Add information for lib3to6 to practicalities #287
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Also update some prose for 2020; and for people like me who only skim headings, re-wrote the not-recommended mitigations in negative voice.
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| ## Depend on setuptools | ||
| ## Don't depend on setuptools |
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I think this one is
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| ## Don't depend on setuptools | |
| ## Don't depend on setuptools unless version >=24.3 |
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How about Don't depend on setuptools unless version >=24.3
So that it's all a list of not to dos?
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sounds good updated suggestion.
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buildscript {
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// Gradle 4.1 and higher include support for Google's Maven repo using
// the google() method. And you need to include this repo to download
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| ## If your users absolutely need Py2.7 but you want to move on | ||
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| If you have users that still depend on Python 2.7 and you cannot drop support yet, | ||
| it may nonetheless be possible to start using Python 3 in your codebase. T |
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| it may nonetheless be possible to start using Python 3 in your codebase. T | |
| it may nonetheless be possible to start using Python 3 in your codebase. |
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| If you have users that still depend on Python 2.7 and you cannot drop support yet, | ||
| it may nonetheless be possible to start using Python 3 in your codebase. T | ||
| hrough automatic conversion using [lib3to6](https://pypi.org/project/lib3to6/) |
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| hrough automatic conversion using [lib3to6](https://pypi.org/project/lib3to6/) | |
| Through automatic conversion using [lib3to6](https://pypi.org/project/lib3to6/) |
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| If you have users that still depend on Python 2.7 and you cannot drop support yet, | ||
| it may nonetheless be possible to start using Python 3 in your codebase. T | ||
| hrough automatic conversion using [lib3to6](https://pypi.org/project/lib3to6/) | ||
| (similar to BabelJS for JavaScript) |
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Looks like it's named simply Babel: https://babeljs.io/
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| (similar to Babel for JavaScript) |
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| it may nonetheless be possible to start using Python 3 in your codebase. T | ||
| hrough automatic conversion using [lib3to6](https://pypi.org/project/lib3to6/) | ||
| (similar to BabelJS for JavaScript) | ||
| you can generate distribution files that will work on both Python2 and Python3. |
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| you can generate distribution files that will work on both Python2 and Python3. | |
| you can generate distribution files that will work on both Python 2 and Python 3. |
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| hrough automatic conversion using [lib3to6](https://pypi.org/project/lib3to6/) | ||
| (similar to BabelJS for JavaScript) | ||
| you can generate distribution files that will work on both Python2 and Python3. | ||
| Lib3to6 is also useful if your project needs to support older versions of Python3 |
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| Lib3to6 is also useful if your project needs to support older versions of Python3 | |
| Lib3to6 is also useful if your project needs to support older versions of Python 3 |
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| This page gathers information and links to resources allowing a library | ||
| to stop supporting an older version of Python without causing too | ||
| much disruption for users who haven't upgraded to this new version. |
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(I've reported @myself001695 to GitHub for disruptive behaviour.) |
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Also update some prose for 2020; and for people like me who only skim headings, re-wrote the not-recommended mitigations in negative voice.