Python 3 changes breaks backwards compatibility

Posted by solrac on Dec 22, 2008 6:30 PM EDT
IBM/developerWorks; By Cesar Otero
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Python 3 is the latest version of Guido van Rossum's powerful general-purpose programming language. It breaks backwards compatibility with the 2.x line but has cleaned up some syntax issues. This article is the first in a series that talks about the changes that affect the language and backwards compatibility, and it provides examples of new features.

Python 3 is the latest version of Guido van Rossum's powerful general-purpose programming language. Whether the Python community will accept version 3 is anyone's guess. The breaking of backwards compatibility will mean supporting two different versions in parallel. This article covers changes to input/output (I/O), the new bytes data type, changes to strings and string formatting, and finally, changes to the built-in dict type.

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