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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition
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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition

by Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Tim Cox
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Python 2 and Python 3

A massive source of confusion for beginners is that there are two versions of Python on Raspberry Pi (Version 2.7 and Version 3.6), which are not compatible with each other, so code written for Python 2.7 may not run with Python 3.6 (and vice versa).

The Python Software Foundation is continuously working to improve and move forward with the language, which sometimes means they have to sacrifice backward compatibility to embrace new improvements (and, importantly, remove redundant and legacy ways of doing things).

Supporting Python 2 and Python 3 There are many tools that will ease the transition from Python 2 to Python 3, including converters such as 2to3, which will parse and update your code to use Python 3 methods. ...
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