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@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ pies! The simplest (and tastiest) way to write one program that runs on both Python 2.6+ and Python 3. +How does pies differ from six? +==================== + +Pies is significantly smaller and simpler then six because it assumes for +everything possible the developer is using the Python 3 compatible versions included with Python 2.6+, +whereas six tries to maintain compatibility with Python 2.4 - +leading to many more overrides and further into different language territory. +Additionally where possible pies tries to enable you to not have to change syntax at all - +pass including the import. + + Let's eat some pies! ====================== @@ -41,5 +52,5 @@ The following will work unchanged in Python 3 after import (using the Python 2 s - urllib.unquote_plus - urllib.urlencode -pies will also automatically install and include the most optimal version of OrderedDict for the python environment +pies will also automatically install and include the most optimal version of OrderedDict for the Python environment in use, so you should remove any other explicit imports of OrderedDict. |