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| author | yum <yum.food.vr@gmail.com> | 2023-01-23 14:28:53 -0800 |
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| committer | yum <yum.food.vr@gmail.com> | 2023-01-23 14:32:09 -0800 |
| commit | 9fff496394dcd94c4084694ca96a5e07ab836274 (patch) | |
| tree | d89b78e16ecb6011bdd74555da79f7a8c1d90752 /FOSS/Python/Dependencies/future-0.18.2/docs/why_python3.rst | |
| parent | 9329d64f991b8b3289af22e4c2eedb09a97c5640 (diff) | |
package.ps1 now fetches all dependencies
Don't literally check in Python since it looks dodgy (rightfully so).
Instead the build script just fetches it.
* Update README, simplifying language and documenting other projects
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diff --git a/FOSS/Python/Dependencies/future-0.18.2/docs/why_python3.rst b/FOSS/Python/Dependencies/future-0.18.2/docs/why_python3.rst deleted file mode 100644 index a4b535f..0000000 --- a/FOSS/Python/Dependencies/future-0.18.2/docs/why_python3.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@ -.. _why-python3: - -Why Python 3? -============= - -- Python 2.7 is the final Python 2.x release. Python 3.x is the future. - The Python ecosystem needs to consolidate. A split or schism between - different incompatible versions is not healthy for growing the - community. -- Function annotations -- Decimal module 100x faster. As fast as floats. -- Easier to learn. (Less cruft in language and stdlib, more consistency, better docstrings, etc.) -- Much safer handling of unicode text and encodings: fewer bugs. -- More memory efficiency (shared dict keys (PEP 412) and space-efficient - Unicode representation (PEP 393)) -- Exception chaining - -Why are Unicode strings better on Python 3? -------------------------------------------- - -- it is not the default string type (you have to prefix the string - with a u to get Unicode); - -- it is missing some functionality, e.g. casefold; - -- there are two distinct implementations, narrow builds and wide builds; - -- wide builds take up to four times more memory per string as needed; - -- narrow builds take up to two times more memory per string as needed; - -- worse, narrow builds have very naive (possibly even "broken") - handling of code points in the Supplementary Multilingual Planes. - -The unicode string type in Python 3 is better because: - -- it is the default string type; - -- it includes more functionality; - -- starting in Python 3.3, it gets rid of the distinction between - narrow and wide builds; - -- which reduces the memory overhead of strings by up to a factor - of four in many cases; - -- and fixes the issue of SMP code points. - -(quote from a mailing list post by Steve D'Aprano on 2014-01-17). - - -New features ------------- - -Standard library: -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -- SSL contexts in http.client -- - - - -Non-arguments for Python 3 -========================== - -- |
