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.. module:: IPython.utils.py3compat :synopsis: Python 2 & 3 compatibility helpers
IPython 6 requires Python 3, so our compatibility module
IPython.utils.py3compat
is deprecated and will be removed in a future
version. In most cases, we recommend you use the six module to support compatible code. This is widely
used by other projects, so it is familiar to many developers and thoroughly
battle-tested.
Our py3compat
module provided some more specific unicode conversions than
those offered by six
. If you want to use these, copy them into your own code
from IPython 5.x. Do not rely on importing them from IPython, as the module may
be removed in the future.
.. seealso:: `Porting Python 2 code to Python 3 <https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html>`_ Official information in the Python docs. `Python-Modernize <https://python-modernize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ A tool which helps make code compatible with Python 3. `Python-Future <https://python-future.org/>`_ Another compatibility tool, which focuses on writing code for Python 3 and making it work on Python 2.