There was no way to pass an already-encoded string to 
`builder.CreateString` in Python 2.7:

- Passing a `bytearray` raised a TypeError because `bytearray` was not
  recognized as an instance of `compat.binary_type`.
- Passing a utf-8 encoded `str` would cause the string to be
  double-encoded, because `compat.string_types = (basestring,)` and
  `basestring` is the base class of `str` and `unicode`, so the logic
  would never reach the `elif isinstance(s, compat.binary_type)` case.
- Converting a utf-8 encoded bytearray to `bytes` like
  `builder.CreateString(bytes(encoded_string))` does not work because
  in Python 2.7, bytes is just an alias for `str` so it behaves as
  above.

This change allows either `bytes` or `bytearray` as an already-encoded
string to be passed to `CreateString` in versions of Python that support
`bytearray`, and falls back to `str` in older versions.

In Python 2, it restricts unencoded string types to `unicode`, so `str`
can be used as an encoded, binary representaiton.

Change-Id: I95bc50ecd3b49d91fb81477a8818e3c1f253ff77

Change-Id: I9576e130142acc697fadbfb6aacfd5969f25866a
Tested: on Windows.
Bug: 27426239

Change-Id: I790cf681c1bffff800d77afb0e2f908d1c827679
Tested: on Linux.
Bug: 26186542

This is FAQ on the issue tracker.

Bug: 26863353
Change-Id: I227e10a5c0134dbe7fd7f59e64cd57a0752c568e

Fixed missing -lc++abi on FreeBSD.

Fix small typo in documentation navigation

Javascript helper to get typed array views

Fix #3773: Generated JS now avoids the flatbuffers object

Fix bug skipping unknown fields

Catchup

Change-Id: I834e6da091ea704a3fe599a5b99f338d29cd3bf1

The code generator was assuming all declarations for the current
file sit in the same namepace. Now uses the "on demand" namespace
switching we had for the forward declarations.

Also fixed a bug related to namespace lookup.

Change-Id: Ib54a3efbc752cbb9590302fa0707c0c73448db3d
Tested: on Linux.

For scalar vector fields, emit an Array helper that
returns a typed array view of the underlying bytes buffer.

The generated buffer should be tested for semantic equivalence
to the correct buffer, instead of being tested for bytewise
equality.

fix gcc-4.4 build: -Werror=unused-result is not supported

This caused values in the uint range to be made negative values.

Change-Id: Ia4284747f48508b589c034ff3aae0d141e96eb3c
Tested: on Linux.

Python: remove ctypes dependency in runtime library.

Change-Id: I080041e533153b2bb2db53f030761852e95c88fa

Add -v --version arg support to the flatc command.

Update readme.md for github

Added support for C# partial class generation using attribute

Added support for C# partial class generation when the `csharp_partial` attribute is used on a table/struct.

Change-Id: Ie3b31719f7b133ec4aea64f00f2029566558cb18
Tested: Linux.