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Migrating from Python 2 to Python 3

As the world evolves, one may want to take on new opportunities to get better things out of the door, e.g. use the “new” async paradigm or make better use of generators and iterators. This means using Python 3 – and this also usually means migrating large codebases from Python 2. Sometimes this is as easy as flipping the bit, other times it may be better to just refactor the whole code. Let me point out some differences, though.

1. print

This one is easy – most of the time it’s just about translating code from:

print "abcd"

to:

print("abcd")

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