.py
• https://github.com/jaraco/setuptools/blob/master/setuptools/compat.py
• https://github.com/mariocesar/sorl-thumbnail/blob/master/sorl/thumbnail/compat.py

• Update existing patches for Django 1.10

• Update existing patches for Django 1.10

• Add get_current_site and admin_utils

• Fix error when installing package under python 3.4

### 2015/11/12

• Backport new render_to_string function signature to Django < 1.8
• Backport verbatim tag to Django 1.4
• Add get_template_loaders
• Add close_connection
• Improve JsonResponse backport to Django 1.4
• Add tests for import_module, get_model and add_to_builtins
• Anticipate renaming of django.core.urlresolvers to django.urls in 1.10
• Avoid warnings in setup.py

• 1.9 compatibility for existing objects with the following changes:
  • add_to_builtins was removed for Django >= 1.9
  • GenericForeignKey` was moved to compat.models`` for Django >= 1.9

• add_to_builtins was added

• get_query_set/get_queryset support was dropped again (see #29)