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authorAymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>2012-12-28 21:42:58 +0100
committerAymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>2012-12-28 21:43:34 +0100
commit37b3fd27ae63001cb3258f7d147aeb24712d00a2 (patch)
treeda827e16a615fc136ba70f883c8341fcb6f9818f /docs
parent11ded967c443087487f3872aafd86842608b4c64 (diff)
downloaddjango-37b3fd27ae63001cb3258f7d147aeb24712d00a2.tar.gz
Fixed #18970 -- Documented know limitations under Python 3.
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@@ -94,11 +94,19 @@ applications that support both platforms.
However, we're labeling this support "experimental" for now: although it's
received extensive testing via our automated test suite, it's received very
little real-world testing. We've done our best to eliminate bugs, but we can't
-be sure we covered all possible uses of Django. Further, Django's more than a
-web framework; it's an ecosystem of pluggable components. At this point, very
-few third-party applications have been ported to Python 3, so it's unlikely
-that a real-world application will have all its dependencies satisfied under
-Python 3.
+be sure we covered all possible uses of Django.
+
+Some features of Django aren't available because they depend on third-party
+software that hasn't been ported to Python 3 yet, including:
+
+- the MySQL database backend (depends on MySQLdb)
+- :class:`~django.db.models.fields.ImageField` (depends on PIL)
+- :class:`~django.test.LiveServerTestCase` (depends on Selenium WebDriver)
+
+Further, Django's more than a web framework; it's an ecosystem of pluggable
+components. At this point, very few third-party applications have been ported
+to Python 3, so it's unlikely that a real-world application will have all its
+dependencies satisfied under Python 3.
Thus, we're recommending that Django 1.5 not be used in production under Python
3. Instead, use this opportunity to begin :doc:`porting applications to Python 3