Issue #19223: Add support for the 'x' mode to the bz2 module.

Patch by Tim Heaney and Vajrasky Kok.

Doc/library/bz2.rst

@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ All of the classes in this module may safely be accessed from multiple threads.
    file object to read from or write to.
 
    The *mode* argument can be any of ``'r'``, ``'rb'``, ``'w'``, ``'wb'``,
-   ``'a'``, or ``'ab'`` for binary mode, or ``'rt'``, ``'wt'``, or ``'at'`` for
+   ``'x'``, ``'xb'``, ``'a'`` or ``'ab'`` for binary mode, or ``'rt'``,
-   text mode. The default is ``'rb'``.
+   ``'wt'``, ``'xt'``, or ``'at'`` for text mode. The default is ``'rb'``.
 
    The *compresslevel* argument is an integer from 1 to 9, as for the
    :class:`BZ2File` constructor.
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ All of the classes in this module may safely be accessed from multiple threads.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.3
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+      The ``'x'`` (exclusive creation) mode was added.
+
 
 .. class:: BZ2File(filename, mode='r', buffering=None, compresslevel=9)
 
@@ -64,8 +67,9 @@ All of the classes in this module may safely be accessed from multiple threads.
    be used to read or write the compressed data.
 
    The *mode* argument can be either ``'r'`` for reading (default), ``'w'`` for
-   overwriting, or ``'a'`` for appending. These can equivalently be given as
+   overwriting, ``'x'`` for exclusive creation, or ``'a'`` for appending. These
-   ``'rb'``, ``'wb'``, and ``'ab'`` respectively.
+   can equivalently be given as ``'rb'``, ``'wb'``, ``'xb'`` and ``'ab'``
+   respectively.
 
    If *filename* is a file object (rather than an actual file name), a mode of
    ``'w'`` does not truncate the file, and is instead equivalent to ``'a'``.
@@ -108,6 +112,9 @@ All of the classes in this module may safely be accessed from multiple threads.
       The ``'a'`` (append) mode was added, along with support for reading
       multi-stream files.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+      The ``'x'`` (exclusive creation) mode was added.
+
 
 Incremental (de)compression
 ---------------------------

Lib/bz2.py

@@ -49,12 +49,12 @@ class BZ2File(io.BufferedIOBase):
         which will be used to read or write the compressed data.
 
         mode can be 'r' for reading (default), 'w' for (over)writing,
-        or 'a' for appending. These can equivalently be given as 'rb',
+        'x' for creating exclusively, or 'a' for appending. These can
-        'wb', and 'ab'.
+        equivalently be given as 'rb', 'wb', 'xb', and 'ab'.
 
         buffering is ignored. Its use is deprecated.
 
-        If mode is 'w' or 'a', compresslevel can be a number between 1
+        If mode is 'w', 'x' or 'a', compresslevel can be a number between 1
         and 9 specifying the level of compression: 1 produces the least
         compression, and 9 (default) produces the most compression.
 
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ class BZ2File(io.BufferedIOBase):
             mode = "wb"
             mode_code = _MODE_WRITE
             self._compressor = BZ2Compressor(compresslevel)
+        elif mode in ("x", "xb"):
+            mode = "xb"
+            mode_code = _MODE_WRITE
+            self._compressor = BZ2Compressor(compresslevel)
         elif mode in ("a", "ab"):
             mode = "ab"
             mode_code = _MODE_WRITE
@@ -443,9 +447,9 @@ def open(filename, mode="rb", compresslevel=9,
     The filename argument can be an actual filename (a str or bytes
     object), or an existing file object to read from or write to.
 
-    The mode argument can be "r", "rb", "w", "wb", "a" or "ab" for
+    The mode argument can be "r", "rb", "w", "wb", "x", "xb", "a" or
-    binary mode, or "rt", "wt" or "at" for text mode. The default mode
+    "ab" for binary mode, or "rt", "wt", "xt" or "at" for text mode.
-    is "rb", and the default compresslevel is 9.
+    The default mode is "rb", and the default compresslevel is 9.
 
     For binary mode, this function is equivalent to the BZ2File
     constructor: BZ2File(filename, mode, compresslevel). In this case,

Lib/test/test_bz2.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import os
 import random
 import subprocess
 import sys
+from test.support import unlink
 
 try:
     import threading
@@ -715,7 +716,10 @@ class OpenTest(BaseTest):
         return bz2.open(*args, **kwargs)
 
     def test_binary_modes(self):
-        with self.open(self.filename, "wb") as f:
+        for mode in ("wb", "xb"):
+            if mode == "xb":
+                unlink(self.filename)
+            with self.open(self.filename, mode) as f:
                 f.write(self.TEXT)
             with open(self.filename, "rb") as f:
                 file_data = self.decompress(f.read())
@@ -730,7 +734,10 @@ class OpenTest(BaseTest):
 
     def test_implicit_binary_modes(self):
         # Test implicit binary modes (no "b" or "t" in mode string).
-        with self.open(self.filename, "w") as f:
+        for mode in ("w", "x"):
+            if mode == "x":
+                unlink(self.filename)
+            with self.open(self.filename, mode) as f:
                 f.write(self.TEXT)
             with open(self.filename, "rb") as f:
                 file_data = self.decompress(f.read())
@@ -746,7 +753,10 @@ class OpenTest(BaseTest):
     def test_text_modes(self):
         text = self.TEXT.decode("ascii")
         text_native_eol = text.replace("\n", os.linesep)
-        with self.open(self.filename, "wt") as f:
+        for mode in ("wt", "xt"):
+            if mode == "xt":
+                unlink(self.filename)
+            with self.open(self.filename, mode) as f:
                 f.write(text)
             with open(self.filename, "rb") as f:
                 file_data = self.decompress(f.read()).decode("ascii")
@@ -759,6 +769,15 @@ class OpenTest(BaseTest):
                 file_data = self.decompress(f.read()).decode("ascii")
                 self.assertEqual(file_data, text_native_eol * 2)
 
+    def test_x_mode(self):
+        for mode in ("x", "xb", "xt"):
+            unlink(self.filename)
+            with self.open(self.filename, mode) as f:
+                pass
+            with self.assertRaises(FileExistsError):
+                with self.open(self.filename, mode) as f:
+                    pass
+
     def test_fileobj(self):
         with self.open(BytesIO(self.DATA), "r") as f:
             self.assertEqual(f.read(), self.TEXT)
@@ -772,6 +791,8 @@ class OpenTest(BaseTest):
         # Test invalid parameter combinations.
         self.assertRaises(ValueError,
                           self.open, self.filename, "wbt")
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError,
+                          self.open, self.filename, "xbt")
         self.assertRaises(ValueError,
                           self.open, self.filename, "rb", encoding="utf-8")
         self.assertRaises(ValueError,

Misc/NEWS

@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #19201: Add "x" mode (exclusive creation) in opening file to lzma
+- Issues #19201, #19223: Add "x" mode (exclusive creation) in opening file to
-  module. Patch by Tim Heaney and Vajrasky Kok.
+  bz2 and lzma modules. Patches by Tim Heaney and Vajrasky Kok.
 
 - Fix a reference count leak in _sre.