Fix depwarn on 0.5

String, Symbol, precision(BigFloat)
Also fix an incorrect use of unsafe_convert

REQUIRE

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 julia 0.4
-Compat 0.7.14
+Compat 0.7.15
 Conda 0.1.6
 MacroTools 0.2

src/PyCall.jl

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import Base: sigatomic_begin, sigatomic_end
 
 ## Compatibility import for v0.4, v0.5
 using Compat
+import Compat.String
 import Base.unsafe_convert
 
 #########################################################################
@@ -286,7 +287,7 @@ keys(o::PyObject) = Symbol[m[1] for m in pycall(inspect["getmembers"],
 # and providing access to o's members (converted to PyAny) as w.member.
 
 # we skip wrapping Julia reserved words (which cannot be type members)
-const reserved = Set{ASCIIString}(["while", "if", "for", "try", "return", "break", "continue", "function", "macro", "quote", "let", "local", "global", "const", "abstract", "typealias", "type", "bitstype", "immutable", "ccall", "do", "module", "baremodule", "using", "import", "export", "importall", "pymember", "false", "true", "Tuple"])
+const reserved = Set{String}(["while", "if", "for", "try", "return", "break", "continue", "function", "macro", "quote", "let", "local", "global", "const", "abstract", "typealias", "type", "bitstype", "immutable", "ccall", "do", "module", "baremodule", "using", "import", "export", "importall", "pymember", "false", "true", "Tuple"])
 
 """
     pywrap(o::PyObject)
@@ -302,11 +303,11 @@ function pywrap(o::PyObject, mname::Symbol=:__anon__)
                       pycall(inspect["getmembers"], PyObject, o))
     filter!(m -> !(m[1] in reserved), members)
     m = Module(mname, false)
-    consts = [Expr(:const, Expr(:(=), symbol(x[1]), convert(PyAny, x[2]))) for x in members]
+    consts = [Expr(:const, Expr(:(=), Symbol(x[1]), convert(PyAny, x[2]))) for x in members]
     exports = try
                   convert(Vector{Symbol}, o["__all__"])
               catch
-                  [symbol(x[1]) for x in filter(x -> x[1][1] != '_', members)]
+                  [Symbol(x[1]) for x in filter(x -> x[1][1] != '_', members)]
               end
     eval(m, Expr(:toplevel, consts..., :(pymember(s) = $(getindex)($(o), s)),
                  Expr(:export, exports...)))

src/conversions.jl

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ convert(::Type{Void}, po::PyObject) = nothing
 #########################################################################
 # String conversions (both bytes arrays and unicode strings)
 
-PyObject(s::UTF8String) =
+PyObject(s::String) =
   PyObject(@pycheckn ccall(@pysym(PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8),
                            PyPtr, (Ptr{UInt8}, Int, Ptr{UInt8}),
                            s, sizeof(s), C_NULL))
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ end
 # TODO: should symbols be converted to a subclass of Python strings/bytes,
 #       so that PyAny conversion can convert it back to a Julia symbol?
 PyObject(s::Symbol) = PyObject(string(s))
-convert(::Type{Symbol}, po::PyObject) = symbol(convert(AbstractString, po))
+convert(::Type{Symbol}, po::PyObject) = Symbol(convert(AbstractString, po))
 
 #########################################################################
 # ByteArray conversions
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ function mpmath_init()
         copy!(mpf, mpmath["mpf"])
         copy!(mpc, mpmath["mpc"])
     end
-    curprec = get_bigfloat_precision()
+    curprec = precision(BigFloat)
     if mpprec[1] != curprec
         mpprec[1] = curprec
         mpmath["mp"]["prec"] = mpprec[1]
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ pyfloat_query(o::PyObject) = pyisinstance(o, @pyglobalobj :PyFloat_Type) ||  pyi
 pycomplex_query(o::PyObject) =
     pyisinstance(o, @pyglobalobj :PyComplex_Type) ||  pyisinstance(o, npy_complexfloating) ? Complex128 : Union{}
 
-pystring_query(o::PyObject) = pyisinstance(o, @pyglobalobj PyString_Type) ? AbstractString : pyisinstance(o, @pyglobalobj :PyUnicode_Type) ? UTF8String : Union{}
+pystring_query(o::PyObject) = pyisinstance(o, @pyglobalobj PyString_Type) ? AbstractString : pyisinstance(o, @pyglobalobj :PyUnicode_Type) ? String : Union{}
 
 # Given call overloading, all PyObjects are callable already, so
 # we never automatically convert to Function.

src/numpy.jl

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ function npyinitialize()
     end
     API = pointer_to_array(PyArray_API, (PyArray_API_length,))
     for m in eachmatch(r, hdr) # build npy_api table
-        npy_api[symbol(m.captures[1])] = API[parse(Int, m.captures[2])+1]
+        npy_api[Symbol(m.captures[1])] = API[parse(Int, m.captures[2])+1]
     end
     if !haskey(npy_api, :PyArray_New)
         error("failure parsing NumPy PyArray_API symbol table")

src/pyclass.jl

@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ function parse_pydef(expr)
                 else
                     error("$access is not a valid accessor; must be either get or set!")
                 end
-                jl_fun_name = gensym(symbol(attribute,:_,access))
+                jl_fun_name = gensym(Symbol(attribute,:_,access))
                 push!(function_defs, :(function $jl_fun_name($(args...))
                     $rhs
                 end))

src/pydates.jl

@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ function PyObject(p::Dates.Millisecond)
 end
 
 for T in (:Date, :DateTime, :Delta)
-    f = symbol(string("Py", T, "_Check"))
-    t = Expr(:., :PyDateTimeAPI, QuoteNode(symbol(string(T, "Type"))))
+    f = Symbol(string("Py", T, "_Check"))
+    t = Expr(:., :PyDateTimeAPI, QuoteNode(Symbol(string(T, "Type"))))
     @eval $f(o::PyObject) = pyisinstance(o, $t)
 end
 

src/pytype.jl

@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ type PyTypeObject
     # Julia-specific fields, after the end of the Python structure:
 
     # save the tp_name Julia string so that it is not garbage-collected
-    tp_name_save::ASCIIString
+    tp_name_save # This is a gc slot that is never read from
 
     function PyTypeObject(name::AbstractString, basicsize::Integer, init::Function)
         # figure out Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT, depending on Python version
@@ -280,7 +280,8 @@ type PyTypeObject
              Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_CLASS |
              Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_STACKLESS_EXTENSION |
              Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_INDEX)
-        name_save = bytestring(name)
+        # This and the `unsafe_convert` below emulate a `ccall`
+        name_save = Base.cconvert(Ptr{UInt8}, name)
         t = new(0,C_NULL,0,
                 unsafe_convert(Ptr{UInt8}, name_save),
                 convert(Int, basicsize), 0,

test/runtests.jl

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using Base.Test, PyCall, Compat
+import Compat.String
 
 PYTHONPATH=get(ENV,"PYTHONPATH","")
 PYTHONHOME=get(ENV,"PYTHONHOME","")
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ end
 # in Python 3, we need a specific encoding to write strings or bufferize them
 # (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5471158/typeerror-str-does-not-support-the-buffer-interface)
 pyutf8(s::PyObject) = pycall(s["encode"], PyObject, "utf-8")
-pyutf8(s::ByteString) = pyutf8(PyObject(s))
+pyutf8(s::String) = pyutf8(PyObject(s))
 
 # IO (issue #107)
 #@test roundtripeq(STDOUT) # No longer true since #250