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Python 3 Support |
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Flask and all of its dependencies support Python 3 so you can in theory |
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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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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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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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Recommendations |
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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, you might |
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occasionally encounter encoding problems. |
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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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instance all of the Flask examples that are in the Flask repository work |
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out of the box on both 2.x and 3.x and did not require a single line of |
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code changed.
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