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Development roadmap
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futurize script
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1. "Safe" mode -- from Py2 to modern Py2 or Py3 to more-compatible Py3
- Split the fixers into two categories: safe and bold
- Safe is highly unlikely to break existing Py2 or Py3 support. The
output of this still requires :mod:`future` imports. Examples:
- Compatible metaclass syntax on Py3
- Explicit inheritance from object on Py3
- Bold might make assumptions about which strings on Py2 should be
unicode strings and which should be bytestrings.
- We should also build up a database of which standard library
interfaces on Py2 and Py3 accept unicode strings versus
byte-strings, which have changed, and which haven't.
2. Windows support
future package
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- [Done] Add more tests for bytes ... preferably all from test_bytes.py in Py3.3.
- [Done] Add remove_hooks() and install_hooks() as functions in the
:mod:`future.standard_library` module. (See the uprefix module for how
to do this.)
Experimental:
- Add::
from future import bytes_literals
from future import new_metaclass_syntax
from future import new_style_classes
- [Done] Maybe::
from future.builtins import str
should import a custom str is a Py3 str-like object which inherits from unicode and
removes the decode() method and has any other Py3-like behaviours
(possibly stricter casting?)