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#14640: Fix typos/syntax in pyporting.rst. 

Patch by Dionysios Kalofonos.
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R David Murray 2012-04-23 14:46:39 -04:00
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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ code, it does mean you keep a rapid development process for you, the developer.
Finally, you do have the option of :ref:`using 2to3 <use_2to3>` to translate
Python 2 code into Python 3 code (with some manual help). This can take the
form of branching your code and using 2to3 to start a Python 3 branch. You can
also have users perform the translation as installation time automatically so
also have users perform the translation at installation time automatically so
that you only have to maintain a Python 2 codebase.
Regardless of which approach you choose, porting is not as hard or
@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ You can avoid this disparity by always slicing at the size of a single element:
``b'py'[1:2]`` is ``'y'`` in Python 2 and ``b'y'`` in Python 3 (i.e., close
enough).
You cannot concatenate bytes and strings in Python 3. But since in Python
You cannot concatenate bytes and strings in Python 3. But since Python
2 has bytes aliased to ``str``, it will succeed: ``b'a' + u'b'`` works in
Python 2, but ``b'a' + 'b'`` in Python 3 is a :exc:`TypeError`. A similar issue
also comes about when doing comparisons between bytes and strings.
@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ the bytes/string dichotomy. Because Python 2 allowed the ``str`` type to hold
textual data, people have over the years been rather loose in their delineation
of what ``str`` instances held text compared to bytes. In Python 3 you cannot
be so care-free anymore and need to properly handle the difference. The key
handling this issue to make sure that **every** string literal in your
handling this issue is to make sure that **every** string literal in your
Python 2 code is either syntactically of functionally marked as either bytes or
text data. After this is done you then need to make sure your APIs are designed
to either handle a specific type or made to be properly polymorphic.
@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ newer, this can be accomplished by marking bytes literals with a ``b`` prefix
and then designating textual data with a ``u`` prefix or using the
``unicode_literals`` future statement.
If your project supports versions of Python pre-dating 2.6, then you should use
If your project supports versions of Python predating 2.6, then you should use
the six_ project and its ``b()`` function to denote bytes literals. For text
literals you can either use six's ``u()`` function or use a ``u`` prefix.
@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ happen to use the ``unicode(self).encode('utf8')`` idiom as the body of your
There are two ways to solve this issue. One is to use a custom 2to3 fixer. The
blog post at http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/1/22/forwards-compatible-python/
specifies how to do this. That will allow 2to3 to change all instances of ``def
__unicode(self): ...`` to ``def __str__(self): ...``. This does require you
__unicode(self): ...`` to ``def __str__(self): ...``. This does require that you
define your ``__str__()`` method in Python 2 before your ``__unicode__()``
method.