Merge pull request #231 from DiffSK/5.0.xHEADv5.0.8release

prepping to release 5.0.8

4 files changed, 37 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/configobj/_version.py b/src/configobj/_version.py
index 3379d0a..f9d71a5 100644
--- a/src/configobj/_version.py
+++ b/src/configobj/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '5.0.7'
\ No newline at end of file
+__version__ = '5.0.8'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/configobj/validate.py b/src/configobj/validate.py
index b7a964c..9267a3f 100644
--- a/src/configobj/validate.py
+++ b/src/configobj/validate.py
@@ -158,7 +158,6 @@ __all__ = (
     'is_ip_addr_list',
     'is_mixed_list',
     'is_option',
-    '__docformat__',
 )
 
 
diff --git a/src/tests/test_validate.py b/src/tests/test_validate.py
index 07c1de7..2d72821 100644
--- a/src/tests/test_validate.py
+++ b/src/tests/test_validate.py
@@ -5,6 +5,20 @@ import pytest
 from configobj.validate import Validator, VdtValueTooSmallError
 
 
+class TestImporting(object):
+    def test_top_level(self, val):
+        import validate
+        assert val.__class__ is validate.Validator
+
+    def test_within_configobj_using_from(self, val):
+        from configobj import validate
+        assert val.__class__ is validate.Validator
+
+    def test_within_configobj(self, val):
+        import configobj.validate
+        assert val.__class__ is configobj.validate.Validator
+
+
 class TestBasic(object):
     def test_values_too_small(self, val):
         config = '''
diff --git a/src/validate/__init__.py b/src/validate/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a88747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/validate/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+"""
+This is a backwards compatibility-shim to support:
+
+ ```
+ import validate
+ ```
+
+ in a future release, we'd expect this to no longer work and
+ instead using:
+
+ ```
+ import configobj.validate
+ ```
+
+ or:
+
+ ```
+ from configobj import validate
+ ```
+"""
+from configobj.validate import *
+