• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Updated to Contributor Covenant version 2.1, replacing the older version 1.2.0.
  • Introduced detailed enforcement guidelines, including correction, warning, temporary ban, and permanent ban policies.
  • Expanded definitions of acceptable and unacceptable behavior within the community.
• expandsymlinks.py
  • Migrated the script to Python 3 by updating the shebang and removing __future__ imports.
  • Enhanced symlink expansion logic in shutil.copytree by setting symlinks=False and dirs_exist_ok=True.
  • Refactored the ignore callback function to use pathlib for more robust path handling and pre-calculation of the source root.
  • Improved error handling by adding sys.exit(1) on exceptions during snapshot creation.
  • Updated argument parsing to pass args directly to main instead of relying on a global FLAGS object.
• noxfile.py
  • Updated black and isort versions to black>=24.1.0 and isort>=5.13.2 respectively.
  • Streamlined Nox sessions for linting, formatting, and unit tests, removing the separate scripts session.
  • Adjusted supported Python versions for testing to focus on 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13.
  • Simplified test dependencies and removed complex wheel building and temporary directory creation steps from the unit session.
  • Introduced dynamic Nox import resolution to prevent IDE 'Unresolved' errors.
• owlbot.py
  • Modernized synthtool usage by introducing dynamic import resolution for synthtool, synthtool.gcp, and synthtool.languages.python.
  • Consolidated multiple s.move calls into a single loop for more efficient and readable templated file movement.
  • Updated the Python version range for templated files to be dynamically generated from 3.7 to 3.14.
  • Changed the nox format command to hide output unless an error occurs, improving log cleanliness.
• samples-index.py
  • Migrated the script to Python 3, replacing httplib2 with urllib.request.urlopen for API discovery.
  • Updated the base URI for samples from Mercurial (BASE_HG_URI) to GitHub (BASE_URI).
  • Refactored metadata extraction (get_metadata) and sample scanning (scan_samples) logic for improved efficiency and robustness using pathlib.Path.rglob.
  • Simplified the wiki page generation in main function, removing keyword-based grouping and utilizing f-strings for cleaner output.
  • Added type hints to functions for better code clarity and maintainability.
• setup.py
  • Increased the minimum required Python version from 3.7 to 3.10.
  • Updated install_requires dependencies to newer, less restrictive versions, such as google-auth>=2.0.0,<3.0.0 and google-api-core>=2.0.0,<3.0.0.
  • Refactored the setup call into a run_setup function, incorporating dynamic setuptools import resolution.
  • Updated Python classifiers to reflect the new supported Python versions (3.10-3.13).
• sitecustomize.py
  • Modernized the path injection logic using pathlib.Path for more robust and cross-platform compatible path resolution.
  • Wrapped the path setup in a setup_dev_path function and added a check to prevent duplicate path entries in sys.path.

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