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start working on it already. There are however a few things you should be |
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aware of before you start using Python 3 for your next project. |
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Requirements |
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If you want to use Flask with Python 3 you will need to use Python 3.3 or |
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higher. 3.2 and older are *not* supported. |
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In addition to that you need to use the latest and greatest versions of |
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`itsdangerous`, `Jinja2` and `Werkzeug`. |
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API Stability |
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`itsdangerous`, `Jinja2` and `Werkzeug`. Flask 0.10 and Werkzeug 0.9 were |
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the first versions to introduce Python 3 support. |
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Some of the decisions made in regards to unicode and byte utilization on |
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Python 3 make it hard to write low level code. This mainly affects WSGI |
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@ -25,35 +20,12 @@ middlewares and interacting with the WSGI provided information. Werkzeug
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wraps all that information in high-level helpers but some of those were |
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specifically added for the Python 3 support and are quite new. |
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A lot of the documentation out there on using WSGI leaves out those |
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details as it was written before WSGI was updated to Python 3. While the |
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API for Werkzeug and Flask on Python 2.x should not change much we cannot |
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guarantee that this won't happen on Python 3. |
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Few Users |
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Although moving to Python 3 should be done someday, most people still use |
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Python 2 for now. As a result many of the problems you will encounter are |
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probably hard to search for on the internet if they are Python 3 specific. |
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Small Ecosystem |
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Some Flask extensions, documentation and PyPI provided libraries do not |
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support Python 3 yet. |
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Even if you start your project with knowing that all you will need is |
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supported by Python 3 you don't know what happens six months from now. |
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But if you are familiar with Python 3 and Flask extension, you can start |
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porting libraries on your own. |
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Recommendations |
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Unless you are already familiar with the differences in the versions we |
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recommend sticking to current versions of Python until the ecosystem |
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caught up. |
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Unless you require absolute compatibility, you should be fine with Python 3 |
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nowadays. Most libraries and Flask extensions have been ported by now and |
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using Flask with Python 3 is generally a smooth ride. However, keep in mind |
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that most libraries (including Werkzeug and Flask) might not quite as stable |
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on Python 3 yet. You might therefore sometimes run into bugs that are |
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usually encoding-related. |
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The majority of the upgrade pain is in the lower-level libararies like |
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Flask and Werkzeug and not in the actual high-level application code. For |
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