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Monthly Archives: February 2019
Python 3 Unicode and Byte Strings
Associate Instructor at Feabhas Ltd
An independent IT trainer Martin has over 40 years academic and commercial experience in open systems software engineering. He has worked with a range of technologies from real time process controllers, through compilers, to large scale parallel processing systems; and across multiple sectors including industrial systems, semi-conductor manufacturing, telecomms, banking, MoD, and government.
Latest posts by Martin Bond (see all)
- CMake Presets - August 1, 2023
- C++20 Coroutine Iterators - September 23, 2021
- C++20 Coroutines - September 16, 2021
A notable difference between Python 2 and Python 3 is that character data is stored using Unicode instead of bytes. It is quite likely that when migrating existing code and writing new code you may be unaware of this change as most string algorithms will work with either type of representation; but you cannot intermix the two.
If you are working with web service libraries such as urllib (formerly urllib2) and requests, network sockets, binary files, or serial I/O with pySerial […]
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Python 3 Type Hints
Associate Instructor at Feabhas Ltd
An independent IT trainer Martin has over 40 years academic and commercial experience in open systems software engineering. He has worked with a range of technologies from real time process controllers, through compilers, to large scale parallel processing systems; and across multiple sectors including industrial systems, semi-conductor manufacturing, telecomms, banking, MoD, and government.
Latest posts by Martin Bond (see all)
- CMake Presets - August 1, 2023
- C++20 Coroutine Iterators - September 23, 2021
- C++20 Coroutines - September 16, 2021
The expected end of support for Python 2.7 is 1st January 2020, at least according to Guido van Rossum’s blog post. Starting now, you should consider developing all new Python applications in Python 3, and migrating existing code to Python 3 as and when time and workload permit.
Moving to Python 3
If you are unaware of the changes introduced in Python 3 that broke backward compatibility with Python 2 then there is a good summary on this What’s New In Python […]
Posted in Python, Python3, Testing
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