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diff --git a/PY3PORT.rst b/PY3PORT.rst index 2e4be43..9e8c306 100644 --- a/PY3PORT.rst +++ b/PY3PORT.rst @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ User visible changes You've got some dbus-python code that works great in Python 2. This branch should generally allow your existing Python 2 code to continue to work -unchanged. There are a few changes you'll notice in Python 2 though:: +unchanged. There are a few changes you'll notice in Python 2 though: - The minimum supported Python 2 version is 2.6. - All object reprs are unicodes. This change was made because it greatly @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ unchanged. There are a few changes you'll notice in Python 2 though:: - `MethodCallMessage` and `SignalMessage` objects have better reprs now. What do you need to do to port that to Python 3? Here are the user visible -changes you should be aware of. Python 3.2 is the minimal required version:: +changes you should be aware of, relative to Python 2. Python 3.2 is the +minimal required version: - `ByteArray` objects must be initialized with bytes objects, not unicodes. Use `b''` literals in the constructor. This also works in Python 2, where @@ -60,8 +61,6 @@ changes you should be aware of. Python 3.2 is the minimal required version:: - All longs are now ints, since Python 3 has only a single int type. This also means that the class hierarchy for the dbus numeric types has changed (all derive from int in Python 3). - - Some exception strings have changed. - - `MethodCallMessage` and `SignalMessage` objects have better reprs now. Bytes vs. Strings @@ -165,7 +164,7 @@ Python level compatibility `from dbus import _is_py3` gives you a flag to check if you must do something different in Python 3. In general I use this flag to support both versions in one set of sources, which seems better than trying to use 2to3. It's not part -of the dbus-python public API, so you may not need it. +of the dbus-python public API, so you must not use it in third-party projects. Miscellaneous |