hivesolutions / legacy

Set of tools that provide backward compatibility with Python 2.6+

Legacy support for Python 2/3

Set of tools that provide backward compatibility with Python 2.6+.

Guide

When creating code that is meant to work both in PYthn 2.6+ and Python 3.1+ one must take into consideration the following topics:

• Usage of the comparison operators cmp()
• Usage of the iterator based operators: xrange, iteritems, iterkeys, itervalues
• Compatibility between the new iterator based operation and the old eager ones for: range, items, keys, values
• Hash related functions must receive byte based strings: hashlib.update, hashlib.md5, etc
• Base64 encoding/decoding requires byte strings: base64.b64encode, base64.b64decode (only Python 3.2-)

References

• Porting Python 2 Code to Python 3

License

Legacy is currently licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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