Moving to Python 3
Moving to Python 3
[Development] Posted Feb 9, 2011 18:53 UTC (Wed) by Webexcess
Python 3.0 was released at the end of 2008, but so far only a relatively small number of packages have been updated to support the latest release; the majority of Python software still only supports Python 2. Python 3 introduced changes to Unicode and string handling, module importing, integer representation and division, print statements, and a number of other differences. This article will cover some of the changes that cause the most problems when porting code from Python 2 to Python 3, and will present some strategies for managing a single code base that supports both major versions.