Python 2 and 3 Compatibility

Explains forward compatibility to create Python 2 code that will run on both Python 2 and 3
Provides a manual for Python project maintainers to support both versions
Uses two popular Python libraries, Python-Future and Six

Autorentext

Joannah Nanjekye is from Uganda, a software engineer, conference speaker and a proud FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) contributor who presented at PyCon ZA in South Africa in 2016 and 2017. She shares her knowledge on implementation for Python 2 and 3 support from experiences on her work on open source projects. She worked as software developer for Laboremus Uganda and Fintech Uganda before pursuing a career as Aeronautical Engineer with a bias in Avionics at Kenya Aeronautical College. She is a proud Rails Girls Summer of Code alumnae and was mentored into FOSS development during her time as a scholar.

Inhalt

1. Printing and BackTick repr.- 2. Numbers.- 3. Setting Metaclasses.- 4. Strings and Bytes.- 5. Package Imports.- 6. Exceptions.- 7. HTML Processing.- 8. Working with Files.- 9. Custom Behavior of Classes.- 10. Collections and Iterators.- 11. More Built-ins.- 12. Standard Library Modules.