Python-Future
Easy, clean, reliable Python 2/3 compatibility (by PythonCharmers)
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Python 2 and 3 compatibility library (by benjaminp)
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1,169 | 965 | |
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7.5 | 2.0 | |
11 days ago | 29 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
OSI Approved | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Python-Future
Posts with mentions or reviews of Python-Future.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Can you run a Python 3.8.4 code with another python version for example version 2 or 3.9?
Python 2.7 has been EOL for over a year. You should avoid needing to use it. If you do please use something like python-future that should help you write code that is backwards / forwards compatible.
- Easy, clean, reliable Python 2/3 compatibility
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What are some dead giveaways that distinguish python 2 vs python 3?
Since you think you may be updating this code, I would strongly suggest you check out the six or future packages which help to write code that runs under both python 2 and 3. IME future does a better job of making python2 code look like python3, making the eventual cutover easier, while six makes compromises on both ends and code doesn’t looks strictly like 2 or 3. They both have really good guides for transitioning code as well, even if you don’t import them. Future’s guide was constantly open when I did this work, more so than even the core documentation.
six
Posts with mentions or reviews of six.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-05.
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Six is maintained by 1 person and used by 25% of the most popular packages. Is this our left-pad to be?
Looking at the insights of Six’s GitHub page, we see only 1 person with a significant influence.
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Why are circular dependencies even a thing?
Easier example...sphinx is a document generator for python programs (creating docs for the API of programs from source-code comments for example). Spinx depends on html5lib which itself again depends on six...want to make a guess what six uses to generate its API docs? ;) So if you want the api docs of six you will have to first install it without to be able to get a working sphinx install then redo the six on including the building of the API docs.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Python-Future and six you can also consider the following projects:
Six
SwiftUIX - An exhaustive expansion of the standard SwiftUI library.
modernize - Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration. Built on top of fissix (a fork of lib2to3)
doesitarm - 🦾 A list of reported app support for Apple Silicon as well as Apple M2 and M1 Ultra Macs
Python-Modernize
html5lib - Standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments in Python
harfbuzz - HarfBuzz text shaping engine
shouldiprefix - A quick overview of what CSS features to prefix